Islamic life and practice Books

Book SynopsisFaith and the State offers a comprehensive historical development of Islamic philanthropy--zakat (almsgiving), sedekah (donation) and waqf (religious endowment)-- from the time of the Islamic monarchs, through the period of Dutch colonialism and up to contemporary Indonesia. It shows a rivalry between faith and the state: between efforts to involve the state in managing philanthropic activities and efforts to keep them under control of Muslim civil society. Philanthropy is an indication of the strength of civil society. When the state was weak, philanthropy developed powerfully and was used to challenge the state. When the state was strong, Muslim civil society tended to weaken but still found ways to use philanthropic practices in the public sphere to promote social change.Trade Review"Faith and the State presents an exceptional historical review and a detailed analysis of Islamic philanthropic practices in Indonesia and thus an excellent starting point for anyone with an interest in the topic of philanthropy in Muslim societies, and particularly in the specific relationship between Islamic philanthropic practices, faith, and the state in South-East Asia. The focus on the institutionalization and legal regulation of the simple act of giving provides valuable insights in both state-civil society relations and socio-political and religious ideologies at stake." – Dayana Parvanova, University of Vienna, Austria, in ASEAS - Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies 6.2 (2013) "This book is a valuable contribution to the literature on Islamic social-political history and should become an important part of studies of Indonesian Islam. It has presented very rich information about the dynamics of encounters between the state and civil society in Indonesian Islam." – Hilman Latief, in Pacific Affairs 88.1 (2015), p. 231-233.

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Book SynopsisNaṣīr al-Dīn Ṭūsī’s (d. 672/1274) Nasirean Ethics is the single most important work on philosophical ethics in the history of Islam. Translated from the original Persian into Arabic in 713/1313, the present text was primarily intended for the Arabic-speaking majority of the people in Iraq. A fine example of medieval Persian-to-Arabic translation technique, this first edition carefully reproduces Middle Arabic elements that can be found throughout the text.Trade Review“This meticulous multi-layered scholarship will be of great service to readers of Jurjänl’s translation and can only be commended… Readers interested in the development of philosophical ethics in the Islamic world will be grateful to have this meticulous scholarly edition at their disposal.” - Sophia Vasalou, in: Journal of the American Oriental Society, 138/1 (2018) "... Lameer deserves our praise for producing a reliable edition of an important text, with an informative and well-organized introduction and instructive annotations." - Neguin Yavari, in: Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 112 (2017) "... Lameer shows up as a careful reader of the manuscript [...] [A] most meritorious pioneering edition..." - Jules Janssens, in Bibliotheca Orientalis LXXIV, January-April (2017)

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the relationship between the state state implementation of Shariʿa and diverse lived realities of everyday Islam in contemporary Aceh, Indonesia. With chapters covering topics ranging from NGOs and diaspora politics to female ulama and punk rockers, the volume opens new perspectives on the complexity of Muslim discourse and practice in a society that has experienced tremendous changes since the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. These detailed accounts of and critical reflections on how different groups in Acehnese society negotiate their experiences and understandings of Islam highlight the complexity of the ways in which the state is both a formative and a limited force with regard to religious and social transformation. Contributors are: Dina Afrianty, R. Michael Feener, Kristina Groβmann, Reza Idria, David Kloos, Antje Missbach, Benjamin Otto, Jan-Michiel Otto, Annemarie Samuels and Eka Srimulyani.Trade Review"Islam and the Limits of the State is a must-read for anyone with an interest in contemporary Aceh, Islam and the state, Islamic legal systems in practice, and Islam and gender." Daniel Andrew Birchok in: Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, 172 (2016).Table of ContentsList of Contributors Glossary Illustrations Preface R. Michael Feener State Shari‘a and its limits Annemarie Samuels Hikmah and narratives of change: How different temporalities shape the present and the future in post-tsunami Aceh David Kloos Sinning and ethical improvement in contemporary Aceh Kristina Großmann Women’s rights activists and the drafting process of the Islamic Criminal Law Code (Qanun Jinayat) Dina Afrianty Local women’s NGOs and the reform of Islamic law in Aceh: The case of MISPI Eka Srimulyani Teungku Inong Dayah: Female religious leaders in contemporary Aceh Reza Idria Muslim punks and state Shariʿa Benjamin Otto & Jan Michiel Otto Practices and perceptions of Shariʿa reinforcement in Banda Aceh: The Wilayatul Hisbah and local communities Antje Missbach “That is Jakarta’s project”: Views from the Acehnese diaspora on Shariʿa, self-determination and political conspiracy Index

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Book SynopsisPatricia Crone's Collected Studies in Three Volumes brings together a number of her published, unpublished, and revised writings on Near Eastern and Islamic history, arranged around three distinct but interconnected themes. Volume 2, The Iranian Reception of Islam: The Non-Traditionalist Strands, examines the reception of pre-Islamic legacies in Islam, above all that of the Iranians. Volume 1, The Qurʾānic Pagans and Related Matters, pursues the reconstruction of the religious environment in which Islam arose and develops an intertextual approach to studying the Qurʾānic religious milieu. Volume 3, Islam, the Ancient Near East and Varieties of Godlessness, places the rise of Islam in the context of the ancient Near East and investigates sceptical and subversive ideas in the Islamic world. The Qurʾānic Pagans and Related Matters Islam, the Ancient Near East and Varieties of GodlessnessTable of ContentsEditor’s preface Author’s preface 1. Kavād’s heresy and Mazdak’s revolt 2. Zoroastrian communism 3. Khurramīs 4. Muqannaʿ 5. Abū Tammām on the Mubayyiḍa 6. The Muqannaʿ narrative in the Tārīkhnāma: Part I, Introduction, edition and translation 7. The Muqannaʿ narrative in the Tārīkhnāma: Part II, Commentary and analysis 8. Al-Jāḥiẓ on aṣḥāb al-jahālāt and the Jahmiyya 9. Buddhism as ancient Iranian paganism 10. A new text on Ismailism at the Samanid court 11. What was al-Fārābī’s ‘imamic’ constitution? 12. Al-Fārābī’s imperfect constitutions 13. Pre-existence in Iran: Zoroastrians, ex-Christian Muʿtazilites, and Jews on the human acquisition of bodies List of Patricia Crone’s publications Index to volume 2

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Book SynopsisInsatiable Appetite: Food as Cultural Signifier in the Middle East and Beyond explores the cultural ramifications of food and foodways in the Mediterranean, and Arab-Muslim countries in particular. The volume addresses the cultural meanings of food from a wider chronological scope, from antiquity to present, adopting approaches from various disciplines, including classical Greek philology, Arabic literature, Islamic studies, anthropology, and history. The contributions to the book are structured around six thematic parts, ranging in focus from social status to religious prohibitions, gender issues, intoxicants, vegetarianism, and management of scarcity. Contributors are: Tarek Abu Hussein, Yasmin Amin, Kevin Blankinship, Tylor Brand, Kirill Dmitriev, Eric Dursteler, Anny Gaul, Julia Hauser, Christian Junge, Danilo Marino, Pedro Martins, Karen Moukheiber, Christian Saßmannshausen, Shaheed Tayob, and Lola Wilhelm.Trade Review“This text ultimately excels in approaching an often misunderstood region from a novel perspective, providing fresh insights into old questions, and is recommended for scholars and graduate students working on the history or anthropology of food, or interested in alternative histories of the Mediterranean, Ottoman, Arab, and Islamic worlds.” J. Alkorani, University of Toronto in: CHOICE connect, Volume 57, No.9 (2020). “Sollte das Genre der kulturwissenschaftlichen kulinarischen Erforschung in nächster Zeit noch weiter blühen – ich sehe keine gegenteiligen Tendenzen – werden sich zukünftig dafür Interessierte aus dem Band Insatiable Appetite viele fruchtbare Anregungen holen können.“ Bert G. Fragner, The Institute of Iranian studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in: Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, Volume 111 (2021).Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Introduction Part 1 Food and Social Status Social Dining, Banqueting, and the Cultivation of a Coherent Social Identity The Case of Damascene ʿUlamaʾ in the Late Mamluk and Early Ottoman Period Tarek Abu Hussein Eating Up Food Consumption and Social Status in Late Ottoman Greater Syria Christian Saßmannshause Part 2 Prohibitions and Prescriptions from Classical Islam to the Present Peeling Onions, Layer by Layer A Journey with Two Bulbs through the Islamicate World and Its Literature Yasmin Amin Beyond Ḥalāl The Dos and Don’ts of Syrian Medieval Cookery in a Twelfth-Century Market Inspector Manual Karen Moukheiber Molecular Halal Producing, Debating, and Evading Halal Certification in South Africa Shaheed Tayob Part 3 Food, Gender, and the Body in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries Food, Happiness, and the Egyptian Kitchen (1900–1952) Anny Gaul Food, Body, Society al-Shidyāq’s Somatic Experience of Nineteenth-Century Communities Christian Junge Part 4 Intoxication: Wine and Hashish in Literary Sources and Beyond The Symbolism of Wine in Early Arabic Love Poetry Observations on the Poetry of Abū Ṣakhr al-Hudhalī Kirill Dmitriev Hashish and Food Arabic and European Medieval Dreams of Edible Paradises Danilo Marino The “Abominable Pig” and the “Mother of All Vices” Pork, Wine, and the Culinary Clash of Civilizations in the Early Modern Mediterranean Eric Dursteler Part 5 Abstention: Vegetarianism in the Mediterranean and Europe from Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century An Ontological Dispute in the Writings of Porphyry of Tyre The Discussion of Meat Eating as a Battlefield for Competing Worldviews in Antiquity Pedro Ribeiro Martins The Missionary and the Heretic Debating Veganism in the Medieval Islamic World Kevin Blankinship A Frugal Crescent Perceptions of Foodways in the Ottoman Empire and Egypt in Nineteenth-Century Vegetarian Discourse Julia Hauser Part 6 Managing Scarcity in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Some Eat to Remember, Some to Forget Starving, Eating, and Coping in the Syrian Famine of World War I Tylor Brand Local Histories of International Food-Aid Policies from the Interwar Period to the 1960s The World Food Programme in the Middle East Lola Wilhelm Index

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Book SynopsisEssay on Islamization is a study of the Islamization of all Muslim societies and their conversion to orthodox Islam which, with its chapels, soldier monks and holy war, leads to fundamentalism as well as to a moral puritanism. Cherkaoui gauges the importance of this global phenomenon by analyzing the empirical data of some sixty Muslim and non-Muslim societies. He also conducts two ethnographic surveys to identify the metamorphoses of Muslim religious practices and their causes.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction 1 Disenchantment of the World, Depopulation of the Heavens  1 Persistence of Faith in Islam Countries, Progress of Atheism Elsewhere  2 Orientation toward the Human or toward the Divine: Progressive Secularization or Resilience of the Religious  Conclusion 2 Time for the Sacred  1 Rising Religiosity  2 The Time of the Sacred and Education  3 Variations in Rates of Practice by Social Determinants  4 Cultual, Media and Cultural Practices  5 Integration, Regulation and Trust 3 Twilight of the Gods  1 The Disenchantment of the World  2 Works and Days: Islam Paganized and Chthonian Beliefs  3 The Paradox of Consequences of Colonization  4 The Political Instrumentalization of Salafism and the Enchanted World 4 Is a Rational Explanation of Islamization Possible?  1 Exogenous Causes   1.1 Socio-Economic Changes Lead to a Secular Decline in Religiosity   1.2 The Religious Market Would Account for the Practices of Believers and Their Intensity of Belief   1.3 The Separation of Church and State Would Influence Religious Practice   1.4 The Extension of Islam Could Be Explained by the Policy Pursued by Certain States with Virtually Unlimited Financial Means   1.5 The Media Have Influenced Muslim Public Opinion   1.6 The Muslim Is Searching for His Identity, His Belonging and Reference Groups  2 Endogenous Explanations   2.1 The Relative Deprivation of Young People Is the Cause of This Popular Enthusiasm for Islam and for Their Proselytism   2.2 The Perception that Muslims Have of Themselves and Others Is a Reflection of Both the Spread of Islam and Their Zeal   2.3 The Transformations of the Social Morphology of Muslim Countries, the End of Popular Islam and the Growing Domination of Scriptural Islam, Could Be Causes of This Green Tidal Wave   2.4 The Structures of Interaction and Interdependence Explain the Diffusion of Religious Practices 5 Deprivation and Islamization: Socio- Educational Mobility and Its Consequences  1 Social Mobility and Educational Mobility  2 Generative Mechanisms of Mobility  3 Meritocracy or Dominance Structure? 6 The Mechanisms that Produce Islamic Fundamentalism: an Outline for an Interpretation of Its Genesis  1 Elective Affinities between Popular Islam and Social Morphology  2 Transformations of Morphology and the Decline of Popular Islam: the Resurgence of Salafism  3 The Prophecy of the “Proletaroid” Intellectuals as a Response to the Crisis of Society  4 Rational Choice Theory and Altruistic Suicide 7 From Absolute Monotheism to Ethical Puritanism  1 The Ethical Puritanism of Muslims and Moral Tolerance In the West  2 Muslims and the Magic of Modernity  Conclusion 8 Confidence in Institutions: an International Comparison  1 Trust as the Basis for the Legitimacy of the Social Order  2 Time of Suspicion 9 Islam and Democracy: Comparative Analysis of Individual and Collective Preferences  1 Morphologies and Democracies   2 The People’s Choice: Democracy or Authoritarianism  3 Taxonomy of Democracies  4 Distribution of Countries according to the Three Models. Place of the Muslims in the Democratic Trihedron Bibliography Index Nominum

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Book SynopsisInsatiable Appetite: Food as Cultural Signifier in the Middle East and Beyond explores the cultural ramifications of food and foodways in the Mediterranean, and Arab-Muslim countries in particular. The volume addresses the cultural meanings of food from a wider chronological scope, from antiquity to present, adopting approaches from various disciplines, including classical Greek philology, Arabic literature, Islamic studies, anthropology, and history. The contributions to the book are structured around six thematic parts, ranging in focus from social status to religious prohibitions, gender issues, intoxicants, vegetarianism, and management of scarcity. Contributors are: Tarek Abu Hussein, Yasmin Amin, Kevin Blankinship, Tylor Brand, Kirill Dmitriev, Eric Dursteler, Anny Gaul, Julia Hauser, Christian Junge, Danilo Marino, Pedro Martins, Karen Moukheiber, Christian Saßmannshausen, Shaheed Tayob, and Lola Wilhelm.Trade Review“This text ultimately excels in approaching an often misunderstood region from a novel perspective, providing fresh insights into old questions, and is recommended for scholars and graduate students working on the history or anthropology of food, or interested in alternative histories of the Mediterranean, Ottoman, Arab, and Islamic worlds.” J. Alkorani, University of Toronto in: CHOICE connect, Volume 57, No.9 (2020). “Sollte das Genre der kulturwissenschaftlichen kulinarischen Erforschung in nächster Zeit noch weiter blühen – ich sehe keine gegenteiligen Tendenzen – werden sich zukünftig dafür Interessierte aus dem Band Insatiable Appetite viele fruchtbare Anregungen holen können.“ Bert G. Fragner, The Institute of Iranian studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in: Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, Volume 111 (2021).Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Introduction Part 1 Food and Social Status Social Dining, Banqueting, and the Cultivation of a Coherent Social Identity The Case of Damascene ʿUlamaʾ in the Late Mamluk and Early Ottoman Period Tarek Abu Hussein Eating Up Food Consumption and Social Status in Late Ottoman Greater Syria Christian Saßmannshause Part 2 Prohibitions and Prescriptions from Classical Islam to the Present Peeling Onions, Layer by Layer A Journey with Two Bulbs through the Islamicate World and Its Literature Yasmin Amin Beyond Ḥalāl The Dos and Don’ts of Syrian Medieval Cookery in a Twelfth-Century Market Inspector Manual Karen Moukheiber Molecular Halal Producing, Debating, and Evading Halal Certification in South Africa Shaheed Tayob Part 3 Food, Gender, and the Body in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries Food, Happiness, and the Egyptian Kitchen (1900–1952) Anny Gaul Food, Body, Society al-Shidyāq’s Somatic Experience of Nineteenth-Century Communities Christian Junge Part 4 Intoxication: Wine and Hashish in Literary Sources and Beyond The Symbolism of Wine in Early Arabic Love Poetry Observations on the Poetry of Abū Ṣakhr al-Hudhalī Kirill Dmitriev Hashish and Food Arabic and European Medieval Dreams of Edible Paradises Danilo Marino The “Abominable Pig” and the “Mother of All Vices” Pork, Wine, and the Culinary Clash of Civilizations in the Early Modern Mediterranean Eric Dursteler Part 5 Abstention: Vegetarianism in the Mediterranean and Europe from Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century An Ontological Dispute in the Writings of Porphyry of Tyre The Discussion of Meat Eating as a Battlefield for Competing Worldviews in Antiquity Pedro Ribeiro Martins The Missionary and the Heretic Debating Veganism in the Medieval Islamic World Kevin Blankinship A Frugal Crescent Perceptions of Foodways in the Ottoman Empire and Egypt in Nineteenth-Century Vegetarian Discourse Julia Hauser Part 6 Managing Scarcity in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Some Eat to Remember, Some to Forget Starving, Eating, and Coping in the Syrian Famine of World War I Tylor Brand Local Histories of International Food-Aid Policies from the Interwar Period to the 1960s The World Food Programme in the Middle East Lola Wilhelm Index

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Book SynopsisIn The Shīʿīs in Palestine Yaron Friedman offers a survey of the presence of Shīʿism in the region of Palestine (today: Israel) from early Islamic history until the contemporary period. It brings to light many pieces of information and interesting developments that are not widely known, in addition to the general point that, contrary to common belief, the Shīʿī community has played a significant role in the history of Palestine. The volume includes a study of Shīʿī shrines in Palestine, as well as showing the importance of these Muslim sites and holy towns in Palestine in the Shīʿī religion.Trade Review“This volume is a welcome contribution to the study of two still relatively neglected areas of scholarship: Shiʿism and the history of Palestine. The detail is so rich that the reader is left almost wishing the book were longer. It can only be hoped that others will use this work as a starting point for many more studies related to the Shiʿi’s in Palestine.” Fuchsia Hart, University of Oxford, inJournal of Shiʿa Islamic Studies 11 (2018): 117-120 "The Shīʿīs in Palestine broadens the historical study of Shīʿism and Shīʿī Muslim communities in the Middle East and the Levant, much of which has focused on the large Shīʿī communities in modern-day southern Lebanon, Iraq and Iran. Friedman draws upon a wide collection of Muslim historical and theological writings, including materials produced by Ibn ʿArabī, al-Ghazālī and Ibn Taymīyya. In addition to adding to the historiographical literature, the book also serves as a useful addition to the ethnographic literature on Islamic art and architecture and Palestinian folklore. It will be of interest to scholars and students of Islamic studies, Middle Eastern history, Palestinian studies and Shīʿī studies." Christopher Anzalone, Marine Corps University and George Mason University, in Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations, DOI: 10.1080/09596410.2022.2080440Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures and Tables Note on Translations, Dates, and Transliteration Introduction  Medieval and Modern Palestine 1 From Immigration to the Golden Age  1 The First Shīʿīs in Palestine  2 Palestine under Shīʿī Rule  3 Giving Palestine a Shīʿī Identity: Tombs of the ahl al-bayt  4 Ibn al-ʿArabī and the Shīʿīs of Tiberias and Acre  5 The End of the “Shīʿī Century” 2 The Disappearance of the Shīʿī Community in Palestine  1 The Ayyūbid Restoration  2 Mamlūk Oppression  3 Persecutions 3 The Shīʿīs in Galilee  1 The Region of Safed  2 The Matāwila in Northern Palestine  3 Palestinian and Zionist Views on the Shīʿī Villages  4 The Palestinian Fear of the Return of the Shīʿīs  5 Remaining Shīʿī Sects 4 Shīʿī Folklore and Religious Traditions about Palestine  1 Shīʿism in Palestinian Folklore  2 Shīʿī Traditions concerning Holy Towns in Palestine Conclusion Appendix 1: The Ṭālibiyyūn in Palestine Appendix 2: Photos and Inscriptions of Shīʿī Shrines in Palestine Appendix 3: The Fatwā of Taqī l-Dīn Aḥmad b. Taymiyya concerning the Head of Ḥusayn in Ashkelon Appendix 4: Israeli Documents: Hūnīn 1948—the Missed Opportunity Appendix 5: Interviews with Two Palestinian Shaykhs Who Converted to Shīʿism Appendix 6: A Shīʿī Supplication in the “Shīʿīs of Palestine” Facebook Page Appendix 7: Interview with a Member of the Dāwūdī Bohrās Timeline of Shīʿī History in Palestine  Glossary of Shīʿī Terms in the Palestinian Context Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisEssay on Islamization is a study of the Islamization of all Muslim societies and their conversion to orthodox Islam which, with its chapels, soldier monks and holy war, leads to fundamentalism as well as to a moral puritanism. Cherkaoui gauges the importance of this global phenomenon by analyzing the empirical data of some sixty Muslim and non-Muslim societies. He also conducts two ethnographic surveys to identify the metamorphoses of Muslim religious practices and their causes.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction 1 Disenchantment of the World, Depopulation of the Heavens  1 Persistence of Faith in Islam Countries, Progress of Atheism Elsewhere  2 Orientation toward the Human or toward the Divine: Progressive Secularization or Resilience of the Religious  Conclusion 2 Time for the Sacred  1 Rising Religiosity  2 The Time of the Sacred and Education  3 Variations in Rates of Practice by Social Determinants  4 Cultual, Media and Cultural Practices  5 Integration, Regulation and Trust 3 Twilight of the Gods  1 The Disenchantment of the World  2 Works and Days: Islam Paganized and Chthonian Beliefs  3 The Paradox of Consequences of Colonization  4 The Political Instrumentalization of Salafism and the Enchanted World 4 Is a Rational Explanation of Islamization Possible?  1 Exogenous Causes   1.1 Socio-Economic Changes Lead to a Secular Decline in Religiosity   1.2 The Religious Market Would Account for the Practices of Believers and Their Intensity of Belief   1.3 The Separation of Church and State Would Influence Religious Practice   1.4 The Extension of Islam Could Be Explained by the Policy Pursued by Certain States with Virtually Unlimited Financial Means   1.5 The Media Have Influenced Muslim Public Opinion   1.6 The Muslim Is Searching for His Identity, His Belonging and Reference Groups  2 Endogenous Explanations   2.1 The Relative Deprivation of Young People Is the Cause of This Popular Enthusiasm for Islam and for Their Proselytism   2.2 The Perception that Muslims Have of Themselves and Others Is a Reflection of Both the Spread of Islam and Their Zeal   2.3 The Transformations of the Social Morphology of Muslim Countries, the End of Popular Islam and the Growing Domination of Scriptural Islam, Could Be Causes of This Green Tidal Wave   2.4 The Structures of Interaction and Interdependence Explain the Diffusion of Religious Practices 5 Deprivation and Islamization: Socio- Educational Mobility and Its Consequences  1 Social Mobility and Educational Mobility  2 Generative Mechanisms of Mobility  3 Meritocracy or Dominance Structure? 6 The Mechanisms that Produce Islamic Fundamentalism: an Outline for an Interpretation of Its Genesis  1 Elective Affinities between Popular Islam and Social Morphology  2 Transformations of Morphology and the Decline of Popular Islam: the Resurgence of Salafism  3 The Prophecy of the “Proletaroid” Intellectuals as a Response to the Crisis of Society  4 Rational Choice Theory and Altruistic Suicide 7 From Absolute Monotheism to Ethical Puritanism  1 The Ethical Puritanism of Muslims and Moral Tolerance In the West  2 Muslims and the Magic of Modernity  Conclusion 8 Confidence in Institutions: an International Comparison  1 Trust as the Basis for the Legitimacy of the Social Order  2 Time of Suspicion 9 Islam and Democracy: Comparative Analysis of Individual and Collective Preferences  1 Morphologies and Democracies   2 The People’s Choice: Democracy or Authoritarianism  3 Taxonomy of Democracies  4 Distribution of Countries according to the Three Models. Place of the Muslims in the Democratic Trihedron Bibliography Index Nominum

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Book SynopsisIn this volume amulets and talismans are studied within a broader system of meaning that shapes how they were manufactured, activated and used in different networks. Text, material features and the environments in which these artifacts circulated, are studied alongside each other, resulting in an innovative approach to understand the many different functions these objects could fulfil in pre-modern times. Produced and used by Muslims and non-Muslims alike, the case studies presented here include objects that differ in size, material, language and shape. What the articles share is an all-round, in-depth approach that helps the reader understand the complexity of the objects discussed and will improve one’s understanding of the role they played within pre-modern societies. Contributors Hazem Hussein Abbas Ali, Gideon Bohak, Ursula Hammed, Juan Campo, Jean-Charles Coulon, Venetia Porter, Marcela Garcia Probert, Anne Regourd, Yasmine al-Saleh, Karl Schaefer and Petra M. Sijpesteijn.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Notes on Transliteration, Names of Persons and Places and Dates Introduction. Transmission, Efficacy and Collections: Amulets in Interaction with Their Environment  Marcela Garcia Probert and Petra M. Sijpesteijn Part 1 Transmission 1 Specimens of Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic Magical Texts from the Cairo Genizah  Gideon Bohak 2 A Twentieth-Century Manuscript of the Kitāb al-Mandal al-Sulaymānī (Ar. IES 286, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia): Texts on Practices & Texts in Practices  Anne Regourd 3 Arabic Medical-Magical Manuscripts: A Living Tradition  Petra M. Sijpesteijn Part 2 Efficacy 4 Casting Discord: An Unpublished Spell from the Egyptian National Library  Hazem Hussein Abbas Ali 5 “This Blessed Place”: The Talismanic Significance of House Inscriptions in Ottoman Cairo  Juan E. Campo 6 A Talismanic Scroll: Language, Illumination, and Diagrams  Yasmine Al-Saleh 7 The Material Nature of Block Printed Amulets: What Makes Them Amulets?  Karl Schaefer Part 3 Collecting and Collections 8 Arabic Magical Texts in Original Documents: A Papyrologist Answers Five Questions You Always Wanted to Ask  Ursula Hammed 9 Amulets and Talismans in the Earliest Works of the Corpus Bunianum  Jean-Charles Coulon 10 Twigs in the Tawfik Canaan Collection of Palestinian Amulets  Marcela Garcia Probert 11 The Collection of Arabic and Persian Seals and Amulets in the British Museum: Notes on a History  Venetia Porter Glossary Index

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Book SynopsisContemporary psychology is highly influenced by positivism and scientific naturalism. Psychological studies make efforts to control the variables and provide operational definitions of subjective constructs in order to reach the most concrete conclusions. Such efforts are admirable in natural sciences since they have led to a better life. But, this worldview has deprived contemporary psychology of more qualitative sources of knowledge like waḥy (revelation). The present book introduces Islamic psychology as a paradigm, which can apply waḥy knowledge and consider religious/spiritual dimensions of humans in scientific exploration. The first part discusses the possibility, foundations, and characteristics of Islamic psychology. The second part introduces research methodology in Islamic psychology. The third part reviews the Quranic theory of personality and highlights the concept of shakeleh. Finally, the fourth part presents the theories and methods of religious psychotherapy in the Islamic tradition. Each part provides introductory content for readers interested in Islamic psychology.Table of ContentsForeword Preface Abstract Keywords  1 Possibility, Foundations, and Characteristics of Islamic Psychology  2 Research Methodology in Islamic Psychology  3 Personality  4 Mental Disorders and Psychotherapy  Acknowledgments  References

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Book SynopsisIn Aligning Religious Law and State Law: Negotiating Legal Muslim Marriage in Pasuruan, East Java, Muhammad Latif Fauzi investigates the extent to which the Indonesian state has regulated Muslim marriage, how a local community in Pasuruan, East Java practices and negotiates the regulation and how local officials deal with their practices. Instead of reforming the Marriage Law which would only stir up controversies, the Indonesian government has used a citizens’ rights approach to control marriage and to guide people towards compliance with the state legal framework. In everyday practice of marriage bureaucracy, the state agency in charge of Muslim marriage registration needs to maintain its image as a body capable of maintaining the proper balance between religious tradition and modern administration of a marriage. The practice of Muslim marriage registration has still left some leeway in which informality can function. This informality is important as it offers the capacity to make a compromise between people’s deep interest in religious law and state law. The state officials in charge of marriage administration on the frontier levels are amenable to adopting lenient approach towards marriage registrations, which is the key to securing the functioning of state law.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Acknowledgements Abbreviations 1 Introduction  1 Unregistered Marriage and the Plurality of Legal Norms  2 Marriage: Sharīʿa Law, State Law and Bureaucratisation  3 Focus and Setting  4 Method  5 Structure of the Book Part 1 Law and Institution 2 Regulating Muslim Marriage: A Shift to Citizens’ Rights-Based Approach  1 Introduction  2 Legal Marriage: Dilemmas and Compromises  3 Sharīʿa-Based Regulations and the Steep Stairways to Legislation  4 Contesting Maṣlaḥa  5 A New Trend: Citizens’ Rights Approach  6 Conclusion 3 Reforming the Bureaucracy of Muslim Marriage  1 Introduction  2 The Indonesian Muslim Marriage Bureaucracy  3 The Re-centralisation of Penghulu  4 Corruption, Informality, and the Need for Reform  5 Muslims’ Attitudes towards the Reform  6 The Information System of Marriage Registration  7 Conclusion Part 2 Legal Practice 4 Presenting Pasuruan: Present-Day Islam and Cultural Life  1 Introduction  2 Historical Context  3 Cultural, Religious and Political Life  4 Social Life in Sumbersari  5 Conclusion 5 Performing Marriage: The Influences of Cultural and Islamic Norms  1 Introduction  2 Presenting Munir-Ulfa  3 Pengarep and Cultural Norms  4 Kyai: Seeking Religious ‘Middle Ground’  5 Menghalalkan: Marrying to Legalise Relationship  6 Conclusion 6 Registering Marriage: The Relationship between Penghulus and Modins  1 Introduction  2 Marriage Registration and the State-in-Society Approach  3 Building an Internal Synergy  4 Registering Marriages and Remarriages  5 Twofold Akad Nikah and Taʾkīd al-Nikāḥ  6 Conclusion 7 Legalising Unregistered Marriage: Reasons and Strategies  1 Introduction  2 Why Legalising an Unregistered Marriage?  3 Legal Identity and Citizens’ Rights  4 Administrative Transgression in Marriage Registration  5 Isbat Nikah by Islamic Courts  6 Child Legitimation  7 Conclusion 8 Conclusion  1 Regulating Muslim Marriage and Public Debates  2 Corruption, Informality, and the Reformed Fees  3 Present-Day Cultural Life in Pasuruan  4 Everyday Practice of Marriage and the Functioning of the Bureaucracy of Marriage  5 Unregistered Marriages and Seeking State Recognition Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Hand of Fatima traces the development and symbolism ascribed to the hand motif in the Arab and Islamic world, and beyond. Richly illustrated, it details the many types of khamsas produced historically and today – such as khamsas with swords, and khamsas with eagles – and the many objects on which khamsas appear, such as on amulets and flags. It traces the journey of the khamsa into the contemporary world of social and fine art, including museum highlights. Special sections are dedicated to the khamsa in Algeria; cultural crossover in Spain, Portugal, and Brazil; and the symbol of the hand in Shiʿism.

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Book SynopsisHow widespread was authorship among rulers in the premodern Islamic world? The writings of different types of rulers in different regions and periods are analyzed in this book, from the early centuries in the central lands of Islam to 19th century Sudan. The composition of poetry appears as the most fertile area for authorship among rulers. Prose writings show a wide variety, from astrology to bookmaking, from autobiography to creeds. Some of the rulers made claims to special knowledge, but in all cases authorship played a special role in the construction of the rulers' authority and legitimacy. Contributors: Ahmed Ibrahim Abushouk, Sean W. Anthony, María Luisa Ávila†, Teresa Bernheimer, Philip Bockholt, Sonja Brentjes, Christiane Czygan, David Durand-Guédy, Anne-Marie Eddé, Sinem Eryılmaz, Maribel Fierro, Adam Gaiser, Angelika Hartmann†, Livnat Holtzman, Maher Jarrar, Robert S. Kramer, Christian Mauder, Matthew Melvin-Koushki, Letizia Osti, Jürgen Paul, Petra Schmidl, Tilman Seidensticker.Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction  Maribel Fierro, Sonja Brentjes and Tilman Seidensticker Part 1 The Early Period 1 Rulers as Authors: ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib and the Other Twelver Imams  Teresa Bernheimer 2 Eloquent Exchange: Asceticism and Shirāʾ in the Poetry of Qaṭarī b. al-Fujāʾa  Adam Gaiser 3 A ‘Rediscovered’ Letter of the Umayyad Caliph ʿUmar b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz (r. 99–101/717–720) Caliphal Authorship and Legal Authority in al-Risāla fī l-fayʾ  Sean W. Anthony 4 Abbasid Rulers and Their Standing as Authors  Letizia Osti Part 2 Caliphs and Messianic Figures 5 Zaydī Rulers as Authors: A Quest for Legitimacy  Maher Jarrar 6 The Caliph al-Qādir bi-llāh and the Qādirī Creed  Livnat Holtzman 7 Do Caliphs Write? The View from the Islamic West  María Luisa Ávila † and Maribel Fierro 8 Authority, ijāzāt and Politics: Caliph al-Nāṣir li-Dīn Allāh’s Kitāb Rūḥ al-ʿārifīn (7Th/13th Century, Baghdad)  Angelika Hartmann † 9 The Pen and the Sword: The Case of the Sudanese Mahdi (1844–1885)  Ahmed Ibrahim Abushouk and Robert S. Kramer Part 3 Emirs and Sultans 10 Entre l’épée et le calame : Abū l-Fidāʾ, prince et savant ayyoubide  Anne-Marie Eddé 11 The Quatrains of Toghrïl III. Some Reflections about the Literacy and Culture of the Saljuqs  David Durand-Guédy 12 Royal Quatrains: Rulers of the Anūshteginid Line of Khwārazmshāhs as Poets  Jürgen Paul 13 Rulers as Authors in 13th-Century Yemen: the Oeuvre of al-Ashraf ʿUmar  Petra Schmidl 14 Non-caliphal Rulers and Their Writings in the Islamic West (2nd–9th/8th–15th Centuries)  Maribel Fierro 15 Legitimating Sultanic Rule in Arabic, Turkish and Persian—Late Mamluk Rulers as Authors of Religious Poetry  Christian Mauder Part 4 The Great Empires: Timurids-Mughals, Ottomans, Safavids 16 The Ottoman Ruler Poet Sultan Süleyman I, His Third Divan, and His Reception beyond the Palace Walls  Christiane Czygan 17 The Power of Poetry in the Ottoman Context  Fatma Sinem Eryılmaz 18 Timurid-Mughal Philosopher-Kings as Sultan-Scientists  Matthew Melvin-Koushki 19 Shah Ṭahmāsp and the Taẕkira: A Sixteenth-Century Ruler’s Justification of His Policies  Philip Bockholt Index

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