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Book SynopsisThe Sung Home tells the story of Kurdish singer-poets (dengbêjs) in Kurdistan in Turkey, who are specialized in the recital singing of historical songs. After a long period of silence, they returned to public life in the 2000s and are presented as guardians of history and culture. Their lyrics, life stories, and live performances offer fascinating insights into cultural practices, local politics and the contingencies of state borders. Decades of oppression have deeply politicized and moralized cultural and musical production. Through in-depth ethnographic analysis Hamelink highlights the variety of personal and social narratives within a society in turmoil. Set within the larger global stories of modernity, nationalism, and Orientalism, this study reflects on different ideas about what it means to create a Kurdish home.Trade Review"...an excellent bridge between the Kurdish past and the current state of social reorganization, taking place amid the impact of modernity, artfully discerned from the songs, laments, and stories sung/narrated by the dengbêj. It captures some crucial historical, social, political, and cultural dynamics that have shaped the collective Kurdish experience." Ozan Aksoy in Bustan Vol. 8, No. 2 , 2017.Table of ContentsList of participating performers List of songs discussed List of figures, maps and tables List of terms and abbreviations Notes on language use and translation Acknowledgements Introduction i.1 The Sung Home 2 i.2 Some notes on the dengbêj art 17 i.3 Folklore, nationalism, and (self-)Orientalism in Turkey 31 i.4 Narrative and morality 50 i.5 Engaged writing 56 i.6 Chapter outline 58 Part I Songs and Performance Chapter 1. ‘My heart is on fire.’ Singing a Kurdish past. Introduction 63 1.1 The kilams and the corpus 69 1.2 Time, place, and figures 1.3 Women and men 73 1.4 Elite and commoners 86 1.5 Armenians 90 1.6 Local leaders in battle songs 96 1.7 A Kurdish geography: place names and landscape marks 108 1.8 Kurdish rebels and the Turkish state 111 1.9 Evdalê Zeynikê: the dengbêj as a figure 122 Conclusion 126 Chapter 2. ‘It would disappear in a moment.’ Performing tradition. 131 Introduction 132 2.1 The empersonment of Kurdishness 135 2.2 The Diyarbakır Dengbêj House and its dengbêjs 138 2.3 Performing the village 145 2.4 Tribes and battles 154 2.5 Rebellions and tribes in performance 159 Conclusion 179 Part II Life stories 183 Chapter 3. ‘A language is a life, and art is a bracelet.’ A landscape of silence. 184 Introduction 185 Life story 1: Politicization of Kurdish language and culture 191 Life story 2: A female dengbêj 201 Life story 3: Landlords and support 214 Life story 4: Armenian voices 222 Life story 5: The religious class 236 Life story 6: Turkish experiences 245 Life story 7: The prohibition on musical instruments 251 Conclusion 262 Part III Conflict and Activism 266 Chapter 4. ‘Decorate your heart with the voice of the dengbêjs.’ Cultural activism. 267 Introduction 268 4.1 Kurdish television in Europe 278 4.2 Zana Güneş and TV activism 285 4.3 The Dengbêj House in Diyarbakır 291 4.4 Zeki Barış and activism in the House 298 4.5 Individual dengbêjs referring to political narratives 302 4.6 Istanbul, a market for dengbêjs 312 Conclusion 320 Chapter 5. Songs crossing borders: musical memories of a family on the run. 324 Introduction 325 5.1 Context and history 331 5.2 Experiencing borders 356 5.3 The embodied experience of singing songs 365 5.4 Resignifying cultural memory and redefining the position of women 367 Conclusion 377 Bibliography 396 General index

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Book SynopsisThis volume brings together important research on: the reception and representation of Jews and Judaism in late medieval German thought, the works of major Reformation-era theologians, scholars, and movements, and in popular literature and the visual arts; it also explores social, intellectual, and cultural developments within Judaism and Jewish responses to the Reformation in sixteenth-century Germany.Trade ReviewThe press about the hardback edition: "[...] [T]he essays are [...] of high quality. [...] [T]he useful surveys and the new insights in this book will help to ensure that sixteenth-century German Jews are part of the story of early modern Jewish society and culture." Adam Shear, Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, Vol. 26, No. 4 (Summer 2008), pp. 187-190 'The book presents the familiar and much-studied topic of the Reformation in sixteenth-century Germany in a new way, by interweaving Jews into the narratives of the various 'Reformations'. [...] It will be a standard work for anyone engaged in these fields for many decades to come." Magda Teter, H-HRE, H-Net Reviews, April, 2008 “The volume encapsulates the field’s current state, bringing much material into English for the first time. […] [T]his volume [is] desirable for libraries.” Susan R. Boettcher, Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 60, No. 2 (Summer 2007), pp. 615-616 "It is a collaborative effort under the valiant leadership of two outstanding Reformation historians who have indeed assembled an impressive cohort of scholars as contributors to this vast enterprise. [...] [F]irst-rate scholarship." Albrecht Classen, Sixteenth Century Journal, Vol. 38, No. 4 (Winter 2007), pp. 1094-1095Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ... vii Acknowledgements ... viii Abbreviations and Shortened Titles ... ix Contributors ... xv Introduction ... xxi Dean Phillip Bell and Stephen G. Burnett PART I: ROAD TO REFORMATION Humanists, Jews, and Judaism ... 3 Erika Rummel German Theologians and the Jews in the Fifteenth Century ... 33 Christopher Ocker PART II: REFORMERS AND THE JEWS Luther and the Jews ... 69 Thomas Kaufmann Philip Melanchthon and the Jews: A Reappraisal ... 105 Timothy J. Wengert Bucer, the Jews, and Judaism ... 137 R. Gerald Hobbs Ulrich Zwingli, the Jews, and Judaism ... 171 Hans-Martin Kirn Calvin, the Jews, and Judaism ... 197 Achim Detmers Andreas Osiander, the Jews, and Judaism ... 219 Joy Kammerling The Catholic Reform, Jews, and Judaism in Sixteenth-Century Germany ... 249 Robert Bireley The Intensification of Religious Commitment: Jews, Anabaptists, Radical Reform, and Confessionalization ... 269 Michael Driedger PART III: REPRESENTATIONS OF JEWS AND JUDAISM Anthonius Margaritha on the “Whole Jewish Faith:” A Sixteenth-Century Convert from Judaism and his Depiction of the Jewish Religion ... 303 Maria Diemling Von der Juden Ceremonien: Representations of Jews in Sixteenth-Century Germany ... 335 Yaacov Deutsch Visual Representations of Jews and Judaism in Sixteenth-Century Germany ... 357 Petra Schöner The Representation of Jews and Judaism in Sixteenth-Century German Literature ... 393 Edith Wenzel PART IV: JEWS, JUDAISM, AND JEWISH RESPONSES TO THE REFORMATION Jewish Settlement, Politics, and the Reformation ... 421 Dean Phillip Bell Jewish Responses to Christianity in Reformation Germany ... 451 Elisheva Carlebach Jewish Law and Ritual in Early Modern Germany ... 481 Jay Berkovitz German Jewish Printing in the Reformation Era (1530–1633) ... 503 Stephen G. Burnett Select Bibliography ... 529 Index of Subjects ... 547 Index of Persons ... 563 Index of Biblical Passages Cited ... 572

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Book SynopsisUsing a wealth of primary sources and covering the entire Ottoman period, Ottoman Women in Public Space challenges the traditional view that sees Ottoman women as a largely silent element of society, restricted to the home and not seen beyond the walls of the house or the public bath. Instead, taking women in a variety of roles, as economic and political actors, prostitutes, flirts and slaves, the book argues that women were active participants in the public space, visible, present and an essential element in the everyday, public life of the empire. Ottoman Women in Public Space thus offers a vibrant and dynamic understanding of Ottoman history. Contributors are: Edith Gülçin Ambros, Ebru Boyar, Palmira Brummett, Kate Fleet and Svetla Ianeva.Trade Review“Ultimately the collection is a rich offering of evidence, from a range of sources, places, and times, that decisively refutes the notion of Ottoman women as inconsequential, invisible, and wholly passive actors in Ottoman history.” Elizabeth Matsushita in SCTIW Review , November 1, 2016.Table of ContentsPreface: Ebru Boyar and Kate Fleet Ch. 1: Ottoman Women in Public Space: an Introduction, Edith Gülçin Ambros, Ebru Boyar, Palmira Brummett, Kate Fleet, Svetla Ianeva Ch. 2: The ‘What If?’ of the Ottoman Female: Authority, Ethnography, and Conversation, Palmira Brummett Ch. 3: Female Actors, Producers and Money Makers in Ottoman Public Space: the Case of the Late Ottoman Balkans, Svetla Ianeva Ch. 4: The Powerful Public Presence of the Ottoman Female Consumer, Kate Fleet Ch. 5: The Extremes of Visibility: Slave Women in Ottoman Public Space, Kate Fleet Ch. 6: Frivolity and Flirtation, Edith Gülçin Ambros Ch. 7: An Imagined Moral Community: Ottoman Female Public Presence, Honour and Marginality, Ebru Boyar Ch. 8: The Public Presence and Political Visibility of Ottoman Women, Ebru Boyar Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Yearbook of International Religious Demography presents an annual snapshot of the state of religious statistics around the world. Every year large amounts of data are collected through censuses, surveys, polls, religious communities, scholars, and a host of other sources. These data are collated and analyzed by research centers and scholars around the world. Large amounts of data appear in analyzed form in the World Religion Database (Brill), aiming at a researcher’s audience. The Yearbook presents data in sets of tables and scholarly articles spanning social science, demography, history, and geography. Each issue offers findings, sources, methods, and implications surrounding international religious demography. Each year an assessment is made of new data made available since the previous issue of the yearbook. Contributors are: Todd Johnson, Gina Zurlo, Peter Crossing, Juan Cruz Esquivel, Fortunato Mallimaci, Annalisa Butticci, Brian Grim, Philip Connor, Ken Chitwood, Vegard Skirbekk, Marcin Stonawski, Rodrigo Franklin de Sousa, Davis Brown, Juan Carlos Esparza Ochoa, and Maria Concepción Servín Nieto.Table of ContentsContents Preface to the annual series List of illustrations Editors and contributors Introduction Part I: Religious demographic data Chapter 1: The world by religion Todd M. Johnson, Gina A. Zurlo, and Peter F. Crossing Chapter 2: Religions by continent Todd M. Johnson, Gina A. Zurlo, and Peter F. Crossing Part II: Case studies and methodology Chapter 3: “Religious Beliefs and Practices in Argentina: An Approach from Quantitative Data” Juan Cruz Esquivel and Fortunato Mallimaci Chapter 4: “African Pentecostal Churches in Italy: A Troubled Presence in a Catholic Country” Annalisa Butticci Chapter 5: “Changing Religion, Changing Economies: Future Global Religious and Economic Growth” Brian J. Grim and Phillip Connor Chapter 6: “Exploring Islam in the Americas from Demographic and Ethnographic Perspectives” Ken Chitwood Chapter 7: “Faith and Health Globally” Vegard Skirbekk and Marcin Stonawski Chapter 8: “Shifting Christian Identities in Brazil: What the Numbers (Do Not) Show” Rodrigo Franklin de Sousa Chapter 9: “Religious Demographics and Democracy” Davis Brown Part III: Data sources Chapter 10: “Data Sources” Juan Carlos Esparza Ochoa and María Concepción Servín Nieto Appendices Glossary World religions by country Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume includes a wide range of papers that explore individual and institutional aspects of religion from a social-science perspective. The special section has articles related to the practice of prayer, and includes studies from the USA, Europe, and the Middle East. The general papers include studies on coping strategies, God representations, spirituality versus religion, self-control in a Muslim context, and faith-based organizations in Cambodia. Together these papers form a valuable collection indicating the depth and vibrancy of research in these fields.

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Book SynopsisModernity, Minority, and the Public Sphere: Jews and Christians in the Middle East explores the many facets associated with the questions of modernity and minority in the context religious communities in the Middle East. Focusing on the Jewish and Christian communities of the Middle East and paying special attention to the concept of space and it’s influences on inter-communal dialogues and identity construction this volume presents various examples of how religious communities were perceived and how they perceived themselves.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Part 1: A Chronology of Space Searching for Common Ground: Jews and Christians in the Modern Middle East by H.L. Murre-van den Berg The Changing Landscape of Muslim-Jewish Relations in the Modern Middle East and North Africa by D. Schroeter Part 2: Arabic and Its Alternatives Standardized Arabic as a post-Nahḍa Common Ground: Mattai bar Paulus and his Use of Syriac, Arabic, and Garshuni by T. Barda Jewish Education in Baghdad: Communal Space vs. Public Space by S. Goldstein-Sabbah Preserving the Catholics of the Holy Land or Integrating Them into the Palestine Nation (1920–1950) By K. Sanchez Summerer Part 3: Urban Presence Ottoman Damascus During the Tanzimat: The New Visibility of Religious Distinctions by A. Massot The King is Dead, Long Live the King! Jewish funerary performances in the Iraqi public space by A. Schlaepfer Jerusalem Between Segregation and Integration: Reading Urban Space through the Eyes of Justice Gad Frumkin by Y. Wallach Part 4: Transnationalism Refugee Camps and the Spatialization of Assyrian Nationalism in Iraq by L. Robson The League of Nations, A-Mandates and Minority Rights during the Mandate Period in Iraq (1920–1932) H. Müller-Sommerfeld “Soundtracks of Jerusalem”: YouTube, North African Rappers, and the Fantasies of Resistance by A. Boum Index Contributor Biographies

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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 ContentsIntroduction 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. Forms of Arabic poetry Chapter 4. General characteristics of ancient Arabic poetry Chapter 5. The transmission of Arabic poetry Chapter 6. The 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. Mutammin b. Nuwayra Chapter 7. Al-Khansāʾ Chapter 8. Abū Miḥjan and al-Ḥuṭayʾa Chapter 9. Minor poets Chapter 10. Two forgeries Third Section. The period of the Umayyads Chapter 1. General characteristics 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 8. The rajaz poets 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 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Poetry A. The poets of Baghdad B. Poets of Iraq and the Jazīra C. Poets from Arabia and Syria D. The circle of Sayf al-Dawla E. Egyptian and North African poets Chapter 3. Rhymed prose Chapter 4. Philology I. The School of Basra II. The School of Kufa III. The School of Baghdad IV. Linguistics in Persia and the East V. Linguistics in Egypt and Spain Chapter 4. Historiography 1. The life of Muḥammad 2. Urban history 3. The history of the pre-Islamic Arabs 4. Imperial and world history 5. Cultural and literary history 6. The history of Egypt and North Africa 7. The history of Spain Chapter 5. Belles lettres in prose Chapter 6. Ḥadīth Chapter 7. Fiqh 1. The Ḥanafīs 2. The Mālikīs 3. The Shāfiʿīs 4. The lesser schools 5. The Shīʿa 1. The Zaydīs 2. The Imāmīs Chapter 8. Sciences of the Qurʾān 1. The reading of the Qurʾān 2. Qurʾānic exegesis Chapter 9. Dogmatics Chapter 10. Mysticism Chapter 11. The translators Chapter 12. Philosophy Chapter 13. Mathematics Chapter 14. Astronomy and astrology Chapter 15. Geography Chapter 16. Medicine Chapter 17. Natural and occult sciences Chapter 18. Encyclopaedias Second Section. The post-Classical period of Islamic literature from ca. 400/1000 until ca. 656/1258 Chapter 1. Poetry A. Poets of Baghdad, Iraq, and the Jazīra B. Persian poets C. Syrian poets D. Arabian poets E. Egyptian poets F. North African and Sicilian poets G. Spanish poets Chapter 2. Rhymed prose and stylistics Chapter 3. Philology 1. Philology in Iraq 2. Philology in Persia and neighbouring countries 3. Philology in Syria 4. Philology in South Arabia 5. Philology in Egypt 6. Philology in North Africa and Sicily 7. Philology in Spain Chapter 4. Historiography 1. Individual biographies 2. Histories of dynasties 3. Histories of individuals and genealogies 4. Local history A. Baghdad B. Damascus C. Jerusalem D. Aleppo E. Dunaysir F. South Arabia G. Jurjān H. Egypt I. The Maghrib J. Spain 5. Histories of the caliphs and world history 6. Histories of prophets Chapter 5. Belles lettres in prose Chapter 6. Ḥadīth 1. Iraq, the Jazīra, Syria, and Arabia 2. Persia 3. Egypt and North Africa 4. Spain Chapter 7. Fiqh 1. The Ḥanafīs 2. The Mālikīs 3. The Shāfiʿīs 4. The Ḥanbalīs 5. The Ẓāhirīs and Almohads 6. The Shīʿa A. The Zaydīs B. The Imāmīs Chapter 8. The sciences of the Qurʾān 1. The art of reading the Qurʾān 2. Qurʾānic exegesis Chapter 9. Dogmatics Chapter 10. Mysticism Chapter 11. Philosophy and politics Chapter 12. Mathematics Chapter 13. Astronomy Chapter 14. Geography and travelogues Chapter 15. Medicine Chapter 16. A. Natural sciences and technology B. Games, sports, and war C. Music Chapter 17. Occult sciences Chapter 18. Encyclopaedias and polyhistors

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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 ContentsBook 3. 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 § 1. Poetry and rhymed prose § 2. Philology § 3. Historiography A. Individual biographies B. Collective biographical works C. Local and national history D. Universal history § 4. Popular literature in prose, anthologies, and folk tales § 5. Ḥadīth A. ʿIlm al-ḥadīth wa-ʿilm al-rijāl B. Biographies of the Prophet C. Collections of ḥadīth and edifying works § 6. Fiqh A. The Ḥanafīs B. The Mālikīs C. The Shāfiʿīs D. The Ḥanbalīs § 7. Qurʾānic sciences § 8. Dogmatics and uṣūl al-dīn § 9. Mysticism § 10. Mathematics § 11. Astronomy § 12. Geography and cosmography § 13. Politics and public administration § 14. Militaria, hunting, and agriculture § 15. Medicine and veterinary science § 16. Zoology § 17. Music § 18. Occult sciences § 19. Encyclopaedias and polyhistors 7. al-Suyūṭī I. Fann al-tafsīr wa-taʿalluqātuhu wal-qirāʾāt II. Fann al-ḥadīth wa-taʿalluqātuhu III. Fann al-fiqh wa-taʿalluqātuhu IV. al-Ajzāʾ al-mufrada fī masāʾil makhṣūṣa ʿalā tartīb al-abwāb V. Fann al-ʿarabiyya wa-taʿalluqātuhu VI. Fann al-uṣūl wal-bayān wal-taṣawwuf VII. Fann al-taʾrīkh wal-adab Chapter 2. Iraq and al-Jazīra § 1. Poetry and rhymed prose § 2. Philology § 3. Historiography § 4. Ḥadīth § 5. Fiqh A. The Ḥanafīs B. The Mālikīs C. The Shāfiʿīs D. The Ḥanbalīs E. The Shīʿa § 6. Qurʾānic sciences § 7. Dogmatics § 8. Mysticism § 9. Mathematics § 10. Astronomy § 11. Music § 12. Medicine Chapter 3. North Arabia § 1. Poetry and rhymed prose § 2. Historiography § 3. Ḥadīth § 4. Fiqh A. The Ḥanafīs B. The Mālikīs § 5. Qurʾānic sciences § 6. Mysticism § 7. Mathematics § 8. Geography Chapter 4. South Arabia § 1. Poetry § 2. Philology § 3. Historiography § 4. Fiqh A. The Ḥanafīs B. The Shāfiʿīs C. Sayyid Muḥammad b. Ibrāhīm b. ʿAlī b. al-Murtaḍā b. al-Mufaḍḍal b. al-Hādī b. al-Wazīr D. The Zaydīs § 5. Qurʾānic sciences § 6. Mysticism § 7. Medicine § 8. Horse breeding § 9. Occult sciences § 10. Encyclopaedias Chapter 5. Iran and Turan § 1. Poetry and rhymed prose § 2. Philology § 3. Historiography § 4. Ḥadīth § 5. Fiqh A. The Ḥanafīs B. The Shāfiʿīs C. The Shīʿa § 6. Qurʾānic sciences § 7. Dogmatics § 8. Mysticism § 9. Philosophy § 10. Politics § 11. Mathematics § 12. Astronomy § 13. Medicine § 14. Encyclopaedias and polyhistors Chapter 6. India § 1. Philology § 2. Historiography § 3. Fiqh, Abū Ḥanīfa § 4. Qurʾānic exegesis § 5. Mysticism Chapter 7. The Turks of Rūm and the Ottoman empire § 1. Philology § 2. Historiography § 3. Fiqh, Abū Ḥanīfa § 4. Qurʾānic sciences § 5. Dogmatics § 6. Mysticism § 7. Medicine § 7a. Mathematics and astronomy § 8. Occult sciences § 9. Encyclopaedias and polyhistors Chapter 8. North Africa § 1. Poetry § 2. Philology § 3. Historiography A. Local history B. History of the Ibāḍīs C. History of dynasties D. Universal history § 4. Ḥadīth § 5. Fiqh, Mālik § 6. Qurʾānic sciences § 7. Dogmatics § 8. Mysticism § 9. Politics § 10. Mathematics § 11. Astronomy § 12. Travelogues § 13. Medicine § 14. Music § 15. Alchemy and occult sciences § 16. Eroticism Chapter 9. Spain § 1. Poetry and belles-lettres § 2. Philology § 3. Historiography § 4. Fiqh, Mālik § 5. Qurʾānic sciences § 6. Mysticism § 7. Politics § 8. Mathematics and astronomy § 9. Travelogues and geographies § 10. Medicine § 11. Sport Second Section From the conquest of Egypt by Sultan Selīm I in 1517 to the Napoleonic expedition to Egypt in 1798 Introduction Chapter 1. Egypt and Syria § 1. Poetry and rhymed prose § 2. Philology § 3. Historiography A. Individual biographies B. Collective biographical works C. Local and national history D. Chronicles E. Universal history § 4. Popular works and anthologies § 5. Ḥadīth § 6. Fiqh A. The Ḥanafīs B. The Mālikīs C. The Shāfiʿīs D. The Ḥanbalīs E. The Shīʿa § 7. Qurʾānic sciences § 8. Dogmatics § 9. Mysticism § 10. Homiletics and paraenesis § 11. Philosophy § 12. Politics § 13. Mathematics § 14. Astronomy § 15. Geography and travelogues § 16. Hunting and militaria § 17. Music § 18. Medicine § 19. Occult sciences § 20. Encyclopaedias and polyhistors Chapter 2. Al-Jazīra, Iraq, and Bahrain § 1. Poetry § 2. Philology § 3. Historiography § 4. Fiqh A. The Ḥanafīs B. The Shāfiʿīs C. The Shīʿa § 5. Qurʾānic sciences § 6. Dogmatics § 7. Mysticism § 7a. Philosophy § 8. Travelogues Chapter 3. North Arabia § 1. Poetry § 2. Philology § 3. Historiography § 4. Ḥadīth § 5. Fiqh A. The Ḥanafīs B. The Mālikīs C. The Shāfiʿīs D. Ḥanbalīs and Wahhābīs § 6. Qurʾānic sciences § 7. Dogmatics § 8. Mysticism § 9. Philosophy § 10. Mathematics § 11. Astronomy § 12. Geography and travelogues § 13. Encyclopaedias and polyhistors Chapter 4. South Arabia § 1. Poetry and belles-lettres § 2. Philology § 3. Historiography § 4. Ḥadīth § 5. Fiqh A. The Shāfiʿīs B. The Zaydīs § 6. Qurʾānic sciences § 7. Dogmatics § 8. Mysticism § 9. Astronomy § 10. Occult sciences Chapter 5. Oman, East Africa, and Abessinia A. Oman B. East Africa C. Abyssinia Chapter 6. Iran and Tūrān § 1. Poetry and belles-lettres § 1b. Philology § 2. Ḥadīth § 3. Shīʿī fiqh and kalām § 4. Qurʾānic sciences § 5. Mysticism § 6. Philosophy § 8. Mathematics and astronomy § 10. Medicine § 11. Encyclopaedias and polyhistors Chapter 7. India § 1. Philology § 2. Historiography § 3. Belles-lettres § 4. Ḥadīth § 5. Ḥanafī fiqh § 6. Qurʾānic sciences § 7. Dogmatics § 8. Mysticism § 9. Philosophy § 10. Travelogues § 11. Encyclopaedias Chapter 8. The Malay Archipelago Chapter 9. Rumelia and Anatolia § 1a. Philology § 2. Historiography § 3. Popular prose § 4. Ḥadīth § 5. Fiqh, Abū Ḥanīfa § 6. Qurʾānic sciences § 7. Dogmatics § 8. Mysticism § 9. Politics § 10. Astronomy § 11. Medicine § 12. Music § 13. Agriculture § 14. Occult sciences § 15. Encyclopaedias and polyhistors Chapter 10. The Maghreb § 1. Adab § 2. Philology § 3. Historiography § 4. Popular prose § 5. Ḥadīth § 6b. Fiqh, Mālikī § 7. Qurʾānic sciences § 8. Dogmatics § 9. Mysticism § 9a. Philosophy § 10. Mathematics and astronomy § 11. Geography and travelogues § 12. Medicine § 13. Warfare Chapter 11. The Sudan Third Section From the Napoleonic expedition to Egypt in 1798 until the present day Chapter 1. Egypt § 1. Poetry and rhymed prose § 2. Philology § 3. Historiography § 4. Popular prose § 5. Ḥadīth § 6. Fiqh A. The Mālikīs B. The Ḥanafīs C. The Shāfiʿīs § 7. Dogmatics § 8. Mysticism § 9. Paraenesis § 10. Mathematics § 11. Geography and travelogues § 12. Encyclopaedias Chapter 2. Syria § 1. Poetry § 2. Philology § 3. Historiography § 4. Islamic theology and mysticism Chapter 3. Mesopotamia and Iraq Chapter 4. Mecca (North Arabia) Chapter 5. South Arabia Chapter 6. Oman Chapter 7. Persia Chapter 8. Afghanistan Chapter 9. India Chapter 11. Istanbul Chapter 12. Russia Chapter 13. The Maghreb Chapter 14. The Sudan Addenda & Corrigenda Postscript

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Book SynopsisThis new volume of essays marks eighty years since the death of Marmaduke Pickthall. His various roles as translator of the Qurʾan, traveller to the Near East, political journalist writing on behalf of Muslim Turkey, and creator of the Muslim novel are discussed. In later life Pickthall became a prominent member of the British Muslim community in London and Woking, co-worker with Muslims in the Indian subcontinent, supporter of the Khilafat movement, and editor of the journal Islamic Culture under the patronage of the Nizam of Hyderabad. Marmaduke Pickthall: Islam and the Modern World makes an important contribution to the field of Muslims in Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. Contributors are: Humayun Ansari, Adnan Ashraf, James Canton, Peter Clark, Ron Geaves, A.R. Kidwai, Faruk Kokoglu, Andrew C. Long, Geoffrey P. Nash, M. A. Sherif and Mohammad Siddique Seddon.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Foreword: Marmaduke Pickthall After 1936, PETER CLARK 1. Introduction: Pickthall, Islam and the Modern World, GEOFFREY P. NASH Part One: Pickthall and the British Muslim Community 2. Pickthall, Muslims of South Asia, and members of the British Muslim Community of the early 1900s, K. HUMAYUN ANSARI 3. Marmaduke Pickthall and the British Muslim Convert Community JAMIE GILHAM 4. Abdullah Quilliam (Henri de Léon) and Marmaduke Pickthall: Agreements and disagreements between two prominent Muslims in the London and Woking Communities, RON GEAVES Part Two: Pickthall’s Religious and Political Thought 5. Pickthall’s Anti-Ottoman Dissent: The Politics of Religious Conversion, MOHAMMAD SIDDIQUE SEDDON 6. Pickthall’s Islamic Politics, M.A.SHERIF 7. Pickthall, Ottomanism, and Modern Turkey, GEOFFREY P. NASH Part Three: Man of Letters, Traveller and Translator 8. Oriental Eyes – or seeing and being seen: Popular Culture and the Near Eastern fiction of Marmaduke Pickthall, ANDREW C. LONG 9. A Vehicle for the Sacred: Marmaduke Pickthall’s Near Eastern novels, ADNAN ASHRAF 10. Becoming Woman and Gender Typologies in Marmaduke Pickthall’s Oriental fiction, FARUK KÖKOĞLU 11. “Throwing off the European”: Marmaduke Pickthall’s travels in Arabia 1892-94, JAMES CANTON 12. Muhammad Marmaduke Pickthall’s English translation of the Quran (1930): An Assessment, A.R. KIDWAI Index

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Book SynopsisWarsaw was once home to the largest and most diverse Jewish community in the world. It was a center of rich varieties of Orthodox Judaism, Jewish Socialism, Diaspora Nationalism, Zionism, and Polonization. This volume is the first to reflect on the entire history of the Warsaw Jewish community, from its inception in the late 18th century to its emergence as a Jewish metropolis within a few generations, to its destruction during the German occupation and tentative re-emergence in the postwar period. The highly original contributions collected here investigate Warsaw Jewry’s religious and cultural life, press and publications, political life, and relations with the surrounding Polish society. This monumental volume is dedicated to Professor Antony Polonsky, chief historian of the new Warsaw Museum for the History of Polish Jews, on the occasion of his 75th birthday.Trade ReviewThis excellent collection of essays pays a fitting tribute to Antony Polonsky who has been instrumental to the field of Polish-Jewish history for almost four decades as a teacher, scholar, and founding editor of POLIN: Studies in Polish Jewry...This complex and dynamic history [of Warsaw] is analysed in twenty-four chapters that range from the economic history of the early modern Jewish mercantile elite to the cultural history of clothing decrees to the religious history of Warsaw’s rabbis to the intellectual history of the city’s Jewish historians during the interwar era. Students and established scholars wishing to conduct research on Warsaw’s Jewish history will turn to this volume as an indispensable first source for some of the most recent research in the field."-- Michael Meng, Clemson University, ZfO JECES 66 (2017) 2, pp. 261-263.Table of ContentsNotes on the Contributors Introduction PART ONE: THE RISE OF THE METROPOLIS Illegal Immigrants: The Jews of Warsaw, 1527–1792 Hanna Węgrzynek Merchants, Army Suppliers, Bankers: Transnational Connections and the Rise of Warsaw’s Jewish Mercantile Elite (1770–1820) Cornelia Aust In Warsaw and Beyond: the Contribution of Hayim Zelig Slonimski to Jewish Modernization Ela Bauer The Garment of Torah: Clothing Decrees and the Warsaw Career of the first Gerer Rebbe Glenn Dynner From Community to Metropolis: The Jews of Warsaw, 1850–1880 François Guesnet An Unhappy Community and an even Unhappier Rabbi Shaul Stampfer Distributing Knowledge: Warsaw as a Center of Jewish Publishing, 1850–1914 Nathan Cohen In Kotik’s Corner: Urban Culture, Bourgeois Politics and the Struggle for Jewish Civility in Turn of the Century Eastern Europe Scott Ury Hope and Fear: Y. L. Peretz and the Dialectics of Diaspora Nationalism, 1905–1912 Michael Steinlauf “Di Haynt-mishpokhe”: Study for a Group Picture Joanna Nalewajko-Kulikov A Warsaw Story: Polish-Jewish Relations during the First World War Robert Blobaum The Capital of “Yiddishland”? Kalman Weiser The Kultur-Lige in Warsaw: A Stopover in the Yiddishists’ Journey between Kiev and Paris Gennady Estraikh Enduring Prestige, Eroded Authority: the Warsaw Rabbinate in the Interwar Period Gershon Bacon From Galicia to Warsaw: Interwar Historians of Polish Jewry Natalia Aleksiun Negotiating Jewish Nationalism in Interwar Warsaw Kenneth B. Moss PART TWO: DESTRUCTION OF THE METROPOLIS AND ITS AFTERMATH The Polish Underground Press and the Jews: The Holocaust in the Pages of the Home Army’s Biuletyn Informacyjny, 1940-1943 Joshua D. Zimmerman “The Work of My Hands is Drowning in the Sea, and You Would Offer Me Song?!”: Orthodox Behaviour and Leadership in Warsaw during the Holocaust Havi Dreifuss The Warsaw Ghetto in the Writings of Rachel Auerbach Samuel Kassow Stories of Rescue Activities in the Letters of Jewish Survivors about Christian Polish Rescuers, 1944-1949 Joanna B. Michlic The Politics of Retribution in Postwar Warsaw: In the Honor Court of the Central Committee of Polish Jews Gabriel N. Finder The End of a Jewish Metropolis? The Ambivalence of Reconstruction in the Aftermath of the Holocaust David Engel The Reconstruction of Jewish Life in Warsaw after the Holocaust: A Case Study of a Building and Its Residents Karen Auerbach In Search of Meaning after Marxism: The Komandosi, March 1968, and the Ideas that Followed Marci Shore “Context is everything.” Reflections on Studying with Antony Polonsky Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern Index

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Book SynopsisThis is the first collection of studies entirely devoted to the terminological pair dār al-islām / dar al-ḥarb, “the abode of Islam” and “the abode of war”, apparently widely known as representative of “the Islamic vision” of the world, but in fact almost unexplored. A team of specialists in different fields of Islamic studies investigates the issue in its historical and conceptual origins as well as in its reception within the different genres of Muslim written production. In contrast to the fixed and permanent categories they are currently identified with, the multifaceted character of these two notions and their shifting meanings is set out through the analysis of a wide range of contexts and sources, from the middle ages up to modern times. Contributors are Francisco Apellániz, Michel Balivet, Giovanna Calasso, Alessandro Cancian, Éric Chaumont, Roberta Denaro, Maribel Fierro, Chiara Formichi, Yohanan Friedmann, Giuliano Lancioni, Yaacov Lev, Nicola Melis, Luis Molina, Antonino Pellitteri, Camille Rhoné-Quer, Francesca Romana Romani, Biancamaria Scarcia Amoretti, Roberto Tottoli, Raoul Villano, Eleonora Di Vincenzo and Francesco Zappa.Trade Review“This valuable addition to the bibliography of Islamic law and history manages to present nearly all the ways that have been used to look at it, to move around it and to use it.” Sotirios S. Livas in Journal of Oriental and African Studies 27 (2018), 422-424.Table of ContentsGiovanna Calasso, Introduction: Concepts, Words, Historical Realities of a “Classical” Dichotomy Section I. Concepts and Terminology Giovanna Calasso, Constructing and Deconstructing the Opposition dār al-islām / dār al-ḥarb: Between Sources and Studies Giuliano Lancioni, The Missing dār: On Collocations in Classical Arabic dictionaries Yaacov Lev, The Perception of the Others. Rūm and Franks (Tenth-Twelfth Centuries) Biancamaria Scarcia Amoretti, Some Observations on dār al-ḥarb / dār al-islām in the Imami Context Section II. Early Texts Roberta Denaro, Naming the Enemy’s Land: Definitions of dār al-ḥarb in Ibn al-Mubārak’s Kitāb al-Jihād Roberto Tottoli, Dār al-islām / dār al-ḥarb in the Tafsīr by Ibn Jarīr al-Ṭabarī and in Early Traditions Raoul Villano, The Qur’anic foundation of the dichotomy dār al-islām / dār al-ḥarb: an unusual hypothesis Section III. Law: theory and practice Éric Chaumont, Dār al-islām et dār al-ḥarb: Quelques réflexions à propos de la géographie théologico-politique sunnite classique, en regard du Kitāb al-Muhaḏḏab d’Abū Isḥāq al-Šīrāzī (m. 476/1083) Francisco Apellániz, An Unknown Minority Between the dār al-ḥarb and the dār al-Islām Nicola Melis, Some Observations on the Concept of dār al-ʿahd in Ottoman Context (XVI-XVII c.) Section IV. History of specific areas Maribel Fierro and Luis Molina, Some Notes on dār al-ḥarb in Early al-Andalus Camille Rhoné, Les émirs d’Iran nord-oriental face aux steppes turques (IXe-XIe siècle) entre légitimation, confrontation et cohabitation Michel Balivet, Dār al-islām ou bilād al-rūm? Le cas de l’Anatolie turque au Moyen- ge Francesco Zappa, Une appartenance controversée : trois moments dans le débat autour du statut du bilād al-sūdān Section V. Modern and contemporary developments Alessandro Cancian, Faith as Territory: dār al-islām and dār al-ḥarb in Modern Shi’i Sufism Chiara Formichi, Dār al-islām and Darul Islam: from Political Ideal to Territorial Reality Yohanan Friedmann, Dār al-islām and dār al-ḥarb in Modern Indian Muslim Thought Antonino Pellitteri, Better barr al-ʿaduww Than dār al-ḥarb: Some Considerations about Eighteenth Century maġribī Chronicles Francesca Romana Romani and Eleonora Di Vincenzo, Muḥammad Bayram’s Risāla fī dār al-ḥarb wa-suknāhā: A Modern Reinterpretation of Living in dār al-ḥarb Giuliano Lancioni, Concluding remarks: The terminological array

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Book SynopsisIn Ibāḍī Texts from the 2nd/8th Century Abdulrahman Al-Salimi and Wilferd Madelung present an edition of fourteen Ibāḍī religious texts and explain their contents and extraordinary source value for the early history of Islam. The Ibāḍīs constitutes the moderate wing of the Kharijite opposition movement to the Umayyad and ‘Abbasid caliphates. The texts edited are mostly polemical letters to opponents or exhortatory to followers by ‘Abd Allah b. Ibad , Abu l-‘Ubayda Muslim b. Abi Karima and other Ibadi leaders in Basra, Oman and Hadramawt. An epistle detailing the offences of the caliph ‘Uthman is by the early Kufan historiographer al-Haytham b. ‘Adi. By their early date and independence of the mainstream historical tradition these txts offer the modern historian of Islam an invaluable complement to the well-known literary sources.Trade Review"Researchers and students of Islamic intellectual history will be grateful for having more material to make sense of the classical period of Islamic theological traditions." Sajjad Rizvi in: The Muslim World Book Review, 40:3, 2020 "The scientific edition of these fourteen early Ibāḍī texts, all from the 2nd/8th century, together in one book, constitutes a welcome addition to the growing body of newly edited and published old Ibāḍī texts." Martin Custers, in: Bibliotheca Orientalis LXXVI N° 1-2 (2019)Table of Contents1- The Introduction. 2- The Texts a. Letter of ‘Abd Allāh b. Ibāḍ to ‘Abd al-Malik b. Marwān. b. Ibāḍ’s second letter to ‘Abd al-Malik. c. Epistle of Abū Mawdūd Ḥājib. d. Letter of Muslim Abū ‘Ubayda and Ḥājib to the people of the Maghrib when they disagreed concerning the matter of ‘Abd al-Jabbār and al-Ḥārith such that they killed each other. e. Epistle of Abū ‘Ubayda and Abū Mawdūd. f. Epistle of Abū ‘Ubayda and Abī Mawdūd to al-Faḍl b. Kathīr. g. A letter of Abū ‘Ubayda. h. Epistle of Abū ‘Ubayda about the alms tax. i. Epistle of Shabīb b. ‘Aṭiyya al-‘Umānī. j. Letter of Shabīb b. ‘Aṭiyya to ‘Abd al-Salām against the Doubters and the Murji’a. k. Epistle of Khalaf b. Ziyād al-Baḥrānī. l. Epistle of the Jurist Sheikh Wā’il b. Ayyūb. m. Book in which there is a reply to the people of uncertainty. n. Epitome of a book in which there is the description of the offences of ‘Uthmān b. ‘Affān.

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Book SynopsisOnly a few decades after the Holocaust, Belgian Jews, like most European Jewries, are under the attack of forces stemming from a variety of sources. How do they confront and stand these new hardships? Research done all over Europe from 2012 through 2013 tried to answer this question. Among the cases investigated, the Belgian Jewry is one of the most interesting. It is both versatile and representative, revealing essential components of the general experience of European Jews today. Conceptual considerations pave the way to the study of their plight that has been, by any criterion, anything but “usual". Belgian Jews, it appears, are “like” many other Jewries in Europe but “a little more”. They highlight the question: is allosemitism at all surmountable?Table of ContentsPreface PART A: PREDICAMENTS I. A Sinuous History 2. Antisemitism and Allosemitism 3. Contemporary Perceptions and Attitudes of Europe's Jews PART B: FACING HOSTILITY 4. A Long Story 5. The Belgian Sample 6. Social Features and Perceptions 7. Origins of Jewishness and Community 8. Religiosity and Antisemitism PART C. THE CHALLENGE 9. Belgian Jewry Compared 10. Neo-Jewishness and Allosemitism APPENDIX REFERENCES

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Book SynopsisIn this era of globalization, Jewish diversity is marked more than ever by transnational expansion of competing movements and local influences on specific conditions. One factor that still makes Jewish communities one is the common reference to Israel. Today, however, differentiations and discrepancies in identification and behavior generate plurality and ambiguities about Israel-Diaspora relationships. Moreover the Judeophobia now rife in Europe and beyond as well as the spread of the Palestinian cause as a civil religion make Israel the world’s "Jew among nations.” This weighs heavily on community relations - despite Israel’s active presence in the diaspora. In this context, the contributions to this volume focus on Jewish peoplehood, religiosity and ethnicity, gender and generation, Israelophobia and world Jewry, and debate the perspectives that are most pertinent to confront the question: how far is the Jewish Commonwealth (Klal Yisrael) still an important code of Jewry today?Table of ContentsIntroduction PART I. JEWISH PEOPLEHOOD: CHANGING PATTERNS OF ISRAEL-DIASPORA RELATIONS 1. Sergio Della Pergola: Jewish Peoplehood: Hard, Soft, and Interactive Markers 2. Jonathan D. Sarna: From World-Wide People to First-World People: The Consolidation (fn. concentration) of World Jewry 3. Shulamit Reinharz: The “Jewish Peoplehood” Concept: Complications and Suggestions 4. Yosef Gorny: Ethnicity and State Policy: The State of Israel in the Intellectual and Political Discourse of the US Jewish Press 5. Ephraim Yuchtman-Ya’ar and Steven M. Cohen: Close and Distant: The Relations between Israel and the Diaspora PART II. RELIGIOSITY AND ETHNICITY 6. Yael Israel-Cohen: The Reform and Conservative Movements in Israel: Strategies of Peripheral Movements in a Monopolized Religious Market 7. Shlomo Fischer: Two Orthodox Cultures: “Centrist” Orthodoxy and Religious Zionism 8. Margalit Bejarano: Ethnicity and Transnationalism: Latino Jews in Miami 9. Nissim Leon: Strong Ethnicity: The Case of US-born Jews in Israel PART III. GENDER AND GENERATION 10. Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz: Orthodox Jewish Women as a Bridge Between Israel and the Diaspora 11. Florinda Goldberg: Gender, Religion, and the Search for a Modern Jewish Identity in "La Rabina" by Silvia Plager 12. Erik H. Cohen: Global Jewish Youth Studies - Towards a Theory 13. Sylvia Barack Fishman: Generational and Cultural Constructions of Jewish Peoplehood PART IV. ISRAELOPHOBIA, ANTI-ZIONISM AND “NEO”-ANTISEMITISM 14. Shmuel Trigano: Debasing Praise: Hatred of the Jews in a Global Age 15. Chantal Bordes-Benayoun: Integration and Antisemitism: The Case of French Jewry 16. Julius H. Schoeps: How Antisemitism, Obsessive Criticism of Israel, and Do-Gooders Complicate Jewish Life in Germany 17. Leonardo Senkman: Anti-Zionist Discourse of the Left in Latin America: An Assessment. 18. Uzi Rebhun, Chaim I. Waxman, Nadia Beider: American Jews and the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process: A Study of Diaspora in International Affairs PART V. CONFIGURATIONS OF WORLD JEWRY AND THE STATE OF ISRAEL 19. Judit Bokser-Liwerant: Jewish Diaspora and Transnationalism: Awkward (Dance) Partners? 20. Lars Dencik: The Dialectics of Diaspora in Contemporary Modernity 21. Gabi Sheffer: Reflections on Israel and Jerusalem as the Centers of World Jewry 22. Eliezer Ben-Rafael: Israel-Diaspora Relations: "Transmission Driving-belts" of Transnationalism Epilogue: One - After All....for the time being

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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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Book SynopsisThis volume offers insights into the major Jewish migration movements and rebuilding of European Jewish communities in the mid-twentieth century. Its chapters illustrate many facets of the Jews’ often traumatic post-war experiences. People had to find their way when returning to their countries of origin or starting from scratch in a new land. Their experiences and hardships from country to country and from one community of migrants to another are analyzed here. The mass exodus of Jews from Arab and Muslim countries is also addressed to provide a necessary and broader insight into how those challenges were met, as both migrations were a result of persecution, as well as discrimination.Table of ContentsIntroduction - Diverging groups of Jewish Displaced Persons Manfred Gerstenfeld and Françoise S. Ouzan PART ONE: THE PLIGHT OF THE UPROOTED: SOCIAL AND LEGAL RESPONSES Reflections on the Multinational Geography of Jews after World War II Sergio DellaPergola The Law of Return: A National Solution to an International Issue, 1945–1967 Jacques Amar Healthcare Services for Holocaust Survivors in Post-war Austria, 1945–1953: A Pattern of Jewish Solidarity Ada Schein PART TWO: POST-WAR JEWISH MIGRATION AND CZECHOSLOVAKIA Dilemmas of Minority Politics: Jewish Migrants in Post-war Czechoslovakia and Poland Kateřina Čapková The Post-war Czech-Jewish Leadership and the Issue of Jewish Emigration from Czechoslovakia (1945–1950) Ján Laniček PART THREE: POST-WAR RECONSTITUTION OF JEWISH COMMUNAL LIFE AND DYNAMICS OF IDENTITIES Life during the Camps and After: Displacement and Rehabilitation of the Young Survivors Izio Rosenman American Jewish Chaplains and the Survivors’ Return to Jewish Communal Life (1945–1952) Françoise S. Ouzan A Forgotten Post-war Jewish Migration: East European Jewish Refugees and Immigrants in France, 1946–1947 David Weinberg The Post-war Renewal of Jewish Communities in the Netherlands Manfred Gerstenfeld PART FOUR: EMIGRATING TO ISRAEL FROM EUROPE AND THE MIDDLE EAST Reasons for Emigration of the Jews from Poland in 1956–1959 Ewa Węgrzyn Memories of a Forgotten People: A Conflict of Expectations Shmuel Trigano The Reasons for the Departure of the Jews from Morocco 1956–1957: The Historiographical Problems Yigal Bin-Nun Not Just a Language Barrier: Israel’s Media and Communication with New Immigrants in the 1950s Rafi Mann

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Book SynopsisIn Jewish Youth around the World 1990-2010: Social Identity and Values, Erik Cohen offers a rich and multi-faceted picture of Jewish adolescents and young adults today. Based on numerous empirical studies conducted by the author over the course of two decades among various populations in Israel and every major Diaspora country, it considers a range of issues, including: demographics and migration patterns, Jewish identity, involvement in the Jewish community, leisure time activities, values, relationship to Israel and to the global Jewish collective. In-depth analysis of the data uncovers similarities and differences of various sub-populations by nationality, level of religiosity, age, gender and more. The book is pioneering in its comparative approach to Jewish youth around the world.Table of ContentsPreface by Judit Bokser Liwerant Introduction Chapter 1: Jewish Identity Chapter 2: Leisure Time Activities Chapter 3: General Values Among Jewish Youth Chapter 4: Jewish Values Chapter 5: The Holistic Organization of Values Chapter 6: Relationship of Diaspora Jewish Youth to Israel Chapter 7: Israeli Youth: Homeland, Diaspora, and Global Identity Epilogue: Towards a Theory of Global Jewish Youth Studies Afterword by David Zisenwine

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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 SynopsisIn Patriotic Cooperation, Diana Junio offers an account of a cooperative venture between the Nationalist government and the Church of Christ in China, known as the Border Service Department, that carried out substantial social programs from 1939 to 1955 in China’s Southwestern border areas. Numerous scholars have argued that Chinese state-religion relations have been characterized primarily by conflict and antagonism. By examining the history of cooperation seen in the Border Service Department case, Diana Junio contends that these relations have not always been antagonistic; on the contrary, under certain conditions the state and the church could achieve a mutually beneficial goal through successful cooperation, with a strong degree of sincerity on both sides.Trade Review"Dr. Diana Junio has given us a thoroughly researched, welldocumented, and carefully written account of the Border Service Department, a strategic venture founded by the Chinese Church of Christ and the Nationalist Regime to advance evangelistic and development work among ethnic populations in southwestern China during the Second World War. The rich empirical findings and analytical insights should appeal to scholars interested in the political, military, sociocultural and religious history of Republican China.” — Joseph Tse-Hei Lee, Pace UniversityTable of ContentsList of Tables List of Maps and Figures Conventions and Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1 The Establishment of the Church of Christ in China Chapter 2 From Petition to Cooperation Chapter 3 The Cooperative Creation of the Border Service Department Chapter 4 Serving the Border Peoples with a Wartime Agenda Chapter 5 The Challenges and New Focus in the Bsd’s Postwar Services Chapter 6 Embedding Evangelism within the Border Service Program Chapter 7 Different Regimes, the Same Patriotism Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn The Religious Cultures of Dutch Jewry an international group of scholars examines aspects of religious belief and practice of pre-emancipation Sephardim and Ashkenazim in Amsterdam, Curaçao and Surinam, ceremonial dimensions, artistic representations of religious life, and religious life after the Shoa. The origins of Dutch Jewry trace back to diverse locations and ancestries: Marranos from Spain and Portugal and Ashkenazi refugees from Germany, Poland and Lithuania. In the new setting and with the passing of time and developments in Dutch society at large, the religious life of Dutch Jews took on new forms. Dutch Jewish society was thus a microcosm of essential changes in Jewish history.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations List of Contributors Part 1: Messianic Hopes and Redemption 1 The Phoenix, the Exodus and the Temple: Constructing Self-identity in the Sephardi Congregation of Amsterdam in the Early Modern Period  Limor Mintz-Manor 2 In the Land of Expectation: The Sense of Redemption among Amsterdam’s Portuguese Jews  Matt Goldish Part 2: Aspects of Daily Religious Life 3 Religious Life among Portuguese Women in Amsterdam’s Golden Age  Tirtsah Levie Bernfeld 4 The Amsterdam Way of Death: R. Shimon Frankfurt’s Sefer ha-hayyim (The Book of Life), 1703  Avriel Bar-Levav 5 Reading Yiddish and Lernen: Being a Pious Ashkenazi in Amsterdam, 1650–1800  Shlomo Berger Z”l 6 From Yiddish to Dutch: Holiday Entertainment between Literary and Linguistic Codes  Marion Aptroot Part 3: Jewish Religion in Troubled Waters: The Dutch-Sephardi Diaspora Overseas 7 A Tale of Caribbean Deviance: David Aboab and Community Conflicts in Curaçao  Evelyne Oliel-Grausz 8 The Dutch Jewish Enlightenment in Surinam, 1770–1800  Jonathan Israel Part 4: Ceremonial Dimensions 9 Jewish Liturgy in the Netherlands: Liturgical Intentions and Historical Dimensions  Wout van Bekkum 10 Paving the Way: “Deaf and Dumb” Children and the Introduction of Confirmation Ceremonies in Dutch Judaism  Chaya Brasz Part 5: Jewish Identity and Religiosity 11 Religion, Culture (and Nation) in Nineteenth-century Dutch Jewish Thought  Irene E. Zwiep 12 “Religiosity” in Dutch Jewish Art in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries  Rivka Weiss-Blok Part 6: The Master: Images of Chief Rabbi Jozeph Zvi (Hirsch) Dünner 13 “The Great Eagle, the Pride of Jacob”: Joseph Hirsch Dünner in Dutch-Jewish Memory Culture  Bart Wallet 14 Image(s) of “The Rav” through the Lens of an Involved Historian: Jaap Meijer’s Depiction of Rabbi Joseph Hirsch Dünner  Evelien Gans Part 7: Religious Life after the Catastrophe: Post-1945 Developments 15 The Return to Judaism in the Netherlands  Minny E. Mock-Degen 16 Vanishing Diaspora? Jews in the Netherlands and Their Ties with Judaism: Facts and Expectations about Their Future  Marlene de Vries

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Book SynopsisIsrael Celebrates is about the intersection where Israeli inventiveness and Jewish tradition meet: the holidays. It employs the anthropological history of four Jewish holidays as celebrated in Israel in order to track the naturalization of Jewish rituals, myths, and symbols in Israeli culture throughout “the long twentieth century” of Zionism and on to the present, and to demonstrate how a new strand of Judaism developed in Israel from the grassroots. But could this grassroots Israeli culture develop into a shared symbolic space for both Jews and Arabs? By probing the political implications of the minutiae of life, the book argues that this popular culture might come to define Jewish identity in Israel of the 21st century.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction – Israeli Civic Culture as a Jewish Culture Civic Culture Israeli Culture, Jewish Culture(s) The Anthropological History of Israeli Holidays Structure of the Book Chapter One – Jewish Family: Passover Passover in Jewish Cultures of the Past The Seder in the Yishuv and in Israel The 1960s on: The Rise of the Extended Family “What do I have in common with these people?” Why the Haggadah? The Seder in the Jewish Culture of the Diaspora Conclusion: The Jewish Extended Family in Israeli Public Culture Chapter Two – Environment: Tu Bishvat Tu Bishvat in Jewish Cultures of the Past Arbor Day and Tu Bishvat Trees and Planting in the New Hebrew Culture The Mandate Era: National Planting Ceremonies Planting Ceremonies in Independent Israel: Ecology and Politics Tu Bishvat in Israeli Culture: The Environmental-Political Track Tu Bishvat in Israeli Culture: The Environmental-Apolitical Track Tu Bishvat in Adult Culture: Active Nostalgia Tu Bishvat in American Jewish Culture Tu Bishvat and Arbor Day: Reciprocal Relations Conclusion: Nostalgia as a Cultural Force Chapter Three – Public Space: Yom Kippur Yom Kippur as an Anomaly Historical Yom Kippur The Israeli version of Yom Kippur: The Suspension of Transportation The Suspension of Economic Activity “Online Fasting”: What do People Do? Heshbon Nefesh: Ecology and Politics The Jewishness of Public Space Conclusion: The Jewish Public Space Chapter Four – Freedom: Yom Ha’atzma’ut Yom Ha’atzma’ut: The Initial Second Thoughts Spontaneity and Artificiality Doing Something on Yom Ha’atzma’ut Wandering the City Streets From Picnic to Cookout Memorial Day and the Torch-Lighting Ceremony Yom Ha’atzma’ut in the Diaspora Israeli Arabs and Yom Ha’atzma’ut Conclusion: An Empty Day? Chapter Five – Citizenship: The “Nationalization” of Jewish Culture in Israel The Assimilative Power of the Jewish Culture in Israel The Nationalizing of the Israeli Jewish Culture Nationalizing the Jewish Culture: Its Ramifications for Jewish Identity in Israel Nationalizing the Jewish Culture: Its Ramifications for Arab Identity in Israel Epilogue: Political Fantasy and Cultural Reality References

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Book SynopsisAhmad Alkhamees defines Creative Shari‘ah compliance as compliance with the letter but not the objectives of Shari‘ah. In recent years, Islamic finance industry practises have come under scrutiny, with strong critiques levelled against many institutions that claim to provide Shari‘ah-compliant products and services, which in fact undermine the spirit and the objectives of Shari‘ah. This book significantly contributes to the sphere of Islamic finance in three main ways. First, it critically appraises justifications of creative Shari‘ah compliance practises. Second, it examines how Shari‘ah supervisory board (SSB) governance practises, and the inconsistent fatwas issued by SSBs, contribute to the issue of creative Shari‘ah compliance. Most importantly, it suggests regulatory mechanisms which regulators can employ in Islamic countries such as Saudi Arabia and in secular countries such as the United Kingdom to deal with the issue of creative Shari‘ah compliance.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Brill’s Simple Arabic Transliteration System Glossary of Arabic Terms Table of Cases List of Statutes List of Figures and Tables Abbreviations Introduction 1 An Overview of Shariʿah  1.1 Introduction  1.2 Overview of Shariʿah and Its Foundation  1.3 Schools of Thought  1.4 Islamic Legal Ruling  1.5 Main Features of Islamic Finance  1.6 Shariʿah-Compliant Financial Instruments  1.7 The Objectives of Islamic Law  1.8 Conclusion 2 The Form Versus Substance Debate and the Roots of Creative Shariʿah Compliance in Islamic Finance: Why Reinvent the Wheel?  2.1 Introduction  2.2 The Definition of Ḥīlah  2.3 The Origins and the Evolution of Ḥīlah  2.4 Positions on Ḥīlah of Islamic Schools of Thought  2.5 Refuting the Pro-Ḥīlah Arguments  2.6 Conclusion 3 Tawarruq as a Case Study of Creative Shariʿah Compliance  3.1 Introduction  3.2 Definition of Tawarruq and Selection Rationale  3.3 The Development of Tawarruq  3.4 The Differences between Jurisprudential and Organised Tawarruq  3.5 Forms of Tawarruq  3.6 Shariʿah Jurists’ Views on Tawarruq  3.7 Conclusion 4 Standardisation of Fatwās to Reduce Creative Shariʿah Compliance  4.1 Introduction  4.2 Standardisation: A Definition  4.3 Why Is Standardisation Needed?  4.4 Causes of Juristic Differences  4.5 Remedies for Inconsistency  4.6 Conclusion 5 The Impact of Shariʿah Governance Practises on Shariʿah Compliance in Contemporary Islamic Finance  5.1 Introduction  5.2 Shariʿah Supervisory Board Definition  5.3 The Importance of SSBs  5.4 Regulatory Issues Surrounding Shariʿah Supervisory Boards  5.5 Conclusion 6 Public Mechanisms to Remedy Creative Shariʿah Compliance  6.1 Introduction  6.2 Overview and Justification of CSSBs  6.3 Tasks of CSSBs  6.4 The Central Shariʿah Board in Sudan  6.5 The Central Shariʿah Board in Malaysia  6.6 UK Regulators’ Approach towards Shariʿah Governance  6.7 Saudi Regulators’ Approach towards Shariʿah Governance  6.8 Compulsory Disclosure  6.9 Conclusion 7 Private Mechanisms to Remedy Creative Shariʿah Compliance  7.1 Introduction  7.2 Shariʿah Compliance Rating  7.3 Shariʿah Indices  7.4 Private External Shariʿah Auditing Firms  7.5 International Islamic Financial Standards  7.6 Whistle Blowing  7.7 Characterising the Articles of Association  7.8 Conclusion Conclusion Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIn Aesthetics in Arabic Thought from Pre-Islamic Arabia through al-Andalus José Miguel Puerta Vílchez analyzes the discourses about beauty, the arts, and sense perception that arose within classical Arab culture from pre-Islamic poetry and the Quran (sixth-seventh centuries CE) to the Alhambra palace in Granada (fourteenth century CE). He focuses on the contributions of such great thinkers as Ibn Ḥazm, Avempace, Ibn Ṭufayl, Averroes, Ibn ʿArabī, and Ibn Khaldūn in al-Andalus, and the Brethren of Purity, al-Tawḥīdī, al-Fārābī, Avicenna, Alhazen, and al-Ghazālī in the East. The work also explores literary criticism, calligraphy, music, belles-lettres (adab), and erotic literature, and highlights the contribution of Arab humanism to shaping the field of Aesthetics in the West.Trade Review"This is an English translation of the major work on the topic in modern times, and is well worth having. It is an excellent translation, clear and fluent. [...] The book is an impressive size, over 900 pages and represents an impressive scholarly contribution to the area." - Oliver Leaman, University of Kentucky, in: Journal of Semitic Studies 64/1 (2019)Table of ContentsPreface to the English Translation Acknowledgments List of Figures Introduction 1) Contemporary Historiography of Arab-Islamic Aesthetic Thought a) Western Criticism b) Arabic Criticism 2) Aesthetic Theory and Arab Andalusi Aesthetics 1. Beauty and the Arts in the Rise of Written Arabic Culture 1.1. Pre-Islamic Sensibility and the Vocabulary of Aesthetics 1.1.1. The Supernatural Origin of Artistic Creation 1.1.2. The Physical and Luminous Character of Beauty in Pre-Islamic Poetry. Woman as an Aesthetic Object and Agent 1.1.3. The Arts and Architecture in Pre-Islamic Poetry 1.2. The Great Message of Revelation and Its Aesthetic Dimension 1.2.1. Beauty and Absolute Perfection in the Word and the Divine Order a) The Inimitability of the Quran b) The Creator c) Creation 1.2.2. Artistic Creation in the Sacred Texts a) The Problem of Figurative Representation b) Architecture and Sculpture in the Quran c) Prophethood and Poetry d) Music in the Hadīth 1.2.3. The Development of the Arts under the New Politico-Religious Order of Islam 2. The Arts on the Margins of Knowledge: Ideas and Concepts of Arts in Classical Arab Culture 2.1. The Arts in the Arab-Islamic Encyclopedia 2.1.1. The Arts in the Classification of Knowledge in the East 2.1.2. The Arts in the Classification of Knowledge in al-Andalus and the Maghrib a) The Arts in the Ẓahiri System of Knowledge b) Ibn Bājja: the Practical Arts and Classifications of Intellectual Knowledge in the Founding of Andalusi Falsafa c) Ibn Ṭufayl’s Self-Taught Philosopher: Man in a state of Nature Neither Produces nor Conceives of the Arts d) The Arts and Knowledge in Ibn Rushd’s Rationalist Scheme e) The Arts in Ibn Khaldūn’s Study of Society 2.2. The Brethren of Purity’s Neopythagorean and Neoplatonic Concepts of Art, and al-Tawḥīdī’s School in Baghdad 2.2.1. The Brethren of Purity’s Pythagorean Theory of Art a) The Geometric Order of the Universe b) The Harmonious Concord of the Cosmos c) Ideal Proportion, the Key to Artistic Perfection d) The Manual Arts and Artistic Creativity 2.2.2. The Aesthetic Neoplatonism of al-Tawḥīdī’s School in Baghdad a) Thought, Art, and inspiration b) Artistic Form and the Unicity of God c) Artistic Creation as the Emanation of the Soul and the Perfection of Nature d) The Nature of Beautiful Form e) The Language Arts: Prose, Verse, and Rhetoric f) Musical Harmony and Its Affinity with the Soul g) Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī’s Treatise on Calligraphy and the Foundations of the Genre in Arabic 2.3. Calligraphy among the Sciences of Language in Ibn al-Sīd of Badajoz 2.4. Revelation, Morality, and Art in the Work of Ibn Ḥazm 2.4.1. The Divine Origin of the Arts and their Human Transmission 2.4.2. The Perfection and Immutable Order of Divine Creation 2.4.3. Man’s Works and Revelation: Architecture, Images, and Music in Ibn Ḥazm’s jurisprudence a) Mosques in a Juridical Treatise from Tenth-Century Cordoba. A Moral Warning about Architecture b) Religious and Lay images in Ibn Ḥazm c) The Ẓahiri Faqīh on Music 2.4.4. Ibn Ḥazm’s Theory and Criticism of Poetry a) The Moral Character of Poetry b) Poetic Concepts and Classes: Technique, Naturalness, and Skill c) Ibn Ḥazm’s Rhetoric d) The Quran is Radically Inimitable 2.5. Mimesis as the Definition of Art in Eastern Falsafa 2.5.1. The Origin and Development of the Concept of Mimesis in Classical Eastern Islam: Mattā, al-Fārābī, and Ibn Sīnā a) Mattā and the Arabic Version of Mimesis b) Mimesis in al-Fārābī’s Theory of Art: Ethics, Politics, and Imagination c) Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna) and his translation of Aristotle’s Poetics 2.5.2. Mimesis as a Unifying Concept of the Arts in Eastern Falsafa 2.5.3. Artistic Fulfillment: Elements for an Aesthetics of Falsafa 2.6 The Theory of Artistic Mimesis in Andalusi Thought and Criticism 2.6.1 Rhetoric and Poetics in Ibn Rushd’s Ethical and Rationalist Thought 2.6.2 Ibn Rushd’s Poetics between Rhetoric and Ethics a) Ibn Rushd’s Talkhīṣ Kitāb al-Shiʿr and Its Greek original b) The Nature and Types of Arabic Poetry. The Averroist Concept of Mimesis c) The Ethical Purpose of Poetry d) The Components of Eulogy e) Harmonious and Unified Composition f) The Relationship of Poetry to Truth g) Representation of Misfortunes and Defects h) The Characters that Eulogy Should Represent i) Modes of Imitation in Poetry j) Rhetorical Elements: Extrinsic Aspects, Wordplay, and Taghyīr or Alteration k) Criticizing Poets’ Falsehoods 2.6.3 The Pleasures of Imitation as a Path to Ethical Education in Ibn Rushd’s Versions of the Rhetoric and the Poetics a) The Various Mimetic Arts: Natural Disposition, Technique, and Faithfulness b) The Enjoyment That Every Artistic Imitation Brings c) The Pleasure of Poetry Should Serve its Ethical Goals 2.6.4 Ḥāzim al-Qarṭājannī: From the Theory of Mimesis to a Total Arabic Aesthetics a) Theory and Definition of Poetic Ideas b) Poetry’s Perceptual and Intellectual Dimension c) Truth is not an Issue in Poetry. Definition of Poetry d) Muḥākāt and Takhyīl: A Profound Conception of the Imitative Arts e) Toward a General Arabic Aesthetics: Imitation, Imagination, Astonishment, Pleasure. An Aesthetics of Light and Reflection f) Harmonious Composition of the Qaṣīda. Critical Judgment 2.7 The History, Sociology, and Definition of the Arts in Ibn Khaldūn’s Muqaddima 2.7.1 The Arts in the Development of Human Civilization and as a Manifestation of Power a) The Geographic Factor, and Moderation as the Physical, Moral, and Aesthetic Ideal b) The Arts in the Nomadic-vs.-Sedentary Debate. Necessity and Opulence c) The Arts in Ibn Khaldūn’s Semiotics of Power 2.7.2 Ibn Khaldūn’s Urbanism a) Urban Life Follows the Rise of State Power b) The City’s Site and Basic Services c) The Ancient Arabs and Architecture 2.7.3 Ibn Khaldūn’s Definition of the Arts a) The Arts Consist of Both Theory and Practice b) The Art of Construction c) The Art of Carpentry d) The Art of Calligraphy e) Ibn Khaldūn’s Concept of Poetry 3 Aesthetic Perception and the Definition of Beauty in Classical Arabic Thought 3.1 Theory of Knowledge and Definition of Beauty in the Thought of Ibn Ḥazm of Cordoba 3.1.1 Reason versus Imagination. Ibn Ḥazm’s Theory of Knowledge a) The Nature of the Human Soul b) The Perceptive Structure of the Soul. Rational, Sensory, and Linguistic Knowledge c) The Importance and Specificity of Visual Perception d) Ibn Ḥazm’s Theory of Colors and Classical Arab Physics 3.1.2 Physical Beauty in Ibn Ḥazm’s Writings on Love a) The Ethical Framework of Love b) Conceptualization of Love and Beauty c) Spiritual Affinity and Physical Forms d) Love against Reason. Transformations in Aesthetic Judgment e) Ibn Ḥazm’s Participation in the Aesthetics of Light f) The Fleeting Nature of Beauty 3.1.3 The Metaphysical Meaning of Ibn Ḥazm’s Aesthetics a) Beauty as a Spiritual Accident b) The Divinity and Supernatural Beings Cannot be Defined in Aesthetic Terms 3.1.4 Ethical and Moral Beauty 3.2 Aesthetic Syntheses in Arabic Erotic Literature after Ibn Ḥazm 3.3 The Metaphysics and Perception of Beauty in Classical Arabic Falsafa 3.3.1 Aesthetic Principles and Concepts in the Arabic Version of Plotinus’s Enneads 3.3.2 Al-Fārābī’s Metaphysical Aesthetics a) The Beauty and Perfection of the First Cause b) The Perfection and Beauty of Non-Corporeal Substances and Heavenly Bodies c) Perfection and Beauty of the Human Being Compared to Those of the First Cause d) Modes of the Perception and Fulfillment of Beauty 3.3.3 Divine, Intellectual, and Physical Beauty in Avicenna’s Metaphysics a) Definition of Divine Beauty and Goodness b) Perception of Beauty in Ibn Sīnā’s Theory of Knowledge c) Metaphysical Perception vs. Sensory Perception: Pleasure and Appropriateness, the Ascent to Supreme Felicity 3.4 Theory of Perception and Aesthetic Contemplation in the Andalusi Falsafa of Ibn Bājja and Ibn Ṭufayl 3.4.1 Ibn Bājja’s Theory of Perception a) Faculties of the Soul and the Theory of Forms b) Sense Perception. Vision and Color Theory. Acoustic Perception c) Intermediate Faculties: Common Sense and the Imaginative d) The Rational Faculty: Universals, Spiritual Forms, and Higher Knowledge 3.4.2 Parameters of Ibn Bājja’s Transcendental Aesthetics a) Ibn Bājja’s Theory of Pleasure. Contemplative Aesthetic Delight 3.4.3 Ibn Ṭufayl and Gustatory Union with Divine Beauty 3.5 Sensibility and Intellection: Ibn Rushd’s Shaping of Aesthetics as a Conceptual Field 3.5.1 Ibn Rushd’s Theory of Sensibility. Visual Perception as the Nucleus and Paradigm of Sensory Knowledge a) The Judicious Function of the Senses b) Visual Perception and Color Theory c) Sensibles in the Soul 3.5.2 Common Sense, Imagination, and Cogitatio: The Judgment of the Senses and Artistic Composition 3.5.3 Reason, Imagination, and Intellection 3.5.4 Nature, Art, and Knowledge. Ibn Rushd’s Aesthetic Order 3.6 Ibn al-Haytham’s Optics and the Creation of an Arabic and Universal Theory of Aesthetic Visual Perception 3.6.1 Visual Knowledge and Aesthetic Knowledge a) The Distinctive Faculty and Its Syllogistic Visual Functions b) The Innate and Experiential Nature of Aesthetic Knowledge 3.6.2 Ibn al-Haytham’s Theory of Aesthetic Perception a) The Beauty of Individual Visible Properties b) Beauty as a Combination of Visible Properties. Proportion and Formal Harmony c) Ugliness as the Absence of Beauty d) Circumstances and Alterations of Aesthetic Perception. General Moderation of Visual Factors 3.6.3 On Ibn al-Haytham’s Artistic Terminology 3.7 Al-Ghazālī’s Aesthetics between Theology (Kalām) and Sufi Mysticism (Taṣawwuf) 3.7.1 Love for Both Sensible and Divine Beauty 3.7.2 Definition of Sensible and Artistic Beauty 3.7.3 The Superiority of Internal Beauty 3.7.4 Spiritual Faculties for Mystical Knowledge and Aesthetic Taste 3.8 Harmony and Appropriateness: Aesthetics in the Historical Evolutionism of Ibn Khaldūn 3.9 The Other Side of Reason. The Aesthetic Core of Ibn ʿArabī’s Sufism 3.9.1 Mystical and Universal Love a) “God Is Beautiful and Loves Beauty” b) “Beauty Reached in Thee Her Utmost Limit: Another Like Thee Is Impossible” c) “God Created Adam in His Own Image” 3.9.2 Imagination versus Reason a) Theory of Gnostic Understanding b) The Science of Imagination 3.9.3 Divine Beauty and Majesty. Ibn ʿArabī’s Aesthetics in the Dialectic of Tanzīh and Tashbīh a) Tanzīh and Tashbīh: The Form of God b) The Aesthetics of the One and the Many c) Beyond Iconoclasm d) Seeing God e) Divine Majesty and Beauty in the Soul 3.10 The Aesthetic Vocabulary of the Poems of the Alhambra 3.10.1 The Divine Origin of Beauty 3.10.2 The Sovereign as Aesthetic Agent 3.10.3 The Aesthetic Narcissism of Architecture Conclusion 1 Aesthetics at the Center of Arab Anthropology and Humanism 2 Arabic Aesthetic Concepts and Islamic Art 3 Arabic Aesthetic Thought in al-Andalus Bibliography of Primary Sources Bibliography of Secondary Sources Index

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Book SynopsisIn Ästhetik, Politik und schiitische Repräsentation im zeitgenössischen Iran zeigt Christian Funke die Verflechtungen von Politik, Protest und schiitischer Materialität auf und legt vielschichtig dar, wie die Grüne Bewegung mit umfassenderen Diskursen über Demokratie, Identität, Geschichte und Gegenwart sowie Religion und Politik verknüpft war. In Aesthetics, Politics, and Shiʿi Representation in Contemporary Iran Christian Funke explores the entangled relationship between politics, protest and Shiʿi materiality and shows how the ‘Green Movement’ was part of larger discourses on democracy, identity, the present and the past, and religion and politics.

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Book SynopsisThe Yearbook of International Religious Demography presents an annual snapshot of the state of religious statistics around the world. Every year large amounts of data are collected through censuses, surveys, polls, religious communities, scholars, and a host of other sources. These data are collated and analyzed by research centers and scholars around the world. Large amounts of data appear in analyzed form in the World Religion Database (Brill), aiming at a researcher’s audience. The Yearbook presents data in sets of tables and scholarly articles spanning social science, demography, history, and geography. Each issue offers findings, sources, methods, and implications surrounding international religious demography. Each year an assessment is made of new data made available since the previous issue of the yearbook. The 2017 volume features a wide range of subjects, including religious demography in Botswana, Protestantism in Guatemala, life satisfaction in Japan, fertility rates in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and the movement of Muslims from the Middle East to Europe. Contributors are: Todd M. Johnson, Gina Zurlo, Peter Crossing, Muhammad Haron, Rachel M. McCleary, Robert J. Barro, Kimiko Tanaka, Jeong-Hwa Ho, Nan E. Johnson, Antonius Liedhegener, Anastas Odermatt, Michaela Potančoková, Marcin Stonawski, Anna Krysińska, Anaïs Simard-Gendron, Simona Bignami, Robert Dixon, Juan Carlos Esparza Ochoa, and Maria Concepción Servín Nieto.Trade Review"The credentials of this volume’s editors and authors are impeccable and the tabulated statistics are comprehensive and detailed (...) This is an excellent and exhaustive survey and a worthy reference book for a generation of scholars and religionists in general." - Anthony J. Gittins, in: Missiology: An International Review Volume 47.1 (2019)Table of ContentsContents Preface to the annual series List of illustrations Editors and contributors Introduction Part I - Religious demographic data Chapter 1: The world by religion Todd M. Johnson, Gina A. Zurlo, and Peter F. Crossing Chapter 2: Religions by continent Todd M. Johnson, Gina A. Zurlo, and Peter F. Crossing Part II - Case studies and methodology Chapter 3: Botswana’s Religious Demographics: A Comparative Insight into its BC 2001 and BC 2011 Censuses Muhammad Haron Chapter 4: Measuring the Presence of Protestants in Guatemala, 1882–2010 Rachel M. McCleary and Robert J. Barro Chapter 5: Linking Religiosity to Life Satisfaction in Japan and the United States Kimiko Tanaka, Jeong-Hwa Ho, and Nan E. Johnson Chapter 6: Religious Affiliation and Religious Plurality in Europe: Introducing a New Approach of Estimating Country Data Based on Metadatabase-Comparison Antonius Liedhegener and Anastas Odermatt Chapter 7: How Many More Muslims? The Effect of Increased Numbers of Asylum Seekers on the Size of Muslim Populations in European Countries Michaela Potančoková, Marcin Stonawski, Anna Krysińska Chapter 8: God or the State? The Role of Religiosity and Nationalism to Explain Fertility Differentials in Israel and the Jewish Settlements of the West Bank and Gaza Strip Anaïs Simard-Gendron and Simona Bignami Chapter 9: The Demography of Australia’s Catholics: Method and Application Robert Dixon Part III - Data sources Chapter 10: Data Sources Juan Carlos Esparza Ochoa and María Concepción Servín Nieto Appendices Glossary World religions by country Index

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

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Book SynopsisYouth, Religion, and Identity in a Globalizing Context: International Perspectives investigates the ways that young people navigate the intersections of religion and identity. As part of the Youth in a Globalizing World series, this book provides a broad discussion on the various social, cultural, and political forces affecting youth and their identities from an international comparative perspective. Contributors to this volume situate the experiences of young people in Canada, the United States, Germany, and Australia within a globalized context. This volume explores the different experiences of youth, the impact of community and processes of recognition, and the reality of ambivalence as agency. Youth, Religion, and Identity in a Globalizing Context: International Perspectives is now available in paperback for individual customers.

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Book SynopsisIn 2006 against the background of the increasing problematization of Muslims and Islam in German public debate, the German government established the German Islam Conference. In a post 9/11 world, this was a time period shaped by the global war on terror, changes in the German naturalization law, the proliferation of racism targeting Muslims, and the expansion of security apparatuses. In Governing Muslims and Islam in Contemporary Germany Luis Manuel Hernández Aguilar critically analyzes the institutionalization of the Conference and the different projects this institution has set in motion to govern Islam and Muslims against the looming presence of racial representations of Muslims. The analysis begins with the foundation of the Conference until the end of its second phase in 2014.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures List of Abbreviations Introduction  Race, Religion, and the State  The German Islam Conference Part 1: Figuring the Past—on the Muslim Question Introduction to Part 1 1 Who are these Muslims? About the Past and the New Orient  1.1 About the New Orient  1.2 Canvassing Muslim Life in Germany  1.3 Can Anyone Wave a German Flag? Youth, Race, Gender, and Nationalism 2 Becoming a Problem  2.1 Problematic Ontologies  2.2 The Narration of a Problem  2.3 Gender Justice in the Swimming Pool Part 2: Reconfiguring the Present—Integration as the Answer Introduction to Part 2 3 Integration  3.1 Integration as Assimilation  3.2 Structural and Cognitive Integration  3.3 Emotional Integration  3.4 Social Integration or How to Re-socialize Muslims 4 Integration, Security, and Prevention  4.1 Defending German Society  4.2 Trust and Transparency  4.3 Responsibility and Togetherness  4.4 Suffering Incorporation 5 The Glossary of the Conflictive Present  5.1 The Social Polarization of Germany  5.2 A Polarized Society: “Muslim anti-Semitism”, “Islamism”, and “Hostility against Muslims” Part 3: Projecting Germanness into the Future—Tolerance and Imams Introduction to Part 3 6 The Tolerant Future  6.1 The Tolerant Germans  6.2 Ten Muslims teaching tolerance to the Muslim community 7 Secular Imams and Secular Muslims for a Secular Future  7.1 The Muslim Subjects of the Future  7.2 Imams  7.3 Secular Muslims Epilogue: The Time of Race, Racial Times Bibliography

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Book SynopsisIn Exploring the Multitude of Muslims in Europe a number of friends and colleagues of Jørgen S. Nielsen have joined together to celebrate his life and work by reflecting his more than forty years of scholarly contributions to the study of Islam and Muslims in Europe. The fourteen articles move through conceptualisations, productions and explorations of the multitudes of Muslims in Europe, and the authors draw on Jørgen S. Nielsen’s own work on the history and challenges of the Muslim community in Europe, critical thinking, ethnicities and theologies of Muslims in Europe, Muslim minorities, Muslim-Christian relations, and on Islamic legal challenges in Europe. Contributors are: Samim Akgönül, Ahmet Alibašić, Naveed Baig, Safet Bektovic, Mohammed Hashas, Thomas Hoffmann, Hans Raun Iversen, Göran Larsson, Werner Menski, Egdūnas Račius, Lissi Rasmussen, Mathias Rohe, Emil B. H. Saggau, Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen, Thijl Sunier, and Niels Valdemar Vinding.Trade Review“This collection of articles is a fitting tribute to a scholar who has set the standard and ‘defined the field’ of research on Muslim communities in Europe. For those who have studied under, worked with, or benefited from, Jørgen S. Nielsen’s personal commitment to and academic pursuits of accurate descriptions and understandings of the various Muslim communities in Europe, this volume will not disappoint. It demonstrates how indebted many of us are to the work of Jørgen S. Nielsen.” David D. Grafton, Hartford Seminary, The Duncan Black Macdonald Center for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations “Jørgen S. Nielsen is rightfully acknowledged as a pioneer of the Muslims in Europe research, continuously authoring prolific texts. Whilst celebrating Nielsen’s research legacy, this collection of articles from some of the leading scholars in the field also contributes with vital and intriguing perspectives on Muslims in Europe.” Jonas Otterbeck, professor of Islamic Studies, Lund UniversityTable of ContentsPublisher’s Preface Editors’ Introduction List of Contributors Bibliography of Jørgen S. Nielsen Part 1: Conceptualizing Islam and Muslims 1 Between Islam as a Generic Category and Muslim Exceptionalism  Thijl Sunier 2 European Muslims as Skilled Kite Flyers  Werner Menski 3 Does European Islam Think?  Mohammed Hashas 4 Churchification of Islam in Europe  Niels Valdemar Vinding 5 “Perpetual First Generation”: Religiosity and Territoriality in Belonging Strategies of Turks of France  Samim Akgönül Part 2: Producing Islam and Muslims in Europe 6 Alternative Dispute Resolution among Muslims in Germany and the Debate on "Parallel Justice"  Mathias Rohe 7 Islamic Law in Lithuania? Its Institutionalisation, Limits and Prospects for Application  Egdūnas Račius 8 The King, the Boy, the Monk and the Magician: Jihadi Ideological Entrepreneurship between the UK and Denmark  Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen 9 ”Allah is Ignorance”: An Essay on the Poetic Praxis of Yahya Hassan and the Critique of Liberal Islam  Thomas Hoffmann Part 3: Multitudes of Muslims in Europe 10 Human First – To be Witnesses to Each Other’s Life: Twenty-one Years of Struggle for Equal Human Dignity  Naveed Baig, Lissi Rasmussen and Hans Raun Iversen 11 Muslims Accused of Apostasy: An Ahmadi Refutation  Göran Larsson 12 Marginalised Islam: Christianity’s Role in the Sufi Order of Bektashism  Emil B.H. Saggau 13 Islamic Literature in Bosnian Language 1990–2012: Production and Dissemination of Islamic Knowledge at the Periphery  Ahmet Alibašić 14 European Islam in the Light of the Bosnian Experience  Safet Bektovic Index

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Book SynopsisThis Festschrift for Reinhard Schulze focusses on a life-long concern of his, namely the relationship between Islam and modernity. The contributors reflect upon the academic study of Islam, Islamic cultures of knowledge, media and literature, and current societal processes. Diese Festschrift für Reinhard Schulze widmet sich einem Lebensthema des Jubilars, nämlich der Beziehung von Islam und Moderne. Die Beiträge reflektieren akademische Forschung zu Islam, islamische Wissenskulturen, Medien und Literatur, sowie gegenwärtige Prozesse in nahöstlichen Gesellschaften.Table of ContentsDanksagung Liste der Tabellen und Abbildungen Bildnachweis Liste der Beitragenden Tabula gratulatoria Einleitung  Florian Zemmin, Johannes Stephan und Monica Corrado Islam(wissenschaft), Religion und der Eigensinn der Moderne 1 Implausibility and Probability in Studies of Paleo-Qurʾanic Genesis  Aziz Al-Azmeh 2 Carl Heinrich Beckers „Lehnswesen“-Aufsatz von 1914 und seine Wirkung  Jürgen Paul 3 Genealogien des Religionsbegriffes und die Grenzen der Religionsfreiheit in Europa  Frank Peter 4 Nur wer β sagt, kann auch α sagen: Zu Reinhard Schulzes Ansatz der ‚retrospektiven Genealogie‘  Volkhard Krech 5 Islam, Buddhismus und die Frage nach dem „Kanon der Religionswissenschaft“  Karénina Kollmar-Paulenz 6 Islamische Gewalt im Lichte des Thomas-Theorems  Hans G. Kippenberg 7 Wider die islamische Exzeptionalität: Zur (Inter-)Disziplinarität der Islamwissenschaft am Beispiel des Salafismus  Florian Zemmin Islamische Wissenskulturen und Normativität 8 Die Ordnung der Gesellschaft: soziale Kategorisierungen in osmanischen politischen Texten des frühen 18. Jahrhunderts  Felix Konrad 9 Rethinking Authority: Trends in Eighteenth-Century Hadith Studies  Ahmad Dallal 10 The Islamic Eighteenth Century: A View from the Edge  Albrecht Hofheinz 11 Lokale Moderne: Ḥasan al-Bannā und die Idee eines „zeitgemäßen Islam“  Gudrun Krämer 12 Civility and Charisma in the Long-Term Genesis of Political Modernity within the Islamic Ecumene  Armando Salvatore Sprache und Literatur als Medien der Moderne 13 Von der „Bauernsprache“ zur „Ursprache“: Die Entstehung der türkischen Nationalsprache  Hüseyin Ağuiçenoğlu 14 Literarische Salons im Indien des 18. Jahrhunderts: Ein Beitrag zur Moderne im Islam?  Jamal Malik 15 Eine Maqama als romantisches Experiment: Šihāb ad-Dīn al-Ālūsī (1802–1854) und „Das Gurren der Turteltaube im Viertel der Qamariyya-Schule“  Stefan Reichmuth 16 Zwei „Königinnen des Mittelmeers“ im Vergleich: Triestliteratur und die Literatur Alexandrias  Susanne Enderwitz 17 Erzählweisen und gesellschaftlicher Wandel: Bemerkungen zu al-Qunfuḏ von Zakaria Tamer  Peter Dové 18 Die Grenzen des adab: Versuch über eine literaturhistorische Hermeneutik  Johannes Stephan Islam(wissenschaft) in der Öffentlichkeit und die Rolle der Medien 19 Cairo After the Event: Fiction and Everyday Life  Mona Abaza 20 Fördert arabische Populärkultur die Individualisierung? Anschlussdiskurse der Fernsehnutzung bei jungen Ägyptern  Anne Grüne und Kai Hafez 21 The Role of Social Media in Democratisation Processes: An Iranian Case Study  Katajun Amirpur 22 A Losing Battle? “Islamwissenschaft” in Times of Neoliberalism, IS, PEGIDA … and Trump  Stephan Guth 23 Der Rechtsnationalismus als Spiegelbild des Islamismus: Ein journalistischer Essay  Yves Wegelin 24 „Ich will nicht zu kritisch mit meinem eigenen Fach sein“: Reinhard Schulze im Gespräch mit Anna Trechsel Die Wissenschaftlerpersönlichkeit Reinhard Schulze 25 Forschungsdesigner – Wissenschaftsmanager – Hochschulpolitiker  Anke von Kügelgen 26 Struggling with Schulze  Michael Kemper 27 Schriftenverzeichnis Reinhard Schulzes Personen-, Orts- und Sachindex / Index of persons, places, and subjects

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

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Book SynopsisThe Western Sephardic communities came into being as a result of confessional migration. However, in contrast to the other European confessional communities, the Sephardic Jews in Western Europe came to Judaism after a separation of generations from the religion of their ancestors. The contributions in this volume detail those transformations in the Early Modern Western Sephardic communities.

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Book SynopsisThe chapters of Religion, Gender, and Family Violence: When Prayers Are Not Enough have been written from multiple disciplinary perspectives (sociology, religious studies, law) and based on research within diverse religious traditions including Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, as well as new religious movements. Similarities and differences between traditions are highlighted based on empirical research which shows how people actually deal with family violence in different contexts. This book also addresses some of the larger historical and political backgrounds that impact the experiences of family violence amongst ethno-religious minorities. The lives of religious victims and perpetrators of family violence are considered, as well as the responsibilities of religious leaders, congregations and secular professionals in addressing this widespread social problem.Trade Review"Studies of the intersection of family/partner violence and religion remain in short supply. This volume is an important addition to the field. It should be read by clergy and religious leaders who want to learn more about family violence and by anti-violence advocates who want to better serve diverse populations. It should be included in libraries of universities that support research into this critical area." - V. Jacquette Rhoades, University of Indianapolis, Reading Religion, September 2018.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction  Catherine Holtmann Part 1: Issues in the Research on Religion and Family Violence 1 Clergy, Congregations, and the Response to Domestic Violence in Families  Steve McMullin 2 Who Cares? Religious Immigrant Women, Social Networks, and Family Violence  Catherine Holtmann 3 “The Kingdom of Heaven Belongs to Such as These”: Corporal Punishment and the Move Towards Non-Violent Discipline in Christian Parenting  Susan Nunn and Emma Robinson 4 Responding to Unique Lived Realities: The Role of Intersectional Complexities in Shelter Experiences  Jolyne H. Roy Part 2: Religious Perpetrators of Family Violence 5 Portraying the Violence of Men through the Beauty of Stained Glass  Nancy Nason-Clark 6 Aboriginal Men, Violence, and Spirituality: “A big part of who we are is the spiritual part”  Barbara Fisher-Townsend 7 “Guru Pedophiles”, Neo-Polygamists, and Predatory Prophets: Exploring the Sex Scandals and Abuse Allegations concerning “Cults”/nrms, 1993–2017  Susan J. Palmer Part 3: Family Violence, Religion, and Legal Pluralism 8 The Legal Status of Muslim Women in Israel Undergoing the Experience of Divorce : Static or Dynamic?  Pascale Fournier and Victoria Snyers 9 The State, the Household, and Religious Divorce in Lebanon: Women’s Everyday Struggles  Pascale Fournier, Farah Malek-Bakouche, Eve Laoun 10 In the Name of God? ‘Get’ Refusal as Domestic Abuse  Yael Machtinger Conclusion  Nancy Nason-Clark

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Book SynopsisListen to the podcast about this book. In Intercultural Friendship: The Case of a Palestinian Bedouin and a Dutch Israeli Jew Daniel J.N. Weishut focuses on the interface between interculturality and friendship in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. After a literature study, the author describes the socio-cultural context of his boundary-crossing friendship in the realm of the Israeli occupation and then investigates it through the perspective of Hofstede’s cultural dimensions. The tremendous cultural differences as they appear are in line with Hofstede's theory for three of the value orientations but in the field of “uncertainty avoidance” they conflict with the theory. Challenges and opportunities in the friendship, and their implications for personal growth, among others, are illustrated by a series of intriguing stories of friendship.Trade Review"This book is a highly interesting case study of a friendship between a Palestinian Bedouin and an Israeli of Dutch origin, with autoethnography as the main methodology. This original text tells a fascinating story that contains important insights and lessons about intercultural friendship. It contributes to the application of theories of cultural dimensions and comparative study of values and to the use of such theories in qualitative research. This book will be of high relevance to social psychologists working on values, friendship and intercultural psychology; to anthropologists and to educationalists. Some parts of it can also be of interest to scholars of Israeli society and the Middle East and to scholars of conflict and peace studies." — Chen Bram, Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem and Hadassah Academic College, Jerusalem "In a world riven with strife and subject to instantaneous cross-cultural communication, how does one make peace? How does one get to ‘know’ the other? In this book, Daniel Weishut, a trained psychotherapist, a researcher with a doctorate in cultural psychology, a human rights activist, and a Dutchman who has chosen to live and serve in Israel, shares with the reader his path in getting to know another, Ahmad, a Bedouin Muslim sheikh and a Palestinian who lives on the other side of the separation wall that divides between Israelis and Palestinians. [...] As Weishut, whom I have known for many years and whose work and family I have followed for a long time, writes on p. 1, ‘The fact that someone can perceive the world in such a different way than I used to do was for me an eye-opener, even though I was trained as a psychologist’. This is true for the reader, too." — David R. Blumenthal, Emory UniversityTable of Contents Acknowledgments  List of Illustrations  Prologue Part 1: Autoethnography of an Intercultural Friendship  Introduction to Part 1 1 Writing about Oneself  1 Relevance and Intent  2 The Two Friends   2.1 Ahmad   2.2 Daniel   2.3 Our Friendship  3 A Case Study   3.1 Narrative Research   3.2 Friendship Research   3.3 Case Selection  4 Studying Stories   4.1 Observations as Data   4.2 Methodological Concerns   4.3 Cultural Relativism 2 When Cultures Meet  1 Identity and Value Orientations   1.1 Culture and Social Identity   1.2 Value Orientations  2 The Intercultural Encounter   2.1 Intercultural Communication   2.2 Intercultural Conflict  3 Honor and Aggression   3.1 Face and Honor   3.2 Aggression 3 The Worlds We Live In  1 My World   1.1 The Dutch   1.2 The Israelis  2 His World   2.1 The Palestinian Arabs   2.2 The Bedouins  3 Dealing with Conflict   3.1 The Israeli–Palestinian Conflict   3.2 Bedouins, Law, and Conflict   3.3 The “sulha” 4 All about Friendship  1 Patterns of Friendship   1.1 Characteristics   1.2 Gender and Culture  2 Intercultural Friendship   2.1 Commonalities   2.2 Opportunities for Interaction  3 Friendship in the Realm of Conflict   3.1 Jewish–Arab Dialogue   3.2 The Israeli Occupation Part 2: Four Cultural Dimensions Introduction to Part 2 5 Individualism versus Collectivism  1 Perceptions of Friendship   1.1 Privacy and Togetherness   1.2 Who Is a Friend?  2 Getting Acquainted   2.1 Names   2.2 Greeting Behavior  3 Meals and Celebrations   3.1 Meals   3.2 Celebrations  4 Work Attitudes   4.1 Labor and Leisure   4.2 Child Labor  5 Friendship and Politics   5.1 The Wrong Side of Society   5.2 Social Support  6 Conclusion: Individualism versus Collectivism 6 Uncertainty Avoidance  1 Language and Communication   1.1 Verbal and Non-verbal Communication   1.2 A Foreign Language  2 Mine and Yours   2.1 Finances and Favors   2.2 Possessions  3 Time and Space   3.1 Flexibility of Time   3.2 Flexibility of Space  4 Planning   4.1 Making a Plan   4.2 Reaching Agreement  5 Taking Risks   5.1 Physical and Other Risks   5.2 Giving Trust  6 Conclusion: Uncertainty Avoidance 7 Masculinity and Femininity  1 Women and Men   1.1 Gender Roles   1.2 Segregation  2 Being a Man   2.1 Emotional Expression   2.2 Physical Appearance  3 Survival of the Fittest   3.1 Strength   3.2 Violence  4 Conclusion: Masculinity and Femininity 8 Power Distance  1 Honor and Dignity   1.1 Honor and the Family   1.2 Dignity and Respect  2 Authority   2.1 Rules and Leadership   2.2 The Oldest Son  3 The Occupation   3.1 Wealth and Poverty   3.2 Freedom  4 Conclusion: Power Distance 9 Challenges and Opportunities  1 Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions   1.1 The Use of Hofstede’s Theory   1.2 Four Dimensions  2 Studying My Friendship with Ahmad   2.1 Studying Our Friendship   2.2 Representativeness  3 Personal Growth   3.1 Transformative Learning   3.2 Value Change  4 Implications and Recommendations   4.1 Cultural Psychology   4.2 Multicultural Personality   4.3 Prejudice and Social Injustice  Epilogue  Bibliography  Index

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Book SynopsisThe Yearbook of International Religious Demography presents an annual snapshot of the state of religious statistics around the world. Every year large amounts of data are collected through censuses, surveys, polls, religious communities, scholars, and a host of other sources. These data are collated and analyzed by research centers and scholars around the world. Large amounts of data appear in analyzed form in the World Religion Database (Brill), aiming at a researcher’s audience. The Yearbook presents data in sets of tables and scholarly articles spanning social science, demography, history, and geography. Each issue offers findings, sources, methods, and implications surrounding international religious demography. Each year an assessment is made of new data made available since the previous issue of the yearbook. The 2018 volume features a wide range of subjects, including approaches to measuring religious violence, religious changes in the Indian Subcontinent, religious demography in Lebanon, Baptism and Godparenthood in Catholic Europe, the relevance of social media data for religious demographic research, and the methodological and practical challenges of measuring religiosity in Turkey. Contributors are: Todd M. Johnson, Gina Zurlo, Peter Crossing, Robert Brathwaite, J. K. Bajaj, M. D. Srinivas, Wissam Raji, Yves Rahme, Marc Zeinoun, Charbel Zeidan, Guido Alfani, Joey Marshall, Zubeyir Nisanci, Juan Carlos Esparza Ochoa, María Concepción Servín Nieto.

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Book SynopsisCatholicism is generally over-institutionalized and over-centralized in comparison to other religions. However, it finds itself in an increasingly interrelated and globalized world and is therefore immersed in a great plurality of social realities. The Changing Faces of Catholicism assembles an international cast of contributors to explore the consequent decline of powerful Catholic organisations as well as to address the responses and resistance efforts that specific countries have taken to counteract the secularization crisis in both Europe and the Americas. It reveals some of the strategies of the Catholic Church as a whole, and of the Vatican centre in particular, to address problems of the global era through the dissemination of spiritually progressive writing, World Youth Days, and the transformation of Catholic education to become a forum for intercultural and interreligious dialogue. The volume also reflects on the adaptation of Catholic institutions and missions as sponsored by religious communities and monastic orders.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Introduction to The Changing Faces of Catholicism  Solange Lefebvre and Alfonso Pérez-Agote Part 1: Catholicism in Both Catholic and Pluralistic Societies 1 Religion and National Identity in Catholic Societies: The Quarrel between Religion and Culture  Jean-François Laniel 2 Popular Religiosity and Value Changes in Mexico City Youth  Jesús Antonio Serrano Sánchez, Ramiro Gómez-Arzápalo and Alejandro Gabriel Emiliano Flores 3 From a Place of Popular Religiosity to a Transnational Space of Multiple Meanings and Religious Interactions  Helena Vilaça 4 Cultural Catholics in the United States  Tricia C. Bruce Part 2: Strategies within Specific Countries to Counteract the Secularization Crisis 5 Occupying the Margins of Society: Operationalizing Minority Identity Politics among Youth within the Catholic New Evangelization  Paul L. Gareau 6 Catholic Reconquest: The Case of the Sainte Blandine Megachurch in Lyon  Valérie Aubourg 7 The Catholic Charismatic Renewal (ccr) in the Americas  Andrea Althoff and Jakob Egeris Thorsen 8 Religious Practices, Beliefs and Commitments on the Margins of the Catholic Church in Belgium  Karel Dobbelaere and Liliane Voyé Part 3: Strategies and General Attitudes of the Catholic Church, and of the Vatican Centre in Particular,in Relation to Problems of the Global Era 9 Catholicism and Eastern Religions: Spiritual Innovators and Interreligious Dialogue (de Mello and Merton)  Andrew P. Lynch 10 Religion in a Globalized Culture: Institutional Innovation and Continuity of Catholicism—The Case of World Youth Day  Sławomir Mandes and Wojciech Sadłoń 11 The Joy of Dialogue in an Intercultural World: Educational Implications from Evangelii Gaudium  Graham P. McDonough Part 4: Changes in Specific Catholic Institutions 12 Navigating the Fault Lines of Catholic Institutional Identity  Kevin Ahern 13 The Economy of Stability in Catholic Monasteries in the Czech Republic and Austria  Barbora Spalová and Isabelle Jonveaux Index

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Book SynopsisFrom Catalonia to the Caribbean: The Sephardic Orbit from Medieval to Modern Times is a polyphonic collection of essays in honor of Jane S. Gerber’s contributions as a leading scholar and teacher. Each chapter presents new or underappreciated source materials or questions familiar historical models to expand our understanding of Sephardic cultural, intellectual, and social history. The subjects of this volume are men and women, rich and poor, connected to various Sephardic Diasporas—Spanish, Portuguese, North African, or Middle Eastern—from medieval to modern times. They each, in their own way, challenged the expectations of their societies and helped to define the religious, ethnic, and intellectual experience of Sephardim as well as surrounding cultures throughout the world.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Jane S. Gerber: An Appreciation  Brian M. Smollett> Introduction: From Catalonia to the Caribbean  Federica Francesconi and Stanley Mirvis> Part 1: The Medieval Mediterranean 1 In the Beginning Was the Poem: Hebrew Prefatory Verse in Golden Age al-Andalus  Maud Kozodoy> 2 Some Customs of Jews in Medieval Spain  Norman Roth> 3 Textiles Travel: The Role of Sephardim in the Transmission of Textile Forms and Designs  Vivian B. Mann> 4 The Jews of Medieval Spain: Community, Marginality and the Notion of a Mediterranean Society  Jonathan Ray> Part 2: Women of the Genizah 5 Independent Jewish Women in Medieval Egypt: Enterprise and Ambiguity  Judith R. Baskin> 6 A Look at Medieval Egyptian Jewry and Environs: Challenges and Coping Mechanisms as Reflected in the Cairo Genizah Documents  Renée Levine Melammed> Part 3: Italy and Western Europe 7 The Sephardic Jewish Merchants of Venice, Port Jews, and the Road to Modernity  Benjamin Ravid> 8 The Merchants at the Casino: Sephardic Elites and Leisure Time in Eighteenth-Century Livorno  Francesca Bregoli> 9 LaJébéra et Les Confréries de la Nation Juive Portugaise de Bayonne au XVIIIe Siècle  Gérard Nahon ל״ז> Part 4: Jews under Islam 10 Jews in the Central Islamic Lands in the Eleventh Century  D.G. Tor> 11 Syrian-Jewish Emigration to Egypt  Yaron Harel> 12 How Jews Became “Moroccan”  Daniel J. Schroeter> Part 5: The Modern Experience 13 The Trial of Joshua Montefiore and the Limits of Atlantic Jewish Inclusion  Stanley Mirvis> 14 The Absorption of Outsiders: Gibraltarian and North Africans in London’s Portuguese Jewish Community  Aviva Ben-Ur> 15 From Childhood to Old Age in Twenty-Four Years: The Ecole Maïmonide in Algiers, 1940–1964  Jessica Hammerman> 16 Millàs Vallicrosa in Jerusalem (1937–1938)  Thomas F. Glick> Part 6: Documents: Unknown Sephardic Voices 17 “And if I Could, I Would Leave Her More”: Women’s Voices, Emotions, and Objects from the Venetian Ghetto in the Seventeenth Century  Federica Francesconi> 18 Jews and Muslims in Egypt at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century: Two Responsa of Ḥakham Ḥayim Capusi  Matt Goldish> 19 A Report by Franz von Dombay in 1789 on the Moroccan Court Mentioning Jewish Courtiers  Norman (Noam) A. Stillman> The Writings of Jane S. Gerber Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume showcases a variety of innovative approaches to the study of Muslim societies and cultures, inspired by and honouring Gudrun Krämer and her role in transforming the landscape of Islamic Studies. With contributions from scholars from around the world, the articles cover an extraordinarily wide geographical scope across a broad timeline, with transdisciplinary perspectives and a historically informed focus on contemporary phenomena. The wide-ranging subjects covered include among others a “men in headscarves” campaign in Iran, an Islamic call-in radio programme in Mombassa, a refugee-related court case in Germany, the Arab revolutions and aftermath from various theoretical perspectives, Ottoman family photos, Qurʾān translation in South Asia, and words that can’t be read.Table of ContentsPreface of the Editors Dale F. Eickelman: The Underneath of Academic Life: Gudrun Krämer and Islamic Studies Today 1) Islamic Studies Inside Out Alexander Knysh: Between Europe and Asia: Arabic and Islamic Studies in Imperial Russia Reinhard Schulze: Kairo 1869 – Eine historische Collage 2) Empires, Corporations, and Nations Ahmed Ibrahim Abushouk: Muḥammad Rashīd Riḍā’s Reformist Project to Establish a True Caliphate: Prospects and Challenges Johann Büssow and Astrid Meier: Ottoman Corporatism, Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries: Beyond the State-Society Paradigm in Middle Eastern History Elke Hartmann: Family Portraits: Visual Sources for a Social History of the Late Ottoman Empire M. Sait Özervalı: The Position of Philosophy in the Late Ottoman Educational Reforms 3) Islam, Ethics, and Languages Mutaz al Khatib: The Emerging Field of Ethics in the Context of Modern Egypt Abdou Filali-Ansary: Pratique religieuse et comportement moral Abdulkader Tayob: Religion as Discourse: Conversion and Commitment to Jihād in South Africa 4) Media Perspectives and Material Approaches Alina Kokoschka: Reading between the Lines: Arabic Script, Islamic Calligraphy, and the Question of Legibility Muhammad Qasim Zaman: Shāh Walī Allāh of Delhi, his Successors, and the Qurʾān Bettina Gräf: From the Pocket Book to Facebook: Maktabat Wahba, Publishing, and Political Ideas in Cairo since the 1940s Kai Kresse: Dimensions of “Giving Voice”: Discursive Agency and Intellectual Practice on Swahili Islamic Radio, in Mombasa 2005-2006 5) The Politics of Body and Gender Birgit Krawietz: On Coming to Grips with Turkish Oil Wrestling: Conceptualising Muscular Islam and Islamic Martial Arts Katajun Amirpur: #ItsMensTurn: Of Hashtags and Shīʿī Discourses in Iran Bettina Dennerlein: Contested Genderscapes: Islamic Languages of Women’s Rights in the Arab Region 6) Dominant Minorities and Dominant Majorities Hamit Bozarslan: Domination, Resilience, and Power: Religious Minorities in the Imperial and Post-Imperial Middle East Dorothea Schulz: Carving Out a Space for Equal Political Citizenship? Muslim Politics of Remembrance in Uganda 7) Arab Revolutions and Their Impact on Research about the Middle East Muriel Asseburg: Understanding Transformation, Elite Change, and New Social Mobilisation in the Arab World: An Actor-Centred and Policy-Oriented Research Project Cilja Harders: Understanding Politics in Egypt “From Below” 8) Muslims Inside Out Schirin Amir-Moazami: Recognition and Its Traps in Liberal Secular Conditions: The Case of Muslims in Europe Ruth Mas: The Refugee and the Dog

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Book SynopsisIn Visions of Sharīʿa Bhojani, De Rooij and Bohlander present the first broad examination of ways in which legal theory (uṣūl al-fiqh) within Twelver Shīʿī thought continues to be a forum for vibrant debates regarding the assumptions, epistemology and hermeneutics of Sharīʿa in contemporary Shīʿī thought. Bringing together authoritative voices and emerging scholars, from both ‘traditional’ seminaries and ‘Western’ academies, the distinct critical insider and emic accounts provided develop a novel avenue in Islamic legal studies. Contextualised through reference to the history of Shīʿī legal theory as well as contemporary juristic practice and socio-political considerations, the volume demonstrates how one of the most intellectually vibrant and developed discourses of Islamic thought continues to be a key forum for exploring visions of Sharīʿa.Table of ContentsPreface Notes on Contributors Visions of Sharīʿa: An Introduction  Ali-Reza Bhojani 1 The Reception of Factuality (taṣwīb) Theories of Ijtihād in Modern Uṣūlī Shīʿī Thought  Seyyed Mostafa Mohaghegh Damad 2 Reassessing the Pivotal Role of Certainty in Modern Shīʿī Uṣūlī Legal Method: A Case for Accepting a Wider Range of Evidence in the Inference of Sharīʿa Precepts  Hashim Bata 3 The Role of the Quran in Legal Reasoning (Ijtihād): A Shīʿī Perspective  Rahim Nobahar 4 From Theory to Practice: The Role of the Subject in the Derivation of Rulings and Its Potential in Creating a System of Case Law for the Operation of Shīʿī Law  Imranali Panjwani 5 Strategic Juristic Omission and the Non-Muslim Blood Price: An Examination of Shīʿī Fiqh and Practice  Haider Ala Hamoudi 6 Towards the Hermeneutics of a Justice-Oriented Reading of Sharīʿa  Ali-Reza Bhojani 7 Maqāṣid al-Sharīʿa Discourse in Contemporary Shīʿī Jurisprudence  Hassan Beloushi Epilogue  Robert Gleave Appendix: al-Sayyid ʿAlī al-Ḥusaynī al-Sīstānī on Uṣūl al-fiqh in Twelver Shīʿī Thought: Its Importance and Historical Phases  Ali-Reza Bhojani Index

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Book SynopsisIn this work, Justyna Nedza presents the first comprehensive analysis of the theologically charged legal practice of takfir in Egyptian and Saudi militant Salafist thought, with a focus on how this practice is employed to justify militant opposition to the state. Justyna Nedza präsentiert hier die erste umfassende Analyse der theologisch aufgeladenen Rechtspraxis des takfīr im militanten Salafismus, insbesondere in Ägypten und Saudi Arabien. Dabei liegt das Hauptaugenmerk darauf, wie takfīr zur Rechtfertigung eines gewaltsamen Vorgehens gegen den Staat eingesetzt wird.Table of ContentsI. EINLEITUNG II. SAIYID IMĀM III. ʿALĪ AL-ḪUḌAIR, NĀṢIR AL-FAHD, AḤMAD AL-ḪĀLIDĪ IV. LEGITIMIERUNG DES TAKFĪR V. REFERENZRAHMEN VI. REVISIONEN VII. ALLGEMEINES FAZIT VIII. BIBLIOGRAPHIE

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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 SynopsisIn Tafsir as Mystical Experience, Todd Lawson shows how the Quran may be engaged with for meaning and understanding, the usual goal of mystical exegesis, and also how it may be engaged with through tafsīr in a quest for spiritual or mystical experience. In this earliest of the Báb’s extended works, written before his public claim to be the return of the hidden Imam, the act of reading is shown to be something akin to holy communion in which the sacred text is both entrance upon and destination of the mystic quest. The Quran here is a door to an “abode of glory” and an abiding spiritual encounter with the divine through the prophet, his daughter Fāṭima and the twelve Imams of Ithna-ʿasharī Shiʿism who inhabit the letters, words, verses and suras of the Book. Cover calligraphy by Burhan Zahrai of Quran 53:11Table of ContentsIntroduction: Entering the House of Glory Chapter One: Walāya: Luminous Love and Intimacy Chapter Two: Tetrads: Architecture of Illumined Intimacy, I Chapter Three: Heptads: Architecture of Illumined Intimacy, II Chapter Four: Tajallī: Divine Glory Manifested Chapter Five: Qāʾim: Glory Embodied Epilogue: A Mysticism of the Covenant Acknowledgements Abbreviations Manuscripts Bibliography of Printed Works Index

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Book SynopsisThis book addresses a lacuna in the study of Jewish and Israeli history - that of journeys taken by Jews in the 20th century towards Israel – which is also a neglected subject in the more general fields of migration and refugee studies. Dr. Gadi BenEzer, a psychologist and anthropologist, eloquently shows how such journeys are life changing events that affect individuals, families, and communities in a variety of ways. Based on narrative research of Jewish people who have undergone journeys on their way to Israel from around the world, the author is able to pose original questions and give initial convincing answers. The powerful personal accounts are followed by a thought-provoking analysis.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Researching Journeys in Migration and Refugee Studies part 1: Journey Stories 1 Building Independence: The Journey of Elisha from Syria 2 From Loss to Belonging: The Journey of Yirmi from Poland 3 Setting Out to the Open Spaces: The Journey of Bracha from Yemen 4 Towards the Place Where the Future Will Begin: The Journey of Yair from Transnistria 5 A Generation Going on the Way: The Journey of Oscar from Iraq 6 From Auschwitz to “Flowers from Israel”: The Journey of Yigal from Germany 7 God Loves Me: The Journey of Rivka from the Ukraine 8 The Journey of the Jewish People: The Journey of Saul from Afghanistan 9 Going to “Paris”: The Journeys of Alyna and Alex from Romania 10 A Journey of Reclaimed Honor: The Journey of Simon from Libya 11 The Partisan’s Journey: The Journey of Frieda from Poland part 2: Migration and Refugee Journeys: the Case of Jewish Migrants/Refugees Journeying to Israel 12 The Journey as a Meaning Category 13 Children on Journeys 14 Identity During the Journey 15 The Encounter with Israel as a Part of the Journey Maps of the Journeys Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume discusses the origin and structure of the universe in mystical Islam (Sufism) with special reference to parallel realms of existence and their interaction. Contributors address Sufi ideas about the fate of human beings in this and future life under three rubrics: (1) cosmogony and eschatology (“where do we come from?” and “where do we go?”); (2) conceptualizations of the world of the here-and-now (“where are we now?”); and (3) visualizations of realms of existence, their hierarchy and mutual relationships (“where are we in relation to other times and places?”). Contributors are Christian Lange, Alexander Knysh, Noah Gardiner, Stephen Hirtenstein, Saeko Yazaki, Jean-Jacques Thibon, Leah Kinberg, Sara Sviri, Munjed M. Murad, Simon O’Meara, Pierre Lory, Mathieu Terrier, Michael Ebstein, Binyamin Abrahamov and Frederick Colby.Table of ContentsContents List of Figures Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction: What Is Sufi Cosmology?  Christian Lange and Alexander Knysh Part 1: Sufi Cosmogony and Eschatology 1 Cosmo-Eschatology in Sufi Thought and Practice  Noah Gardiner 2 Cosmogonic Myths in Sufism  Stephen Hirtenstein 3 Classes of Beings in Sufism  Saeko Yazaki 4 Sufi Views on Time and History  Jean-Jacques Thibon 5 Sufi Views of Life in the Grave  Leah Kinberg 6 Paradise in Sufi Thought  Christian Lange 7 Hell in Sufi Thought  Christian Lange Part 2: Sufi Views of the World 8 Zuhd in Islamic Mysticism  Sara Sviri 9 Sufi Views of Nature  Munjed M. Murad 10 Mecca and Other Cosmological Centres in the Sufi Universe  Simon O’Meara 11 Macrocosm and Microcosm in Sufi Thought  Pierre Lory 12 The Cosmo-Eschatology of Saints and Mahdīs  Noah Gardiner Part 3: Levels of Being in Sufi Thought 13 Sufi Hierarchies of the Worlds or Levels of Existence: Mulk, Malakūt, Jabarūt, and Related Concepts  Mathieu Terrier 14 Emanation (Fayḍ) in Classical Islamic Mysticism  Michael Ebstein 15 Levels of Being in Sufi Thought  Richard Todd 16 Imagination in Islamic Mystical Philosophy: The Eschatological and Ontological Case  Binyamin Abrahamov 17 Otherworldly Journeys in Pre-Modern Sufism  Frederick Colby Index

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Book SynopsisThe present volume offers the first critical edition, accompanied by an English translation, a commentary, and an introductory study, of Liber nativitatum (Book of Nativities) and Liber Abraham Iudei de nativitatibus (Book on Nativities by Abraham the Jew), two astrological treatises in Latin that were written by Abraham Ibn Ezra or attributed to him, and whose Hebrew source-text or archetype has not survived.Table of ContentsPreface Abbreviations General Introduction  The Reception of Abraham Ibn Ezra in the Latin West  Liber nativitatum and Liber Abraham Iudei de Nativitatibus  Earlier Research on Nativitatum  Earlier Research on De nativitatibus  Nativities and Abraham Ibn Ezra’s Work on Nativities  The Thematic Organization of Nativitatum, De Nativitatibus and Moladot  The Introductions to Nativitatum and De nativitatibus  Fixed Stars and Constellations in Nativitatum and De Nativitatibus  Jewish Content in Nativitatum and De nativitatibus  Are Nativitatum and De Nativitatibus Latin Translations of a Hebrew Text by Abraham Ibn Ezra?  Authorship and Date of Composition of Nativitatum; Links between Nativitatum and Ibn Ezra’s Work  Two Latin Translations of Fragments from the Hebrew Source Text of Nativitatum  The Four Versions of De Nativitatibus  The Relationship among the Manuscripts and the Dates of the Four Versions  The Earliest Evidence for the Existence of De Nativitatibus  Did Henry Bate Play a Role in the Composition of De Nativitatibus?  Date of Composition of De Nativitatibus  Transmission of De Nativitatibus  Manuscripts for the Critical Edition of Nativitatum  Witnesses for the Critical Edition of De Nativitatibus  Editorial and Translation Principles Part One: Liber nativitatum. Latin Text and English Translation Part Two: Notes to Liber nativitatum Part Three: Liber Abraham Iudei de Nativitatibus. Latin Text and English Translation Part Four: Notes to Liber Abraham Iudei de Nativitatibus Plates Part Five: Appendices  1 Abraham Ibn Ezra’s Astrological Corpus  2 Indications of the Horoscopic Places in Nativitatum, De Nativitatibus, and Moladot  3 The 14 Horoscopic Diagrams of Nat4  4 Henry Bate’s Translation of Fragments from Moladot II  5 Peter d’Abano’s Translation of a Fragment from Moladot II  6 Additions at the End of Nat2  7 Additions to Nat3 from Peter d’Abano’s Translation of Ibn Ezra’s Moladot  8 Comparison Between Nat1 and Nat4  9 Manuscripts, Print Editions and Translations of De Nativitatibus  10 English-Latin Glossary of Technical Terms in Nativitatum and De Nativitatibus  11 Latin-English Index to the English-Latin Glossaries  12 Authorities and Sources in Nativitatum and De Nativitatibus  13 Literal Renderings in Nativitatum of Hebrew Words/Expressions Employed by Ibn Ezra  14 Additions at the End of Nativitatum  15 Index of Technical Terms and Biographical Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis study deepens our historical understanding of the North-African Jewish and Middle Eastern Jewish experience during WWII, which is often under- or mis-represented by the media in Israel, the Arab world, France, and Italy. Public, historical and sociocultural discourse is examined to clarify whether these communities are accepted by the world as "Holocaust survivors". Further, it determines the extent to which their wartime history is revealed to Israeli society in its cultural performances. Importantly, this work addresses the reasons why the Holocaust of North African Jewry is absent from Israeli and world consciousness. Finally, the study contemplates the consequences of these phenomena for Israeli society as well as in the colonial countries of France and Italy. "In addition to using academic resources, Golan captures this history from the margins by utilizing audio-visual and artistic media in addition to evidence recorded on community heritage websites, Facebook, and other online social networks. Golan’s book demonstrates that there is a moral imperative to preserve and transmit these memories of persecution and discrimination..." -David B Levy, Touro College, NYC, Association of Jewish Libraries News and Reviews 1.2 (2019)Trade Review"Yvonne Kozlovsky Golan’s book, Site of Amnesia, enriches our understanding, expands the possibilities for new research, and provides insight into how this unique aspect of the war was addressed and commemorated in film and television over the years." - Haim Saadoun, The Open University of Israel, in Antisemitism Studies 6.1 (2022)Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements Introduction 1 Origins and Description of Multilateral Development Banks’ Sanctions Regimes  Introduction  1 Origins of Multilateral Development Banks’ Sanctions Regime   A Federal Acquisition Regulation (far)    (i) Causes for Debarment    (ii) Suspension    (iii) Debarment Procedures    (iv) Judicial Review and Due Process Rights   B Evolution of the World Bank Group’s Sanctions System    (i) First Sanctions Regime    (ii) The Thornburgh Report    (iii) Expansion of Sanctions Regime beyond Procurement and Launch of the Voluntary Disclosure Programme    (iv) Early Harmonisation Efforts with Other mdbs  2 Description of Multilateral Development Banks’ Sanctions Regimes   A World Bank Group’s Sanctions Regime    (i) Two-Step Decision-Making Process    (ii) Range of Possible Sanctions    (iii) Settlements   B Inter-American Development Bank’s Sanctions Regime    (i) Early Developments and the Thornburgh Report    (ii) Two-Step Decision-Making Process    (iii) Range of Possible Sanctions    (iv) Settlements   C European Bank for Reconstruction and Development’s Sanctions Regime    (i) Early Developments    (ii) Two-Step Decision-Making Process    (iii) Range of Possible Sanctions    (iv) Settlements   D African Development Bank’s Sanctions Regime    (i) Early Developments    (ii) Two-Step Decision-Making Process    (iii) Range of Possible Sanctions    (iv) Settlements   E Asian Development Bank’s Sanctions Regime    (i) Early Developments    (ii) Two-Step Decision-Making Process    (iii) Range of Possible Sanctions  3 Comparison of Multilateral Development Banks’ Sanctions Regimes and the Cross-Debarment Regime   A Comparison of Multilateral Development Banks’ Sanctions Regimes   B Cross-Debarment Regime  Conclusion 2 Judicial Review Standards  Introduction  1 Judicial Review Standards in the uk   A Bases for Judicial Review   B Required Procedures    (i) Notice    (ii) Right to Make Representations: Written or Oral Proceedings?    (iii) Right to Call and Cross-Examine Witnesses    (iv) Right to Legal Representation    (v) Failure to give Reasons for the Final Decision  2 Judicial Review Standards in the US   A Bases for Judicial Review   B Required Procedures  Conclusion 3 Accountability of International Organisations  Introduction  1 Basis of International Organisations’ Immunities  2 Case Law   A US Courts   B UK Courts   C Italian Courts   D French Courts   E Belgian Courts   F Human Rights Dimension and the echr  Conclusion 4 What Legal Principles Should Form the basis of mdbs’ Sanctions Regimes?  Introduction  1 Customary Law and General Principles  2 Global Administrative Law  3 Article 6(1) of the European Convention on Human Rights   A Civil Rights   B Hearing   C Independent and Impartial Tribunal  4 Public Judgment/Reasoning of Judicial Decisions    (i) Fair Trial  5 Jurisprudence of Multilateral Development Banks’ Administrative Tribunals   A Discovery Rights   B Oral Hearings and Witnesses   C Publication of Decisions   D Composition of Administrative Tribunals    (i) wbat    (ii) UN Appeals Tribunal    (iii) imf Administrative Tribunal  Conclusion 5 Due Process Standards in Multilateral Development Banks’ Sanctions Regimes  Introduction  1 Discovery Rights   A Permissive Approach and Production of Documents   B Experts’ Reports and Assessment of Evidence   C Witnesses and Oral Hearings  2 Publication of Decisions  3 Referral to National Authorities  4 Composition of Sanctions Boards   A Sanctions Board Members’ Independence and Impartiality   B Appointment of Sanctions Board Members  5 Range of Sanctions and their Proportionality to the Wrongdoing  6 Baseline Sanction  7 Restitution  8 Settlements  Conclusion 6 Treatment of Corporate Groups under Multilateral Development Banks’ Sanctions Regimes  Introductionv  1 Overview of the Harmonized Principles on Treatment of Corporate Groups  2 Liability of a Company for its Employees’ Wrongdoings   A US Law   B UK Law   C Application of the Foregoing Principles to mdbs’ Sanctions Procedures  3 Liability of a Parent for its Subsidiaries’ Wrongdoings   A US Law    (i) General Approach    (ii) Criminal Liability, Including fcpa    (iii) Proposals for Reforms of the US System   B UK Law    (i) General Approach    (ii) Criminal Liability, Including UK Bribery Act   C Application of the Foregoing Principles to mdbs’ Sanctions Procedures  4 Liability of a Subsidiary for its Parent’s Wrongdoings   A US and EU Sanctions Regimes   B Application of the Foregoing Principles to mdbs’ Sanctions Procedures  5 Successor Liability   A US Law   B UK Law   C Application of the Foregoing Principles to mdbs’ Sanctions Procedures  Conclusion 7 Conclusion and Way Forward Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisEmphasising an empirical research to contemporary legal pluralist settings in Muslim contexts, the present collected volume contributes to a deepened understanding of legal pluralist issues and realities through comparative examination. This approach reveals some common features, such as the relevance of Islamic law in power struggles and in the construction of (state or national) identities, strategies of coping with coexisting sets of legal norms by the respective agents, or public debates about the risks induced by the recognition of religious institutions in migrant societies. At the same time, the studies contained in this volume reveal that legal pluralist settings often reflect very specific historical and social constellations, which demands caution towards any generalisation.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Introduction  Norbert Oberauer Muslim Legal Practice in the United Kingdom: the Muslim Arbitration Tribunal  Yvonne Prief Unregistered Muslim Marriages in the United Kingdom  Vishal Vora Muslims of Greece: a Legal Paradox and a Political Failure  Konstantinos Tsitselikis Islamic Law as Indigenous Law: Sharı̄ʿa Courts in Israel from a Postcolonial Perspective  Ido Shahar Nation Building, Islamic Law and Unofficial Legal Pluralism: the Cases of Turkey and Pakistan  Ihsan Yilmaz Constitutional Recognition of Islamic Family Law and Sharia Courts in Ethiopia: Governmental Strategies to Co-regulate the Plural Family Law Arena  Katrin Seidel Legal Pluralism in the Southern West Bank: the Impact of Honour as a Factor on Developments towards an Increased Consideration of Rule-of-Law Principles in Clan-based Justice  Ulrike Qubaja Legal Pluralism in Indonesia: the Case of Interfaith Marriages Involving Muslims  Judith Koschorke Contextualising Malaysia’s Islamic Law: a Nuanced Perspective  Karen Meerschaut and Werner de Saeger Index

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Book SynopsisMinority Religions under Irish Law focuses the spotlight specifically on the legal protections afforded in Ireland to minority religions, generally, and to the Muslim community, in particular. Although predominantly focused on the Irish context, the book also boasts contributions from leading international academics, considering questions of broader global importance such as how to create an inclusive environment for minority religions and how to regulate religious tribunals best. Reflecting on issues as diverse as the right to education, marriage recognition, Islamic finance and employment equality, Minority Religions under Irish Law provides a comprehensive and fresh look at the legal space occupied by many rapidly growing minority religions in Ireland, with a special focus on the Muslim community.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors 1 Introduction  Kathryn O’Sullivan Part 1: Accommodating Minority Religions: The International and Irish Context 2 Law, Religion and Religious Minorities: Reflections on International Human Rights Law and Global Trends  M. Christian Green 3 Accommodating Religious Minorities in Ireland: The Constitutional Framework  Eoin Daly Part 2: Islam and Irish Law: Implications for the Muslim Community in Ireland 4 Muslims in Ireland: History, Demographics and Debates  James Carr 5 The Accommodation of Islam in the Irish Workplace, Classroom and Hospital  Claire Hogan 6 Recognition of Muslim Marriage Ceremonies in Ireland: An Analysis  Susan Leahy and Kathryn O’Sullivan 7 Overseas Marriage and Divorce in Islamic Form: A Critical Perspective on the Development of Irish Private International Law  Máire Ní Shúilleabháin 8 A Comparative Review of the Accommodation of Islamic Finance in Irish Law  Edana Richardson Part 3: International Perspectives on Sharia Councils: Regulation and Governance 9 The Legal Framework for Regulating Shariah Councils in the UK: A Potential Model for Ireland?  Amin Al-Astewani 10 The Usefulness of the ‘Parity Governance Model’ in Muslim Family Law Debates  Samia Bano Index

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