Middle Eastern history Books
Brill From Qom to Barcelona: Aramaic, South Arabian,
Book SynopsisThe renaissance of Arabic Papyrology has become obvious by the founding of the International Society for Arabic Papyrology (ISAP) at the Cairo conference (2002), and by its subsequent conferences in Granada (2004), Alexandria (2006), Vienna (2009), Tunis/Carthage (2012), Munich (2014), and Berlin (2018). This volume collects papers given at the Munich conference, including editions of previously unpublished Coptic, Arabic and Judeo-Arabic documents, as well as historical studies based on documentary evidence from Achaemenid Bactria, Ancient South-Arabia, and Early Islamic, Fāṭimid and Mamlūk Egypt. Contributors: Anne Boud'hors; Ursula Bsees; Peter T. Daniels; Maher A. Eissa; Andreas Kaplony; W. Matt Malczycki; Craig Perry; Daniel Potthast; Peter Stein; Naïm Vanthieghem; Oded Zinger
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Brill Qatar 1975/76-2019
Book SynopsisThe fourth in this 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. Qatar’s documented history begins in the mid-19th Century. Its location established it as having close, if differing links to Bahrain, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Notionally under Ottoman rule, Qatar did not become a de facto protectorate of Great Britain until some time after the end of the Ottoman empire. The discovery of oil in Qatar happened later than was the case with its neighbours. However, the discovery of substantial oil deposits, and later of enormous gas reserves changed Qatar beyond recognition, allowing it to claim in the 1980s that its inhabitants were the richest people on earth. Still a semi-feudal monarchy, it gained full independence in 1971 but was initially considered to be the least developed state in the Gulf. By the 21st century many close neighbours felt that in a number of respects Qatar was becoming an unreliable partner. To the extent that in 2017 a number of its fellow Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) members, as well as other states – notably Egypt - broke off diplomatic relations.
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Brill Middle East and North Africa: Climate, Culture, and Conflicts
Book SynopsisThe volume Middle East and North Africa: Climate, Culture and Conflicts focuses on the intricate interrelationships between nature, culture and society in this ecologically, historically and politically fragile region. As such, it debates ideas of eco-theology from Muslim and Jewish perspectives, followed by mythological interpretations and geo-archeological resp. historical analyses of the interrelationships and impacts of climate and other environmental factors on the development of ancient civilizations and cultures. The section “Present” addresses current conflict scenarios as a result of climate change, i.e. water scarcity, droughts, desertification and similar factors. The final section is concerned with potentials of international cooperation in pursuit of developing and ensuring sustainable energy resources and moves across different scales of environmental and religious education, from awareness raising to perspectives of best practice examples. Contributors are Katajun Amirpur, Helmut Brückner, Eckart Ehlers, Max Engel, Kerstin Fritzsche, Ursula Kowanda-Yassin, Tobias von Lossow, Ephraim Meir, Rosel Pientka-Hinz, Matthias Schmidt, and Franz Trieb.Table of ContentsForeword Acknowledgements List of Figures, Maps, and Tables List of Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Mena Region: Climate, Culture, and Conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa Eckart Ehlers and Katajun Amirpur Part 1: Ideas 1 And We Shall Save the Earth: Muslim Environmental Stewards Katajun Amirpur 2 Wonder, Gratitude, and Justice as Ingredients for a Jewish Eco-Theology Ephraim Meir Part 2: Past 3 Holocene Climate Variability of Mesopotamia and its Impact on the History of Civilisation Max Engel and Helmut Brückner 4 Destructive Waters—Refreshing Waters: Ancient Near Eastern Aquatic Symbolism at the Dawn of History Rosel Pientka-Hinz 5 Deserts—Wind—Water: Strategies of Human Adaptations and Renewable Resources in Extremely Arid Environments. A Historical Retrospective Eckart Ehlers Part 3: Present 6 The Vanishing of Iran’s Lake Urmia Matthias Schmidt 7 Water in the Middle East: Hotspots of Scarcity and Conflict Tobias von Lossow 8 Climate Change and the Emerging Information Societies in the Arab Region Kerstin Fritzsche Part 4: Prospects 9 DESERTEC: Europe—Middle East—North Africa Cooperation for Sustainable Energy Franz Trieb 10 Connecting Religion and the Environment in Islamic Education: Raising Awareness, Exploring Perspectives, and Defining Best Practice Ursula Kowanda-Yassin Bibliography Index
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Brill Prominent Murder Victims of the Pre- and Early Islamic Periods Including the Names of Murdered Poets: Introduced, Edited, Translated from the Arabic, and Annotated
Book SynopsisMuḥammad ibn Ḥabīb (d. 860), a specialist in Arab history, tribal genealogy, and poetry, who lived in Baghdad, collected in his Prominent Murder Victims many stories of murderers and murder victims from the legendary pre-Islamic past, such as how Bilqīs, the Arabic name for the Queen of Sheba, came to power, to the assassinations ordered by viziers or caliphs in the early Islamic centuries. A lengthy appendix deals with poets from pre- and early Islamic times who were killed. The stories are entertaining as well as informative. Strikingly, the author refrains from explicit moralising. The present book offers a richly annotated English translation together with an improved Arabic text and indexes of persons, places, and rhymes.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1 The Author 2 Sources on Ibn Ḥabīb 3 Works 4 The Book on Prominent Murder Victims and Poets Who Were Killed 5 Editions 6 The Translation 7 Transliteration 8 Abbreviations in the English 9 Abbreviations in the Notes to the Arabic Text Text and Translation Bibliography List of Sections Index of Persons, Tribes, Nations, Groups Geographical Index Index of Rhymes فهرست القوافي
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Brill New Readings in Arabic Historiography from Late Medieval Egypt and Syria: Proceedings of the themed day of the Fifth Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies
Book SynopsisThe present volume contributes to research on historic Arabic texts from late medieval Egypt and Syria. Departing from dominant understandings of these texts through the prisms of authenticity and “literarization,” it engages with questions of textual constructedness and authorial agency. It consists of 13 contributions by a new generation of scholars in three parts. Each part represents a different aspect of their new readings of particular texts. Part one looks at concrete instances of textual interdependencies, part two at the creativity of authorial agencies, and part three at the relationship between texts and social practice. New Readings thus participates in the revaluation of late medieval Arabic historiography as a critical field of inquiry. Contributors: Rasmus Bech Olsen, Víctor de Castro León, Mohammad Gharaibeh, Kenneth A. Goudie, Christian Mauder, Evan Metzger, Zacharie Mochtari de Pierrepont, Clément Onimus, Tarek Sabraa, Iria Santás de Arcos, Gowaart Van Den Bossche, Koby Yosef.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction: History Writing, Adab and Intertextuality in Late Medieval Egypt and Syria: Old and New Readings Jo Van Steenbergen Part 1 Literarization as Adabization: Intertextual Agencies 1 Al-Maqrīzī’s Sulūk, Muqaffā, and Durar al-ʿUqūd: Trends of “Literarization” in the Historical Corpus of a 9th/15th-Century Egyptian Shāfiʿī Religious Scholar Koby Yosef 2 Language and Style in Mamluk Historiography Koby Yosef 3 Ibn al-Khaṭīb and His Mamluk Reception Víctor De Castro León 4 Ibn Qāḍī Shuhba (1377–1448): His Life and Historical Work Tarek Sabraa 5 Andalusi Adab in the Mamluk Period Iria Santas Part 2 Literarization as Creative Authorship: Contextual Agencies 6 Social and Intellectual Rivalries and Their Narrative Representations in Biographical Dictionaries: The Representation of Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ—A Case Study Mohammad Gharaibeh 7 Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī’s Texts and Contexts: Producing a Sufi Environment in the Cairo Sultanate Zacharie Mochtari de Pierrepont 8 If a Governor Falls in Damascus: Early Mamluk Historiography Analyzed through the Story of Sayf al-Dīn Karāy al-Manṣūrī Rasmus Bech Olsen 9 Al-ʿAynī and His Fellow Historians: Questioning the Discursive Position of a Historian in the Academic Field in the Cairo Sultanate Clément Onimus Part 3 Literarization as Social Practice: Textual Agencies 10 Al-Biqāʿī’s Self-Reflection: A Preliminary Study of the Autobiographical in His ʿUnwān al-Zamān Kenneth A. Goudie 11 “And They Read in That Night Books of History”: Consuming, Discussing, and Producing Texts about the Past in al-Ghawrī’s Majālis as Social Practices Christian Mauder 12 Historical Representation as Resurrection: Al-Udfuwī and the Imitation of Allāh Ivan Metzger 13 Literarisierung Reconsidered in the Context of Sultanic Biography: The Case of Shāfiʿ b. ʿAlī’s Sīrat al-Nāṣir Muḥammad (BnF MS Arabe 1705) Gowaart Van Den Bossche Index
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Brill Possessed by the Right Hand: The Problem of Slavery in Islamic Law and Muslim Cultures
Book SynopsisIn Possessed by the Right Hand, the first comprehensive legal history of slavery in Islam ever offered to readers, Bernard K. Freamon, an African-American Muslim law professor, provides a penetrating analysis of the problems of slavery and slave-trading in Islamic history. After examining the issues from pre-Islamic times through to the nineteenth century, Professor Freamon considers the impact of Western abolitionism, arguing that such efforts have been a failure, with the notion of abolition becoming nothing more than a cruel illusion. He closes this ground-breaking account with an examination of the slaving ideologies and actions of ISIS and Boko Haram, asserting that Muslims now have an important and urgent responsibility to achieve true abolition under the aegis of Islamic law. See Bernard Freamon live at Rutgers Law School (October 8, 2019). Listen to Possessed by the Right Hand: An Interview with Prof. Bernard Freamon from Network ReOrient on AnchorTable of ContentsContents Acknowledgments List of Figures and Maps Introduction 1 1 Slavery, Slave Trading and the Law in the Pre-Islamic Middle East 2 Slavery and Slave Trading in Early Islam 3 Slavery and Empire in the Medieval and Early Modern Islamic Worlds 4 The "Mamluk/Ghulam Phenomenon"—Slave Sultans, Soldiers, Eunuchs and Concubines 5 Plural Imperialisms and Multiple Diasporas 6 A Taxonomy of Slavery and Slave Trading in Muslim Cultures 7 The Rise and Impact of Abolitionism 8 A Tale of Three Sovereigns—the Shah, the Khedive, and the Sultan 9 The Illusion of Abolition 10 The Reemergence of Slavery and Slave Trading in the Muslim World Bibliography Index
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Brill Cultural Pearls from the East: In Memory of Shmuel Moreh (1932-2017)
Book SynopsisCultural Pearls from the East offers fascinating insights into Muslim-Arab culture and the evolution of its intellectual nature and literary texts from early Islam to modern times. The textual analysis of largely unexplored literary works and chronicles that epitomize this volume highlight the affinity between culture, society, and politics, exploring these issues from both thematic and comparative perspectives. Among the topics examined in depth: Arabic poetry of warfare at the dawn of Islam; medieval poems about venerated sites and saints; Ottoman and Egyptian chronicles portraying the socioreligious landscapes of Egypt and the Fertile Crescent under the Ottoman Empire and in the shadow of growing European encroachment; and Arab-Jewish literature dealing with suppression, exile, and identity. Contributors: Ghaleb Anabseh, Albert Arazi, Meir M. Bar-Asher, Peter Chelkowski, Geula Elimelekh, Sigal Goorj, Jane Hathaway, Meir Hatina, Yair Huri-Horesh, Amir Lerner, Menachem Milson, Gabriel M. Rosenbaum, Joseph Sadan, Yona Sheffer, Norman (Noam) A. Stillman, Ibrahim Taha, Michael Winter, Eman Younis
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Brill Missions and Preaching: Connected and Decompartmentalised Perspectives from the Middle East and North Africa (19th-21st Century)
Book SynopsisBased on a connected, relational and multidisciplinary approach (history, ethnography, political science, and theology), Mission and Preaching tackles the notion of mission through the analysis of preaching activities and religious dynamics across Christianity, Islam and Judaism, in the Middle East and North Africa, from the late 19th century until today. The 13 chapters reveal points of contact, exchange, and circulation, considering the MENA region as a central observatory. The volume offers a new chronology of the missionary phenomenon and calls for further cross-cutting approaches to decompartmentalise it, arguing that these approaches constitute useful entry points to shed new light on religious dynamics and social transformations in the MENA region. Contributors Necati Alkan, Federico Alpi, Gabrielle Angey, Armand Aupiais, Katia Boissevain, Naima Bouras, Philippe Bourmaud, Gaetan du Roy, Séverine Gabry-Thienpont, Maria-Chiara Giorda, Bernard Heyberger, Emir Mahieddin, Michael Marten, Norig Neveu, Maria Chiara Rioli, Karène Sanchez Summerer, Heather Sharkey, Ester Sigillò, Sébastien Tank Storper, Emanuela Trevisan Semi, Annalaura Turiano and Vincent Vilmain.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Transliteration List of Figures and Maps Notes on Contributors Introduction Norig Neveu (), Karène Sanchez Summerer (), Annalaura Turiano (), Philippe Bourmaud () and Séverine Gabry-Thienpont () Part 1 Borders, Conversions and Migrations Introduction: Mission and Conversion: A Long-Term Perspective Bernard Heyberger () 1 Proselytism in ‘Jewish Worlds’? Sébastien Tank-Storper () 2 Protestant Missions in Ethiopia: From Jewish Falashas (Beta Israel) to Christian Falashas and Falas Mura, and Back: A Blurred Status (1858–1960) Emanuela Trevisan () 3 From Missionaries to Missionary Labour: Hypotheses on Evangelicalism in Contemporary Istanbul Armand Aupiais () Part 2 Preachers, Negotiations, and Interactions Introduction: What Is Preaching and Who Is It for? Heather Sharkey () 4 Reshaping the Preaching Spaces in Post-Revolutionary Egypt: Ansār al-Sunna al-Muhammadiyya Women Preachers and Religious Reform Naima Bouras () 5 Being a Teacher in the Missionary Schools of the Gülen Movement in Sub-Saharan Africa: Interactions, Trajectories, and Differentiated Investments of the Role Gabrielle Angey () 6 Shifting Missions: Languages, Texts, and Experiences between Jews and Roman Catholics in Israel (1940s–1970s) Maria-Chiara Rioli () 7 Christian and Muslim Home Missions in Egypt in the Twentieth & Twenty-first Centuries: Between Preaching and Social Care Gaétan du Roy () Part 3 Missionary Strategies, between Political Power(s) and Everyday Practices Introduction: Mapping in, Mapping out. Strategies and Dynamic(s) of Preaching and Mission(s) Mariachiara Giorda () 8 The Late Ottoman Sunni Missionary Project Necati Alkan () 9 Early Protestant Missionary Activity, Heresy and Church in Ottoman Armenia (1782–1909) Federico Alpi () 10 A Jewish Mission in the ‘Orients’ (Nineteenth Century–1920)? Vincent Vilmain () 11 Reconceptualising the Political Role of daʿwa in Civil Society: Associations and Islamic Activism in Tunisia Ester Sigilló () Conclusion: Thinking through Missionary Work. Moral Geographies, Regeneration from the Margins, Sincerity, and the Gift Economy Emir Mahieddin () and Katia Boissevain () Epilogue: Decolonising Missions and Preaching: The Implicated Self and the Reframing of the Missionary Phenomenon Michael Marten Index
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Brill Antique Dealing and Creative Reuse in Cairo and Damascus 1850-1890: Intercultural Engagements with Architecture and Craft in the Age of Travel and Reform
Book SynopsisThe commodification of Islamic antiques intensified in the late Ottoman Empire, an age of domestic reform and increased European interference following the Tanzimat (reorganisation) of 1839. Mercedes Volait examines the social life of typical objects moving from Cairo and Damascus to Paris, London, and beyond, uncovers the range of agencies and subjectivities involved in the trade of architectural salvage and historic handicraft, and traces impacts on private interiors, through creative reuse and Revival design, in Egypt, Europe and America. By devoting attention to both local and global engagements with Middle Eastern tangible heritage, the present volume invites to look anew at Orientalism in art and interior design, the canon of Islamic architecture and the translocation of historic works of art.Trade Review"With Antique Dealing and Creative Reuse in Cairo and Damascus 1850–1890, Volait has produced a truly ground-breaking study that should be required reading not only for scholars of Islamic art and architecture, but also for those of broader material culture studies. Its findings require us to approach questions of global material entanglement with greater nuance, even if we do not necessarily arrive at the same interpretive conclusions that Volait does. This is a book that will undoubtedly inspire a new generation of students to emulate the author’s rigorous research methodologies and think more critically about cultural appropriation and exchange.." Ellen Kenney, in: Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide 21/3 (2022)Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Illustrations Introduction: Connecting Historiographies, Challenging Assumptions 1 Things, People and Places 2 Structure of the Book 3 A Variety of Sources 4 Data Re-Identification 5 Revising the Narrative 1 Early Shows and Sales of Islamic Antiques in Paris 1 Orientalia at the Musée rétrospectif in 1865 2 Egyptian Architectural Salvage at the Exposition universelle of 1867 3 The Sale and Display of an Egyptian Collection in 1869 4 Shifting Trajectories and Contexts 2 Expanding Trades in Late Ottoman Cairo and Damascus 1 Distinctive Profiles and Iconic Artefacts 2 The kursī as Global Commodity 3 Market Adjustments 3 Conflicted Commodification in Cairo 1 Urban and Domestic Reform 2 Inducement and Resistance to Commodification 3 Contrasting Attitudes 4 Fashioning Immersive Displays in Egypt and Beyond 1 Atmospheric Interiors for Western Connoisseurs 2 The Living Culture of Reuse in Egypt 3 The Social Outreach of Revivalism 4 Islamic Art as Intrinsically Architectural 5 Guise and Disguise Before and During the Tanzimat 1 Codification and the Intricacies of Cross-Cultural Dressing in Pre-Tanzimat Times 2 Dressing Native in Nineteenth-Century Egypt and Back Home 3 Costume for History and Leisure in Painting and Photography 4 A Gendered Collecting Culture Epilogue: Diverging Routes 1 Bygone Ways of Inhabiting the Past and the World 2 Estrangements 3 Endurances References Primary Sources Websites Printed Sources Bibliography Indices Index of Personal Names Index of Place Names General Index
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Brill Art and Material Culture in the Byzantine and Islamic Worlds: Studies in Honour of Erica Cruikshank Dodd
Book SynopsisDedicated to Erica Cruikshank Dodd, Art and Material Culture in the Byzantine and Islamic Worlds offers new perspectives on the Christian and Muslim communities of the east Mediterranean from medieval to contemporary times. The contributors examine how people from diverse religious backgrounds adapted to their changing political landscapes and show that artistic patronage, consumption, and practices are interwoven with constructed narratives. The essays consider material and textual evidence for painted media, architecture, and the creative process in Byzantium, Crusader-era polities, the Ottoman empire, and the modern Middle East, thus demonstrating the importance of the past in understanding the present. Contributors: Evanthia Baboula, Lesley Jessop, Anthony Cutler, Jaroslav Folda, John Osborne, Glenn Peers, Annemarie Weyl Carr, Mat Immerzeel, Bas Snelders, Angela Andersen, May Farhat, Marcus Milwright, Rico Franses.Table of ContentsErica Cruikshank Dodd Passion, Serendipity, Curiosity, and the Making of an Art Historian Lesley Jessop Bibliography of Erica Cruikshank Dodd Note on Transliteration and Dates List of Illustrations Contributors Introduction: Diversity and Identity in the Medieval Mediterranean and Beyond Evanthia Baboula and Lesley Jessop 1 The Anaphoric Icon Observations on Some Byzantine Metapictures Anthony Cutler 2 Two Icons of the Virgin and Child Hodegetria from St. Catherine’s Monastery on Mount Sinai Byzantine or Crusader? Jaroslav Folda 3 The Thirteenth-Century Expansion of the Narthex of San Marco, Venice A Space for Dead Doges? John Osborne 4 The Refectory of the Monastery of St. Mary in the Valley of Jehoshaphat, Jerusalem Crusader Painting at Crossroads Glenn Peers 5 Orthodox Monasteries under Lusignan Rule Relations with Others, Relations with Their Own Annemarie Weyl Carr 6 Church Embellishment in Medieval Egypt, Syria, and Cyprus Patronage and Identity Mat Immerzeel and Bas Snelders 7 The Tale of the Shared Church in Diyarbakir Narrative Traditions of the Co-Use of Places of Prayer by Muslims and Christians Angela Andersen 8 Beirut’s Great ʿUmari Mosque History, Memory and Post-War Reconstruction May Farhat 9 The Traditional Crafts of the Middle East and Central Asia in the Writings of European and North American Travellers Marcus Milwright 10 To Not Know God Geometrical Abstraction and Visual Theology in Islamic Art Rico Franses Index
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Brill Approaches to the Study of Pre-Modern Arabic Anthologies
Book SynopsisLiterary anthology is a general category of adab that encompasses a range of compilations which has enjoyed tremendous popularity in Arabic literature, probably like no other literature of the world. The aim of this volume is to raise and discuss questions about the different approaches to the study of pre-modern Arabic anthologies from the perspectives of philology, religion, history, geography, and literature. Contributors: Lyall Armstrong, Carl Davila, Matthew L. Keegan, Boutheina Khaldi, Enass Khansa, Jeremy Kurzyniec, David Larsen, Nathaniel A. Miller, Suleiman A. Mourad, Hans-Peter Pökel, Isabel ToralTable of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Part 1 Compilation, Authorship, and Readership 1 The ʿIqd al-farīd by Ibn ʿAbd Rabbih: The Birth of a Classic Isabel Toral 2 “I Begin with the Kings:” Contextualizing Knowledge in Ibn Bassām’s al-Dhakhīra Enass Khansa 3 Towards a Reconstruction of Abū Naṣr al-Bāhilī’s K. Abyāt al-maʿānī David Larsen 4 A House in Words: Al-Ghuzūlī as Author’s Alternate Boutheina Khaldi Part 2 Pleasure 5 Diagramming the Bedroom Sciences in ʿAlī ibn Naṣr al-Kātib’s Jawāmiʿ al-ladhdha Jeremy Kurzyniec 6 Reflections on Song, Manuscript #144 and the Social Life of Kunnāsh al-Ḥāʾik: A Study in Social Codicology Carl Davila Part 3 Religion and Education 7 Ibn Abī al-Dunyā (d. 281/894) on Death and Dying Lyall Armstrong 8 Educating for the Sake of Equilibrium: Ibn Qutayba’s (d. 276/889) ʿUyūn al-akhbār as an Intellectual Tool for Moderating “Religion” and Piety Hans-Peter Pökel 9 Quranic Exegesis as Poetry Anthology: Heavenly Wine in the Exegesis and Fictive Maqāmas of Ibn Nāqiyā (d. 485/1092) Matthew L. Keegan Part 4 Geography 10 The Faḍāʾil of Jerusalem Books as Anthologies Suleiman A. Mourad 11 Ideological Dimensions of Geographical Anthologies: The Case of ʿUmāra al-Yamanī (d. 569/1174) in the Kharīdat al-qaṣr* Nathaniel A. Miller Index
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Brill Egypt and Syria under Mamluk Rule: Political, Social and Cultural Aspects
Book SynopsisThe studies in this volume explore central topics characterizing the political, social and economic systems of Egypt and Syria under Mamluk rule (1250-1517). Drawing on Arabic sources including archival material, poetry and chronicles as well as modern research literature, twelve leading scholars in the field analyze a vast range of issues in Mamluk history and provide new perspectives on pivotal features such as European-Mamluk diplomacy, social relationships and identity in Mamluk society, rural and urban economy and water management in late medieval Egypt and Syria, reflecting major research trends in Mamluk history over the last four decades. With contributions by Frédéric Bauden, Stuart J. Borsch, Joseph Drory, Kurt Franz, Yehosua Frenkel, Daisuke Igarashi, Yaacov Lev, Amalia Levanoni, Li Guo, Carl F. Petry, Jo Van Steenbergen, Koby Yosef.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction Part 1 Public Space 1 Protest Songs from the Streets of Mamluk Cities Li Gou 2 Travails of Prohibition: Suppression of Alcohol Use in the Mamluk Sultanate Carl F. Petry 3 Europeans and Ottomans in the Mamluk Sultanate: Notes on Terminology and Sources Yaacov Lev Part 2 Political Culture 4 The Names of the Mamlūks: Ethnic Groups and Ethnic Solidarity in the Mamluk Sultanate (648–922/1250–1517) Koby Yosef 5 Nomen Est Omen: David Ayalon, the Mamluk Sultanate, and the Reign of the Turks Jo Van Steenbergen 6 A High Officer and His Reward: The Public Activity of a Commander of the Sultan’s Arms Depot in the Early Fourteenth Century Joseph Drory Part 3 Archival Literature 7 Ikhwāniyyāt Letters in the Mamluk Period: A Document (Muṭālaʿa) Issued by al-Muʾayyad Shaykh’s Chancery and a Contribution to Mamluk Diplomatics Frédéric Bauden Part 4 Economy of Infrastructures 8 Grain, Textiles, and Demand Elasticity in Late Mamluk Egypt: A Preliminary Sketch Stuart Borsch 9 The Management of Water in Fourteenth-Century Damascus Yehoshua Frenkel 10 Urban Water Management in the Medieval Middle East: The Case of Mamluk Cairo Amalia Levanoni 11 Waqf as a Means of Securing Financial Assets: The “Self-Benefiting Waqf” in Mamluk Egypt and Syria Daisuke Igarashi Part 5 Communication Systems 12 Handlist of Stations of the Ayyubid and Mamluk Communication Systems Kurt Franz Index
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Brill Four Central Asian Shrines: A Socio-Political History of Architecture
Book SynopsisIn Central Asia, Muslim shrines have served as community centers for centuries, particularly the large urban shrines that seem, in many cases, to have served as the inspiration as well for a city’s architectural development. In Four Central Asian Shrines: A Socio-Political History of Architecture R. D. McChesney documents the histories of four such long-standing shrines—Gur-i Mir at Samarqand, Khwajah Abu Nasr Parsa Mazar at Balkh, the Noble Rawzah at Mazar-i Sharif, and the Khirqat al-Nabi at Qandahar. In all four cases the creation and evolution of the architecture of these shrines is traced through narratives about their social and political histories and in the past century and a half, through the photographic record.
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Brill A Handbook of Modern Arabic Historical Scholarship on the Ancient and Medieval Periods
Book SynopsisA Handbook of Modern Arabic Historical Scholarship on the Ancient and Medieval Periods presents 16 studies about modern Arab academic scholarship on the Ancient and Medieval Worlds covering disciplines as diverse as Assyriology and Mamluk studies as well as historiographical schools in the Arab World. This unique work is the first of its kind in any language. It is an important resource for scholars and students of the Ancient Near East and North Africa, Classical and Byzantine studies, and medieval Islamic history who would like to learn more about the work done by their colleagues in the Arab World in these fields over the last 7 decades and to benefit from Arabic secondary sources in their research. دليل الدراسات العربية الحديثة حول العصور القديمة والوسيطة يحتوي هذا الكتاب على 61 بحثا حول الدراسات الأكاديمية المتعلّقة بتاريخ العصور القديمة والوسيطة في العالم العربي، وتغطي هذه الأبحاث تخصصات علمية متنوعة منها الدراسات المسمارية والدراسات المملوكية، إضافةً إلى بعض المدارس التاريخية العربية المعاصرة. الكتاب فريد من نوعه والأول في كافة اللغات، ويُشكّل مصدرا هاما للباحثين والطلبة في دراسات الشرق الأدنى القديم وشمال إفريقيا في العصور القديمة والدراسات الكلاسيكية والبيزنطية والتاريخ الإسلامي الوسيط، وكذلك للمهتمين بعلمي التاريخ والآثار في الدول العربية. Contributors Emad Abou-Ghazi, Al-Amin Abouseada, Youcef Aibeche, Sidi Mohammed Alaioud, Abdulhadi Alajmi, Allaoua Amara, Lotfi Ben Miled, Brahim El Kadiri Boutchich, Usama Gad, Azeddine Guessous, Fayza Haikal, Hani Hamza, Laith Hussein, Nasir al-Kaabi, Khaled Kchir, Mohammed Maraqten, Amr Omar, Abdelaziz Ramadan.Table of ContentsEnglish Preface المقدمة Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Part 1: The Study of the Ancient World 1 Assyriologie in Irak: Ein kurzer Überblick Laith M. Hussein 2 Egyptian Egyptology, from Its Birth in the Late Nineteenth Century until the Early 2000s: The Founding Generations Fayza Haikal and Amr Omar 3 Historiography of Pre-Islamic Arabia: Arab Scholars and Their Contributions to the Writing of the History of Ancient Yemen Mohammed Maraqten 4 Contributions des chercheurs marocains dans l’enseignement de l’histoire ancienne Sidi Mohammed Alaioud 5 Les sciences de l’antiquité en l’Algérie : bilan et perspectives Youcef Aibeche 6 Receptions of Classical Antiquity in Egypt and the Arab World: Parallel Narratives, Invisible Corpora and a Troubled Archive Usama Gad Part 2: The Study of the Middle Ages 7 The Study of Byzantine History in Egypt (1945–2017) Abdelaziz Ramadan 8 Hichem Djaït, maître d’une école historique pour l’étude de l’Islam Khaled Kchir 9 The Umayyads in Contemporary Arabic Historical Writing Abdulhadi Alajmi 10 Historical Writing in Modern Iraq: Personalities and Trends Nasir al-Kaabi 11 L’histoire sociale et économique médiévale de Al-Maġrib et Al-Andalus chez les chercheurs arabes Brahim El Kadiri Boutchich et Azeddine Guessous 12 Les travaux d’histoire médiévale dans les universités algériennes: bilan et tendances actuelles Allaoua Amara 13 Mamluk Studies in the Arab World Emad Abou-Ghazi 14 Modern Egyptian Arabic Scholarship on Mamluk Arts and Architecture (1250–1517) Hani Hamza 15 Les études académiques arabes en histoire concernant « les relations Maghreb-Machreq » au Moyen ge Lotfi Ben Miled 16 Modern Arabic Historical Scholarship on Medieval Europe: A Bibliographical Study Al-Amin Abouseada Index
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Brill Religion, Culture, and Politics in Pre-Islamic Iran: Collected Essays
Book SynopsisIn Religion, Culture, and Politics in Pre-Islamic Iran, Bruce Lincoln offers a vast overview on different aspects of the Indo-Iranian, Zoroastrian and Pre-Islamic mythologies, religions and cultural issues. The book is organized in four sections according to the body of evidence they engage most directly: Avestan, Old Persian, Pahlavi, and Iranian materials in comparison with other data, including studies of myths, especially those with cosmogonic implications, ritual practices, cosmological constructions of space and time, points of intersection between religion, ethics, law, and politics, ideological aspects of scientific and medical theorizing, social organization and gender relations, and other diverse topics.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures List of Tables part 1: Indo-Iranian, Avestan, and General Iranian 1 Human Unity and Diversity in Zoroastrian Mythology 2 The One and the Many in Iranian Creation Myths 3 The Cosmo-Logic of Persian Demonology 4 Toward a more Materialist Ethics: Vermin and Poison in Zoroastrian Thought 5 Before Religion? The Zoroastrian Concept of Daēnā and Two Myths about It part 2: Old Persian and Achaemenid 6 Apocalyptic Temporality and Politics in the Ancient World 7 Religion, Empire, and the Spectre of Orientalism: A Recent Controversy in Achaemenid Studies 8 Persian Archers and Paradise Gardens: Projecting Power in the Achaemenid Empire part 3: Pahlavi 9 Physiological Speculation and Social Patterning in a Pahlavi Text 10 Embryological Speculation and Gender Politics in a Pahlavi Text 11 Pahlavi kirrēnīdan and Traces of Iranian Creation Mythology 12 Cēšmag, the Lie, and the Logic of Zoroastrian Demonology 13 Anomaly, Science, and Religion: Treatment of the Planets in Medieval Zoroastrianism 14 Of Dirt, Diet, and Religious Others: A Theme in Zoroastrian Thought part 4: Iranian Materials in Comparative Perspective 15 The Indo-European Myth of Creation 16 Treatment of Hair and Fingernails among the Indo Europeans 17 The Center of the World and the Origins of Life 18 Hegelian Meditations on “Indo-European” Myths 19 From Purity to Law: Avestan yaoždā and Latin iūs 20 From Ritual Practice to Esoteric Knowledge: The Problem of the Magi Bibliography Index of Words Index of Sources Index of Subjects
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Brill The Orient in Utrecht: Adriaan Reland (1676-1718), Arabist, Cartographer, Antiquarian and Scholar of Comparative Religion
Book SynopsisAdriaan Reland (1676-1718), Arabist, Cartographer, Antiquarian and Scholar of Comparative Religion covers the intellectual achievements of a remarkable man: Adriaan Reland, professor of Oriental languages (1701) and Hebrew Antiquities (1713) at the University of Utrecht from 1701 to 1718. Although he never travelled beyond the borders of his home country, he had an astonishingly broad worldview. The contributions in this volume illuminate Reland’s many accomplishments and follow his scholarly trajectory as an Orientalist, a linguist, a cartographer, a poet, and a historian of comparative religions. Reland, although a devout Protestant, believed that religions should be examined objectively on their own terms with the help of reliable and authentic documents, which would dispel the prejudices of the past. Contributors: Lot Brouwer, Ulrich Groetsch,Toon van Hal, Jason Harris, Bart Jaski, Christian Lange, Richard van Leeuwen, Remke Kruk, Anna Pytlowany, Henk J. van Rinsum, Dirk Sacré, Arnoud Vrolijk, Tobias Winnerling and Jan Just WitkamTable of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction: Adriaan Reland (1676–1718): Early Modern Humanist, Philologist and Scholar of Comparative Religion Bart Jaski, Christian Lange, Anna Pytlowany, and Henk J. van Rinsum part 1: Reland in His Time 1 Adriaan Reland (1676–1718) and His Formative Years A Prelude to De Religione Mohammedica Henk J. van Rinsum 2 Adriaan Reland’s Legacy as a Scholar of Islam Lot Brouwer 3 Follow the Light: Adriaan Reland (1676–1718) on Muhammad Christian Lange 4 Adriaan Reland and Dutch Scholarship on Islam Scholarly and Religious Visions of the Muslim Pilgrimage Richard van Leeuwen part 2: Reland and the World 5 The First Dutch Translation of Ḥayy ibn Yaqẓān, Reland’s Annotated Version and the Mysterious Translator S.D.B. Remke Kruk and Arnoud Vrolijk 6 Adriaan Reland’s Fascination with the Languages of the World Toon van Hal 7 Digging without Dirt: Adriaan Reland’s Explorations of the Holy Land Ulrich Groetsch 8 ‘Geleerdster der Landbeschryveren’? Adriaan Reland Mapping Persia and Japan, 1705–1715 Tobias Winnerling 9 Adriaan Reland, Galatea: An Introduction Dirk Sacré 10 Adriaan Reland: A Life in Fragments Anna Pytlowany Part 3: Collections, Manuscripts, and Seals 11 The Manuscript Collection of Adriaan Reland in the University Library of Utrecht and Beyond Bart Jaski 12 The Adriaan Reland Collection at Leiden University Library Antoine Galland Autographs, Oriental Manuscripts and the Enigmas of the 1761 Auction Catalogue Arnoud Vrolijk 13 Adriaan Reland on Islamic Gems and Seals An Annotated Translation of the Latin Text Jan Just Witkam Appendix 1: The Works of Adriaan Reland Compiled by Henk J. van Rinsum Appendix 2: The Manuscripts of Adriaan Reland Compiled by Bart Jaski Appendix 3: The Letters of Adriaan Reland Compiled by Tobias Winnerling Appendix 4: Relandus—Elegies for Galatea, no. 2 Translated from the Latin by Jason Harris Appendix 5: Heinrich Sike’s 1696 Congratulatory Poem for Adriaan Reland Translated from the Arabic by Christian Lange Appendix 6: The Maps of Adriaan Reland Compiled by Tobias Winnerling Index of Names
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Brill Arabic Christianity between the Ottoman Levant and Eastern Europe
Book SynopsisThis volume sheds light on the historical background and political circumstances that encouraged the dialogue between Eastern-European Christians and Arabic-speaking Christians of the Middle East in Ottoman times, as well as the means employed in pursuing this dialogue for several centuries. The ties that connected Eastern European Christianity with Arabic-speaking Christians in the 16th-19th centuries are the focus of this book. Contributors address the Arabic-speaking hierarchs’ and scholars’ connections with patriarchs and rulers of Constantinople, the Romanian Principalities, Kyiv, and the Tsardom of Moscow, the circulation of literature, models, iconography, and knowhow between the Middle East and Eastern Europe, and research dedicated to them by Eastern European scholars. Contributors are Stefano Di Pietrantonio, Ioana Feodorov, Serge Frantsouzoff, Bernard Heyberger, Elena Korovtchenko, Sofia Melikyan, Charbel Nassif, Constantin A. Panchenko, Yulia Petrova, Vera Tchentsova, Mihai Ţipău and Carsten Walbiner.
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Brill Culture matérielle et contacts diplomatiques entre l’Occident latin, Byzance et l’Orient islamique (XIe–XVIe siècle)
Book SynopsisCulture matérielle et contacts diplomatiques rassemble quatorze études qui traitent de la culture matérielle en relation avec les échanges diplomatiques qui ont marqué un espace géographique couvrant la zone méditerranéenne entre le XIe et le XVIe siècles. The present volume brings together fourteen studies that deal with material culture in relation to diplomatic exchanges in the Mediterranean area between the eleventh and the sixteenth centuries.Table of ContentsAvant-propos Liste des illustrations et des tableaux Abréviations Liste des auteurs 1 Culture matérielle et relations diplomatiques entre l’ Occident latin, Byzance et l’ Orient islamique (xie-xvie siècle) : une introduction Frédéric Bauden Première partie Ambassades 2 Un siècle de voyages diplomatiques byzantins (1261-1371) Élisabeth Malamut 3 Les missions diplomatiques des soufis aux xiie et xiiie siècles : organisation et aspects matériels Motia Zouihal 4 Diplomatie sur le terrain : la première mission diplomatique florentine en territoire mamelouk Alessandro Rizzo 5 Au mépris de la diplomatie : l’ assassinat de l’ ambassadeur du sultan à Khirokitia Cécile Khalifa 6 Diplomacy at Its Zenith : Material Culture of Mamluk-Timurid Diplomacy in the Ninth/Fifteenth Century Malika Dekkiche 7 La Lettre comme illusion de dialogue : regards croisés à propos de rapports diplomatiques entre la Castille et les Timourides (1401-1406) Marisa Bueno Deuxième partie Cadeaux 8 Aspects matériels du don d’ animaux exotiques dans les échanges diplomatiques Thierry Buquet 9 Gift Exchanges and Traces of Material Life in Mamluk Diplomacy : First Notes on Embassies from Egypt to Italy and Italian Missions to Cairo (1421-1512) Beatrice Saletti 10 Interpreting the Veneto-Mamluk Gift Exchanges of 1489-90 Jesse J. Hysell 11 Transporter des livres lors d’ une ambassade : l’ exemple arménien d’ après l’ étude de quelques colophons de manuscrits (xiie-xve s.) Isabelle Augé 12 Culture matérielle et échanges diplomatiques des États latins d’ Orient avec l’ Occident latin, le monde byzantin et l’ Orient islamique : l’ exemple des manuscrits enluminés croisés Émilie Maraszak Troisième partie Documents 13 Lists of Gifts in the Mamluk Diplomatic Tradition Frédéric Bauden 14 Mamlūk Diplomatic Letters in the Context of Arabic Epistolography Daniel Potthast 15 Négocier à la cour du sultan hafside : le dernier traité de paix conclu avec la Commune de Pise (800/1397) Mohamed Ouerfelli Conclusions 16 La matérialité des échanges diplomatiques : remarques conclusives Nicolas Drocourt et Stéphane Péquignot Index
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Brill Ḥāwī l-Funūn wa-Salwat al-Maḥzūn, Encompasser of the Arts and Consoler of the Grief-Stricken by Ibn al-Ṭaḥḥān: Annotated Translation and Commentary
Book SynopsisḤāwī l-Funūn (Encompasser of the Arts) of Ibn al-Ṭaḥḥān (d. ca. 1057) is a medieval Arabic music dictionary that complements other sources because of the practical knowledge of the author who was an accomplished singer, lutenist and composer. The first part in 80 chapters deals with compositions; voice production and characteristics, unison and duet singing, taking care of the voice; preludes, ornaments, ṭarab; the importance of tonality; approaches to teaching; musical and extra-musical behavior at the court; names of Syrian Fatimid and Ishshīdid singers. The second part in 22 chapters includes lute manufacturing, frets placement, stringing and tuning; 47 rhythmic ornaments, names and definitions of rhythmic and melodic modes; types of dances; descriptions of 12 instruments.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Part 1: The Theoretical Arts Introduction Chapter 1: The Preference of Speech over Muteness Chapter 2: The Gems of Philosophers’ Aphorisms Chapter 3: On the Sophistication of Melodies Chapter 4: The Meanings of Melodies Chapter 5: Composing Melodies That Suit the Poems Chapter 6: The Definition of Singing and Its Components Chapter 7: The Definition of the Voice and Its Production Chapter 8: Poetic and Musical Divisions Chapter 9: The Origin of Arabic Singing Chapter 10: Favoring Older Poetry over the Modern Chapter 11: Favoring Older Singing over the Modern Chapter 12: The Character, Effects, and Types of Melodies Chapter 13: The Names of the First Male Singers in the Jāhiliyya Chapter 14: The Names of the First Songstresses in the Jāhiliyya Chapter 15: The Names of the First Male Singers in Early Islam Chapter 16: The Names of the First Songstresses in Early Islam in addition to the Ones I Have Already Mentioned Chapter 17: The Names of the Effeminates in Early Islam Chapter 18: The First to Notate Songs Chapter 19: The Grand, Medium, and Smaller Compositions Chapter 20: Ṭarab and Its Causes Chapter 21: The Tonalities in Singing, Their Arrangements and Types Chapter 22: Vowels and Consonants Chapter 23: Testing the Essences of the Voices Chapter 24: Tricks Used to Bring Throats in Tune with the Strings Chapter 25: The Names of Voices (ḥalq), Their Good and Bad Qualities Chapter 26: Beautiful (mulaḥ) Vocal Music, Techniques, and Qualities Chapter 27: Tricks Used in Stealing Songs and Precautions to Prevent This Chapter 28: Food and Drinks That Are Beneficial to the Throats and Those That Are Not Chapter 29: Locations That Are Beneficial for Voices and Improve Them, and Those That Diminish and Spoil Them Chapter 30: The Ranks of Boon Companions and Singers Chapter 31: Instruments That Overwhelm the Voices and Other Factors Chapter 32: The Care of Throats in General, and before and after Puberty Chapter 33: On Knowing the Reasons Musicians Get Off Rhythm Chapter 34: Approaches to Teaching and How to Apply Them Chapter 35: The Reasons for Poor Intonation and Its Characteristics Chapter 36: Planning and Determining Where and How Much to Breathe Chapter 37: Murāsala, mubāyana, and mumāthala Chapter 38: Syncopation and Guidance to It Chapter 39: Twittering and Its Derivation Chapter 40: The Definition of tarkhīm Chapter 41: Tarjīʿ and Its Characteristics Chapter 42: Nashīds and Their Types Chapter 43: What Stimulates the Singer To Be Active and What Makes Him Sluggish Chapter 44: Opening Songs in the Company of Kings Chapter 45: How to Arrange and Order the Songs in the majālis Chapter 46: Good Qualities [to Have] While Singing Chapter 47: Good and Bad Song Themes Chapter 48: Who Are Better: The Singers of Persia, India, or Byzantium Chapter 49: Mention of the Male Singers in the Umayyad Era Chapter 50: Mention of the Songstresses in the Umayyad Era Chapter 51: Mention of the Male Singers in the ʿAbbāsid Era Chapter 52: Mention of the Songstresses in the ʿAbbāsid Era Chapter 53: Mention of the Slave Singers and Songstresses in the ʿAbbāsid Era Chapter 54: Mention of the Male Singers and Songstresses in the Ikhshīdid Era in Egypt Chapter 55: Mention of the Male Singers in the ʿAlawid Era in Egypt Chapter 56: Mention of the Songstresses in the ʿAlawid Era in Egypt Chapter 57: Mention of the Male Slave Singers in the ʿAlawid Era in Egypt Chapter 58: Mention of the Male Syrian Singers Chapter 59: Mention of the Syrian Songstresses Chapter 60: Mention of the Umayyad Caliphs Who Sang Chapter 61: Mention of the ʿAbbāsid Caliphs Who Sang Chapter 62: Mention of the ʿAbbāsid Caliphs’ Sons Who Sang Chapter 63: Mention of the ʿAbbāsid Caliphs’ Daughters Who Sang Chapter 64: Mention of the Viziers, Princes, and Their Sons Who Sang Chapter 65: Mention of the Male and Female ṭunbūr Players Chapter 66: On the Proper Behavior to Praise Men and Women When They Reach a State of ṭArab Chapter 67: Mention of the One Hundred Chosen Songs Chapter 68: The Permissibility of Singing Chapter 69: The Qualities of a Skilled Singer Chapter 70: Tools to Use to Test the Person Who Pretends to Know the Science of Music Chapter 71: Bad Intonation among Men and Women Chapter 72: Higher and Lower Octaves Chapter 73: How to Choose Would-Be Singers [Girls and Boys] in Order to Teach Them Singing Chapter 74: Behavior before Kings and Their Subjects Chapter 75: Sayings and Poems of Praise about Male Singers and Songstresses in the Past Chapter 76: Satirical Poems about Male Singers and Songstresses in Earlier Times Chapter 77: Poems of Praise about Male Singers in Our Era Chapter 78: Satirical Poems about Male Singers [and Songstresses] in Our Era Chapter 79: The Compositional Output of Male Singers in Earlier Times Chapter 80: Stories about Male Singers in Earlier Times and Their Pedigree Part 2: The Practical Arts Chapter 1: The Meaning of the Word Music Chapter 2: The Inventor of the Lute and Differing Views about It Chapter 3: The Dimensions of the Lute, Its Material, Construction, and Names of Its Various Parts Chapter 4: The Frets, Their Names, Placements, Tying Them on the Finger Board, and Their Functions Chapter 5: The Strings, Their Characters, Names, Choosing Them, and Stringing Them on the Lute Chapter 6: The Names of Rhythmic Modes (ṭarīqa), Their Types (jins), Their Cycles, and Number of Attacks Chapter 7: The State of the Notes, Their Qualities, Quantities, Numbers, and Placements on the Strings of the Lute Chapter 8: The Genuses of Notes Used at the Beginning of a Piece, and Types of Movements through the Frets Chapter 9: The Rhythmic Modes in Use, [and the Player’s] Motions and Required Matters Chapter 10: The Best Person to Have Played the Persian Lute, and the Number of Persian Modes Chapter 11: The Best Person to Have Played the Arabic Lute and to Have Sung Arabic Songs Accompanying Himself Chapter 12: The Description of the Lute, Its Praise, Preferring It to All Other Instruments That Accompany Singing, What It Resembles, and Poems Composed about It Chapter 13: The Reason for Setting the zīr String at the Bottom, and the bamm at the Top Chapter 14: Tuning and Detuning the Strings Chapter 15: The Beautiful Techniques (mulaḥ) That Affect the Rhythms and Rhythmic Modes, Their Numbers and Types Chapter 16: On Dance, Its Types and Names [Ibn al-Ṭaḥḥān’s Passage Quoted by al-Tīfāshī] Chapter 17: [On the] Disagreement between [Isḥāq b.] Ibrāhīm al-Mawṣilī and Ibrāhīm b. al-Mahdī about the Rhythmic Modes Chapter 18: The Definitions of al-surayjī, al-mākhūrī, al-mujannab, and al-mukhālif Chapter 19: The Definitions of al-khusruwānī, al-ṭarkhānī, al-ḥumayrī, and khafīf hazaj Chapter 20: On Choosing the Proper Instrument to Fit Various Throats Chapter 21: Mention of the ṭunbūr, miʿzafa, rabāb, mizmār, ṭabl, urghun, qīthāra, sulyāq, duff, ṣalīkh, and kankala Chapter 22: On Which Particular Genuses of Modes Should be Used in Which Types of Melodies; Modes Used Plainly (sādhij) without Mixing (tamzīj) and without Moving [from One to Another] are Unpleasant and Do Not Cause ṭarab Appendix: Ibn Khurdādhbih’s Passage Quoted by al-Tīfāshī. The Number of Types of Dances, Nations, and Regions That Created Them Arabic-English Glossary Chart Bibliography Index of People and Places Index of Terms and Subjects
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Brill Practising Community in Urban and Rural Eurasia (1000–1600): Comparative and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Book SynopsisThis volume explores social practices of framing, building and enacting community in urban-rural relations across medieval Eurasia. Introducing fresh comparative perspectives on practices and visions of community, it offers a thorough source-based examination of medieval communal life in its sociocultural complexity and diversity in Central and Southeast Europe, South Arabia and Tibet. As multi-layered social phenomena, communities constantly formed, restructured and negotiated internal allegiances, while sharing a topographic living space and joint notions of belonging. The volume challenges disciplinary paradigms and proposes an interdisciplinary set of low-threshold categories and tools for cross-cultural comparison of urban and rural communities in the Global Middle Ages. Contributors are Maaike van Berkel, Hubert Feiglstorfer, Andre Gingrich, Károly Goda, Elisabeth Gruber, Johann Heiss, Kateřina Horníčková, Eirik Hovden, Christian Jahoda, Christiane Kalantari, Odile Kommer, Fabian Kümmeler, Christina Lutter, Judit Majorossy, Ermanno Orlando, and Noha Sadek.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures Abbreviations Notes on Contributors 1 Practising Community in Urban and Rural Eurasia: Introduction and Practical Approaches Elisabeth Gruber and Fabian Kümmeler PART 1: Practising Community in Urban and Rural Spaces 2 Symbols, Signs and Acts of Social Cohesion in the Austrian Danube Region Elisabeth Gruber 3 Legal, Spatial and Ritual Practices and Visions of Community in Late Medieval Venice: Comparative Perspectives Ermanno Orlando 4 Balancing a Community’s Food and Water Supply: The Social Impact of Rural-Urban Interdependences in Korčula (Dalmatia) and Ṣaʿda (Yemen) Fabian Kümmeler and Johann Heiss 5 Conceptualizing City-Hinterland Relations and Governance: Medieval Sanaa as a Case Study Eirik Hovden, Johann Heiss and Odile Kommer PART 2: Representing Community through Public Buildings and Performative Culture 6 Public Buildings and/as Symbolic Framing of Urban-cum-Rural Communal Practice in Western Tibet Christian Jahoda 7 Material Culture in the Western Himalayas: Mandalic Settlement Patterns and Material Components of the Ritual Space Hubert Feiglstorfer 8 Image Construction and Community Building in the Spiritual Career of the Buddha in Western Tibet from the Eleventh–Thirteenth Century Christiane Kalantari 9 Visualising Communities: The Canonry of Třeboň (Southern Bohemia) Kateřina Horníčková 10 The Monuments of Rasulid Taʿizz: The Physical Construction of Power and Piety Noha Sadek PART 3: Practising Community – Forms of Integration and Differentiation 11 Defining Rules of Rural-Urban Flows: Endowments, Authority and Law in Medieval Zaydi Yemen in a Comparative Perspective Eirik Hovden 12 Constructing Communal Memory through Donations in Medieval East-Central Europe Judit Majorossy 13 Notes on Foundations and Endowments in Historical Western Tibet (Late Tenth–Fifteenth Century) Christian Jahoda 14 Binding the Bonds: Metropolitan Modes of Eucharistic Confraternal and Processional Life in Late Medieval East-Central Europe Károly Goda 15 “To Extol Knowledge”: Celebrating the Completion of Books in Rasulid Yemen Johann Heiss 16 Building Community with Processions and Endowments Maaike van Berkel PART 4: Conclusions 17 Urban Patterns of Belonging by Comparison: Assessing a Work in Progress Christina Lutter 18 Nodal Conglomerates and Their Visions: Comparative Reflections on Urban-Rural Settings across Asia and Europe (1000–1600 CE) Andre Gingrich Bibliography Index of Geographical Names Index of Persons
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Brill Between Memory and Power: The Syrian Space under
Book SynopsisBetween Memory and Power intends to demonstrate that a robust culture of historical writing existed in 2nd/8th century Syria, and to offer new methodological approaches to access this now lost history, torn between memory and oblivion. By studying the making of Umayyad heroes or Abbasid origins-myths, this book aims to reveal the successive meanings granted to Syrian history, and to identify the various layers of historical writing and rewriting during the first centuries of Islam. Taken together, these elements make possible a history of meanings of the very space of Syria, articulated around power and its expression, which grants a clear coherence to the period, extending well beyond the dynastic caesura of 132/750.Table of ContentsPreface to the English Translation (2022) Acknowledgements to the French Edition (2011) Translator’s Note List of Illustrations Abbreviations Introduction 1 A Time of Writings and Rewritings: Writing History in the Syrian Space 1.1 Narrative Islamic Sources and the Question of Their Transmission 1.2 Writing History in the Syrian Space under the Late Umayyads and Early Abbasids 2 A Time of Writings and Rewritings: Historiographic Filters and Vulgates 2.1 In Search of Umayyad Historiographic Projects 2.2 Toward a Historiographic Vulgate: The History of Syria Rewritten in Abbasid Iraq 3 A Time of Writings and Rewritings: Sources on the Margins of the Historiographic Vulgate? 3.1 Islamic Sources on the Margins of the Vulgate? 3.2 Non-Muslim Sources: “External” or “Eastern” Sources? 4 The Second/Eight-Century Syrian Space: Between Memory and Oblivion 4.1 Memoria as an Object of Study 4.2 Umayyad Memoria 4.3 Spaces of Memory 5 The Creation of Umayyad Heroes Maslama B. ʿAbd Al-Malik, Combat Hero 5.1 The Siege of Constantinople: Military Failure, Narrative Success 5.2 From Hero of the Byzantine Frontier to Islamic Hero? 5.3 Eschatology and the Creation of Heroes 6 The Creation of Umayyad Heroes: ʿUmar B. ʿAbd Al-ʿAziz, the “Holy” Caliph 6.1 ʿUmar II in the Islamic Tradition 6.2 ʿUmar II in the Christian Sources 6.3 Constructing the Image of the Pious Caliph: Stages and Conditions 7 Interpreting the Abbasid Revolution in the Syrian Space 7.1 The Abbasid Revolution: Medieval and Modern Vulgates 7.2 Syrian Memories of the Abbasid Revolution 7.3 ʿAbd Allāh B. ʿAlī and the Allure of a Syrian Abbasid Caliphate? 8 Exercising Power in the Syrian Space in the Second/Eighth Century: A History of Meanings 8.1 Patrimonialism and the Creation of a Caliphal Landscape 8.2 The Mobile Exercise of Power 8.3 Abbasid Reconfigurations Conclusion Sources Bibliography Index
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Brill Johann Ernst Gerhard (1621-1668): The Life and Work of a Seventeenth-Century Orientalist
Book SynopsisIn this biography of Johann Ernst Gerhard (1621-1668) Asaph Ben-Tov offers a study of a now forgotten yet unusually well documented seventeenth-century orientalist. Gerhard, the son of the famous Lutheran theologian Johann Gerhard, is not a towering figure but rather a fascinating representative of the academic culture of his day, especially of seventeenth-century oriental studies. His extant Nachlassallows a close scrutiny of the life and work of an early modern scholar, focussing on his training, travels, the ambitious Harmonia linguarum orientalium (1647) and other works, and the interests he fostered as a professor of history and theology in Jena. It aims to shed light on the broad and understudied field of oriental studies in seventeenth-century Germany.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Introduction: A Biography of a Seventeenth-Century Orientalist: Its Sources and Significance for Understanding Oriental Studies in Early Modern Germany 1 The Making of a Seventeenth-Century Orientalist 1 First Academic Appearances 2 Studying Oriental Languages 3 Studying Ethiopic in Jena 4 Commonplace Learning 2 Early Endeavours 1 His Father’s Editor 2 Inherited Enemies: The Case of Barthold Nihus 3 History 4 Biblical Scholarship and Antiquarianism 5 The Syriac Bible 3 Harmonia Linguarum Orientalium 1 Gerhard and the Tradition of Harmonic Linguistics 2 Harmonia Linguarum Orientalium (1647) 3 Some Immediate Reactions to the Harmonia 4 Fata libelli 4 Travels in the Republic of Letters 1 Altdorf, Nuremberg, and Regensburg 2 Iter ad mare balticum – A Tour of War-Ravaged Northern Germany (1642) 3 The Grand Tour: Itinerarium Belgicum (1650–1651) 5 Professor of History (1652–1655) 1 Cyrus, Athens, Alexander the Great, and the Mirror of Princes 6 Umbra in luce: A Fragmented World History of Religion 1 Professor of Theology 2 The Armenian, Muscovite, Coptic, and Maronite Churches 3 Armenia (1665) 4 The Muscovites (1665) 5 The Copts (1666) and the Maronites (1668) 6 Beyond Church History 7 Islam 8 Umbra in luce (1667) 9 An Unexpected Prelude: Justinian von Weltz (1621–1668?) and His Mission to the Heathens 10 Shadow, Light, and Penumbra 11 Christian Hoffmann’s Umbra in luce (1667) A Hieroglyphic Farewell and Concluding Comments Appendix: A Selection of Letters to Gerhard from Hiob Ludolf and Johann Zechendorff in the Gerhardina Collection Bibliography Index
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Brill The Presence of the Prophet in Early Modern and Contemporary Islam: Volume 1, The Prophet Between Doctrine, Literature and Arts: Historical Legacies and Their Unfolding
Book SynopsisThe three-volume series titled The Presence of the Prophet in Early Modern and Contemporary Islam, is the first attempt to explore the dynamics of the representation of the Prophet Muhammad in the course of Muslim history until the present. This first collective volume outlines his figure in the early Islamic tradition, and its later transformations until recent times that were shaped by Prophet-centered piety and politics. A variety of case studies offers a unique overview of the interplay of Sunnī amd Shīʿī doctrines with literature and arts in the formation of his image. They trace the integrative and conflictual qualities of a “Prophetic culture”, in which the Prophet of Islam continues his presence among the Muslim believers. Contributors Hiba Abid, Nelly Amri, Caterina Bori, Francesco Chiabotti, Rachida Chih, Adrien de Jarmy, Daniel De Smet, Mohamed Thami El Harrak, Brigitte Foulon, Denis Gril, Christiane Gruber, Tobias Heinzelmann, David Jordan, Pierre Lory, Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen, Samuela Pagani, Alexandre Papas, Michele Petrone, Stefan Reichmuth, Meryem Sebti, Dilek Sarmis, Matthieu Terrier, Jean-Jacques Thibon, Marc Toutant, Ruggiero Vimercati Sanseverino.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors The Presence of the Prophet: General Introduction Rachida Chih, David Jordan and Stefan Reichmuth The Prophet between Doctrine, Literature and Arts: Introduction to Volume I Denis Gril, Stefan Reichmuth and Dilek Sarmis part 1: Images of the Prophet in Qurʾān, Ḥadīth, and Sīra/Maghāzī, and their Cultural Embedding 1 The Prophet in the Qurʾān An Attempt at a Synthesis Denis Gril 2 Dating the Emergence of the Warrior-Prophet in Maghāzī Literature Second/Eighth to the Fourth/Tenth Century Adrien de Jarmy 3 Ḥadīth Culture and Ibn Taymiyya’s Controversial Legacy in Early Fifteenth Century Damascus Ibn Nāṣir al-Dīn al-Dimashqī and His al-Radd Al-Wāfir (d. 842/1438) Caterina Bori 4 “There Is Matter for Thought” The Episode of the Night Journey and the Heavenly Ascension in the Sīra ḥalabiyya, at the Beginning of the Seventeenth Century Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen part 2: Towards a Theology of Devotion to the Prophet in Sunnī Islam 5 Theology of Veneration of the Prophet Muḥammad Doctrine and Love in the Shifāʾ of al-Qāḍī ʿIyāḍ (d. 544/1149) Ruggero Vimercati Sanseverino 6 “Special Features of the Prophet” (Khaṣāʾiṣ nabawiyya) From Jurisprudence to Devotion Michele Petrone 7 Modèle prophétique et modèle de sainteté dans le soufisme ancien Quelques exemples Pierre Lory 8 L’éducation par « la lumière de la foi du Prophète » selon le shaykh ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Dabbāgh (m. 1332/1719) D’après le Kitāb al-Ibrīz de Aḥmad b. al-Mubārak (m. 1156/1743) Jean-Jacques Thibon part 3: The Prophet in Shīʿī Doctrine and in Islamic Philosophy 9 The Prophet Muḥammad in Imāmī Shīʿism Between History and Metaphysics Mathieu Terrier 10 The Prophet Muḥammad and His Heir ʿAlī Their Historical, Metahistorical and Cosmological Roles in Ismāʿīlī Shīʿism Daniel De Smet 11 La dimension éthique et politique de la révélation prophétique chez les falāsifa Meryem Sebti part 4: The Splendour of Words: Exaltation of the Prophet in Islamic Literatures 12 “I Have Mandated It to Fly to You on the Wings of My Ardent Desire” Letter to the Prophet Written by Lisān al-Dīn ibn al-Khaṭīb (d. 776/1375) on Behalf of the Naṣrid Ruler of Granada Nelly Amri 13 Les poèmes d’éloge du Prophète de Lisān al-Dīn Ibn al-Khāṭīb (713-776/1313-1374 ou 75) Brigitte Foulon 14 Présence du Prophète dans l’art du panégyrique (madīḥ) et de l’audition spirituelle (samāʿ) Approche thématique Mohamed Thami El Harrak 15 Timurid Accounts of Ascension (miʿrāj) in Türkī One Prophet, Two Models Marc Toutant 16 Miʿrāciyye The Ascension of the Prophet in Ottoman Literature from the Fifteenth to the Twentieth Century Alexandre Papas part 5: The Prophet in the Mirror of the Verbal, Scriptural and Pictorial Imagery: Aesthetics and Devotion 17 The Reality and Image of the Prophet according to the Theologian and Poet ʿAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī Samuela Pagani 18 The Prophet as a Sacred Spring: Late Ottoman Hilye Bottles Christiane Gruber 19 Visualising the Prophet – Rhetorical and Graphic Aspects of Three Ottoman-Turkish Poems Süleymān Çelebi’s Vesīlet en-Necāt, Yazıcıoğlı’s Risāle-i Muḥammedīye, and Ḫāḳānī’s Ḥilye Tobias Heinzelmann 20 The World of al-Qandūsī (d. 1278/1861) Prophetology and Calligraphy in Morocco During the First Half of the Nineteenth Century Francesco Chiabotti and Hiba Abid Index
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Brill Professional Mobility in Islamic Societies (700-1750): New Concepts and Approaches
Book SynopsisThe present edited volume offers a collection of new concepts and approaches to the study of mobility in pre-modern Islamic societies. It includes nine remarkable case studies from different parts of the Islamic world that examine the professional mobility within the literati and, especially, the social-cum-cultural group of Muslim scholars (ʿulamāʾ) between the eighth and the eighteenth centuries. Based on individual case studies and quantitative mining of biographical dictionaries and other primary sources from Islamic Iberia, North and West Africa, Umayyad Damascus and the Hejaz, Abbasid Baghdad, Ayyubid and Mamluk Syria and Egypt, various parts of the Seljuq Empire, and Hotakid Iran, this edited volume presents professional mobility as a defining characteristic of pre-modern Islamic societies. Contributors Mehmetcan Akpinar, Amal Belkamel, Mehdi Berriah, Nadia Maria El Cheikh, Adday Hernández López, Konrad Hirschler, Mohamad El-Merheb, Marta G. Novo, M. A. H. Parsa, M. Syifa A. Widigdo.Trade Review"Im Ganzen ist der Band ein gelungener und lesenswerter Beitrag zur Forschung und bietet selbst für besonders häufig studierte Fälle, wie z.B. Ibn Taymiyya, noch neue Erkenntnisse. Dazu gehört, dass die Bewertung von Mobilität immer im Kontext der jeweiligen Gesellschaft bzw. auch von persönlichen Motiven betrachtet werden muss....In allem ist der Band jedoch sehr lesenswert und eine inspirierende Ergänzung zur bestehenden Forschung. Es ist in jedem Fall erstrebens- und lohnenswert, den von dem Band vorgezeichneten Weg weiterzuverfolgen, auszudifferenzieren und mit mehr Fallbeispielen auszutesten." -- Mohammad Gharaibeh, Berliner Institut für Islamische Theologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in H-SozKult, 27.04. 2022“ - Mohammad Gharaibeh, Berliner Institut für Islamische Theologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, In: H-Soz-Kult, 27.04.2022.Table of ContentsContents Foreword Acknowledgments List of Maps, Figures, Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction: Professional Mobility as a Defining Characteristic of Pre-Modern Islamic Societies Mohamad El-Merheb and Mehdi Berriah part 1: Networks of Knowledge and Learning 1 Medinan Scholars on the Move: Professional Mobility at the Umayyad Court Mehmetcan Akpınar 2 Professional Mobility and Social Capital: A Note on the muḥaddithāt in Kitāb Tārīkh Baghdād Nadia Maria El Cheikh 3 The Aqīt Household: Professional Mobility of a Berber Learned Elite in Premodern West Africa Marta G. Novo part 2: Social Mobility and Professionalization 4 The Professional Mobility of Qāḍī ʿAbd al-Jabbār between the Quest for Knowledge and the Confluence with Power Amal Belkamel 5 Mobility and Versatility of the ʿulamāʾ in the Mamluk Period: The Case of Ibn Taymiyya Mehdi Berriah 6 Mobility among the Andalusī quḍāt: Social Advancement and Spatial Displacement in a Professional Context Adday Hernández López part 3: Power, Politics, and Mobility 7 Imām al-Ḥaramayn al-Juwaynī’s Mobility and the Saljūq’s Project of Sunnī Political Unity M. Syifa Amin Widigdo 8 Iran’s State Literature under Afghan Rule (1722–1729) M.A.H. Parsa 9 Islamic Political Thought and Professional Mobility: The Intellectual and Empirical Worlds of Ibn Ṭalḥa and Ibn Jamāʿa Mohamad El-Merheb Index
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Brill Prognostic Dreams, Otherworldly Saints, and Caliphal Ghosts: A Critical Edition of Saʿdeddīn Efendi’s (d. 1599) Selimname
Book SynopsisSaʿdeddīn Efendi was a renowned Ottoman chief jurisconsult, influential statesman, eminent scholar, and prolific translator of Arabic and Persian works into Turkish. Prognostic Dreams, Otherworldly Saints, and Caliphal Ghosts comprises a critical edition, English translation, and a facsimile of his hagiographic work on controversial Ottoman sultan Selim I (“the Grim”). Saʿdeddīn’s Selimname consists of a preface and twelve anecdotes in which Selim I is portrayed as a divinely ordained sultan who delves into the realm of meditation, communicates with otherworldly saints and the “rightly guided” caliphs, and foretells the future.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Note to the Reader Introduction Symbols, Spelling, and Vocalization Selīmnāme in Transcription Selīmnāme in Translation Selīmnāme in Facsimile (MS Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Diez A, Oct. 79) Works Cited Index
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Brill Best of Delectable Foods and Dishes from al-Andalus and al-Maghrib: A Cookbook by Thirteenth-Century Andalusi Scholar Ibn Razīn al-Tujībī (1227–1293): English Translation with Introduction and Glossary
Book SynopsisThe thirteenth-century cookbook Fiḍālat al-khiwān fī ṭayyibāt al-ṭaʿām wa-l-alwān by the Andalusi scholar Ibn Razīn al-Tujībī showcases 475 exquisite recipes. This edition was meticulously translated into English based on a newly discovered manuscript containing the complete text. It includes an introduction, glossary, 218 color illustrations, and 24 modernized recipes.Trade Review"I have enjoyed reading Best of Delectable Foods, I have been fascinated and learnt a lot. Nawal Nasrallah has brought an extraordinary medieval world to life in an intimate kind of way through Al Tujibi’s cookbook. With this book, the English-speaking world will be able to better understand the Hispano Muslim styles of Spain and North Africa today and their influence further afield. They will also better understand the countries." Claudia Roden, celebrated, pioneering author of books on Middle Eastern and Jewish food, June 2023. “... al-Tujībī’s tome is a revelation... It will affect the way we cook from now on for sure.” Sam and Sam Clark, cook book authors and chef-owners of Moro in the Financial Times, June 10, 2022. click here. "One of only a handful of surviving medieval Spanish cookbooks, Ibn Razin's Fiḍālat has been long known to scholars, even if incompletely. By at least the 17th century, 55 of its 475 recipes had disappeared. Then in 2018 a nearly complete 15th-16th century copy of the cookbook, originally composed in Tunis around 1260 CE, surfaced in the British Library. Alerted to the discovery, Nasrallah, a food historian, set out to produce the first complete English translation, preserving lbn Razin's culinary legacy while modernizing 24 of the recipes for the home cook. The book serves as Ibn Razin's ode to the cuisine of Muslim Spain, before having to flee the Iberian Peninsula's conquest by Christian armies. He nostalgically surveys a wide range of dishes, from everyday boiled fava beans to special-occasion sinhaji, an elaborate stew and forebear of Spain's classic olla podrida. This faithful translation is an important contribution to the history of Andalusi cuisine." Tom Verde in , July 1, 2022. "When flipping through the 600 or so pages of the Fiḍāla’s recipes, their “novelty and exquisiteness,” as al-Tujībī characterized them, quickly becomes evident... While al-Tujībī never saw his beloved al-Andalus again, ...all of his favorite recipes have now returned home." click here. "Dankzij dit boek krijgen we inzicht in gerechten, hoe ze met de jaren zijn veranderd of juist hetzelfde gebleven, en hoe gerechten de verschillende gemeenschappen met elkaar verbonden. Dat wekt bewondering en is een aansporing om te experimenteren met die oude methodes en receptuur... Wat een bijzonder document heeft Al-Tujibi de wereld achtergelaten. Gelukkig maar. Wie beweert dat tijdreizen niet mogelijk is, heeft duidelijk nooit van dit magische boek gehoord." Hassnae Bouazza in NRC Handelsblad, Zaterdag 11 maart/Zondag 12 maart, 2023. click here Shortlisted for the 16th Sheikh Zayed Book Award in the category ‘Translation’. Listen to a special extended episode of the podcast "Cooking the Books" about 13th century Moorish cookery. On stage at the British Library in London Gilly Smith sits with the sold out audience as Polly Russell, curator of the British Library's Food Season introduces Sam and Sam Clark of Moro to the stage with translator Nawal Nasrallah and the Curator of Arabic Scientific Manuscripts, Bink Hallum to time travel to Moorish Andalucia and taste 800 year old recipes from the recently published Brill book cooked up Moro-style. click here. Read an interview with the translator in the November/December 2022 issue of Aramco World click here. .Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments List of Figures Notes on Translating the Text Introduction Part I: The Making of Fiḍālat al-khiwān Part II: Food and Foodways in al-Andalus Part III: The Andalusi Cuisine as Depicted in the Book of Fiḍāla Part IV: The Years They Ate Couscous Dangerously Best of Delectable Foods and Dishes Part 1 القسم الأول في الأخباز والثرايد والاحساء وطعام الخبز وغير ذلك وهو خمسة فصول On Bread, Tharāyid, Soups (Aḥsāʾ), Pastries, and the Like; and It Has Five Chapters I.1 Part One, Chapter One: On Varieties of Bread (Akhbāz) I.2 Part One, Chapter Two: On Tharāyid I.3 Part One, Chapter Three: On Soups (Aḥsāʾ) and Porridges I.4 Part One, Chapter Four: On Pastries and Varieties of Mujabbanāt (Cheese Pastries), Isfanj (Fritters, Buñuelos), and the Like I.5 Part One, Chapter Five: On All Kinds of Dishes That Are Sopped in Broth like Tharīd; and Those Cooked in Ways Similar to Soup Part 2 القسم الثاني في أصناف لحوم ذوات الأربع ويشتمل على ستة فصول On Meats of Quadrupeds, and It Has Six Chapters II.1 Part Two, Chapter One: On Beef (Luḥūm Baqariyya) II.2 Part Two, Chapter Two: On Mutton (Luḥūm Ḍaʾn) II.3 Part Two, Chapter Three: On Lamb (Luḥūm Khirfān) II.4 Part Two, Chapter Four: On Young Goat Meat (Luḥūm Al-Jidāʾ) II.5 Part Two, Chapter Five: On Wild Meat (Luḥūm Al-Waḥsh) II.6 Part Two, Chapter Six: On Foods Incorporated into Dishes Cooked with Meat of Quadrupeds, and Which Are Akin to Making Meatballs (Banādiq) Part 3 القسم الثالث في أصناف لحوم الطير ويشتمل على سبعة فصول On Dishes with Various Types of Poultry, and It Has Seven Chapters [136r] III.1 Part Three, Chapter One: On Meat of Geese (Iwazz) III.2 Part Three, Chapter Two: On Chicken (Dajāj) III.3 Part Three, Chapter Three: On Meat of Partridges (Ḥajal) III.4 Part Three, Chapter Four: On Meat of Squabs (Firākh Ḥamām) III.5 Part Three, Chapter Five: On Meat of Fat Turtledoves (Yamām Musmina) III.6 Part Three, Chapter Six: On Meat of Starlings (Zarāzīr) III.7 Part Three, Chapter Seven: On Meat of Sparrows (ʿAṣāfīr) Part 4 القسم الرابع وهو ثلاثة فصول في طبخ اللون المسمى بالصنهاجي والكرش المحشوة واللسان الصنهاجي And It Has Three Chapters: On a Dish Called Ṣinhājī, Stuffed Tripe, and Ṣinhājī Tongue IV.1 Part Four, Chapter One: On Cooking a Dish Called Ṣinhājī IV.2 Part Four, Chapter Two: On Making Stuffed Tripe (Karsh Maḥshuwwa), Wonderful IV.3 Part Four, Chapter Three: On Making [Ṣinhājī] Tongue Part 5 القسم الخامس في أنواع الحيتان وضروب البيض ويشتمل على فصلين إثنين On Varieties of Dishes With Fish And Eggs, and It Has Two Chapters V.1 Part Five, Chapter One: On [Dishes with] Various Types of Fish V.2 Part Five, Chapter Two: On Varieties of Egg Dishes Part 6 القسم السادس في الألبان وكل ما يكون منها ويشتمل على ثلاثة فصول On Dairy Foods (Albān), and It Has Three Chapters VI.1 Part Six, Chapter One: A Recipe for Rennet-Curdled Milk (ʿAqīd Al-Laban Al-Ḥalīb) and What Is Made With It VI.2 Part Six, Chapter Two: On Making Rāyib (Yogurt) and Extracting Butter VI.3 Part Six, Chapter Three: On Ripening Hard Cheese in a Jar (Khābiya) and Ways for Cooking It; and Remedying Butter and Milk Part 7 القسم السابع في البقول وما اليها ويشتمل على عشرة فصول On Vegetables (Buqūl) and the Like, and It Has Ten Chapters VII.1 Part Seven, Chapter One: On Dishes Made with Gourd (Qarʿ) VII.2 Part Seven, Chapter Two: On Dishes with Eggplants (Bādhinjān) VII.3 Part Seven, Chapter Three: On Dishes with Carrots (Jazar) VII.4 Part Seven, Chapter Four: On Dishes Made with Desert Truffles (Kamʾa) VII.5 Part Seven, Chapter Five: On Cooking Asparagus (Isfarāj), and It Has One Dish VII.6 Part Seven, Chapter Six: On Ḥarshaf, Which Are Qannāriyya and Afzan VII.7 Part Seven, Chapter Seven: On Cooking Mushrooms (Fuṭr), and It Has One Dish VII.8 Part Seven, Chapter Eight: On Cooking with Spinach (Isfānākh), Blite (Yarbūz), Lettuce (Khass), and the Like VII.9 Part Seven, Chapter Nine: On Cooking JināNiyya VII.10 Part Seven, Chapter Ten: On Cooking Taros (Qulqāṣ), and It Is Has One Dish Part 8 القسم الثامن في الفول والحمص و ماأشبههما وهو يشتمل على ثلاثة فصول On Fava Beans (Fūl), Chickpeas (Ḥimmaṣ), and the Like. It Has Three Chapters VIII.1 Part Eight, Chapter One: On Fresh and Dried Fava Beans (Fūl) VIII.2 Part Eight, Chapter Two: On Dishes with Chickpeas (Ḥimmaṣ) VIII.3 Part Eight, Chapter Three: On Cooking All Kinds of Lentils (ʿAdas), and It Has One Dish Part 9 في المعسلات وأنواع الحلواء و ما يتنوع من ذلك كله من العسل والسكر ويشتمل على سبعة فصول On Muʿassalāt and All Sorts of Confectionary (Ḥalwāʾ), with All Kinds of Variations, [186r] Made with Honey and Sugar. It Has Seven Chapters IX.1 Part Nine, Chapter One: On Making Muʿassal and Ghassānī IX.2 Part Nine, Chapter Two: On Making Varieties of Confectionary (Ḥalwāʾ) IX.3 Part Nine, Chapter Three: On Making Qāhiriyya (Delicate Cairene Ring Cookies) and Sanbūsak (Marzipan) IX.4 Part Nine, Chapter Four: On Making Jawzīnaq and Lawzīnaj (Walnut and Almond Confections) IX.5 Part Nine, Chapter Five: On Making Qaṣab Ḥulw (Reeds of Candy) IX.6 Part Nine, Chapter Six: On Making Fānīdh (Pulled Sugar Taffy) and Ishqāqūl (Rings of Solomon) IX.7 Part Nine, Chapter Seven: On Varieties of Desserts from the Eastern Region (Sharqiyya) Part 10 القسم العاشر في الكوامخ وما ينضاف اليها من عمل الخلول وعمل المري على اختلاف انواعه واصلاح الزيت واستخراجه ان عدم من حبوب أخر واستخراج الادهان المحتاج اليهافي الطبخ وما يصلح الاطعمة من كثرة الملح ونتن اللحم وما اشبه ذلك ويشتمل على اثني عشر فصلا On Pickles and Condiments (Kawāmikh) and Other Related Preparations for Varieties of Vinegar and Murrī (Fermented Liquid Sauce); Remedying Olive Oil and Replacing It With Other Oils When Not Available; Remedying Overly Salty Foods and Raw Meat That Does Not Smell Fresh; and the Like. It Has Twelve Chapters X.1 Part Ten, Chapter One: On Making Ṣināb (Mustard Sauce) X.2 Part Ten, Chapter Two: On Curing Olives (Zaytūn) X.3 Part Ten, Chapter Three: On Pickling Lemons (Taṣyīr Al-Līm) X.4 Part Ten, Chapter Four: On Various Ways for Pickling Capers (Taṣyīr Al-Kabar) X.5 Part Ten, Chapter Five: On Pickling (Taṣyīr) Eggplants (Bādhinjān), Onions (Baṣal), and Turnips (Lift) X.6 Part Ten, Chapter Six: On Pickling Fish (Taṣyīr Al-Ḥūt) X.7 Part Ten, Chapter Seven: On Making Varieties of Vinegar X.8 Part Ten, Chapter Eight: On Making Sun-Fermented Liquid Sauce (Murrī Naqīʿ), Cooked Liquid Sauce (Murrī Maṭbūkh), and Other Kinds X.9 Part Ten, Chapter Nine: On Making Oil (Zayt) with Ingredients other than Olives When They Are Not Available; and Remedying Olive Oil When It Spoils and Its Flavor or Aroma Deteriorates X.10 Part Ten, Chapter Ten: On Extracting Oils (Adhān) When Needed for Some Dishes X.11 Part Ten, Chapter Eleven: On Making Cured Meat (Qadīd) X.12 Part Ten, Chapter Twelve: On Ways to Remedy Food Part 11 القسم الحادي عشر في طبخ الجراد والقمرون وأغلال On Cooking Jarād (Locusts), Qumrūn (Freshwater Shrimps), and Aghlāl (Edible Land Snails) Part 12 القسم الثاني عشر في الغاسولات وهو فصل واحد On Handwashing Preparations (Ghāsūlāt), and It Has One Chapter [Final Bonus Recipe] Glossary 1 Beverages 2 Breads, Grains, Pasta, Noodles, and Sweet and Savory Pastries 3 Dairy 4 Desserts and Sweeteners 5 Dishes and Prepared Foods: Main and Side Dishes, Snacks, Condiments, Pickles, Dips, and Table Sauces
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Brill Histoires hafsides: Pouvoir et idéologie
Book SynopsisIn Histoires hafsides, Sébastien Garnier studies the ifrīqiyan historiography of the Restoration (1370-1488). He provides the translation of key-texts, then explores the polity and the discourses generated to its legitimisation. Dans Histoires hafsides, Sébastien Garnier étudie l’historiographie ifrīqiyenne de la Restauration (1370-1488). Il fournit la traduction de textes-clefs, puis examine le pouvoir politique et les discours suscités pour le légitimer.Table of ContentsRemerciements Table des Illustrations et Tableaux Introduction 1 La recherche sur l’ époque hafside : monographies et études 2 Les wulāt al-amr : faits et « gestes » Partie 1 Matériaux historiographiques 1 Les écrits d’ Ibn al-Šammāʿ 1 Les Adilla 2 Une autre Histoire d’ [Ibn] al-Šammāʿ 3 Éléments biographiques concernant [Ibn] al-Šammāʿ 4 Résumé 2 L’ historiographie hafside 1 Cadrage historique 2 Une écriture non dynastique ? 3 L’ élaboration tardive d’ une épopée officielle : la Restauration (après 772/1370) 4 Remarques méthodologiques 5 Résumé Partie 2 L’ exercice du pouvoir 3 La transmission du pouvoir 1 Introduction : éléments théoriques 2 Le temps des gouverneurs : entre est et ouest 3 Le temps des sultans : frères et fils en chiens de faïence 4 Hypothèses sur les modes de dévolution 5 Résumé 4 Les transformations du pouvoir 1 Émirat et califat : des réponses géopolitiques 2 La Restauration ou ruǧūʿ al-dawla l-ḥafṣiyya 3 La titulature hafside : éléments de réflexion 4 Résumé Partie 3 L’ écriture du pouvoir 5 Avant de lire les Adilla 1 Le titre 2 L’ avant-propos 3 L’ introduction 4 De certains aspects formels 5 Résumé 6 La légitimation 1 Un héritage : le droit du passé 2 Des actes : le droit du présent 3 L’ ennemi : les ʿarab 4 Résumé Conclusion 1 Synthèse 2 Perspectives Ibn al-Šammāʿ, al-Adilla 1 Avant-propos 2 Traduction Ibn al-Šammāʿ, Fī ʿadad 1 Traduction 2 Les apports et variantes du Fī ʿadad Un « petit » Dawlatayn 1 Avant-propos 2 Traduction Ibn al-Šammāʿ, Miscellanées 1 Les emprunts attestés des Ḥulal aux Adilla 2 Ibn al-Šammāʿ confondu avec le Dawlatayn 3 Ibn al-Šammāʿ exhumé du Ḥulal Bibliographie Index
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Brill Biography of Muḥammad, His Companions and the Successors up to the Year 230 of the Hijra: Eduard Sachau's Edition of Kitāb al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kabīr: 1-1, The Biography of Muḥammad up to the Hijra
Book SynopsisThe Kitāb al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kabīr (Biography of Muḥammad, His Companions and the Successors up to the Year 230 of the Hijra) by Ibn Saʿd (d. 230 A.H./845 C.E.) is the earliest extant biographical dictionary on the life of the Prophet and the early generations of Muslims. It is one of the most important historical works about the first centuries of Muslim society in Arabic. This classic Brill edition was supervised by Eduard Sachau and was originally titled Biographien Muhammeds, seiner Gefährten und der späteren Träger des Islams bis zum Jahre 230 der Flucht. This edition was originally published between 1904 and 1940. Contributing editors Carl Brockelmann, Josef Horovitz, Julius Lippert, Bruno Meissner, Eugen Mittwoch, Friedrich Schwally, Karl Vilhelm Zetterstéen.
£52.44
Brill Biography of Muḥammad, His Companions and the Successors up to the Year 230 of the Hijra: Eduard Sachau's Edition of Kitāb al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kabīr: 1-2, The Biography of Muḥammad. Events during His Time in Medina, His Physical Appearance and Hi
Book SynopsisThe Kitāb al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kabīr (Biography of Muḥammad, His Companions and the Successors up to the Year 230 of the Hijra) by Ibn Saʿd (d. 230 A.H./845 C.E.) is the earliest extant biographical dictionary on the life of the Prophet and the early generations of Muslims. It is one of the most important historical works about the first centuries of Muslim society in Arabic. This classic Brill edition was supervised by Eduard Sachau and was originally titled Biographien Muhammeds, seiner Gefährten und der späteren Träger des Islams bis zum Jahre 230 der Flucht. This edition was originally published between 1904 and 1940. Contributing editors Carl Brockelmann, Josef Horovitz, Julius Lippert, Bruno Meissner, Eugen Mittwoch, Friedrich Schwally, Karl Vilhelm Zetterstéen.
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Brill Biography of Muḥammad, His Companions and the Successors up to the Year 230 of the Hijra: Eduard Sachau's Edition of Kitāb al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kabīr: 2-1, The Military Campaigns of Muḥammad
Book SynopsisThe Kitāb al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kabīr (Biography of Muḥammad, His Companions and the Successors up to the Year 230 of the Hijra) by Ibn Saʿd (d. 230 A.H./845 C.E.) is the earliest extant biographical dictionary on the life of the Prophet and the early generations of Muslims. It is one of the most important historical works about the first centuries of Muslim society in Arabic. This classic Brill edition was supervised by Eduard Sachau and was originally titled Biographien Muhammeds, seiner Gefährten und der späteren Träger des Islams bis zum Jahre 230 der Flucht. This edition was originally published between 1904 and 1940. Contributing editors Carl Brockelmann, Josef Horovitz, Julius Lippert, Bruno Meissner, Eugen Mittwoch, Friedrich Schwally, Karl Vilhelm Zetterstéen.
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Brill Biography of Muḥammad, His Companions and the Successors up to the Year 230 of the Hijra: Eduard Sachau's Edition of Kitāb al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kabīr: 2-2, The Final Illness, Death and Burial of Muḥammad together with Eulogies. Biographies of Spec
Book SynopsisThe Kitāb al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kabīr (Biography of Muḥammad, His Companions and the Successors up to the Year 230 of the Hijra) by Ibn Saʿd (d. 230 A.H./845 C.E.) is the earliest extant biographical dictionary on the life of the Prophet and the early generations of Muslims. It is one of the most important historical works about the first centuries of Muslim society in Arabic. This classic Brill edition was supervised by Eduard Sachau and was originally titled Biographien Muhammeds, seiner Gefährten und der späteren Träger des Islams bis zum Jahre 230 der Flucht. This edition was originally published between 1904 and 1940. Contributing editors Carl Brockelmann, Josef Horovitz, Julius Lippert, Bruno Meissner, Eugen Mittwoch, Friedrich Schwally, Karl Vilhelm Zetterstéen.
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Brill Biography of Muḥammad, His Companions and the Successors up to the Year 230 of the Hijra: Eduard Sachau's Edition of Kitāb al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kabīr: 3-1, Biographies of Muḥammad’s Meccan Warriors during the Battle of Badr
Book SynopsisThe Kitāb al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kabīr (Biography of Muḥammad, His Companions and the Successors up to the Year 230 of the Hijra) by Ibn Saʿd (d. 230 A.H./845 C.E.) is the earliest extant biographical dictionary on the life of the Prophet and the early generations of Muslims. It is one of the most important historical works about the first centuries of Muslim society in Arabic. This classic Brill edition was supervised by Eduard Sachau and was originally titled Biographien Muhammeds, seiner Gefährten und der späteren Träger des Islams bis zum Jahre 230 der Flucht. This edition was originally published between 1904 and 1940. Contributing editors Carl Brockelmann, Josef Horovitz, Julius Lippert, Bruno Meissner, Eugen Mittwoch, Friedrich Schwally, Karl Vilhelm Zetterstéen.
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Brill Biography of Muḥammad, His Companions and the Successors up to the Year 230 of the Hijra: Eduard Sachau's Edition of Kitāb al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kabīr: 3-2, Biographies of Muḥammad’s Medinese Warriors during the Battle of Badr
Book SynopsisThe Kitāb al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kabīr (Biography of Muḥammad, His Companions and the Successors up to the Year 230 of the Hijra) by Ibn Saʿd (d. 230 A.H./845 C.E.) is the earliest extant biographical dictionary on the life of the Prophet and the early generations of Muslims. It is one of the most important historical works about the first centuries of Muslim society in Arabic. This classic Brill edition was supervised by Eduard Sachau and was originally titled Biographien Muhammeds, seiner Gefährten und der späteren Träger des Islams bis zum Jahre 230 der Flucht. This edition was originally published between 1904 and 1940. Contributing editors Carl Brockelmann, Josef Horovitz, Julius Lippert, Bruno Meissner, Eugen Mittwoch, Friedrich Schwally, Karl Vilhelm Zetterstéen.
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Brill Biography of Muḥammad, His Companions and the Successors up to the Year 230 of the Hijra: Eduard Sachau's Edition of Kitāb al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kabīr: 4-1, Biographies of the Muhājirūn and Anṣār, Who Did Not participate in Badr, but Who Converted
Book SynopsisThe Kitāb al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kabīr (Biography of Muḥammad, His Companions and the Successors up to the Year 230 of the Hijra) by Ibn Saʿd (d. 230 A.H./845 C.E.) is the earliest extant biographical dictionary on the life of the Prophet and the early generations of Muslims. It is one of the most important historical works about the first centuries of Muslim society in Arabic. This classic Brill edition was supervised by Eduard Sachau and was originally titled Biographien Muhammeds, seiner Gefährten und der späteren Träger des Islams bis zum Jahre 230 der Flucht. This edition was originally published between 1904 and 1940. Contributing editors Carl Brockelmann, Josef Horovitz, Julius Lippert, Bruno Meissner, Eugen Mittwoch, Friedrich Schwally, Karl Vilhelm Zetterstéen.
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Brill Biography of Muḥammad, His Companions and the Successors up to the Year 230 of the Hijra: Eduard Sachau's Edition of Kitāb al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kabīr: 4-2, Biographies of the Companions Who Converted before the Conquest of Mecca
Book SynopsisThe Kitāb al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kabīr (Biography of Muḥammad, His Companions and the Successors up to the Year 230 of the Hijra) by Ibn Saʿd (d. 230 A.H./845 C.E.) is the earliest extant biographical dictionary on the life of the Prophet and the early generations of Muslims. It is one of the most important historical works about the first centuries of Muslim society in Arabic. This classic Brill edition was supervised by Eduard Sachau and was originally titled Biographien Muhammeds, seiner Gefährten und der späteren Träger des Islams bis zum Jahre 230 der Flucht. This edition was originally published between 1904 and 1940. Contributing editors Carl Brockelmann, Josef Horovitz, Julius Lippert, Bruno Meissner, Eugen Mittwoch, Friedrich Schwally, Karl Vilhelm Zetterstéen.
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Brill Biography of Muḥammad, His Companions and the Successors up to the Year 230 of the Hijra: Eduard Sachau's Edition of Kitāb al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kabīr: 5, Biographies of the Successors in Medina as well as the Companions and the Successors from the
Book SynopsisThe Kitāb al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kabīr (Biography of Muḥammad, His Companions and the Successors up to the Year 230 of the Hijra) by Ibn Saʿd (d. 230 A.H./845 C.E.) is the earliest extant biographical dictionary on the life of the Prophet and the early generations of Muslims. It is one of the most important historical works about the first centuries of Muslim society in Arabic. This classic Brill edition was supervised by Eduard Sachau and was originally titled Biographien Muhammeds, seiner Gefährten und der späteren Träger des Islams bis zum Jahre 230 der Flucht. This edition was originally published between 1904 and 1940. Contributing editors Carl Brockelmann, Josef Horovitz, Julius Lippert, Bruno Meissner, Eugen Mittwoch, Friedrich Schwally, Karl Vilhelm Zetterstéen.
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Brill Biography of Muḥammad, His Companions and the Successors up to the Year 230 of the Hijra: Eduard Sachau's Edition of Kitāb al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kabīr: 6, Biographies of the Kūfans
Book SynopsisThe Kitāb al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kabīr (Biography of Muḥammad, His Companions and the Successors up to the Year 230 of the Hijra) by Ibn Saʿd (d. 230 A.H./845 C.E.) is the earliest extant biographical dictionary on the life of the Prophet and the early generations of Muslims. It is one of the most important historical works about the first centuries of Muslim society in Arabic. This classic Brill edition was supervised by Eduard Sachau and was originally titled Biographien Muhammeds, seiner Gefährten und der späteren Träger des Islams bis zum Jahre 230 der Flucht. This edition was originally published between 1904 and 1940. Contributing editors Carl Brockelmann, Josef Horovitz, Julius Lippert, Bruno Meissner, Eugen Mittwoch, Friedrich Schwally, Karl Vilhelm Zetterstéen.
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Brill Biography of Muḥammad, His Companions and the Successors up to the Year 230 of the Hijra: Eduard Sachau's Edition of Kitāb al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kabīr: 7-1, Biographies of the Baṣrans up to the End of the Second Generation
Book SynopsisThe Kitāb al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kabīr (Biography of Muḥammad, His Companions and the Successors up to the Year 230 of the Hijra) by Ibn Saʿd (d. 230 A.H./845 C.E.) is the earliest extant biographical dictionary on the life of the Prophet and the early generations of Muslims. It is one of the most important historical works about the first centuries of Muslim society in Arabic. This classic Brill edition was supervised by Eduard Sachau and was originally titled Biographien Muhammeds, seiner Gefährten und der späteren Träger des Islams bis zum Jahre 230 der Flucht. This edition was originally published between 1904 and 1940. Contributing editors Carl Brockelmann, Josef Horovitz, Julius Lippert, Bruno Meissner, Eugen Mittwoch, Friedrich Schwally, Karl Vilhelm Zetterstéen.
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Brill Biography of Muḥammad, His Companions and the Successors up to the Year 230 of the Hijra: Eduard Sachau's Edition of Kitāb al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kabīr: 7-2, Biographies of the Baṣrans from the Third Generation up to the End and Traditionalists in O
Book SynopsisThe Kitāb al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kabīr (Biography of Muḥammad, His Companions and the Successors up to the Year 230 of the Hijra) by Ibn Saʿd (d. 230 A.H./845 C.E.) is the earliest extant biographical dictionary on the life of the Prophet and the early generations of Muslims. It is one of the most important historical works about the first centuries of Muslim society in Arabic. This classic Brill edition was supervised by Eduard Sachau and was originally titled Biographien Muhammeds, seiner Gefährten und der späteren Träger des Islams bis zum Jahre 230 der Flucht. This edition was originally published between 1904 and 1940. Contributing editors Carl Brockelmann, Josef Horovitz, Julius Lippert, Bruno Meissner, Eugen Mittwoch, Friedrich Schwally, Karl Vilhelm Zetterstéen.
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Brill Biography of Muḥammad, His Companions and the Successors up to the Year 230 of the Hijra: Eduard Sachau's Edition of Kitāb al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kabīr: 8, Biographies of Women
Book SynopsisThe Kitāb al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kabīr (Biography of Muḥammad, His Companions and the Successors up to the Year 230 of the Hijra) by Ibn Saʿd (d. 230 A.H./845 C.E.) is the earliest extant biographical dictionary on the life of the Prophet and the early generations of Muslims. It is one of the most important historical works about the first centuries of Muslim society in Arabic. This classic Brill edition was supervised by Eduard Sachau and was originally titled Biographien Muhammeds, seiner Gefährten und der späteren Träger des Islams bis zum Jahre 230 der Flucht. This edition was originally published between 1904 and 1940. Contributing editors Carl Brockelmann, Josef Horovitz, Julius Lippert, Bruno Meissner, Eugen Mittwoch, Friedrich Schwally, Karl Vilhelm Zetterstéen.
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Brill Biography of Muḥammad, His Companions and the Successors up to the Year 230 of the Hijra: Eduard Sachau's Edition of Kitāb al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kabīr: 9-1. Index of Persons to Whom Ibn Saʿd Dedicated Special Entries in His Ṭabaqāt
Book SynopsisThe Kitāb al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kabīr (Biography of Muḥammad, His Companions and the Successors up to the Year 230 of the Hijra) by Ibn Saʿd (d. 230 A.H./845 C.E.) is the earliest extant biographical dictionary on the life of the Prophet and the early generations of Muslims. It is one of the most important historical works about the first centuries of Muslim society in Arabic. This classic Brill edition was supervised by Eduard Sachau and was originally titled Biographien Muhammeds, seiner Gefährten und der späteren Träger des Islams bis zum Jahre 230 der Flucht. This edition was originally published between 1904 and 1940. Contributing editors Carl Brockelmann, Josef Horovitz, Julius Lippert, Bruno Meissner, Eugen Mittwoch, Friedrich Schwally, Karl Vilhelm Zetterstéen.
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Brill Biography of Muḥammad, His Companions and the Successors up to the Year 230 of the Hijra: Eduard Sachau's Edition of Kitāb al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kabīr: 9-2. Indices, 1. Index of Names of Places and Peoples, 2. Words of the Prophet, Alphabetical Ind
Book SynopsisThe Kitāb al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kabīr (Biography of Muḥammad, His Companions and the Successors up to the Year 230 of the Hijra) by Ibn Saʿd (d. 230 A.H./845 C.E.) is the earliest extant biographical dictionary on the life of the Prophet and the early generations of Muslims. It is one of the most important historical works about the first centuries of Muslim society in Arabic. This classic Brill edition was supervised by Eduard Sachau and was originally titled Biographien Muhammeds, seiner Gefährten und der späteren Träger des Islams bis zum Jahre 230 der Flucht. This edition was originally published between 1904 and 1940. Contributing editors Carl Brockelmann, Josef Horovitz, Julius Lippert, Bruno Meissner, Eugen Mittwoch, Friedrich Schwally, Karl Vilhelm Zetterstéen.
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Brill Biography of Muḥammad, His Companions and the Successors up to the Year 230 of the Hijra: Eduard Sachau's Edition of Kitāb al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kabīr: 9-3. Indices. Index of Persons Who Are Mentioned in the Text of Ibn Saʿd’s Kitāb al-Ṭābaqāt al-K
Book SynopsisThe Kitāb al-Ṭabaqāt al-Kabīr (Biography of Muḥammad, His Companions and the Successors up to the Year 230 of the Hijra) by Ibn Saʿd (d. 230 A.H./845 C.E.) is the earliest extant biographical dictionary on the life of the Prophet and the early generations of Muslims. It is one of the most important historical works about the first centuries of Muslim society in Arabic. This classic Brill edition was supervised by Eduard Sachau and was originally titled Biographien Muhammeds, seiner Gefährten und der späteren Träger des Islams bis zum Jahre 230 der Flucht. This edition was originally published between 1904 and 1940. Contributing editors Carl Brockelmann, Josef Horovitz, Julius Lippert, Bruno Meissner, Eugen Mittwoch, Friedrich Schwally, Karl Vilhelm Zetterstéen.
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Brill Byzantium and Islam: Collected Studies on
Book SynopsisArabs and the Middle East were among the first to embrace Christianity, leaving their print on its culture. Thus Byzantium, by geography and culture, encountered Islam at its birth. No wonder that many saw and treated Islam as a contemporary Christian “heresy” – whatever the word may connote. Radical events fill the history of Byzantium (330-1453) encountering the world of Islam: conquests, wars, cultural and diplomatic relations, manifestations of mutual admiration – and exclusion! Their story makes for a fascinating branch of either Byzantine or Islamic studies; the literature about each other forming a distinguished section in either field. This collection of studies is a sample of Byzantine perspectives of Islam offering, hopefully, expressions and solutions rather than creating impressions or illusions.Table of ContentsPreface Previously Published in part 1: Mental and Theological Predispositions for a Relationship, or Conflict 1 The Notion of “Religion” with Reference to Islam in the Byzantine Anti-islamic Literature 1 Ethnic Identity as Religion 2 Religion as an Expression and Measure of Culture 3 Θρησκεία. The “Non-European” Concept 2 Βυζάντιο, Ισλάμ και αντι-Ισλαμική γραμματεία (7ος–15ος αι.) 3 The Christological Morphology of the Doctrine of the Qurʾān 1 On Christian and Islamic Biblicism 2 The Logos Theology 3 The Islamic “Word of God” 4 Theological Positions on the “Word of God” 5 The “Word of God” in the Tradition and in the Praxis of Islam 6 The “Qurʾān in the Qurʾān”: A Self-Understanding 7 The Qurʾān in Muslim Practice and Spirituality 8 As a Conclusion 4 The Formation of Later Islamic Doctrines as a Response to Byzantine Polemics: The Miracles of Muhammad Summary and Concluding Remarks 5 Monastic Ethos and Spirituality and the Origins of Islam 6 The Art and Non-Art of Byzantine Polemics: Patterns of Refutation in Byzantine Anti-Islamic Literature 1 Introduction 2 The Setting of Byzantine Refutations 3 A War of Words against Islam 4 Theological Treatment of Islam 5 Islam as a Christian Heresy 6 Diplomacy and Dialogue 7 The Mystical Approach 8 Anonymity 9 The Effectiveness of Polemics 10 Conclusion 7 The “Oriental” Character of the Byzantine-Islamic Relations: One Essence – Various Expressions part 2: Historical Preambles under the Sting of the Arab Conquests 8 The Face to Face Encounter between Patriarch Sophronius of Jerusalem and the Caliph ʿUmar Ibn Al-Khaṭṭāb: Friends or Foes? 9 Patriarch Sophronius, ʿUmar, and the Capitulation of Jerusalem 1 The Fall of Jerusalem to the Persians and to the Arabs 2 Sophronius and ʿUmar 3 The Covenant between ʿUmar and Sophronius, and the Jews 10 The Covenant of ʿUmar Ibn Al-Khattāb with the Christians of Jerusalem 11 Anastasius of Sinai (c. 640–c. 700) and “Anastasii Sinaitae” on Islam 12 “Saracens” and the Syrians in the Byzantine Anti-islamic Literature and Before 13 Saracens and Arabs in the Leimon of John Moschos 14 Why Did Heraclius Not Defend Jerusalem, and Fight the Arabs? 15 The Demonizing Force of the Arab Conquests: The Case of Maximus (ca. 580–662) as a Political “Confessor” 1 Ep. 10 to John the Chamberlain (PG 91:449A–453A) 2 Ep. 43 to John the Chamberlain (PG 91,637B–641C) 3 Ep. 13 to Peter the Illustrious, Strategos of Numidia, against the Teachings of Severus” (PG 91:509B–533A) 4 Ep. 14 to the Same (Peter), “A Dogmatic Epistle” (PG 91,533B–544C) 5 Ep. 12 to John the Chamberlain (PG 91: 460A–509B) 6 Ep. 1 to Lord George, Eparch of Africa (PG 91: 364A–392D) 7 Ep. 44 to John the Chamberlain (PG 91:641D–648C) 8 Ep. 45 to John the Chamberlain (PG 91:648D–649C) 9 The Vita [PG 90, 68A–109B] and the Relatio Motionis [PG 90, 109C–129D], or Ἐξήγησις τῆς κινήσεως (= Record of the Trial Proceedings) 10 The Relatio Motionis (PG 90, 109C–129D) 16 The Seventh Century in the Byzantine-Muslim Relations: Characteristics and Forces 1 Rising Arab Consciousness, and Independence from Byzantium 2 Christological Divergence and Consolidation of Islam 3 Christian Awareness of Islam, or Lack of It 4 Apocalyptic Treatment of Islam 5 Capitulation of Christian Cities to the Arab Muslims 17 Eighth-Century Byzantine Anti-Islamic Literature: Context and Forces Concluding Remarks part 3: Damascenica 18 John of Damascus on Islam. Revisited 1 Who is John of Damascus? 2 John of Damascus on Islam 3 The Treatment of Islam as a Christian Heresy 19 Islam in the Context of John of Damascus’ Life and Literary Production 20 Cultural Interaction during the Umayyad Period: The “Circle” of John of Damascus 1 A “Circle” of Independent Thinkers 2 A “Circle” of Hymnographers-Systematic Theologians 3 A Monastic “Circle” 4 A “Circle” of Apologists-Dialecticians 5 A circle of Arab Intellectuals 6 A Reform-Minded “Circle” 7 Concluding Remarks 21 The Arab Character of the Christian Disputation with Islam: The Case of John of Damascus (ca. 655–ca. 749) 1 John of Damascus as a Syrian Arab 2 Life in the Umayyad Court 3 Treatment of Islam 4 Concluding Remarks part 4: On or Off the Path of the Damascene 22 Bartholomeus of Edessa on Islam: A Polemicist with Nerve! 23 What an Infidel Saw That a Faithful Did Not: Gregory Dekapolites (d. 842) and Islam Summary of Remarks 24 Ritual of Conversion from Islam to the Byzantine Church 25 “Holosphyros”? A Byzantine Perception of “the God of Muhammad” 1 “Holosphyros” in the Byzantine Polemics 2 The Holosphyros Controversy 26 Hagiological Texts as Historical Sources for Arab History and Byzantine-Muslim Relations: The Case of a … “Barbarian” Saint 27 Arethas’ “Letter to the Emir at Damascus”: Official or Popular Views on Islam in 10th-century Byzantium? Political Experience and Involvement 28 Gregory Palamas (1296–1360) on Islam 1 The Events of the Captivity 2 The Point and Counterpoint 29 Captivity and Dialogue: Gregory Palamas (1296–1360) and the Muslims Index
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Brill Shāh Esmā‘il and his Three Wives: A Persian-Turkish Tale as Performed by the Bards of Khorasan
Book SynopsisThis book is the first full text and translation of a prosimetric tale from the rich repertoire of Central and West Asian bards to be published with ready access to recordings of both the prose narration and the sung verse. In Iranian Khorasan, bards known as bakhshi present tales that in other regions are performed wholly in a Turkic language with prose narration in Persian, Khorasani Turkish or Kurmanji Kurdish and most verses in Turkish. We compare portions of the full performance transcribed here with excerpts from two performances of Iranian bakhshis in the 1970s. Three introductory chapters and a commentary discuss musical and verbal dimensions of the bakhshi’s art in relation to relevant social, historical, and literary contexts.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments List of Figures, Maps, and Music Examples Transliteration, Transcription, and Other Editorial Policies Part 1: The Bakhshis and Their Art 1 The Multilingual Bards of Northern Khorasan 1 Peoples and Languages of Northern Khorasan 2 Storytelling in Multi-Ethnic Iran 3 The Khorasani Bakhshi 4 Contexts of Performance 2 Characters and Imagery of the Dāstān of Shāh Esmāʿil and Golzār Khānom 1 The Historical Shāh Esmāʿil II 2 Summary of the Dāstān in Rowshan’s Version 3 Attributes of the Characters 4 Women 5 Garden, Rose and Nightingale 6 Gazelles and Hunters 7 Journeys 8 Complaints 9 Threats and Maxims 3 Performance Practice of the Bakhshis 1 Verse and Tune 2 Melody-Types: Āhang and Maqām 3 Performance Styles Part 2: Text and Translation of Shāh Esmāʿil and Golzār Khānom Episode 1 Episode 2 Episode 3 Episode 4 Episode 5 Episode 6 Episode 7 Episode 8 Episode 9 Episode 10 Episode 11 Episode 12 Episode 13 Episode 14 Episode 15 Episode 16 Episode 17 Episode 18 Episode 19 Episode 20 Episode 21 Part 3: Commentary Episode 1 Episode 2 Episode 3 Episode 4 Episode 5 Episode 6 Episode 7 Episode 8 Episode 9 Episode 10 Episode 11 Episode 12 Episode 13 Episode 14 Episode 15 Episode 16 Episode 17 Episode 18 Episode 19 Episode 20 Episode 21 Appendix: Outline of Yegāneh’s Performance of Shāh Esmāʿil and Golzār Khānom Glossary Bibliography Discography Index of Dāstāns Index of Names
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Brill Amulets and Talismans of the Middle East and North Africa in Context: Transmission, Efficacy and Collections
Book SynopsisIn this volume amulets and talismans are studied within a broader system of meaning that shapes how they were manufactured, activated and used in different networks. Text, material features and the environments in which these artifacts circulated, are studied alongside each other, resulting in an innovative approach to understand the many different functions these objects could fulfil in pre-modern times. Produced and used by Muslims and non-Muslims alike, the case studies presented here include objects that differ in size, material, language and shape. What the articles share is an all-round, in-depth approach that helps the reader understand the complexity of the objects discussed and will improve one’s understanding of the role they played within pre-modern societies. Contributors Hazem Hussein Abbas Ali, Gideon Bohak, Ursula Hammed, Juan Campo, Jean-Charles Coulon, Venetia Porter, Marcela Garcia Probert, Anne Regourd, Yasmine al-Saleh, Karl Schaefer and Petra M. Sijpesteijn.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Notes on Transliteration, Names of Persons and Places and Dates Introduction. Transmission, Efficacy and Collections: Amulets in Interaction with Their Environment Marcela Garcia Probert and Petra M. Sijpesteijn Part 1 Transmission 1 Specimens of Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic Magical Texts from the Cairo Genizah Gideon Bohak 2 A Twentieth-Century Manuscript of the Kitāb al-Mandal al-Sulaymānī (Ar. IES 286, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia): Texts on Practices & Texts in Practices Anne Regourd 3 Arabic Medical-Magical Manuscripts: A Living Tradition Petra M. Sijpesteijn Part 2 Efficacy 4 Casting Discord: An Unpublished Spell from the Egyptian National Library Hazem Hussein Abbas Ali 5 “This Blessed Place”: The Talismanic Significance of House Inscriptions in Ottoman Cairo Juan E. Campo 6 A Talismanic Scroll: Language, Illumination, and Diagrams Yasmine Al-Saleh 7 The Material Nature of Block Printed Amulets: What Makes Them Amulets? Karl Schaefer Part 3 Collecting and Collections 8 Arabic Magical Texts in Original Documents: A Papyrologist Answers Five Questions You Always Wanted to Ask Ursula Hammed 9 Amulets and Talismans in the Earliest Works of the Corpus Bunianum Jean-Charles Coulon 10 Twigs in the Tawfik Canaan Collection of Palestinian Amulets Marcela Garcia Probert 11 The Collection of Arabic and Persian Seals and Amulets in the British Museum: Notes on a History Venetia Porter Glossary Index
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Brill Arabs and Arabists: Selected Articles
Book SynopsisArabs and Arabists contains nineteen selected articles by Alastair Hamilton on the Western acquisition of knowledge of the Arab and Ottoman world in the early modern period. The first essays are on Arabs who visited Europe and gave instruction to Western Arabists, and on Europeans who either visited the Arab (or the Ottoman) world in search of manuscripts and information or who, like Franciscus Raphelengius, Isaac Casaubon and Adriaen Reland, studied it at a distance and remained in the West. These are followed by a section on the actual study of the Arabic language in Europe, and above all the creation of the first Arabic-Latin dictionaries, and another on the European study of Islam and Western translations of the Qur’an.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures Abbreviations Part 1: Arabs and Arabists 1 An Egyptian Traveller in the Republic of Letters Josephus Barbatus or Abudacnus the Copt 2 Michel d’Asquier, Imperial Interpreter and Bibliophile 3 Isaac Casaubon the Arabist ‘Video Longum Esse Iter’ 1 The Apprentice 2 The Method 3 The Centre of a Circle 4 The Arabist 5 Conclusion 4 ‘To Divest the East of All Its Manuscripts and All Its Rarities’ The Unfortunate Embassy of Henri Gournay de Marcheville 5 From East to West Jansenists, Orientalists, and the Eucharistic Controversy 1 The Embassy in Istanbul 2 Protestant Reactions 3 Eastern Beliefs 4 Conclusion 6 Adrianus Relandus (1676–1718) Outstanding Orientalist 7 Arabists and Cartesians at Utrecht 8 Pilgrims, Missionaries, and Scholars Western Descriptions of the Monastery of St Paul from the Late Fourteenth Century to the Early Twentieth Century 1 Prosperity to Destitution 2 Revival and Restoration 3 Continuity and Change 4 Scholarly Investigation 9 The Metamorphoses of Georg August Wallin Part 2: Arabic Studies 10 Arabic Studies in Europe 1 The Motives 2 The Grammars 3 The Dictionaries 4 The Schools 11 The Victims of Progress The Raphelengius Arabic Type and Bedwell’s Arabic Lexicon 12 ‘Nam Tirones Sumus’ Franciscus Raphelengius’s Lexicon Arabico-Latinum (Leiden 1613) 1 Antwerp 2 Leiden 3 Publication 4 Raphelengius’s Arabic Manuscripts Appendix: Raphelengius’s Arabic Manuscripts in the Leiden University Library 13 Franciscus Raphelengius The Hebraist and His Manuscripts 14 Abraham Ecchellensis et son ‘Nomenclator Arabico-Latinus’ 1 Introduction 2 Ecchellensis lexicologue 3 Les sources du ‘Nomenclator’ 4 L’organisation du ‘Nomenclator’ 5 Un vocabulaire chrétien 6 Le ‘Nomenclator’ et le Coran 7 Conclusion Part 3: Islam and the Qurʾan 15 The Study of Islam in Early Modern Europe 1 From the Islamic Conquests to the Reformation 2 Parallel Developments: the Protestant North 3 Parallel Developments: the Catholic South 4 Conclusion 16 A Lutheran Translator for the Qurʾan A Late Seventeenth-Century Quest 1 The Turkish Defeat 2 Competing Translators 3 The Key to Success 17 ‘To Rescue the Honour of the Germans’ Qurʾan Translations by Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century German Protestants 18 The Qurʾan as Chrestomathy in Early Modern Europe 19 After Marracci The Reception of Ludovico Marracci’s Edition of the Qurʾan in Northern Europe from the Late Seventeenth to the Early Nineteenth Century Index
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Brill Reflecting Mirrors, East and West: Transcultural Comparisons of Advice Literature for Rulers (8th - 13th century)
Book SynopsisIn Reflecting Mirrors, East and West Enrico Boccaccini sheds new light on Mirrors for Princes, the pre-modern genre of advice literature for rulers. A popular genre in the societies that emerged from the Late Antique oecumene, Mirrors for Princes are considered here, for the first time, as a transcultural phenomenon that challenges the dichotomy of the Orient and the Occident. Traditionally, the historiographic tradition has viewed ‘European’ and ‘Middle Eastern’ Mirrors as distinct and incommensurable. Analyzing the contents and discourses in four Mirrors, ostensibly separated by space, time and language, Enrico Boccaccini convincingly draws out the surprising continuities between these texts, while also showing how they are embedded in their own historical, literary and political context.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Abbreviations Notes on Transliteration and Style Introduction 1 Approaching Mirrors for Princes 2 The Heritage of Late Antiquity 3 Transculturalism 4 Research Procedure 1 The Traditions 1 The Two Histories of Mirrors for Princes 2 Mirrors for Princes—A genre? 3 Transcending the Historiographic Divide 2 The Texts 1 Risāla to the Crown Prince 2 De institutione regia 3 Naṣīḥat al-mulūk 4 Castigos e documentos para bien vivir 3 The Advice 1 Traits of the Ideal Ruler 2 Roles of the Ideal Ruler 4 The Advisors 1 Constructing Advice 2 Negotiating with Power Conclusion 1 The Transcultural Genre of Mirrors for Princes 2 In the Mirror and Beyond Appendix Bibliography Index
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