Middle Eastern history Books

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 traditions.Table of ContentsPreface to Volume Two Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Subject Index for Volume Two List of Symbols Transcription Rules for Volume Two Yahuda Ms. Ar. 600–1186 List of Bibliographic Abbreviations

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Book SynopsisIn the crusader period Acre was in many ways a remarkable place, but the most striking thing about its history is the number of times it fell to enemies. The present volume Acre and Its Falls is unusual in that it analyses a wide range of aspects of the history of Acre across the crusader period, combining political, military and cultural history, with a notable emphasis on the memory of the city in Europe. This may have been a city famous for its falls, but most certainly not for them alone. Contributors are Adrian J. Boas, Charles W. Connell, Paul F. Crawford, Susan B. Edgington, Marie-Luise Favreau-Lilie, John France, Anna Gilmour-Bryson, John D. Hosler, Georg Philipp Melloni, Janus Møller Jensen, J. Rubin, and Iris Shagrir.Table of ContentsContents List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction  John France 1 The Capture of Acre, 1104, and the Importance of Sea Power in the Conquest of the Littoral  Susan B. Edgington 2 Clausewitz’s Wounded Lion: a Fighting Retreat at the Siege of Acre, November 1190  John D. Hosler 3 Martyrs for the Faith: Denmark, the Third Crusade and the Fall of Acre in 1191  Janus Møller Jensen 4 New Evidence for Identifying the Site of the Teutonic Compound in Acre  Adrian J. Boas and Georg Philipp Melloni 5 John of Antioch and the Perceptions of Language and Translation in Thirteenth-Century Acre  J. Rubin 6 Did the Templars Lose the Holy Land? The Military Orders and the Defense of Acre, 1291  Paul F. Crawford 7 The Fall of Acre, 1291, and Its Effect on Cyprus  Anna Gilmour-Bryson 8 The Fall of Acre in 1291 in the Court of Medieval Public Opinion  Charles W. Connell 9 Thadeus of Naples on the Fall of Acre  Iris Shagrir 10 The Fall of Acre (1291): Considerations of Annalists in Genoa, Pisa, and Venice (13th/14th–16th Centuries)  Marie-Luise Favreau-Lilie Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisArtillery in the Era of the Crusades provides a detailed examination of the use of mechanical artillery in the Levant through the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Rather than focus on a selection of sensational anecdotes, Michael S. Fulton explores the full scope of the available literary and archaeological evidence, reinterpreting the development of trebuchet technology and the ways in which it was used during this period. Among the arguments put forward, Fulton challenges the popular perception that the invention of the counterweight trebuchet was responsible for the dramatic transformation in the design of fortifications around the start of the thirteenth century. See inside the book.Table of ContentsContents Foreword List of Illustrations Abbreviations Names Weights and Measures Regional Maps Introduction 1 Background   Classical Artillery   Terminological Issues   Early Traction Trebuchets in the Near and Middle East   Early Traction Trebuchets in Europe   Appearance of the Counterweight Trebuchet 2 Mechanics   Traction   Counterweight   The Mathematics 3 First Crusade   Nicaea: 1097   Antioch: 1097-98   Ma’arrat al-Nu’man and ‘Arqa: 1098   Jerusalem: 1099 4 Twelfth Century   The Opening Decades   Tyre: 1124   Offensives of Zanki and John Comnenus   The Second Crusade and the Ebb of Frankish Dominance   Egypt: A New Frontier   The Rise of Saladin   Transjordan 5 Third Crusade   The Hattin Campaign   Indications of Range in Western Syria and Transjordan   Saladin’s Conquest of Northern Palestine   The First Great Siege of Acre   Later Sieges of the Crusade 6 Ayyubid Period   The Fifth Crusade and New Latin Terminology   The Sixth Crusade and War on Cyprus   Continued Infighting and New Arabic Terminology   Louis IX and the Seventh Crusade   The Mongols and the War of St Sabas 7 Mamluk Period   Baybars’ Early Artillery   Indications of Significant Power: 1271   The Sultanate of Qalawun   The Second Great Siege of Acre: 1291 Plates 8 Influence of Offensive Artillery   Theories Regarding the Influence of Artillery   Siege Length   Development, Manpower and Resources   Concentricity   Wall Thickness   Entrances   Dressing   Tower Shape 9 Influence of Defensive Artillery   Ground-mounted Artillery   Tower-mounted Artillery   Possible Ayyubid Artillery Towers   Possible Frankish Artillery Towers   Possible Mamluk Artillery Towers   Other Interpretations Conclusion   Development   Employment Appendix 1: Mentions of Artillery Appendix 2: Images and Technical Treatises Appendix 3: Mathematical Scenarios Appendix 4: Reconstructed Engines Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisCirca AD 750, both the Islamic world and western Europe underwent political revolutions; these raised to power, respectively, the ʿAbbasid and Carolingian dynasties. The eras thus inaugurated were similar not only in their chronology, but also in the foundational role each played in its respective civilization, forming and shaping enduring religious, cultural, and societal institutions. The ʿAbbāsid and Carolingian Empires: Studies in Civilizational Formation, is the first collected volume ever dedicated specifically to comparative Carolingian-ʿAbbasid history. In it, editor D.G. Tor brings together essays from some of the leading historians in order to elucidate some of the parallel developments in each of these civilizations, many of which persisted not only throughout the Middle Ages, but to the present day. Contributors are: Michael Cook, Jennifer R. Davis, Robert Gleave, Eric J. Goldberg, Minoru Inaba, Jürgen Paul, Walter Pohl, D.G. Tor and Ian Wood.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction The ʿAbbasid and Carolingian Dynasties in Comparative Perspective  D.G. Tor Political Power Inventing the Missi Delegating Power in the Late Eighth and Early Ninth Centuries  Jennifer R. Davis Ḥasanwayh b. al-Ḥusayn al-Kurdī (r. ca. 350–369/ca. 961–979) From Freehold Castles to Vassality?  Jürgen Paul Culture, Ethnicity, and Geography The Emperor’s Ass Hunting for the Asiatic Onager (Equus hemionus) in the ʿAbbasid, Byzantine, and Carolingian Worlds  Eric J. Goldberg Ethnicity in the Carolingian Empire  Walter Pohl Across the Hindūkush of the ʿAbbasid Period  Minoru Inaba Religion Columbanus, the Columbanian Tradition and Caesarius  Ian Wood The Rebel and the Imam The Uprising of Zayd al-Nār and Shiʿi Leadership Claims  Robert Gleave Final Summation Comparing Carolingians and ʿAbbasids  Michael Cook Index

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Book SynopsisThe qaṣīdah and the qiṭʿah are well known to scholars of classical Arabic literature, but the maqṭūʿ, a form of poetry that emerged in the thirteenth century and soon became ubiquitous, is as obscure today as it was once popular. These poems circulated across the Arabo-Islamic world for some six centuries in speech, letters, inscriptions, and, above all, anthologies. Drawing on more than a hundred unpublished and published works, How Do You Say “Epigram” in Arabic? is the first study of this highly popular and adaptable genre of Arabic poetry. By addressing this lacuna, the book models an alternative comparative literature, one in which the history of Arabic poetry has as much to tell us about epigrams as does Greek.Trade Review"... a major contribution to the history of pre-modern Arabic literature." - Hakan Özkan, in: Mamluk Studies Review, Vol. 21, 2018. "... Adam Talib's monograph is a useful preliminary tool for experienced scholars and young researchers alike." - Luca Rizzo, Università Ca' Foscari, Venezia & Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, in: Quaderni di Studi Arabi 13 (2018) "... his careful and thoughtful treatment of the subject of genre sets future research on the right path" - Lara Harb, Princeton University, in: Journal of Arabic Literature 50 (2019) “The work under review is a relevant example of both these scholarly achievements and the persistence of biased narrowness, for it does not only venture into a still largely unexplored chronology, but also into the terra incognita of a hitherto overlooked genre: the short poems (maqāṭīʿ) conventionally called epigrams. […] The main objective of Talib’s ground-breaking study is to claim the maqāṭīʿ as a genre of their own. This is undoubtedly achieved, and this work will become a compulsory reference for researchers of Arabic literature. Despite its complexity, this will be also a very useful text for BA students, who can profit from Talib’s editions, translations and close reading of the poems. Scholars interested in postcolonial studies and comparative literature will find insightful discussions and enjoy Talib’s aporetic disquisitions.” - Ignacio Sánchez, University of Warwick in: Orientalistische Literaturzeitung Volume 115, Issue 4-5 (2020).Table of ContentsNote to Readers Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Preamble: Growth and Graft On Wholeness 1 A Bounding Line 2 The Sum of its Parts Arabic Poetry, Greek Terminology Preliminary Remarks 3 Epigrams in the World 4 Hegemonic Presumptions and Atomic Fallout 5 Epigrams in Parallax Appendix Annotated Bibliography of Unpublished Sources Sources Index

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Book SynopsisIn ʿAlāʾ al-Dawla al-Simnānī between Spiritual Authority and Political Power: A Persian Lord and Intellectual in the Heart of the Ilkhanate, Giovanni Maria Martini investigates the personality of a major figure in the socio-political and cultural landscape of Mongol Iran. In pursuing this objective, the author follows parallel paths: Chapter 1 provides the most updated reconstruction of Simnānī’s (d. 736/1336) biography, which, thanks to its unique features, emerges as a cross-section of Iranian society and as a microhistory of the complex relationships between a Sufi master, Persian elites and Mongol rulers during the Ilkhanid period; Chapter 2 contains a study on the phenomenon of Arabic-Persian diglossia in Simnānī’s written work, arguing for its socio-religious function; in Chapters 3 to 6 the critical editions of two important, interrelated treatises by Simnānī are presented; finally, Chapter 7 offers the first full-length annotated translation of a long work by Simnānī ever to appear in a Western language.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments A Note on Transliteration Introduction  Simnānī and the Kubrawiyya  The Criticism of Ibn ʿArabī  The Current State of Research  Organization and Objectives of this Book 1 Simnānī’s Biography: A Window into Iranian Society under the Ilkhanids  Background  Youth  Metanoia  The Return to Simnān  The Meeting with Šaraf al-Dīn al-Ḥanawayh  The Departure to Baghdad and Imprisonment at the Court of Arġūn  Back to Simnān. The Trips to Iraq and the Ḥiǧāz  Ṣūfīābād Ḫudādād: Simnānī’s Own Dār al-Hiǧra in the Heart of the Ilkhanate  Mastery, Advanced Years and Death 2 The Relationship between al-Wārid al-šārid al-ṭārid šubhat al-mārid and the Zayn al-muʿtaqad li-zayn al-muʿtaqid   Introductory Remarks   Background   Section One: Descriptive Analysis of the Differences between al-Wārid and the Zayn   Section Two: The Dynamics of Translation: Audiences, Authorship and Divine Inspiration in the Composition of al-Wārid and the Zayn   Section Three: Observations on the Structure of Some of Simnānī’s Most Relevant Works   Section Four: Observations on the Persian Translation of the ʿUrwa li-ahl al-ḫalwa wa al-ǧalwa 3 The Method Used in the Preparation of the Critical Edition of al-Wārid al-šārid al-ṭārid šubhat al-mārid  Foreword   Description of the Manuscripts   Analysis of the Evidence Useful for the Reconstruction of the Stemma Codicum and Related Hypotheses   Stemma Codicum 4 Established Text of al-Wārid al-šārid al-ṭārid šubhat al-mārid 5 The Method Used in the Preparation of the Critical Edition of the Zayn al-muʿtaqad li-zayn al-muʿtaqid  Foreword   A Note on Transcription   Description of the Manuscripts   Analysis of the Evidence Useful for the Reconstruction of the Stemma Codicum and Related Hypotheses   Stemma Codicum 6 Established Text of the Zayn al-muʿtaqad li-zayn al-muʿtaqid 7 The Inspiration Refuting the Rebel’s Sophistry (Translation of al-Wārid al-šārid al-ṭārid šubhat al-mārid)   A Note on the Translation   The Inspiration Refuting The Rebel’s Sophistry Appendix:Supplement to the Catalogue of Simnānī’s Written Works Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe book Southwest China in Regional and Global Perspectives (c. 1600-1911) is dedicated to important issues in society, trade, and local policy in the southwestern provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan during the late phase of the Qing period. It combines the methods of various disciplines to bring more light into the neglected history of a region that witnessed a faster population growth than any other region in China during that age. The contributions to the volume analyse conflicts and arrangements in immigrant societies, problems of environmental change, the economic significance of copper as the most important “export” product, topographical and legal obstacles in trade and transport, specific problems in inter-regional trade, and the roots of modern transnational enterprise.Table of ContentsContents Preface List of Figures List of Maps List of Tables Notes on Contributors Part 1: Space and Setting 1 Southwest China: Local Conditions and Economic Trajectories  Ulrich Theobald 2 Newcomers in the Eighteenth-Century South-West Frontier: An Introduction to the 1784 Huguang Huiguan Records  Fei Huang 3 Borders, Ethnicities, Brotherhoods, Provinces: Neglected Aspects of Qing Mining History  John E. Wills, Jr. (†) 4 Fuel for the Smelters: Copper Mining and Deforestation in Northeastern Yunnan during the High Qing, 1700 to 1850  Nanny Kim Part 2: Metal and Money 5 Legal and Illegal Copper Markets in Eighteenth-Century Hankou  Roger Greatrex 6 The Copper Market of Hankou and the Illegal Trade of Yunnan Copper in the Mid-Qing Period  Yang Yuda 7 The Chinese Way of Minting: Comparative Perspectives on Coin Production before Mechanisation  Cao Jin Part 3: Trade and Transport 8 Numeric Communication in Intercontinental Trade and Monetary Matters: Coins, Weights and Measures in China and East-Asia in Merchants’ Pocketbooks and Commercial Guides (16th–19th Centuries)  Harald Witthöft 9 The Story of the Mayangzi: Shipping and Technological Change in Qing China  Nanny Kim 10 The Illegal Trade in Saltpetre in Southern China in the Eighteenth and Early-Nineteenth Centuries  Roger Greatrex 11 Sichuan as a Pivot: Provincial Politics and Gentry Power in Late Qing Railway Projects in Southwestern China  Elisabeth Kaske 12 Yunnanese Transnational Business Firms in the Early Twentieth Century: Xizhou’s Yongchangxiang as a Case Study  C. Pat Giersch Index

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Book SynopsisNow available in Open Access thanks to support of the University of Helsinki. Al-Maqrīzī's (d. 845/1442) last work, al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar, was completed a year before his death. This volume, edited by Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila, covers the history of pre-Islamic Iran from the Creation to the Parthians. Al-Maqrīzī's work shows how Arab historians integrated Iran into world history and how they harmonized various currents of historiography (Middle Persian historiography, Islamic sacred history, Greek and Latin historiography). Among al-Ḫabar's sources is Kitāb Hurūšiyūš, the Arabic translation of Paulus Orosius' Historiarum adversum paganos libri vii. This source has only been preserved in one defective copy, and al-Maqrīzī's text helps to fill in some of its lacunae.Trade Review"With his masterful edition and translation, Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila has set very high standards for future publications in the Bibliotheca Maqriziana series and beyond. On a broader scale, the volume constitutes a powerful demonstration of what philological research can and should look like in the twenty-first century. By showing what is possible, it underlines the urgent need for critical editions in a field that far too often settles for non-scholarly and faulty, albeit easily available "editions" of its primary sources." - Christian Mauder, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, in: Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies 82/1 (2019)Table of ContentsList of Plates Abbreviations Foreword Preface Introduction  1 al-Maqrīzī and the Ḫabar  2 The Pre-Islamic History of Iran in Arabic and Persian Sources  3 al-Maqrīzī’s Sources  4 al-Maqrīzī and Orosius  5 al-Maqrīzī’s Use of Sources  6 Description of the Manuscripts  7 Notes on the Translation  8 Names Plates Abbreviations and Symbols Critical Edition and Translation of al-Maqrīzī’s al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar, vol. V, section 4: Persia and Its Kings, Part I Persia and the Four Classes of Its Kings  The First Class, the Pīšdādians  Mention of the Second Class of Persians, the Kayanids  The Third Class of Persian (kings), the Ašġānians Bibliography List of Quoted Manuscripts Index of Qurʾānic Verses Index of Prophetic Traditions Index of Verses Index of Names (People and Places) Index of Quoted Titles in al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar Index of Sources in al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar Index of Glosses Index of Technical Terms Facsimile of MS Fatih 4340 (Istanbul, Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi), fols. 76b–127b, 47*a–b, 128a–131a

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Book SynopsisCe livre offre une nouvelle lecture de la question de la maturation de la calligraphie et des arts du livre arabo-persan vers des formes et des statuts qui deviendront classiques à partir de la période ilkhanide et djalayiride. This book proposes a new reading of the question of the maturation of calligraphy and the arts of the book in Arabic and Persian towards forms and statuses that will become classical from the Ilkhanid and Djalayirid period.Table of ContentsRemerciements Note au lecteur Figures, illustrations et tableaux 1 Introduction 2 Prologue : sources, methodes et terminologie  2.1 L’ analyse des manuscrits : codicologie, paléographie et histoire de l’ art  2.2 La littérature sur l’ écriture et la calligraphie  2.3 La littérature historiographique 3 Le siecle de Yāqūt al-Mustaʿṣimī  3.1 Qui est Yāqūt al-Mustaʿṣimī ?  3.2 Les écritures de Yāqūt al-Mustaʿṣimī  3.3 De la renommée à la légende  3.4 La question des « disciples » de Yāqūt al-Mustaʿṣimī  3.5 L’ enluminure du 7e/13e s. 4 L’ âge d’ or Ilkhanide  4.1 La renaissance du mécénat livresque royal : les Corans de Ghāzān et d’ Öldjeytü  4.2 Le rôle de Rashīd al-Dīn Faḍl Allah al-Hamadhānī 5 Vers une nouvelle culture bibliophile  5.1 L’ évolution du mécénat livresque royal  5.2 L’ école de Yāqūt al-Mustaʿṣimī et la canonisation de la calligraphie arabe classique  5.3 Le Nastaʿlīq  5.4 La maturation de l’ enluminure classique 6 Epilogue : les caracteristiques codicologiques de la production manuscrite Ilkhanide et Djalayiride  6.1 Le papier  6.2 Les formats et la mise en page  6.3 Les cahiers  6.4 La reliure 7 Conclusion 8 Catalogue 1 : manuscrits produits en Iraq et dans le nord-ouest de l’ Iran, 656-814/1258-1411 9 Catalogue 2 : manuscrits et pages d’ albums attribues a Yāqūt al-Mustaʿṣimī, ses disciples presumes et d’ autres calligraphes du 7e-8e/13e-14e s.  9.1 Manuscrits attribués à Yāqūt al-Mustaʿṣimī  9.2 Manuscrits attribués aux disciples présumés de Yāqūt al-Mustaʿṣimī  9.3 Pages de calligraphes du 7e-8e/13e-14e s. incluses dans des albums Annexe 1: Formats et dimensions des manuscrits du corpus par ordre décroissant des hauteurs Annexe 2: Formats et dimensions des manuscrits du corpus par ordre chronologique Annexe 3: La mise en page des manuscrits du corpus Annexe 4: Les cahiers des manuscrits du corpus Bibliographie Index

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Book SynopsisThe Works of Ibn Wāḍiḥ al-Yaʿqūbī, a three volume set, contains a fully annotated translation of the extant writings of Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Yaʿqūbī, a Muslim imperial official and polymath of the third/ninth century, along with an introduction to these works and a biographical sketch of their author. The most important of the works are the History (Ta’rikh) and his Geography (Kitab al-buldan). It also contains a new translation of al-Yaʿqūbī’s political essay (Mushakalat al-nas) and a set of fragmentary texts drawn from other Arabic medieval works. Al-Yaʿqūbī’s writings are among the earliest surviving Arabic-language works of the Islamic period, and thus offer an invaluable body of evidence on patterns of early Islamic history, social and economic organization, and cultural production. Contributors: Laila Asser, Paul Cobb, Lawrence I. Conrad, Elton Daniel, Fred Donner, Michael Fishbein, Matthew S. Gordon, Sidney H. Griffith, Wadad Kadi (al-Qāḍī), Lutz Richter-Bernberg, Chase F. Robinson, Everett K. Rowson The hardback edition of this title is also available as part of a 3-volume set (hardback, ISBN 978-90-04-35608-5), click here.

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Book SynopsisThe fourteenth-century Egyptian cookbook, Kanz al-fawāʾid fī tanwīʿ al-mawāʾid, is a treasure trove of 830 recipes of dishes, digestives, refreshing beverages, and more. Here, for the first time, it has been meticulously translated into English and supplemented with a comprehensive introduction, glossary, illustrations, and twenty-two modern adaptations of its recipes.Trade ReviewWinner of the Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding (1st Prize, Translation from Arabic into English.) click here. Shortlisted for the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards 2018 in the categories Translation and Culinary History click here. "A formidable intertwined offering from a historian, translator, cook, cooking instructor and writer... Nasrallah succeeds in giving a clear, simple and practical text in English to many of the 830 recipes which are difficult to understand and use, even for an Arabic speaker with culinary experience... After the full translated text, Nasrallah adds a helpful alphabetical glossary with an explanation of terms, methods and general commentaries, translations and correlations with dishes known today. Nasrallah ends her book with a fantastic contribution of 22 modern adaptations of some recipes from Kanz. All recipes were tried and photographed by the author. They are well written, easy to follow, and the outcome, as tested by this author, is delicious." - Hala N. Barakat, in: Madamasr (August 25, 2018) click here. "For culinary enthusiasts as well as for those fascinated by Egypt’s heritage, the very first English-language translation of a mediaeval Egyptian cookbook entitled Treasure Trove of Benefits and Variety at the Table. A Fourteenth Century Egyptian Cookbook will come as a thrilling revelation." - Aziza Sami, in: Al-Ahram Weekly (August 31, 2018) click here. "Nasrallah provides her readers not only with an annotated translation, but also details of texts and manuscripts, and excellent and detailed glossaries, helpfully divided into classes of food such as vegetables and legumes, fruits and nuts and so forth, as well as kitchen and cooking implements and culinary terms." Susan Weingarten, in: Mediterranean Historical Review, 33:2 (2018) "The tremendous linguistic and contextual expertise that has gone into the preparation of this book has paid off. It is not only an invaluable historical document for the better understanding of the material culture and foodways of pre-modern Egyptian society, but also a fine example of thorough research and scholarly responsibility to one's material." - Leyla Rouhi, in: Al-Masāq, 30/3 (2018) "Cet ouvrage contient tout ce que l’on peut attendre de la traduction d’un livre de cuisine médiéval : une traduction sérieuse (...), une présentation qui permette au lecteur, même non spécialiste, d’apprécier l’originalité du texte, des glossaires efficaces et une petite touche de gourmandise." - Audrey Caire, in: Arabica 65 (2018) "N. Nasrallah nous propose ici un travail exceptionnel. Sa minutie et son expérience passée de la traduction d’ouvrages culinaires confère à ce livre une valeur scientifique indéniable, mais aussi une dimension sociale, vivante de ce que fut la cuisine arabe médiévale. Cette oeuvre réjouira tout autant le chercheur en quête d’informations que l’amateur curieux de mettre en pratique une cuisine riche, variée et colorée, nous rappelant que, contrairement à la cuisine occidentale, la cuisine arabe sut conserver les goûts, les produits et les modes de cuisson médiévaux et que l’on peut toujours, à une table de Tunis, du Caire ou de Damas, se faire une idée assez précise des plaisirs culinaires qu’éprouvaient les mangeurs pour qui l’auteur du Kanz rédigea son livre." - Veronique Pitchon, in: BCAI 33 (2019) Read an interview about the book with the author on Marcia Lynx Qualey's blog ArabLit: click here.Table of ContentsPREFACE NOTES ON TRANSLATING THE TEXT INTRODUCTION PART I: THE MAKING OF KANZ AL-FAWĀʾID 1. The Text 2. The Provenance 3. Date and Sources 4. A Case of Abridged Borrowing: Kanz al-fawāʾid and Zahr al-ḥadīqa PART II: MEDIEVAL EGYPTIAN FOOD CULTURE 5. Diet and Formation of a Cuisine 6. What was Cooking in Medieval Cairo? 7. The Culture of Food and Cooking 8. Shopping and Eating out PART III 9. Medieval Egyptian Cooking as Reflected in Kanz al-fawāʾid 10. Eating in Good Health INFINITE BENEFITS OF VARIETY AT THE TABLE (ENGLISH TRANSLATION) Chapter 1: Indispensable Instructions for Cooks Chapter 2: How to Knead Bread Dough and Bake It; and Making Varieties of Bread: Enhanced (muṭayyab), Seeded (mubazzar), Salted (mamlūḥ), and More Chapter 3: Measures Taken When Drinking Water: muzammal, and Chilled with Ice (thalj maḍrūb) Chapter 4: Qualities of Air-Cooled Water and What the Physicians Said About It Chapter 5: Miscellany of Dishes Chapter 6: Making murrī (Liquid Fermented Sauce), and Preserving Juice of Sour Unripe Grapes (māʾ al- ḥiṣrim) and Lemon Juice (māʾ al-laymūn) Chapter 7: Eggs Cooked as Omelets and Other Dishes Chapter 8: Vegetarian Dishes (muzawwarāt al-buqūl) for the Nourishment of the Sick Chapter 9: All Kinds of Dishes Made with Different Varieties of Fish Chapter 10: Making All Kinds of Sweets (ḥalwā) Chapter 11: Digestive Stomachics (juwārishnāt), Electuaries (maʿājīn), and Drinks (ashriba) Offered Before and After the Meal Chapter 12: Making fuqqāʿ (Foamy Beer), and Other Drinks Chapter 13: Dried-Apricot Compote (naqūʿ al-mishmish) Chapter 14: Making Preparations Which Relieve Nausea (adwiyat al-qaraf) Chapter 15: Making Mustard [Condiments], Mild and Pungent-Hot Chapter 16: Making Table Sauces (ṣulūṣāt) Chapter 17: Dishes Made with Dairy (albān): kawāmikh (Fermented Condiments), jājaq (Drained-Yogurt Condiment), Condiments with kabar (Capers) and zaʿtar (Thyme); bīrāf (Clotted Cream); and the Like Chapter 18: All Kinds of Pickled Turnip and Onion, Pickling Fruits and Vegetables of All Kinds, and Preserving Lemon, Damascus Citron and the Like, in Salt Chapter 19: Making Cold Dishes (bawārid) Chapter 20: On Aromatics (ṭīb), and Properties of Toothpicks (khilāl) Made from Willow Wood (ṣafṣāf) and Egyptian-Willow Twigs (ʿīdān al-khilāf) Chapter 21: Varieties of Aroma-Diffusing Incense Which Fortify Spirit and Heart; Aromatizing Pills; Deodorants; and Other Preparations Chapter 22: Top Quality Perfumed Powders (dharāʾir mulūkiyya) and Other Preparations Chapter 23: Storing Fresh Fruits and Keeping Them to Use After Their Season GLOSSARY 1. Beverages for Pleasure and Health 2. Breads, Grains, Pasta, Noodles, and Sweet and Savory Pastries 3. Dairy 4. Desserts, Sweeteners, and Conserves; for Pleasure and Health 5. Dishes and Prepared Foods: Main and Side Dishes, Snacks, Condiments, Pickles, Dips, and Table Sauces 6. Fats and Oils 7. Fruits and Nuts 8. Ingredients Used in Foods and Medicinal Preparations: Herbs, Spices, Aromatics, Minerals, Food Colors, and Seasoning Sauces 9. Kitchen and Cooking Implements, and Culinary Techniques and Terms 10. Meat 11. Medical Terms, Medicinal Preparations, and Personal Hygiene and Perfumes 12. Vegetables and Legumes 13. Weights and Measures APPENDIX: A TASTE OF TIME: MODERN ADAPTATIONS OF TWENTY-TWO RECIPES FROM THE KANZ AL-FAWĀʾID WORKS CITED INDICES

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Book SynopsisDancer, Nun, Ghost, Goddess explores the story of the dancers Giō and Hotoke, which first appeared in the fourteenth-century narrative Tale of the Heike. The story of the two love rivals is one of loss, female solidarity, and Buddhist salvation. Since its first appearance, it has inspired a stream of fiction, theatrical plays, and visual art works. These heroines have become the subjects of lavishly illustrated hand scrolls, ghosts on the noh stage, and Buddhist and Shinto goddesses. Physical monuments have been built to honor their memories; they are emblems of local pride and centerpieces of shared identity. Two beloved characters in the Japanese literary imagination, Giō and Hotoke are also models that have instructed generations of women on how to survive in a male-dominated world.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Introduction  The Giō (and Hotoke) Legend  Overview  A Note to the Reader 1 Women Entertainers in Heian and Medieval Japan: Eleventh to Fourteenth Century  Women Entertainers between Fiction and History   Literary Works by Male Authors   Literary Works by Female Authors   Integrated or Marginalized?  Shirabyōshi   Shirabyōshi Origins in Medieval Literary Sources   The Range of Shirabyōshi Attire   Shirabyōshi in History   The Case of Shizuka Gozen  Shirabyōshi Performance   Singing: imayō   Dancing   Imayō no sho   The Gikeiki   The Engyōbon Heike monogatari   The Towazugatari  Conclusion 2 The Story of Giō in the Heike monogatari  The Story of Giō in the Engyōbon Heike monogatari  Giō in Other Heike Texts   What’s in a Name? Kami vs. Buddha   Irresistible Ladies, Freakish Caprices   Challenging Authority, Saving Each Other: The Bond between Women  Conclusion 3 Still Seeking Salvation: The Transformation of the Giō Story in Noh Theater  Giō as Seed in Zeami’s Sandō  The Plays   Giō   Hotoke no hara (Hotoke’s Field)   Genzai Giō (Present World Gio)   Rō Giō (Giō at the Prison)  Conclusion 4 Giō in Late Medieval and Early Modern Narrative, Theater, and Visual Arts  Performance Texts Related to the Legend of the  Man-Made Sutra Island   Kōwaka and Sekkyō   Jōruri   Yomihon  Visual Representations of the Giō-Hotoke Story   The Giō otogizōshi Texts    The Spencer-bon: Giō monogatari    The Ishikawabon: Giō    The Keiōbon: Giō    The Iwasebon: Giō    The Tokudabon: Giō Ginyo monogatari   Tokugawa Prints  Conclusion 5 The Four Graves of Giō: Cultural Heritage Sites and Local Legends  The Temple of Giō in Sagano, Kyoto  Giō’s Hometown in Ōmi Province  Welcome to Haramachi, Hotoke’s Village  The Other Hotoke no Hara in Fukui Prefecture  They Also Lived Here: Giō’s Grave in Fukui Prefecture  Memorial Stupas of Giō and Ginyo in Kobe  Conclusion Epilogue  The Modern Legacy of Giō and Hotoke  Shin Heike monogatari (The New Tale of the Heike)  Jotoku (Women’s Virtues)  When Reality Takes after Fiction: The Life of Takaoka Chishō  In Conclusion Appendix A  Translation of “Giō Ginyo” from the Genpei jōsuiki Appendix B  Translation of Genzai Giō (Present World Giō) a Noh Play Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisSeen and Unseen explores how visual mediums construct visual cultures that create limited perspectives of issues and groups, specific to this volume, the representation of Islam and Muslims. It deals with fixed and stereotypical visual representations and explores alternative and challenging representations that are reconstructing existing belief systems.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction. Visual Cultures of Islam: The Seen, Unseen and the in Between  Sanaz Fotouhi and Esmaeil Zeiny Part 1: Imaging Histories 1 The Arrest of Diponegoro: Visual Orientalism and Its Alternative  Syed Farid Alatas 2 Images of the Prophet Muhammad: Brief Thoughts on Some European-Islamic Encounters  Christiane Gruber Part 2: Unseen Reality 3 Nightmarish Visions? Shifting Visual Representations of the ‘Islamic’ Terrorist Throughout the ‘War on Terror’  Jared Ahmad 4 Oil and Women: Invisibility as Power in Nawal El-Saadawi’s Love in the Kingdom of Oil  Layla Hendow 5 ‘World Hijab Day’: Positioning the Hijabi in Cyberspace  Raihanah M. M. Part 3: Interrogating Visual Representations 6 Contemporary Bruneian Cinema in the Context of Sharia Law  D. Bruno Starrs 7 Visual Discourses of (Un)veiling: Revisiting Women of Allah  Esmaeil Zeiny 8 Visibility and Veiling: Iranian Art on the Global Scene  Hoda Afshar 9 From Woman to Tehran: The Shifting Representations of the Islamic Republic of Iran on Book Covers by Iranian Writers in English  Sanaz Fotouhi

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Book SynopsisWriting is not the only notation system used in literate societies. Some visual communication systems are very similar to writing, but work differently. Identity marks are typical examples of such systems, and this book presents a particularly well-documented marking system used in Pharaonic Egypt as an exemplary case. From Single Sign to Pseudo-Script is the first book to fully discuss the nature and development of an ancient marking system, its historical background, and the fascinating story of its decipherment. Chapters on similar systems in other cultures and on semiotic theory help to distinguish between unique and universal features. Written by Egyptologist Ben Haring, the book addresses scholars interested in marking systems, writing, literacy, and the semiotics of visual communication. "With this publication, the author exemplified how a close familiarity with a subject enables research in areas of Egyptian society that had not been touched until now and how the resulting insight is presented properly." - Eva-Maria Engel, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, in: Bibliotheca Orientalis 76.1-2 (2019) "This work should certainly become a guidebook to scholars wishing to publish ostraca of this sort, who have in the past shied away from the complex task due to the enigmatic nature of the materials. The time has arrived for this study of this hitherto neglected facet of Egyptian writing, to find its fitting place in the history of literacy and script in Ancient Egypt, as well as in the history of workmen’s signs in general." - Orly Goldwasser, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in: Journal of Near Eastern Studies (2019, 78/2) "The technical data and Egyptological scholarship of the book are deliberately made very accessible to be of assistance in the understanding of identity marks in other periods and cultures. This is a remarkable work of social history." - George J. Brooke, in: Journal for the Study of the Old Testament 43.5 (2019)Trade Review"With this publication, the author exemplified how a close familiarity with a subject enables research in areas of Egyptian society that had not been touched until now and how the resulting insight is presented properly." - Eva-Maria Engel, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, in: Bibliotheca Orientalis 76.1-2 (2019) "Over one thousand ostraca are assessed, together with other objects from the workmen’s settlement and tombs, especially pottery vessels, and hundreds of graffiti in the Theban mountains. The technical data and Egyptological scholarship of the book are deliberately made very accessible to be of assistance in the understanding of identity marks in other periods and cultures. This is a remarkable work of social history." - George J. Brooke, in: Society for Old Testament Study Book List 2019Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures Prologue Ancient Egyptian Identity Marks in Theoretical and Comparative Perspective 1 Making Sense of Funny Signs  1.1 An Ancient Text from Berlin  1.2 Documentary Texts, Hieratic and Otherwise  1.3 The Research History of the Necropolis Workmen’s Marks  1.4 A Quick Lesson in Hieroglyphs  1.5 Marks and Hieroglyphs  1.6 The Aim of the Present Book 2 Identity Marks, Egyptian and Other  2.1 A Unique Document  2.2 Ancient Egyptian Pot Marks  2.3 Builders’ Marks, from Teams to Individuals  2.4 Marking Systems Worldwide  2.5 Masons’ Marks in Europe, Medieval and Later  2.6 The Morphology of Masons’ Marks  2.7 Why Were Masons’ Marks Applied?  2.8 Masons and Masters  2.9 Masons’ Marks in Families and Workshops  2.10 General Characteristics of Marking Systems 3 Writing and Other Sign Systems  3.1 Theories of the Sign  3.2 The Sign in Structuralism: Paradigm and Syntagma, Signifier and Signified  3.3 The Sign According to Peirce: Referentiality and Semiosis  3.4 Visual and Material Communication: To Write, or Not to Write?  3.5 Writing and Other Graphic Systems, Independently and Together  3.6 Literacy: Mastering Writing … and Much More The Deir el-Medina Marking System 4 The Setting: The Workmen of the Royal Tomb and Their Textual Legacy  4.1 An Exceptional Village  4.2 The Early History of the Royal Necropolis and Its Workmen  4.3 Great Changes for Egypt and for the Royal Necropolis  4.4 Ramesside Necropolis Administration, and Administrators  4.5 The End of the Royal Necropolis  4.6 Hieratic Necropolis Records … by the Thousands  4.7 The Nature of the Documentary Texts  4.8 Local Knowledge and Output, Textual and Visual 5 The Use of the Workmen’s Marks: Historical Overview  5.1 The Earliest Marks of the Royal Necropolis Workmen  5.2 The Origin of the Marking System  5.3 A Break in the History of the Marking System?  5.4 Nineteenth-Dynasty Ostraca with Marks  5.5 Marks and Families  5.6 The Function of the Nineteenth-Dynasty Marks  5.7 The Twentieth-Dynasty Duty Rosters  5.8 Other Types of Record from the Twentieth Dynasty  5.9 The Late Twentieth Dynasty 6 How the Men Came by Their Marks, and Vice Versa  6.1 Marks and Their Users  6.2 Long- and Short-Lived Marks: Pomegranate, Lotus and Jackal  6.3 Long-Lived Marks and Their Graphic Variety: The Families of Qaha and Sennedjem  6.4 Short-Lived Marks: Name, Reputation and Status  6.5 Mark, Family and Position  6.6 Morphology: Distinctive Forms versus Allomorphs  6.7 Sign Categories and Fuzzy Borders  6.8 The Role of Writing and Literacy  6.9 Morphology and Semiosis: Anything Goes?  6.10 Historical and Functional Context: Graphic Communication and Literacy Epilogue: The Alphabet Bibliographical Essay References Timetable Index

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Book SynopsisQurʾān Quotations Preserved on Papyrus Documents, 7th-10th Centuries is the first book on the Qurʾān’s Sitz im Leben, i.e. on how the Qurʾān was quoted in Arabic original letters, legal deeds, and amulets. Qurʾān Quotations also serves as an in-depth exploration of the radiocarbon dating of documents and Qurʾānic manuscripts. Contributors: Ursula Bsees; Tobias J. Jocham; Andreas Kaplony; Michael Josef Marx, Daniel Potthast; Leonora Sonego; Eva Mira Youssef-Grob.Table of ContentsThe Qurʾān’s Sitz im Leben: Preliminary Remarks on Methodology Figures Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction  Michael Josef Marx 2 Qurʾān Quotations in Arabic Papyrus Letters from the 7th to the 10th Centuries  Daniel Potthast 3 Qurʾān Quotations in Papyrus Legal Documents  Leonora Sonego 4 Qurʾānic Quotations in Arabic Papyrus Amulets  Ursula Bsees 5 Radiocarbon (14C) Dating of Early Islamic Documents: Background and Prospects  Eva Mira Youssef-Grob 6 Radiocarbon (14C) Dating of Qurʾān Manuscripts  Michael Josef Marx and Tobias J. Jocham General Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume contains a selection of papers presented at the Red Sea VII conference (Napels, 2015) entitled The Red Sea and the Gulf: Two Maritime Alternative Routes in the Development of Global Economy, from Late Prehistory to Modern Times. The Red Sea and the Gulf are geographically and environmentally similar and complementary, but also competitors in their economic and cultural interactions with the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean. The chapters of the volume are grouped in three sections, corresponding to the various historical periods. Each chapter of the book offers the reader the opportunity to travel across the regions of the Red Sea and the Gulf, from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean, and from prehistorical times to the contemporary era. With contributions by: Ahmed Hussein Abdelrahman, Serena Autiero, Mahmoud S. Bashir, Kathryn A. Bard, Alemseged Beldados, Ioana A. Dumitru, Serena Esposito, Rodolfo Fattovich, Luigi Gallo, Michal Gawlikowski, Bruno Genito, Caterina Giostra, Sunil Gupta, Michael Harrower, Martin Hense, Linda Huli, Sarah Japp, Serena Massa, Ralph K. Pedersen, Jacke S. Phillips, Patrice Pomey, Joanna K. Rądkowska, Adriano Rossi, Mike Schnelle, Lucy Semaan, Steven E. Sidebotham, Shadia Taha, Husna Taha Elatta, Joanna Then-Obłuska and Iwona ZychTable of ContentsIntroduction Address of President of ISMEO, Prof. Adriano Rossi, to the Participants to the 7th Red Sea Conference  Adriano Rossi Dedication to Maurizio Tosi  Bruno Genito Part 1: Prehistory and Bronze Age 1 Mersa/Wadi Gawasis: Organisation of an Egyptian Bronze Age Harbour on the Red Sea Coast  Kathryn A. Bard and Rodolfo Fattovich 2 The Rock Engravings of Boats of Sinai and the Pharaonic Maritime Expeditions  Patrice Pomey 3 Riverboats and Seagoing Ships: Lexicographical Analysis of Nautical Terms from the Sources of the Old Kingdom  Serena Esposito 4 Marsa Matruh Revisited: Modelling Interaction at a Late Bronze Age Harbour on the Egyptian Coast  Linda Hulin 5 Sorghum Paintings from the Meroitic Cemetery of Berber and Possible Implications for the Dispersal of the Plant across the Red Sea  Alemseged Beldados and Mahmoud S. Bashir 6 Mapping Ancient Production and Trade of Copper in Oman and Obsidian in Ethiopia  Ioana A. Dumitru and Michael Harrower 7 Timber-frame Architecture on Both Sides of the Red Sea from the Early First Millennium BCE: Recent Investigations of the German Archaeological Institute in South Arabia and Northern Ethiopia  Mike Schnelle 8 Bronze Age Reed Boats of Magan and Magillum Boats of Meluḫḫa in Cuneiform Literature  Danièle Michaux-Colombot 9 Imports of Pottery and Glass Vessels in First Millennium CE South Arabia: Signs of Commercial and Cultural Contacts via the Red Sea Trade Routes  Sarah Japp Part 2: Graeco-Roman and Byzantine Period 10 Overview of Fieldwork at Berenike (Red Sea Coast), Egypt, and in the Eastern Desert: 2011–2015  Steven E. Sidebotham 11 Exotic Cults in Roman Berenike? An Investigation into Two Temples in the Harbour Temenos  Joanna K. Rądkowska and Iwona Zych 12 The Great Temple of Berenike  Martin Hense 13 Bead Trade in Roman Ports: A View from the Red Sea Port of Marsa Nakari  Joanna Then-Obłuska 14 Looking for Leuke Kome  Michał Gawlikowski 15 The Greeks and the Arabian Coast of the Red Sea  Luigi Gallo 16 Nautical Archaeology Surveys Near Jeddah, 2012–2013, and Their Connections to the Study of Red Sea Commerce  Ralph K. Pedersen 17 The Christianisation of Adulis in Light of the Material Evidence  Serena Massa and Caterina Giostra 18 The Western Indian Ocean Interaction Sphere: Significance of the Red Sea and the Arabian/Persian Gulf Routes from the Mediterranean to India (First Century BCE–Third Century CE)  Sunil Gupta 19 Beyond the Boundaries of the Periplus: The Persian Gulf Route in the Supply to Myos Hormos and Berenike  Roberta Tomber 20 Foreign Iconographic Elements in South Arabian Art: The Indian Contribution  Serena Autiero Part 3: Modern and Contemporary Age 21 Suakin and Al Khandaq: The Influence of a Sea Port on a River Port  Ahmed Hussein Abdelrahman Adam and Husna Taha Elatta 22 Collateral Roles in Pilgrimage  Jacke S. Phillips 23 A Life Shaped by the Sea: Maritime Heritage in Suakin  Shadia Taha 24 Timber for Ships: Considering Wood Supply for Boatbuilding in Jizan and the Farasan Islands, Saudi Arabia  Lucy Semaan Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn The Scottish Enlightenment Abroad, Janet Starkey examines the lives and works of Scots working in the mid eighteenth century with the Levant Company in Aleppo, then within the Ottoman Empire; and those working with the East India Company in India, especially in the fields of natural history, medicine, ethnography and the collection of Arabic and Persian manuscripts. The focus is on brothers from Edinburgh: Alexander Russell MD FRS, Patrick Russell MD FRS, Claud Russell and William Russell FRS. By examining a wide range of modern interpretations, Starkey argues that the Scottish Enlightenment was not just a philosophical discourse but a multi-faceted cultural revolution that owed its vibrancy to ties of kinship, and to strong commercial and intellectual links with Europe and further abroad.Trade Review"The Scottish Enlightenment Abroad provides a scholarly, remarkably wideranging and thorough guide to the intellectual ferment of the eighteenth century and to the achievements of Alexander and Patrick Russell as physicians, natural historians, orientalists, collectors of Arabic manuscripts and recorders of scientific and social phenomena." Robert Irwin in Times Literary Supplement 26 April 2019. "I learned a great deal about this intriguing family and hope to read at least one if not both editions of The Natural History of Aleppo at some point. The book also made me think more broadly about the Scottish Enlightenment beyond the mayor players - the Hutchesons, Humes, Smiths and so on..." Arby Ted Siraki in The Newsletter of the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society, Spring 2019.

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Book SynopsisThe book consists of transcriptions and summary translations of two texts in, mostly, Ottoman Turkish, the first of which is the recently discovered second volume of the diary of the German orientalist Karl Süssheim, covering the years 1903-08 which he mostly spent in Istanbul. The second text is a printed memoir of a Young Turk officer called İsma’il Hakkı, in which the latter discusses his life, political engagement and the resulting problems. Süssheim met İsma’il Hakkı in Cairo in 1908 and kept in contact with him later. The texts offer a lively picture of Istanbul and Cairo in the early years of the 20th century, the repressive regime of Sultan Abdulhamid II and the heady days of the Young Turk revolution of July 1908.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction  The Historical Context  About the Authors  About the Texts 1 Karl Süssheim, Diary, Volume 2  Istanbul 1902–1906 I  Istanbul 1902–1906 II—Travel in Anatolia 1904  Istanbul 1902–1906 III—Back in Istanbul 1904–1906  Interlude: Germany and France (January–July 1906)  Istanbul 1902–1906 IV—Second Period in Istanbul 1906  Germany, England, France (January 1907–March 1908)  Journey to Istanbul (March 1906)  Istanbul (March–April 1908)  Journey to Cairo (April–May 1908)  Cairo (May–August 1908) 2 İsmail Hakkı Bey, For the Sake of the Fatherland  Prologue  Autobiography  The Main Text  Two Digressions 3 Transcription: Karl Süssheim, Diary, Volume 2 4 Transcription: İsmail Hakkı Bey, For the Sake of the Fatherland Bibliography Index of Proper Names

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Book SynopsisThis book, based on the study of original archives, discusses the roots and specificities of urban governance in the Ottoman Empire and proposes innovative interpretations of the ambiguous impact of this old regime municipal system with modernity. Cet ouvrage, fondé sur la consultation d’archives originales, propose une étude des racines et de la spécificité de la gouvernance municipale d’ancien régime dans l’empire ottoman et analyse l’impact ambigu de ce système avec la modernité.Trade Review[...] The book Esprit civique et organisation citadine dans l’Empire ottoman (XVe-XXe siècles) contains a useful discussion of the theoretical debates that have marked the field until very recently, and presents important indications for future trajectories of research in the history of Ottoman urban contexts. Nicola Verderame, University of Naples “L’Orientale”, in Studi Magrebini 17.1-2 (2019) 169-182Table of ContentsAvant-propos Liste des illustrations Introduction : Pour un autre regard sur les études urbaines en contexte ottoman Le paradigme wébérien: fondements, extrapolations et échos contemporains Les débats sur la nature de la ville islamique : genèse et actualité Rompre avec les interprétations essentialistes : une posture de recherche 1 Aux racines du gouvernement urbain dans l’Empire ottoman : réflexions sur les héritages antiques et médiévaux 1 La question des éventuels héritages antiques 2 Le moment de la conquête arabe : données sur la gouvernance urbaine 3 Les héritages arabes médiévaux 4 La question plébéienne et l’hypothèse populaire 5 La place des notables dans la gouvernance urbaine médiévale 6 Gouvernance urbaine et question religieuse 7 La Hisba et l’organisation urbaine : préceptes religieux, moraux, commerciaux et vie civique 8 Représentants urbains du pouvoir central 9 Le personnage du qâdî et la gouvernance urbaine 10 La question des gouverneurs 11 La sphère civique locale : le cas de la noblesse généalogique 12 Le groupe des a’yân 13 Les instances civiques de la notabilité 14 Vie corporative et vie civique 15 Héritages byzantins dans l’administration ottomane 2 L’ancien régime ottoman du gouvernement urbain (XVe-XVIIIe siècles) 1 La construction progressive de l’ancien régime étatique ottoman 2 L’étude des Tahrîr defteri : un outil pour l’histoire urbaine ottomane 3 Analyse des premiers Tahrîr Defteri d’Alep ottomane 4 Une société urbaine organisée et hiérarchisée 5 La question de l’existence d’une municipalité d’ancien régime à Istanbul 6 Convergence des situations municipales à l’échelle de l’empire 7 Les prérogatives de la notabilité 8 Les notables et l’identité civique citadine 9 Révoltes, luttes factieuses et ajustements de l’ordre impérial au XVIIIe siècle 10 Damas au milieu du XVIIIe siècle : le pouvoir des gouverneurs ‘Azm et la guerre factieuse comme réajustement de l’ancien régime ottoman 11 La chronique comme annale civique de l’ancien régime urbain 12 La pétition et le rescrit comme actes bureaucratiques d’ancien régime 13 De véritables municipalités d’ancien régime 3 L’Egypte entre 1798 et les années 1830 : l’impact ambigu de la modernité 1 Occupation française et évolution des structures du gouvernement urbain 2 La dimension urbaine des révoltes contre l’occupation française 3 Le moment Muhammad ‘Alî : réforme, empire, héritages et idées de la modernité 4 Un cosmopolitisme municipal d’essence coloniale 4 Interpréter les réformes urbaines ottomanes dans leur contexte 1 L’impulsion réformatrice dans l’Empire ottoman : aux racines des tanzîmât 2 Pour une remise en question de la narration classique des réformes urbaines ottomanes 3 Istanbul dans les années 1850 : réformes municipales, construction de l’Etat et statut de la capitale 4 La question municipale dans l’empire 5 Panorama de la transition réformatrice dans quelques villes de l’empire Conclusion Sources et bibliographie Index

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Book SynopsisIn Possessed by the Right Hand, the first comprehensive legal history of slavery in Islam ever offered to readers, Bernard K. Freamon, an African-American Muslim law professor, provides a penetrating analysis of the problems of slavery and slave-trading in Islamic history. After examining the issues from pre-Islamic times through to the nineteenth century, Professor Freamon considers the impact of Western abolitionism, arguing that such efforts have been a failure, with the notion of abolition becoming nothing more than a cruel illusion. He closes this ground-breaking account with an examination of the slaving ideologies and actions of ISIS and Boko Haram, asserting that Muslims now have an important and urgent responsibility to achieve true abolition under the aegis of Islamic law. See Bernard Freamon live at Rutgers Law School (October 8, 2019). Listen to Possessed by the Right Hand: An Interview with Prof. Bernard Freamon from Network ReOrient on AnchorTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments List of Figures and Maps Introduction 1 1 Slavery, Slave Trading and the Law in the Pre-Islamic Middle East 2 Slavery and Slave Trading in Early Islam 3 Slavery and Empire in the Medieval and Early Modern Islamic Worlds 4 The "Mamluk/Ghulam Phenomenon"—Slave Sultans, Soldiers, Eunuchs and Concubines 5 Plural Imperialisms and Multiple Diasporas 6 A Taxonomy of Slavery and Slave Trading in Muslim Cultures 7 The Rise and Impact of Abolitionism 8 A Tale of Three Sovereigns—the Shah, the Khedive, and the Sultan 9 The Illusion of Abolition 10 The Reemergence of Slavery and Slave Trading in the Muslim World Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn From Nicopolis to Mohács, Tamás Pálosfalvi offers an account of Ottoman-Hungarian warfare from its start in the late fourteenth century to the battle of Mohács in 1526. During this period of one century and a half, the Kingdom of Hungary was the most constant and strongest rival of the expanding Ottoman Empire in Europe, and as such waged constant warfare in defence of its borders. Based on the extensive use of hitherto unexplored source material, Pálosfalvi not only offers a sound chronology of military events, but also a description of Hungarian military structures and their transformation under constant Ottoman pressure, as well as an analysis of the reasons that lay behind the military breakdown of Hungary in the third decade of the sixteenth century.Trade Review'This is a significant achievement and will become a standard reference work in English on Ottoman-Hungarian military history to 1526. The images used as illustrations, some of which are contemporary to the events and others which are nineteenthcentury history paintings, deserve a study in their own right'. Robyn Dora Radway, Central European University, in Renaissance Quarterly Volume LXXIII, No. 1: 309-310Table of ContentsAcknowledgements A Note on Spelling Figures and Maps Introduction 1 Hungarian Military Organization, 1387–1526  1 The Inheritance: Political and Territorial Structures  2 The Angevin Legacy  3 Sigismund and his Reforms  4 The Armies of Hunyadi  5 King Matthias – The Myth of the Black Army  6 The Jagiellos: Adaptation under Pressure 2 The New Enemy: Hungary and the Ottomans, 1389–1429  1 The First Contacts between Hungary and the Turks  2 The Battle of Nicopolis  3 From Nicopolis to Golubac  4 The Siege of Golubac 3 From Golubac to Belgrade, 1428–1456  1 The Last Years of Sigismund  2 Albert to Wladislas i – Troubled Times  3 The First Ottoman Wars of Hunyadi, 1441–1443  4 The War of Illusions: The “Long March,” 1443–1444  5 The King’s Death: The Varna Campaign  6 The Last Offensive: The Battle of Kosovo Polje, 1448  7 On the Defensive: From Kosovo Polje to Belgrade, 1448–1456  8 The Siege of Belgrade, 1456 4 From Belgrade to Vienna: King Matthias and the Ottomans, 1458–1483  1 Securing the Borders, 1458–1466  1.1 Hungary and the Fall of Serbia, 1457-1459  1.2 Conflicting Views: King Matthias and Mihály Szilágyi, 1459-1460  1.3 The Return of Mehmed ii to the North  1.4 From Jajce to Zvornik, 1463-1464  1.5 “Passive Resistance”, 1465-1466  2 Turning West, 1467–1483  2.1 The Years of Disengagement, 1467-1475  2.2 The Siege of Šabac  2.3 Transylvania, Bosnia, Otranto, 1478-1482 5 The Wars of the “Long Peace,” 1483–1520  1 The Last Years of Matthias  2 From War to Peace, 1490–1495  3 A War that Nobody Wanted, 1499–1503  4 Shifting Alliances, 1508–1511  5 Under Pressure Again, 1511–1513  6 Towards the Edge of the Abyss, 1514–1520 6 The Collapse, 1521–1526  1 The Third Siege of Belgrade, 1521  2 Preparing for the Deluge: After Belgrade, 1522–1525  3 The Final Countdown, 1525–1526  4 The Battle of Mohács 7 Conclusion: Why Did Hungary Lose?  1 The Fall of Medieval Hungary, Part One: The Superiority of Ottoman Military Organization  2 The Fall of Medieval Hungary, Part Two: A Fiscal Breakdown Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHeirs of the Apostles offers a panoramic survey of Arabic-speaking Christians—descendants of the Christian communities established in the Middle East by the apostles—and their history, religion, and culture in the early Islamic and medieval periods. The subjects range from Arabic translations of the Bible, to the status of Christians in the Muslim-governed lands, Muslim-Christian polemic, and Christian-Muslim and Christian-Jewish relations. The volume is offered as a Festschrift to Sidney H. Griffith, the doyen of Christian Arabic Studies in North America, on his eightieth birthday. Contributors are: David Bertaina, Elie Dannaoui, Stephen Davis, Nathan P. Gibson, Cornelia Horn, Sandra Toenies Keating, Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala, Johannes Pahlitzsch, Andrew Platt, Thomas W. Ricks, Barbara Roggema, Harald Suermann, Mark N. Swanson, Shawqi Talia, Jack Tannous, David Thomas, Jennifer Tobkin, Alexander Treiger, Ronny Vollandt, Clare Wilde, and Jason Zaborowski.Table of ContentsPreface Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Bibliography of Sidney H. Griffith’s Publications Part 1 Arabic Language, Bible, and Qurʾān An Arabic Christian Perspective on Monotheism in the Qurʾān: Elias of Nisibis’ Kitāb al-Majālis  David Bertaina From Multiplicity to Unification of the Arabic Biblical Text: a Reading of the Rūm Orthodox Projects for the Arabization and Printing of the Gospels during the Ottoman Period  Elie Dannaoui Early Christian Arabic Translation Strategies (Matthew 11:20–30 in Codex Vat. Ar. 13)  Juan Pedro Monferrer-Sala Flawed Biblical Translations into Arabic and How to Correct Them: a Copt and a Jew Study Saadiah’s Tafsīr  Ronny Vollandt The Utility of Christian Arabic Texts for Qurʾānic Studies  Clare Wilde Part 2 Arabic Christian Responses to Islam and Muslim Interpretations of Christianity Apocalyptic Ecclesiology in Response to Early Islam  Cornelia B. Horn The Rationality of Christian Doctrine: Abū Rāʾiṭa al-Takrītī’s Philosophical Response to Islam  Sandra Toenies Keating The Doctrine of the Incarnation in Dialogue with Islam: Four Lines of Argumentation  Thomas W. Ricks Muslim Views of the Cross as a Symbol of the Christian Faith  Shawqi Talia The Doctrine of the Trinity in Early Islam: Misperceptions and Misrepresentations  David Thomas Part 3 Arabic Christianity in the Medieval Islamic World Byzantine Monasticism and the Holy Land: Palestine in Byzantine Hagiography of the 11th and 12th Centuries  Johannes Pahlitzsch Inquiring of “Beelzebub”: Timothy and al-Jāḥiẓ on Christians in the ʿAbbāsid Legal System  Andrew Platt and Nathan P. Gibson The Church and the Mosque in Wisdom’s Shade: on the Story of “Alexander and the Hermit Prince”  Mark Swanson Revisiting Cheikho’s Assessment of Abū Tammām’s Christian Origins  Jennifer Tobkin Paul of Antioch’s Responses to a Muslim Sheikh  Alexander Treiger Part 4 Manuscript Discoveries Evagrius Ponticus at the Monastery of the Syrians: Newly Documented Evidence for an Arabic Reception History  Stephen J. Davis Christian-Muslim-Jewish Relations in Patristic Literature: the Arabic Questions and Answers of Basil and Gregory  Barbara Roggema A Fragment of a Christian-Muslim Disputation “in the Style of Abū Rāʾiṭa and ʿĪsā ibn Zurʿa” (Gotha ar. 2882, fols. 16r–24v): a Reassessment  Harald Suermann A Greco-Arabic Palimpsest from the Sinai New Finds: Some Preliminary Observations  Jack Tannous An Arabic Manuscript of the Visions of Anba Shenouda: Edition and Translation  Jason R. Zaborowski Index

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Book SynopsisThe Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences was established in 1826. Its collection of Persian manuscripts is the most comprehensive set of its kind in Hungary. The volumes were produced in four major cultural centres of the Persianate world, the Ottoman Empire, Iran, Central Asia and India during a span of time that extends from the 14th to the 19th century. Collected mainly by enthusiastic private collectors and acknowledged scholars the manuscripts have preserved several unique texts or otherwise interesting copies of well-known works. Though the bulk of the collection has been part of Library holdings for almost a century, the present volume is the first one to describe these manuscripts in a detailed and systematic way.

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Book SynopsisThe first of a new series, the Contemporary Archive of the Islamic World, this title draws on the resources of World of Information, a British publisher that since 1975 has published analyses of the politics and economics of all the Middle East countries. For decades Syria lay at the heart of Middle Eastern affairs. Under Assad rulers, and sharing a border with Israel, Syria’s fortunes have been complex. Strategic alliances were formed and fell apart. Domestic rebellions were quelled, often violently. Since 2011, Syria has been in the world’s headlines every day, riven by a civil war that has risked bringing the world’s major powers into open conflict. The CAIW provides an essential background to a complex international problem.

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Book Synopsis'His Pen and Ink are a Powerful Mirror' is a volume of collected essays in honor of Ross Brann, written by his students and friends on the occasion of his 70th birthday. The essays engage with a diverse range of Andalusi and Mediterranean literature, art, and history. Each essay begins from the organic hybridity of Andalusi literary and cultural history as its point of departure, introduce new texts, ideas, and objects into the disciplinary conversation or radically reassesses well-known ones, and represent the theoretical, methodological, and material impacts Brann has had and continues to have on the study of the literature and culture of Jews, Christians, and Muslims in al-Andalus. Contributors include: Ali Humayn Akhtar, Esperanza Alfonso, Peter Cole, Jonathan Decter, Elisabeth Hollender, Uriah Kfir, S.J. Pearce, F.E. Peters, Arturo Prats, Cynthia Robinson, Tova Rosen, Aurora Salvatierra, Raymond P. Scheindlin, Jessica Streit, David Torollo.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Notes on Contributors Note on Transliterations and Translations Bibliography of Ross Brann’s Publications Introduction 1 Legislating Borders: Naturalized Genoese and Sefardi Merchants in the Ottoman Mediterranean  Ali H. Akhtar 2 The Headings of the Psalms: A Case Study in Medieval Exegesis and Translation  Esperanza Alfonso 3 An Iberian Braid for Ross  Peter Cole 4 Panegyric as Pedagogy: Moses ibn Ezra’s Didactic Poem on the “Beautiful Elements of Poetry” (maḥāsin al-shiʿr) in the Context of Classical Arabic Poetics  Jonathan Decter 5 Sefarad in Tzarfat: Sefardi and Sefardi-Style Piyyutim in MS Bernkastel-Kues 313  Elisabeth Hollender 6 Solomon vs. Solomon: A Fabrication of a Hebrew Polemic  Uriah Kfir 7 “His (Jewish) Nation … and His (Muslim) King”: Modern Nationalism Articulated through Medieval Andalusi Poetry  S.J. Pearce 8 Inscribing the Good News: The Run-Up to Mark  F.E. Peters 9 Fifteenth-Century Hebrew Literature: Some Reflections on Textual Transmission for a Modern Edition  Arturo Prats Oliván 10 Desert and Palace: Poetics of Place in Naṣrid Poems to the Prophet  Cynthia Robinson 11 The Story of the Crude Preacher by Jacob ben Elʿazar  Tova Rosen 12 Ohev Nashim and Minḥat Yehudah Soneʾ ha-Nashim: New Fragments of a Debate  Aurora Salvatierra 13 Ḥever the Pious: Some Aspects of Religion in the Taḥkemoni by Judah al-Ḥarīzī  Raymond P. Scheindlin 14 Well-Ordered Growth: Meanings and Aesthetics of the Almohad Mosque of Seville  Jessica Streit 15 A Translation of Q Luqmān/31  Shawkat M. Toorawa 16 The Story of the Female Jewish Wine Merchant: An Example of Cultural Translation in Medieval Hebrew Literature  David Torollo Index

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Book SynopsisA reprint of M. Th. Houtsma´s Classical Edition. Volume 1 covers Pre-Islamic history, from Adam and Eve to the Patriarchs and Prophets of ancient Israel; Jesus and the Apostles; Assyria, Babylonia, and India; the Greek and Persian Empires; a variety of other regions including China and Ethiopia; and a section on the pre-Islamic Arabs. Arabic text only.

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Book SynopsisAbū al-ʿAbbās al-Yaʿqūbī was a Muslim imperial official and polymath of the third/ninth century. On the occasion of the publication of The Works of Ibn Wāḍiḥ al-Yaʿqūbī. An English translation, edited by Matthew S. Gordon, Chase F. Robinson, Everett K. Rowson, and Michael Fishbein (Leiden, 2017-2018), Brill is making the classic Arabic edition of al-Yaʿqūbī’s Taʾrīkh by M.Th. Houtsma (2 vols., 1883) available in paperback for the first time. Volume 2 covers the period from the rise of Islam to the first years of the Reign of Caliph al-Muʿtamid ʿAlā ’llāh (r. from 256/870). The text ends c. 259/872-873. The current volume offers the Arabic text only. The English translation is found in Volume 3 of The Works of Ibn Wāḍiḥ al-Yaʿqūbī.

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Book SynopsisIn Ordinary Jerusalem, Angelos Dalachanis, Vincent Lemire and thirty-five scholars depict the ordinary history of an extraordinary global city in the late Ottoman and Mandate periods. Utilizing largely unknown archives, they revisit the holy city of three religions, which has often been defined solely as an eternal battlefield and studied exclusively through the prism of geopolitics and religion. At the core of their analysis are topics and issues developed by the European Research Council-funded project “Opening Jerusalem Archives: For a Connected History of Citadinité in the Holy City, 1840–1940.” Drawn from the French vocabulary of geography and urban sociology, the concept of citadinité describes the dynamic identity relationship a city’s inhabitants develop with each other and with their urban environment.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Abbreviations Contributors Note on Transliteration Introduction: Opening Ordinary Jerusalem  Angelos Dalachanis and Vincent Lemire Part 1: Opening the Archives, Revealing the City Introduction  Gudrun Krämer 1 Placing Jerusalemites in the History of Jerusalem: The Ottoman Census [sicil-i nüfūs] as a Historical Source  Michelle U. Campos 2 Introducing Jerusalem: Visiting Cards, Advertisements and Urban Identities at the Turn of the 20th Century  Maria Chiara Rioli 3 The Ethiopian Orthodox Community in Jerusalem: New Archives and Perspectives on Daily Life and Social Networks, 1840–1940  Stéphane Ancel 4 Between Ottomanization and Local Networks: Appointment Registers as Archival Sources for Waqf Studies. The Case of Jerusalem’s Maghariba Neighborhood  Şerife Eroğlu Memiş 5 Foreign Affairs through Private Papers: Bishop Porfirii Uspenskii and His Jerusalem Archives, 1842–1860  Lora Gerd and Yann Potin 6 The Brotherhood, the City and the Land: Patriarchal Archives and Scales of Analysis of Greek Orthodox Jerusalem in the Late Ottoman and Mandate Periods  Angelos Dalachanis and Agamemnon Tselikas Part 2: Imperial Allegiances and Local Authorities Introduction  Beshara Doumani 7 The State and the City, the State in the City: Another Look at Citadinité  Noémi Lévy-Aksu 8 Collective Petitions (ʿarż-ı maḥżār) as a Reflective Archival Source for Jerusalem’s Networks of Citadinité at the End of 19th Century  Yasemin Avcı, Vincent Lemire, and Ömür Yazıcı Özdemir 9 Back into the Imperial Fold: The End of Egyptian Rule through the Court Records of Jerusalem, 1839–1840  Abla Muhtadi and Falestin Naïli 10 An Institution, Its People and Its Documents: The Russian Consulate in Jerusalem through the Foreign Policy Archive of the Russian Empire, 1858–1914  Irina Mironenko-Marenkova and Kirill Vakh 11 Diplomacy, Communal Politics, and Religious Property Management: The Case of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem in the Early Mandate Period  Konstantinos Papastathis 12 Comparing Ottoman Municipalities in Palestine: The Cases of Nablus, Haifa, and Nazareth, 1864–1914  Mahmoud Yazbak Part 3: Cultural Networks, Public Knowledge Introduction  Edhem Eldem 13 Municipal Jerusalem in the Age of Urban Democracy: On the Difference between What Happened and What is Said to Have Happened  Jens Hanssen 14 Reading the City, Writing the Self: Arabic and Hebrew Urban Texts in Jerusalem, 1840–1940  Yair Wallach 15 Arab-Zionist Conversations in Late Ottoman Jerusalem: Saʿid al-Husayni, Ruhi al-Khalidi and Eliezer Ben-Yehuda  Jonathan Marc Gribetz 16 Ben-Yehuda in his Ottoman Milieu: Jerusalem’s Public Sphere as Reflected in the Hebrew Newspaper Ha-Tsevi, 1884–1915  Abdul-Hameed Al-Kayyali and Hassan Ahmad Hassan 17 Men at Work: The Tipografia di Terra Santa, 1847–1930  Leyla Dakhli 18 The St. James Armenian Printing House in Jerusalem: Scientific and Educational Activities, 1833–1933  Arman Khachatryan 19 The Wasif Jawharriyeh Collection: Illustrating Jerusalem during the First Half of the 20th Century  Issam Nassar Part 4: Sharing the City: Contacts, Claims and Conflicts Introduction  Gadi Algazi 20 “The Preservation and Safeguarding of the Amenities of the Holy City without Favour or Prejudice to Race or Creed”: The Pro-Jerusalem Society and Ronald Storrs, 1917–1926  Roberto Mazza 21 Governing Jerusalem’s Children, Revealing Invisible Inhabitants: The American Colony Aid Association, 1920s–1950s  Julia R. Shatz 22 Epidemiology and the City: Communal vs. Inter-communal Health Policy-Making in Jerusalem from the Ottomans to the Mandate, 1908–1925  Philippe Bourmaud 23 Being on a List: Class and Gender in the Registries of Jewish Life in Jerusalem, 1840–1900  Yali Hashash 24 The Tramway Concession of Jerusalem, 1908–1914: Elite Citizenship, Urban Infrastructure, and the Abortive Modernization of a Late Ottoman City  Sotirios Dimitriadis 25 Waqf Endowments in the Old City of Jerusalem: Changing Status and Archival Sources  Salim Tamari 26 The Limitations of Citadinité in Late Ottoman Jerusalem  Louis Fishman Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIn Beyond Schools: Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm al-Wazīrʼs (d. 840/1436) Epistemology of Ambiguity, Damaris Wilmers provides the first extensive analysis of Ibn al-Wazīrʼs thought and its role in the “Sunnisation of the Zaydiyya”, emphasizing its significance for conflicts between schools of thought and law beyond the Yemeni context. Contrasting Ibn al-Wazīrʼs works with those of his Zaydi contemporary Aḥmad b. Yaḥyā b. al-Murtaḍā, Damaris Wilmers offers a study of a number of heretofore unedited texts from 9th/15th century Yemen when Zaydi identity was challenged by an increasing theological and legal diversity. She shows how Ibn al-Wazīr, who has been classed with different schools, actually de-emphasized school affiliation and developed an integrative approach based on a unique theory of knowledge.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1 Life and Intellectual Environment of Ibn al-Wazīr and Ibn al-Murtaḍā  1 Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm b. al-Wazīr’s (d. 840/1436) Biography  2 Aḥmad b. Yaḥyā b. al-Murtaḍā (d. 840/1436) as a Scholar  3 Conclusion 2 Ibn al-Wazīr’s Works  1 Al-Amr bi-l-ʿuzla  2 Al-ʿAwāṣim wa-l-awāṣim  3 Al-Āyāt al-mubīnāt  4 Āyāt al-aḥkām al-sharʿiyya  5 Al-Burhān al-qāṭiʿ fī ithbāt al-ṣāniʿ  6 Al-Ḥusām al-mashhūr  7 Al-Istiẓhār bi-l-dalīl al-samʿī fī ʿadam wuqūʿ al-ṭalāq al-bidʿī  8 Īthār al-ḥaqq ʿalā l-khalq  9 Kitāb al-Qawāʿid  10 Kitāb fī l-tafsīr  11 Majmaʿ al-ḥaqāʾiq wa-l-raqāʾiq fī mamādiḥ rabb al-khalāʾiq  12 Manẓūma shiʿriyya fī uṣūl al-fiqh  13 Masāʾil arbaʿa tataʿallaq bi-l-muqallad wa-l-mustaftī  14 Masʾalat ikhtilāf al-Muʿtazila wa-l-Ashʿariyya fī ḥamd Allāh ʿalā l-īmān  15 Masāʾil mustakhrajāt  16 Masāʾil shāfiyāt  17 Masāʾil sharīfa  18 Mukhtaṣar mufīd fī ʿulūm al-ḥadīth  19 Muthīr al-aḥzān fī wadāʿ shahr Ramaḍān  20 Nuṣrat al-aʿyān  21 Qubūl al-bushrā bi-l-taysīr lil-yusrā  22 Al-Rawḍ al-bāsim  23 Al-Taʾdīb al-malakūtī  24 Taḥrīr al-kalām fī masʾalat al-ruʾya  25 Takhṣīṣ āyāt al-jumʿa  26 Tanqīḥ al-anẓār fī maʿrifat ʿulūm al-āthār  27 Tarjīḥ asālīb al-Qurʾān ʿalā asālīb al-Yūnān  28 Additional Works Ascribed to Ibn al-Wazīr 3 Central Concepts of Ibn al-Wazīr’s Epistemological Thought  1 Definitions of Knowledge  2 Definitions of the Means to Possess Knowledge  3 The Proof of God’s Existence (ithbāt al-ṣāniʿ)  4 The Argument from the Absence of Evidence (al-istidlāl bi-l-ʿadam)  5 Conclusion 4 Central Concepts of Ibn al-Wazīr’s Theological Thought  1 God’s Wisdom (ḥikma) as the Key to Harmonization  2 Harmonized Doctrine: God’s Names (asmāʾ) and Attributes (ṣifāt)  3 Harmonized Doctrine: God’s Will (irāda)  4 Harmonized Doctrine: Human Actions (afʿāl al-ʿibād) and Free Will (ikhtiyār)  5 Conclusion 5 The Structure of Legal Authority in Ibn al-Wazīr’s Thought  1 The Theory of Infallibilism and the Probability of Ijtihād  2 The Possibility of Ijtihād and the Existence of Mujtahids  3 Taqlīd and Concepts of Following  4 The Requirements (shurūṭ) for Ijtihād  5 Divisibility (tajazzuʾ) of Ijtihād and the Discerning Student (al-ṭālib al-mumayyiz)  6 Extrapolation of Principles (takhrīj)  7 The Muqallid’s Commitment to a Legal School (iltizām)  8 Conclusion 6 Conclusion Bibliography Index of Pre-Modern Authors Index of Geographical Names Index of Pre-Modern Books Index of Quran Citations Index of Arabic Terms

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Book SynopsisAleppo and its Hinterland in the Ottoman Period comprises eleven essays in English and French by leading scholars of Ottoman Syria which draw on new research in Turkish, Levantine and other archival sources. Focusing on both the city and its place in the wider region, the collection examines trade guilds and Christian settlement in Aleppo, Turkmen and Bedouin tribes in Aleppo’s interior, international trade and the establishment of an Ottoman commercial tribunal in the Tanzimat period, Aleppo and the rise of the millet system, the Belgian consular presence, Sufi networks in the province of Aleppo, the countryside of Antioch under the Egyptian occupation, and the urban revolt of 1850. With contributions from Enver Çakar, Elyse Semerdjian, Charles Wilkins, Stefan Winter, Mary Momdjian, Bruce Masters, Sylvain Cornac, Mafalda Ade, Feras Krimsti, Nicolas Jodoin, Stefan Knost.Table of ContentsPréface List of Illustrations / liste d’illustrations 1 Les Turkmènes dʾAlep à l’époque ottomane (1516–1700)  Enver Çakar 2 Armenians in the Production of Urban Space in Early Modern Judayda, Aleppo  Elyse Semerdjian 3 Patterns of Leadership in the Guilds of 17th-Century Aleppo  Charles L. Wilkins 4 Alep et l’émirat du désert (çöl beyliği) au XVIIe–XVIIIe siècle  Stefan Winter 5 Halabis and Foreigners in Aleppo’s Mediterranean Trade: The Role of Levantine Merchants in Eighteenth-Century Commercial Networks  Mary Momdjian 6 The Millet Wars in Aleppo, 1726–1821: An Ottoman perspective  Bruce Masters 7 Antioche sous l’occupation égyptienne (1832–1840) : l’émergence d’un centre de pouvoir militaire et modernisateur  Sylvain Cornac 8 L’innovation judiciaire dans l’Empire ottoman : l’établissement d’un tribunal de commerce à Alep au milieu du XIXe siècle  Mafalda Ade 9 Disciplining Disobedient Subjects: The Punishment of Aleppo’s Insurgents in 1850 as a Contentious Issue  Feras Krimsti 10 Les consuls Picciotto et Poche, intermédiaires des intérêts belges à Alep (1855–1914)  Nicolas Jodoin 11 Entre réseaux régional et transrégional : La Mawlawiyya dans la province dʾAlep au XIXe siècle  Stefan Knost Index/Indexe

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Book SynopsisSociology of Shiʿite Islam is a comprehensive study of the development of Shiʿism. In these collected essays Arjomand has persistently developed a Weberian theoretical framework for the analysis of Shiʿism, from its sectarian formation in the eighth century through the establishment of the Safavid empire in the sixteenth century, to the Islamic revolution in Iran in the twentieth century. The bearers or cultural carriers of Shiʿite Islam first emerged as a sectarian elite, then a hierocracy and finally a theocracy. Imamate, Occultation and the theodicy of martyrdom are identified as the main components of the Shiʿism as a world religion. These studies highlight revolutionary impulses embedded in the belief in the advent of the hidden Imam, and the impact of Shiʿite political ethics on the authority structure of pre-modern Iran and the constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran.Trade Review“Sociology of Shiʿite Islam: Collected Essays is a must-read book full of insights for both specialists as well as those interested in the history of Shi‘i Islam.” Yaser Mirdamadi, University of Edinburgh, in Reading ReligionTable of ContentsAbbreviations Introduction: Shiʻite Islam as a World Religion, its Social Forms, Bearers and Impact on Social Action Part I: Formation of Shiʻite Islam as a World Religion of Salvation: Imamate, Occultation and Theodicy Chapter 1: Origins and Development of Apocalyptic Messianism in Early Islam Chapter 2: Crisis of the Imamate and the Institution of Occultation in Twelver Shi`ism Chapter 3: Imam Absconditus and the Beginnings of a Theology of Occultation Chapter 4: The Shiʻite Doctrine of Occultation and the Transition from Chiliasm to Law Chapter 5: Shiʻite Theodicy: Martyrdom and the Meaning of Suffering Part II: Shiʻite Religion and the Structure of Domination in Iran Chapter 6: Hierocratic Authority in Shiʻism and the Transition from Sectarian to National Religion in Iran Chapter 7: Three Decrees of Shah Tahmāsp on Clerical Authority and Public Law in Shiʻite Iran Chapter 8: Political Ethic and Public Law in the First half of the Nineteenth Century Chapter 9: Imam Khomeini and the Constitution of the Rule of God in Contemporary Iran Part III: The Bearers of Shiʻite Islam and its Institutional Organization Chapter 10. Hosayn b. Ruh al-Nawbakhti: the Third Emissary of the Hidden Imam Chapter 11. The Clerical Estate and the Rise of a Shiʻite Hierocracy in Safavid Iran Chapter 12: The Office of Mullā-Bāshi in Shiʻite Iran Chapter 13: Shiʻite Jurists and Iran’s Law and Constitutional Order in the Twentieth Century Part IV: Shiʻite Islam and the Motivation of Sociopolitical Action: Revolution and Constitution Chapter 14: The Rise of Shah Esmāʻil as a Mahdist Revolution Chapter 15: The Conversion of Iran to Twelver Shiʻite by the Safavid State: 1501-1722 Chapter 16: Ideological Revolution in Shiʻism Chapter 17: Shiʻite Islam and the Islamic Revolution in Iran Chapter 18: Shiʻite Conceptions of Authority and Constitutional Developments in the Islamic Republic of Iran Chapter 19. Shiʻite Dissent in Iran before and after the Islamic Revolution Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis is the first critical edition of Book X of the Latin version of Averroes’ Middle Commentary on Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. The text is accompanied by a French translation and explanatory notes, and is preceded by a study of the manuscript tradition and two studies on the Commentary itself. Cette première édition critique de la version latine du Commentaire d’Averroès à l’Éthique à Nicomaque (Livre X), accompagnée d’une traduction française annotée, est précédée de l’examen de la tradition manuscrite du texte et de deux études consacrée à ce Commentaire.Table of ContentsAvant-propos Introduction Le Livre X du Commentaire moyen À l’ Éthique à Nicomaque  1 Le dossier textuel  2 Les témoins latins  3 Le classement des témoins  4 Les principes de l’ édition du livre X du commentaire moyen à l’ Éthique à Nicomaque  5 Divisions du livre X du Commentaire moyen à l’ Éthique à Nicomaque Comment lire le Commentaire moyen à l’ Éthique à Nicomaque ?  1 Poétique du talḫīṣ dans le Commentaire moyen à l’ Éthique à Nicomaque  2 Averroès face à l’ Éthique à Nicomaque Conspectus siglorum Texte latin et traduction française annotée Bibliographie Index nominum antiquorum et mediaevalium Index nominum recentiorum Index verborum potiorum Index verborum latinorum potiorum in libro decimo Commentarii Averrois in Ethica Nicomachea

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Book SynopsisArabic and its Alternatives discusses the complicated relationships between language, religion and communal identities in the Middle East in the period following the First World War. This volume takes its starting point in the non-Arabic and non-Muslim communities, tracing their linguistic and literary practices as part of a number of interlinked processes, including that of religious modernization, of new types of communal identity politics and of socio-political engagement with the emerging nation states and their accompanying nationalisms. These twentieth-century developments are firmly rooted in literary and linguistic practices of the Ottoman period, but take new turns under influence of colonization and decolonization, showing the versatility and resilience as much as the vulnerability of these linguistic and religious minorities in the region. Contributors are Tijmen C. Baarda, Leyla Dakhli, Sasha R. Goldstein-Sabbah, Liora R. Halperin, Robert Isaf, Michiel Leezenberg, Merav Mack, Heleen Murre-van den Berg, Konstantinos Papastathis, Franck Salameh, Cyrus Schayegh, Emmanuel Szurek, Peter Wien.Table of ContentsPreface  Heleen Murre-van den Berg Note on Transcription Notes on Contributors 1 Arabic and its Alternatives: Language and Religion in the Ottoman Empire and its Successor States  Heleen Murre-van den Berg 2 Vernacularization as Governmentalization: the Development of Kurdish in Mandate Iraq  Michiel Leezenberg 3 “Yan, Of, Ef, Viç, İç, İs, Dis, Pulos …”: the Surname Reform, the “Non-Muslims,” and the Politics of Uncertainty in Post-genocidal Turkey  Emmanuel Szurek 4 “Young Phoenicians” and the Quest for a Lebanese Language: between Lebanonism, Phoenicianism, and Arabism  Franck Salameh 5 “Those Who Pronounce the Ḍād”: Language and Ethnicity in the Nationalist Poetry of Fuʾad al-Khatib (1880–1957)  Peter Wien 6 Arabic and the Syriac Christians in Iraq: Three Levels of Loyalty to the Arabist Project (1920–1950)  Tijmen C. Baarda 7 Awakening, or Watchfulness: Naum Faiq and Syriac Language Poetry at the Fall of the Ottoman Empire  Robert Isaf 8 Global Jewish Philanthropy and Linguistic Pragmatism in Baghdad  Sasha R. Goldstein-Sabbah 9 Past Perfect: Jewish Memories of Language and the Politics of Arabic in Mandate Palestine  Liora R. Halperin 10 United by Faith, Divided by Language: the Orthodox in Jerusalem  Merav Mack 11 Arabic vs. Greek: the Linguistic Aspect of the Jerusalem Orthodox Church Controversy in Late Ottoman Times and the British Mandate  Konstantinos Papastathis 12 Between Local Power and Global Politics: Playing with Languages in the Franciscan Printing Press of Jerusalem  Leyla Dakhli 13 Epilogue  Cyrus Schayegh Index

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Book SynopsisScholars have long debated the use of law to settle international trade disputes in the early modern period. In this book, Tijl Vanneste uses the case study of commercial litigation before the Dutch consular court of Izmir to argue that merchants relied on a particular blend of mercantile customs, which he calls ‘the merchants’ style’, and specific legal forms and procedures, laid down in written regulations, and dependent on local and international circumstances. The book challenges the idea of a universal ‘law merchant’, to replace it with a more nuanced analysis that centralizes the interplay between informal merchant custom, as advocated by traders and judges alike, and formal procedural legislation, drawn mostly from Roman law, in the resolution of mercantile disputes.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations  Introduction 1 The Dutch in the Levant  1 The Early Development of Dutch Levant Trade  1.1 Straatvaart: Dutch Navigation into the Mediterranean  1.2 The Directorate of Levant Trade and European Competition  2 The Dutch Levantine Institutional Context  2.1 A Short History of the European Capitulations  2.2 The Dutch Consular System in the Levant  3 The Dutch Consulate of Izmir  3.1 The Evolution towards Stability  3.2 The Consular Protection of Jews  3.3 Purchasing Protection: The Beratlıs or Honorary Dragomans  4 The Dutch Trading Community of Izmir in the Eighteenth Century  4.1 A Community of Competing Traders  4.2 Levantine Commission Trade 2 The Dutch Consular Court of Izmir  1 Consular Jurisdiction  1.1 Adjudication in the Capitulations  1.2 The Establishment of Consular Jurisdiction  1.3 A Proposal to Codify Adjudication in the Levant  2 The Dutch Legal Context  2.1 Sources of Roman-Dutch law  2.2 The Diversity of Jurisdictions and the Similarity of Courts  3 Procedures in Commercial Litigation  3.1 Dutch Regulations on Procedure  3.2 Summary Procedure and the Merchants’ Style  3.3 Summary Procedure at the Dutch Consular Court of Izmir 3 The Adjudication of Commercial Disputes within the Dutch Community  1 Adjudication amongst Peers: The Use of Arbitration  1.1 The Friendly Settlement of Local Troubles  1.2 A Failed Attempt at Arbitration  2 The Mother of Levantine Trade Quarrels: Disputing Commission Trade  2.1 The Principal-agent Problem  2.2 Commission Trade Gone Wrong  2.3 Whose Responsibility Is It?  3 Friendship on Trial  3.1 The Bond between Merchants  3.2 The Mutual Pursuit of Profit  3.3 International Support for the Merchants’ Style 4 Intra-European Litigation  1 Belonging to a European Trade Nation Abroad  1.1 Forum Rei and a Clash of Laws  1.2 Competition from within: The Prussian Company  1.3 A Local European Dispute without Any Dutch Involvement  1.4 The Possibility of Appeal  2 Unravelling the Web of Commission Trade in Court  2.1 Crossing Physical Distance by Power of Attorney  2.2 The Trial  2.3 A Complicated Web of Entanglement  2.4 Invoking ‘National’ Law versus the Merchants’ Style  3 Litigants at Sea and Maritime Jurisdiction 5 Ottomans at the Dutch Consular Court  1 Levantine Confrontations with the Law  1.1 Sequesters in 1686  1.2 Central Courts in the United Provinces  1.3 The States General and Ottoman Justice  2 Legal Issues of Dutch Protection and Subject Status  2.1 Beratlı Problems  2.2 Ottoman-Dutch Intercultural Partnerships  3 The Most Cosmopolitan Form of Quarrelling  3.1 Gerrit van Brakel’s Bill of Exchange  3.2 Ottoman justice and European Protection  4 An Islamic Merchants’ Style?  4.1 European Fear of Ottoman Abuses  4.2 Greek Community Resolutions  4.3 The Merchants’ Style through Muslim Eyes Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisBreaching the Bronze Wall deals with the idea that the words of honorable Muslims constitutes proof and that written documents and the words of non-Muslims are of inferior value. Thus, foreign merchants in cities such as Istanbul, Damascus or Alexandria could barely prove any claim, as neither their contracts nor their words were of any value if countered by Muslims. Francisco Apellániz explores how both groups labored to overcome the ‘biases against non-Muslims’ in Mamlūk Egypt’s and Syria’s courts and markets (14th-15th c.) and how the Ottoman conquest (1517) imposed a new, orthodox view on the problem. The book slips into the Middle Eastern archive and the Ottoman Dīvān, and scrutinizes sharīʿa’s intricacies and their handling by consuls, dragomans, qaḍīs and other legal actors.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations 1 Introduction  1.1 Structure of the Book 2 Producing, Handling and Archiving Evidence in Mediterranean Societies  2.1 The 'Archival Divide'  2.2 Islamic Notions and Doctrines on Proof and Evidence  2.3 Notaries in the Cross-Confessional Middle Ages  2.4 The Case of the Outremer Notaries  2.5 New Attitudes towards the Written 3 ‘Men Like the Franks’: Dealing with Diversity in Medieval Norms and Courts  3.1 An Introduction to Siyāsa  3.2 The Crusader Marketplace  3.3 The actor sequitur forum rei Principle  3.4 Empowering One Consul over the Others  3.5 An Iberian Epilogue  3.6 Siyāsa Justice in Theory and Practice  3.7 Conflict Resolution in and out of the Courtroom  3.8 Merchants at the Islamic Courts: a Lender of Last Resort?  3.9 Mixed Cases at the Qadi Court  3.10 Mixed Cases before Siyāsa Courts  3.11 Siyāsa among the Franks 4 Ottoman Legal Attitudes towards Diversity  4.0 The ‘Witness System’: a Bronze Wall?  4.1 The Legal Grounds of the Ottoman Witness System  4.2 The Ban on Muslim Witnesses  4.3 Dhimmī Claims on Communal Exclusivity: the Carazari Clause  4.4 False Witnessing  4.5 Proving Enslavement  4.6 Legal Truth and the Governance of Frontier Zones  4.7 The Aleppo Ferman  4.8 A Death in Damascus 5 Conclusions Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe present English translation reproduces the original German of Carl Brockelmann’s Geschichte der Arabischen Litteratur (GAL) as accurately as possible. In the interest of user-friendliness the following emendations have been made in the translation: Personal names are written out in full, except b. for ibn; Brockelmann’s transliteration of Arabic has been adapted to comply with modern standards for English-language publications; modern English equivalents are given for place names, e.g. Damascus, Cairo, Jerusalem, etc.; several erroneous dates have been corrected, and the page references to the two German editions have been retained in the margin, except in the Supplement volumes, where new references to the first two English volumes have been inserted. Supplement volume SIII-ii offers the thee Indices (authors; titles; and Western editors/publishers).Table of ContentsNote to the Indices Transcription Indices Index of Names Index of Works Index of Publishers

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Book SynopsisThis volume contains annotated translations of anecdotes, on musicological and socio-cultural topics, from al-Iṣbahānī’s The Grand Book of Songs. Includes music theory and treatises; instruments; composition techniques; education and transmission; vocal and instrumental performances; solo and ensemble music; improvisations; emotions; dances; social status.Trade Review“Unquestionably, this is a volume covering a vast area: literature, history, biography, social comment, and of course information about music and its development. Sawa’s volume is a splendid work for the completion of which a combination of patience and erudition was obviously among its prerequisites, - the result being one of those tomes indispensable for students of Music, Ethnomusicology, and Sociology of Art.” Stavros Nikolaidis in:Journal of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 29 (2020).Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Editorial Notes Introduction: Abū l-Faraj al-Iṣfahānī and His Book of Songs 1 Theory  The Modes  A The Eight Rhythmic Modes  B The Eight Melodic Modes  C The Three Passages on Rhythmic and Melodic Modes in the Book of Songs  D Jins and Ṭarīqa  E Rare Songs Containing Eight or Ten Notes  F Early Singing: Ḥudāʾ, Naṣb, and Rukbān  G Technical Terms  H Theoretical Treatises, Anecdotes, Biographies, Song Collections, Authorship, Modes 2 Instruments  A Aerophones: Mizmār, Nāy, and Surnāy  B Idiophones: ʿAṣāt, Dawāt, Jaras, Juljul, Khashaba, Miqraʿa, Nāqūs, Qaḍīb, Qarbūs, Raḥl, Ṣaffāqa, Ṣanj  C Membranophones: ʿArṭaba, Duff, Murabbaʿ, Ṭabl  D Chordophones: Barbaṭ, Kankala, Miʿzafa, Mizhar, Ṣanj, Ṭunbūr, ʿūd  E Storage and Workshop for Instrument Making  F Improvised Instruments 3 Composition  A The Use of Music to Embellish and Spread Poetry  B The Origins of Arabic Music  C Technique and Process of Composition  D Dreams and Jinns as Sources for Compositions  E Contrafacta  F Style and the Imitation of Style  G Composition: Talent Versus Intellect, Head Versus Heart  H Specialization  I Analysis  J Authorship  K Poems, Composers, and Modes  L The Number of Lines of Poems Set to Music  M Choosing and Altering the Order of the Verses and Mixing Poems  N Names of Melodies  O Output  P Quality Versus Quantity  Q Poems Conducive to Be Set to Music  R The Best Composers and Compositions  S Comparisons  T Weak Compositions  U Women’s Compositions and Softness  V Folklore Songs: Sailors, Masons, and Water Carriers  W Monopolies on Poems 4 Education and Transmission  A General Education  B Pedigree  C Music Education  D The Important Role of Women as Teachers, Transmitters, and Memorizers  E Memory Loss  F Learning and Repetitions, Slow Learners and Fast Learners  G Problems of Difficulty and Transmission  H Prevention of Transmission and Stinginess  I Good and Bad Transmitters  J Unconventional Transmissions  K Miscellaneous 5 Performance  A Singers and Songstresses  B To Sing: Qāla, Qaraʾa, Ḥaddatha  C Voice Production  D Beautiful Voice  E Powerful Voice  F Poor Voices  G Stratagem for Poor Voices  H Excellence in Performance  I Poor Performance and Weaknesses  J Postures  K Difficult Songs  L Comparisons  M The Limitations of Descriptions  O Size of Repertoire  P Lute Playing in the Persian Style  Q Lute Virtuosity  R Inheriting a Family Business  S Performance Order  T The Composition of the Majlis and Its Effect on Performance  U Songs without Words 6 Solos, Accompaniment, and Ensemble Music  A Murtajil: A Cappella  B Instrumental Solos  C Unaccompanied Duet Singing  D Unison Ensemble Singing  E Unison Ensemble Singing with Lute Accompaniment  F A Soloist and Her Chorus  G Hand Clapping, Castanets, and Dancing  H Tambourines  I Ṭabl  J Lute  K Ṭunbūr  L Voice and Nāy  M Murtajil and Irtijāl 7 Musical Stability and Change  A On the Inevitability of Change  B Change Is Permissible  C Change Is Frowned Upon  D Wine and Its Positive and Negative Effects on Singing  E The Truth about the Singer Mālik Not Composing but Altering and Beautifying the Songs of Others  F Change as a Tool to Embarrass an Enemy 8 Musical and Textual Improvisations 9 Ṭarab and the Effects of Singing on People and Animals  A Preliminary Definitions  B Physical Effects on People and Animals  C Emotional Effects  D Effects on the Imagination  E Therapeutic Effects  F Ṭarab and Effects of Music: Miscellaneous Topics 10 Dance  A Zafn and Raqṣ  B Early Arabic Music and Dance According to Ibn Khaldūn  C Dastband and Īlāʾ  D Kurraj  E Raqṣ and the Completion of Musical Arts  F The Required Qualities of Dancers According to the Oration of an Anonymous Singer/Boon Companion of the Caliph Al-Muʿtamid, as Reported in the Meadows of Gold of Al-Masʿūdī 11 Physiognomy, Attire, Character, Social Status, and Permissibility of Music  A The Importance of a Beautiful Face, Body, and Attire  B Character and Knowledge  C Slaves, Freed Slaves, Mawlās, and Freeman  D Is It a Sin to Sing?  E It Is Not a Sin to Sing If the Singer Is Pious and Endowed with Good Character, or If the Songs Are Not Erotic  F The Contradictory and Ambiguous Roles of Noblemen, Theologians, and Administrators Toward Music and Musicians  G The Shame of Being an Instrumentalist  H Words of Wisdom in Support of Music Arabic English Glossary Bibliography Index of People and Places Index of Terms and Subjects Charts

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Book SynopsisGrounded Identities: Territory and Belonging in the Medieval and Early Modern Middle East and Mediterranean is a collection of essays on attachment to specific lands including Kurdistan, Andalusia and the Maghrib, and geographical Syria in the pre-modern Islamicate world. Together these essays put a premium on the affective and cultural dimensions of such attachments, fluctuations in the meaning and significance of lands in the face of historical transformations and, at the same time, the real and persistent qualities of lands and human attachments to them over long periods of time. These essays demonstrate that grounded identities are persistent and never static. Contributors are: Zayde Antrim, Alexander Elinson, Mary Hoyt Halavais, Boris James, Steve Tamari.Trade Review[...] This is a timely and welcome contribution to the field as issues regarding territory and belonging globally, but especially in the Middle East, dominate the news cycle. R. W. Zens, Le Moyne College, in Choice, February 2020Table of ContentsContents List of Maps List of Contributors Introduction: Lands and Loyalties in the Scholarship of Medieval and Early Modern Islamicate History   Steve Tamari 1 The Construction of a Kurdish Political Space in the Middle Ages: Kurdish In-betweenness, Mamluk Ethnic Engineering, and the Emergence of al-Mamlaka al-Ḥasina al-Akradiyya (1130-1340 CE)   Boris James 2 Becoming Syrian: Aleppo in Ibn al-ʿAdim’s Bughyat al-Talab fi Ta⁠ʾrikh Halab   Zayde Antrim 3 Lisan al-Din ibn al-Khatib (d. 1374 CE) and the Definition of the Fourteenth-Century Muslim West   Alexander Elinson 4 Going Home: Andalusia and Exile in the Seventeenth Century   Mary Hoyt Halavais 5 The Land of Syria in the Late Seventeenth Century: ʿAbd al-Ghani al-Nabulusi and Linking City and Countryside through Study, Travel, and Worship   Steve Tamari Index

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Book SynopsisThe Technique of Islamic Bookbinding is the first monograph dedicated to the technical development of the bookbinding tradition in the Islamic world. Based on an assessment of the extensive oriental collections in the Leiden University Library, the various sewing techniques, constructions and the application of covering materials are described in great detail. A comparative analysis of the historic treatises on bookbinding provides further insight into the actual making of the Islamic book. In addition, it is demonstrated that variations in time and place can be established with the help of distinctive material characteristics. Karin Scheper’s work refutes the perception of Islamic bookbinding as a weak structure, which has generally but erroneously been typified as a case-binding. Instead, the author argues how diverse methods were used to create sound structures, thus fundamentally challenging our understanding of the Islamic bookbinding practice. Karin Scheper has been awarded the De La Court Award 2016 by The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences for her study of the bookbinding tradition in the Islamic world.Table of ContentsPreface to the Second Edition Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Materiality Matters A Detailed Sketch of the Current State of Knowledge and Outline of the Research  The Information Value of Binding Structures  The Present Situation of the Book Archaeology of Islamic Manuscripts  Obstacles in the Study of Islamic Bookmaking  Linking Physical Analysis, Catalogue Data, and Literature  Selection and Justification of the Corpus 2 The Anatomy of the Islamic Manuscript A Detailed Overview of the Different Methods of Construction  Vocabulary and Images as Tools  Techniques Used to Construct the Textblock  Covering and Board Attachment  A Problematic Term: Case-binding  Other Characteristics  Meaning and Validity of the Diversity 3 A Comparative Study of the Historic Sources and Recent Literature on the Making of Islamic Manuscripts  Historic Sources  Secondary Sources: Related Studies and General Reference Works  Founders of our Knowledge on the Use of Structure and Materials in Islamic Bookmaking  Structure as a Starting Point  Structure as a Side Issue  Structure as a Conservation Issue  The Sum of the Parts 4 Multiplicity within the Tradition n Account of the Methodology and Quantitative Results of the Survey  Methodology  Survey Results—Quantitative Analysis 5 Mapping the Variations in Time and Place Datable and Localisable Features and a Further Interpretation of the Findings  Sewing  Spine-lining  Endbanding  Covering  Spine-endings  Interior Covering of the Boards  The Envelope and Fore-edge Flap  Miscellaneous Features  Southeast Asia as a Sub-category in the Islamic Tradition  Summary 6 Considerations and New Perspectives  Recapitulation  Development of the Tradition  Discussion  Conclusion Appendices 1 Glossary 2 Corpus 3 Example of a Record of the Database 4 List of Manuscripts Used in Illustrations Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAuthority and Control in the Countryside looks at the economic, religious, political and cultural instruments that local and regional powers in the late antique to early medieval Mediterranean and Near East used to manage their rural hinterlands. Measures of direct control – land ownership, judicial systems, garrisons and fortifications, religious and administrative appointments, taxes and regulation – and indirect control – monuments and landmarks, cultural styles and artistic models, intellectual and religious influence, and economic and bureaucratic standard-setting – are examined to reconstruct the various means by which authority was asserted over the countryside. Unified by its thematic and spatial focus, this book offers an array of interdisciplinary approaches, allowing for important comparisons across a wide but connected geographical area in the transition from the Sasanian and Roman to the Islamic period. Contributors: Arezou Azad and Hugh Kennedy, Sobhi Bouderbala, Michele Campopiano, Alain Delattre, Jessica Ehinger, Simon Ford, James Howard-Johnston, Elif Keser-Kayaalp, Marie Legendre, Javier Martínez Jiménez, Harry Munt, Annliese Nef and Vivien Prigent, Marion Rivoal and Marie-Odile Rousset, Gesa Schenke, Petra Sijpesteijn, Peter Verkinderen, Luke Yarbrough, Khaled Younes.Trade Review" ... les actes de ce colloque apportent des données concernant des aspects très divers du contrôle des arrière-pays ruraux dépendant de centres urbains (mais aussi, dans un cas, d’un monastère) allant de Tolède à Balkh, et concernant l’anté-islam et les deux siècles qui suivent la conquête, avec tout de même une majorité de communications concernant l’Égypte et la Syrie." Pierre Guichard, Université Lumière – Lyon II, in Arabica 67 (2020): 637-643 "The abiding merit of this volume is the attention it devotes to that most central of questions for any historian of the Middle East—that is, agrarian production and wealth and its connection to the maintenance of human settlement and culture." Matthew S. Gordon, in Journal of Near Eastern Studies 80/2 (2021)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Notes on Transliteration, Names and Dates Introduction  Petra M. Sijpesteijn, Marie Legendre and Alain Delattre Part 1 A Question of Sources 1 New Governors Identified in Arabic Papyri  Khaled Younes 2 “I’ll Not Accept Aid from a mushrik” Rural Space, Persuasive Authority, and Religious Difference in Three Prophetic ḥadīths  Luke Yarbrough Part 2 Territoriality 3 The Rural Hinterland of the Visigothic Capitals of Toledo and Reccopolis, between the Years 400–800 CE  Javier Martínez Jiménez 4 Authority and Control in the Interior of Asia Minor, Seventh–Ninth Centuries  James Howard-Johnston 5 Church Building in the Ṭur ʿAbdin in the First Centuries of the Islamic Rule  Elif Keser-Kayaalp 6 Les aménagements agricoles dans les Marges arides de Syrie du Nord (5e–10e siècles) Des témoins des modalités d’ appropriation et d’ exploitation des campagnes  Marion Rivoal and Marie-Odile Rousset 7 The Ghāzī Movement Performative Religious Identity on the Byzantine-Islamic Frontier  Jessica L. Ehinger 8 The Coming of Islam to Balkh  Arezou Azad and Hugh Kennedy Part 3 Land Use and Resources 9 Contrôle et exploitation des campagnes en Sicile Le rôle du grand domaine et son évolution du VIe siècle au XIe siècle  Annliese Nef and Vivien Prigent 10 Murtabaʿ al-jund et manzil al-qabāʾil Pénétration militaire et installation tribale dans la campagne égyptienne au premier siècle de l’ Islam  Sobhi Bouderbala 11 Landowners, Caliphs and State Policy over Landholdings in the Egyptian Countryside Theory and Practice  Marie Legendre 12 Monastic Control over Agriculture and Farming New Evidence from the Egyptian Monastery of Apa Apollo at Bawit Concerning the Payment of APARCHE  Gesa Schenke 13 Caliphal Estates and Properties around Medina in the Umayyad Period  Harry Munt 14 Land Tenure, Land Tax and Social Conflictuality in Iraq from the Late Sasanian to the Early Islamic Period (Fifth to Ninth Centuries CE)  Michele Campopiano 15 Land Reclamation and Irrigation Programs in Early Islamic Southern Mesopotamia Self-Enrichment vs. State Control  Peter Verkinderen Part 4 Local Rule and Networks 16 Checkpoints, sauf-conduits et contrôle de la population en Égypte au début du VIIIe siècle  Alain Delattre 17 Policing, Punishing and Prisons in the Early Islamic Egyptian Countryside (640–850 CE)  Petra M. Sijpesteijn Index

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Book SynopsisIn Carrying on the Tradition Garrett Davidson employs a variety of largely unutilized print, as well as archival sources collected from the Near East, North Africa, India, Europe, and North America. He analyses these sources to excavate the fundamental reinvention of the conceptions and practices of hadith transmission that resulted from the establishment of the hadith canon. Further, the book examines how hadith scholars reimagined the transmission of hadith, not as a scholarly tool, as it had originally been, but instead as, among other things, an act of pious emulation of the forefathers. It demonstrates the emergence of new genres and subgenres of hadith literature, as a result of this shift, examining them as artefacts of the cultural, social, and intellectual history of Muslim religiosity from the tenth to twentieth centuries.Table of ContentsList of Figures Introduction 1 Reimagining Hadith Transmission in the Shadow of the Canon  1 The Ideology of Hadith Transmission  2 The Social Logic of Hadith Transmission  3 “Nothing Gold Can Stay:” The End of the ‘Golden Age’ of Hadith Transmission  4 Elevation and Decline  5 Degrees of Separation  6 Supernatural Elevation  7 Conclusion 2 The Post-canonical Evolution of Oral Hadith Transmission  1 The Audition Notice  2 The Evolving Function of Oral Transmission  3 The Age Structure of Oral Transmission  4 Hadith Speed Reading  5 Further Liberalization of Oral Transmission  6 The Ritualization of Oral Hadith Transmission  7 Locations of Oral Hadith Transmission  8 Musalsalāt: Ritual and Mimesis in Oral Hadith Transmission  9 A Shifting Culture of Oral Hadith Transmission 3 Non-oral Transmission in the Oral Idiom: The Development and Function of the Ijāza  1 Confusion in the Secondary Literature  2 The Origins and Early Development of the Ijāza  3 The Earliest Attestations of the Ijāza  4 The Tide Begins to Turn: The Increasing Acceptance of the Ijāza in the Fourth/Tenth Century  5 Al-Khaṭīb and the Expansion of the Ijāza  6 The ijāza as a Means of Preserving the Chain of Transmission  7 Permission for the Unspecified  8 Who Can Receive an Ijāza?  9 The Ijāza and the Short Chain of Transmission  10 The Ijāza and the Unborn  11 Ijāzas for All: The Development and Function of the al-Ijāza al-ʿĀmma  12 Conclusion 4 The High and the Low: Men, Women and the Social Aspect of Elevation  1 The Laity and the Randomness of Longevity and Elevation  2 A Medieval Hadith Rock Star: The Extraordinary Case of Abū ʿAbbās al-Ḥajjār  3 The Elevated Chain of Transmission and Women Hadith Transmitters  4 The Exceptional Case of Karīma al-Marwaziyya  5 The Question of Learning among Women Hadith Transmission  6 The Case of Women Hadith Transmitters in al-Sakhāwī’s al-Ḍawʾ al-lāmiʿ  7 Longevity, Elevation and Women Transmitters  8 The View of Women’s Hadith Transmission from the Documentary Evidence  9 Women and Hadith Transmission beyond the Tenth/Sixteenth Century  10 Conclusion 5 Brevity, Breadth and Elevation: The Forty Hadith and ʿAwālī Genres  1 The Prophet’s Promise: The Forty-Hadith Genres and Elevation  2 The Forty-Hadith Genre as a Tool for the Cultivation of Elevation  3 The Forty-Hadith Genre and Elevation  4 Forty Hadith, Forty Shaykhs, Forty Towns  5 The ʿAwālī Genre: Compiling and Presenting Elevation  6 Thulāthiyyāt al-Bukhārī: al-Bukhārī’s Threes  7 Degrees of Separation: Link-Themed ʿAwālī Collections  8 Categories of Elevation: Muwāfaqāt, Abdāl, ʿAwālī  9 Conclusion 6 Men of Books and Books of Men: The Muʿjam/Mashyakha and Fihrist/Thabat Catalog Genres  1 The Mashyakha and Muʿjam al-Shuyūkh Genre  2 The Muʿjam/Mashyakha Genre as s Vehicle for Cultivating Elevated Hadith  3 The Reception of Mashyakha and Muʿjam al-Shuyūkh Works  4 The Fihrist/Thabat Genres  5 The Thabat: The Development of the Catalog Genre in the Central and Eastern Islamic Lands  6 Conclusion 7 Hadith Transmission in an Age of Transformation and Reform  1 The Last of the Mohicans: Al-Kattānī and the State of Hadith Transmission in the Early-Twentieth Century  2 Hadith Transmission and Reform  3 Reformers and the Irrationality of Post-Canonical Hadith Transmission  4 Transmitting Hadith in the Shifting Political and Cultural Terrain of the Twentieth Century  5 Hadith Transmission as a Feature of Late Sunni Traditionalism Index

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Book SynopsisIn The Arab Thieves, Peter Webb critically explores the classic tales of pre-Islamic Arabian outlaws in Arabic Literature. A group of Arabian camel-rustlers became celebrated figures in Muslim memories of pre-Islam, and much poetry ascribed to them and stories about their escapades grew into an outlaw tradition cited across Arabic literature. The ninth/fifteenth-century Egyptian historian al-Maqrīzī arranged biographies of ten outlaws into a chapter on ‘Arab Thieves’ in his wide-ranging history of the world before Muhammad. This volume presents the first critical edition of al-Maqrīzī’s text with a fully annotated English translation, alongside a detailed study that interrogates the outlaw lore to uncover the ways in which Arabic writers constructed outlaw identities and how al-Maqrīzī used the tales to communicate his vision of pre-Islam. Via an exhaustive survey of early Arabic sources about the outlaws and comparative readings with outlaw traditions in other world literatures, The Arab Thieves reveals how Arabic literature crafted lurid narratives about criminality and employed them to tell ancient Arab history.Table of ContentsList of Plates and Tables Abbreviations Acknowledgements Introduction Part 1 Study of the Arab Thieves 1 Outlaw Literature 2 “Arab Thieves”: Establishing a Category  2.1 Ṣuʿlūk/Ṣaʿālīk  2.2 Fātik/Futtāk  2.3 Liṣṣ/Luṣūṣ  2.4 The Runners  2.5 The Arab Ravens  2.6 Lions and Wolves  2.7 Thievery Semantics: Conclusions 3 Thieves and Arab History  3.1 Outlaws and Arabness in the Third/Ninth Century  3.2 Outlaws and Arabness in the Fourth/Tenth Century  3.3 The Ayyubid- and Mamluk-Eras  3.4 al-Maqrīzī and His Luṣūṣ al-ʿArab 4 Contemporary Outlaws: Criminality in al-Maqrīzī’s Own World 5 Al-Maqrīzī’s Manuscript: Its Conceptual, Narrative and Physical Structure  5.1 The Thieves  5.2 Narrative Structure  5.3 The Book 6 The Sources  6.1 Dictionaries and the List of ‘Arab Thieves’  6.2 Al-Maqrīzī’s Sources: Overview  6.3 Al-Maqrīzī’s Copying Style: Case Studies  6.4 Al-Maqrīzī and Outlaw Poetry: Specialised Collections  6.5 Sources: Conclusions 7 Concluding Remarks Plates Part 2 Critical Edition and Translation The Holograph The Translation Abbreviations and Symbols Text and Translation of al-Maqrīzī’s al-Ḫabar ʿan al-baṣar, vol. V, Sections 1–2: the Arab Thieves Section on the Arabs’ Religions before Islam Section on the Arab Hussies Section on the Arab Thieves  ʿAmr of the Dog  Taʾabbaṭa Šarran  Al-Šanfará  Al-Sulayk b. al-Sulakah al-Saʿdī  Al-Muntašir  Awfá b. Maṭar al-Māzinī  ʿAmr b. Barrāqah  Al-Uḥaymir  Niẓām  Yazīd Bibliography List of Quoted Manuscripts Index of Verses Index of Names (People and Places) Index of Quoted Titles in al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar Index of Sources in al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar Index of Glosses Index of Technical Terms Facsimile of MS Fatih 4340 (Istanbul, Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi), fols. Ia–b, 1a–3b, 4*a–b, 4a–9b, 10*a–b, 10a–15b

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Book SynopsisThis book is the first to date to be dedicated to the circulation of the book as a commodity in the Mamluk sultanate. It discusses the impact of princely patronage on the production of books, the formation and management of libraries in religious institutions, their size and their physical setting. It documents the significance of private collections and their interaction with institutional libraries and the role of charitable endowments (waqf ) in the life of libraries. The market as a venue of intellectual and commercial exchanges and a production centre is explored with references to prices and fees. The social and professional background of scribes and calligraphers occupies a major place in this study, which also documents the chain of master-calligraphers over the entire Mamluk period. For her study the author relies on biographical dictionaries, chronicles, waqf documents and manuscripts.Trade Review"The Book in Mamluk Egypt and Syria is highly informative and makes use of all the available information, clearly a product of serious research and passion for the author’s subject. It is also a product of love for the book itself and for bibliophiles, full with all sorts of interesting stories and remarks..." Sotiris S. Livas, in: Journal of Oriental and African Studies 28 (2019) “[…] it is a comprehensive summary of our existing state of knowledge, and paints a lively and entertaining picture of lives lived among books in Mamluk Egypt and Syria.” Paul Auchterlonie, University of Exeter in: Journal of the American Oriental Society, Volume 141, No. 4 (2021).Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Figures Note to the Reader Introduction 1 The Legacy  1 The Classical Heritage  2 The Fatimid and Ayyubid Legacies 2 Mamluk Libraries  1 Patronage of the Mamluk Book  2 A Palace Library?  3 The Libraries of Religious Institutions  4 The Librarians in Religious Institutions 3 Private Libraries and Endowments 4 Book Circulation and Storage  1 Borrowing Practices  2 The Size of Libraries  3 The Size of Books  4 The Physical Setting 5 The Market  1 Location and Environment  2 Dealers and Publishers  3 Value, Prices, and Fees 6 The Mamluk Scribe: Background and Formation  1 Terminology and Definition  2 Writing and Copying  3 From Oral to Written Books and Back  4 Books from the Barracks 7 The Mamluk Master Calligraphers  1 The Art and Practice of Calligraphy  2 Teaching Writing and Calligraphy  3 The Social and Cultural Contexts  4 Calligraphers and Craftsmen  5 Calligraphers and the Aristocracy 8 The Chain of Mamluk Calligraphers  1 The Syrian School  2 The Egyptian School Epilogue Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn A History of Water Engineering and Management in Yemen, Ingrid Hehmeyer describes the three-way relationship between water, land, and humans from ancient to medieval and premodern times. As illustrated in case studies from four sites, individual ecosystems necessitated different engineering and management approaches in order to make good use of the scarce water resources for both irrigated agriculture and domestic consumption. Material remains and written sources provide the evidence for a comprehensive examination of continuity and change; technical and managerial struggles, failures, and successes; the question of technology transfer; the impact of the religion of Islam on water use and allocation; and people’s reactions in times of severe crisis.Trade Review“This dissertation publication illuminates more than just Old South Arabian names of animals, plants, stones and metals. It also is an excellent source for zoological, botanical and ethnographic data [...] It is well-conceived, the product of discipline and years of research.” Paul A. Yule in Wiener Zeitschrift Für Die Kunde Des Morgenlandes 110 (2020)Table of ContentsAcknowledgements A Note on Transliteration List of Figures and Tables Photo Credits and Permissions for Reproduction Introduction  PART I Irrigated Agriculture in Ancient South Arabia: The Oasis of Mārib Introduction to Part I Case Study 1: Agricultural Practices in the Controlled Irrigation Network of Ancient Mārib  PART II The City of Zabīd (Founded 820 ce) and its Agricultural Hinterland before the First Ottoman Conquest in 1539 Introduction to Part II Case Study 2: Sayl Irrigation in the Wādī Zabīd Case Study 3: The Importance of the Agricultural Hinterland to Pre-Ottoman Zabīd Case Study 4: Engineered Water Systems in the Wādī Zabīd Case Study 5: Water and Waste in the City of Zabīd  PART III Water and Settlement on the Coastal Plain of Southern Yemen: The Example of Ghayl Bā Wazīr Introduction to Part III Case Study 6: Tapping Underground Water: The Maʿyān System of Ghayl Bā Wazīr  PART IV Water-Storage Systems in the Western Highlands of Yemen: The Cisterns of al-Jabīn Introduction to Part IV Case Study 7: The Study and Restoration of Birkat ʿĀṭif, a Public Cistern in al-Jabīn  PART V Water and Religious Magic Introduction to Part V Case Study 8: Water and Religious Magic Concluding Remarks Glossary Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisDie Geheimnisse der oberen und der unteren Welt (The Secrets of the Upper and the Lower World) is a substantial new collection of essays on magic in Islamic cultural history. Both comprehensive and innovative in its approach, this book offers fresh insights into an important yet still understudied area of Islamic intellectual history. The seventeen chapters deal with key aspects of Islamic magic, including its historical developments, geographical variants, and modern-day practices. The general introduction identifies and problematizes numerous sub-topics and key practitioners/theoreticians in the Arabo-Islamic context. This, along with terminological and bibliographical appendices, makes the volume an unparalleled reference work for both specialists and a broader readership. Contributors: Ursula Bsees, Johann Christoph Bürgel, Susanne Enderwitz, Hans Daiber; Sebastian Günther, Mahmoud Haggag, Maher Jarrar, Anke Joisten-Pruschke, Fabian Käs, Ulrich Marzolph, Christian Mauder, Tobias Nünlist, Khanna Omarkhali, Eva Orthmann, Bernd-Christian Otto, Dorothee Pielow, Lutz Richter-Bernburg, Johanna Schott & Johannes Thomann.Trade Review".. the most comprehensive overview of this topic in existence..." - George Archer, in: Reading Religion, August 22, 2017 "The very act of bringing together such a large number of specialists in different areas of Islamic studies is an accomplishment in itself, and it is a timely one... Roads to Paradise maps out a beginning of modern academic research into Muslim eschatology." - Sajjad Rizvi, in: Al-Abhath 64 (2016)Table of ContentsZum Geleit  Johann Christoph Bürgel Danksagung Abkürzungsverzeichnis häufig verwendeter Referenzwerke und Zeitschriften Abbildungsverzeichnis Die Autoren Zur Transkription Zur Einführung 1 Magie im Islam Gegenstand, Geschichte und Diskurs  Sebastian Günther und Dorothee Pielow  1 Forschungsstand zur Magie im Islam  2 Magietheorien im europäischen Forschungsdiskurs  3 Begriffe und Begrifflichkeit der Magie  4 Die Magie im Verständnis muslimischer Gelehrter  5 Forschungsfragen und Themen der Beiträge Abschnitt I Magie im Kanon der Wissenschaften: Begrifflichkeit und Bedeutung 2 Al-Qāḍī ʿAbd al-Ǧabbār über Magie  Maher Jarrar  1 Magie und Religion  2 Anhang 3 Magie im theologisch-rechtlichen Diskurs der arabisch-islamischen Gelehrsamkeit  Mahmoud Haggag  1 Der Magiebegriff und seine Deutung im Spiegel verschiedener literarischer Genres  2 Magie im zeitgenössischen theologisch-rechtlichen Diskurs  3 Fazit 4 Magie und Kausalität im Islam  Hans Daiber  1 Zwei jemenitische Texte zur Beschwörung des Diebes  2 Die magische Wirkung von „Knoten“ und „Blasen“ – griechische Parallelen  3 Magie und neuplatonische „Sympathie“  4 Eine Philosophie der Magie – Kindī, De radiis  5 Anhang: Drei weitere jemenitische Texte zur Beschwörung des Diebes 5 Magie zwischen galenischer und prophetischer Medizin  Lutz Richter-Bernburg  1 Ibn Hindū (gest. 420/1029)  2 Ibn Ḫaldūn (gest. 808/1406)  3 Ibn Qayyim al-Ǧauziyya (gest. 751/1350)  4 Fazit Abschnitt II Traditionslinien arabisch-magischer Dokumente 6 Dokumentarische Materialien zur Magie aus der Frühzeit des Islams Forschungsfragen und Forschungsansätze  Ursula Bsees  1 Der Forschungsstand zu dokumentarischen Quellen der arabisch-islamischen Magie  2 Mögliche Fragen im Umkreis der Texte  3 Magie in der Praxis: P.Vind.inv. A.P. 10002 7 Arabische magische Dokumente Typen, visuelle Gestaltung und Traditionslinien  Johannes Thomann  1 Informationsmittel  2 Amulette aus Koranpassagen  3 Brillenbuchstaben  4 Zeichnungen von Lebewesen  5 Spiralschrift  6 Magische Quadrate  7 Blockdrucke  8 Horoskopdiagramme  9 Geomantische Figuren Abschnitt III Amulette, Astrologie und magische Formeln 8 Entzauberte Amulettrollen Hinweise zu einer typologischen Gliederung  Tobias Nünlist  1 Der arabische Typ  2 Der persische Typ  3 Der türkisch-osmanische Typ  4 Schlussbemerkungen 9 Astrologische Voraussagen über den Jagderfolg Der Katarchen-Abschnitt des K. al-Qānūn al-wāḍiḥ von Ibn Quštimur  Fabian Käs  1 Zum Autor  2 Zum Werk  3 Zur Handschrift  4 Text und Übersetzung  5 Bezug zur Falknereiliteratur  6 Bezug zur Katarchenliteratur 10 Nur hinter verschlossenen Türen? Das Amt des muḥtasib und die Öffentlichkeit von Astrologie, Wahrsagerei, Zauberei und Amulettgebrauch  Christian Mauder  1 Das Amt des muḥtasib: Geschichte, Funktion und öffentlicher Charakter  2 Wahrsagerei, Astrologie, Zauberei und Amulettgebrauch in der Literatur über den muḥtasib  3 Astrologie und verwandte Praktiken in der theoretischen ḥisba-Literatur  4 Astrologie und verwandte Praktiken in Einstellungsurkunden für muḥtasibs  5 Wahrsagerei, Zauberei, Astrologie und Amulettgebrauch in ḥisba-Handbüchern  6 Fazit Abschnitt IV Buchstaben, Gottesnamen und die Magie der Mystik 11 „Ach, wie gut, dass niemand weiß …“ Die Bedeutung des geheimen Namens in der islamischen Magie  Dorothee Pielow  1 Die metaphysische Bedeutung des Namens  2 ʿIlm as-sīmiyāʾ und die Bedeutung der Gottesnamen  3 Zusammenfassung und Ausblick 12 Die Beschwörung von Geistern und Planeten Al-Ǧawāhir al-ḫams von Muḥammad Ġauṯ Gwāliyārī  Eva Orthmann  1 Die Šaṭṭāriyya  2 Muḥammad Ġauṯ Gwāliyārī und Šaiḫ Phūl  3 Al-Ǧawāhir al-ḫams  4 Daʿwat al-asmāʾ al-ʿiẓām  5 Grundlagen  6 Äußere Rahmenbedingungen  7 Rezitationsweisen  8 Die Anrufungen  9 Die Eigenschaften der Namen  10 Planetenbeschwörung  11 Planeten- und Namensbeschwörungen in anderen Quellen  12 Fazit Abschnitt V Magie in der arabisch-islamischen Literatur 13 Magie in den Erzählungen aus Tausendundeine Nacht  Ulrich Marzolph  1 Antoine Galland und 1001 Nacht  2 Dimensionen des Magischen in 1001 Nacht  3 Magie in den populärsten Texten aus 1001 Nacht  4 Magie in den späteren Fassungen  5 Erzähltechnische Aspekte  6 Fazit 14 Magie in der arabischen Literatur und ein verliebter Dschinn aus Dschidda  Susanne Enderwitz  1 Magie und Mystik  2 Magie und Literatur  3 Magie und Science Fiction  4 Schluss: Der Phantasie das Wort Abschnitt VI Islamische Magie im Kontext von Synkretismus und Projektion 15 Kurdische Magie Jesidische magische Schalen  Khanna Omarkhali und Anke Joisten-Pruschke  1 Zur „Vorgeschichte“ der Zauberschalen  2 Magische Schalen bei den Jesiden  3 Fazit 16 Ökonomie der Angst Nordafrikanische und westafrikanische Magie im Vergleich  Johanna Schott  1 Definitionen  2 Theoretischer Hintergrund  3 Magie in Nordafrika  4 Magie in Westafrika  5 Nordafrikanische und westafrikanische Magie im Vergleich  6 Fazit Schlussbetrachtung 17 Magie im Islam Eine diskursgeschichtliche Perspektive  Bernd-Christian Otto Bibliographischer Appendix: Magie in arabischen Quellen und in der Forschungsliteratur  Sebastian Günther und Dorothee Pielow Terminologischer Appendix: Häufig in Texten zur Magie verwendete Begriffe: Arabisch-Deutsch  Sebastian Günther und Dorothee Pielow Indices Personenregister Geographische Bezeichnungen Bücher Heilige Schriften Hadith Sachregister

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Book SynopsisArabic and Persian Manuscripts in the Birnbaum Collection, Toronto includes many early copies, from the 6th century A.H. / 12th century C.E. onwards. They cover a wide range of subjects. The catalogue gives detailed descriptions of 66 Arabic and 34 Persian works, arranged by subject. Author and title indexes provide easy access, and photographs of selected pages enhance the descriptions. The manuscripts were acquired individually over many decades.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Catalogue Arabic Manuscripts Introduction to the Arabic Manuscripts A Geography B Language and Lexicography C Literature: Poetry D Literature: Prose E Qurʾān F Tafsīr G Islām: Other (Ḥadīth, ʿAqāʾid, Fiqh, Fatwā, Eschatology, Prayer, etc.) H Sufism I Druze J Ethics K Encyclopedic; Sciences and Pseudosciences; Medicine; Mixed L Ijāza M Calligraphy N Persian Philology Persian Manuscripts Introduction to the Persian Manuscripts A History B Literature C Islam; Religion D Ethics E Language, Lexicography, and Prosody F Encyclopedia G Astrology H Document I Addendum: [Majmūʿa] Bibliography and Sigla Arabic Manuscripts: Author Index Arabic Manuscripts: Title Index Concordance of Arabic Manuscripts Persian Manuscripts: Author Index Persian Manuscripts: Title Index Concordance of Persian Manuscripts

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Book SynopsisIslamic Ethics and the Genome Question is one of the very first academic works, which examine the field of genomics from an Islamic perspective. This twelve-chapter volume presents the results from a pioneering seminar held in 2017 at the Research Center for Islamic Legislation & Ethics, College of Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, in Qatar. The contributors to this volume, coming from different disciplines and specializations, approached the key ethical questions raised by the emerging field of genomics, viz. the Genome Question (GQ), from various angles and perspectives. Their shared thesis is that the breadth and depth of both the GQ and the Islamic tradition necessitate going beyond just producing quick answers in response to immediate questions. In order to accommodate the complexity and wide scope of the GQ, the volume included critical analyses of the ethical discourse on genomics, from outside the Islamic tradition. Within the Islamic tradition, the contributing authors explored how the QG can be better explored by involving insights from various disciplines including Quran exegesis, Islamic jurisprudence, philosophy and theology. Besides its interest for researchers and students specialized in ethics, bioethics and Islamic studies, this volume will be a source of important information for geneticists, genomicists and social scientists who are interested in the ethical discourse about genomics in the Muslim world. Contributors include Arzoo Ahmed, Abbas Amir, Saadia Bendenia, Mohammed Ghaly, Mutaz al-Khatib, Amara Naceur, Aasim I. Padela, Ayman Shabana, Trevor Stammers, Mehrunisha Suleman and Hub Zwart.Table of ContentsPreface About the Authors Introduction  Mohammed Ghaly Part 1:Collective Ijtihād and Genomics 1 Sharia Scholars and Modern Biomedical Advancements: What Role for Religious Ethics in the Genomic Era?  Mohammed Ghaly 2 Islamic Ethics and Genomics: Mapping the Collective Deliberations of Muslim Religious Scholars and Biomedical Scientists  Mohammed Ghaly 3 Transformation of the Concept of the Family in the Wake of Genomic Sequencing: An Islamic Perspective  Ayman Shabana Part 2: Genomics and Rethinking Human Nature 4 Conceptualizing the Human Being: Insights from the Genethics Discourse and Implications for Islamic Bioethics  Aasim I. Padela 5 Islamic Perspectives on the Genome and the Human Person: Why the Soul Matters  Arzoo Ahmed and Mehrunisha Suleman 6 The Ethical Limits of Genetic Intervention: Genethics in Philosophical and Fiqhi Discourses  Mutaz al-Khatib Part 3: Widening the Scope of Ethical Deliberations 7 In the Beginning Was the Genome: Genomics and the Bi-Textuality of Human Existence  Hub Zwart 8 Creation, Kinds and Destiny: A Christian View of Genome Editing  Trevor Stammers 9 Living with the Genome,by Angus Clark and Flo Ticehurst, within the Muslim Context  Ayman Shabana Part 4: Contributions in Arabic 10 الجينوم والطبيعة البشرية: مقاربة تحليلية في ضوء الفلسفة والعلم التجريبي والأخلاق الإسلامية  سعدية بن دنيا 11 سؤال الجينوم بين الخلِقْة والأخلاق: مقاربة دلالية معرفية في أخلاقيات علم الجينوم من منظور إسلامي  عباس أمير 12 الجينوم والحياة: تمديد الحياة وأثره الأخلاقي على المجتمعات الإسلامية  عمارة الناصر Index

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Book SynopsisFrom the early phases of modern missions, Christian missionaries supported many humanitarian activities, mostly framed as subservient to the preaching of Christianity. This anthology contributes to a historically grounded understanding of the complex relationship between Christian missions and the roots of humanitarianism and its contemporary uses in a Middle Eastern context. Contributions focus on ideologies, rhetoric, and practices of missionaries and their apostolates towards humanitarianism, from the mid-19th century Middle East crises, examining different missionaries, their society’s worldview and their networks in various areas of the Middle East. In the early 20th century Christian missions increasingly paid more attention to organisation and bureaucratisation (‘rationalisation’), and media became more important to their work. The volume analyses how non-missionaries took over, to a certain extent, the aims and organisations of the missionaries as to humanitarianism. It seeks to discover and retrace such ‘entangled histories’ for the first time in an integral perspective. Contributors include: Beth Baron, Philippe Bourmaud, Seija Jalagin, Nazan Maksudyan, Michael Marten, Heleen (L.) Murre-van den Berg, Inger Marie Okkenhaug, Idir Ouahes, Maria Chiara Rioli, Karène Sanchez Summerer, Bertrand Taithe, and Chantal VerdeilTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors Introduction  Inger Marie Okkenhaug and Karène Sanchez-Summerer Part 1 Prologue 1 Missions, Charity and Humanitarian Action in the Levant (19th–20th Century)  Chantal Verdeil Part 2 Advocacy 2 Liberated Bodies and Saved Souls: Freed African Slave Girls and Missionaries in Egypt  Beth Baron 3 Physical Expressions of Winning Hearts and Minds: Body Politics of the American Missionaries in “Asiatic Turkey”  Nazan Maksudyan 4 Spiritual Reformation and Engagement with the World: Scandinavian Mission, Humanitarianism and Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, 1905–1914  Inger Marie Okkenhaug 5 ‘A Strange Survival’: The Rev. W.A. Wigram on the Assyrians before and after World War I  Heleen Murre-van den Berg Part 3 Best Practices 6 Missionary Hubris in Colonial Algeria? Founding and Governing Christian Arab Villages 1868–1930  Bertrand Taithe 7 Missionary Work, Secularization and Donor Dependency: Rockefeller-Near East Colleges Cooperation after World War I (1920–1939)  Philippe Bourmaud 8 “Machine Age Humanitarianism”: American Humanitarianism in Early 20th Century Syria and Lebanon  Idir Ouahes 9 Scottish Presbyterian Churches and Humanitarianism in the Interwar Middle East  Michael Marten Part 4 Epilogue: Impact of the 1948 Crisis 10 Confined by Conflict, Run by Relief: Arabs, Jews, and the Finnish Mission in Jerusalem, 1940–1950  Seija Jalagin 11 Catholic Humanitarian Assistance for Palestinian Refugees: The Franciscan Casa Nova of Jerusalem in the 1948 Storm  Maria Chiara Rioli Index

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