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Book SynopsisIn this volume, a microhistorical approach is employed to provide a transcription, translation, and case-study of the proceedings (written in Latin, Italian and Arabic) of the Roman Inquisition on Malta’s 1605 trial of the ‘Moorish’ slave Sellem Bin al-Sheikh Mansur, who was accused and found guilty of practising magic and teaching it to the local Christians. Through both a detailed commentary and individual case-studies, it assesses what these proceedings reflect about religion, society, and politics both on Malta and more widely across the Mediterranean in the early 17th century. In so doing, this inter- and multi-disciplinary project speaks to a wide range of subjects, including magic, Christian-Muslim relations, slavery, Maltese social history, Mediterranean history, and the Roman Inquisition. It will be of interest to both students and researchers who study any of these subjects, and will help demonstrate the richness and potential of the documents in the Maltese archives. With contributions by: Joan Abela, Dionisius A. Agius, Paul Auchterlonie, Jonathan Barry, Charles Burnett, Frans Ciappara, Pierre Lory, Alex Malett, Ian Netton, Catherine R. Rider, Liana SaifTable of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations and Figures Abbreviations Arabic Transliteration System Notes on Contributors Introduction  Alex Mallett, Dionisius A. Agius and Catherine Rider Part 1 1 The Trial of Sellem bin al-Sheikh Mansur before the Roman Inquisition on Malta, 1605: Transcription and Translation  Alex Mallett and Catherine Rider Part 2 2 The Trial of Sellem: A Microhistorical Commentary  Alex Mallett and Catherine Rider Part 3 3 Sellem Bin al-Sheikh Mansur: A Muslim Magician in Catholic Malta  Joan Abela 4 The Cognitive Landscape of Seventeenth-Century Malta: Communicating Information in a Cosmopolitan Society  Dionisius A. Agius 5 The Maltese Inquisition: Expectations and Evidence in the Sellem Case  Jonathan Barry 6 The Witch and the Judge: Sellem before the Roman Inquisition, 1605  Frans Ciappara 7 An Anthropology of Confessional Practice Regarding Magic in Early Seventeenth-Century Malta: Liminality, Communitas, Exclusion  Ian R. Netton Part 4 8 Magic and Divination Lost in Translation: A Cairene in a Maltese Inquisition  Liana Saif 9 Geomancy, Divination, and Islam  Pierre Lory 10 Learned and Common Magic in the Trial of Sellem  Catherine Rider 11 Measurement and Magic: Some Notes on the Texts on Measurement in the Inquisition Documents against Sellem the Moor  Charles Burnett 12 Magic in Ottoman North Africa, 1570–1700, as seen through European Eyes  Paul Auchterlonie Part 5 13 Concluding Remarks  Alex Mallett, Catherine Rider and Dionisius A. Agius Appendix 1: Evidence Presented to the Inquisition by Vittorio Cassar: Instructions for Mathematics and the Practise of Geomancy  Alex Mallett and Catherine Rider Appendix 2: Tabula Sybillum  Alex Mallett and Catherine Rider Index

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Book SynopsisIn De Tamerlan à Gengis Khan, Matthieu Chochoy traces the stages in the construction of knowledge about the so-called Tartar Empire through French historical works produced between the 16th and 18th centuries. Dans De Tamerlan à Gengis Khan, Matthieu Chochoy retrace les étapes de la construction d'un savoir sur de ce que l'on nommait l'empire tartare à travers les œuvres historiques françaises produites entre le XVIe et le XVIIIe siècle.Table of ContentsAvant-propos Remerciements Liste des figures et tableaux Introduction Partie 1 Origine et affirmation de l’ idée d’ empire tartare (XIIIe siècle – années 1630) Introduction à la Première Partie 1 Les principales sources latines et orientales relatives à Gengis Khan et Tamerlan (XIIIe-XVIe siècles)  1 L’ empire mongol dans les sources latines, persanes et syriaques (XIIIe-XIVe siècles)  2 Différents portraits de Tamerlan (XIVe siècle-XVIe siècles) 2 Des savoirs sur Tamerlan plus nombreux, mais moins précis  1 Une politisation du portrait des Tartares (milieu du XVIe siècle)  2 L’ apport du monde ibérique dans la perception de Tamerlan (XVIe siècle)  3 L’ intégration de savoirs sur les Tartares venus d’ horizons différents 3 Un changement d’ échelle dans l’ étude des Tartares (seconde moitié du XVIe siècle)  1 Tartares et Tartarie à l’ échelle du monde  2 Les Tartares dans la cosmographie en France  3 La biographie de Tamerlan par Jean du Bec (1595) 4 Histoire et fonction de l’ empire tartare chez Pierre Bergeron (1634)  1 Les enjeux de l’ écriture de l’ histoire de l’ empire tartare en France  2 Composition et structuration du corpus de Bergeron  3 Des signes discrets de fragilité de l’ unité des Tartares chez Bergeron Conclusion à la Première Partie Partie 2 L’ « empire tartare » à l’ épreuve des traductions françaises des sources orientales Introduction à la Deuxième Partie 5 Les conditions d’ accès aux sources « orientales » (seconde moitié du XVIIe siècle)  1 Un nouveau contexte pour les études orientales  2 Les premières traductions françaises de sources orientales relatives aux Tartares  3 La dynastie Qing et la nouvelle actualité de l’ histoire tartare 6 Les traductions érudites de sources persanes relatives aux Tartares  1 Les traducteurs de sources « orientales » relatives aux Tartares  2 Analyse de l’ utilisation des sources dans les œuvres relatives aux Tartares  3 Différents problèmes liés à la publication des textes historiques sur les Tartares  4 Le traitement des mythes d’ origine chez d’ Herbelot et Pétis de La Croix 7 Les jésuites et la traduction des sources chinoises et mandchoues  1 Les jésuites et l’ historiographie Qing  2 Traduire l’ histoire tartare sous les Qing  3 La rencontre de deux logiques historiographiques Conclusion à la Deuxième Partie Partie 3 Le rôle de l’ empire tartare dans l’ histoire européenne et sa réfutation (seconde moitié du XVIIIe siècle) Introduction à la Troisième Partie 8 L’ empire tartare comme « partie de l’ histoire universelle »  1 La double formation de Joseph de Guignes  2 La tentative de synthèse historiographique  3 La distinction entre les Tartares occidentaux et les Tartares orientaux 9 L’ empire tartare dans la pensée philosophique (milieu du XVIIIe siècle)  1 Les limites du despotisme oriental chez Montesquieu  2 L’ histoire de l’ empire tartare chez Voltaire  3 L’ idée d’ empire tartare comme contre-exemple du despotisme oriental (seconde moitié du XVIIIe siècle) 10 La déconstruction de l’ idée de Tartare par le biais de nouveaux savoirs  1 La distinction entre Tartares et Turcs sur le plan racial et linguistique  2 La diffusion des outils de l’ écriture de l’ histoire chinoise  3 L’ idée d’ empire tartare entre érudition et « esprit de système » Conclusion à la Troisième Partie Conclusion Bibliographie Index

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Book SynopsisNaẓar, literally ‘vision’, is a unique Arabic-Islamic term/concept that offers an analytical framework for exploring the ways in which Islamic visual culture and aesthetic sensibility have been shaped by common conceptual tools and moral parameters. It intertwines the act of ‘seeing’ with the act of ‘reflecting’, thereby bringing the visual and cognitive functions into a complex relationship. Within the folds of this multifaceted relationship lies an entangled web of religious ideas, moral values, aesthetic preferences, scientific precepts, and socio-cultural understandings that underlie the intricacy of one’s personal belief. Peering through the lens of naẓar, the studies presented in this volume unravel aspects of these entanglements to provide new understandings of how vision, belief, and perception shape the rich Islamic visual culture. Contributors: Samer Akkach, James Bennett, Sushma Griffin, Stephen Hirtenstein, Virginia Hooker, Sakina Nomanbhoy, Shaha Parpia, Ellen Philpott-Teo, Wendy M.K. Shaw.Table of ContentsPreface Notes to the Reader List of Figures Notes on Contributors Aperture: Terms, Concepts, and Discourse  Samer Akkach 1 Naẓar: The Seen, the Unseen, and the Unseeable  Samer Akkach 2 Naẓar, Subjectivity, and ‘The Gaze’  Wendy M.K. Shaw part 1: The Eye of the Heart 3 Human Looking, Divine Gaze: Naẓar in Islamic Spirituality  Stephen Hirtenstein 4 Seeing with ‘The Eyes of the Heart’: dhikr and fikr as Sources of Insight in Indonesian Islamic Art  Virginia Hooker part 2: The Eye of the Mind 5 Transparency: Ibn Al-Haytham’s Manāẓir and Visual Perception of Beauty  Ellen Philpott-Teo 6 Veiling: Ibn Al-Qaṭṭān’s Aḥkām and the Rules Concerning Seeing  Samer Akkach part 3: Evil Eye, Talismanic Seeing 7 May the Envier’s Eye be Blind  Sakina Nomanbhoy 8 Talismanic Seeing: The Induction of Power in Indonesian Zoomorphic Art  James Bennett part 4: Gazing Eye, Imaginative Seeing 9 The Artist’s Gaze: Visual Representations of the Mughal Hunting Landscape  Shaha Parpia 10 Vernacular Subjectivity as a Way of Seeing: Visualising Bijapur in Nujūm al-ʿUlūm and Kitāb-i-Nauras  Sushma Griffin Index

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Book SynopsisThe chapter about idol worship in Maqrīzī’s Universal History includes excerpts from books that are no longer extant. They make it harder to argue against the import or even the very existence of pre-Islamic idol worship.Table of ContentsPreface List of Plates Abbreviations Introduction  1 Idols in Conversion Reports  2 Mecca  3 Medina (Yaṯrib) (§ 110–117)  4 Idols and Treasuries Notes on the Edition and the Translation Plates Abbreviations and Symbols Critical Edition and Translation of al-Maqrīzī’s al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar, vol. IV, Section 2: The Idols of the Arabs Section on the Idols of the Arabs [Their aṣnām and awṯān]  Wadd  Suwāʿ  Yaġūṯ  Yaʿūq  Nasr  Hubal  Isāf and Nāʾilah  Saʿd  ʿĀʾim  Ḏū l-Šará  Ruḍā  Ḍamār  Al-Ḥarīš, Ṣaḫr, Šams, al-Bihām, al-Qayn, Šafr, al-Ḥibs, Ġayyān, Isāf, Samūl, Ḥusā, al-Ṭimm, al-Samḥ  Sāf, al-Dībāǧ, al-Zabr  Huzzam  Manāf  Dawār  Al-Fals  Nuhm  Al-Suʿayr  Al-Uqayṣir  Al-ʿUrayf  Al-Ḥalāl  Aḥmas  ʿAmm Anas  Al-Šurayr, Ġanm, Ḏū l-Kaffayni  Al-Šāriq  Marsūġ  Al-Bayḍāʾ  Kulāl  Al-Ḫamīs  Al-Mukaymin  Yalīl  Barkulān  Qurs  Al-ʿAbd  Al-Ǧuṯā  Farrāḍ  Zaʿbal  Al-Ǧalsad  Ḥumām  ʿAwḍ  Saqb Section on al-ǧibt and al-ṭāġūt  Al-ʿUzzá  Allāt  Manāt  Ḏū l-Kaʿabāt  Ḏū l-Ḫalaṣah  The Kaʿbah of Naǧrān  Riyām  Al-Qalīs/al-Qullays  Al-Huǧam  The account of Ḏāt Anwāṭ  Anṣāb  Ruḍā  Buss  Fire Temple  Al-Saʿīdah Bibliography List of Quoted Manuscripts Index of Qurʾānic Verses Index of Verses of Poetry Index of Prophetic Traditions Index of Names (People and Places) Index of Technical Terms Index of Quoted Titles in al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar Index of Sources in al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar Index of Glosses Facsimile of MS Fatih 4339 (Istanbul, Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi), Fols. 30a–48b

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Book SynopsisIn Ibn Taymiyya and the Attributes of God (orig. published in German, 2019), Farid Suleiman pieces together, on the basis of statements scattered unsystematically over numerous individual treatises, an overall picture of the methodological foundations of Ibn Taymiyya’s doctrine of the divine attributes. He then examines how Ibn Taymiyya applies these foundational principles as exemplified in his treatment of selected divine attributes. Throughout the book, Suleiman relates Ibn Taymiyya’s positions to the larger context of Islamic intellectual history. The book was awarded the Dissertation Prize 2019 by the Academy for Islam in Research and Society (AIWG) and the Classical Islamic Book Prize by Gorgias Press (2020).Table of ContentsAcknowledgements (to the English translation) Acknowledgements (of the original German version) List of Figures and Tables 1 Introduction  1 State of the Field  2 Objectives and Approach  3 Overview of the Works of Ibn Taymiyya Most Frequently Used in This Study Part 1 Ibn Taymiyya’s Biography and the History of the Divine Attributes in Islamic Thought before His Time 2 Ibn Taymiyya’s Biography 3 The Divine Attributes in Islamic Intellectual History up to the Time of Ibn Taymiyya  1 The Emergence of the Debate over the Divine Attributes in Early Islam  2 The Muʿtazila  3 The Falāsifa  4 Ahl al-Ḥadīth  5 The Ashʿarīs Part 2 The Methodological Foundations of Ibn Taymiyya’s Doctrine of the Divine Attributes 4 Ontological Foundations  1 The Term wujūd: Meaning and Gradations  2 Likeness (mithl, tamāthul) and Similarity (shibh, tashābuh, ishtibāh) among Existent Things  3 Ibn Taymiyya’s Ontological Conceptualism  4 Ibn Taymiyya’s Critique of the Doctrine of the Unity of Being (waḥdat al-wujūd) in Speculative Sufism 5 Linguistic Foundations  1 The ḥaqīqa–majāz Dichotomy  2 On the Semantic Relationship of Homonymous Expressions: Ibn Taymiyya’s Linguistic Counterproposal to the ḥaqīqa–majāz Dichotomy  3 What Are the Theological Consequences of Ibn Taymiyya’s Alternative to the ḥaqīqa–majāz Dichotomy? 6 Hermeneutical Foundations  1 Verse Q. 3:7—Ibn Taymiyya’s Understanding of the Terms muḥkam, mutashābih, and taʾwīl  2 Ibn Taymiyya’s Challenge to the Validity of Taʾwīl Majāzī: Attempting to Limit the Scope of Application of the Universal Rule (al-qānūn al-kullī)  3 The Two Principles and the Seven Basic Rules for Interpreting the Divine Attributes 7 Epistemological Foundations  1 On the Applicability of Qiyās in Theology  2 The Epistemic Value of Textual Indicants: Ibn Taymiyya in Debate with al-Rāzī 8 Summary Part 3 The Divine Essence and Attributes in Focus 9 Temporally Originating States and Acts (ḥawādith) in the Divine Essence 10 Case Studies of Selected Divine Attributes  1 al-ʿAdl: God’s Justice  2 al-Kalām: God’s Speech  3 al-Istiwāʾ: God’s Rising over His Throne  4 al-Maʿiyya: God’s “Withness” 11 Summary 12 Evaluation and Conclusion Bibliography Index of People and Subjects Index of Quranic Verses

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Book SynopsisCe livre propose une analyse historique des conditions politiques et sociales des princesses ottomanes à l’époque moderne, au cœur d’une société de cour dominée par les logiques de discrimination sexuelle. This book offers a historical analysis of the political and social conditions of the Ottoman princesses in modern times, at the heart of a court society dominated by the logic of sexual discrimination.Table of ContentsFigures et TableauxX Introduction  1 Les mal-nommées  2 Les pudeurs historiennes  3 Les oubliées de l’histoire  4 L’œil des registres  5 La voix du silence  6 L’illusion du nombre  7 Le regard extérieur  8 Les temps de vie d’une sultane 1 Naissance et enfance des princesses ottomanes  1  2 Un sang, un titre, un statut  3 Fêter la naissance, célébrer la dynastie  4 Des enfances discrètes 2 Mariages et amours des princesses  1 82  2 Marier pour l’intérêt du sultan  3 Marier pour l’honneur de la dynastie  4 Vivre (parfois) en couple 3 Sociabilités et interactions politiques des princesses ottomanes  1 202  2 Agir en politique  3 Assurer la prospérité de son entourage  4 Promouvoir son lignage 4 Trépas des princesses ottomanes et au-delà  1 286  2 Préparer la mort(e)  3 Célébrer sa mémoire  4 Faire famille Conclusion  1 Des tranches de vie  2 Un sang prédateur  3 Des silences explicites Bibliographie Index

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Book SynopsisMedieval Arab Music and Musicians offers complete, annotated English translations of three of the most important medieval Arabic texts on music and musicians: the biography of the musician Ibrāhīm al-Mawṣilī from al-Iṣbahānī’s Kitāb al-Aghānī (10th c), the biography of the musician Ziryāb from Ibn Ḥayyān’s Kitāb al-Muqtabis (11th c), and the earliest treatise on the muwashshaḥ Andalusi song genre, Dār al-Ṭirāz, by the Egyptian scholar Ibn Sanā’ al-Mulk (13th c). Al-Mawṣilī, the most famous musician of his era, was also the teacher of the legendary Ziryāb, who traveled from Baghdad to al-Andalus and is often said to have laid the foundations of Andalusi music. The third text is crucial to any understanding of the medieval muwashshaḥ and its possible relations to the Troubadours, the Cantigas de Santa María, and the Andalusi musical traditions of the modern Middle East.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements part 1: The Biography of Ibrāhīm al-Mawṣilī Introduction The Biography of Ibrāhīm al-Mawṣilī [Kitāb al-aghānī, Vol. V – 1964 rpt. of Dār al-Kutub Edition, pp. 154–258] Ibrāhīm al-Mawṣilī’s Genealogy and Various Anecdotes about Him part 2: The Biography of Ziryāb Introduction The Biography of ʿAlī ibn Nāfiʿ, Known as Ziryāb [Ibn Hayyān, Kitāb al-muqtabis: al-Sifr al-Thānī (al-Riyāḍ: 2003), pp. 307–335] On Singing: Information about Ziryāb, the Greatest Singer of the Land of al-Andalus part 3: Ibn Sanāʾ al-Mulk’s Dār al-Ṭirāz Introduction Contents of Dār al-Ṭirāz fī ʿAmal al-Muwashshaḥāt [The House of Brocade on the Composition of Muwashshaḥāt] The House of Brocade on the Composition of Muwashshaḥāt [Dār al-ṭirāz fī ʿamal al-muwashshaḥāt] by Ibn Sanāʾ al-Mulk (c. 1155–1212) Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe book explores the political poetry recited by the Negev Bedouin from the late Ottoman period to the late twentieth century. By closely reading fifty poems Peled sheds light on the poets’ sentiments and worldviews. To get to the bottom of the issues that inspired their poetry, he weaves an interpretive web informed by the study of language, culture and history. The poems reveal that the poets were perfectly aware of the workings of the power systems that took control of their lives and lifestyle. Their poetry indicates that they did not remain silent but practiced their art in the face of their hardships, observing the collapse of their world with a mixture of despair and inspiration, bitterness and wit.

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Book SynopsisArab Traders in their Own Words explores for the first time the largest unified corpus of merchant correspondence to have survived from the Ottoman period. The writers chosen for this first volume were mostly Christian merchants who traded within a network that connected the Syrian and Egyptian provinces and extended from Damascus in the North to Alexandria in the South with particular centers in Jerusalem and Damietta. They lived through one of the most turbulent intersections of Ottoman and European imperial history, the 1790s and early 1800s, and had to navigate their fortunes through diplomacy, culture, and commerce. Besides an edition of more than 190 letters in colloquial Arabic this volume also offers a profound introductory study.

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Book SynopsisIn Making Sense of History: Narrativity and Literariness in the Ottoman Chronicle of Naʿīmā, Gül Şen offers the first comprehensive analysis of narrativity in the most prominent official Ottoman court chronicle. Using an interdisciplinary approach that combines methods from history and literary studies, Şen focuses on the purpose and function of the chronicle—not just what the text says but why Naʿīmā wrote it and how he shaped the narrated reality on the textual level. As a case study on the literalization of historical material, Making Sense of History provides insights into the historiographical and literary conventions underpinning Naʿīmā’s chronicle and contributes to our understanding of elite mentalities in the early modern Ottoman world by highlighting the author’s use of key concepts such as history and time.Trade Review"In the introduction to The Sultan’s Servants: The Transformation of Ottoman Provincial Government, 1550–1650, 5 Metin Kunt tells of his studies at Princeton. Among the courses that encouraged him to look closer into the Islamic background of Ottoman institutions he mentions David Ayalon’s seminar on the Mamluk state. And indeed, students of Mamluk historiography would benefit from Şen’s meticulous research. Her insights into the motives, structure and style of Naʿīmā’s chronicle serve as an inspiring study." --Yehoshua Frenkel, University of Haifa, in Mamlūk Studies Review, Vol. 25 (2022)

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

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Book SynopsisThe fifth in the CAIW series, this title reflects 50 years of experience of Cambridge (UK)-based World of Information, which since 1975 has followed the region’s politics and economics. In the period following the Second World War, Saudi Arabia – a curious fusion of medieval theocracy, unruly dictatorship and extrovert wealth - has been called a country of ‘superlatives.’ The modernisation of the Kingdom’s oil industry has been a smooth process: its oilfields are highly sophisticated. However, social modernisation has not kept pace. ‘Reform’, long a preoccupation among the Peninsula’s leaders does not necessarily go hand in hand with religion.

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Book SynopsisThis book discusses hagiographical sources from Morocco taking in consideration the often-overlooked oral tradition. Orality, as is shown in this study, completes and enriches the vision of hagiography that written sources traditionally has offered. The most relevant example in this book is the high presence of female saints in oral narratives that were not included in any other written sources. Recovering oral tradition to study hagiography as well as the role of female saints in Morocco has been one of the main areas of focus in this study as well as problematizing the dependence and dialogue between written and oral culture and can help to understand the diffusion and presence of similar phenomena in other areas of Morocco.

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Book SynopsisNarrating the pilgrimage to Mecca discusses a wide variety of historical and contemporary personal accounts of the pilgrimage to Mecca, most of which presented in English for the first time. The book addresses how being situated in a specific cultural context and moment in history informs the meanings attributed to the pilgrimage experience. The various contributions reflect on how, in their stories, pilgrims draw on multiple cultural discourses and practices that shape their daily lifeworlds to convey the ways in which the pilgrimage to Mecca speaks to their senses and moves them emotionally. Together, the written memoirs and oral accounts discussed in the book offer unique insights in Islam’s rich and evolving tradition of hajj and ʿumra storytelling. Contributors Kholoud Al-Ajarma, Piotr Bachtin, Vladimir Bobrovnikov, Marjo Buitelaar, Nadia Caidi, Simon Coleman, Thomas Ecker, Zahir Janmohamed, Khadija Kadrouch-Outmany, Ammeke Kateman, Yahya Nurgat, Jihan Safar, Neda Saghaee, Leila Seurat, Richard van Leeuwen and Miguel Ángel Vázquez.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors Notes on Transcriptions of Arabic and Other Terms Introduction. Narrativizing a Sensational Journey: Pilgrimage to Mecca  Marjo Buitelaar Part 1 Historical Accounts 1 Hajj Narratives as a Discursive Tradition  Richard van Leeuwen 2 ‘Coplas del peregrino de Puey Monçón’: A Sixteenth-Century Spanish Poem about the Hajj  Miguel Ángel Vázquez 3 Sufism and the Hajj: Symbolic Meanings and Transregional Networks; Two Examples from the 16th and 18th Centuries  Neda Saghaee and Richard van Leeuwen 4 Religious Emotion and Embodied Piety in the Ottoman Turkish Hajj Accounts of Evliyā Çelebī (1611–c. 1683) and Yūsuf Nābī (1642–1712)  Yahya Nurgat 5 Comparing Two Persian Hajj Travelogues: Yaʿqub Mirzā (1868) and Farhād Mirzā (1875/76)  Thomas Ecker 6 Othering and Being Othered: Religion, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Hajj Accounts by Iranian Shiʿi Women (1880–1901)  Piotr Bachtin 7 Experiencing the Hajj in an Age of Change: Tuning the Emotions in Several Hajj Accounts of Pilgrims Travelling from Morocco and Egypt in the First Half of the Twentieth Century  Ammeke Kateman 8 Inconveniences of the Hajj: The Arduous Journey of a Moroccan Shaykh in 1929  Richard van Leeuwen 9 From Moscow to Mecca: Entangled Soviet Narratives of Pilgrimage in the Unlikely 1965 ḥajjnāme of Fazliddin Muhammadiev  Vladimir Bobrovnikov Part 2 Contemporary Accounts 10 Coming of Age in Mecca: Pilgrimage in the Life Stories of Two Young Adult Dutch Pilgrims  Marjo Buitelaar 11 ‘Beyond Words’: Moroccan Pilgrims’ Narrations about Their Ineffable Hajj Experiences through Stories about the Senses  Kholoud Al-Ajarma 12 Newlyweds and Other Young French Muslims Traveling to Mecca: Desires, Motivations and Senses of Belonging  Jihan Safar and Leila Seurat 13 Patience and Pilgrimage: Dutch Hajj Pilgrims’ Emergent and Maturing Stories about the Virtue of ṣabr  Marjo Buitelaar and Khadija Kadrouch-Outmany 14 Crowded Outlets: A North American Khoja Shiʿi Ithna Asheri Pilgrim’s Auto-ethnographic Memoir  Zahir Janmohamed 15 Curating Post-hajj Experiences of North American Pilgrims: Information Practices as Community-Building Rituals  Nadia Caidi 16 Mediating Mecca: Moroccan and Moroccan-Dutch Pilgrims’ Use of the Smartphone  Marjo Buitelaar and Kholoud Al-Ajarma Epilogue. Narrating Mecca: Between Sense and Presence  Simon Coleman Glossary Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume offers an account of Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī (d. 505/1111) as a rational theologian who created a symbiosis of philosophy and theology and infused rationality into Sufism. The majority of the papers herein deal with important topics of al-Ghazālī’s work, which demonstrate his rational treatment of the Qurʾān and major subjects of Islamic theology and everyday life of Muslims. Some other contributions address al-Ghazālī’s sources and how his intellectual endeavors were later received by scholars who had the same concern of reconciling religion and rationality within Islam, Christianity and Judaism. With contributions by Binyamin Abrahamov, Hans Daiber, Ken Garden, Avner Giladi, Scott Girdner, Frank Griffel, Steven Harvey, Alfred Ivry, Jules Janssens, Taneli Kukkonen, Luis Xavier López-Farjeat, Wilferd Madelung, Yahya M. Michot, Yasien Mohamed, Eric Ormsby, M. Sait Özervarlı, and Hidemi Takahashi.Table of ContentsTable of Contents Georges Tamer Introduction Hans Daiber God versus Causality: al-Ghazālī’s Solution and its Historical Background Wilferd Madelung Al-Ghazālī’s Changing Attitude to philosophy Binyamin Abrahamov Al-Ghazālī and the Rationalization of Sufism Georges Tamer Revelation, Sciences and Symbolism: Al-Ghazālī’s Jawāhir al-Qurʾān Frank Griffel Al-Ghazālī at His Most Rationalist: The Universal Rule for Allegorically Interpreting Revelation (al-Qānūn al-kullī fī t-taʾwīl) Eric Ormsby The Comedy of Reason: Strategies of Humour in al-Ghazālī Taneli Kukkonen Al-Ghazālī on the Emotions Avner Giladi Sex, Marriage and the Family in Al-Ghazālī’s Thought: Some Preliminary Notes Yasien Mohamed The Duties of the Teacher: al-Iṣfahānī’s Dharīʿa as a source of inspiration for al-Ghazālī’s Mīzān al-ʿamal Ken Garden Revisiting al-Ghazālī’s Crisis through his Scale for Action (Mizān al-ʿamal) Luis Xavier López-Farjeat Al-Ghazālī on Knowledge (‘ilm) and Certainty (yaqīn) in al-Munqidh min aḍ-ḍalāl and in al-Qisṭās al-mustaqīm Scott Girdner Ghazālī’s hermeneutics and their reception in Jewish Tradition: Mishkāt al-Anwār (The Niche of Lights) and Maimonides’ Shemonah Peraqim (Eight Chapters) Alfred Ivry Al-Ghazālī, Averroes and Moshe Narboni: Conflict and Conflation Steven Harvey The Changing Image of al-Ghazālī in Medieval Jewish Thought Hidemi Takahashi The Influence of al-Ghazālī on the Juridical, Theological and Philosophical Works of Barhebraeus Jules Janssens R. Marti and His References to al-Ghazālī Yahya M. Michot Al-Ghazālī’s Esotericism according to Ibn Taymiyya’s Bughyat al-Murtād M. Sait Özervarlı Arbitrating between al-Ghazālī and the Philosophers: The Tahāfut Commentaries in the Ottoman Intellectual Context Bibliography  

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Book SynopsisBaghdād: From its Beginnings to the 14th Century offers an exhaustive handbook that covers all possible themes connected to the history of this urban complex in Iraq, from its origins rooted in late antique Mesopotamia up to the aftermath of the Mongol invasion in 1258. Against the common perception of a city founded 762 in a vacuum, which, after experiencing a heyday in a mythical “golden age” under the early ʿAbbāsids, entered since 900 a long period of decline that ended with a complete collapse by savage people from the East in 1258, the volume emphasizes the continuity of Baghdād’s urban life, and shows how it was marked by its destiny as caliphal seat and cultural hub. Contributors Mehmetcan Akpınar, Nuha Alshaar, Pavel Basharin, David Bennett, Michal Biran, Richard W. Bulliet, Kirill Dmitriev, Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst, Hend Gilli-Elewy, Beatrice Gruendler, Sebastian Günther, Olof Heilo, Damien Janos, Christopher Melchert, Michael Morony, Bernard O’Kane, Klaus Oschema, Letizia Osti, Parvaneh Pourshariati, Vanessa van Renterghem, Jens Scheiner, Angela Schottenhammer, Y. Zvi Stampfer, Johannes Thomann, Isabel Toral.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Notes on Transliteration and Style List of Figures AbbreviationsVi Notes on ContributorsVii 1 Baghdād’s Topography and Social Composition A Historical Sketch  Jens Scheiner and Isabel Toral Part 1: The Foundation of Madīnat al-Salām and Its Legends 2 Legends about the Foundation of a Marvelous City  Isabel Toral 3 Islamic Art and Architecture in Pre-Mongol Baghdād  Bernard O’Kane More-to-Know I: The Foundation of al-Manṣūr’s Palatial City and Its Horoscope  Johannes Thomann More-to-Know Ii: Was Madīnat al-Salām a “Round City”?  Jens Scheiner Part 2: A Historical Overview from Late Antiquity to the Mongol Period 4 Ctesiphon and Its Surroundings, Precursors of Baghdād  Parvaneh Pourshariati 5 The Early ʿAbbāsid Caliphs as Commanders and Constructors  Jens Scheiner 6 Baghdād under Būyid Rule  Nuha Alshaar 7 Baghdād under the Saljūqs  Vanessa Van Renterghem 8 Baghdād under the Late ʿAbbāsid Caliphs  Hend Gilli-Elewy 9 Baghdād under Mongol Rule  Michal Biran 10 The Economic Parameters of Baghdād and Its Hinterland  Richard W. Bulliet Part 3: Baghdād’s Neighbouring Empires 11 The ʿAbbāsids and the Byzantine Empire  Olof Heilo 12 ʿAbbāsid Caliphs and Frankish Kings  Kirill Dmitriev and Klaus Oschema More-to-Know IiI: Sino-ʿAbbāsid Relations in the Eighth and Ninth Centuries  Angela Schottenhammer Part 4: The ʿAbbāsid Court and Its Legacy 13 Sketches of Court Culture in Baghdād  Letizia Osti 14 City of Poets, Poets of the City  Beatrice Gruendler 15 Prose Writing in Baghdād An Overview  Isabel Toral More-to-Know IV: A “Golden Age” in Baghdād?  Isabel Toral Part 5: Institutions of Learning and Fields of Knowledge 16 Knowledge and Learning in Baghdād  Sebastian Günther More-to-Know V: Medinan Scholars in Early ʿAbbāsid Baghdād  Mehmetcan Akpınar 17 Philosophical and Scientific Learning in Baghdād  Damien Janos Part 6: The Religious Communities 18 The Formation of Sunnī and Shīʿī Traditionalism  Christopher Melchert More-to-Know Vi: Rational Theologians  David Bennett 19 The Ṣūfī School of Baghdād Persons and Teachings  Pavel Basharin 20 Christian Communities in Baghdād and Its Hinterland  Michael Morony 21 Jews in Baghdād during the ʿAbbāsid Period  Y. Zvi Stampfer 22 Zoroastrians, Manichaeans and Gnostics in Baghdād and Its Hinterland  Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst Epilogue  Jens Scheiner Appendix: Original Sources featuring Baghdād  Jens Scheiner Index

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Book SynopsisThe Dutch scholar Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857–1936) was one of the most famous orientalists of his time. He acquired early fame through his daring research in Mecca in 1884-85, masterly narrated in two books and accompanied by two portfolios of photographs. As an adviser to the colonial government in the Dutch East Indies from 1889 until 1906, he was on horseback during campaigns of “pacification” and published extensively on Indonesian cultures and languages. Meanwhile he successively married two Sundanese women with whom he had several children. In 1906 he became a professor in Leiden and promoted together with colleagues abroad the study of modern Islam, meant to be useful for colonial purposes. Despite his considerable scholarly, political, and cultural influence in the first decades of the twentieth century, nowadays Snouck Hurgronje has been almost forgotten outside a small circle of specialists, since he mainly published in Dutch and German. The contributors to this volume each offer new insights about this enigmatic scholar and political actor who might be considered a classic proponent of “orientalism.” Their detailed studies of his life and work challenge us to reconsider common views of the history of the study of Islam in European academia and encourage a more nuanced “post-orientalist” approach with ample attention for cooperation, exchange, and hybridization. Contributors:

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Book Synopsis'The House of the Priest’ presents and discusses the hitherto unpublished and untranslated memoirs of Niqula Khoury, a senior member of the Orthodox Church and Arab nationalist in late Ottoman and British Mandate Palestine. It discusses the complicated relationships between language, religion, diplomacy and identity in the Middle East in the interwar period. This original annotated translation and accompanying articles provide a thorough explication of Khoury’s memoirs and their significance for the social, political and religious histories of twentieth-century Palestine and Arab relations with the Greek Orthodox church. Khoury played a major role in these dynamics as a leading member of the fight for Arab presence in the Greek-dominated clergy, and for an independent Palestine, travelling in 1937 to Eastern Europe and the League of Nations on behalf of the national movement. Contributors: Sarah Irving, Charbel Nassif, Konstantinos Papastathis, Karène Sanchez Summerer, Cyrus SchayeghTable of ContentsForeword. Khoury’s Memoirs as a Palestinian Palimpsest  Cyrus Schayegh Notes on Contributors Notes on Transliteration Maps of Niqula Khoury’s Trips in the Levant, Western and Eastern Europe Introduction  Sarah Irving and Karène Sanchez Summerer 1 National Politics and Religion in Mandatory Palestine: Niqula Khoury and the Arab Orthodox Movement  Konstantinos Papastathis 2 Eastern Orthodoxy: Snapshots on Arab Orthox in Palestine and Jordan from the Franck Scholten Photographic Collection, 1921–1923 3 Memories Containing the Most Significant Incidents and Events That Occurred during My Lifetime  Niqula Khoury, translated and annotated by Sarah Irving, Charbel Nassif, Vicky Moussaed, Konstantinos Papastathis and Karène Sanchez Summerer Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is dedicated to Claudia Römer and brings together 33 contributions spanning a period from the 15th to the 20th century and covering the wide range of topics with which the honouree is engaged. The volume is divided into six parts that present current research on language, literature, and style as well as newer approaches and perspectives in dealing with sources and terminologies. Aspects such as conquest, administration, and financing of provinces are found as well as problems of endowments and the circulation of goods in the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire. Another main topic is dedicated to minorities and their role and situation in various provinces and cities of the Ottoman Empire, as represented by various sources. But also topics like conversion, morality and control are illuminated. Finally, the volume provides an insight into the late Ottoman and early republican period, in which some previously unpublished sources (such as travel letters, memoirs) are presented and (re)discussed. The book is not only aimed at scholars and students of the Ottoman Empire; the thematic range is also of interest to linguists, historians, and cultural historians.Table of ContentsAbbreviations List of Figures and Tables Contributors Publications by Claudia Römer Notes on Names, Terms, and Transliteration Introduction  Hülya Çelik, Yavuz Köse and Gisela Procházka-Eisl Part 1: Language, Literature and Style 1 Bu neyiki? “What (on Earth) Is That?!”  The Old Anatolian Turkish Mirative Particle iki in Unresolvable Questions  Helga Anetshofer 2 Questions, Answers, and Knowledgeable Ladies in an Ageless Turkic Textual Genre  Ingeborg Baldauf 3 More of the SAME: Is There a Standard Average Middle Eastern?  Gisela Procházka-Eisl and Stephan Procházka 4 Coffee’s Elegy on the Death of Tobacco, 1636–1637 by Vardarlı Fazli  An Ottoman Social Parody and its Linguistic Particularities  Edith Gülçin Ambros 5 Alexandros Karatheodoris and His Philological Articles on the Ottoman/Turkish Language  Peri Efe Part 2: Sources and Terminologies: New Readings, New Perspectives 6 Some Remarks on Marginal Notes in Ottoman Manuscripts  Marinos Sariyannis 7 Ottoman Sofia through the Eyes of Its Denizens and Visitors  (Late 14th–First Half of 16th Century)  Rossitsa Gradeva 8 Réflexions sur le processus de rédaction des Ġazavāt-ı Ḫayr ed-Dīn Paşa  Nicolas Vatin 9 Peacemaking between the Ottoman Empire, the Medieval Kingdom of Hungary and the Habsburg Monarchy  Sándor Papp 10 Traces of the Captive Copyist Derviş İbrahim in Sebastian Tengnagel’s (d. 1636) Notebooks  Hülya Çelik 11 Learning the Language of Things: Glimpses into Ottoman Inventories of the 16th and 17th Centuries  Hedda Reindl-Kiel 12 Ottoman History Viewed from the “Periphery”: Al-Isḥāqī’s 1623 Chronicle of Egypt  Jane Hathaway 13 Time-Related References and Markers in the Kadı Court Registers of Kandiye (Heraklion)  Antonis Anastasopoulos Part 3: Conquering, Administering and Financing Ottoman Provinces 14 On the Administration of the Ottoman ‘One-Fifth Tax’ on Prisoners of War (15th to 17th Century)  Pál Fodor 15 Exchange Rates, Pay Years and Prebends in 17th–18th Century Ottoman Europe as Reflected in Taxation and Funding the Military  Some Key Examples  Nenad Moačanin 16 Financial Reporting from the Ottoman Syrian Provinces  A Study On Provincial “Budgets,” the Income Side  Linda T. Darling 17 The Sancakbeyis of Hatvan in the 16th Century  Géza Dávid 18 Paths of Glory: The Rise of the Köprülüs and the Execution of Şamizade Mehmed Efendi (1663)  Özgür Kolçak Part 4: Founding Mosques, (In-)alienable Waqfs, and Circulating Goods 19 Reflections on the Problem of Identifying the Founder of the Mosque of Ferhad Beg in Pécs  Nedim Zahirović 20 “A Man You Do Not Meet Every Day”  The Waqf Founder as a Benevolent Employer and the Waqf as a Sinecure for the Founder’s Retainers  Kayhan Orbay 21 Sorge und Vorsorge  Das Testament (vasiyetname) eines osmanischen Kavallerieoffiziers vor dem Feldzug 1664 und die Fromme Stiftung (vakıf) eines Oberstallmeisters vor einer Dienstreise nach Mekka im Jahre 1681  Hans Georg Majer 22 The Place of Egypt and Syria in the Circulation of Goods in the Eastern Mediterranean  The Abiding Importance of the Ottoman Domestic Market as a Key Dimension of Overall Maritime Trade in the Mid-18th Century  Rhoads Murphey Part 5: Minorities, Moral and Control 23 Die politische Balkandiaspora im Abendland des 15. Jahrhunderts  Oliver Jens Schmitt 24 Zur Überlieferungsgeschichte des Ahdname von Fojnica  Michael Ursinus 25 Grievance Redressal and Ecclesiastical Appointments  Sultanic Rescripts in Favour of Metropolitans and Bishops from the 17th Century  Eleni Gara 26 Living Together in the Quarters of a City  Non-Muslims in the Judicial Registers (Şerʿi Mahkeme Sicilleri) of Trabzon in the Second Half of the 17th Century  Kenan İnan 27 İbrahim Efendi (d. 1697), an Ottoman Scribe Turned Dominican Monk, and His Library between Constantinople and Venice  Tijana Krstić 28 Becoming a Master Artisan in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire  Central Provinces, Late 1500s to Early 1800s  Suraiya Faroqhi 29 Night Life in Istanbul: Sex Crimes and Social Control from the 18th to the Early 20th Centuries  Fariba Zarinebaf Part 6: The Empire at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century and beyond 30 Strolling around Vienna Unarmed. Rıza Nur and His “Letters from Vienna” (1911)  Yavuz Köse 31 Some Remarks on the Hitherto Unpublished Memoirs of a Member of the Kuva-yi Milliye in the Sanjak of Alexandretta/Hatay  Heidemarie Doğanalp-Votzi 32 Making the Best of It. The Graduates of the Kindergarten Training College of Flaviana in Zincidere, 1911–1916  Maria A. Stassinopoulou 33 Heritage Discourse in Early Republican Turkey: The Journal Ülkü (1933–1950) Re-Examined  Ayşe Dilsiz Hartmuth Index

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Book SynopsisK. al-Anwār al-bahiyya fī taʿrīf maqāmāt fuṣaḥāʾ al-bariyya is a work of adab attributed to the renowned littérateur and historian of literature Abū Manṣūr al-Thaʿālibī. The work consists of an introduction and four chapters. The first three chapters are concerned with knowledge (ʿilm): Chapter One discusses the merit and application of knowledge, Chapter Two the definition of knowledge and its true meaning, and Chapter Three the conditions of knowledge. The fourth chapter, which constitutes the bulk of the book, is concerned with occasions on which scholars and sages made speeches in the presence of rulers. It is divided into two parts: Part One presents pre-Islamic (jāhiliyya) speeches, incorporating Arab, Greek, Byzantine, Persian, and Indian traditions, and Part Two presents Islamic speeches. The work is introduced by an analytical study discussing the attribution of the work, its relation to the Maqāmāt genre, and the manuscripts used.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction  1 K. al-Anwār al-bahiyya fī taʿrīf maqāmāt fuṣaḥāʾ al-bariyya  2 From Maqām to Maqāma  3 The Attribution to Abū Manṣūr al-Thaʿālibī  4 Abū Manṣūr al-Thaʿālibī  5 Manuscripts Bibliography Scholarly Edition Index of Qurʾanic Verses Index of Prophetic Tradition Index of Names Index of Places Index of Poetry Index of Sources Index of Chapters

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Book SynopsisAs with all general history, Islamic history is conventionally approached in terms of evolutionary trends and continuities. This study in historical sociology of the millennial or Mahdist movements and their long-term impact, in contrast, focuses on abrupt discontinuities in the form of revolutions as apocalyptic breaks, and on the reaction of the ruling authorities as counter-revolution aiming at routinizing these charismatic irruptions into history by absorbing their impact within the prevalent structure of authorities, and thereby re-establishing the continuity that is taken for granted by future historians. For the framework of this analysis of the dynamics of revolution, and reaction within a single world region, it chooses the civilizational zone defined by its cultural unity as the Persianate world.

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Book SynopsisBūluṣ ibn Rajāʾ (ca. 955–ca. 1020) was a celebrated writer of Coptic Christianity from Fatimid Egypt. Born to an influential Muslim family in Cairo, Ibn Rajāʾ later converted to Christianity and composed The Truthful Exposer (Kitāb al-Wāḍiḥ bi-l-Ḥaqq) outlining his skepticism regarding Islam. His ideas circulated across the Middle East and the Mediterranean in the medieval period, shaping the Christian understanding of the Qurʾan’s origins, Muḥammad’s life, the practice of Islamic law, and Muslim political history. This book includes a study of Ibn Rajāʾ’s life, along with an Arabic edition and English translation of The Truthful Exposer.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Abbreviations Note on Translation and Transliteration Part 1 Study 1 The Life of Būluṣ ibn Rajāʾ  1 Introduction  2 Ibn Rajāʾ and the Fatimid Era  3 The Biography of Būluṣ ibn Rajāʾ 2 The Context for Ibn Rajāʾ’s The Truthful Exposer  1 Title, Date, and Audience: Copts and Muslims ca. 1009–1012  2 Ibn Rajāʾ’s Intellectual Circles  3 Ibn Rajāʾ on Muslim Conversion to Christianity 3 The Arguments and Sources of The Truthful Exposer  1 Ibn Rajāʾ on the Qurʾan  2 Ibn Rajāʾ on Muḥammad  3 Ibn Rajāʾ on the Hadith  4 Ibn Rajāʾ’s Use of Intra-Islamic Disputations  5 Ibn Rajāʾ’s Use of Christian Arabic Sources 4 The Reception of The Truthful Exposer  1 Literary Afterlife from the Mediterranean to Europe  2 A Comparative Analysis of the Arabic and Latin Versions  3 The Arabic Manuscripts and Notes Part 2 The Truthful Exposer (Kitāb al-Wāḍiḥ bi-l-Ḥaqq) Introduction: Būluṣ ibn Rajāʾ’s Conversion and Purpose for Writing 1 On Divisions among Muslims: A Lack of Consensus about the Qurʾan and Interpretation 2 A Refutation of the Alleged Alteration of the Torah and the Gospel 3 On Muḥammad as a Prophet of the Sword; Anecdotes of Christians Living under Islam 4 On Those Who Converted to Islam in Fear of the Sword 5 On Musaylima the False Prophet and al-ʿAnsī 6 On Muḥammad’s Claim of How the Revelation Came to Him 7 On the Meaning of the Qurʾan: Different Texts and Readings (qirāʾāt) of the Qurʾan 8 On What Muslims Have Lost from the Qurʾan 9 On Their Agreement about Marwān Ibn al-Ḥakam’s Version 10 On the Authority of Interpreting the Qurʾan 11 On Inconsistencies and Repetitions in the Qurʾan 12 On the Subject of Mary the Copt 13 On Sexual Themes in the Qurʾan 14 On the Zayd Scandal 15 On the Repetition of Passages in the Qurʾan Taken from the Torah, Psalms, and Gospel 16 On the Inimitability of the Qurʾan 17 On the Audience for the Qurʾan and the Bible as a Source 18 On Contradictions in the Qurʾan 19 A Refutation of Muḥammad’s Alleged Favor over Other Prophets 20 A Refutation of Muḥammad’s Never Disbelieving or Worshipping Idols 21 A Refutation of Equating Jesus with Adam (Q 3:59) 22 A Response on the Anthropomorphizing of God in Christianity and the Qurʾan 23 A Response on the Union of Jesus Christ at the Incarnation 24 A Response on the Crucifixion of Christ (Q 4:157) 25 On the Destruction of the Kaʿba 26 On the Black Stone 27 On the Pilgrimage to Mecca 28 On the Sacrifice of Cattle and Camels 29 On Contradictions in the Qurʾan and Oral Traditions 30 On Marriage and Divorce in the Qurʾan; On Muḥammad’s Night Journey 31 Conclusion: Closing Exhortation 32 Appendix: Additional Contradictions in the Qurʾan Bibliography Index of The Truthful Exposer Index of Biblical and Qurʾanic Citations Index of People, Places, and Subjects

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Book SynopsisThis work presents the complete collection of oral poetry by ad-Dindān, a bedouin poet of the Duwāsir tribe in southern Najd, transcribed and translated on the basis of taped recordings. The text is representative of a poetic tradition which has remained remarkably close to the desert poetry of the early classical age. An extensive glossary, including detailed cross-references to the classical Arabic vocabulary, completes this edition. The introduction describes Dindān's somewhat anomalous position in local society as a result of his stubborn attachment to nomadism, his fierce artistic temper, and his unreconstructed bedouin ethos. It also discusses the composition of oral poetry, the dīwān's themes and its place in the Najdi tradition, the impact of literacy on the poet's oral work, and the prosodic and linguistic features of the text.Trade Review'...extremely informative and very well produced, and [...] will be of great interest and usefulness both to the student of Arabian oral literature and to the dialectologist.' Bruce Ingham, Bulletin of the SOAS, 1995. '...of great value not only because it deals with oral tradition from a region which is not easily accessible, even to orientalists, but also because for the very first time it presents the complete diwan of the oral poetry of ad-Dindan in a competent way.' Barbara Ostafin, Folia Orientalia, 1994.

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Book SynopsisThe Story of a Desert Knight is the second volume of a trilogy entitled Oral Poetry and Narratives from Central Arabia. It is devoted to the narratives told about and the poems composed by Šlēwīḥ al-‘Aṭāwi and his brother Bxīt, both famous desert knights in the middle and second half of the nineteenth century. The principal source of this book is Šlēwīḥ's great-grandson Xālid, a sheikh of the ‘Utaybah tribe. The introduction discusses inter alia the general characteristics of Bedouin oral culture, the linguistic, prosodic and stylistic features of the text, and Xālid's use of his ancestors' oral legacy in order to enhance his position in the tribal hierarchy of prestige. In addition to the translation of the oral text this volume offers a complete transcription, based on taped records and including variants found in published Saudi sources, and a substantial glossary.Trade Review'His work should inspire others to explore the neglected field of the nineteenth century and present-day literature production from the area. This book can be recommended not only for professionals but also for readers interested in culture, tradition, literary output of to-day's living Bedouins.' Barbara Ostafin, Folia Orientalia, 1995. '...un outil exceptionnel...Un tel ouvrage...permet aussi, mieux que toutes les introductions à la poésie arabe, de se faire une idée plus précise des conditions dans lesquelles la poésie préislamique était composée...il serait souhaitable que la lecture de ces travaux soit conseillée, et même fortement recommandée à ceux qui entreprennent de s'initier à la langue et à la littérature arabes anciennes.' Bruno Paoli, Bulletin d'Etudes Orientales, 1995. 'Throughout its considerable length, this second volume displays the same literary insight, sociological acumen, and meticulous attention to scholarly detail as the first volume. It is an entertaining as well as erudite study, beautifully produced, and, like its predecessor, is frequently illuminated by flashes of a refreshing and self-deprecating humor. Would that all academic monographs were as readable as this...This book is a must for a wide variety of readers: social and cultural anthropologists of every hue, but especially of Arabia; literary historians of Arabic; and, last but not least, Arabic dialectologistss. On the strenght of these first two volumes, there seems little doubt that Kurpershoek's odyssey through the oral culture of Arabia is destined to take its place as a classic work in the field.' Clive Holes, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1998. 'The book lives up to the expectations earned by the previous volume, Kurpershoek has filled in important gaps in our knowledge of the poetry, history and dialects of the region and provided an encyclopedic reference work on the 'Utaibah, in particular, who have not up till now been treated extensively in any language and not at all in English. We look forward to the appearance of the third volume in the series.' B. Ingham, Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 1998.

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Book SynopsisThis third volume in the author's series Oral Poetry & Narratives from Central Arabia presents and analyses the work of four contemporary Bedouin poets of the Dawāsir tribe in southern Najd. The introductory part discusses the poetry within the context of the Najdi oral tradition, the poets' role in tribal society, and their mirroring of this society's self-image against the background of its rapid economic, social and political transformation, and its relation with the Saudi State. It is followed by the Arabic Text of the poems in transcription, based on taped records, with the English translation on the facing page. This is complemented by a substantial glossary, cross-referenced to the Arabic Text, other glossaries and works on the Najdi dialect and poetic idiom, as well as corresponding Classical Arabic lexical materials.Trade Review'Kurpershoek's work will be of great interest and usefulness both to the students of Arabian oral literature and to the dialectologist.' Bruce Ingham, BSOAS. 'This book is a must for a wide variety of readers: social and cultural anthropologists of every hue, but especially of Arabia; literary historians of Arabic; and, last but not least, Arabic dialectologists.' Çlive Holes, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1998. 'Cet ouvrage estera un témoin précieux d'un monde qui bientôt s'en sera allé!' Claude Gilliot, Revue des Sciences Philophiques et Theologiques, 1999. 'In sum, this is another superbly executed addition to Kurpershoek's growing oeuvre on Arabian oral culture, imbued with the same understanding of how ancient literary themes and structures are subtly bent to the personalities and outlook of modern poets, and shaped by the pressures fo modern Arabian society and memories of its history.' Clive Holes, Journal of Royal Asiatic Society, 2000.

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Book SynopsisIn Supplier Dieu dans l’Égypte toulounide, Mathieu Tillier and Naïm Vanthieghem provide the edition, translation and study of a booklet preserved on papyrus and dated 267/880-881. It offers a selection of some forty hadiths heard by Khālid ibn Yazīd, a minor local scholar, concerning the invocations that every pious Muslim has to use when addressing God. Composed during the reign of the famous governor Aḥmad ibn Ṭūlūn, the first autonomous ruler of Islamic Egypt, this manuscript bears exceptional testimony to the way traditional sciences were taught at the time. Not only does it open an unprecedented window on the milieu of ordinary transmitters, whose names soon fell into oblivion, but it also sheds new light on the Tulunids’ religious policy and on the islamisation of Egypt. Dans la seconde moitié du IIIe/IXe siècle, un savant répondant au nom de Ḫālid b. Yazīd enseigna une quarantaine de hadiths sur le thème des invocations que tout pieux musulman se devait d’adresser à Dieu. Un opuscule issu de son enseignement, portant la date de 267/880–881, a survécu sur papyrus. Mathieu Tillier et Naïm Vanthieghem en proposent ici l’édition, la traduction et l’étude. Composé sous le règne du fameux gouverneur Aḥmad b. Ṭūlūn, premier souverain autonome de l’Égypte islamique, ce manuscrit offre un témoignage exceptionnel sur la manière dont les sciences traditionnelles étaient alors enseignées. Il ouvre non seulement une fenêtre inédite sur le milieu des transmetteurs ordinaires, dont les noms tombèrent rapidement dans l’oubli, mais vient aussi éclairer d’un nouveau jour la politique religieuse des Toulounides et la dynamique d’islamisation de l’Égypte.Table of ContentsTranslittération de l’arabe Introduction  1 Le titre, l’auteur et ses principaux maîtres  2 Le manuscrit  3 Un florilège de traditions  4 Remise en contexte  5 De l’invocation : sources littéraires et documentaires Édition papyrologique  Page 1  Page 2  Page 3  Page 4  Page 5  Page 6  Page 7  Page 8  Page 9  Page 10  Page 11  Page 12  Page 13  Page 14 Commentaire linéaire  Page 1  Page 2  Page 3  Page 4  Page 5  Page 6  Page 7  Page 8  Page 9  Page 10  Page 11  Page 12  Page 13  Page 14 Édition normalisée et traduction  Introduction  Ce que l’on rapporte au sujet du suprême nom de Dieu qui, lorsqu’il est invoqué, suscite Sa réponse  Exhortation à invoquer Dieu  De l’invocation Annexe: Les principaux savants Égyptiens morts entre 255/869 et 280/893-894 d’après al-Ḏahabī, Taʾrīḫ al-islām Bibliographie Planches Index des personnes et des tribus Index des lieux et des monuments Index des notions

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Book Synopsis‘Alī, son of Abī Ṭālib, Muhammad’s son-in-law and cousin, is the only Companion of the Prophet who has remained to this day the object of fervent devotion of hundreds of millions of followers in the lands of Islam, especially in the East. Based on a detailed analysis of several categories of sources, this book demonstrates that Shi‘ism is the religion of the Imam, of the Master of Wisdom, just like Christianity is that of Christ, and that ‘Alī is the first Master and Imam par excellence. Shi‘ism can therefore be defined, in its most specific religious aspects, as the absolute faith in ‘Alī: the divine Man, the most perfect manifestation of God’s attributes, simultaneously spiritual refuge, model and horizon. With contributions by Orkhan Mir-Kasimov & Mathieu Terrier Translated from French by Francisco José Luis & Anthony GledhillTable of ContentsNotice to the Reader XI Transcription SystemII AcknowledgementsII AbbreviationsIV Introduction Part 1: Singularities of ʿ⁠Alī 1 ʿ⁠Alī and the Quran  1 Introduction  2 ʿ⁠Alī the Master of Hermeneutics  3 Quranic Allusions to ʿ⁠Alī  4 The Explicit Mentions of ʿ⁠Alī in the Quran  5 The Double Nature of ʿ⁠Alī and His Holiness  6 Roots, Extensions and Questions on the Origins: ʿ⁠Alī and Christ 2 Muḥammad the Paraclete and ʿ⁠Alī the Messiah  1 The End of the World in the Quran and the Hadith  2 Remarks on the Religious Environment of Muḥammad  3 The Coming of the Saviour  4 Jesus and ʿ⁠Alī  5 Rewriting of History and Fabrication of a New Collective Memory 3 Reflections on the Expression dīn ʿ⁠Alī: The Origins of the Shiʿi Faith  1 Dīn ʿ⁠Alī in the Works of the Historiographers  2 The Uniqueness of ʿ⁠Alī  3 Themes Concerning ʿ⁠Alī and the Alids  4 The Basis of the Religion of ʿ⁠Alī  5 Reactions and Consequences Part 2: Between Divinity and Humanity 4 Some Remarks on the Divinity of the Imam  1 Theophanic Being and Perfect Man  2 First Textual References  3 The Sermons of ʿ⁠Alī 5 The Five Spirits of the Divine Man  1 Shiʿi Traditions  2 “Prehistory”  3 Further Developments and Implications 6 “The Night of Qadr” (Quran, Surah 97) in Early Shiʿism  1 An Enigmatic Text  2 Shiʿi Perceptions  3 The Master of the Order 7 Tactical Dissimulation and Sealing of Prophecy  1 The Keeping of the Secret  2 Prophetic Abilities of the Imam  3 The Seal of Prophets  4 Epilogue Part 3: Spiritual Horizons 8 The Precious Pearl Attributed to Rajab al-Bursī: 500 Quranic Verses about ʿAlī  1 Brief Notes on al-Bursī and His Major Work Mashāriq al-anwār  2 Other Works and the Quranic Commentary “The Precious Pearl” (al-Durr al-thamīn)  3 Annotated Extracts from al-Durr al-thamīn  4 The Message of the ‘Personalized Commentaries’ 9 Icon and Contemplation: ʿAlī as the Face of God and Medium of Meditation  1 Portative Icons  2 “The Vision by the Heart”  3 “What Is Vejhe?”  4 Analysis of a Panel from the Vesel Collection  5 Icon Contemplation: Between Interpretation and Applications Epilogue Appendix 1: Divine Knowledge and Messianic Action: The Figure of ʿAlī in Mystical and Messianic Circles (5th/11th-10th/16th Centuries), by Orkhan Mir-Kasimov Appendix 2: The Presence of ʿAlī in Islamic Philosophy, by Mathieu Terrier Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Festschrift Sources de la transmission manuscrite en Islam brings together a set of contributions at the forefront of research on the theme of the manuscript book, writing and image in Islam, from all periods. Les mélanges Sources de la transmission manuscrite en Islam réunissent un ensemble de contributions à la pointe de la recherche sur le thème du livre manuscrit, de l’écrit et de l’image en Islam, toutes périodes confondues.Table of ContentsPréface Remerciements Illustrations et tableaux Systèmes de translittération Biographie et bibliographie de Marie-Geneviève Guesdon Tabula gratulatoria Introduction  Anne Regourd et Muriel Roiland 1 De Jean-Baptiste Couët à Pierre Fornetti: L’activité de traduction des Jeunes de langues à Constantinople, 1712-1753: Une rétrospective  Annie Berthier 2 Manuscrits arabes dans « une grande et splendide Bibliothèque publique à Rouen »  Zouhour Chaabane, Muriel Roiland et Jacqueline Sublet 3 Une copie de la Nuḫbat al-dahr fī ʿaǧāʾib al-barr wa-al-baḥr d’al-Dimašqī (BnF, Arabe 5858)  Khalid Chakor-Alami 4 L’utilisation du parchemin au Maroc au xive siècle: Notes codicologiques  François Déroche 5 La peshitta rubriquée du manuscrit BnF Syr. 402  Alain J. Desreumaux 6 Une fausse image de Saladin : notes sur l’histoire d’une enluminure du Traité des automates d’al-Ǧazarī  Anne-Marie Eddé 7 Le traité de la terminologie du soufisme de Zakariyyāʾ al-Anṣārī (824-926/1420-1520)  Abdelouahad Jahdani 8 Notes à propos de la naissance d’un manuscrit : un volume du dictionnaire biographique d’al-Ṣafadī  Khaled Kchir 9 La composition de la thériaque d’Andromaque dans la version arabe de la Thériaque à Pamphilianos  Françoise Micheau 10 Riwāya tardive en contexte : Zabīd-Yémen, à partir de la seconde moitié du xviiie siècle  Anne Regourd 11 Bilinguisme, enseignement et pratique de la médecine : le traité médical de Ḫatīb Nasawī  Francis Richard 12 La « Description du Paradis » : un poème mystique et théologique marocain et sa transmission en Afrique occidentale  Tal Tamari 13 La question de l’attribution des œuvres à leurs auteurs dans les manuscrits : le cas de Manẓūma al-ʿaqīda al-sanūsiyya al-ṣuġrā, de Muḥammad b. Aḥmad b. Maḥmūd b. Abī Bakr Bagayogo al-Wangharī (m. 1066/1655)  Saadou Traoré 14 Une famille de copistes et peintres coptes dans l’Égypte ottomane des xviie et xviiie siècles  Annie Vernay-Nouri Index

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Book SynopsisIn Muslim al-Naysābūrī (d. 261/875). The skeptical traditionalist, Pavel Pavlovitch studies the life and works of Muslim b. al-Ḥajjāj al-Naysābūrī, the author of the famous collection of traditions (ḥadīth) al-Musnad al-ṣaḥīḥ (The Sound Collection), which Sunni Muslims rank as the third most authoritative source of legal and theological norms after the Qurʾān and Muḥammad b. Ismāʿīl al-Bukhārī’s Ṣaḥīḥ. Based on multiple biographical sources and Muslim’s extant works, Pavel Pavlovitch studies hitherto unexplored aspects of Muslim’s biography, elaborates on his founding contribution to the science of ḥadīth criticism, and examines the transmission history of Muslim’s Ṣaḥīḥ in unprecedented detail. The monograph includes the first systematic study of Muslim’s traditionalist theology, which played a defining role in the formation of Sunni identity.Table of ContentsMotives and Acknowledgments List of Graphs, Diagrams, and Tables Conventions Introduction 1 The State of the Field and Method  1 Sources and Studies  2 Method  3 Technical Terminology  4 Determining the ḥadīth Transmitters’ Dates of Birth and Death  5 Determining the Distance between Centers of Learning 2 Iraq and Northeastern Iran in Muslim’s Lifetime: Politics and Intellectual Currents  1 The City of Naysābūr  2 The Miḥna  3 Political Factions  4 Theological Issues and Intellectual Trends 3 Life and Worldview  1 Shaykhs and Centers of Learning  2 Doctrinal Affiliation  3 Piety  4 Political Views 4 Muslim’s Theology  1 Muslim, al-Bukhārī, and the Perception of the Quran  2 Muslim and the Definition of Faith  3 Muslim and the Issue of qadar: Synergy between Divine Predestination and Human Agency  4 Conclusion 5 Muslim’s ḥadīth Criticism  1 The Delicate Art of Transmitter Evaluation  2 Muslim’s Criteria of ḥadīth Criticism  3 Muslim’s Vocabulary of ḥadīth Transmission and Evaluation  4 Conclusion 6 Muslim’s Works  1 Extant Works  2 Works That Are Preserved as Secondary Citations  3 Lost Works 7 The Ṣaḥīḥ  1 The Collection’s Title and Purpose of Composition: Muṣannaf, Musnad, and Ṣaḥīḥ  2 When Did Muslim Compose the Ṣaḥīḥ, and Was It Finished?  3 Is Muslim’s Ṣaḥīḥ an Appendix to al-Bukhārī’s Ṣaḥīḥ?  4 Contents and Structure of the Ṣaḥīḥ  5 Reception and Canonization 8 The Transmission of the Ṣaḥīḥ  1 The Transmission through Ibrāhīm b. Muḥammad b. Sufyān al-Naysābūrī  2 The Transmission through Abū Muḥammad Aḥmad b. ʿAlī b. al-Ḥasan al-Qalānisī  3 The Transmission through Makkī b. ʿAbdān  4 The Transmission through Aḥmad b. al-Sharqī  5 Other Transmissions of the Ṣaḥīḥ  6 Manuscripts and Editions Conclusion Appendix 1: Isnād Diagrams Appendix 2: Muslim’s Informants according to al-Mizzī Appendix 3: Muslim’s Major Shaykhs according to Kitāb al-Zahra, Compared with an Electronic Count in al-Maktaba al-Shāmila and an Alternative Count by Dār al-Taʾṣīl Appendix 4: Transmitters on Muslim’s Authority Appendix 5: First/Seventh and Second/Eighth-Century Traditionists Who Made Transmitter-Critical Pronouncements according to Muslim’s Introduction Appendix 6: Reasons for Transmitter-Critical Pronouncements according to the Introduction to Muslim’s Ṣaḥīḥ Appendix 7: Muslim’s Kitāb al-Qadar Compared with al-Bukhārī’s Kitāb al-Qadar Appendix 8: The Number of Books in the Ṣaḥīḥ according to Ibn Manjuwayh, ʿAbd al-Bāqī (= Wensinck, al-Nawawī), and Dār al-Taʾṣīl (= al-Mizzī) Appendix 9: The Known Sections in Ibn ʿAsākir’s Division of the Ṣaḥīḥ Appendix 10: The Shaykhs of Aḥmad b. Muḥammad b. Zakariyyāʾ al-Nasawī Bibliography Index of Personal Names Index of Dynasties and Parties Index of Geographical Names Index of Titles of Pre-Modern books Index of Topics and Terms Quranic References

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Book SynopsisIbn Ibrāhīm al-Dukkālī’s Historical Chronicle, edited and translated by Norman Cigar, is a valuable contemporary manuscript source from Morocco’s poorly documented and seldom-studied mid-eighteenth century, a period marked by weak rulers and conflicts, but also a golden age for local political actors and the autonomous power centers in the cities. As a well-placed observer and active participant in events in his native city of Fes, al-Dukkālī provides unique data that helps us address key questions about cities in the Muslim world raised in multiple disciplines, such as whether cities could be considered communities or were simply an agglomeration of disparate elements, and to what extent cities enjoyed autonomy in their relations with the central government, and in what sense they were “Islamic.”Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Author Biography Introduction Arabic Text and Translation Map Key/Maps Appendix on Weights, Measures, and Currency Glossary Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Historian of Islam at Work is a volume in honor of Hugh N. Kennedy. It offers thirty contributions by three generations of prominent scholars in the field of pre-modern Middle Eastern studies, covering the many areas of Islamic historical inquiry in which Hugh Kennedy has been active throughout his career. Grouped around four major themes - Caliphate and power, economy and society, Abbasids, and frontiers and the others - the contributions deal with the history, archaeology, architecture and literature of the Middle East, North Africa and beyond, from the time of the Prophet until the fifteenth century.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Tabula Gratulatoria A Lifelong Passion for Islamic History  Maaike van Berkel and Letizia Osti Bibliography of Hugh N. Kennedy Part 1 Caliphate and Power 1 A Ḥimyarite Restorationist Prophecy  Michael Cook 2 Kinship, Dynasty and the Umayyads  Andrew Marsham 3 He Reigned as Caliph; Then He Died: The Reigns of Caliphs Versified  Geert Jan van Gelder 4 Versifying History in Abbasid Iraq: The Universal History in Verse of ʿAlī b. al-Jahm  Harry Munt 5 How to Found an Islamic State: The Idrisids and the Rivals to the Caliphate in the Far Islamic West  Corisande Fenwick 6 Rethinking “the Mamlūk State” with Ibn Khaldūn: “Mamlūkization” and ʿaṣabiyya in the Sultanate of Cairo  Jo Van Steenbergen 7 Ibn Khaldūn and the Ḥafṣid Caliphate  Allen Fromherz Part 2 Economy and Society 8 A Three-Centered System: Aleppo, Damascus, and Cairo in the Age of the Ayyubids  R. Stephen Humphreys 9 Informal and Formal Trading Associations in Egypt and Ifrīqiya, 850–1150  Chris Wickham 10 Good Governance in Theory and Practice: Comparing Abū Yūsuf’s Kitāb al-Kharāj with Papyri  Petra M. Sijpesteijn 11 A Matter of Trust: On Some Principles of Governance in the Letters of Qurra b. Sharīk  Arietta Papacostantinou 12 Calculating the Population of Samarra  Alastair Northedge 13 Flour for the Caliph: Watermills in the “Land behind Mosul”  Cristina Tonghini 14 Bedouin, Bandits and Caliphal Disappearance: A Reappraisal of the Qarāmiṭa and Their Success in Arabia  Peter Webb 15 Zinā and muḥṣanāt in the Quran  Richard A. Kimber Part 3 Abbasids 16 Muslim Nostalgia: Longing for the Abbasid Past in the Mamluk Era  Robert Irwin 17 The al-Mustanṣiriyya madrasa in Baghdad and Its Founder, al-Mustanṣir  Carole Hillenbrand 18 Hārūn al-Rashīd in Premodern Arabic Literary Imaginary: Ideology of Monogamy, Harem Politics, and Court Intrigues  Wen-Chin Ouyang 19 Representation of the Barmakids in Bodleian Manuscript Ouseley 217 and Other Monographs  Pejman Firoozbakhsh and Arezou Azad 20 Eutychius of Alexandria Vindicated: Muslim Sources and Christian Arabic Historiography in the Early Islamic Empire  Robert Hoyland 21 Bureaucrats on the Move: Messengers in Fourth/Tenth-Century Iraq  Maaike van Berkel, Nadia Maria El Cheikh and Letizia Osti 22 Al-Ṭabarī’s Unacknowledged Debt to Ibn Abī Ṭāhir Ṭayfūr  Sarah Bowen Savant 23 Heraqleh: A New Interpretation  Andrew Petersen Part 4 Frontiers and the Others 24 The Interface between Byzantium and the Ilkhanids in Fourteenth-Century Book Painting  Robert Hillenbrand 25 Exploring Europe through Medieval Islamic Folk Literature  Niall Christie 26 The Lordship and Bishopric of Banyas in the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem (1126–1164)  Alan V. Murray 27 Fortresses and Frontiers: Castles and Northern Syria in the Sultanate of Cairo  Angus D. Stewart 28 The Sasanian Fort of Pānkān  Balázs Major 29 Negotiating the North: Armenian Perspectives on the Conquest Era  Tim Greenwood 30 New Palaeoenvironmental Evidence on the Possible Impact on Agriculture of Early Arab-Islamic Raiding Activity on Crete  John F. Haldon Index

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Book SynopsisThe distinguished position of the seventeenth-century Ḥijāz attracted Sufis from across the Islamic world, making it the largest Sufi center of that era, with more than forty Sufi orders active during the Ottoman period. Most of the region’s many scholars were associated with Sufism and affiliated to these orders; their lives and Sufi activities more broadly were documented by one of their number, al-ʿUjaymī, in two texts. These texts, critically edited here for the first time, constitute some of the best evidence for the character of spiritual life in the Ḥijāz during the seventeenth and early eighteenth century.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction  1 Al-ʿUjaymī’s Family  2 Ḥasan b. ʿAlī al-ʿUjaymī, Abū al-Baqāʾ al-Ṣūfī (d. 1113/1702)  3 The Two Treatises Edited in This Volume  4 Conclusion Description of the Manuscripts  1 Khabāyā al-zawāyā  2 Risāla fī ṭuruq al-ṣūfiyya  3 Isbāl al-sitr al-jamīl ʿalā tarjamat al-ʿAbd al-dhalīl Explanation of Signs and Conventions Used in the Arabic Critical Edition and Apparatus Bibliography Index Arabic Section

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Book SynopsisThis volume brings together thirteen case studies devoted to the establishment, growth, and demise of holy places in Muslim societies, thereby providing a global look on Muslim engagement with the emplacement of the holy. Combining research by historians, art historians, archaeologists, and historians of religion, the volume bridges different approaches to the study of the concept of “holiness” in Muslim societies. It addresses a wide range of geographical regions, from Indonesia and India to Morocco and Senegal, highlighting the strategies implemented in the making and unmaking of holy places in Muslim lands. Contributors: David N. Edwards, Claus-Peter Haase, Beatrice Hendrich, Sara Kuehn, Zacharie Mochtari de Pierrepont, Sara Mondini, Harry Munt, Luca Patrizi, George Quinn, Eric Ross, Ruggero Vimercati Sanseverino, Ethel Sara Wolper.

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Book SynopsisControversial scholarly debates around the beginnings of the Ottoman Empire in the last century are not only rooted in the scarcity or heterogeneity of sources, but also in the mentalities and ideologies that canonised thought paradigms. This book uses an interdisciplinary approach at the interface between Ottoman, Byzantine, Mediterranean and Southeast European studies. Unusual sources such as Western Anatolian numismatics and predominantly European documents met innovative methods from the study of violence and power networks. Making a case study around the military aḳıncı institution, the author re-evaluates the emergence of the Ottoman polity in dealing with various warlords and across multiple identities and political affiliations.

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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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Book SynopsisThe present volume is a double edition in English and Arabic about the art of ornamentations in the performance of the Arabic qanun (psaltery), and a historical document spanning more than one hundred years. It is based on George Sawa's experience as an artist and performer, as well as the experience of his teachers and their teachers. For the latter, Dr Sawa used his recollections of what his teachers said about their teachers, as well as recordings made by European companies that recorded their works on 78 rpm at the beginning of the 20th century. .

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Book SynopsisIslam on the Margins commemorates the contributions Michael Bonner made to Near Eastern Studies. It consists of fourteen contributions by his students and colleagues that focus on various aspects of his work. The contributions coalesce around four major themes of Bonner’s endeavours: Holy War and the Frontier, Qurʾan and Law, Geography and Ethnography, and Books, Coins and Titles. Collectively, the contributions underscore the breadth of Michael Bonner’s erudition and impact on the field.

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Book SynopsisDocuments open up another an approach complementary to the overwhelming richness of literary tradition as preserved in manuscripts. This volume combines studies on Greek, Sogdian and Arabic documents (letters, legal agreements, and amulets) with studies on Arabic and Judeo-Arabic manuscripts (poetry, science and divination).Table of ContentsAbbreviations List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction  Andreas Kaplony and Matt Malczycki 1 Who Did What in Eighth-Century Aphrodito? P.Würzb. Inv. 122–127, Greek Tax Documents, and Some Observations on Prosopography  Janneke de Jong 2 Thinking in Arabic, Writing in Sogdian: Arabic-Sogdian Diplomatic Relations in the Early Eighth Century  Said Reza Huseini 3 Reconstructing Dhū l-Rumma’s Poetry with the Help of Muqātil b. Sulaymān’s Tafsīr (P.Cair.Arab. Inv. 1235 Verso and Recto)  Hazem Hussein Abbas Ali 4 A Prisoner’s Fate in Fatimid Egypt: The Late Coptic Paitos Dossier  Vincent Walter 5 The Book of Twitches of Shem, Son of Noah, and Other Manuals of Palmomancy from the Cairo Genizah and al-Quṣayr  Gideon Bohak 6 Scientific Textbooks and Their Application in Practice: Interdependencies of Literary and Documentary Evidence of Scientific Activities  Johannes Thomann 7 Writing in Arabic after the Christian Conquest of Toledo: Christian and Islamic Documents and the Concept of Sunna (Appendix: Two Documents on the Sale of a Mosque)  Rocio Daga Portillo Documents Quoted Index

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Book SynopsisAl-Maqrīzī's (d. 845/1442) last work, al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar, was completed a year before his death. This volume, edited by Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila, covers the history of pre-Islamic Iran during the Sasanian period and the conquest. Al-Maqrīzī's work shows how Arab historians integrated Iran into world history and how they harmonised various currents of historiography (Middle Persian historiography, Islamic sacred history, Greek and Latin historiography). This part harmonises the versions of Miskawayh's Tağārib, al-Ṭabarī’s Taʾrīḫ, and several other sources, producing a fluent narrative of Iran from the early 3rd century until 651. It also includes the complete text of ʿAhd Ardašīr, here translated for the first time into English.Table of ContentsPreface List of Plates Abbreviations Introduction  1 al-Maqrīzī and the Ḫabar  2 Sources  3 Quoting  4 Mistakes  5 Description of the Manuscripts  6 The Copying of Manuscript A-2826/5 (MS T)  7 Sasanian Kings and Queens according to al-Maqrīzī  8 Translation and Transliteration of Names Plates Abbreviations and Symbols Critical Edition and Translation of al-Maqrīzī’s al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar, Vol. V, Section 4: Persia and Its Kings, Part II The Fourth Class of Persian Kings, the Sasanians Bibliography List of Quoted Manuscripts Index of Qurʾānic Verses Index of Verses Index of Prophetic Traditions Index of Names (People and Places) Index of Technical Terms Index of Quoted Titles in al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar Index of Sources in al-Ḫabar ʿan al-bašar Index of Glosses Facsimile of MS Fatih 4340 (Istanbul, Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi), Fols. 137a–200a

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Book SynopsisIslamic Thought and the Art of Translation honors two of the most beloved and productive scholars in the field of Islamic Studies, Professors William Chittick and Sachiko Murata. For the past five decades, in over 40 books (monographs, editions, translations, edited volumes) and more than 300 articles, Professors Chittick and Murata have presented us with philologically sound and analytically rigorous expositions of the pre-modern Islamic intellectual tradition, particularly in the areas of Sufism and philosophy. They have done so primarily by zeroing in on the technical vocabularies of Arabic, Persian, and Chinese texts in these disciplines, demonstrating just how important careful reading and responsible translation methods are to the study of pre-modern worldviews. Contributors: Seyyed Hossein Nasr, Masoud Ariankhoo, Mohammed Rustom, Kazuyo Murata, Ali Karjoo-Ravary, Shankar Nair, Maria Massi Dakake, Gregory Vandamme, Alireza Pharaa, Justin Cancelliere, Matthew Melvin-Koushki, Marlene DuBois, Naser Dumairieh, Omar Edaibat, Oludamini Ogunnaike, Khalil Andani, Davlat Dadikhuda, Rosabel Ansari, Muhammad U. Faruque, Sayeh Meisami, Cyrus Ali Zargar, Alireza Asghari, Amer Latif, Mukhtar H. Ali, Laury Silvers, Mohammed Mehdi Ali, Tahera Qutbuddin, Yousef Casewit, and Atif Khalil.Trade Review"This massive book is a fitting tribute to William Chittick and Sachiko Murata, and the papers contained therein are all written in the best traditions of modern, academic, critical textual, and philological scholarship." – Reviewer A "The essays featured in this meticulously edited volume are original and impressive pieces of scholarship that faithfully recapitulate the vast spectrum of research areas covered by Murata and Chittick." – Reviewer BTable of ContentsForeword by Seyyed Hossein Nasr Preface Acknowledgements List of Figures Notes on the Contributors Books by William C. Chittick and Sachiko Murata Part 1 Sufism in Persianate Contexts 1 ʿAyn al-Quḍāt’s Tamhīdāt: An Ocean of Sufi Metaphysics in Persian  Masoud Ariankhoo and Mohammed Rustom 2 The Life of the Breath of Life in Rūmī  Kazuyo Murata 3 Mirrors in the Dream of the Alone: A Glimpse at the Poetry of Bīdil  Ali Karjoo-Ravary 4 Sufi Gleams of Sanskrit Light  Shankar Nair 5 Re-reading the Quranic Maryam as a Mystic in Nuṣrat Amīn’s Makhzan-i ʿirfān  Maria Massi Dakake Part 2 The Akbarian Tradition 6 Some Notes on Ibn ʿArabī’s Correlative Prophetology  Gregory Vandamme 7 Beautiful-Doing (iḥsān) as the Station of No Station (maqām lā maqām) and the Genesis of the Perfect Human (al-insān al-kāmil)  Alireza Pharaa 8 Fear, Deeds, and the Roots of Human Difference: A Divine Breath from al-Qūnawī’s Nafaḥāt  Justin Cancelliere 9 Being with a Capital B: Ibn Turka on Ibn ʿArabī’s Lettrist Cosmogony  Matthew Melvin-Koushki 10 Jāmī and the Wine of Love: Akbarian Sparks of Divine Light  Marlene DuBois 11 Al-Qushāshī and al-Kūrānī on the Unity of God’s Attributes (waḥdat al-ṣifāt)  Naser Dumairieh 12 The Akbarian Tradition in Hadhramawt: The Intellectual Legacy of Shaykh Abū Bakr b. Sālim  Omar Edaibat 13 A Sufi Vocabulary from the Sokoto Caliphate: Shaykh Dan Tafa’s Poem on Sufi Nomenclature (al-Manẓūma lil-iṣṭilāḥ al-ṣūfiyya)  Oludamini Ogunnaike Part 3 Islamic Philosophy and Cosmology 14 Neoplatonic Prayer: The Ismaʿili Hermeneutics of ṣalāt according to al-Sijistānī and Nāṣir-i Khusraw  Khalil Andani 15 The Necessity of the Return (al-maʿād): Avicenna on the Posthumous States of the Human Soul in Aḍḥawiyya 6–7  Davlat Dadikhuda 16 Greek Philosophy and Sufism in Mecdi’s Ottoman Turkish Gardens of Peonies  Rosabel Ansari 17 Sufism and Philosophy in the Mughal-Safavid Era: Shāh Walī Allāh and the End of Selfhood  Muhammad U. Faruque 18 Light/Darkness Dualism and Islamic Metaphysics in Persianate Context  Sayeh Meisami 19 Asad Allāh Qazwīnī’s Cosmology of the ahl al-bayt: A Study and Critical Edition of Kitāb-i Walāyat-i muṭlaqa  Cyrus Ali Zargar and Alireza Asghari Part 4 Hermeneutics and Cross-Cultural Translation 20 Observations on Embodiment and Cross-Cultural Translation  Amer Latif 21 Translating Islamic Metaphysical Texts: Some Reflections on Knowledge Transmission  Mukhtar H. Ali 22 Historical Imagination: Voicing Silences in Early Sufi Texts through Narrative  Laury Silvers 23 The Tao of maʿrifa: Adam’s Encounter with Hell in Paradise  Mohammed Mehdi Ali 24 A Supplication for God’s Mercy on the Day of ʿArafa by the Fatimid Chief dāʿī al-Muʾayyad al-Shīrāzī  Tahera Qutbuddin 25 Made in God’s Image: A Contemporary Sufi Commentary on Sūrat al-Insān (Q 76) by the Moroccan Shaykh Mohamed Faouzi al-Karkari  Yousef Casewit 26 Remembering Toshihiko Izutsu: Linguist, Islamicist, Philosopher  Atif Khalil Index of Names and Terms

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Book SynopsisThe studies in this volume go beyond the question of the authenticity of Prophetic narrations, which has occupied the field of Hadith Studies for over a century. By approaching hadith narrations and literature from various perspectives, the authors seek to uncover the potential that hadith material has to better understand the intellectual and social history of Muslim societies. Applying concepts and methods from other disciplines, the authors study the materiality of hadith collections, the places they were read, and the ways they were incorporated in architecture. Additionally, they explore understudied genres such as the forty-hadith, the faḍāʾil, aḥādīth al-aḥkām, and ʿawālī collections. As such, they set a new course to push the field of Hadith Studies in a new direction.Table of ContentsList of Figures Introduction: Beyond Authenticity Alternative Approaches to Hadith and Hadith Literature  Mohammad Gharaibeh 1 Compilation Criticism Exploring Overarching Structures in the Six Books  Stephen R. Burge 2 Teaching Islam in Yemen Insights from Two Forty Hadith Collections  Scott C. Lucas 3 The Prophet’s Ideal in Pocket-Size Sunni Forty Hadith Collections  Swantje Bartschat 4 The aḥādīth al-aḥkām Genre and the Ḥanbalī School  Jewel Jalil 5 The ʿawālī Genre and Its Social Dimension  Mohammad Gharaibeh 6 For the Love of the Prophet Faḍāʾil in the Early Modern Ottoman Context  Dženita Karić 7 “As If the Prophet Stood in Front of You” The Performative Meaning of Hadith Transmission and Its Prophetological Background in Late Formative Sunnism  Ruggero Vimercati Sanseverino 8 Old Is the New Authentic Arabic Papyri as a Source for Early Hadith  Ursula Bsees 9 The Materiality of Hadith Scholarship in the Post-Canonical Period  Konrad Hirschler 10 Where Was Hadith Read in Damascus? Audition Notices and the Loci of Hadith Transmission in Medieval Damascus  Garrett Davidson 11 The Word of the Beloved Prophet of Islam Hadiths Inscribed on Cairo’s Islamic Architecture  Noha Abou-Khatwa 12 Hadith Inscriptions in Medieval Anatolian Architecture The Case of the Qaraṭay Madrasa in Konya and the Great Mosque in Birgi  Mehmetcan Akpınar Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume, the second of three, offers an anthology of Western descriptions of Islamic religious buildings in Syria, Egypt and North Africa, mostly from the seventeenth to early twentieth centuries, taken from travel books and ambassadorial reports. (The third volume will deal with Islamic palaces around the Mediterranean.) As travel became easier and cheaper, thanks to better roads, steamships, hotels and railways, tourist numbers increased, museums accumulated eastern treasures, illustrated journals proliferated, and photography provided accurate data. All three deal with the impact of Western trade, taste and imports on the East, and examine the encroachment of westernised modernism.Table of ContentsContents Preface to the Three Volumes ix List of Illustrations xi 1 Introduction  1 The Crusades and Their Impact  2 Contacts Through Trade  3 Manuscripts Throughout the Empire  4 Nineteenth-century Travel and Tourism  5 Jerusalem and Cairo  6 The survival of Islam  7 Muslims, Christians and Jews  8 Dress and Stability: Two Disparities between West and East  9 Arrangement of the Book 2 Syria and the Holy Land  1 Mosques and How to Enter Them  2 Sketching Islamic Antiquities: Paper and Panoramas  3 Acre: Djezzar’s Mosque  4 Baalbek  5 Damascus  6 Gaza and Nablus  7 Hebron  8 Baghdad (Present-day Iraq)  9 Jerusalem  10 The Haram al Sharif and Its Monuments  11 Ramla/Rama  12 Sidon 3 Alexandria and Cairo  1 Alexandria’s Mosques  2 Alexandria’s and Cairo’s Reuse of Antiquities  3 The Pyramids  4 Cairo  5 Boulaq  6 The Delights of the Citadel  7 Northern and Southern Cemeteries  8 Cairo, Odernism and Islamic Survivals 4 North Africa  1 Setting the Scene  2 Algeria  3 Could Arabic Architecture Survive in (French) Algeria?  4 Algiers (Occupied 1830)  5 Bougie (Occupied 1833)  6 Constantine (Occupied 1837)  7 Tlemcen Environs and Its Monuments  8 Tlemcen City (Occupied 1836)  9 The Oasis of Sidi Okba  10 Morocco  11 Fez  12 Photography in Fez and Elsewhere  13 Marrakesh/Morocco  14 Mequinez/Meknès  15 Salee, Rabat and Shellah  16 Tangier  17 Tetuan  18 Tunisia (French Protectorate 1881–1956)  19 Gafsa and Béja  20 Kairouan  21 Sousse and Environs  22 Testour  23 Tunis  24 Libya  25 Tripoli in Barbary 5 Exhibiting Islamic Lands: Trade, Travel and Empire  1 Overview  2 Easier and Cheaper Travel  3 Artists, Exhibitions and Moving Images  4 Dancing in the Cairo Street  5 Paris 1867 and Dancing Girls Bibliography – Sources Bibliography – Modern Scholars Index Illustrations

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Book SynopsisIn Relational Iconography: Representational Culture at the Qaraquyunlu and Aqquyunlu Courts (853 / 1449 CE to 907 / 1501 CE), Georg Leube engages with courtly representation from an iconographical perspective, tracing the intersecting agencies of courtly actors negotiating multiple normativities and traditions. While the courtly culture of the Qaraquyunlu and Aqquyunlu dynasties (15th century C.E.) is commonly interpreted as an intermezzo in Persianate and Islamicate cultural history, it is here framed as an ideal field to explore a relational approach that challenges established dichotomies and ideal types. By reading multiple mediums and discourses into each other, Georg Leube shows how courtly performance is rooted in iconographical repertoires that resonated with different networks and groups inside the 'Turkmen' realms.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations 1 Introduction  1.1 Thematic Introduction  1.2 Acknowledgments  1.3 A Note on Transliteration, Dates, and Other Formalia 2 Theoretical Approach  2.1 A Performative View of Courtly Representation  2.2 Iconography: From the Description of Pictures to the Structure of Representation  2.3 The Stability and Openness of Tradition  2.4 Relational Iconography: Deploying an Iconographical Approach to ‘Turkmen’ Courtly Culture 3 Nexus between the Worlds: An Inductive Reconstruction of ‘Turkmen’ Courtly Culture  3.1 The Court as Topos and Representational Scene  3.2 Topoi of Courtly Interaction I: The Yaylāq or Summer Pasture  3.3 Topoi of Courtly Interaction II: The Qishlāq as an Entangled Urban Sphere 4 The Dimensions of Ethnicity and Religious Affiliation in the Representational Culture of the ‘Turkmen’ Courts  4.1 The Iconography of ‘Ethnicity’ and ‘Ethnic’ Affiliation  4.2 The Iconography of Religious Affiliation 5 Outlook and Conclusion Annex 1: The Chronology of the Production of the Uppsala Manuscript of Abīwardī’s Chār Takht and Anīs al-ʿĀshiqīn Annex 2: The Chronology of the Production of Faḍlallāh’s Tārīkh-i ʿĀlam-ārā-yi Amīnī Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Saints hommes de Chiraz et du Fārs. Pouvoir, société et lieux de sacralité (Xe-XVe s.), Denise Aigle studies the spiritual role, but also the political one, played by the Sufi shaykhs. From the tenth century, Fārs was a a land of holiness with Shaykh Kabīr in Shiraz and Murshid al-Dīn Abū Isḥāq in Kāzarūn. This research is based on hagiographic sources, historical chronicles, literary sources and archival documents. The author shows how the pre-Islamic history of Fārs was integrated into spiritual Islam thanks to the mystical speculations of the Sufi shaykhs. The particular interest of this research is its contribution to the history of Lāristān, a region that has long remained terra incognita. Thanks to handwritten hagiographic documents preserved in several private libraries, we discover the existence and the role of spiritual masters until now totally unknown.

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Book SynopsisThe long-lasting Ottoman Empire was a theatre of armed conflict and human displacement. Whereas military victories in the early modern period enabled its territorial expansion and internal consolidation, the later centuries were shaped by military defeat and domestic turmoil, setting hundreds of thousands, sometimes even millions of people in motion. Spanning from Europe to Asia, the book reassesses these movements. Rather than adopting a teleological approach to the study of the Ottoman defeat, it connects late Ottoman history to wider dynamics, extending or challenging existing concepts and narratives.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures and Table IX Notes on Contributors X 1 Introduction: Population Displacements and Multiple Mobilities in the Late Ottoman Empire  Nicole Immig Part 1: Population Movements and Migrants as Assets 2 Demographic Engineering and the Unionist Legacy  George Kalpadakis 3 Seeking a Homeland, Serving the Empire: Muslim Migrants from Montenegro and Their Integration within the Ottoman Bureaucracy (1870–1914)  Denis Ljuljanović Part 2: Differentiating and Hierarchizing People on the Move 4 Muslims of Epirus, Muslims of Empire? The Cham Issue in Relation to Albanian, Greek and Turkish National Projects (1908–25)  Renaud Dorlhiac 5 ‘Unreliable Muslims’ Out and ‘Loyal Subjects of the Tsar’ In?: Two Different Forms of Migration Envisaged by the Russian Authorities in the Southwestern Caucasus and Eastern Anatolia in WWI  Ozan Arslan Part 3: Reinterpreting Population Displacements 6 The Ottoman Era in Yemen and Jewish Emigration (1881–1914)  Bat-Zion Eraqi Klorman 7 Flags and Blood: European Jews, Refugee Restrictions, and Rioting in 1929 Palestine  Sarah Shields Part 4: Lives beyond Borders 8 Migrating Economic Identities in the Ottoman Empire: Regional Expressions of the Global Market in the Greek Banker’s Andreas Syngros Autobiography  Ekaterini Brégianni 9 Mapping Europe with Love: Spaces and Conjunctions between Smyrna and Munich  Simone Egger 10 Afterword: Transitions from a Transimperial to a Transnational Migration Society  Stefan Rohdewald Index of Names

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Book SynopsisOliver Kahl and Henrietta Sharp Cockrell present a facsimile edition of a newly discovered medieval medical text attributed to the famous physician Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Zakariyyāʾ al-Rāzī (Rhazes, d. 925 CE). This unique Arabic manuscript comprises a work in the health regimen genre titled “Book of the Crown” (Kitāb al-Iklīl). Copied in 1220 CE and bound parallel to the text (flip-bound), it is highly unusual, both in terms of physical appearance and topical choices. The edition is accompanied by an annotated English translation en regard, a detailed introduction including a codicological study, and bilingual indices.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction  1 Preliminary Notes  2 Rhazes  3 The Present Work  4 Authorship  5 Manuscript Format  6 Text Layout  7 Illuminated Heading  8 Measurements and Script  9 Paper  10 Binding  11 Conclusion Plates Facsimile Edition and Translation Bibliography Index of Substances and Products Index of Proper Names

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

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Book SynopsisThe present English translation reproduces the original German of Carl Brockelmann’s Geschichte der Arabischen Litteratur (GAL) as accurately as possible. In the interest of user-friendliness the following emendations have been made in the translation: Personal names are written out in full, except b. for ibn; Brockelmann’s transliteration of Arabic has been adapted to comply with modern standards for English-language publications; modern English equivalents are given for place names, e.g. Damascus, Cairo, Jerusalem, etc.; several erroneous dates have been corrected, and the page references to the two German editions have been retained in the margin, except in the Supplement volumes, where new references to the first two English volumes have been inserted.Table of ContentsPreface Note to the Reader Transcription Introduction  I The Task of Literary History  II Sources and Earlier Accounts of the Literary History of the Arabs  III Division of the History of Arabic Literature First Book: The National Literature of the Arabs First Section From the Beginnings until the Appearance of Muḥammad  Chapter 1. The Arabic Language  Chapter 2. The Beginnings of Poetry  Chapter 3. The Forms of Arabic Poetry  Chapter 4. The Nature of Ancient Arabic Poetry  Chapter 5. The Transmission of Arabic Poetry  Chapter 6. Sources for our Knowledge of Ancient Arabic Poetry  Chapter 7. The Six Poets  Chapter 8. Other Poets of Pre-Islamic Times  Chapter 9. Jewish and Christian Poets before Islam  Chapter 10. The Beginnings of Arabic Prose Second Section Muḥammad and His Time  Chapter 1. Muḥammad the Prophet  Chapter 2. The Qurʾān  Chapter 3. Labīd and al-Aʿshā  Chapter 4. Ḥassān b. Thābit  Chapter 5. Kaʿb b. Zuhayr  Chapter 6. Mutammim b. Nuwayra  Chapter 7. Al-Khansāʾ  Chapter 8. Abū Miḥjan and al-Khuṭayʾa  Chapter 9. Minor Poets  Chapter 10. Pseudo-ʿAlid Literature Third Section The Period of the Umayyads  Chapter 2. ʿUmar b. Abī Rabīʿa  Chapter 3. Other Poets in Arabia  Chapter 4. Al-Akhṭal  Chapter 5. Al-Farazdaq  Chapter 6. Jarīr  Chapter 7. Dhu ̓l-Rumma  Chapter 9. Minor Poets  Chapter 10. Prose Writing at the Time of the Umayyads Second Book: Islamic Literature in the Arabic Language First Section The Classical Period from ca. 750 until ca. 1000  Chapter 2. Poetry  Chapter 2a. Rhymed Prose  Chapter 3. Philology  Chapter 4. Historiography  Chapter 5. Popular Literature in Prose and Works for General Education  Chapter 6. Ḥadīth  Chapter 7. Fiqh  Chapter 8. Qurʾānic Sciences  Chapter 9. Dogmatics  Chapter 10. Mysticism  Chapter 12. Philosophy  Chapter 13. Mathematics  Chapter 14. Astronomy and Astrology  Chapter 15. Geography  Chapter 16. Medicine  Chapter 17. Natural and Occult Sciences, Varia  Chapter 18. Encyclopaedias Second Section The post-Classical Period of Islamic Literature, from ca. 400/1000 until ca. 656/1258  Introduction  Chapter 1. Poetry  Chapter 2. Rhymed Prose and Stylistics  Chapter 3. Philology  Chapter 4. Historiography  Chapter 5. Belles lettres in Prose  Chapter 6. Ḥadīth  Chapter 7. Fiqh  Chapter 8. Qurʾānic sciences  Chapter 9. Dogmatics  Chapter 10 Mysticism  Chapter 11. Philosophy and Politics  Chapter 12. Mathematics  Chapter 13. Astronomy  Chapter 14. Travelogues and Geographies  Chapter 15. Medicine  Chapter 16. Natural Sciences and Technology  Chapter 16. Appendix  Chapter 17. Occult Sciences  Chapter 18. Encyclopedias and Polyhistors  Addenda & Corrigenda

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