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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 Third Book: The Decline of Islamic Literature First Section From Mongol Rule Until the Conquest of Egypt by Sultan Selīm I in the Year 1517  Introduction  Chapter 1. Egypt and Syria  Chapter 2. Iraq and al-Jazīra  Chapter 3. North Arabia  Chapter 4. South Arabia  Chapter 5. Iran and Tūrān  Chapter 6. India  Chapter 7. The Turks of Rūm and the Ottomans  Chapter 8. North Africa  Chapter 9. Spain Second Section From the Conquest of Egypt by Sultan Selīm I in 1517 to the Napoleonic Expedition to Egypt in 1798  Chapter 1. Egypt and Syria  Chapter 2. Al-Jazīra, Iraq, and Bahrain  Chapter 3. North Arabia  Chapter 4. South Arabia  Chapter 5. Oman, East Africa, and Abyssinia  Chapter 6. Iran and Tūrān  Chapter 7. India  Chapter 8. The Malay Archipelago  Chapter 9. Rumelia and Anatolia  Chapter 10. The Maghreb  Chapter 11. The Sudan Third Section From the Napoleonic Expedition to Egypt Until the British Occupation  Chapter 1. Egypt  Chapter 2. Syria  Chapter 3. Mesopotamia and Iraq  Chapter 4. North Arabia  Chapter 5. South Arabia  Chapter 6. Oman  Chapter 7. Persia  Chapter 8. Afghanistan  Chapter 9. India  Chapter 10. Ceylon, Farther India, and the Malay Archipelago  Chapter 11. Istanbul  Chapter 12. Russia  Chapter 13. The Maghreb  Chapter 14. The Sudan Appendix. A Selective Listing of Authors of Unknown Place and Date, in Alphabetical Order  1 Poetry  2 Rhymed Prose and Popular Literature  3 Philology  4 Historiography  5 Ḥadīth  6 Fiqh  7 Sciences of the Qurʾān  8 Dogmatics and Polemics  9 Mysticism and Edifying Works  10 Philosophy and Politics  11 Mathematics and Astronomy  12 Geography and Cosmography  13 Medicine  14 Eroticism  15 Natural Sciences and Technology  16 Alchemy  17 Music  18 Sports  19 Occult Sciences  20 Encyclopaedias

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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 Translator’s Note Transcription Fourth Book: Modern Arabic Literature  Chapter 1. Egypt Since the British Occupation  Chapter 2. Syria  Chapter 3. The Syrians in the Americas  Chapter 4. Iraq  Chapter 5. Arabia  Chapter 6. The Maghreb  Addenda & Corrigenda  Abbreviations

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

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Book SynopsisThis book traces the history of everyday relations of Greek-Orthodox Christians and Muslims of Cappadocia, an Ottoman countryside inhabited by various ethno-religious groups, either sharing the same settlements, or living in neighbouring villages. Based on Ottoman state archives, testimonies collected by the Centre of Asia Minor Studies, and various pre-1923 hand-written and printed sources mostly in Ottoman- and Karamanli-Turkish, and Greek, the study covers the period from 1839 to 1923 and proposes an anthropological perspective on everyday cross-religious interactions. It focuses on questions such as identification and mapping of communities, sharing of space and resources, use of languages, and religiosity in the context of conversions and of shared sacred spaces and beliefs to investigate everyday realities of a multireligious rural society which disappeared with the fall of the Empire.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements List of Tables and Maps Abbreviations and Acronyms Notes on Transliteration and Transcription Introduction  1 Historicizing Communities and Intercommunal Relations  2 Language and Locality: Producers of Collectivities  3 Book Outline  4 A Note on Primary Sources 1 Regionality in the Time of Nationalization  1 Ottoman Reforms, Nationalisms, and Missionary Movements  2 The (Re-)Appearance of Cappadocia 2 Naming, Identifying, and Mapping Groups in Cappadocia  1 Genres of Taxonomic Grouping  2 Mapping Collectivities 3 Conception(s), Perception(s) and Experience(s) of Space  1 Conceived Space: Administering Locality  2 Residing in a Shared Space  3 Private, Communitarian, and Collective Spaces 4 Connected Worlds: Forging Ties between Home and Elsewhere  1 Migration Patterns  2 Socio-professional Background and Networks of Assistance  3 Everyday Life in a Village Experiencing Emigration 5 Real Estate and Natural Resources  1 Private Properties  2 Communal and Collective Lands 6 Economic and Professional Activities  1 Production and Consumption, Infrastructure, and Transportation  2 Commercial Exchange and Marketplaces  3 Professions, Pluriactivity, and Specialization 7 Religious Conversions and Inter-religious Marriages  1 Collective and Individual Conversions to Islam  2 Conversion to Christianity  3 Marriage: A Bridge between Communities?  4 Conversion and Converts in Strife 8 Shared Sacredness  1 Shared Sites of Worship (See Map 3)  2 The Time of Sharing  3 Shared Rites and Intercessions of the Other Conclusion: Doing, Undoing, and Redoing Groups in the Ottoman Countryside Epilogue Appendix 1: Former and Current Names of Towns and Villages (Changing Names and Names with Various Versions) 287 Appendix 2: Biographies of Main Informants by Settlements of Origin Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHiob Ludolf (1624-1704) and Johann Michael Wansleben (1635-1679), the master and his erstwhile student could not be more different. Ludolf was a celebrated member of the Republic of Letters and the towering authority on Ethiopian studies. Wansleben, himself a brilliant scholar and, unlike Ludolf, a seasoned traveller in the Middle East, converted to Catholicism and eventually died impoverished and marginalized. Both stood at the centre of the burgeoning study of Ethiopia and spent a formative part of their career in middle sized Duchy of Saxe-Gotha which for several years played a pivotal role in Ethiopian-European encounters. This volume offers in-depth studies of the remarkable life and work of these two scholars in a broader intellectual, political, and confessional context.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgments List of Figures 1 Scholarship and the Quest for Ethiopia in the Seventeenth Century Hiob Ludolf and Johann Michael Wansleben  Jan Loop and Asaph Ben-Tov Part 1: Hiob Ludolf: at the Gotha Court and in the Republic of Letters 2 Der Kosmopolit Hiob Ludolf im Lichte seines Stammbuches und des Reysebüchleins  Martin Mulsow 3 Hiob Ludolf als Amtsträger der Herzöge von Sachsen-Gotha  Holger Kürbis 4 Hiob Ludolf und die globalen Ambitionen im Herzogtum Sachsen-Gotha des 17. Jahrhunderts  Alexander Schunka 5 The Reluctant Alchemist Hiob Ludolf (1624–1704) as Chymical Intelligencer and the Curious Elias Ashmole (1617–1692)  Vera Keller Part 2: Johann Michael Wansleben: Oriental Studies and Republicanism 6 Wansleben the Archaeologist  Alastair Hamilton 7 Wansleben Reads Harrington Wansleben, the Harrington Manuscript, and English Republicanism  Gaby Mahlberg 8 Wansleben’s Interests in International Politics  Thérèse-Marie Jallais Part 3: Ethiopia and Lutheran Germany 9 Ludolf und seine äthiopischen Lehrer in Europa Der Gelehrte Abba Gorgoryos als Mitbegründer der Äthiopistik als wissenschaftliche Ethnographie  Wolbert G.C. Smidt 10 Peter Heyling als Äthiopienforscher  Jürgen J. Tubach Part 4: Ludolf and Biblical Studies 11 Hiob Ludolf and Biblical Evidences  Scott Mandelbrote 12 Quail or Locust? What the Israelites Ate in the Desert  Ulrich Groetsch 13 An Appendix to Coffee in the Bible Hiob Ludolf, Melchior Leydecker, and the Biblical Delicacy קלי (kali)  Benjamin Wallura Part 5: Ludolf on the History of Languages and Writing 14 Hiob Ludolf, the Qurʾan, and the History of Writing  Jan Loop 15 Ludolf’s Language Laws Pitfalls in Describing and Comparing the World’s Languages  Toon Van Hal 16 Kommen die Zigeuner aus Nubien? Hiob Ludolf zu einer Herkunftshypothese über die Sprache der Roma  Martin Mulsow Part 6: Ludolf and Natural History 17 Einhörner und Geranomachien Ludolfs Wirkung auf die phantastische Zoologie seiner Zeit  Bernd Roling 18 Hiob Ludolf Observing Locusts  Asaph Ben-Tov Part 7: Ludolf on Chronology and the History of the Holy Roman Empire 19 Die Zeitrechnung der Samaritaner Ein Austausch zwischen Hiob Ludolf, Wilhelm Ernst Tentzel und Christoph Cellarius  Martin Mulsow 20 Hiob Ludolf als Präsident des Collegium Historicum Imperiale  Jacob Schilling 21 ‚… durch eine gewiße veranlaßung übernommen, historiam hujus seculi zu elaboriren …‘ Ludolf und die Allgemeine Schau-Bühne der Welt  Markus Meumann Part 8: A Portrait of the Scholar 22 Die zeitgenössischen Portraits von Hiob Ludolf  Stefan Weninger Index

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Book SynopsisIn Exercising Authority and Representing Rule, András Barati examines twenty-two hitherto unpublished Persian royal decrees issued by various rulers of eighteenth-century Iran and Afghanistan kept at the Āstān-i Quds-i Rażawī in Mashhad. Considering the paucity of primary sources from this period due to relatively frequent political turmoils, he aims to improve this situation by offering the transcription and translation of these original documents as well as a commentary concerning the textual elements, external aspects, and content of the decrees. Making use of previously published documents, András Barati presents the first substantial study on post-Safavid eighteenth-century diplomatics and addresses several issues related to the political, economic, and administrative history of the region in the early modern period.

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Book SynopsisThis groundbreaking work studies the Arabic literary culture of early modern Southeast Asia on the basis of largely unstudied and unknown manuscripts. It offers new perspectives on intellectual interactions between the Middle East and Southeast Asia, the development of Islam and especially Sufism in the region, the relationship between the Arabic and Malay literary traditions, and the manuscript culture of the Indian Ocean world. It brings to light a large number of hitherto unknown texts produced at or for the courts of Southeast Asia, and examines the role of royal patronage in supporting Arabic literary production in Southeast Asia.

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Book SynopsisWhen the 13th-century Coptic official al-Makīn Ibn al-ʿAmīd was thrown into prison by Sultan Baybars, he set out to compile a summary of Biblical, Graeco-Roman, and Islamic history for his own consolation. His work, which drew from a vast array of sources, enjoyed enduring success among various readerships: Oriental Christians, in Arabic-speaking communities but also in Ethiopia; Mamluk historians, including Ibn Ḫaldūn and al-Maqrīzī; and early modern Europe. A major instance of Christian-Muslim interaction in the pre-modern era, Ibn al-ʿAmīd’s chronography is still unpublished in its pre-Islamic part. This volume edits, analyzes, and translates the section from Adam to the Achaemenids.

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Book SynopsisThis book presents the English translation of a travelogue by an Armenian intellectual of the end of the 19th century. Originally written in a variety of non-normative Western Armenian, it serves as a valuable repository of highly important and unique data on the ethno-demography of the historical region of Dersim, the traditional habitat of Armenians and the Zaza people. The account vividly portrays the urban and rural settlements, their precise topography, and the enchanting landscape of mountains and rivers, which hold a significant place in the folk imagination and sacral world of the highland dwellers.

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Book SynopsisThis collective study focuses on a unique anonymous medieval document on ornamental geometry featuring geometrical constructions and textual instructions in Persian. Selections from the unpublished work of Alpay Özdural (d. 2003) on this subject have been updated with original contributions by Jan P. Hogendijk, Elaheh Kheirandish, Gülru Necipoğlu, and Wheeler M. Thackston. The chapters interpreting this fascinating document are followed, for the first time, by a facsimile, transcription, and translation, as well as drawings of incised construction lines invisible in the photographed facsimile. This publication intersects with the current interest in Islamic geometrical patterning as an inspiration for tessellation and parametrically derived forms in contemporary architecture and the arts. It aims to make this celebrated source more accessible, given its multifaceted relevance to historians of art, architecture, and science, as well as mathematicians, physicists, artists, and architects. For those who wish to obtain a copy of the full, unedited original book manuscript of Alpay Özdural, where he discusses the mathematical properties of all geometrical constructions in the Anonymous Compendium as well as the step-by-step method for drawing each one, his work is available online at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.5255416Trade ReviewWinner of 26th World Award for Book of the Year in Iran 2019. "The scholarly value of the edited volume lies in bringing diverse perspectives to bear on its interpretation. The resulting work is amajor contribution to scholarship and worthy of close and careful reading, despite its complex organizational structure and layout. Overall, it is a welcome tribute to the published and unpublished work of Alpay Özdural, extending his legacy and broadening its impact. It is hoped that this multi-disciplinary volume can now serve as a solid basis for future research, yielding advances in our understanding of just exactly why and when the histories of art, mathematics and science intersected, and how individuals interacted in the production of knowledge that yielded architectural monuments of cultural significance to this day." - Carol Bier, Center for Islamic Studies, Graduate Theological Union , in: Journal of Mathematics and the Arts 13:3 (2019) "In the medieval era, Persia stood at the crossroads of great empires, a place where ancient learning, and new, coalesced to create new forms and perspectives. Although we may never fully grasp it firmly, Necipoğlu offers the most detailed description of its contours and the most compelling explanation of how one of the world’s great geometric traditions took shape. Fascinating and well researched, The Arts of Ornamental Geometry is full of previously unknown details and would be a great pedagogical introduction to this topic. It stands as a thorough work that will definitely be useful for historians of Persian architecture and mathematics." - Abdullah Drury, University of Waikato, New Zealand, in The Muslim World Book Review (2018)Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION GÜLRU NECİPOĞLU, In Memory of Alpay Özdural and His Unrealized Book Project CHAPTER 1 GÜLRU NECİPOĞLU, Ornamental Geometries: A Persian Compendium at the Intersection of the Visual Arts and Mathematical Sciences CHAPTER 2 ELAHEH KHEIRANDISH, An Early Tradition in Practical Geometry: The Telling Lines of Unique Arabic and Persian Sources CHAPTER 3 JAN P. HOGENDIJK, A Mathematical Classification of the Contents of an Anonymous Persian Compendium on Decorative Patterns CHAPTER 4 ALPAY ÖZDURAL, Preliminaries (first chapter of Alpay Özdural’s unpublished book) TRANSLATION, TRANSCRIPTION, AND DRAWINGS An English translation by Alpay Özdural of Fī tadākhul al-ashkāl al-mutashābiha aw al-mutawāfiqa(On Similar and Complementary Interlocking Figures), edited and revised by Wheeler M. Thackston, with contributions by the other authors Accompanied by Wheeler M. Thackston’s transcription of the Persian text and Alpay Özdural’s drawings, with commentaries by Gülru Necipoğlu (based on “Analyses,” the second chapter in Alpay Özdural’s unpublished book) FACSIMILE A reduced-scale reproduction of Fī tadākhul al-ashkāl al-mutashābiha aw al-mutawāfiqa (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Ms. Persan 169, fols. 180r–199r)

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Book SynopsisThis book sheds light on the final process of slavery in Morocco, unraveling the contemporary roots of servility and stereotypes about blackness in the Arab world. Unlike other generalist analyses, this research focuses on the practice of servitude through a case study in the city of Tetouan. Until well into the twentieth century, bought women arrived in the city to join the domestic labor market, also becoming signs of social distinction. This historical ethnography is paradigmatic in reconstructing the relations between masters and domestics of slave origin, putting names and faces to subaltern people to rescue them from oblivion.

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Book SynopsisIn the present book, Oliver Kahl offers, for the first time, a complete, annotated English translation of Ibn Juljul’s Ṭabaqāt al-aṭibbāʾ wa-l-ḥukamāʾ, one of the earliest Arabic texts of its kind. Ibn Juljul’s work, completed in the year 987 CE in Córdoba, is essentially a collection of biographical essays on ancient and medieval physicians, scientists and philosophers, interspersed with numerous anecdotes and containing a highly instructive, relatively long section on ‘Andalusian sages’. The work represents a most crucial source for our understanding of the evolution and the development of medicine and philosophy in Muslim Spain, drawing also on a number of otherwise unattested Latin-into-Arabic translations, and abounding moreover in burlesque literary embellishments.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction  1 Background  2 Ibn Juljul  3 “Generations of Physicians and Sages”  4 Plate Translation Addendum Bibliography Indices

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Book SynopsisBased on many previously unused sources from Ottoman and British archives, Governing the Frontiers in the Ottoman Empire offers a micro-history to understand the nineteenth century Ottoman reforms on the eastern frontiers. By examining the administrative, military and fiscal transformation of Muş, a multi-ethnic, multi-religious sub-province in the Ottoman East, it shows how the reforms were not top-down and were shaped according to local particularities. The book also provides a story of the notables, tribes and peasants of a frontier region. Focusing on the relations between state-notables, notables-tribes, notables-peasants and finally tribes-peasants, the book shows both the causes of contention and collaborations between the parties.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations A Note on Transliteration 1 Introduction  1.1 Frontiers, Tanzimat and Provincial Studies  1.2 Historical Geography of Muş  1.3 About the Sources  1.4 Structure of the Book 2 Emin Pasha of Muş: A Negotiation of Power in the Periphery of the Ottoman Empire  2.1 Notables of Muş and the Nature of Their Political and Economic Power  2.2 The Rise of Emin Pasha  2.3 Utilization of Frontier Tribes  2.4 Conclusion 3 The Revolt of Emin Pasha: Punishment and Cooptation  3.1 Preparation for the Revolt: In the Pursuit of Allies  3.2 Between Negotiation and Contest  3.3 The Contours of Negotiation  3.4 The Reappointment of Emin Pasha  3.5 Muş in the Course of Centralization Efforts: The First Phase of the Abolition of Yurtluk-Ocaklıks  3.6 Conclusion 4 The Tanzimat State in Muş: Collaboration with and Punishment of Local Actors  4.1 On the Eve of the Application of Tanzimat Reforms: A Network of Exploitation  4.2 The Tanzimat State in Muş  4.3 Old Actors and the New Regime  4.4 Şerif Bey as Mediator: The Beginning of the End  4.5 Exile of Alaaddin Pashazades from Muş  4.6 Conclusion 5 Aftermath of the Exile of the Yurtluk-Ocaklık Holders  5.1 Confiscation of the Yurtluk-Ocaklık Villages of Şerif Bey and His Brothers and Its Implications  5.2 Limits of the Villages and the Determination of Salaries  5.3 Struggle for Forgiveness  5.4 Debate over the Yurtluk-Ocaklık Villages of Emin Pasha  5.5 Future of the Yurtluk-Ocaklık Salaries  5.6 Conclusion 6 The Post Tanzimat Era: Evaluation of the Reforms through the Petitions of Ordinary People  6.1 Conflicting Viewpoints Regarding Governors  6.2 New Administrators, Old Habits  6.3 Socio-Economic Results of the Crimean War for Muş’s Locality  6.4 Council Members, Tax Farmers, Moneylenders and Peasants  6.5 Conclusion 7 Governors, Tribes, and Peasants  7.1 Implications of the Tanzimat Reforms for the Nomadic Groups  7.2 Peasants and the Nomads: Settlement of the Tribes  7.3 Nomadic Tribes in the Vicinity of the Sanjak of Muş 8 The Hesenan Tribe: The Cases of Rıdvan and Kulihan Aghas  8.1 The Tribes in Dispute: Conflicts between the Tribes of Muş and Those of Its Vicinity  8.2 In Lieu of a Conclusion 9 Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn this book, Doris Behrens-Abouseif responds to the Mamluk chroniclers whose loquacity regarding clothing matters demands our attention. Using a multiplicity of sources including chronicles, European and Muslim travel narratives, popular storytelling, legal treatises, literature, and poetry, Behrens-Abouseif delves into the details of Mamluk dress. Whether as a vehicle for the sultanate’s self-representation both internationally and domestically or as an expression of religious and social identities, status and wealth, female assertion, urban culture, and artistic creativity, clothing personified the broad Mamluk social spectrum. Replete with colorful anecdotes and copious illustrations, Dress and Dress Code in Medieval Cairo offers a lively and comprehensive study of this fascinating topic.Table of ContentsAcknowledgement List of Figures Note to the Reader 1 Introduction: Subject, Sources, and Terminology  1 Studies  2 Material Evidence  3 Archival Sources  4 Narrative Sources  5 Visual Sources  6 Terminology 2 Religion, Traditions, and Customs  1 Religion  2 Sufism  3 Dreams  4 Urban Customs  5 Manners and Rituals 3 The Sultanate and Its Historians  1 The Sultans’ Perspective  2 The Historians’ Perspective 4 The Designer Sultans (1250–1380s)  1 Al-Ẓāhir Baybars (r. 1260–77)  2 Al-Manṣūr Qalāwūn (r. 1278–90)  3 Al-Ashraf Khalīl (1290–3)  4 Al-Nāṣir Muḥammad (1293–4, 1299–1309, 1310–41)  5 Al-Ashraf Shaʿbān (r. 1363–77)  6 Al-Ṣāliḥ Hājjī (r. 1389–90) 5 The Circassian Revision (1380s–1517) and the Ottoman Termination of the Mamluk Dress Code  1 Al-Ẓāhir Barqūq (r. 1382–9, 1390–99)  2 Al-Nāṣir Faraj (r. 1399–1405)  3 Al-Ashraf Barsbāy (r. 1422–38)  4 Al-Ẓāhir Jaqmaq (r. 1438–53)  5 Al-Ẓāhir Khushqadam (r. 1461–7)  6 Al-Ashraf Qāyṭbāy (r. 1468–96)  7 Al-Ashraf Qānṣuh Al-Ghawrī (r. 1501–16)  8 The End of the Mamluk Dress Code 6 The Khilʿa: Institution and Ritual 7 The Khilʿa as a Garment  1 The Caliph and the Sultan  2 The Military Establishment in the Bahri Period  3 The Military Establishment in the Circassian Period  4 The Civilian Dignitaries  5 The Kāmiliyya: A Circassian Innovation 8 The Dār al-Ṭirāz and Mamluk Art  1 Production  2 Administration  3 Tirāz and Mamluk Art 9 Dress and Dress Code of the Mamluk Aristocracy  1 The Sultan (Fig. 16)  2 The Mamlūks  3 The Headdress 10 The Dress Code of the Civilian Elite and the Commoners  1 The Civilian Elite  2 The Sufis  3 The Commoners 11 Women’s Clothing  1 The Palace  2 The Street  3 Wardrobe Miscellenia  4 Fashions  5 Regulation and Transgression  6 European Eyewitnesses 12 Mamluk Dress between Text and Image  1 Artefacts 13 Social Order and Mobility 14 Industry, Trade, and Assets  1 The Markets of Cairo  2 Hoards, Assets, and Security 15 Epilogue Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisBahrain has roots deep in the past, going back some 5,000 years. It was a vital link between civilisations, such as the Phoenicians, the Levant and Mesopotamia. The 'modern' era of Bahrain began in 1783, following the island's conquest by Ahmed al-Fateh. It has been ruled by the al-Khalifa family since 1961. Bahrain was declared independent from the United Kingdom in August 1971, and issued its first constitution in 1973.

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Book SynopsisProfessor Dr Fuat Sezgin meticulously documented the scientific writings and advances achieved by Muslim scholars. His celebrated Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums (GAS), the largest bio-bibliography for the Arabic literary tradition in general, and the history of science and technology in the Islamic world in particular, is still of utmost importance for the field.Table of ContentsPreface 1 Alchemy and Chemistry  I. Introduction  II. Sources  III. Arab Alchemists and Chemists 2 Botany and Agriculture  I. Introduction  II. Sources  III. Arab Botanists and Agronomists Addenda Bibliography Index of Authors Index of Book Titles Index of Modern Authors, Publishers, Editors

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Book SynopsisProfessor Dr Fuat Sezgin meticulously documented the scientific writings and advances achieved by Muslim scholars. His celebrated Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums (GAS), the largest bio-bibliography for the Arabic literary tradition in general, and the history of science and technology in the Islamic world in particular, is still of utmost importance for the field.Table of ContentsPreface Transliteration and Abbreviations 1 Introduction  A. The Current State of Research  B. The Beginnings and Emergence of Arabic Mathematics  C. The Development of Arabic Mathematics  D. Overview of Achievements of Arab Mathematicians from the Mid-5th/11th to the Mid-9th/15th Century 2 Sources  A. Greek Sources  B. Indian Sources  C. Middle Persian and Syriac Sources 3 Arab Mathematicians Addenda Appendix: Libraries and Collections of Arabic Manuscripts Bibliography Index of Authors Index of Book Titles Index of Modern Authors, Publishers, Editors

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Book SynopsisThis book surveys and analyzes changes in religious groups and identities in late antique Arabia, ca. 300-700 CE. It engages with contemporary and material evidence: for example, inscriptions, archaeological remains, Arabic poetry, the Qurʾān, and the so-called Constitution of Medina. Also, it suggests ways to deal with the later Arabic historiographical and other literary texts. The issue of social identities and their processes are central to the study. For instance, how did Arabian ethnic and religious identities intersect on the eve of Islam? The book suggests that the changes in social groups were more piecemeal than previously thought.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures A Note on Style 1 Introduction  1 Prolegomena and Methodological Considerations  2 Ethnic, Linguistic, and Tribal Situation in Arabia before Islam 2 Judaism  1 Judaism in Late Antiquity  2 The Arabian Context  3 Conclusions 3 Christianity  1 Christianity in Late Antiquity  2 The Arabian Context  3 Conclusions 4 Gentiles  1 Introduction  2 Idolatry and Polytheism in Arabia  3 Gentile Monotheism in Arabia  4 The Idea of Abrahamic Descent in Arabia before Islam  5 An Excursus to Later Arabic Historiography: ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib’s Dream  6 Conclusions 5 The Rise of the Gentile Prophet in Mecca  1 Introduction and Methodological Considerations  2 Mecca  3 Excursus: Arabic Historiography on the Meccan Period  4 Conclusions on the Meccan Period 6 The Founding and Consolidating of the Community in Medina  1 The “Constitution” of Medina  2 The Believers in the Medinan Qurʾān  3 The People of the Book in the Medinan Period  4 The Jews in the Qurʾān  5 The Christians in the Qurʾān  6 Inna al-dīn ʿinda Allāh al-islām  7 Gentile Purity and Dietary Regulations  8 The Eschaton Postponed?  9 Excursus: Arabic Historiography and the Medinan Era  10 Conclusions on the Medinan Era 7 Near-Contemporary Non-Arabic Views on the Prophet and His Community  1 Near-Contemporary Non-Arabic Views on the Prophet’s Community 8 Concluding toward Early Islamic Times  1 “No Two Religions”  2 Conclusions Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisVolume 24 of the Israel Oriental Studies Annual includes eight articles. The Ancient Near Eastern section consists of five articles. Four deal with Hittite and Anatolian subjects (Burgin, Gilan, Cohen and Hawkins); one discusses the “Laws of Hazor” text fragment and its relationship to other cuneiform law collections (Darabi). The Semitic section includes three articles. The first is the second instalment of Etymogical Investigations on Jibbali/Śḥerέt Anthroponyms (Castagna and Al-'amri). The second article is a discussion of the relationship between Ethiopian Semitic languages and ancient Egyptian (Cerqueglini). Sealing the Semitic section and volume 24 is a study of spoken Ashkenazic Hebrew among Hassidic communities (Yampolskaya et al.).

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Book SynopsisThe thirteenth-century cookbook Fiḍālat al-khiwān fī ṭayyibāt al-ṭaʿām wa-l-alwān by the Andalusi scholar Ibn Razīn al-Tujībī showcases 475 exquisite recipes. This edition was meticulously translated into English based on a newly discovered manuscript containing the complete text. It includes an introduction, glossary, 218 color illustrations, and 24 modernized recipes.Trade Review"I have enjoyed reading Best of Delectable Foods, I have been fascinated and learnt a lot. Nawal Nasrallah has brought an extraordinary medieval world to life in an intimate kind of way through Al Tujibi’s cookbook. With this book, the English-speaking world will be able to better understand the Hispano Muslim styles of Spain and North Africa today and their influence further afield. They will also better understand the countries." Claudia Roden, celebrated, pioneering author of books on Middle Eastern and Jewish food, June 2023. “... al-Tujībī’s tome is a revelation... It will affect the way we cook from now on for sure.” Sam and Sam Clark, cook book authors and chef-owners of Moro in the Financial Times, June 10, 2022. click here. "One of only a handful of surviving medieval Spanish cookbooks, Ibn Razin's Fiḍālat has been long known to scholars, even if incompletely. By at least the 17th century, 55 of its 475 recipes had disappeared. Then in 2018 a nearly complete 15th-16th century copy of the cookbook, originally composed in Tunis around 1260 CE, surfaced in the British Library. Alerted to the discovery, Nasrallah, a food historian, set out to produce the first complete English translation, preserving lbn Razin's culinary legacy while modernizing 24 of the recipes for the home cook. The book serves as Ibn Razin's ode to the cuisine of Muslim Spain, before having to flee the Iberian Peninsula's conquest by Christian armies. He nostalgically surveys a wide range of dishes, from everyday boiled fava beans to special-occasion sinhaji, an elaborate stew and forebear of Spain's classic olla podrida. This faithful translation is an important contribution to the history of Andalusi cuisine." Tom Verde in AramcoWorld, July 1, 2022. "When flipping through the 600 or so pages of the Fiḍāla’s recipes, their “novelty and exquisiteness,” as al-Tujībī characterized them, quickly becomes evident... While al-Tujībī never saw his beloved al-Andalus again, ...all of his favorite recipes have now returned home." click here. "Dankzij dit boek krijgen we inzicht in gerechten, hoe ze met de jaren zijn veranderd of juist hetzelfde gebleven, en hoe gerechten de verschillende gemeenschappen met elkaar verbonden. Dat wekt bewondering en is een aansporing om te experimenteren met die oude methodes en receptuur... Wat een bijzonder document heeft Al-Tujibi de wereld achtergelaten. Gelukkig maar. Wie beweert dat tijdreizen niet mogelijk is, heeft duidelijk nooit van dit magische boek gehoord." Hassnae Bouazza in NRC Handelsblad, Zaterdag 11 maart/Zondag 12 maart, 2023. click here Shortlisted for the 16th Sheikh Zayed Book Award in the category ‘Translation’. Listen to a special extended episode of the podcast "Cooking the Books" about 13th century Moorish cookery. On stage at the British Library in London Gilly Smith sits with the sold out audience as Polly Russell, curator of the British Library's Food Season introduces Sam and Sam Clark of Moro to the stage with translator Nawal Nasrallah and the Curator of Arabic Scientific Manuscripts, Bink Hallum to time travel to Moorish Andalucia and taste 800 year old recipes from the recently published Brill book cooked up Moro-style. click here. Read an interview with the translator in the November/December 2022 issue of Aramco World click here. .Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments List of Figures Notes on Translating the Text Introduction  Part I: The Making of Fiḍālat al-khiwān  Part II: Food and Foodways in al-Andalus  Part III: The Andalusi Cuisine as Depicted in the Book of Fiḍāla  Part IV: The Years They Ate Couscous Dangerously Best of Delectable Foods and Dishes Part 1 القسم الأول في الأخباز والثرايد والاحساء وطعام الخبز وغير ذلك وهو خمسة فصول On Bread, Tharāyid, Soups (Aḥsāʾ), Pastries, and the Like; and It Has Five Chapters I.1 Part One, Chapter One: On Varieties of Bread (Akhbāz) I.2 Part One, Chapter Two: On Tharāyid I.3 Part One, Chapter Three: On Soups (Aḥsāʾ) and Porridges I.4 Part One, Chapter Four: On Pastries and Varieties of Mujabbanāt (Cheese Pastries), Isfanj (Fritters, Buñuelos), and the Like I.5 Part One, Chapter Five: On All Kinds of Dishes That Are Sopped in Broth like Tharīd; and Those Cooked in Ways Similar to Soup Part 2 القسم الثاني في أصناف لحوم ذوات الأربع ويشتمل على ستة فصول On Meats of Quadrupeds, and It Has Six Chapters II.1 Part Two, Chapter One: On Beef (Luḥūm Baqariyya) II.2 Part Two, Chapter Two: On Mutton (Luḥūm Ḍaʾn) II.3 Part Two, Chapter Three: On Lamb (Luḥūm Khirfān) II.4 Part Two, Chapter Four: On Young Goat Meat (Luḥūm Al-Jidāʾ) II.5 Part Two, Chapter Five: On Wild Meat (Luḥūm Al-Waḥsh) II.6 Part Two, Chapter Six: On Foods Incorporated into Dishes Cooked with Meat of Quadrupeds, and Which Are Akin to Making Meatballs (Banādiq) Part 3 القسم الثالث في أصناف لحوم الطير ويشتمل على سبعة فصول On Dishes with Various Types of Poultry, and It Has Seven Chapters [136r] III.1 Part Three, Chapter One: On Meat of Geese (Iwazz) III.2 Part Three, Chapter Two: On Chicken (Dajāj) III.3 Part Three, Chapter Three: On Meat of Partridges (Ḥajal) III.4 Part Three, Chapter Four: On Meat of Squabs (Firākh Ḥamām) III.5 Part Three, Chapter Five: On Meat of Fat Turtledoves (Yamām Musmina) III.6 Part Three, Chapter Six: On Meat of Starlings (Zarāzīr) III.7 Part Three, Chapter Seven: On Meat of Sparrows (ʿAṣāfīr) Part 4 القسم الرابع وهو ثلاثة فصول في طبخ اللون المسمى بالصنهاجي والكرش المحشوة واللسان الصنهاجي And It Has Three Chapters: On a Dish Called Ṣinhājī, Stuffed Tripe, and Ṣinhājī Tongue IV.1 Part Four, Chapter One: On Cooking a Dish Called Ṣinhājī IV.2 Part Four, Chapter Two: On Making Stuffed Tripe (Karsh Maḥshuwwa), Wonderful IV.3 Part Four, Chapter Three: On Making [Ṣinhājī] Tongue Part 5 القسم الخامس في أنواع الحيتان وضروب البيض ويشتمل على فصلين إثنين On Varieties of Dishes With Fish And Eggs, and It Has Two Chapters V.1 Part Five, Chapter One: On [Dishes with] Various Types of Fish V.2 Part Five, Chapter Two: On Varieties of Egg Dishes Part 6 القسم السادس في الألبان وكل ما يكون منها ويشتمل على ثلاثة فصول On Dairy Foods (Albān), and It Has Three Chapters VI.1 Part Six, Chapter One: A Recipe for Rennet-Curdled Milk (ʿAqīd Al-Laban Al-Ḥalīb) and What Is Made With It VI.2 Part Six, Chapter Two: On Making Rāyib (Yogurt) and Extracting Butter VI.3 Part Six, Chapter Three: On Ripening Hard Cheese in a Jar (Khābiya) and Ways for Cooking It; and Remedying Butter and Milk Part 7 القسم السابع في البقول وما اليها ويشتمل على عشرة فصول On Vegetables (Buqūl) and the Like, and It Has Ten Chapters VII.1 Part Seven, Chapter One: On Dishes Made with Gourd (Qarʿ) VII.2 Part Seven, Chapter Two: On Dishes with Eggplants (Bādhinjān) VII.3 Part Seven, Chapter Three: On Dishes with Carrots (Jazar) VII.4 Part Seven, Chapter Four: On Dishes Made with Desert Truffles (Kamʾa) VII.5 Part Seven, Chapter Five: On Cooking Asparagus (Isfarāj), and It Has One Dish VII.6 Part Seven, Chapter Six: On Ḥarshaf, Which Are Qannāriyya and Afzan VII.7 Part Seven, Chapter Seven: On Cooking Mushrooms (Fuṭr), and It Has One Dish VII.8 Part Seven, Chapter Eight: On Cooking with Spinach (Isfānākh), Blite (Yarbūz), Lettuce (Khass), and the Like VII.9 Part Seven, Chapter Nine: On Cooking JināNiyya VII.10 Part Seven, Chapter Ten: On Cooking Taros (Qulqāṣ), and It Is Has One Dish Part 8 القسم الثامن في الفول والحمص و ماأشبههما وهو يشتمل على ثلاثة فصول On Fava Beans (Fūl), Chickpeas (Ḥimmaṣ), and the Like. It Has Three Chapters VIII.1 Part Eight, Chapter One: On Fresh and Dried Fava Beans (Fūl) VIII.2 Part Eight, Chapter Two: On Dishes with Chickpeas (Ḥimmaṣ) VIII.3 Part Eight, Chapter Three: On Cooking All Kinds of Lentils (ʿAdas), and It Has One Dish Part 9 في المعسلات وأنواع الحلواء و ما يتنوع من ذلك كله من العسل والسكر ويشتمل على سبعة فصول On Muʿassalāt and All Sorts of Confectionary (Ḥalwāʾ), with All Kinds of Variations, [186r] Made with Honey and Sugar. It Has Seven Chapters IX.1 Part Nine, Chapter One: On Making Muʿassal and Ghassānī IX.2 Part Nine, Chapter Two: On Making Varieties of Confectionary (Ḥalwāʾ) IX.3 Part Nine, Chapter Three: On Making Qāhiriyya (Delicate Cairene Ring Cookies) and Sanbūsak (Marzipan) IX.4 Part Nine, Chapter Four: On Making Jawzīnaq and Lawzīnaj (Walnut and Almond Confections) IX.5 Part Nine, Chapter Five: On Making Qaṣab Ḥulw (Reeds of Candy) IX.6 Part Nine, Chapter Six: On Making Fānīdh (Pulled Sugar Taffy) and Ishqāqūl (Rings of Solomon) IX.7 Part Nine, Chapter Seven: On Varieties of Desserts from the Eastern Region (Sharqiyya) Part 10 القسم العاشر في الكوامخ وما ينضاف اليها من عمل الخلول وعمل المري على اختلاف انواعه واصلاح الزيت واستخراجه ان عدم من حبوب أخر واستخراج الادهان المحتاج اليهافي الطبخ وما يصلح الاطعمة من كثرة الملح ونتن اللحم وما اشبه ذلك ويشتمل على اثني عشر فصلا On Pickles and Condiments (Kawāmikh) and Other Related Preparations for Varieties of Vinegar and Murrī (Fermented Liquid Sauce); Remedying Olive Oil and Replacing It With Other Oils When Not Available; Remedying Overly Salty Foods and Raw Meat That Does Not Smell Fresh; and the Like. It Has Twelve Chapters X.1 Part Ten, Chapter One: On Making Ṣināb (Mustard Sauce) X.2 Part Ten, Chapter Two: On Curing Olives (Zaytūn) X.3 Part Ten, Chapter Three: On Pickling Lemons (Taṣyīr Al-Līm) X.4 Part Ten, Chapter Four: On Various Ways for Pickling Capers (Taṣyīr Al-Kabar) X.5 Part Ten, Chapter Five: On Pickling (Taṣyīr) Eggplants (Bādhinjān), Onions (Baṣal), and Turnips (Lift) X.6 Part Ten, Chapter Six: On Pickling Fish (Taṣyīr Al-Ḥūt) X.7 Part Ten, Chapter Seven: On Making Varieties of Vinegar X.8 Part Ten, Chapter Eight: On Making Sun-Fermented Liquid Sauce (Murrī Naqīʿ), Cooked Liquid Sauce (Murrī Maṭbūkh), and Other Kinds X.9 Part Ten, Chapter Nine: On Making Oil (Zayt) with Ingredients other than Olives When They Are Not Available; and Remedying Olive Oil When It Spoils and Its Flavor or Aroma Deteriorates X.10 Part Ten, Chapter Ten: On Extracting Oils (Adhān) When Needed for Some Dishes X.11 Part Ten, Chapter Eleven: On Making Cured Meat (Qadīd) X.12 Part Ten, Chapter Twelve: On Ways to Remedy Food Part 11 القسم الحادي عشر في طبخ الجراد والقمرون وأغلال On Cooking Jarād (Locusts), Qumrūn (Freshwater Shrimps), and Aghlāl (Edible Land Snails) Part 12 القسم الثاني عشر في الغاسولات وهو فصل واحد On Handwashing Preparations (Ghāsūlāt), and It Has One Chapter [Final Bonus Recipe] Glossary 1 Beverages 2 Breads, Grains, Pasta, Noodles, and Sweet and Savory Pastries 3 Dairy 4 Desserts and Sweeteners 5 Dishes and Prepared Foods: Main and Side Dishes, Snacks, Condiments, Pickles, Dips, and Table Sauces

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Book SynopsisHow widespread was authorship among rulers in the premodern Islamic world? The writings of different types of rulers in different regions and periods are analyzed in this book, from the early centuries in the central lands of Islam to 19th century Sudan. The composition of poetry appears as the most fertile area for authorship among rulers. Prose writings show a wide variety, from astrology to bookmaking, from autobiography to creeds. Some of the rulers made claims to special knowledge, but in all cases authorship played a special role in the construction of the rulers' authority and legitimacy. Contributors: Ahmed Ibrahim Abushouk, Sean W. Anthony, María Luisa Ávila†, Teresa Bernheimer, Philip Bockholt, Sonja Brentjes, Christiane Czygan, David Durand-Guédy, Anne-Marie Eddé, Sinem Eryılmaz, Maribel Fierro, Adam Gaiser, Angelika Hartmann†, Livnat Holtzman, Maher Jarrar, Robert S. Kramer, Christian Mauder, Matthew Melvin-Koushki, Letizia Osti, Jürgen Paul, Petra Schmidl, Tilman Seidensticker.Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction  Maribel Fierro, Sonja Brentjes and Tilman Seidensticker Part 1 The Early Period 1 Rulers as Authors: ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib and the Other Twelver Imams  Teresa Bernheimer 2 Eloquent Exchange: Asceticism and Shirāʾ in the Poetry of Qaṭarī b. al-Fujāʾa  Adam Gaiser 3 A ‘Rediscovered’ Letter of the Umayyad Caliph ʿUmar b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz (r. 99–101/717–720) Caliphal Authorship and Legal Authority in al-Risāla fī l-fayʾ  Sean W. Anthony 4 Abbasid Rulers and Their Standing as Authors  Letizia Osti Part 2 Caliphs and Messianic Figures 5 Zaydī Rulers as Authors: A Quest for Legitimacy  Maher Jarrar 6 The Caliph al-Qādir bi-llāh and the Qādirī Creed  Livnat Holtzman 7 Do Caliphs Write? The View from the Islamic West  María Luisa Ávila † and Maribel Fierro 8 Authority, ijāzāt and Politics: Caliph al-Nāṣir li-Dīn Allāh’s Kitāb Rūḥ al-ʿārifīn (7Th/13th Century, Baghdad)  Angelika Hartmann † 9 The Pen and the Sword: The Case of the Sudanese Mahdi (1844–1885)  Ahmed Ibrahim Abushouk and Robert S. Kramer Part 3 Emirs and Sultans 10 Entre l’épée et le calame : Abū l-Fidāʾ, prince et savant ayyoubide  Anne-Marie Eddé 11 The Quatrains of Toghrïl III. Some Reflections about the Literacy and Culture of the Saljuqs  David Durand-Guédy 12 Royal Quatrains: Rulers of the Anūshteginid Line of Khwārazmshāhs as Poets  Jürgen Paul 13 Rulers as Authors in 13th-Century Yemen: the Oeuvre of al-Ashraf ʿUmar  Petra Schmidl 14 Non-caliphal Rulers and Their Writings in the Islamic West (2nd–9th/8th–15th Centuries)  Maribel Fierro 15 Legitimating Sultanic Rule in Arabic, Turkish and Persian—Late Mamluk Rulers as Authors of Religious Poetry  Christian Mauder Part 4 The Great Empires: Timurids-Mughals, Ottomans, Safavids 16 The Ottoman Ruler Poet Sultan Süleyman I, His Third Divan, and His Reception beyond the Palace Walls  Christiane Czygan 17 The Power of Poetry in the Ottoman Context  Fatma Sinem Eryılmaz 18 Timurid-Mughal Philosopher-Kings as Sultan-Scientists  Matthew Melvin-Koushki 19 Shah Ṭahmāsp and the Taẕkira: A Sixteenth-Century Ruler’s Justification of His Policies  Philip Bockholt Index

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