Middle Eastern history Books

Book SynopsisUsing the method of of isnād-cum-matn-analysis this book analyzes the approximately 1000 narratives on the conquest of Damascus. After the reconstruction of earlier versions, in part from the 8th century C.E., the course of the events is finally described. Mit Hilfe der isnād-cum-matn-Analyse werden die etwa 1000 Überlieferungen zur Eroberung von Damaskus in diesem Buch analysiert. Auf Grundlage der so rekonstruierten Versionen, die zum Teil aus dem 8. Jh. stammen, zeichnet diese Untersuchung den Verlauf der Eroberung nach.Trade ReviewWinner of the 21st World Book Award of the Islamic Republic of Iran, 2014.

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Book SynopsisThis volume presents the transformation of the Greek-speaking, Romaniot Jewish community of Byzantine Constantinople into an Ottoman, ethnically diversified immigrant community, showing the influence of the Ottoman conquest on cultural and social values. New and existing sources illuminate a society that was haunted by the dislocation and bereavement of the expulsion from Spain but was nevertheless materialistic and pleasure-seeking, with money and pedigree as supreme values. The society constantly redefined its relationships and boundaries with its former Iberian world and with the Ottoman non-Jewish world around it. The book is important to the study of Istanbul, particularly its Ottoman Jewish community. The chapters on Family Formation and Social Patterns serve family historians studying the early modern period. This second edition contains several pages of corrections and additions.Trade Review"...very concise, lucid, methodic and insightful...This book is a milestone in historical studies of the Jews in the Ottoman Empire." – Maria Eftymiou, in: BHMA, 2003 "...full of detail and touching upon every possible aspect regarding the life and times of the early Jewish community of Istanbul…" – Sara Nur Yildiz, in: H-Net Reviews in the Humanities & Social Sciences, 2003 "...a major contribution to Jewish and Ottoman social history" – Avigdor Levy, in: International Journal of Middle East Studies, 2004 "...an important study that offers much insight into the life of Jews in early modern Istanbul" – Marc Baer, in: Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient XLVII (2004)

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Book SynopsisThe Annals of the Prophets and Kings (Taʾrīkh al-rusul wa-l-mulūk) by al-Ṭabarī is one of the most important historical works about the first centuries of Muslim society in Arabic. This is an enhanced reprint of the classic Brill edition supervised by M.J. de Goeje, originally titled Annales quos scripsit Abu Djafar Mohammed Ibn Djarir At-Tabari.

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Book SynopsisThe Annals of the Prophets and Kings (Taʾrīkh al-rusul wa-l-mulūk) by al-Ṭabarī is one of the most important historical works about the first centuries of Muslim society in Arabic. This is an enhanced reprint of the classic Brill edition supervised by M.J. de Goeje, originally titled Annales quos scripsit Abu Djafar Mohammed Ibn Djarir At-Tabari.

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Book SynopsisThe Annals of the Prophets and Kings (Taʾrīkh al-rusul wa-l-mulūk) by al-Ṭabarī is one of the most important historical works about the first centuries of Muslim society in Arabic. This is an enhanced reprint of the classic Brill edition supervised by M.J. de Goeje, originally titled Annales quos scripsit Abu Djafar Mohammed Ibn Djarir At-Tabari.

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Book SynopsisThe Annals of the Prophets and Kings (Taʾrīkh al-rusul wa-l-mulūk) by al-Ṭabarī is one of the most important historical works about the first centuries of Muslim society in Arabic. This is an enhanced reprint of the classic Brill edition supervised by M.J. de Goeje, originally titled Annales quos scripsit Abu Djafar Mohammed Ibn Djarir At-Tabari.

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Book SynopsisThe Annals of the Prophets and Kings (Taʾrīkh al-rusul wa-l-mulūk) by al-Ṭabarī is one of the most important historical works about the first centuries of Muslim society in Arabic. This is an enhanced reprint of the classic Brill edition supervised by M.J. de Goeje, originally titled Annales quos scripsit Abu Djafar Mohammed Ibn Djarir At-Tabari.

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Book SynopsisThe Annals of the Prophets and Kings (Taʾrīkh al-rusul wa-l-mulūk) by al-Ṭabarī is one of the most important historical works about the first centuries of Muslim society in Arabic. This is an enhanced reprint of the classic Brill edition supervised by M.J. de Goeje, originally titled Annales quos scripsit Abu Djafar Mohammed Ibn Djarir At-Tabari.

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Book SynopsisThe Annals of the Prophets and Kings (Taʾrīkh al-rusul wa-l-mulūk) by al-Ṭabarī is one of the most important historical works about the first centuries of Muslim society in Arabic. This is an enhanced reprint of the classic Brill edition supervised by M.J. de Goeje, originally titled Annales quos scripsit Abu Djafar Mohammed Ibn Djarir At-Tabari.

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Book SynopsisThe Annals of the Prophets and Kings (Taʾrīkh al-rusul wa-l-mulūk) by al-Ṭabarī is one of the most important historical works about the first centuries of Muslim society in Arabic. This is an enhanced reprint of the classic Brill edition supervised by M.J. de Goeje, originally titled Annales quos scripsit Abu Djafar Mohammed Ibn Djarir At-Tabari.

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Book SynopsisThe Annals of the Prophets and Kings (Taʾrīkh al-rusul wa-l-mulūk) by al-Ṭabarī is one of the most important historical works about the first centuries of Muslim society in Arabic. This is an enhanced reprint of the classic Brill edition supervised by M.J. de Goeje, originally titled Annales quos scripsit Abu Djafar Mohammed Ibn Djarir At-Tabari.

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Book SynopsisThe Annals of the Prophets and Kings (Taʾrīkh al-rusul wa-l-mulūk) by al-Ṭabarī is one of the most important historical works about the first centuries of Muslim society in Arabic. This is an enhanced reprint of the classic Brill edition supervised by M.J. de Goeje, originally titled Annales quos scripsit Abu Djafar Mohammed Ibn Djarir At-Tabari.

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Book SynopsisThe Annals of the Prophets and Kings (Taʾrīkh al-rusul wa-l-mulūk) by al-Ṭabarī is one of the most important historical works about the first centuries of Muslim society in Arabic. This is an enhanced reprint of the classic Brill edition supervised by M.J. de Goeje, originally titled Annales quos scripsit Abu Djafar Mohammed Ibn Djarir At-Tabari.

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Book SynopsisThe Annals of the Prophets and Kings (Taʾrīkh al-rusul wa-l-mulūk) by al-Ṭabarī is one of the most important historical works about the first centuries of Muslim society in Arabic. This is an enhanced reprint of the classic Brill edition supervised by M.J. de Goeje, originally titled Annales quos scripsit Abu Djafar Mohammed Ibn Djarir At-Tabari.

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Book SynopsisThe Annals of the Prophets and Kings (Taʾrīkh al-rusul wa-l-mulūk) by al-Ṭabarī is one of the most important historical works about the first centuries of Muslim society in Arabic. This is an enhanced reprint of the classic Brill edition supervised by M.J. de Goeje, originally titled Annales quos scripsit Abu Djafar Mohammed Ibn Djarir At-Tabari.

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Book SynopsisThe Annals of the Prophets and Kings (Taʾrīkh al-rusul wa-l-mulūk) by al-Ṭabarī is one of the most important historical works about the first centuries of Muslim society in Arabic. This is an enhanced reprint of the classic Brill edition supervised by M.J. de Goeje, originally titled Annales quos scripsit Abu Djafar Mohammed Ibn Djarir At-Tabari.

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Book SynopsisThe Annals of the Prophets and Kings (Taʾrīkh al-rusul wa-l-mulūk) by al-Ṭabarī is one of the most important historical works about the first centuries of Muslim society in Arabic. This is an enhanced reprint of the classic Brill edition supervised by M.J. de Goeje, originally titled Annales quos scripsit Abu Djafar Mohammed Ibn Djarir At-Tabari.

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Book SynopsisThe Annals of the Prophets and Kings (Taʾrīkh al-rusul wa-l-mulūk) by al-Ṭabarī is one of the most important historical works about the first centuries of Muslim society in Arabic. This is an enhanced reprint of the classic Brill edition supervised by M.J. de Goeje, originally titled Annales quos scripsit Abu Djafar Mohammed Ibn Djarir At-Tabari.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the federal ideas in the Zionist political thought in two different periods: the British mandate (1920-1948), and the years 1967-1992 in the State of Israel. The central issue in this research is to show the search for the establishment of some bi-national Jewish-Arab coexistence in Mandatory Palestine and later in the State of Israel.

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Book SynopsisThe two 'Authentic' ḥadīth collections of al-Bukhārī and Muslim are the most famous books in Islam after the Qur'ān – a reality left unstudied until now. This book charts the origins, development and functions of these two texts through the lens of canonicity. It examines how the books went from controversial to indispensable as they became the common language for discussing the Prophet’s legacy among the various Sunni schools of law. The book also studies the role of the ḥadīth canon in ritual and narrative. Finally, it investigates the canonical culture built around the texts as well as the trend in Sunni scholarship that rejected it, exploring this tension in contemporary debates between Salafī movements and the traditional schools of law.Trade Review[Brown] has produced an ambitious study that will itself become a canon for the study of the canonization of the Saḥīḥayn and so like them it is worthy of much attention and analysis. Herbert Berg This is an unusual book in many ways, all of them good. Its scope is strikingly broad, it is in conversation with the latest scholarship both in the field of specialization and also in the wider world of theory, and it is well-written. While one may disagree with some of Brown’s specific and general conclusions, this book deserves to be read for many years to come. Jonathan E. Brockopp, Islamic Law and Society, 2010 “This study abandons the conventional genre to which the Orientalists, who have explored the prophetic tradition, have accustomed us: it really brings something new. […] this book deserves to be consulted for a good number of years to come.” Michel Lagarde in Islamochristiana 37 (2011), p.306-307.

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Book SynopsisThe present work supplements the original volume of The Arabic Manuscript Tradition (AMT), both its glossary of technical terms and bibliography. It includes new entries of technical terms, additional definitions of, and/or citations for, the entries already found in AMT, and recent publications on various aspects of Arabic manuscript studies.Trade Review“…an indispensable research, library, and archival companion for students and researchers that are interested in bibliomancy, calligraphy, specifically Arabic, Qur’anic manuscripts, penmanship, bookbinding, papermaking, decoration, and the tools associated with all these crafts. Praise for this monumental effort is essentially superfluous and no library or centre which is concerned with the Islamic manuscript and book tradition should be without the set. Academics and researchers would also find the books as indispensable companions.” Amidu Olalekan Sanni, JOAS, 2010

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Book SynopsisIn A Social History of the Late Ottoman Women: New Perspectives, Duygu Köksal and Anastasia Falierou bring together new research on women of different geographies and communities of the late Ottoman Empire. Making use of archives, literary works, diaries, newspapers, almanacs, art works or cartoons, the contributors focus particularly on the ways in which women gained power and exercised agency in late Ottoman Empire and early Republican Turkey. The articles convincingly show that women’s agency cannot be unearthed without narrating how women were involved in shaping their own and others’ lives even in the most unexpected areas of their existence. The women’s activities described here do not simply reflect modernizing trends or westernizing attitudes—or their defensive denial. They provide an array of local responses where ‘the local’ can never be found (and should never be conceptualized) in its initial, unchanged, or authentic state.Table of ContentsTABLE OF CONTENTS Dedication Acknowledgement List of Illustrations Introduction Duygu Köksal, Anastasia Falierou PART I: Women as Economic Actors: Class, Work and Social Issues Theater as Career for Ottoman Armenian Women, 1850 to 1910 Hasmik Khalapyan Searching for Women’s Agency in the Tobacco Workshops: Female Tobacco Workers of the Province of Selanik E. Tutku Vardağlı Working From Home: Division of Labor Among Female Workers of Feshane in Late Nineteenth Century Istanbul M. Erdem Kabadayı PART II: Education for Life: Schools, Associations and Curricula The Limits of Feminism in Muslim-Turkish Women Writers of the Armistice Period Elif İkbal Mahir Metinsoy Between Two Worlds: Education and Accultration of Ottoman Jewish Women Rachel Simon Girls’ Institutes and the Rearrangement of the Public and the Private Spheres in Turkey Elif Ekin Akşit PART III: Creating New Lives, Pushing the Boundaries: Ottoman Female Artists Painting the Late Ottoman Woman: Portrait(s) of Mihri Müşfik Hanım Burcu Pelvanoğlu The New Woman in Erotic Popular Literature of 1920s Istanbul Fatma Türe PART IV: Womanhood in Print Culture Enlightened Mothers and Scientific Housewifes: Discussing Women’s Social Roles in Eurydice (Evridiki) (1870-1873) Anastasia Falierou An Almanac for Ottoman Women: Notes on Ebüzziya Tevfik’s Takvîmü’n-nisâ (1317/1899) Özgür Türesay Women’s Representations in Ottoman Cartoons and the Satirical Press on the Eve of the Kemalist Reforms (1919-1924) François Georgon Part V: Dilemmas of Nationalism: Debating Modernity, Identity and Women’s Agency From a Critique of the Orient to a Critique of Modernity: A Greek-Ottoman-American Writer, Demetra Vaka (1877-1946) Duygu Köksal The ‘Tomboy’ and the Aristocrat: Nabawiyya Mûsâ and Malak Hifnî Nâsif, Pioneers of Egyptian Feminism Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen Hayriye Melek (Hunc), a Circassian Ottoman Writer between Feminism and Nationalism Alexandre Toumarkine Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThe Crimean War was a defining event in both European and Ottoman history, but it has principally been studied from the Europeans’ point of view. This study analyzes the role of the Ottoman Empire in the Crimean War and the War’s impact on the Ottoman state and Ottoman society. Based on hitherto unused Ottoman and Russian sources, it offers new insights into the Crimean War’s financial, social and political implications for the Empire, emphasizing the importance of the Ottomans as both actors and victims. In addition to analyzing Ottoman and European public opinion and the diplomatic, economic and political origins of the War, The Ottoman Crimean War (1853-1856) also contains a critical review of the voluminous existing literature on the subject. Originally published in hardcover.Trade Review“What makes this study so valuable is not just the inclusion of Ottoman sources but also the author's close examination of non-Ottoman, especially Russian, sources. Badem makes a major contribution to the study of the Crimean War.[…] Highly recommended.” R. W. Zens, Choice, October 2010 'Seeking to “reconstruct the narrative of the war as experienced by the Ottomans,” Badem examines the “conduct of the war itself … its implications, results, and impact upon the Ottoman state and society” (1). Badem’s book is the first monograph on the subject in any language that combines Russian and Ottoman sources and addresses Ottoman failures as well as successes.11 He devotes nearly onehalf of The Ottoman Crimean War to an analysis of major Ottoman battles, particularly the disastrous naval battle of Sinope in November 1853 and the extended campaign in the Caucasus. The book incorporates material from Ottoman Historical Archives (BOA), British National Archives (TNA), and RGVIA, as well as an impressive body of published primary and secondary sources'. -- Mara Kozelsky, University of South Alabama, in Kritika, Fall 2012

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Book SynopsisThe historical and cultural role of the Aramaeans in ancient Syria can hardly be overestimated. Thus The Aramaeans in Ancient Syria gives precise and up-to-date information on different aspects of Aramaean culture. To that end, history, society, economy and law, language and script, literature, religion, art and architecture of the Aramaean kingdoms of Syria from their beginnings in the 11 century B.C. until their end at approximately 720 B.C. are covered within the handbook. The wide survey of Aramaean culture in Syria is supplemented by overviews on the Aramaeans in Assyria, Babylonia, Phoenicia, Palestine, Egypt, North Arabia and on the Aramaean heritage in the Levant.Table of ContentsPreface (H.Niehr) Chapter One Introduction (H.Niehr) Chapter Two History (H. Sader) Chapter Three Society, Institutions, Economy (D. Kühn) Chapter Four Language and Script (H. Gzella) Chapter Five Literature (P. Merlo) Chapter Six Religion (H. Niehr) Chapter Seven Art (D. Bonatz) Chapter Eight Architecture (M. Novák) Chapter Nine Outlook: Aramaeans outside of Syria 1. Assyria (M. Nissinen) 2. Babylonia (M.P. Streck) 3. Phoenicia (H. Niehr) 4. Palestine (A. Berlejung) 5. Egypt (A. Botta) 6. North Arabia (H. Niehr) Chapter Ten Aramaean Heritage (J.F. Healey) Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIn al-Ḥīra. Eine arabische Kulturmetropole im spätantiken Kontext, Isabel Toral-Niehoff draws a vivid portrait of this multicultural Late Antique Arab city located in the frontier zone between Byzantium and Iran and emphasizes its significance for Arab culture and early Islam. In al-Ḥīra. Eine arabische Kulturmetropole im spätantiken Kontext zeichnet Isabel Toral-Niehoff ein lebendiges Porträt dieser spätantiken multikulturellen arabischen Stadt im Grenzraum zwischen Byzanz und Iran und unterstreicht deren Bedeutung für den Frühislam und die arabische Kulturgeschichte.Trade ReviewWinner of the Buchpreis Iran 2016 für den deutschsprachigen Raum (The World Award for Book of the Year of Islamic Republic of Iran) "Es gilt, ein exzellentes Buch anzuzeigen, dessen Lektüre jedem althistorischen Vertreter der Forschungen zur Spätantike nur wärmstens ans Herz gelegt werden kann. Dass man solche Forschung, zumindest ebensolche zum spätantiken Osten, nur als zeitlicher, räumlicher, kultureller und disziplinärer Grenzgänger betreiben kann, sollte inzwischen unbestritten sein, dass man als ein solcher Wanderer zwischen den Welten seinen Fuß auch in die arabische Welt der vorislamischen Zeit setzen muss, lehrt dieses Buch… [Ein] Band …, der in keiner althistorischen Bibliothek fehlen sollte.” – Josef Wiesehöfer in Plekos 19, 2017. "This book is written in a clear, accessible, academic German style. ...we may hope that scholarly production in the German language, with its great tradition in our fields, will continue to prosper. This book, an illuminating, indeed eye-opening contribution to our knowledge, is an excellent case in point." – Michael Bonner, in: Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 24 (2016) "Toral-Niehoff has surveyed all the available primary sources in Arabic, Syriac, Middle Persian, and Greek to assemble the most comprehensive history of al-Ḥīra available in any language, surpassing her predecessors Gustav Rothstein (1899) and ʿĀrif ʿAbd al-Ghanī (1993)." – Adam Talib, in: Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée (REMM), 17 February 2015Table of ContentsVorwort Abkürzungen Vorbemerkung: Ethnische und religiöse Bezeichnungen Einleitung I Zum kulturhistorischen Hintergrund II Die natürliche Umwelt III Die Ursprünge der Gemeinschaft IV Al-Ḥīra und die Sassaniden V Die Stadt VI Die Bevölkerung VII Die sprachlichen Verhältnisse VIII Der König und die Stämme IX Der König und sein Hof X Das Christentum in al-Ḥīra XI Zusammenfassung und Ausblick Anhang Bibliographie Quellen Register und Index Abbildungen

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Book SynopsisSince its inception, the study of Ḥadīth conducted by scholars trained in the Western academic tradition has been marked by sharp methodological debates. A focal issue is the origin and development of traditions on the advent of Islam. Scholars' verdicts on these traditions have ranged from “late fabrications without any historical value for the time concerning which the narrations purport to give information” to “early, accurately transmitted texts that allow one to reconstruct Islamic origins”. Starting from previous contributions to the debate, the studies collected in this volume show that, by careful analysis of their texts and chains of transmission, the history of Muslim traditions can be reconstructed with a high degree of probability and their historicity assessed afresh.Trade ReviewWorld Prize for the Book of the Year of the Islamic Republic of Iran, February 2012.Table of ContentsPreface 1. THE JURISPRUDENCE OF IBN SHIHĀB AL-ZUHRĪ. A SOURCE-CRITICAL STUDY, Harald Motzki 2. WHITHER ḤADĪTH STUDIES?, Harald Motzki 3. THE PROPHET AND THE DEBTORS. A ḤADĪTH ANALYSIS UNDER SCRUTINY, Harald Motzki 4. AL-RADD ʿALĀ L-RADD: CONCERNING THE METHOD OF ḤADĪTH ANALYSIS, Harald Motzki 5. THE ORIGINS OF MUSLIM EXEGESIS. A DEBATE, Harald Motzki 6. THE RAID OF THE HUDHAYL: IBN SHIHĀB AL-ZUHRĪ’S VERSION OF THE EVENT, Nicolet Boekhoff-van der Voort 7. CRIME AND PUNISHMENT IN EARLY MEDINA: THE ORIGINS OF A MAGHĀZĪ-TRADITION, Sean W. Anthony Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis collection of articles discusses various political, social, cultural and economic aspects of the Ottoman Middle East. By using various textual and visual documents, produced in the Ottoman Empire, the collection offers new insights into the matrix of life during the long period of Ottoman rule. The different parts of the volume explore the main topics studied by Amnon Cohen: Ottoman Palestine, Egypt and the Fertile Crescent under Ottoman rule, Ottoman Jews and their relations with the surrounding societies and various social aspects of Ottoman societies.Trade Review'In summary, the twelve papers of this volume present new perspectives on the social and cultural history of the Ottoman Middle East. They are quite diverse in methodological approach and subject matter, but as a whole they work surprisingly well together to fulfil what is the main task of this volume: paying tribute to the academic achievement of an outstanding scholar, Amnon Cohen'. Tobias Völker, University of Hamburg, in: Der Islam 2018 · volume 95 · issue 2Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction Eyal Ginio, Elie Podeh The Ottoman Empire and Europe Bernard Lewis Part One Ottoman Palestine King Solomon or Sultan Süleyman? Rachel Milstein The Renovations of Sultan Mahmud II (r. 1808–1839) in Jerusalem  Khader Salameh Ottoman Intelligence Gathering during Napoleon’s Invasion of Egypt and Palestine Dror Zeevi A Note on ʿAziz (Asis) Domet: A Pro-Zionist Arab Writer Jacob M. Landau Part Two Ottoman Egypt and the Fertile Crescent Un territoire « bien gardé » du sultan ? Les Ottomans dans leur vilâyet de Basra, 1565-1568  Nicolas Vatin Egyptian and Syrian Sufis Viewing Ottoman Turkish Sufism: Similarities, Differences, and Interactions  Michael Winter Growing Consciousness of the Child in Ottoman Syria in the 19th Century: Modes of Parenting and Education in the Middle Class  Fruma Zachs Part Three Ottoman Jews and the Surrounding Communities Retour sur les privilèges des Alamanoğlu : Une lignée juive ottomane à travers les siècles  Gilles Veinstein † Of Orphans, Marriage, and Money: Mating Patterns of Istanbul’s Jews in the Early Nineteenth Century  Minna Rozen Urban Encounters: The Muslim-Jewish Case in the Ottoman Empire  Yaron Ben-Naeh Part Four Social History of the Ottoman Lands Shifting Patterns of Ottoman Enslavement in the Early Modern Period Ehud Toledano The Last Imaret? An Imperial Ottoman Firman from 1308/1890 Amy Singer Amnon Cohen's List of Publications Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2017 Verbruggen prize Montfort Castle, the principal fortress of the Crusader Teutonic Order, was built in the 1220s and occupied and dismantled by the Mamluk army in 1271. This volume includes discussions on the castle’s history, architecture, material culture, and the archaeological work carried out at Montfort.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2017 Verbruggen prize, awarded annually by the De Re Militari society for the best book on medieval military history. The awarding committee stated that the volume offers ‘a through exploration of all the sources, archaeological and literary, relating to an important site. A model for future work.’ "The last couple of decades have been marked by a series of major advances in our understanding of the archaeological remains surviving from the crusader period, particularly those pertaining to the kingdom of Jerusalem... This present work on Montfort Castle expands upon this trend and is, in essence, a survey and summary of the achievements of the Montfort Castle Project (MCP), which was originally started in 2006 by scholars working at the University of Haifa. This project is still underway, so this book provides an interim report on progress so far... Overall, this work stands as testimony to the diligence, inter-disciplinary skill and methodological originality both of the project team as a whole and of Boas and Khamisy (who authored many of these articles) in particular. This is a very impressive piece of work and I feel sure that the team will continue to produce further thought-provoking results in the years to come." Nicholas Morton, in Islam and Christian–Muslim Relations 28.2 (2017), 237-8. "Boas' fundamental collection offers a lot of new material and fresh views and will stimulate upcoming discussions in the scientific community." Thomas Wozniak, in H-Soz-Kult, https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/rezbuecher-27936Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements xi List of Plates xii List of Tables xxiii Note on Names xxiv List of Contributors xxv Introduction 1 Adrian J. Boas Section 1 The History of Montfort Castle 1 Montfort Castle and the Order of the Teutonic Knights in the Latin East 15 Kristjan Toomaspoeg 2 The Region of Montfort and Land Ownership in the Frankish Period 24 Rabei G. Khamisy 3 Montfort Castle (Qalʿat Al-Qurayn) in Mamluk Sources 28 Rabei G. Khamisy 4 Archaeological Evidence for the Mamluk Sieges and Dismantling of Montfort: A Preliminary Discussion 41 Adrian J. Boas Section 2 Montfort Castle after the Crusader Period 5 Montfort Castle in Travellers’ Descriptions and Illustrations 59 Rabei G. Khamisy 6 The Survey of Western Palestine Report on Montfort (1877) 73 Adrian J. Boas 7 The Metropolitan Museum of Art Expedition to Montfort (1926) 75 Adrian J. Boas Section 3 Architecture, Function, Design and Construction of Montfort Castle 8 Initial Thoughts on the Architectural Development of the Castle 95 Adrian J Boas and Rabei G. Khamisy 9 Interpretation of the Parts 102 Adrian J. Boas 10 The Building Below the Castle 120 Laura Aiello and Cecilia Luschi 11 History and Archaeology of the Frankish Village of Tarphile 128 Rabei G. Khamisy 12 The Stones of Montfort: Sources of Stone for Montfort Castle 137 Vardit Shotten-Hallel, Dorit Korngreen and Lydia Perelis Grossowicz 13 Masonry and Masons’ Marks 150 Rabei G. Khamisy Section 4 Finds from the 1926 Metropolitan Museum of New York Expedition to Montfort 14 Introduction to the Finds 160 Adrian J. Boas 15 Ceramic Finds 163 Adrian J. Boas 16 The Winepress at Montfort 168 Rafael Frankel 17 Glass Finds in the Metropolitan Museum of Art from the 1926 Expedition 176 David Whitehouse†, Timothy B. Husband, Lisa Pilosi, Mary B. Shepard and Mark T. Wypysk 18 Stone, Metal, Wood and Worked Bone Finds from the 1926 Expedition 195 Adrian J. Boas 19 A Roman Imperial Wine Vessel? 221 Tamar Backner Section 5 New Research 20 The Montfort Castle Project (Mcp): A Summary of the Surveys and the First Six Excavation Seasons (2011–2015) 227 Adrian J. Boas 21 Coin Finds (1926–2012) and the Use of Money at Montfort 242 Robert Kool 22 Dendroarchaeological Investigations of Finds from Montfort Castle: Analysis of Finds from 1926 and 2011–2012 256 Nili Liphschitz 23 Tree Wormwood (Artemisia Arborescens) at Montfort Castle: The Possible Introduction of a Medicinal Plant from Western Europe to the Latin East in the Crusader Period 258 Nativ Dudai and Zohar Amar 24 The Stone Matrices from Montfort: About Moulds, Tin Relief and the Polychromy of Shields in the Thirteenth Century 266 Andrea Wähning 25 The Architectural Sculpture of Montfort Castle Revisited 273 Nurith Kenaan-Kedar 26 How Strong was Strong Mountain? Preliminary Remarks on the Possible Location of the Mamluk Siege Position at Montfort Castle 282 Rafael Lewis 27 Two Board Games and Some Graffiti from Montfort 287 Adrian J. Boas 28 Brief Preliminary Remarks on the Sampling and Analysis of Mortars Used in the Construction and Conservation of Montfort Castle 289 Jonathan J. Gottlieb Summary and Conclusions 302 Adrian J. Boas Appendix I Find Lists and the Division of Finds 305 Adrian J. Boas Appendix II Compositional Analyses of Vessels and Window Glasses from Montfort (Weight Percent) 309 David Whitehouse†, Timothy B. Husband, Lisa Pilosi, Mary B. Shepard and Mark T. Wypyski Bibliography Abbreviations 311 Primary Sources 311 Secondary Sources 313 Index 327

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Book SynopsisThis volume brings together articles on various aspects of the intellectual and social histories of Islamicate societies and of the traditions and contexts that contributed to their formation and evolution. Written by leading scholars who span three generations and who cover such diverse fields as Late Antique Studies, Islamic Studies, Classics, and Jewish Studies, the volume is a testament to the breadth and to the sustained, deep impact of the corpus of the honoree, Professor Patricia Crone. Contributors are: David Abulafia, Asad Q. Ahmed, Karen Bauer, Michael Cooperson, Hannah Cotton, David M. Eisenberg, Khaled El-Rouayheb, Matthew S. Gordon, Gerald Hawting, Judith Herrin, Robert Hoyland, Bella Tendler Krieger, Margaret Larkin, Maria Mavroudi, Christopher Melchert, Pavel Pavlovitch, David Powers, Chase Robinson, Behnam Sadeghi, Adam Silverstein, Devin Stewart, Guy Stroumsa, D. G. Tor, Kevin van Bladel, David J. Wasserstein, Chris Wickam, Joseph Witztum, F. W. ZimmermannTrade Review"Das Buch kommt zur rechten Zeit, denn es setzt Zeichen für die Beschäftigung mit frühislamischer Geschichte, die während der vergangenen vier Jahrzehnte, während Patricia Crones akademischer Tätigkeit und maßgeblich von ihr mitgeprägt, einen Aufschwung erlebt hat, vielleicht durch sie ganz neu ins Leben gerufen ist, wie Chase Robinson in einem abschließenden Kapitel feststellt („Crone and the End of Orientalism“). So ist diese Festschrift, abgesehen vom Wert ihrer Beiträge für sich, ein würdiges Dokument für die Lebensleistung einer der ganz großen Vertreterinnen der Islamwissenschaft im 20. und frühen 21. Jahrhundert". Lucian Reinfandt in Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, vol. 106/2016.Table of ContentsTable of Contents Introduction Behnam Sadeghi, Asad Q. Ahmed, Robert Hoyland, Adam Silverstein Variant Traditions, Relative Chronology and the Study of Intra-Quranic parallels Joseph Witztum The Earliest Attestation of the Dhimma of God and His Messenger and the Rediscovery of P. Nessana 77 (AH 60s/AD 680) Robert Hoyland with Appendix by Hannah Cotton Jewish Christianity and Islamic Origins Guy Stroumsa A Note on the Relationship Between Tafsīr and Documentary Evidence With Reference to Contracts of Marriage Karen Bauer Earnest Money’ and the Sources of Islamic Law Gerald Hawting and David Eisenberg A Bequest May Not Exceed One-Third’: An Isnād-cum-Matn Analysis – and Beyond Pavel Pavlovich and David Powers Basra and Kufa as the Earliest Centers of Islamic Legal Controversy Christopher Melchert God's Cleric: Al-Fuḍayl b. ʿIyāḍ and the Transition from Caliphal to Prophetic Sunna Deborah Tor Aḥmad ibn Ṭūlūn and the Politics of Deference Matthew Gordon Eighth-Century Indian Astronomy in the Two Cities of Peace Kevin van Bladel Greek Language and Education Under Early Islam Maria Mavroudi Kalām and the Greeks Fritz Zimmermann ‘Arabs’ and ‘Iranians’: The Uses of Ethnicity in the Early Abbasid Period Michael Cooperson The Poetics of Cultural Identity: Al-Mutanabbī among the Būyids Margaret Larkin Must God Tell Us the Truth? A Problem in Ash‘arī Theology Khaled El Rouayheb Administrators’ Time: The Social Memory of the Early Medieval State, East and West Chris Wickham An Eleventh-Century Justification of the Authority of Twelver Shiite Jurists Devin Stewart A Family Story: Ambiguities of Jewish Identity in Medieval Islam David Wasserstein What happened in al-Andalus: Minorities in al-Andalus and in Christian Spain David Abulafia The Samaritan Version of the Esther Story Adam Silverstein New Evidence for the Survival of Sexually Libertine Rites among some Nuṣayrī-ʿAlawīs of the Nineteenth Century Bella Tendler Crone and the End of Orientalism Chase Robinson Patricia Crone – A Brief Memoir Judith Herrin Tabula Gratulatoria Biographies

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Book SynopsisThe reign of al-Muqtadir (295-320/908-32) is a crucial and controversial epoch in the history of the Abbasid empire. Al-Muqtadir’s regime has traditionally been depicted as one of decline, when the political power of the caliphate and the lustre of its capital began to crumble. This book not only offers a substantial investigation of the idea and reality of decline, but also provides new interpretations of the inner workings of the court and the empire. The authors, four specialists of Abbasid history, explore the formal and informal power relationships that shaped politics at the court, involving bureaucrats, military, harem, courtiers and of course al-Muqtadir himself. A study of the topography of Baghdad completes this vivid picture of the court and its capital.Trade Review« L’ouvrage est d’une grande qualite formelle et le fil conducteur entre les differents chapitres apparait clairement. L’interet de ce livre reside sans conteste dans le fait qu’il donne a voir et a penser des interactions entre les differentes spheres qui animaient la vie politique sous al-Muqtadir. Ces spheres loin d’etre isolees les unes des autres etaient liees entre elles par des reseaux, que les auteurs se sont attaches a mettre en lumiere. Les auteurs presentent un tableau vivant des mecanismes a l’oeuvre en identifiant les strategies baties par les differents acteurs du regne d’al-Muqtadir. Il en resulte un ouvrage coherent, renouvelant l’approche sur cette periode mouvementee de l’histoire abbasside en inscrivant sa reflexion dans celle des court studies.” Eugénie Rébillard in: Arabica 61 (2014) 613-629. "A lot of thought and effort must have gone into framing this book and there is no doubt that it was worth it." Konrad Hirschler in: Al-Abhath 64 (2016). "This is an excellent book and is deeply rewarding to read. There remains a great deal of work to be done on al-Muqtadir and the structure of the Abbasid state, but these four scholars have lit a clear path forward." John P. Turner in: Early Medieval Europe, 25 (2017).Table of ContentsIntroduction Time line Map of caliphate Part I 1. The Reign of al-Muqtadir (295-320/908-32): A History, Hugh Kennedy 2. The Caliph, Letizia Osti Part II 3. The Vizier, Maaike van Berkel 4. The Bureaucracy, Maaike van Berkel 5. The Military, Hugh Kennedy Part III 6. The Chamberlains, Nadia Maria El Cheikh 7. The Harem, Nadia Maria El Cheikh 8. Culture, Education and the Court, Letizia Osti General Conclusion Appendix: Baghdad at the Time of al-Muqtadir, Judith Ahola and Letizia Osti Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisPrint culture, in both its material and cognitive aspects, has been a somewhat neglected field of Middle Eastern intellectual and social history. The essays in this volume aim to make significant contributions to remedying this neglect, by advancing our knowledge and understanding of how and why the development of printing both affected, and was affected by, historical, social and intellectual currents in the areas considered. These range geographically from Iran to Latin America, via Kurdistan, Turkey, Egypt, the Maghrib and Germany, temporally from the 10th to the 20th centuries CE, and linguistically through Arabic, Judæo-Arabic, Syriac, Ottoman Turkish, Kurdish and Persian.Trade Review“…scientifically elaborate and richly illustrated volume.” Nikos Nikoloudis in Journal of Oriental and African Studies 24 (2015) 471-474.Table of ContentsContents Preface Mediæval Arabic Block Printing: State of the Field Karl Schaefer Früher Druck mit arabischen Typen in Leipzig, 17.-18. Jahrhundert Boris Liebrenz Enlightenment in the Ottoman Context: İbrahim Müteferrika and His Intellectual Landscape Vefa Erginbaş Waiting for Godot: The Formation of Ottoman Print Culture Orlin Sabev (Orhan Salih) Printing and the Abuse of Texts in al-Ǧabartī’s History of Egypt Sarah Mirza Judæo-Arabic Printing in North Africa, 1850-1950 Yosef Tobi Marginal Miniatures: The Tehran Edition of al-Damīrī’s Ḥayāt al-ḥayawān (1285/1868) Ulrich Marzolph The Establishment of the Syrian Orthodox Patriarchate Press Ahmet Taşğın and Robert Langer L’Imprimerie Ebüzziya et l’art d’imprimer dans l’Empire ottoman à la fin du XIXe siècle Özgür Türesay A Champion of Printing Quality in the Ottoman Turkish Press of the Second Constitutional Period: Şehbal Journal Bora Ataman and Cem Pekman Arabic and Bilingual Newspapers and Magazines in Latin America and the Caribbean Philipp Bruckmayr A Short History of Kurdish Publishing and Prospects for its Future Blair Kuntz The Bulaq Press Museum at the Bibliotheca Alexandrina Ahmed Mansour

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Book SynopsisIn Politics, Patronage and the Transmission of Knowledge in 13th – 15th Century Tabriz, an international group of specialists from different disciplines investigate the role of Tabriz as one of the foremost centres of learning, cultural productivity, and politics in post-Mongol Iran and the Middle East. While standard accounts of Islamicate history have long presented the 13th to 15th centuries as the bottom of the decline paradigm of old, the present volume demonstrates the vibrancy and originality of the intellectual and cultural production of this period by focusing on Tabriz among other capitals of the region. The volume particularly explores the transmission of knowledge and institutional and cultural patronage in the post-Mongol period. Contributors include Reuven Amitai, Nourane Ben Azzouna, Sheila Blair, Devin DeWeese, Joachim Gierlichs, Birgitt Hoffmann, Domenico Ingenito, Robert Morrison, Ertuğrul Ökten, Judith Pfeiffer, Johannes Preiser-Kapeller, F. Jamil Ragep, and Patrick Wing.Trade Review"The volume does not attempt to cover all aspects of intellectual activity in Tabriz in this period, a task which would be impossible to accomplish in a single volume. However, it fulfils expectations by contributing to a better understanding of the political, economic and intellectual life of Tabriz from the arrival of the Chinggissid rulers to Iran in the mid thirteenth century until the region became a disputed zone after the consolidation of the Ottoman and Safavid Empires in the sixteenth century." Bruno de Nicola in Bulletin critique des Annales islamologiques, 29, 2014.Table of ContentsTable of Contents Introduction Judith Pfeiffer (University of Oxford, UK) From Baghdad to Marāgha, Tabriz, and beyond: Tabriz and the multi-cephalous cultural, religious, and intellectual landscape of the 13th to 15th century Nile-to-Oxus region Part I: Intellectuals, bureaucrats and politics Reuven Amitai (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel) Hülegü and His Wise Men: Topos or Reality? Devin DeWeese (Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA) ʿAlāʾ al-Dawla Simnānī’s Religious Encounters at the Mongol Court near Tabriz Domenico Ingenito (UCLA, CA, USA) “Tabrizis in Shiraz are worth less than a dog:” Saʿdī and Humām, a lyrical encounter Judith Pfeiffer (University of Oxford, UK) Confessional Ambiguity vs. Confessional Polarization: Politics and the Negotiation of Religious Boundaries in the Ilkhanate Part II: The Transmission of Knowledge Birgitt Hoffmann (Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg, Germany) In pursuit of memoria and salvation: Rashīd al-Dīn and his Rabʿ-i Rashīdī Nourane Ben Azzouna (University of Vienna, Austria) Rashīd al-Dīn Faḍl-Allāh al-Hamadhānī’s Manuscript Production Project in Tabriz Reconsidered Robert Morrison (Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME, USA) What Was the Purpose of Astronomy in Ījī’s Kitāb al-Mawāqif fī ʿilm al-kalām? F. Jamil Ragep (McGill University, Montreal, Canada) New Light on Shams: The Islamic Side of Σὰμψ Πουχάρης Part III: Tabriz and Interregional Networks Johannes Preiser-Kapeller (Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria) Civitas Thauris. The significance of Tabriz in the spatial frameworks of Christian merchants and ecclesiastics in the 13th and 14th century Patrick Wing (University of Redlands, USA) “Rich in Goods and Abounding in Wealth:” The Ilkhanid and Post-Ilkhanid Ruling Elite and the Politics of Commercial Life at Tabriz, 1250-1400 Sheila Blair (Boston College, MA, and Virginia Commonwealth University, VA, USA) Tabriz: International Entrepôt under the Mongols Joachim Gierlichs (Qatar National Library, Doha, Qatar) Tabrizi Wood Carvings in Timurid Iran Ertuğrul Ökten (29 Mayis Üniversitesi, Istanbul, Turkey) Imperial Aqquyunlu Construction of Religious Establishments in the Late Fifteenth Century Tabriz

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Book SynopsisLittle is known about the life of Abū Isḥāq Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad al-Iṣṭakhrī, the author of Kitāb al-Masālik wa l-mamālik, which was written towards the end of the first half of the 10th century CE. The work built on the earlier concept of the “atlas of Islam”, which it developed further. The climates (iqlīm) it describes are no longer those of Ptolemean geography, but, reflecting the Iranian tradition, refer to geographical entities or “countries”. Also reflecting the author’s background—whose most common nisba is al-Fārisī—Iran holds a favoured position on this work. Published in 1870, the present edition by M.J. de Goeje was the first volume in the first series of the Bibliotheca Geographorum Arabicorum.

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Book SynopsisThe journeys of Abū l-Qāsim Ibn Ḥawqal, who might have been a merchant, took him to North Africa, Spain and the southern edge of the Sahara (947-51), Egypt, Armenia and Azerbaijan (c. 955), the Arabian Peninsula, Iraq, Khuzistan, and Iran (961-69), Khwarazm and Transoxania (c. 969), and Sicily (973). By about 988 CE the final version of Ibn Ḥawqal’s Kitāb Ṣūrat al-arḍ was ready. It is effectively both a continuation and an update of al-Iṣṭakhrī’s Kitāb al-Masālik wa l-mamālik and is also known under that same title. Ibn Ḥawqal transformed what was meant as a commentary on a series of maps into a work in its own right, which also included remarks on various countries or peoples bordering on the Islamic world, e.g. the Turks, the Khazars, the towns of southern Italy, the Sudanese and the Nubians. Although he owed much to al-Iṣṭakhrī’s work, Ibn Ḥawqal aimed to place the text firmly within his own period. He took great care to depict a region precisely in the state and at the date that he himself had seen it, with occasional references to the distant or more recent past. This is particularly true of the notes on economic matters, which form a complete break with convention. Ibn Ḥawqal was the only Arab geographer of the period who really sketched a vivid picture of production.

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Book SynopsisShams al-Dīn Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Abī Bakr al-Bannāʾ al-Shāmī al-Muqaddasī is one of the most prominent representatives of Arabic geography in the second half of the 10th century CE. Building on the tradition of the “atlas of Islam” of which al-Iṣṭakhrī and Ibn Ḥawqal were also representatives, al-Muqaddasī was the first to systematize the subject into a proper science of geography of Islam for the benefit of both merchants and the cultivated man. Al-Muqaddasī’s Aḥsan al-taqāsīm fī maʿrifat al-aqālīm (“the best division for the knowledge of the provinces”) was the first work of its kind to be accepted as a form of literature. The treatment of each “province” (iqlīm) begins with the division of its districts and towns, followed by their description. Then a general chapter of the province tends to discuss the following aspects: climate, products and specialties, waters, mines, mountains, holy places, money, taxes, weights and measures, customs, marvels, calendar, political power, factions, schools and Qurʾānic readings, and routes. Aḥsan al-taqāsīm fī maʿrifat al-aqālīm by al-Muqaddasī covers North Africa (including Iberia), Egypt, the Arabian Peninsula, Greater Syria, Iraq and Upper Mesopotamia, as well as eight non-Arab provinces including Iran and Afghanistan.

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Book SynopsisThis volume, which was originally published in 1879, contains the indices compiled by M.J. de Goeje to his critical text editions of al-Iṣṭakhrī’s Kitāb al-Masālik wa l-mamālik (BGA I:1), Ibn Ḥawqal’s Kitāb Ṣūrat al-arḍ (BGA I:2) and al-Muqaddasī’s Aḥsan al-taqāsīm fī maʿrifat al-aqālīm (BGA I:3). It also includes his Arabic-Latin glossary to these works, and additions and corrections.

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Book SynopsisIbn al-Faqīh was the Iranian author of a Geography in Arabic entitled Kitāb al-buldan written around the year 903. The original work is lost, but the abridged version, possibly composed around 1022, has survived in a handful of manuscripts. Only three manuscripts were known during De Goeje’s life and he used them all for his edition, which was originally published in 1885. Its introduction includes a summary of Ibn Faqīh’s life on the basis of the classical sources by De Goeje. Ibn al-Faqīh’s Kitāb al-buldan offers geographical and historical details not found in other sources, and it was in itself an important source for later works, for example by Muqaddasī and Yāqūt.

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Book SynopsisAbu ʿAlī Aḥmad b. ʿUmar Ibn Rusta was born in Isfahan at an unknown date and he flourished in the first decade of the 10th century CE. Only the seventh volume of his Kitāb al-Aʿlāq al-nafīsa has survived. The work deals with mathematical, descriptive and human geography and a variety of historical and other subjects. One of his sources seems to have been a more complete version of Ibn Khurradādhbih, which has not survived. The Kitāb al-Aʿlāq al-nafīsa, which has been characterized as an encyclopedia of geographical knowledge, is a rich source on the kinds of subjects that interested the cultivated classes of ʿAbbāsid society. It is published here together with the Kitāb al-buldān (‘The book of countries’) by al-Yaʿqūbī (d. c. 905 CE). al-Yaʿqūbī’s Kitāb al-buldān is an administrative geography based in part on the author’s extensive travels, which also contains valuable historical data. For instance, it provides the earliest information about the political history and state-building of the Sudan west of the Nile.

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Book SynopsisThis is the second edition by J.H. Kramers of the Arabic text of Ibn Ḥawqal’s Kitāb Ṣūrat al-arḍ, the first BGA edition of which was published in 1873. The journeys of Abū l-Qāsim Ibn Ḥawqal, who might have been a merchant, took him to North Africa, Spain and the southern edge of the Sahara (947-51), Egypt, Armenia and Azerbaijan (c. 955), the Arabian Peninsula, Iraq, Khuzistan, and Iran (961-69), Khwarazm and Transoxania (c. 969), and Sicily (973). By about 988 CE the final version of Ibn Ḥawqal’s Kitāb Ṣūrat al-arḍ was ready. It is effectively both a continuation and an update of al-Iṣṭakhrī’s Kitāb al-Masālik wa l-mamālik and is also known under that same title. Ibn Ḥawqal transformed what was meant as a commentary on a series of maps into a work in its own right, which also included remarks on various countries or peoples bordering on the Islamic world, e.g. the Turks, the Khazars, the towns of southern Italy, the Sudanese and the Nubians. Although he owed much to al-Iṣṭakhrī’s work, Ibn Ḥawqal aimed to place the text firmly within his own period. He took great care to depict a region precisely in the state and at the date that he himself had seen it, with occasional references to the distant or more recent past. This is particularly true of the notes on economic matters, which form a complete break with convention. Ibn Ḥawqal was the only Arab geographer of the period who really sketched a vivid picture of production.

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Book SynopsisThis is the second edition by M.J. de Goeje of the Arabic text of al-Muqaddasī’s Aḥsan al-taqāsīm fī maʿrifat al-aqālīm, the first BGA edition of which was published in 1877 by the same editor. Shams al-Dīn Abū ʿAbdallāh Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Abī Bakr al-Bannāʾ al-Shāmī al-Muqaddasī is one of the most prominent representatives of Arabic geography in the second half of the 10th century CE. Building on the tradition of the “atlas of Islam” of which al-Iṣṭakhrī and Ibn Ḥawqal were also representatives, al-Muqaddasī was the first to systematize the subject into a proper science of geography of Islam for the benefit of both merchants and the cultivated man. Al-Muqaddasī’s Aḥsan al-taqāsīm fī maʿrifat al-aqālīm (“the best division for the knowledge of the provinces”) was the first work of its kind to be accepted as a form of literature. The treatment of each “province” (iqlīm) begins with the division of its districts and towns, followed by their description. Then a general chapter of the province tends to discuss the following aspects: climate, products and specialties, waters, mines, mountains, holy places, money, taxes, weights and measures, customs, marvels, calendar, political power, factions, schools and Qurʾānic readings, and routes. Aḥsan al-taqāsīm fī maʿrifat al-aqālīm by al-Muqaddasī covers North Africa (including Iberia), Egypt, the Arabian Peninsula, Greater Syria, Iraq and Upper Mesopotamia, as well as eight non-Arab provinces including Iran and Afghanistan.

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Book SynopsisWinner of the 2014 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award Everyday Life in Joseon-Era Korea shows how the momentous changes of the time transformed the lives of the common people. In twenty-three concise chapters, the book covers topics ranging from agriculture, commerce, and mining to education, marriage, and food culture. It examines how both the spread of Neo-Confucianism in the early Joseon period and its decline from the seventeenth century impacted economic and social life. The book also demonstrates that much of what is thought of as ancient Korean tradition actually developed in the Joseon period. Chapters in this book discuss how customs such as ancestor worship, the use of genealogies, and foods such as kimchi all originated or became widespread in this era. Contributors: Kim Kuentae, Yeom Jeong Sup, Kim Sung Woo, Lee Hun-Chang, Lee Uk, Yoo Pil Jo, Kim Kyung-ran, Kim Eui-Hwan, Oh Soo-chang, Ko Dong-Hwan, Kwon Nae-Hyun, Lee Hae Jun, Jung Jin Young, Kwon Ki-jung, Han Sang Kwon, Kwon Soon-Hyung, Jang Dong-Pyo, Seo-Tae-Won, Sim Jae-woo, Chung Yeon-sik, O Jong-rok, Hong Soon Min. This volume was co-translated by Edward Park and Michael D. Shin.Trade ReviewWinner of the 2014 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award "Shin and Park have produced an eminently readable translation of a well-known and popular Korean-language history of Joseon-era Korea from 1996. How Did People Live in the Joseon Period? Shin's lively introduction provides an excellent overview of the Joseon era, which spanned from 1392 to 1910, offering readers sufficient historiographic background without getting bogged down by minutia. The subsequent chapters, rendered into fluid and engaging English, depart from the standard approach of more formal histories of Korea. Chapters cover topics as diverse as farming, currency, education, the penal system, the life and hard times of itinerant merchants, military life, food culture (including an interesting section on the origins of kimchi), and outhouses at the palaces. This focus on everyday life among the commoners interrupts earlier histories of Korea that focused largely on the ruling classes. The volume is beautifully illustrated and handsomely presented. A very helpful glossary and an excellent index complete the package. This book will be of considerable interest to students at the undergraduate levels (lower and upper division alike), and should find a spot on the bookshelves of general readers interested in the history of Korea." – T. R. Tangherlini, University of California, Los Angeles, in: CHOICE (July 2014) [Copyright American Library Assocation]

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Book SynopsisThe Yahuda Collection was bequeathed to the National Library of Israel by one of the twentieth century's most knowledgeable and important collectors, Abraham Shalom Yahuda (d. 1951). The rich and multifaceted collection of 1,186 manuscripts, spanning ten centuries, includes works representing the major Islamic disciplines and literary traditions. Highlights include illuminated manuscripts from Mamluk, Mughal, and Ottoman court libraries; rare, early copies of medieval scholarly treatises; and early modern autograph copies. In this groundbreaking Arabic catalogue, Efraim Wust synthesizes the Islamic and Western manuscript traditions to enrich our understanding of the manuscripts and their compositions. His combined treatment of Arabic, Persian, and Turkish manuscripts preserves the integrity of the collection and honors the multicultural history of the Islamic intellectual tradition.Table of ContentsForeword Haggai Ben Shammai Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Abraham Shalom Yahuda: The Scholar, the Collector and the Collections Raquel Ukeles Author’s Introduction Efraim Wust Subject Index List of Symbols Yahuda Ms. Ar. 1–599 List of Bibliographic Abbreviations

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Book SynopsisIn Politics of Honor, Başak Tuğ examines moral and gender order through the glance of legal litigations and petitions in mid-eighteenth century Anatolia. By juxtaposing the Anatolian petitionary registers, subjects’ petitions, and Ankara and Bursa court records, she analyzes the institutional framework of legal scrutiny of sexual order. Through a revisionist interpretation, Tuğ demonstrates that a more bureaucratized system of petitioning, a farther hierarchically organized judicial review mechanism, and a more centrally organized penal system of the mid-eighteenth century reinforced the existing mechanisms of social surveillance by the community and the co-existing “discretionary authority” of the Ottoman state over sexual crimes to overcome imperial anxieties about provincial “disorder”.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Maps and Illustrations Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1 Social and Legal Order in the Eighteenth Century Justice, Imperial Public Order, and Ottoman Politico-Judicial Authority Oligarchic Rule and Local Notables in the Eighteenth Century The Kanun as Legal Practice in the Eighteenth Century Chapter 2 Petitioning and Intervention: A Question of Power The Imperial Council and Petitions as a Reflection of Imperial Law in Legal Practice Petitionary (Ahkam) Registers and Socio-Legal Surveillance Reporting Sexual Violence Actors, Strategies, and Rhetoric Petitions as a Mirror of Local Cleavages Chapter 3 Banditry, Sexual Violence and Honor Sexual Violence as a Sign of “Habitualness” to Violence Sexual Violence, Honor and the Imperial State Chapter 4 The Repertoire of Sexual Crimes in the Courts Why fi‛l-i şeni‛ (Indecent Act), but not zina Other Expressions Used in the Registers to Describe Sexual Assaults Chapter 5 The Penal Order of Eighteenth-Century Anatolia The Enigma of Crime and Punishment in the Court Records Social and Institutional Limits to the Authority of Local Judges Under Whose Discretion was Sexual and Moral Order? In Lieu of Conclusion: Silence and Outcry in the Records Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is a collected volume that crosses traditional boundaries between methodologies. Each of its sixteen articles is based on imaginative combinations of data provided by excavations, artifacts, monuments, urban topography, rural layouts, historical narratives and/or archival records. The volume as a whole demonstrates the effectiveness of interdisciplinary research applied to historical, cultural and archaeological problems. Its five sections - Economics and Trade, Governmental Authority, Material Culture, Changing Landscapes, and Monuments – bring forth original studies of the medieval, Ottoman and modern Middle East, amongst others, of voiceless and silenced social groups. Contributors are: Nitzan Amitai-Preiss, Jere L. Bacharach, Simonetta Calderini, Delia Cortese, Katia Cytryn-Silverman, Miriam Frenkel, Haim Goldfus, Hani Hamza, Stefan Heidemann, Miriam Kühn, Ayala Lester, Nimrod Luz, Yoram Meital, Daphna Sharef-Davidovich, Oren Shmueli, Yasser Tabbaa, Daniella Talmon-Heller, and Bethany Walker.Trade Review“This is a volume that has accumulated researchers’ papers rich both, in providing information concerning contemporary documentation and archaeological findings, questioning the objective validity of reported statements as sources as well as in putting to doubt already established perceptive paths while suggesting new interdisciplinary theoretical approaches to historical inquiry.” Stavros Nikolaidis in Journal of Oriental and African Studies 24 (2015) 461-466. "It's praiseworthy interdisciplinary approach and the strong focus on the nexus of material and textual evidence recommend it in whole and part to graduate seminars and specialists in the field." George Malagaris in Journal of Islamic Studies 28, 3 (2017)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Contributors List of abbreviations List of illustrations INTRODUCTION Daniella Talmon-Heller, Katia Cytryn-Silverman, and Yasser Tabbaa, Material Evidence and Narrative Sources: Interdisciplinary Studies of the History of the Muslim Middle East PART ONE – ECONOMICS AND TRADE Jere Bacharach, Material Evidence and Narrative Sources: Teaching and Studying Numismatic Evidence Stefan Heidemann, How to Measure Economic Growth in the Middle East? A Framework of Inquiry for the Middle Islamic Period Donald Whitcomb, Ladies of Quseir: Life on the Red Sea Coast in Ayyūbid Times PART TWO – GOVERNMENTAL AUTHORITY Nitzan Amitai-Preiss, What Happened in 155 A.H. / 771–72 A.D? The Testimony of Lead Seals Simonetta Calderini and Delia Cortese, The Architectural Patronage of the Fāṭimid Queen-Mother Durzān (d. 385/995): An interdisciplinary analysis of literary sources, material evidence and historical context Bethany J. Walker, On Archives and Archaeology: Reassessing Mamlūk Rule from Documentary Sources and Jordanian Fieldwork PART THREE – MATERIAL CULTURE Miriam Frenkel and Ayala Lester, Evidence of Material Culture from the Geniza – An Attempt to Correlate Textual and Archaeological Findings Yasser Tabbaa, Originality and Innovation in Syrian Woodwork of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries Miriam Kühn, Two Mamlūk minbars in Cairo: Approaching Material Culture through Narrative Sources PART FOUR – CHANGING LANDSCAPES Nimrod Luz, Icons of Power and Religious Piety: The Politics of Mamlūk Patronage Oren Shmueli and Haim Goldfus, The Early Islamic City of Ramla in Light of New Archaeological Discoveries, G.I.S. Applications, and a Re-examination of the Literary Sources Daphna Sharef-Davidovich, The Role of the Imperial Palaces in the Urbanization Process of Istanbul, 1856–1909 PART FIVE – MONUMENTS Hani Hamza, Turbat Abū Zakariyya Ibn ʿAbd Allāh Mūsa (chief surgeon of al-Bīmāristān al-Manṣūrī) and his social status according to his endowment deed (waqfiyya) Maximilian Hartmuth, Oral tradition and architectural history: a sixteenth-century Ottoman mosque in the Balkans in local memory, textual sources, and material evidence Yoram Meital, Deliberately Not Empty: Reading Cairo’s Unknown Soldier Monument Index

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Book SynopsisThis book fills a long-standing gap in Arabic-Islamic studies. Following the informative and entertaining style of adab literature and based on a large number of relevant sources from a wide range of genres, Hasan Shuraydi presents a panoramic view of relevant themes that concern youth and old age in Medieval Arabic literature intended for both specialists and non-specialists. A pattern of binary oppositions runs through such themes, e.g., black/white, male/female, husband/wife, sacred/profane, paradise/this world, ignorance/wisdom, past/present, young/old, new/old, health/disease, sappy/dry, permitted/forbidden, lust/chastity, obedience/disobedience, experience/inexperience, folly/reason, sobriety/intoxication, parent/child, celibacy/marriage, present life/hereafter. Themes discussed include: aging, ambition, aphrodisiacs, beauty, education, feminist trends, hair dyeing, homosexuality, honoring age, jihad, life stages, longevity, love, marriage, sex.Trade Review"[This book] is done with great love, sympathy, and understanding, and the language, English though it is, is commensurate. It gives a wonderfully realistic view of the people and society which produced these sentiments in prose and poetry. We complained that such a book on youth and old age in Arabic did not exist--now it does. Rosenthal would have been proud of it, no doubt, and perhaps also a bit jealous." Dimitri Gutas, Yale University “.. the volume lives up to Rosenthal's masterpieces... This beautifully written volume will be easier reading for those familiar with Arabic writers and literature, but it is worth the effort for those who are not. Summing up: Recommended.” S. Ward in Choice53.3 (November 2015) doi: 10.5860/CHOICE.190998 “…ein schönes Buch, das wohl auch Rosenthal gefallen hätte.” Ewald Wagner in Der Islam 94.1 (2017), 304-308. DOI 10.1515/islam-2017-2018Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Chapter 1: Toward a Definition of the Ages of Man Chapter 2: The Age of Beauty Chapter 3: Youthful Pleasures and Repentance Chapter 4: Lament for Lost Youth Chapter 5: Intellectual Pursuits Chapter 6: Code of Conduct Chapter 7: Marriage and Sexuality Chapter 8: Religio-Political Leadership and the Promise of Paradise Chapter 9: Rejuvenation and Paradisiacal Youth Concluding Remarks Appendix A: Rhetorical Devices Appendix B: Monographs Apparently Lost Bibliography General Index

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Book SynopsisGeorge Dimitri Sawa’s Arabic Musical and Socio-Cultural Glossary of Kitāb al-Aghānī is the first comprehensive lexicographical study of Umayyad and early Abbāsid-era music theory and practices. It defines melodic and rhythmic modes, musical forms, instruments, technical terms and metaphors used in evaluating compositions and performances, and the emotional effects of ṭarab. It explains the processes of composition and learning, performance practice, musical change and aesthetics, and addresses the behavior of court musicians to help understand societal views of music. Medieval dictionaries, reference works on Arabic literature, theoretical treatises as well as full quotations from the Aghānī are used. This glossary will be of interest to scholars and students of the music and socio-cultural history of the early Islamic era.

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Book SynopsisThis book presents a translation of Bertold Spuler’s groundbreaking work on the transformation of Iran from a Persian Zoroastrian Empire to a province of the Arab Muslim Empire to a land divided by a number of Persian and Turkish kingdoms.Trade Review“Spuler's 1952 German work remains a crucial study of Iran in the Early Islamic Period. […] …excellent translation of a difficult German text […] …a treasure trove of data now available to a wider audience. Summing Up: Essential. Graduate student, faculty, specialists.“ - T. M. May, in: CHOICE vol. 52 no. 10 (June 2015) [DOI: 10.5860/CHOICE.190201. Copyright 2015 American Library Association]

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Book SynopsisIn Sugar in the Social Life of Medieval Islam Tsugitaka Sato explores the actual day-to-day life in medieval Muslim societies through different aspects of sugar. Drawing from a wealth of historical sources - chronicles, geographies, travel accounts, biographies, medical and pharmacological texts, and more - he describes sugarcane cultivation, sugar production, the sugar trade, and sugar’s use as a sweetener, a medicine, and a symbol of power. He gives us a new perspective on the history of the Middle East, as well as the history of sugar across the world. This book is a posthumous work by a leading scholar of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies in Japan who made many contributions to this field.Trade Review"Tsugitaka Sato's book is a valuable resource on the history of food in the Muslim world." - Samer Traboulsi, University of North Carolina at Asheville, in: Al-Abhath 62-63 (2014-2015)Table of ContentsCONTENTS Series Editor’s Acknowledgements Preface List of Abbreviations Transliteration of Arabic and Persian List of Figures and Map Prologue Islamic Social History through Sugar Sugar in Arabic Literature: Favorite Sweets Historical Overview and Perspectives Primary Sources in Arabic and Persian Chapter 1. The Origin and Expansion of Sugar Production in the Islamic World 1. The Origin of Sugar Production and its Expansion to West Asia The Origin of Sugarcane Cultivation The Origin of Sugar Production The Eastward Route: Expansion from India to China and Okinawa The Westward Route: Expansion from India to Iran 2. The Expansion of Sugarcane Cultivation from Iran to Egypt The Expansion from Iran to Iraq Expansion to Syria (Bilād al-Shām) Expansion to Lower Egypt 3. The Expansion of Sugar Production to Upper Egypt, Maghrib, and Andalusia Expansion from Lower Egypt to Upper Egypt Expansion to the Mediterranean Islands, Maghrib, and Andalusia Chapter 2. From Red Sugar to White Sugar: Sugar Production Technology 1. Sugarcane Cultivation as Described by al-Nuwayrī Al-Nuwayrī, an Encyclopaedist from Upper Egypt Sugarcane Cultivation as Seen in Nihāyat al-Arab Sugarcane Growers and Sugar Factory Workers 2. Sugar Production as Described by al-Nuwayrī 3. The Spread of Sugar Production Technology from Egypt to China The Travels of Marco Polo Technology Transfer between East and West Chapter 3. On Camels and Ships: Sugar as Commodity 1. The Prosperity of al-Karkh in Baghdad The Establishment of Baghdad Al-Karkh as Commerce and Industry Center From Dibs to Sugar: A Change in the Production of Sweeteners Sugar Distribution in the Eastern Islamic World 2. The Growth of Sugar Production in Egypt From Baghdad to Cairo: A Historical Change The Beginning of Prosperous Sugar Production in Fatimid Egypt Sugar in the Age of Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn The Managers of Sugar Production in al-Fusṭāṭ Trade with Italian Merchants in Alexandria 3. The Tricks of the Sugar Merchants in Mamluk Cairo A Guidebook (al-Madkhal) by Ibn al-Ḥājj Unsanitary Conditions in Sugar Refineries The Tricks of the Sugar Merchants 4. Reading the Books on Ḥisba What is “Ḥisba”? The Inspection of Sugar Trade Chapter 4. The Ups and Downs of the Sugar Merchants 1. The Jewish Sugar Merchants as Described in the Geniza Documents The Discovery of the Cairo Geniza The Jewish Sugar Merchants 2. The Kārimī Merchants Versed in Sugar The Appearance of the Kārimī Merchants The Organization and Activities of the Kārimī Merchants “Merchants of Spices and Perfumes” or “Merchants of Spices and Sugar” 3. The Vicissitudes of the Kharrūbī Family in Mamluk Egypt From Retailers to Kārimī Merchants The Sugar Refinery Merchant The Position of Chief Merchant (Ra’īs al-Tujjār) Religious and Cultural Activities The Beginning of the Downfall Chapter 5. Sugar as Medicine 1. A Comprehensive Book of Simple Drugs by Ibn al-Bayṭār Ibn al-Bayṭār, Pharmacologist Sugar in the Comprehensive Book of Simple Drugs 2. Ibn al-Nafīs, the Personal Physician of Sultan Baybars I The Second Ibn Sīnā The Principles of Sugar as Described by Ibn al-Nafīs Sugar as Medicine 3. ‘Aṭṭārs: Merchants who Profited from Sugar Who were the ‘Aṭṭārs? Al-Maqrīzī’s View of the Troubles in Egypt The Prosperous ‘Aṭṭārs Chapter 6. Sugar and Power: Festivals and Gifts from Royalty 1. The Storehouse for Raw Sugar (Dār al-Qand) The Repeal of Miscellaneous Taxes by Sultan Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn Al-Nashw Enacts Attachment on Raw Sugar 2. Sugar in the Month of Ramaḍān Fasting and Sweets The Royal Custom of Giving Sugar 3. Sweets for Banquets and Charities Sugar Candies for Banquets (Simāṭ) Sweets for Charities 4. Sugar Candies in Sultans’ Pilgrimages to Mecca Amīr al-Ḥājj –The Official Guard of Pilgrims to Mecca– The Maḥmil and Kiswa The Mamluk Sultans’ Pilgrimages to Mecca Chapter 7. Cooking Innovations in Medieval Islam 1. Cooking in the ‘Abbasid Caliph Courts The ‘Abbasid Caliph Courts Ibn Sayyār’s Kitāb al-Ṭabīkh Al-Baghdādī’s Kitāb al-Ṭabīkh 2. Sugar in The Thousand and One Nights The World of The Thousand and One Nights Foods Palatable and Nutritious 3. Sugar in Arabic Pharmacology Taqwīm al-Ṣiḥḥa by Ibn Buṭlān Kitāb Daf‘ Maḍār al-Abdān by Ibn Riḍwān Jāmi‘ al-Gharaḍ fī Ḥifẓ al-Ṣiḥḥa wa-Daf‘ al-Maraḍ by Ibn al-Quff 4. Hanging Candies for Children Hanging Candies in the Month of Rajab The Generalities of Sugar Consumption Epilogue The Revival of Sugar Production in Egypt The Expansion of Sugar Production to the Caribbean Islands and South America Sugar Meets Coffee and Tea Coffee, Tea, and Sugar in Contemporary Muslim Societies Glossary Bibliography Index

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