Middle Eastern history Books

Book SynopsisThe Ottoman Press (1908-1923) looks at Ottoman periodicals in the period after the Second Constitutional Revolution (1908) and the formation of the Turkish Republic (1923). It analyses the increased activity in the press following the revolution, legislation that was put in place to control the press, the financial aspects of running a publication, preventive censorship and the impact that the press could have on readers. There is also a chapter on the emergence and growth of the Ottoman press from 1831 until 1908, which helps readers to contextualize the post-revolution press.Trade Review[...] 'la valeur de cette étude ambitieuse qui relève le défi d’embrasser large l’histoire très riche de la presse ottomane. Le livre d’Erol Baykal constitue désormais une étude incontournable qui inspirera de nombreuses recherches à l’avenir. [...] Özgür Türesay, EPHE, PSL - Proclac, in Bulletin critique des Annales islamologiques 35 (2021), pp. 122-123.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments List of Figures Commonly Used Abbreviations On Transliteration and Calendars Introduction 1 The Emergence and Growth of the Ottoman Press, 1831–1908 2 The 1908 Press Boom 3 Legislating the Press 4 Censoring the Press 5 Financing the Press 6 Reading the Press Conclusion: Controlling the Press Appendix: Permit Applications and Publications Index Appendix: Ottoman Press Laws Appendix: Quantifying Censorship Appendix: Pricing Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAn Azanian Trio offers an account of early Arab involvement in and knowledge of East African history and culture. All three manuscripts originated in East Africa and hence reflect the influence of Swahili and other local languages. They cover two millennia of South Arabian and East African History from the early Himyaritic period to the beginning of the 20th century.Trade Review"An Azanian Trio begins to fill a gap in the translation and publication of written local sources for those who research East African history and it sheds light on the pre-Islamic past of the Swahili coast.[...] The editors and translators of An Azanian Trio have done something that archaeologists and historians of East Africa have long needed; not only have they provided new translations of historical sources, but they have also relaunched a forgotten field of study." - Anna Rita Coppola, in: Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa, 56:1 (2021), 147-14

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Book SynopsisThis volume examines how the history of the humanities might be written through the prism of scholarly personae, understood as time- and place-specific models of being a scholar. Focusing on the field of study known as Orientalism in the decades around 1900, this volume examines how Semitists, Sinologists, and Japanologists, among others, conceived of their scholarly tasks, what sort of demands these job descriptions made on the scholar in terms of habits, virtues, and skills, and how models of being an orientalist changed over time under influence of new research methods, cross-cultural encounters, and political transformations. Contributors are: Tim Barrett, Christiaan Engberts, Holger Gzella, Hans Martin Krämer, Arie L. Molendijk, Herman Paul, Pascale Rabault-Feuerhahn and Henning Trüper.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction: Scholarly Personae in the History of Orientalism, 1870-1930  Herman Paul  1 The Prussian Professor as a Paradigm: Trying to “Fit In” as a Semitist between 1870 and 1930  Holger Gzella  2 Multiple Personae: Friedrich Max Müller and the Persona of the Oriental Scholar  Arie L. Molendijk  3 Epistemic Vice: Transgression in the Arabian Travels of Julius Euting  Henning Trüper  4 German Indology Challenged: On the Dialectics of Armchair Philology, Fieldwork, and Indigenous Traditions in the Late Nineteenth Century  Pascale Rabault-Feuerhahn  5 Herbert Giles as Reviewer  T. H. Barrett  6 Orientalism and the Study of Lived Religions: The Japanese Contribution to European Models of Scholarship on Japan around 1900  Hans Martin Krämer  7 Orientalists at War: Personae and Partiality at the Outbreak of the First World War  Christiaan Engberts Index

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Book SynopsisIn English Explorers in the East (1738-1745). The Travels of Thomas Shaw, Charles Perry and Richard Pococke, Rachel Finnegan offers an account of the influential travel writings of three rival explorers, whose eastern travel books were printed within a decade of each other. Making use of historical records, Finnegan examines the personal and professional motives of the three authors for producing their eastern travels; their methods of researching, drafting, and publicising their works while still abroad; their relationships with each other, both while travelling and on their return to England; and the legacy of their combined works. She also provides a survey of the main features (both textual and visual) of the travel books themselves.Table of ContentsContents Preface Acknowledgements List of Figures 1 Historical Context of Shaw, Perry and Pococke 2 Literary Context of Shaw, Perry and Pococke 3 Biographies and Interrelationships 4 Development of the Three Travel Books 5 Itineraries 6 Shaw’s Travels 7 Perry’s View 8 Pococke’s Description 9 Conclusion Appendix Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisTheology and Society is the most comprehensive study of Islamic intellectual and religious history, focusing on Muslim theology. With its emphasis on the eighth and ninth centuries CE, it remains the most detailed prosopographical study of the early phase of the formation of Islam. Originally published in German between 1991 and 1995, Theology and Society is a monument of scholarship and a unique scholarly enterprise which has stood the test of the time as an unparalleled reference work. The volume consists of a separate Bibliography, a General Index, an Index of Names, an Index of Works and an Index of Other Sources.

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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

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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

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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

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Book SynopsisIn The Fatimids and the Sea (909-1171), David Bramoullé shows how in medieval times an Ismaili dynasty of Caliphs used the sea to develop and justify its claims of control over the Muslim world. Dans les Fatimides et la mer (909-1171), David Bramoullé montre comment à à l’époque médiévale une dynastie musulmane de rite ismaélien utilisa la mer pour se développer et justifier ses prétentions à contrôler le monde musulman.Trade Review“Das Werk schließt damit eine Lücke in der Historiographie der Fatimiden, vor allem im Bereich der Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte. Dem Autor ist es gelungen, die Zusammenhänge zwischen Herrschaft, religiöser Ideologie und wirtschaftlichen Verknüpfungen in meisterhafter Weise darzustellen. Erwähnenswert ist auch die Eleganz der französischen Sprache, die das Buch zu einem Lesevergnügen macht.“ Manfred Pittioni, University of Vienna in: Wiener Zeitschrift Für Die Kunde Des Morgenlandes, Volume 110 (2020). “In many respects, the book of David Bramoullé is a milestone in the field of medieval Islamic studies. To begin with, the study should be credited for the new insights it offers. It contributes to the broader historiographies of the Mediterranean and the Red Sea, but also strengthens the model that perceives Egypt as a hub between seas. Secondly, Bramoullé consistently reconnects the two periods of the Fatimid era, which are usually studied separately: there is a real continuity regarding Fatimid maritime institutions and systems, linking their Ifrīqiyan and Egyptian experiences. In studying Fatimid history, taking its full chronological as well as geographical measure, this book is a welcome contribution to a much-needed elimination of the persistent separation between Western and Eastern Islamic studies.” Aurélien Montel, Université Lyon 2 in: Der Islam, Volume 98, Issue 2 (2021).Table of ContentsTables des figures et tableaux Conventions Introduction Partie 1: De la Méditerranée à la mer Rouge : cadre géographique et chronologique de la navigation fatimide Introduction à la Partie 1 1 L’espace maritime fatimide : une terre et des mers  1 Un territoire aux potentialités maritimes évidentes  2 Les facteurs climatiques, leur incidence sur la navigation et l’organisation maritime fatimides 2 L’évolution du rapport de force entre la marine fatimide et ses adversaires  1 L’élaboration et l’apogée de la puissance navale fatimide (909-975)  2 La marine fatimide entre stabilisation et ralentissement (975-1099)  3 La marine fatimide face au défi des croisades (1099-1171) Partie 2: L’organisation navale fatimide Introduction à la Partie 2 3 Les Fatimides et les villes portuaires : des relations difficiles  1 Le contrôle des cités littorales : entre idéologie et pragmatisme  2 Les villes littorales fatimides : des espaces de contestation de la souveraineté fatimide 4 Des navires aux marins ; la flotte fatimide et ses acteurs  1 L’organisation de la flotte  2 Des hommes sur le pont : recrutement et composition des équipages fatimides 5 Arsenaux et chantiers de construction navale  1 Arsenal, chantier naval ou zone d’activité sous contrôle de l’État : une réalité difficile à cerner  2 Historique et localisation des arsenaux et des chantiers de construction navale fatimides  3 Administration des arsenaux fatimides 6 La mer, la flotte et les califes : les enjeux idéologiques de la puissance navale fatimide  1 La flotte et la mer mises en scène  2 La mer et la flotte objets de représentations et de discours Partie 3: Les Fatimides et le commerce maritime : un État entre omniprésence et dépendance Introduction à la Partie 3 7 De l’horizon proche à l’horizon lointain : la construction de l’espace économique maritime fatimide  1 La Méditerranée, premier horizon économique fatimide  2 Les nouveaux horizons : la mer Rouge et au-delà 8 L’État et le commerce maritime  1 Les espaces de la taxation sous contrôle de l’État et de ses représentants  2 De la terre à la mer : le contrôle du trafic maritime  3 En mer : l’intervention des Fatimides dans la navigation commerciale 9 Le commerce au service de l’État, du calife et des grands  1 L’approvisionnement en matériaux stratégiques : entre faux problème et vraie difficulté  2 Markab al-amīr, Markab al-sulṭān : la navigation commerciale aux mains des grands et du calife  3 Les Fatimides, la mer et les marchands : une dépendance réciproque ? Conclusion Bibliographie Index

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Book SynopsisMaking use of legal and historical sources, Viorel Panaite analyzes the status of tribute-payers from the north of the Danube with reference to Ottoman law of peace and war. He deals with the impact of Ottoman holy war and the way conquest in Southeast Europe took place; the role of temporary covenants, imperial diplomas and customary norms in outlining the rights and duties of the tributary princes; the power relations between the Ottoman Empire and the tributary-protected principalities of Wallachia, Moldavia and Transylvania. He also focuses on the legal and political methods applied to extend the pax ottomanica system in the area, rather than on the elements that set these territories apart from the rest of the Ottoman Empire.Table of ContentsContents Preface and Acknowledgments List of Facsimiles, Illustrations and Maps Transliteration and Pronunciation of Turkish and Romanian Abbreviations Part 1: Ottoman Law of War and Peace 1 Islamic Tradition and the Ottoman Law of War and Peace Part 2: The Danube as a Gazi River 2 The Ottoman Ideology of Holy War 3 Ottoman Holy War to the North of the Danube Part 3: Submission and Conquest 4 The Islamic Ottoman Law of Peace 5 Obeying Ottoman Sultans in Southeastern Europe: a Chronological Survey 6 From Allegiance to Conquest: Terminology, Meanings, Myths Part 4: Covenants and Customs 7 Ottoman Peace Agreements 8 Oaths as a Guarantee of Fidelity 9 Pacta Sunt Servanda and Tributary Status 10 Customary Practices Part 5: Tribute-Payers and Protected Peoples 11 Sultans and Voivodes 12 Voivodes as Tribute-Payers 13 Reʿayas and Protected Peoples 14 Tributary-Protected Principalities Conclusion Glossary of Ottoman Turkish Terms and Locutions on War, Peace and Tributaries Table of Correspondence Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisMigration and Islamic Ethics, Issues of Residence, Naturalization and Citizenship contains various cases of migration movements in the Muslim world from ethical and legal perspectives to argue that Muslim migration experiences can offer a new paradigm of how the religious and the moral can play a significant role in addressing forced migration and displacementTable of ContentsContents List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors  1 Introduction  Ray Jureidini and Said Fares Hassan  2 Islamic Ethics, Human Rights and Migration  Khaled Abou El Fadl  3 The Living Fiqh, or Practical Theology, of Muslim Humanitarianism  Abbas Barzegar  4 Jiwār: from a Right of Neighbourliness to a Right to Neighbourhood for Refugees  Tahir Zaman  5 “Seeking a Widow with Orphaned Children”: Understanding Sutra Marriage Amongst Syrian Refugee Women in Egypt  Dina Taha  6 The Islamic Principle of Kafala as Applied to Migrant Workers: Traditional Continuity and Reform  Ray Jureidini and Said Fares Hassan  7 Normativity of Migration Studies Ethics and Epistemic Community  Sari Hanafi  8 How do Muslim States Treat their “Outsiders”?: Is Islamic Practice of Naturalisation Synonymous with Jus Sanguinis?  Radhika Kanchana  9 The Obligation to Migrate and the Impulse to Narrate: Soviet Narratives of Forced Migration in the Nineteenth Century Caucasus  Rebecca Gould  10 Experiences of Uyghur Migration to Turkey and the United States: Issues of Religion, Law, Society, Residence, and Citizenship  Mettursun Beydulla  11 Arab Immigrants under Hindu Kings in Malabar: Ethical Pluralities of “Naturalization” in Islam  Abdul Jaleel Index

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

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Book SynopsisThe second volume in a new series, the Contemporary Archive of the Islamic World (CAIW), this title draws on the resources of World of Information, a Cambridge-based British publisher that since 1975 has published analyses of the politics and economics of all the Middle East countries. The United Arab Emirates is a young country. This title covers the first four decades or so of the country’s existence looking at the individual emirates, their rulers and their tribes. Rivalries occasionally became conflicts, but year by year differences have diminished and unity prevailed. In this title each annual overview gives a comprehensive picture.

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Book SynopsisThe Treaties of Carlowitz (1699) includes recent studies on the Lega Sacra War of 1683-1699 against the Ottoman Empire, the Peace treaties of Carlowitz (1699), and on the general impact of the conflict upon Modern Europe and the Balkans. With its contributions written by well-known international specialists in the field, the volume demonstrates that sometimes important conflicts tend to be forgotten with time, overshadowed by more spectacular wars, peace congresses or diplomatic alliances. The “Long War” of 1683-1699 is a case in point. By re-thinking and re-writing the history of the conflict and the subsequent peacemaking between a Christian alliance and the Ottoman state at the end of the 17th century, new perspectives, stretching into the present era, for the history of Europe, the Balkans and the Near East are brought into discussion. Contributors are: Tatjana Bazarova, Maurits van den Boogert, John Paul Ghobrial, Abdullah Güllüoğlu, Zoltan Györe, Colin Heywood, Lothar Höbelt, Erica Ianiro, Charles Ingrao, Dzheni Ivanova, Kirill Kochegarov, Dariusz Kołodziejzcyk, Hans Georg Majer, Ivan Parvev, Arno Strohmeier.Table of Contents Preface  About the Authors  Introduction Part 1: The War of 1683–1699 – Political Strategies and Balance of Power in Europe  1On the Road to Carlowitz: Visions of Ottoman Diplomacy in the Letters of Thomas Coke, 1691–1694  Jean-Paul A. Ghobrial  2‘This Great Work’: Lord Paget and the Processes of English Mediating Diplomacy in the Latter Stages of the Sacra Lega War, 1697–1698  Colin Heywood  3The Spoils of Peace: What the Dutch Got Out of Carlowitz  Maurits H. van den Boogert  4The War of 1683–1699 and the Beginning of the Eastern Question  Ivan Parvev Part 2: The Sacra Lega War Viewed by the Sublime Porte  5Ottoman Diplomacy in the First Years (1683–1685) of the Ottoman “Long War”  Abdullah Güllüoğlu  6Ottoman Subjects, Habsburg Allies. The Reaya of the Chiprovtsi Region (Northwestern Bulgaria) on the Front Line, 1688–1690  Dzheni Ivanova  7Ottoman Knowledge of the Imperial Commanders  Hans Georg Majer Part 3: Time for War, Time for Peace  8From Slankamen to Zenta: The Austrian War Effort in the East during the 1690s  Lothar Höbelt  9The Habsburgs and the Holy League: Religion or Realpolitik?  Charles Ingrao  10From the ‘Eternal Peace’ to the Treaty of Carlowitz: Relations between Russia, the Sublime Porte and the Crimean Khanate (1686–1699)  Kirill Kochegarov  11The Treaty of Carlowitz in Polish Memory – A Date Better Forgotten?  Dariusz Kołodziejczyk  12The Symbolic Making of the Peace of Carlowitz: The Border Crossing of Count Wolfgang IV of Oettingen-Wallerstein during His Mission as Imperial Grand Ambassador to the Sublime Porte (1699–1701)  Arno Strohmeyer  13The Treaty of Carlowitz and its Impact on Russian-Ottoman Relations, 1700–1710  Tatiana Bazarova Part 4: Early Modern Demographic and Economic Context  14War and Demography: The Case of Hungary 1521–1718  Zoltán Györe  15Venice after Carlowitz: Change and Challenge in Eighteenth-century Venetian Policy  Erica Ianiro  Concluding Remarks  Index

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Book SynopsisEighteen expert researchers have come together to provide original articles and new perspectives on transformation throughout Ottoman history, in order to honor the life’s work of Metin Kunt. Kunt’s work revolutionized our understanding of change in Ottoman political, social and cultural history in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. This new collection focuses on the contributions of key players in these fields and includes chapters on Ottoman artisans in a changing political context, Ottoman chief scribes and the rhetorics of political survival in the 17th century, and empiricism in the Ottoman Empire. Contributors are Antonis Anastasopoulos, Iris Agmon, Tülay Artan, Karl K. Barbir, Fatih Bayram, Suraiya Faroqhi, Cornell H. Fleischer, Pál Fodor, Mehmet Kalpaklı, Cemil Koçak, B. Harun Küçük, Aslı Niyazioğlu, Mehmet Öz, Kaya Şahin, Derin Terzioğlu, Ekin Tuşalp-Atiyas, Christine Woodhead, N. Zeynep Yelçe, Elizabeth A. Zachariadou.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Acronyms Notes on Contributors Metin Kunt: Life and Work  Selçuk Akşin Somel and Seyfi Kenan A Representative List of Metin Kunt’s Publications Introduction: The Issue of Transformation within the Ottoman Empire  Selçuk Akşin Somel and Seyfi Kenan part 1: Ottoman Historiography and Reflections 1 A Firman Issued by Mustafa the Son of Bayezid I Surnamed Düzme (1422)  Elizabeth A. Zachariadou 2 Imaginary Voyages, Imagined Ottomans: A Gentleman Impostor, the Köprülüs, and Seventeenth-Century French Oriental Romances  Tülay Artan 3 Practices of Remembrance and Sites of Violence in Seventeenth-Century Istanbul: The Beheading of Şeyh İsmâil Ma‌ʾşûkî (d.1539)  Aslı Niyazioğlu 4 Ottoman Artisans in a Changing Political Context: Debates in Historiography  Suraiya Faroqhi part 2: Ottomans – Culture and Careers 5 Türbedar of the Ottoman Sultans: Şevkî Çelebi’s Nostalgia for the Bursa of Bayezid Han and Emîr Sultan  Fatih Bayram 6 The Personal Anthology of an Ottoman Litterateur: Celâlzâde Sâlih (d.1565) and His Mecmua  Cornell H. Fleischer and Kaya Şahin 7 Transforming the Abode of War into the Abode of Islam: A Local Grandee in Ottoman Hungary, Osman Ağa, Çelebi and Bey  Pál Fodor 8 Making Recommendations: Azmîzâde and the Mahzar for Vücûdî Efendi, 1608  Christine Woodhead 9 A Poet’s Warning: Veysî’s Poem on the Breakdown of Ottoman Social and Political Life in the Seventeenth Century  Mehmet Kalpaklı 10 From the ‘Scribe of Satan’ to the ‘Master of Belâgât’: Ottoman Chief Scribes and the Rhetorics of Political Survival in the Seventeenth Century  Ekin Tuşalp-Atiyas 11 The Compass and the Astrolabe: Empiricism in the Ottoman Empire  B. Harun Küçük PART 3: Law, Religion and Political Thought 12 In Search of the Ancient Law or Kānûn-i Kadîm: Some Notes on Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Political Thought  Mehmet Öz 13 Between a ‘Brilliant Retreat’ and a ‘Tragic Defeat’: Ottoman Narratives of the 1529 and 1683 Sieges of Vienna  N. Zeynep Yelçe 14 Bidʾat, Custom and the Mutability of Legal Judgments: The Debate on the Congregational Performance of Supererogatory Prayers in the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Empire  Derin Terzioğlu 15 The Sicils of Karaferye (Veria) in the Eighteenth Century: A Case of Transformation?  Antonis Anastasopoulos 16 Ottoman Legal Change and the Şeriat Courts in the Long Nineteenth Century  Iris Agmon 17 Transformation through Constitution: Young Ottomans and the Kānûn-i Esâsî of 1876  Cemil Koçak In Lieu of a Conclusion 18 Repertories of Empire: How Did the Ottomans Last So Long in a Changing World?  Karl K. Barbir Glossary Index

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Book SynopsisLight upon Light: Essays in Islamic Thought and History in Honor of Gerhard Bowering brings together studies that explore the richness of Islamic intellectual life in the pre-modern period. Leading scholars around the world present nineteen studies that explore diverse areas of Islamic Studies, in honor of a renowned scholar and teacher: Professor Dr. Gerhard Bowering (Yale University). The volume includes contributions in four main areas: (1) Quran and Early Islam; (2) Sufism, Shiʿism, and Esotericism; (3) Philosophy; (4) Literature and Culture. These areas reflect the enormous breadth of Professor Bowering’s contributions to the field over a lifetime of scholarship, teaching, and mentoring. Contributors: Hussein Ali Abdulsater, Mushegh Asatryan, Shahzad Bashir, Jonathan Brockopp, Yousef Casewit, Jamal Elias, Janis Esots, Li Guo, Matthew Ingalls, Tariq Jaffer, Mareike Koertner, Joseph Lumbard, Matthew Melvin-Koushki, Mahan Mirza, Bilal Orfali, Gabriel Reynolds, Nada Saab, Amina Steinfels & Alexander Treiger.Trade Review“It is an impressive collection of essays that pays real tribute to a great scholar and teacher.” Sotiris S. Livas, Ionian University in: Journal of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 30 (2021).Table of ContentsPreface Publications by Gerhard Bowering Notes on Contributors PART 1 Quran and Early Islam Scholarship and Folklore? A Comparison of the Earliest Sources: ʿUrwa b. al-Zubayr and Wahb b. al-Munabbih (Mareike Koertner) The Rise of Islam in a Judeo-Christian Context (Jonathan Brockopp) Biblical Turns of Phrase in the Quran (Gabriel Said Reynolds) The Interpretation of the Covenant Verse in Classical Imami Theology (Hussein Ali Abdulsater) Kitāb intizāʿāt al-Qurʾān al-ʿaẓīm: A Compendium of Quranic Quotations Attributed to the Fatimid Secretary Abū l-Qāsim ʿAlī Ibn al-Ṣayrafī (d. 542/1147) (Bilal W. Orfali) PART 2 Sufism, Shi’ism, and Esotericism Risāla fī l-ṣifāt wa-ʿilm al-tawḥīd: A Sufī Treatise Attributed to Abū Saʿīd Aḥmad b. ʿĪsā al-Kharrāz (d. 286/899) (Nada Saab) Shiʿi Literature in the Late Ninth Century: Isḥāq al-Aḥmar al-Nakhaʿī (d. 286/899) and His Writings (Mushegh Asatryan) The Treatise on the Ascension (al-Risāla al-miʿrājiyya): Cosmology and Time in the Writings of Abū l-Ḥasan al-Shushtarī (d. 668/1269) (Yousef Casewit) The Image of Qalandar in the Dīvān-i Shams (Janis Esots) Pseudo-Shaykh Bahāʾī on the Supreme Name, a Safavid-Qajar Lettrist Classic (Matthew Melvin-Koushki) Sufism and Islamic Identity in Jalaluddin Rumi’s Anatolia (Jamal J. Elias) India as a Sufi Spacetime in the Work of Jamālī of Delhi (Shahzad Bashir) PART 3 Philosophy Knowledge on Display: Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī's Universal Compendium (Amina M. Steinfels) Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s Taxonomy of Extraordinary Acts (Tariq Jaffer) Believing Is Seeing: The Universe in the Eyes of al-Bīrūnī and Ibn Sīnā (Mahan Mirza) Al-Ghazālī’s Philosophical Soteriology (Alexander Treiger) Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī and the Art of Knowing (Joseph Lumbard) PART 4 Literature and Culture Religious Satire in the Maqāmāt of al-Hamadhānī (Matthew Ingalls) Doctrinal Anxiety and Social Reality regarding Music and Dance in Mamluk Cairo: Ibn al-Ḥājj on al-Samāʿ, To Sing or Not: The Case against Music (Li Guo) Index of Arabic and Persian Term Index of Proper Names

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Book SynopsisScientific Instruments between East and West is a collection of essays on aspects of the transmission of knowledge about scientific instruments and the trade in such instruments between the Eastern and Western worlds, particularly from Europe to the Ottoman Empire. The contributors, from a variety of countries, draw on original Arabic and Ottoman Turkish manuscripts and other archival sources and publications dating from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries not previously studied for their relevance to the history of scientific instruments. This little-studied topic in the history of science was the subject of the 35th Scientific Instrument Symposium held in Istanbul in September 2016, where the original versions of these essays were delivered. Contributors are Mahdi Abdeljaouad, Pierre Ageron, Hamid Bohloul, Patrice Bret, Gaye Danışan, Feza Günergun, Meltem Kocaman, Richard L. Kremer, Janet Laidla, Panagiotis Lazos, David Pantalony, Atilla Polat, Bernd Scholze, Konstantinos Skordoulis, Seyyed Hadi Tabatabaei, Anthony Turner, Hasan Umut, and George Vlahakis. See inside the book ​​​​​​​here.​Trade Review"[...] by presenting lesser known case studies of knowledge transfer and of interdependencies between West and East, the volume offers worthwhile reading for those interested in the history of early modern and modern times, especially of the Ottoman empire." Petra G. Schmidl (University of Erlangen–Nuremberg), Journal for the History of Astronomy 51(4):497-499.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures and Tables Contributors 1 A Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Compendium of Astronomical Instruments  Seydi Ali’s Mirʾat-ı Kâinat  Gaye Danışan 2 Eastern and Western Instruments in Osman Efendi’s Hadiyyat al-Muhtadī (The Gift of the Convert), 1779  Mahdi Abdeljaouad and Pierre Ageron 3 Treatises on Pergar-ı Nisbe (the Sector) in Manuscript Collections in Turkey  Atilla Polat 4 Measuring Altitudes with an Alla Franca Instrument  The Ottoman Engineer Feyzi’s Treatise on the Portable Sextant  Feza Günergun, Gaye Danışan and Atilla Polat 5 How Did the Turketum (or Torquetum) Get Its Name?  Richard L. Kremer 6 A Mingling of Traditions  Aspects of Dialling in Islam  Anthony Turner 7 Kāshānī’s Equatorium  Employing Different Plates for Determining Planetary Longitudes  Hamid Bohloul 8 The Introduction of the Telescope into Iran before the Nineteenth Century  Seyyed Hadi Tabatabaei 9 Hugo Masing’s Golitsyn-Vilip Seismographs  From Tartu to Five Continents  Janet Laidla 10 Instruments and Laboratories in the Schools of the Greek Community of Istanbul, 1850–1960  Panagiotis Lazos, George Vlahakis and Constantine Skordoulis 11 From the Ottoman Empire to Canada  George Petrovic’s Metrological Instruments in the Canada Science and Technology Museum  Hasan Umut and David Pantalony 12 Instruments of Knowledge and Power in a Colonial Context  Scientific Instruments during the French Occupation of Egypt, 1798–1801  Patrice Bret 13 The Magic Lantern as an Ambassador between Cultures and Religions  Imrich Emanuel Roth and the First Dissolving View Shows in the Ottoman Empire, 1845–1846  Bernd Scholze 14 Scientific Instrument Retailers in Istanbul in the Nineteenth Century, and Verdoux’s Optical Shop  Meltem Kocaman Index

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Book SynopsisIn Ibn Taymiyya on Reason and Revelation, Carl Sharif El-Tobgui offers a comprehensive analysis of Ibn Taymiyya’s ten-volume magnum opus, Darʾ taʿāruḍ al-ʿaql wa-l-naql (Refutation of the conflict of reason and revelation), elucidating its author’s foundational reconstitution of rationality through the multifaceted ontological, epistemological, and linguistic reforms he carries out.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Mise en Scène Introduction  1 Contours of a Conflict  2 Why the Darʾ taʿāruḍ?  3 About This Work Part 1 Reason vs. Revelation? 1 Reason and Revelation in Islam before Ibn Taymiyya  1 Reason and Revelation, Reason in Revelation  2 The Early Emergence of Rationalist and Textualist Tendencies: The Case of the Law  3 Early Theological Reflection and Contention  4 The Muʿtazila  5 Non-speculative Theology and the Legacy of Aḥmad b. Ḥanbal  6 The Miḥna and Its Aftermath  7 Nascent Ashʿarī Thought and the Early Kalām  8 Philosophy  9 The New Kalām and Subsequent Developments  10 Kalām and Falsafa in the Wake of al-Ghazālī 2 Ibn Taymiyya: Life, Times, and Intellectual Profile  1 The Life and Times of Ibn Taymiyya (661–728/1263–1328)  2 Intellectual Profile  3 Character and Contemporary Reception  4 Ibn Taymiyya’s Works  5 The Historiography of the Darʾ taʿāruḍ: Ibn Taymiyya’s Assessment of the Intellectual Legacy He Inherited  6 The Darʾ taʿāruḍ in Context: Ibn Taymiyya’s View of Previous Attempts to Solve the Conundrum of Reason and Revelation 3 On the Incoherence of the Universal Rule and the Theoretical Impossibility of a Contradiction between Reason and Revelation  1 Ibn Taymiyya on the Universal Rule and the Variety of Responses It Has Elicited  2 The Result of Figurative Interpretation (taʾwīl)  3 Specious Rationality and Its Discontents: Reason in a Cul-de-Sac  4 Ibn Taymiyya’s Project: Refuting the Universal Rule  5 On Reason Grounding Our Knowledge of Revelation  6 Knowledge vs. Conjecture: Conclusiveness Is What Counts  7 Not “Scriptural vs. Rational” but “Scripturally Validated vs. Innovated”  8 Further Arguments Regarding the Rational Contradictoriness of the Universal Rule  9 On the Universal Rule’s Incompatibility with the Status and Authority of Scripture Part 2 Ibn Taymiyya’s Reform of Language, Ontology, and Epistemology 4 Ṣaḥīḥ al-Manqūl, or What Is Revelation  1 Taʾwīl and the Meaning of Qurʾān 3:7  2 The Centrality of Context and Ibn Taymiyya’s “Contextual Taʾwīl”  3 The Salaf and the Authority of Their Linguistic Convention (ʿurf)  4 Analysis of Terms to Detect and Correct for Semantic Shift  5 A Case Study: The Terms wāḥid, tawḥīd, and tarkīb 5 Ṣarīḥ al-Maʿqūl, or What Is Reason?  1 What Exists? Ibn Taymiyya’s Account of Reality  2 How Do We Know What Exists? The Primary Sources of Knowledge  3 The Realm of the Mind: What Exists fī al-adhhān?  4 The Structure of Reason 6 Reason Reconstituted: The Divine Attributes and the Question of Contradiction between Reason and Revelation  1 Rational Inference and the Question of Qiyās al-ghāʾib ʿalā al-shāhid  2 Ibn Taymiyya’s Reforms Applied: The Question of the Divine Attributes  3 Concluding Reflections Appendix A: Summary Outline of the Darʾ taʿāruḍ Appendix B: Detailed Outline of the Darʾ taʿāruḍ Glossary of Arabic Terms Glossary of Proper Names Bibliography Index of Arabic Passages Index of Ḥadīth Index of People and Places Index of Qurʾānic Verses Index of Subjects

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Book SynopsisThis volume contains the edition and translation of the chapter of al-Maqrīzī’s al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar dealing with Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Franks, and Goths. This chapter is, for the most part, an almost exact reproduction of Ibn Ḫaldūn’s Kitāb al-ʿIbar, from which al-Maqrīzī derived material from many other sources, including prominent Christian sources such as Kitāb Hurūšiyūš, Ibn al-ʿAmīd’s History, and works by Muslim historians like Ibn al-Aṯīr’s Kāmil. Therefore, this chapter of al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar is a continuation of the previous Arabic historiographical tradition, in which European history is integrated into world history through the combination of Christian and Islamic sources.

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

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Book SynopsisThe articles compiled in Ottoman War & Peace. Studies in Honor of Virginia H. Aksan, honor the prolific career of a foremost scholar of the Ottoman Empire, and engage in redefining the boundaries of Ottoman historiography. Blending micro and macro approaches, the volume covers topics from the sixteenth to twentieth centuries related to the Ottoman military and warfare, biography and intellectual history, and inter-imperial and cross-cultural relations. Through these themes, this volume seeks to bring out and examine the institutional and socio-political complexity of the Ottoman Empire and its peoples. Contributors are Eleazar Birnbaum, Maurits van den Boogert, Palmira Brummett, Frank Castiglione, Linda Darling, Caroline Finkel, Molly Greene, Jane Hathaway, Colin Heywood, Douglas Howard, Christine Isom-Verhaaren, Dina Rizk Khoury, Ethan L. Menchinger, Victor Ostapchuk, Leslie Peirce, James A. Reilly, Will Smiley, Mark Stein, Kahraman Şakul, Veysel Şimşek, Feryal Tansuğ, Baki Tezcan, Fatih Yeşil, Aysel Yıldız.Table of Contents Acknowledgments  List of Illustrations  Notes on Contributors  Publications by Virginia H. Aksan  Introduction  Frank Castiglione, Ethan L. Menchinger and Veysel Şimşek Part 1: Ottoman Military and Society 1 Crime among the Janissaries in the Ottoman Golden Age  Linda T. Darling 2 The Trouble with Timārs: An Excursion into a Seventeenth-Century Documentary Landscape  Victor Ostapchuk 3 Ottoman Observers of Ottoman War in the 17th Century  Mark Stein 4 The Azadlu Gunpowder Works: Catalyst for the Military Industry Complexes of Istanbul  Kahraman Şakul 5 Drill and Discipline as a Civilizing Process: The Genesis of the Modern Soldier in the Ottoman Empire, 1789–1826  Fatih Yeşil 6 Armatole Families in the 18th Century Balkans  Molly Greene 7 Under Fire and Lice: Experiences of an Ottoman Soldier in the First World War and the Turkish War of Independence (1919–1922)  Veysel Şimşek 8 Shayzar, an Ottoman Fortress-Settlement in Syria  James A. Reilly Part 2: Ideas, Political Thought, and the Circulation of Knowledge 9 A Cure for the Plague, and Other Prescriptions  Eleazar Birnbaum 10 A Phenomenology of Empire: Ayn Ali on the Ottoman Provinces  Douglas A. Howard 11 Visualizing Ottoman Space: Choiseul-Gouffier and the Passage through Anatolia, 1776  Palmira Brummett 12 On the Identity of a Reformist Intellectual: the Koca Sekbanbaşı Debate Revisited  Ethan L. Menchinger and Aysel Yıldız Part 3: Biography 13 The Law School of Mehmed II in the Last Quarter of the Sixteenth Century: A Glass Ceiling of the less connected Ottoman Ulema  Baki Tezcan 14 Writing Biography with Limited Sources and Fewer Models: The Case of Hurrem Sultan  Leslie Peirce 15 Tracing the Life of Hüsam Bey: Career Paths in the Sixteenth-century Ottoman Navy  Christine Isom-Verhaaren 16 Eunuchs and the State in the Mamlūk Sultanate and the Ottoman Empire: A Comparison  Jane Hathaway 17 “The clever Engineer Koehler”: The Clandestine Activities of George Frederick Koehler (1758–1800) in the Ottoman lands, 1791–93  Caroline Finkel Part 4: Ottoman Identity and Inter-confessional Relations 18 An Ottoman “Exemption Letter (Mu‘āf-nāme)” Dated 1015/1606 for the Karaite Descendants of Fātima Hātūn, kira of Hafsa Sultan, the Mother of Süleymān the Magnificent: a Document from the National Museum of Lithuania  Colin Heywood 19 Ottoman Brokers in the 18th-Century Levant Trade  Maurits H. van den Boogert 20 The Battle of Ali Hoca Burnu: Framed Privateers, Questionable Loyalties, and a Sultanic Prize Court  Will Smiley 21 Revisiting the Escalation of Intercommunal Violence in İzmir (1797): “Anti-Greek,” or a More Complex Dynamic?  Feryal Tansuğ 22 Nationality and Sect in Ottoman and post-Ottoman Iraq  Dina Rizk Khoury Index

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Book SynopsisResearch that focuses on holograph, autograph and authorial manuscripts in Arabic handwritten script has been casual, although these manuscripts raise important and varied questions. In this volume nine contributions and case studies are gathered that address theoretical issues and convey different, disruptive perspectives. A particularly important subject of this book is the identification of an author’s handwriting.Trade Review“This is an important volume and a giant step forward in the research on Arabic manuscripts.” Jan Just Witkam, Leiden University Institute of Area Studies (lias), Leiden in: Journal of Islamic Manuscripts, Volume 12, Issue 2 (April 2022).Table of ContentsPreface List of Authors' Handwritings Appearing on the Cover Image List of Figures List of Diagrams and Tables List of Abbreviations Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction 2 Comment reconnaître un autographe parmi les papyrus littéraires grecs? L’ exemple du P. Oxy. 74.4970  Marie-Hélène Marganne 3 Arabic Holographs: Characteristics and Terminology  Adam Gacek 4 “Bi-khaṭṭ muʾallifihi” … Vraiment?! L’ apport de l’ analyse judiciaire d’ écritures à l’ étude des manuscrits arabes  Élise Franssen 5 Maqriziana XV: The Characteristics of al-Maqrīzī’s Handwriting  Frédéric Bauden 6 The Art of Copying: Mamlūk Manuscript Culture in Theory and Practice  Elias Muhanna 7 The Holograph Notebooks of Akmal al-Dīn Muḥammad b. Mufliḥ (d. 1011/1603)  Kristina Richardson 8 Al-ʿAynī’s Working Method for His Chronicles: Analysis of His Autographical Manuscripts  Nobutaka Nakamachi 9 Textual Criticism on of the Manuscripts of Ibn Khaldūn’s Autobiographical Manuscripts  Retsu Hashizume 10 Les safīnas yéménites  Julien Dufour and Anne Regourd List of Quoted Manuscripts Index of Names Index of Places Index of Technical Terms

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Book SynopsisPatristic Literature in Arabic Translations explores the Arabic translations of the Greek and Syriac Church Fathers, focusing on those produced in the Palestinian monasteries and at Sinai in the 8th–10th centuries and in Antioch during Byzantine rule (969–1084). These Arabic translations preserve patristic texts lost in the original languages. They offer crucial information about the diffusion and influence of patristic heritage among Middle Eastern Christians from the 8th century to the present. A systematic examination of Arabic patristic translations sheds light on the development of Muslim and Jewish theological thought. Contributors are Aaron Michael Butts, Joe Glynias, Habib Ibrahim, Jonas Karlsson, Sergey Kim, Joshua Mugler, Tamara Pataridze, Alexandre Roberts, Barbara Roggema, Alexander Treiger.Table of ContentsPreface Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction  Alexander Treiger and Barbara Roggema 1 The Integral Arabic Translation of Pseudo-Athanasius of Alexandria’s Quaestiones ad Antiochum Ducem  Barbara Roggema 2 Patristique et hagiographie palestino-sinaïtique des monastères melkites (IXe-Xe siècles)  Tamara Pataridze 3 Diversity in the Christian Arabic Reception of Jacob of Serugh (d. 521)  Aaron Michael Butts 4 The Arabic Lives of John of Daylam  Jonas Karlsson 5 Some Notes on Antonios and His Arabic Translations of John of Damascus  Habib Ibrahim 6 Ibrāhīm ibn Yūḥannā and the Translation Projects of Byzantine Antioch  Joshua Mugler 7 A Re-translation of Basil’s Hexaemeral Homilies by ʿAbdallāh ibn al-Faḍl of Antioch  Alexandre Roberts 8 Homiletic Translation in Byzantine Antioch: The Arabic Translation of a Marian Homily of Patriarch Germanos I of Constantinople by Yānī ibn al-Duks, Deacon of Antioch  Joe Glynias 9 L’ homélie arabe In Nativitatem Domini (CPG 4290) attribuée à Sévérien de Gabala : Édition, traduction française  Sergey Kim 10 The Noetic Paradise (al-Firdaws al-ʿaqlī): Chapter XXIV  Alexander Treiger A Bibliographical Guide to Arabic Patristic Translations and Related Texts Index of Patristic Texts Index of Manuscripts Index of Names, Subjects, and Terms

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Book SynopsisThis book offers students and scholars an introduction to and insight into the wealth of historiographies produced in various Muslim milieus. Four articles deal with the classical period: archaeology and history in early Islamic Amman; an analysis of sources dealing with Muwaḥḥid North Africa; al-Maqrizī’s prosopographical production; the rise of early Ottoman historiography. Three examine sacred history as historiography: in 10th century Fatimid Egypt; in the 16th century Indian Chishtī Sufi milieu; and in the Sino-Muslim Confucian tradition in Qing China. The final two articles provide fresh approaches to historiography by respectively looking into the sijils of Ottoman Cairo as historical sources and by highlighting the regional approach to the writing of the history of the Indian Ocean. Contributors: Frédéric Bauden, Heather J. Empey, Derryl MacLean, Sami G. Massoud, Murat Cem Mengüç, Reem Meshal, Hyondo Park, Patricia Risso, Shafique N. Virani and Michael Wood.Trade Review“Aposiopesis, Anagnorisis as the transference of recognition from character to reader and spectator, the whole array of articles provide a scholastic reader with plenty of information for further research on Language, Poetry and Prose.” Stavros Nikolaidis in:Journal of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 30 (2021).Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures and Tables Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction  Sami G. Massoud Part 1: Classical Historiography 1 Continuity and Change in Early Islamic Amman  Michael Wood 2 Mashriqī Historians on the Muwaḥḥid Persecution of the Jews and Christians: New Sources for an Old Debate  Heather J. Empey 3 Al-Maqrīzī and His al-Tārīkh al-kabīr al-muqaffā li-Miṣr. Part 1: an Inquiry into the History of the Work  Frédéric Bauden 4 Bringing the Past Together: Ahmedi’s Narrative of Ottoman History and Two Later Texts  Murat Cem Mengüç Part 2: Sacred History 5 Hierohistory in Qāḍī l-Nuʿmān’s Foundation of Symbolic Interpretation (Asās al-Ta‌ʾwīl): the Birth of Jesus  Shafique N. Virani 6 Shaping a Millennial Historiography in Persianate South Asia: the Sīrat of Bandagī Miyān Shāh ʿAbd al-Raḥmān  Derryl N. MacLean 7 From a Persian Barbarian to a Superior Sage to Chinese Sages: the Image of the Prophet in Ma Zhu’s Shengzan  Hyondo Park Part 3: Perspectives 8 The Documented Life: the Emergence of a Civil Law for Proto-Citizens in Ottoman Cairo  Reem Meshal 9 The Geography of Historiography: West Asia as a Sub-Region of the Indian Ocean  Patricia Risso Index

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Book SynopsisIn Höfische Musikkultur im klassischen Islam wirft Yasemin Gökpinar einen frischen Blick auf die Sängersklavinnen und ihr Liedrepertoire inmitten der Ambiguitäten des Hoflebens von den Abbasiden bis zu den Mamluken. In the present volume Yasemin Gökpinar offers new perspectives on singing slave girls and their song repertoires, in the midst of the ambiguities of court life, from the Abbasids to the Mamluks.Table of ContentsVorwort Melodien der arabischen Kalligraphie Abkürzungen 1 Einleitung 2 Autor und Werk  2.1 Ibn Faḍlallāh al-ʿUmarī und sein Umfeld  2.2 Werke  2.3 Masālik al-abṣār fī mamālik al-amṣār 3 Form und Genre  3.1 Das Liederbuch als Sammlung von Musikerbiographien  3.2 Betrachtungen zum Liederbuch als historische Quelle 4 Musikerbiographien im 10. Band der Masālik al-abṣār fī mamālik al-amṣār  4.1 Exemplarische Portraits der Musiker und Musikerinnen  4.2 Textanalyse Fazit Anhang: Übersicht: Dichter, Lieder, Metren Literaturverzeichnis Personenindex Sachindex

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Book SynopsisCities of Medieval Iran brings together studies in urban geography, archaeology, and history of medieval Iranian cities, spanning the Islamic period until ca. 1500, but also the pre-Islamic situation. The cities and their inhabitants take centre stage, they are not just the places where something else happened. Urban actors are given priority over external factors. The contributions take a long-term perspective and thus take the interaction between urban centres and their hinterland into account. Many contributions come from history or archaeology, but new disciplines are also methodologically integrated into the study of medieval cities, such as the arts of the book, lexicography, geomorphology, and digital instruments. Contributors include Denise Aigle, Mehrdad Amanat, Jean Aubin, Richard W. Bulliet, Jamsheed K. Choksy, David Durand-Guédy, Etienne de la Vaissière, Majid Montazer Mahdi, Roy P. Mottahedeh, Jürgen Paul, Rocco Rante, Sarah Savant, Ali Shojai Esfahani, Donald Whitcomb and Daniel Zakrzewski.Table of ContentsPreface  David Durand-Guédy, Roy P. Mottahedeh and Jürgen Paul Cities in Medieval Iran: a Review of Recent Publications  Jürgen Paul Jean Aubin’s Article “Elements for the Study of Urban Agglomerations in Medieval Iran” in Context  Translation and Introduction by Jürgen Paul Iranian Cities: Settlements and Water Management from Antiquity to the Islamic Period  Rocco Rante “From Shahristān to Medina” Revisited  Donald Whitcomb Why Nishapur?  Richard W. Bulliet Inherited Landscapes in Muslim Bactra  Etienne de la Vaissière Among Saints and Poets: The Spiritual Topography of Medieval Shiraz  Denise Aigle The Fortified Landscape of Isfahan  Ali Shojaee Esfahani Yazd: a “Good and Noble City” and an “Abode of Worship”  Jamsheed K. Choksy Isfahan during the Turko-Mongol Period (11th-15th Centuries)  David Durand-Guédy Balkh, from the Seljuqs to the Mongol Invasion  Jürgen Paul Local Elites and Dynastic Succession: Tabriz prior to, under and following Mongol Rule (Sixth/Twelfth to Ninth/Fifteenth Centuries)  Daniel Zakrzewski Medieval Kashan: Crossroads of Commerce and Culture  Mehrdad Amanat and Roy P. Mottahedeh The History of Iranian Cities through their Books: What Ms. Köprülü 01589 Tells Us about 8th/14th Century Shiraz  Sarah Bowen Savant and Majid Montazer Mahdi Medieval Lexicography on Arabic and Persian Terms for City and Countryside  Roy P. Mottahedeh Index of Persons and Groups Index of Places

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Book SynopsisRacontant l’histoire d’une communauté d’éboueurs installée sur les flancs du Muqattam au Caire, ce livre raconte comment cet espace urbain marginal est devenu le cœur vibrant d’une nouvelle tendance charismatique au sein de l’Eglise copte. Telling the history of a community of garbage collectors living on the slopes of the Muqattam mountain in Cairo, the book recounts how this marginal urban space became the vibrant heart of a new charismatic trend within the Coptic church.Table of ContentsRemerciements Table des illustrations Transcriptions et termes arabes et techniques Introduction  1 Variations autour d’un territoire  2 Une ethnohistoire des épreuves sociales  3 Une hétérotopie au Caire  4 Sources et méthode  5 Le déroulé du livre 1 Brève histoire des zabbālīn  1 Situation dans la ville du Caire  2 Origines des zabbālīn  3 Économie du métier de zabbāl et organisation sociale de la communauté  4 Évolutions de la communauté des chiffonniers  5 Conclusion 2 Entre développement et clientélisme compassionnel  1 Le service social chez les coptes  2 Sœur Emmanuelle pour l’amour des chiffonniers  3 La vie associative au Muqaṭṭam, entre développement international et charité communautaire  4 Conflits de territorialisation et zones d’influence  5 Conclusion Intermède: Introduction du personnage principal de cette histoire, le père Samʿān  1 Une vocation précoce  2 Appelé au Muqaṭṭam  3 A la conquête des âmes 3 Les pouvoirs au quartier : le prêtre, le courtier et le député  1 Une autorité au croisement de plusieurs grammaires sociales  2 Les hommes de religion et la politique  3 Solidarités « traditionnelles »  4 Abūnā Samʿān en politique  5 Le bouleversement révolutionnaire  6 Conclusion 4 L’ancrage dans la tradition, le miracle du Muqaṭṭam et sa réinvention  1 Le récit du miracle  2 Histoire d’une légende copte à travers les siècles  3 La réinvention de la tradition  4 Polémiques contemporaines autour du miracle  5 Conclusion 5 La territorialisation cléricale ou la fondation d’une paroisse  1 La constitution d’une paroisse, entre institutionnalisation et charisme  2 Apprendre à être copte : ethnographie des écoles du dimanche  3 La création d’une paroisse  4 Les khuddām  5 Des prêtres engagés dans une vie de repentance  6 Un lieu pour les coptes  7 Conclusion : la paroisse comme dispositif de pouvoir 6 Le Muqaṭṭam comme dispositif charismatique  1 Un dispositif charismatique  2 Essai de généalogie de la mouvance charismatique  3 Un dispositif de conversion  4 Prophéties égyptiennes et christianisme transnational  5 Conclusion Conclusion Bibliographie Index

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

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Book SynopsisThe third in a new series, the Contemporary Archive of the Islamic World (CAIW), this title draws on the resources of Cambridge-based World of Information, which since 1975 has followed the politics and economics of the region. Kuwait’s documented history begins in the mid-19th Century. Its location established it as an important entrepôt at the head of the Arabian Gulf. Notionally under Ottoman rule, it became a de facto protectorate of Great Britain. The discovery of oil changed Kuwait beyond recognition. It gained full independence in 1971 and was long considered the most developed state in the Gulf. Coveted by Iraq, it was invaded in 1990. It also played a part in the2003 invasion of Iraq.

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Book SynopsisPhilosophical Theology in Islam studies the later history of the Ashʿarī school of theology through in-depth probings of its thought, sources, scholarly networks and contexts. Starting with a review of al-Ghazālī’s role in the emergence of post-Avicennan philosophical theology, the book offers a series of case studies on hitherto unstudied texts by the towering thinker Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī as well as specific philosophical and theological topics treated in his works. Studies furthermore shed light on the transmission and reception of later Ashʿarī doctrines in periods and regions that have so far received little scholarly attention. This book is the first exploration of the later Ashʿarī tradition across the medieval and early-modern period through a trans-regional perspective. Contributors: Peter Adamson, Asad Q. Ahmed, Fedor Benevich, Xavier Casassas Canals, Jon Hoover, Bilal Ibrahim, Andreas Lammer, Reza Pourjavady, Harith Ramli, Ulrich Rudolph, Meryem Sebti, Delfina Serrano-Ruano, Ayman Shihadeh, Aaron Spevack, and Jan Thiele.Trade Review“Philosophical Theology in Islam, edited by Ayman Shihadeh and Jan Thiele, is a thirteen-chapter work of robust scholarship into postclassical Ashʿarī theology that boasts papers covering the four corners of the Muslim world. […]Clearly, this volume will be a key resource for those interested in the complex theological legacy bestowed by al-Rāzī to later generations of thinkers and developments in post-classical Ashʿarī kalām right across the Muslim world.” Kayhan Ali Özaykal, in Ilahiyat Studies A Journal on Islamic and Religious Studies (2021)Table of ContentsContributors Introduction  Ayman Shihadeh and Jan Thiele Post-Ghazālian Theology What were the Lessons to be Learned from al-Ghazālī?  Ulrich Rudolph Al-Rāzī’s Earliest Kalām Work Eastern Ashʿarism in the Twelfth Century  Ayman Shihadeh Le commentaire à la sūrate al-Aʿlā attribué à Avicenne Une épître de Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī  Meryem Sebti Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī’s Platonist Account of the Essence of Time  Peter Adamson and Andreas Lammer The Necessary Existent (wājib al-wujūd) From Avicenna to Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī  Fedor Benevich Causing an Essence Notes on the Concept of Jaʿl al-Māhiyya, from Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī to Mullā Ṣadrā  Bilal Ibrahim Early Mamlūk Ashʿarism against Ibn Taymiyya on the Nonliteral Reinterpretation (ta‌ʾwīl) of God’s Attributes  Jon Hoover Continuing Conversations Late Sunni Kalām-Theology’s Ongoing Engagement with Philosophy  Aaron Spevack Putting Criticisms against al-Ghazālī in Perspective New Materials on the Interface between Law, Rational Theology and Mysticism in Almoravid and Almohad al-Andalus (Ibn Rushd al-Jadd and al-Qurṭubī)  Xavier Casassas Canals and Delfina Serrano-Ruano Ashʿarism in the Ḥafṣid Era  Jan Thiele The Legacy of ʿAḍud al-Dīn al-Ījī His Works and His Students  Reza Pourjavady Ashʿarism through an Akbarī Lens The Two “Taḥqīqs” in the Curriculum Vitae of Ibrāhīm al-Kūrānī (d. 1019/1690)  Harith Ramli The Mawāqif of ʿAḍud al-Dīn al-Ījī in India  Asad Q. Ahmed Index

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Book SynopsisIslam at 250: Studies in Memory of G.H.A. Juynboll is a collection of original articles on the state of Islamic sciences and Arabic culture in the early phases of their crystallization. It covers a wide range of intellectual activity in the first three centuries of Islam, such as the study of ḥadīth, the Qurʾān, Arabic language and literature, and history. Individually and taken together, the articles provide important new insights and make an important contribution to scholarship on early Islam. The authors, whose work reflects an affinity with Juynboll's research interests, are all experts in their fields. Pointing to the importance of interdisciplinary approaches and signalling lacunae, their contributions show how scholarship has advanced since Juynboll's days. Contributors: Camilla Adang, Monique Bernards, Léon Buskens, Ahmed El Shamsy, Maribel Fierro, Aisha Geissinger, Geert Jan van Gelder, Claude Gilliot, Robert Gleave, Asma Hilali, Michael Lecker, Scott Lucas, Christopher Melchert, Pavel Pavlovitch, Petra M. Sijpesteijn, Roberto Tottoli, and Peter Webb.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Notes on Transliteration, Names and Dates Islamic Studies as a Legacy: Remembering Gautier Juynboll  Léon Buskens Bibliography of G.H.A. Juynboll Introduction  Petra M. Sijpesteijn and Camilla Adang Part 1 Scholary Traditions and Networks 1 Ibn Abī Isḥāq (d. ca. 125/743) and His Scholarly Network  Monique Bernards 2 The Maghreb and Al-Andalus at 250 H: Rulers, Scholars and Their Works  Maribel Fierro 3 Muslim Tradition: Theory vs Usage. The Definition (ḥadd) and the Usage (istiʿmāl) in Sunnī Hadith Science in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries CE  Asma Hilali 4 The Theory and Practice of Hadith Criticism in the Mid-ninth Century  Christopher Melchert 5 Juynboll, al-Zuhrī, and al-Kitāb: About the Historicity of Transmission below the Common Link Level  Pavel Pavlovitch Part 2 Creating the Canon 6 Muck and Brass: The Context for Analysing Early Imāmī Legal Doctrine  Robert Gleave 7 When Did Ibn Isḥāq Compose His maghāzī?  Michael Lecker 8 Ibn Ḥanbal’s Reconstruction of the Ṣaḥīfa of ʿAmr b. Shuʿayb: A Preliminary Assessment  Scott Lucas Part 3 Contexts of Hadith Creation and Transmission 9 The Curious Case of Early Muslim Hair Dyeing  Ahmed El Shamsy 10 “Will you not Teach ruqyat al-namla to This (Woman) …?”: Notes on a Hadith’s Historical Uncertainties and Its Role in Translations of Muḥammad  Aisha Geissinger 11 Cry me a Jāhiliyya: Muslim Reconstructions of Pre-Islamic Arabian Culture—A Case Study  Peter Webb Part 4 Terminology and Definitions 12 Hadith as Adab: Ibn Qutayba’s Chapter on Hadith in His ʿUyūn al-Akhbār  Geert Jan van Gelder 13 Étymologie et monoprophétisme: Réflexions sur les ḥanīfs du Coran entre mythe et histoire  Claude Gilliot 14 Gautier H.A. Juynboll, ḥaḍīth and ḥadīth-related Technical Terminology: khabar in Western Studies and Early Islamic Literature  Roberto Tottoli Index

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Book SynopsisThe original Arabic text of Maimonides’ major medical work, Medical Aphorisms, was critically edited and translated into English by Gerrit Bos in the years 2004-2017, and published in earlier volumes of the book series The Medical Works of Moses Maimonides. The present work is a new critical edition of the medieval Hebrew translation by Nathan ha-Meʾati, who was active as a translator of scientific texts in Rome in the late thirteenth century, where his colleague Zeraḥyah Ḥen had completed a translation of the same Maimonidean text in 1277, only a few years earlier. Nathan aimed to provide the general reader with a translation that was easier to understand than Zeraḥyah's translation. The present critical edition of Nathan’s translation is primarily based on MS Paris, BN, héb. 1174, and not on MS Paris, BN, héb. 1173, used by Suessmann Muntner for his edition in 1959, as this copy suffers from many mistakes and corruptions.Trade Review"...an exemplary ongoing series..." - Maud Kozodoy, in: Speculum 96 (April 2021)Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Sigla and Abbreviations Medical Aphorisms: Hebrew Translation (Nathan ha-Meʾati) Appendix 1 Appendix 2 Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Thousand and One Nights does not fall into a scholarly canon or into the category of popular literature. It takes its place within a middle literature that circulated widely in medieval times. The Nights gradually entered world literature through the great novels of the day and through music, cinema and other art forms. Material inspired by the Nights has continued to emerge from many different countries, periods, disciplines and languages, and the scope of the Nights has continued to widen, making the collection a universal work from every point of view. The essays in this volume scrutinize the expanse of sources for this monumental work of Arabic literature and follow the trajectory of the Nights’ texts, the creative, scholarly commentaries, artistic encounters and relations to science. Contributors: Ibrahim Akel, Rasoul Aliakbari, Daniel Behar, Aboubakr Chraïbi, Anne E. Duggan, William Granara, Rafika Hammoudi, Dominique Jullien, Abdelfattah Kilito, Magdalena Kubarek, Michael James Lundell, Ulrich Marzolph, Adam Mestyan, Eyüp Özveren, Marina Paino, Daniela Potenza, Arafat Abdur Razzaque, Ahmed Saidy, Johannes Thomann and Ilaria Vitali.Table of ContentsContents Avant-propos  Aboubakr Chraïbi Preface List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Part 1: The Sources of the Thousand and One Nights  1 Dans l’atelier des Mille et une nuits  Ulrich Marzolph  2 Reshaping the Frame Story of the Thousand and One Nights The Coherence of Prologue and Epilogue in the Earliest Existing Arabic Mss  Johannes Thomann  3 Les manuscrits des Mille et une nuits au Maroc  Ahmed Saidy  4 Redécouverte d’un manuscrit oublié des Mille et une nuits Le manuscrit de James Anderson  Ibrahim Akel Part 2: Galland’s Translation and the Eighteenth Century  5  Métissage and the Literary Field of the French Enlightenment The Impact of Galland’s Translation of the Arabian Nights  Anne E. Duggan  6 Genie in a Bookshop Print Culture, Authorship, and ‘The Affair of the Eighth Volume’ at the Origins ofLes Mille et une nuits  Arafat Abdur Razzaque Part 3: The Nights, World Literature, and the Arts  7 Eugénie et les deux rêveurs  Abdelfattah Kilito  8 Subtile influence des Mille et une nuitsdans le Rimbaud des Illuminations  Rafika Hammoudi  9  Callida Junctura Richard F. Burton’s Transtextual 1001 Nights and the Source of Its Poetry  Michael James Lundell  10 Sacred and Profane Love in the Arabian Nights Nūr al-Dīn ibn Bakkār vs. Nūr al-Dīn ibn Ḫāqān  William Granara  11 Hārūn Al-Rašīd, the Arabian Nights, and Politics on the Arabic Stage, 1850s–1920s  Adam Mestyan  12 Alfred Faraǧ’s Arabian Nights Ongoing Experimentation in Arabic Theatre  Daniela Potenza  13 The Reception of One Thousand and One Nights in Polish Contemporary Literature  Magdalena Kubarek  14 Italian Nights Three Twentieth-Century Examples of Reception (Vittorini, Pasolini, Calvino)  Marina Paino  15 L’héritage des Mille et une nuitschez Michel Ocelot  Ilaria Vitali Part 4: The Nights, the Humanities, and the Sciences  16 American Nights The Introduction and Usage of theArabian Nights within the US’s Print Modernity  Rasoul Aliakbari  17 Jacqueline Kahanoff on the Margins of A Thousand and One Nights  Daniel Behar  18 Healing by Exempla Political Therapy in theNights’ Hypertext  Dominique Jullien  19 The Devil in the Details, or, Economics in Thousand and One Nights   Eyüp Özveren Index

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Book SynopsisScholarship between Europe and the Levant is a collection of essays in honour of Professor Alastair Hamilton. His pioneering research into the history of European Oriental studies has deeply enhanced our understanding of the dynamics and processes of cultural and religious exchange between Christian Europe and the Islamic world. Written by students, friends and colleagues, the contributions in this volume pay tribute to Alastair Hamilton’s work and legacy. They discuss and celebrate intellectual, artistic and religious encounters between Europe and the cultural area stretching from Northern Africa to the Arabian Peninsula, and spanning the period from the sixteenth to the late nineteenth century. Contributors: Asaph Ben-Tov, Alexander Bevilacqua, Maurits H. van den Boogert, Charles Burnett, Ziad Elmarsafy, Mordechai Feingold, Aurélien Girard, Bernard Heyberger, Robert Irwin, Tarif Khalidi, J.M.I. Klaver, Noel Malcolm, Martin Mulsow, Francis Richard, G. J. Toomer, Arnoud Vrolijk, Nicholas Warner, Joanna Weinberg, and Jan Just Witkam.Table of ContentsContents List of Figures Contributors  1 A Polyglot Traveller in the Republic of Letters  Jan Loop  2 Between Literature and History  Ziad Elmarsafy  3 Islam as a ‘Rational’ Religion: Early Modern European Views  Noel Malcolm  4 Thomas Erpenius, Oriental Scholarship and the Art of Persuasion  Arnoud Vrolijk and Joanna Weinberg  5 From Astronomica to Exotica: Jacob Golius’s edition of al-Farghānī’s On the Science of the Stars in Comparison with the Earlier Versions  Charles Burnett  6 An Unrecognized ‘Critique’ of John Selden’s Historie of Tithes: John Gregory’s 1634 Edition of View of the Civile and Ecclesiasticall Law by Thomas Ridley  Mordechai Feingold  7 Ravius in the East  Gerald J. Toomer  8 Die silberne Rippe der orientalischen Schrift. Johann Ernst Gerhards Stammbuch und seine Reise durch die Niederlande im Jahr  Martin Mulsow  9 The Errant Eye: Johann Michael Wansleben and the Monasteries of Suhāg  Nicholas Warner  10 Histoire connectée du monachisme oriental. De l’érudition catholique en Europe aux réformes monastiques au Mont Liban (XVIIe–XVIIIe siècles)  Aurélien Girard  11 Historia Literaria Alcorani: Two Lutheran Scholars Chronicling Oriental Scholarship at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century  Asaph Ben-Tov  12 Fasting: The Limits of Catholic Confessionalization in Eastern Christianity in the Eighteenth Century  Bernard Heyberger  13 Away with All the Greeks: Ancients, Moderns and Arabs in Étienne Fourmont’s ‘Oratio de lingua Arabica’ (1715)  Alexander Bevilacqua  14 Richard Pococke and the Natural Curiosities of the East  Jan Marten Ivo Klaver  15 Patrick Russell and the Arabian Nights Manuscripts  Maurits H. van den Boogert  16 Volney’s Meditations on Ruins and Empires  Robert Irwin  17 Malivoire et Rousseau informateurs de la cour de Vienne: Les bouleversements de la Perse des années 1795–1798 vus de Bagdad  Francis Richard  18 Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq in England: 1848–1856  Tarif Khalidi  19 Snouck Hurgronje’s Consular Ambitions  Jan Just Witkam Alastair Hamilton—List of Scholarly Publications Index

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Book SynopsisTributaries and Peripheries of the Ottoman Empire offers thirteen studies on the relationship between Ottoman tributaries with each other in the imperial framework, as well as with neighboring border provinces of the empire’s core territories from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries. A variety of surveys related to the Cossack Ukraine, the Crimean Khanate, Dagestan, Moldavia, Ragusa, Transylvania, Upper Hungary and Wallachia allow the reader to see hitherto less known subtleties of the Ottoman administration’s hierarchic structures and the liberties and restrictions of the office-holders’ power. They also shed light upon the strategies of coalition-building among the elites of the tributaries as well as the core provinces of the border zones, which determined their cooperation, but also the competition between them. Contributors include: János B. Szabó, Ovidiu Cristea, Tetiana Grygorieva, Klára Jakó, Gábor Kármán, Dariusz Kołodziejczyk, Natalia Królikowska-Jedlińska, Erica Mezzoli, Viorel Panaite, Radu G. Păun, Ruža Radoš Ćurić, Balázs Sudár, Michał Wasiucionek.Table of Contents  Acknowledgments   List of Maps   Notes on Contributors  Introduction    Gábor Kármán  1 Watching over Neighboring Provinces in the Ottoman Empire: The Case of Tributary Princes from the North of the Danube in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries    Viorel Panaite  2 The Role of Moldavia and Wallachia in Transylvania’s Contacts to the Sublime Porte    Klára Jakó  3 News in Wallachia and Moldavia during the Ottoman Hegemony: Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries    Ovidiu Cristea  4 Calling for Justice and Protection: Sixteenth-Century Wallachian and Moldavian Tributaries as Petitioners to the Imperial Stirrup    Radu G. Păun  5 Daghestan during the Long Ottoman-Safavid War (1578–1639): The Shamkhals’ Relations with Ottoman Pashas    Dariusz Kołodziejczyk  6 The Principality of Transylvania and the Ottoman Province of Eger, 1596–1660    Balázs Sudár  7 Trade, Diplomacy, and Corruption in Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Bosnia: The Ragusan Experience of a Complex Relationship    Erica Mezzoli  8 The Curious Case of Caterina Cercheza: Marriage, Cross-Border Patronage, and Ottoman-Moldavian Politics in the Mid-Seventeenth Century    Michał Wasiucionek  9 Prince György Rákóczi I of Transylvania and the Elite of Ottoman Hungary, 1630–1636    János B. Szabó  10 Ottoman Protection of Cossack Ukraine under Hetman Petro Doroshenko: Between Legal Aspects and Actual Practice    Tetiana Grygorieva  11 King Thököly in Chains: The Fall of the Ottoman Tributary State of Upper Hungary    Gábor Kármán  12 Designers or Obedient Executors of the Ottoman Northeastern Policy? The Governors of the Caffa and Trabzon Provinces at the Turn of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries    Natalia Królikowska-Jedlińska  13 Dealing with Ottoman Outlaws from Land and Sea: Case Studies of Dubrovnik (1746–1748)    Ruža Radoš Ćurić   Appendix: A Glossary of Place Names from the Eastern Half of Europe   Index of Names

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Book SynopsisRobert Lachmann’s letters to Henry George Farmer, from the years 1923-38, provide insightful glimpses into his life and his progressive research projects. From an historical perspective, they offer critical data concerning the development of comparative musicology as it evolved in Germany during the early decades of the twentieth century. The fact that Lachmann sought contact with Farmer can be explained from their mutual, yet diverse interests in Arab music, particularly as they were then considered to be the foremost European scholars in the field. During the 1932 Cairo International Congress on Arab Music, they were selected as presidents of their respective committees.Table of ContentsContents Foreword Israel J. Katz Preface Sheila M. Craik Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Abbreviations 1 The Berlin Years (1892-1935)  1.1 Introduction  1.2 From his Birth through his Formative Years (1892-1911)  1.3 Graduation from the Gymnasium, Courses at Berlin Univ., Military Service, and Degree in Librarianship (1911-8)  1.4 Return to Civilian Life, Berlin Univ., the Phonogrammarchiv, Attainment of his Doctorate, Librarianship, and Fieldwork in Algeria and Tunisia (1918-27)  1.5 Appointment as Music Librarian at the Preussische Staatsbibliothek, and Additional Fieldwork in Tunisia and Algeria (1927-30)  1.6 From the First Mention of the Cairo Congress of Arab Music (Feb. 1930) to his Participation (Mar.-Apr. 1932) and Egyptian Fieldwork (Apr.-May 1932)  1.7 Post-Congress Visit of Johannes Wolf and Kurt Schindler to Jerusalem, where they met with Judah L. Magnes (April 1932)  1.8 Dismissal from the Staatsbibliothek (Berlin 1933)  1.9 Initial Contacts with Judah L. Magnes at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem (1934-5) 2 The Jerusalem Years (1935-1939)  2.1 Background  2.2 Lachmann’s Initial Academic Year at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem (1935-6) [Oct. 22–June 28]  2.3 Second Academic Year (1936-7) [Oct. 11–June 24]  2.4 Lachmann’s Students at the Archive for Oriental Music (Jerusalem)  2.5 The Oriental Music Broadcasts (Nov. 1936–Apr. 1937)  2.6 The World Centre for Jewish Music in Palestine (WCJMP) (1936-9)  2.7 Boundary-Crossing, Brith Shalom, Stefan Wolpe, and Music Education  2.8 Third Academic Year (1937-8) [Sept. 30–July 10]  2.9 Fourth Academic Year (1938-9) [Oct. 8–July 17]  2.10 Last Weeks in Jerusalem (1939) 3 Lachmann’s Letters to Henry George Farmer [FC 467/1-90]  3.1 From his Years in Berlin (1923-35)  3.2 From his Years in Jerusalem, Palestine (1935-8)  3.3 Letters from Edith Gerson-Kiwi to Henry George Farmer (1945-7) Appendix 1:  Lachmann’s Published Works, Reviews, Lectures, and Unpublished Manuscripts  1 1923-35 (from his Berlin Years)  2 1935-8 (from his Jerusalem Years)  3 Lectures  4 Posthumous Works Appendix 2: Lachmann’s Sole Transcription of a Tunisian Wedding Song that was Included in E. Ubach and E. Rackow, Sitte und Recht in Nordafrika, Stuttgart 1923, 244-5 Appendix 3: Lachmann’s Transcriptions for Albert von Le Coq’s Von Land und Leuten in Ostturkistan. Bericht und Abenteuer der 4. Deutschen Turfanexpedition. Leipzig 1928 Appendix 4: Lachmann’s Transcription of a) Mesʿud Djemil’s Call to Prayer (adhān) and b) Instrumental Piece (Beśrew Salim Bey) from his Musik des Orients, Breslau 1929 Appendix 5: Lachmann’s Doctoral Diploma (Mar. 11, 1922) (LA F 07) Appendix 6: What Do We Know about Kurt Schindler? Appendix 7: Johannes Wolf’s Letter to Friedrich Smend (Nov. 1, 1933) Appendix 8: Lachmann and Zionism Appendix 9: Magnes’ October 29th Communication Published by the Jewish Telegraph Agency (Nov. 11, 1934, p. 3) Appendix 10: News Item from the University’s June 1934 Information Bulletin Concerning Lachmann’s Archive Appendix 11: Three Judeo-Spanish Lyric Songs, from the Lachmann Archive, National Library of Israel Appendix 12: Stefan Wolpe: A Biographical Sketch of his European Years Appendix 13: Letter from Yiska Idelsohn to Prof. Harry Torczyner Bibliography General Index

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Book SynopsisJohann Michael Wansleben’s Travels in Turkey, 1673–1676 is a hitherto unpublished version of a remarkable description of Istanbul, Izmir, and Bursa by the German scholar traveller Wansleben. Wansleben was in the Ottoman Empire to buy manuscripts, statuary, and curios for the French king, but it is his off-hand observations about Ottoman society that often make Wansleben’s account such a valuable historical source. His experiences add to our knowledge of such diverse topics as prostitution in the Ottoman Empire, taxation, and the French consular system. His visit to Bursa is also noteworthy because few Western travellers included the first Ottoman capital in their tours of the East or described it at such length.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements Illustrations Abbreviations Introduction 1 The Turkish Journal Appendix 1: Haraç Collection in Istanbul Appendix 2: Prostitution in Izmir Appendix 3: Protocol and Precedence Appendix 4: The Monetary System Appendix 5: Jean Foy-Vaillant’s Description of Bursa, 1670 Appendix 6: Westerners Entering Mosques in Istanbul Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisBeholding Beauty: Saʿdi of Shiraz and the Aesthetics of Desire in Medieval Persian Poetry explores the relationship between sexuality, politics, and spirituality in the lyrics of Saʿdi Shirazi (d. 1292 CE), one of the most revered masters of classical Persian literature. Relying on a variety of sources, including unstudied manuscripts, Domenico Ingenito presents the so-called “inimitable smoothness” of Saʿdi’s lyric style as a serene yet multifaceted window into the uncanny beauty of the world, the human body, and the realm of the unseen. The book constitutes the first attempt to study Sa‘di’s lyric meditations on beauty in the context of the major artistic, scientific and intellectual trends of his time. By charting unexplored connections between Islamic philosophy and mysticism, obscene verses and courtly ideals of love, Ingenito approaches Sa‘di’s literary genius from the perspective of sacred homoeroticism and the psychology of performative lyricism in their historical context.Trade Review"Beholding Beauty is an exciting model of scholarship that dares to open itself to ambiguities, multiple possibilities, and nonlinear explorations of “the anthropological complexity of the human theater” (p. 136). Ingenito’s reconstruction of Saʿdī’s sacred homoeroticism, his exploration of vital affinities between literature and philosophy and theorization of lyric performativity—these interventions break ample new ground within Saʿdī scholarship and Persian studies, and will be generative for Islamic studies scholars, medievalists, and literary scholars and comparatists far and wide." Jane Mikkelson in: Iranian Studies, Volume 55, Issue 2, April 2022.

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Book SynopsisIn The Qїrghїz Baatïr and the Russian Empire Tetsu Akiyama gives a vivid description of the dynamism and dilemmas of empire-building in nomadic Central Asia from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century, through reconstructing the biography of Shabdan Jantay uulu (ca. 1839–1912), a chieftain from the northern Qїrghїz (Kirghiz, Kyrgyz) tribes. Based on the comprehensive study of primary sources stored in the archives of Central Asian countries and Russia, Akiyama explores Shabdan’s intermediary role in the Russian Empire’s military advance and rule in southern Semirech’e and its surrounding regions. Beyond the commonly held stereotype as a “faithful collaborator” to Russia, he appears here as a flexible and tough leader who strategically faced and dealt with Russian dominance.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Explanatory Notes List of Illustrations Abbreviations Prologue 1 A Child of the Jookerchilik Zaman  1 Qїrghїz After the Collapse of the Zunghar Khanate  2 The Formation of the Manap Stratum  3 Young Shabdan Stands Out as a Baatїr 2 Between Qoqand and Russia  1 Jantay as an Intermediary of the Qoqand Khanate  2 Jantay Encounters the Russian Advance  3 Jantay Under the Growing Russian Military Presence  4 Jantay on the Military Administration System 3 Between Ruling Reform and Military Expansion  1 Shabdan Appears Before the Russian Authority  2 From Baranta to “Military Service”  3 Shabdan as a Mediator  4 Kolpakovskii Mistrusts, Kaufman Pardons Shabdan 4 Aristocrat or Parasite  1 Shabdan’s Promotion to the Lieutenant Colonel  2 The Manaps as Qїrghїz Aristocracy  3 The Emerging “Anti-Manap Struggle”  4 Shabdan as an Impediment to Russian Rule  5 The “Queen Bee” of the Qїrghїz 5 On the Frontline of the Resettlement Policy  1 From the “Sword” to “Money”  2 Leaving the Deep Valley  3 The Resettlement Administration as a New Player in Semirech’e  4 Searching for a Middle Ground 6 Growing Relationship to Islam Under Russian Rule  1 Shabdan as a Murid  2 Baatïr to Baatïr Hajji  3 Shabdan as a Representative of Islam  4 Dilemmas Concerning the Engagement with Islam Epilogue: Heading for Ruin  1 The Russian Colonial Military Authorities in Shabdan’s Funeral  2 Organizing the Ash  3 The Russian Authorities and the Ash  4 The Colonial Government Strengthens Its Intervention  5 Shabdan Remains “Alive”: In the Name of Baatïr Hajji Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe 1720 Imperial Circumcision Celebrations in Istanbul offers the first holistic examination of an Ottoman public festival through an in-depth inquiry into different components of the 1720 event. Through a critical and combined analysis of the hitherto unknown archival sources along with the textual and pictorial narratives on the topic, the book vividly illustrates the festival’s organizational details and preparations, its complex rites (related to consumption, exchange, competition), and its representation in court-commissioned illustrated festival books (sūrnāmes). To analyze all these phases in a holistic manner, the book employs an interdisciplinary approach by using the methodological tools of history, art history, and performance studies and thus, provides a new methodological and conceptual framework for the study of Ottoman celebrations.Table of Contents Note on Transliteration and Translation  Acknowledgments  List of Figures and Tables  Introduction  1The Reign of Ahmed III and the 1720 Festival  2Historiographical Framework  3Previous Research on Ottoman Festivals  4This Book  1Preparing the Festival  1In Search of Utensils  1.1Borrowing From Court Institutions and Purchasing From the Market  1.2Borrowing Utensils From Officials and City Dwellers  2Food Provisioning  3Making Nahils and Candy Gardens  3.1Officials, Merchants, and Craftsmen Working Together  4Registering the Names of Uncircumcised Boys and Performers  4.1Boys Registered for the Circumcision  4.2Performers Registered for the Festival  2Staging the Festival  1Food-Related Events  1.1Distribution of Food Allowances  1.2Donations Through Food  1.3“They Ate His Food, Drank His Sherbet”: Imperial Banquets  2Spectacles on Land and Sea  2.1Marvelous Shows Enacted  2.2Some Events as Performances  2.3Guild Parades  3Gifting  3.1Monetary Gifts to Attendants and Performers  3.2Robes of Honor to Dignitaries and Officials  3.3Providing Circumcision and Clothing for Boys  3.4A Piece of Jewelry or a Simple Candlestick: Obligatory Gifts Presented to the Sultan  3Representing the Festival  1Commissioning Process of the Illustrated Sūrnāmes  1.1Supervision of the Project  1.2Painters Working for the Illustrated Sūrnāmes  1.3The 1720 Festival Paintings in the Ottoman Book Painting Tradition  2Iconography and Image-Making  3Narrating the 1720 Festival in Imagery  3.1Serial Images of Processions and Guild Parades  3.2Narrating the Public Celebrations of the 1720 Festival in Imagery  Conclusions  Selected Bibliography  Index

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Book SynopsisImaging and Imagining Palestine is the first comprehensive study of photography during the British Mandate period (1918–1948). It addresses well-known archives, photos from private collections never available before and archives that have until recently remained closed. This interdisciplinary volume argues that photography is central to a different understanding of the social and political complexities of Palestine in this period. While Biblical and Orientalist images abound, the chapters in this book go further by questioning the impact of photography on the social histories of British Mandate Palestine. This book considers the specific archives, the work of individual photographers, methods for reading historical photography from the present and how we might begin the process of decolonising photography. "Imaging and Imagining Palestine presents a timely and much-needed critical evaluation of the role of photography in Palestine. Drawing together leading interdisciplinary specialists and engaging a range of innovative methodologies, the volume makes clear the ways in which photography reflects the shifting political, cultural and economic landscape of the British Mandate period, and experiences of modernity in Palestine. Actively problematising conventional understandings of production, circulation and the in/stability of the photographic document, Imaging and Imagining Palestine provides essential reading for decolonial studies of photography and visual culture studies of Palestine." - Chrisoula Lionis, author of Laughter in Occupied Palestine: Comedy and Identity in Art and Film "Imaging and Imagining Palestine is the first and much needed overview of photography during the British Mandate period. From well-known and accessible photographic archives to private family albums, it deals with the cultural and political relations of the period thinking about both the Western perceptions of Palestine as well as its modern social life. This book brings together an impressive array of material and analyses to form an interdisciplinary perspective that considers just how photography shapes our understanding of the past as well as the ways in which the past might be reclaimed." - Jack Persekian, Founding Director of Al Ma'mal Foundation for Contemporary Art in Jerusalem "Imaging and Imagining Palestine draws together a plethora of fresh approaches to the field of photography in Palestine. It considers Palestine as a central node in global photographic production and the ways in which photography shaped the modern imaging and imagining from within a fresh regional theoretical perspective." - Salwa Mikdadi, Director al Mawrid Arab Center for the Study of Art, New York University Abu DhabiTrade Review"What, one might ask, is the relevance of old photographs to international affairs, or indeed International Affairs? The short answer is that images, like words, have political and social contexts—and when the issue in question is Palestine, an image is seldom just an image. Focusing on the 30-year period of British rule, the contributors to this edited volume have drawn on a remarkably wide range of sources. Readers of the standard literature on Mandate Palestine may be familiar with the photographs of the American Colony in Jerusalem, which feature in two chapters. But they may not know how it used photography to drum up support for the girls’ orphanage it ran in the aftermath of the First World War in conjunction with a Christian weekly in New York. Nor are they likely to be aware that the École biblique et archéologique, run by Dominicans in the city, built up a collection of 30,000 images (now in the process of digitization) which recorded their scholarly work while also reflecting the political turbulence that swirled around them. Or, to take a very different example, that in its massive photographic archive in Washington DC, National Geographic magazine has 3,000 black-and-white images—both published and unpublished—of Mandate Palestine." - Roger Hardy, University of Oxford, UK, in International Affairs 98: 1 (2022).Table of ContentsForeword  Salim Tamari Acknowledgments List of Figures Notes on Contributors Notes on Transliteration 1 Imaging and Imagining Palestine: An Introduction  Sary Zananiri Part 1: In and out of the Archives: Photographic Collections and the Historical Case Studies 2 ‘Little Orphans of Jerusalem’: The American Colony’s Christian Herald Orphanage in Photographs and Negatives  Abigail Jacobson 3 Swedish Imaginings, Investments and Local Photography in Jerusalem, 1925–1939  Inger Marie Okkenhaug 4 The Dominicans’ Photographic Collection in Jerusalem: Beyond a Catholic Perception of the Holy Land?  Norig Neveu and Karène Sanchez Summerer 5 Bearers of Memory: Photo Albums as Sources of Historical Study in Palestine  Issam Nassar Part 2: Points of Perspective: Photographers and Their Lens 6 Resilient Resistance: Colonial Biblical, Archaeological and Ethnographical Imaginaries in the Work of Chalil Raad (Khalīl Raʿad), 1891–1948  Rona Sela 7 Open Roads: John D. Whiting, Diary in Photos, 1934–1939  Rachel Lev 8 Documenting the Social: Frank Scholten Taxonomising Identity in British Mandate Palestine  Sary Zananiri Part 3: After Effects: Methodologies, Approaches and Reconceptualising Photography 9 Edward Keith-Roach’s Favourite Things: Indigenising National Geographic’s Images of Mandatory Palestine  Yazan Kopty 10 Decolonising the Photography of Palestine: Searching for a Method in a Plate of Hummus  Stephen Sheehi 11 Urban Encounters: Imaging the City in Mandate Palestine  Nadi Abusaada 12 Epilogue  Özge Calafato and Aude Aylin de Tapia

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Book SynopsisIn Richard Pococke’s Letters from the East (1737-1740), Rachel Finnegan provides edited transcripts of the full run of correspondence from Richard Pococke’s famous eastern voyage from 1737-40, together with updated biographical accounts of the author and his correspondents (his mother, Elizabeth Pococke and his uncle and patron, Bishop Thomas Milles).Table of ContentsContents Preface List of Illustrations 1 Introduction 2 Biographical Accounts of the Pococke and Milles Families 3 Itinerary of the Eastern Voyage 4 Letters from Egypt 5 Accounts from Egypt 6 Letters from the Holy Land, Lebanon and Syria 7 Accounts from the Holy Land, Lebanon and Syria 8 Letters from the Second Tour of Egypt, and from Turkey, Asia Minor and Greece 9 Accounts from Cyprus and from the Second Tour of Egypt 10 Conclusion Appendix. List of Grand Tour Letters and Accounts Reproduced in This Volume Bibliography Index of Selected People & Places

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Book SynopsisMediterranean Captivity through Arab Eyes, 1517-1798 is the first book that examines the Arabic captivity narratives in the early modern period. Based on Arabic sources in archives stretching from Amman to Fez to London and Rome, Matar presents the story of captivity from the perspective of the Arabic-speaking captives who have not been examined in the growing field of captivity studies.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Illustrations Prologue: 21 June 2019 Introduction: Mediterranean Captivities  1 Writing Captivity in Arabic  2 Between the Lands of the Christians and the Lands of Islam, Bilād al-Naṣārā and Bilād al-Islām 1 Qiṣaṣ al-Asrā, or Stories of the Captives  1 ʿAbd al-Karīm al-Qaysī (fl. 1485)  2 Aḥmad ibn al-Qāḍī (1553–1616)  3 Aḥmad Bābā al-Tinbaktī (1556–1627)  4 Taʿlīqāt Musṭafā ibn Jamāl al-Dīn ibn Karāma (9 July 1606)  5 Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad al-Ṭayyib al-Tafilātī al-Mālikī (Early Eighteenth Century)  6 Sayyid ʿAlī ibn al-Sayyid Aḥmad (ca. 1713)  7 Faṭma (1798)  8 Ibrāḥīm Librīs (1802)  9 Conclusion 2 Letters  1 Conclusion 3 Divine Intervention: Christian and Islamic  1 Christian  2 Muslim 4 Conversion and Resistance  1 Aḥmad ibn Yaḥya al-Zwāwī al-Yūsifī (1630s)  2 Muḥammad al-Tāzī and Bil-Ghayth al-Drāwī (1656–1667)  3 Imam Ibn ʿAbdallāh al-Ṣaʿīdī (1718)  4 Conclusion 5 Ransom and Return  1 Abū al-ʿAbbās Aḥmad ibn Mahdī al-Ghazzāl (1766)  2 Ibn ʿUthmān al-Miknāsī (1779–1783)  3 Conclusion 6 Captivity of Books Epilogue: Esclaves turcs in Sculpture Postscript: How Should the Sculptures Be Treated? Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisArticles collected in Historicizing Sunni Islam in the Ottoman Empire, c. 1450-c. 1750 engage with the idea that “Sunnism” itself has a history and trace how particular Islamic genres—ranging from prayer manuals, heresiographies, creeds, hadith and fatwa collections, legal and theological treatises, and historiography to mosques and Sufi convents—developed and were reinterpreted in the Ottoman Empire between c. 1450 and c. 1750. The volume epitomizes the growing scholarly interest in historicizing Islamic discourses and practices of the post-classical era, which has heretofore been styled as a period of decline, reflecting critically on the concepts of ‘tradition’, ‘orthodoxy’ and ‘orthopraxy’ as they were conceived and debated in the context of building and maintaining the longest-lasting Muslim-ruled empire. Contributors: Helen Pfeifer; Nabil al-Tikriti; Derin Terzioğlu; Tijana Krstić; Nir Shafir; Guy Burak; Çiğdem Kafesçioğlu; Grigor Boykov; H. Evren Sünnetçioğlu; Ünver Rüstem; Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer; Vefa Erginbaş; Selim Güngörürler.Trade Review"This collection of transformative essays provides much-needed contextualization and historicization of the concept of Sunnism in early modern Ottoman culture and practice... a fascinating, broad-ranging discussion of orthodoxy and orthopraxy as multiple, interwoven discursive processes that were and are situated in myriad historical moments and widespread geographical locations. Particularly impressive is how the essays each in different ways address the notorious (or celebrated) Ottoman institutionalization of tradition, belief, ritual, and interpretation as itself a nuanced engagement with ongoing local and global discourses, thereby drastically reconfiguring existing analyses of Ottoman bureaucracy writ large. This lively collection is a welcome intervention into one of the more exciting emergent scholarly conversations today... Summing Up: Highly recommended." - R. A. Miller, in: Choice Connect, July 2021 Vol. 58 No. 11Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures Abbreviations Note on Transliteration 1 Historicizing the Study of Sunni Islam in the Ottoman Empire, c. 1450–c. 1750  Tijana Krstić Part 1 Rethinking Sunni Orthodoxy in Dialogue with the Past and the Present 2 A New Hadith Culture? Arab Scholars and Ottoman Sunnitization in the Sixteenth Century  Helen Pfeifer 3 A Contrarian Voice: Şehzāde Ḳorḳud’s (d. 919/1513) Writings on Kalām and the Early Articulation of Ottoman Sunnism  Nabil al-Tikriti 4 Ibn Taymiyya, al-Siyāsa al-sharʿiyya, and the Early Modern Ottomans  Derin Terzioğlu 5 You Must Know Your Faith in Detail: Redefinition of the Role of Knowledge and Boundaries of Belief in Ottoman Catechisms (ʿilm-i ḥāls)  Tijana Krstić 6 How to Read Heresy in the Ottoman World  Nir Shafir 7 Prayers, Commentaries, and the Edification of the Ottoman Supplicant  Guy Burak Part 2 Building a Pious Community: Spatial Dimensions of Sunnitization 8 Lives and Afterlives of an Urban Institution and Its Spaces: The Early Ottoman ʿİmāret as Mosque  Çiğdem Kafescioğlu 9 Abdāl-affiliated Convents and “Sunnitizing” Halveti Dervishes in Sixteenth-Century Ottoman Rumeli  Grigor Boykov 10 Attendance at the Five Daily Congregational Prayers, Imams and Their Communities in the Jurisprudential Debates during the Ottoman Age of Sunnitization  H. Evren Sünnetçioğlu 11 Piety and Presence in the Postclassical Sultanic Mosque  Ünver Rüstem Part 3 Sunnis, Shi‘is and Kızılbaş: The Context- and Genre-Specific Nature of Confessional Politics 12 Neither Victim Nor Accomplice: The Kızılbaş as Borderland Actors in the Early Modern Ottoman Realm  Ayşe Baltacıoğlu-Brammer 13 Reading Ottoman Sunnism through Islamic History: Approaches toward Yazīd b. Muʿāwiya in Ottoman Historical Writing  Vefa Erginbaş 14 Islamic Discourse in Ottoman-Safavid Peacetime Diplomacy after 1049/1639  Selim Güngörürler Index

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Book SynopsisFrom the Greeks to the Arabs and Beyond written by Hans Daiber, is a six volume collection of Daiber’s scattered writings, journal articles, essays and encyclopaedia entries on Greek-Syriac-Arabic translations, Islamic theology and Sufism, the history of science, Islam in Europe, manuscripts and the history of oriental studies. It also includes reviews and obituaries. Vol. V and VI are catalogues of newly discovered Arabic manuscript originals and films/offprints from manuscripts related to the topics of the preceding volumes.

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Book SynopsisFrom the Greeks to the Arabs and Beyond written by Hans Daiber, is a six volume collection of Daiber’s scattered writings, journal articles, essays and encyclopaedia entries on Greek-Syriac-Arabic translations, Islamic theology and Sufism, the history of science, Islam in Europe, manuscripts and the history of oriental studies. It also includes reviews and obituaries. Vol. V and VI are catalogues of newly discovered Arabic manuscript originals and films/offprints from manuscripts related to the topics of the preceding volumes.

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Book SynopsisFrom the Greeks to the Arabs and Beyond written by Hans Daiber, is a six volume collection of Daiber’s scattered writings, journal articles, essays and encyclopaedia entries on Greek-Syriac-Arabic translations, Islamic theology and Sufism, the history of science, Islam in Europe, manuscripts and the history of oriental studies. It also includes reviews and obituaries. Vol. V and VI are catalogues of newly discovered Arabic manuscript originals and films/offprints from manuscripts related to the topics of the preceding volumes.

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Book SynopsisFrom the Greeks to the Arabs and Beyond written by Hans Daiber, is a six volume collection of Daiber’s scattered writings, journal articles, essays and encyclopaedia entries on Greek-Syriac-Arabic translations, Islamic theology and Sufism, the history of science, Islam in Europe, manuscripts and the history of oriental studies. It also includes reviews and obituaries. Vol. V and VI are catalogues of newly discovered Arabic manuscript originals and films/offprints from manuscripts related to the topics of the preceding volumes.Table of ContentsAbbreviations Rules of Transliteration Introduction Description of the Texts Aligarh, India Baghdad, Iraq Beirut, Lebanon Berlin, Germany Birmingham, Great Britain Bursa, Turkey Cairo, Egypt Cambridge, Great Britain Cambridge (Mass.), USA Damascus, Syria Delhi, India Dublin, Ireland Escorial, Spain Evora, Portugal Florence, Italy Gotha, Germany Hyderabad, India Istanbul, Turkey Leiden, Netherlands Lisbon, Portugal London, Great Britain Lucknow, India Manisa, Turkey Mosul, Iraq Munich, Germany Najaf, Iraq New Haven, USA Oxford, Great Britain Paris, France Patna (Bankipore), India Princeton, USA Qumm, Iran Rampur, India Taʿizz, Yemen Tarim, Yemen Tashkent, Uzbekistan Tehran, Iran Toledo, Spain Tonk, India Vatican City State Vienna, Austria Washington, USA Manuscripts of Barhebraeus’ Works Rare or Unpublished Books and Articles The Arabic Inscription of the Madrasa al-Mustanṣiriyya, Baghdad (founded 631/1234) Indices Literature and its Abbreviations Photos of Selected Manuscripts The Power of the Word  The Linguistic Form of Greek-Arabic Translations  Unknown Views of Orientalists on Franz Taeschner, Die Psychologie Qazwīnīs (1912) Indices “The Power of the Word” Postscriptum

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