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Book SynopsisThus Spake the Dervish explores the unfamiliar history of marginal Sufis, known as dervishes, in early modern and modern Central Asia over a period of 500 years. It draws on various sources (Persian chronicles and treatises, Turkic literature, Russian and French ethnography, the author’s fieldwork) to examine five successive cases, each of which corresponds to a time period, a specific socially marginal space, and a particular use of mystical language. Including an extensive selection of writings by dervishes, this book demonstrates the diversity and tenacity of Central Asian Sufism over a long period. Here translated into a Western language for the first time, the extracts from primary texts by marginal Sufis allow a rare insight into their world. The original French edition of this book, Ainsi parlait le dervice, was published by Editions du Cerf (Paris, France). Translated by Caroline Kraabel.Table of ContentsContents Acknowledgements List of Figures Introduction  1 A Manifesto: The Qalandarnāma, by Amīr Ḥusayn Harawī  2 In Search of the Margins 1 In the Streets of Herat  1 A Presentation of the ʿAlī Shīr Nawāʾī’s Maḥbūb al-qulūb  2 Musicians, Singers, Storytellers  3 Ruffians, Bohemians, Paupers  4 Real and False Dervishes  5 Other Sources: Names and Words 2 Outside the Madrasas of Bukhara  1 About the Ādāb al-ṭarīq, by Ḥājjī ʿAbd al-Raḥīm  2 The Head of the Dervish  3 The Trunk and the Arms  4 The Lower Body  5 From Lexis to Relics 3 In the Ruins of Aksu  1 Kharābātī, a People’s Poet  2 To Peasants, Artisans, Doctors and the Powerful  3 The Call to Renunciation  4 On the Paradox of Language 4 In the Depths of the Grottoes of Central Asia  1 Silences in Khotan  2 Whispers in Tashkent and Samarkand  3 Graffiti in Manguistaou  4 Legends in Fergana and Pamir 5 On the Road with Cantors and Itinerants  1 The maddāḥ in Uzbekistan and Xinjiang  2 Abdāl tili, the Language of Outsiders  3 Argot and Mystical Language Conclusion: Dervishes Yesterday and Today Bibliography Index of Names Index of Places

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Book SynopsisInterreligious Dialogue: From Religion to Geopolitics discusses how interreligious dialogue takes place within, and is influenced by, important sociological categories and theories, such as modernity, secularization, deprivatization, social movements, and pluralism. Starting from the study of interreligious coexistence, sacred spaces, and multi-religious rituals, the book explores the patterns of interreligious governance and politics and forms of interreligious social action in European, North American, and West and South Asian contexts. The contributors to this volume apply broader theories of organizational change and planning, communication, urban neighborhood and community studies, functionalist perspectives, and symbolic interactionism, thus presenting a wide range of possibilities for sociological engagement with studies on interreligious dialogue.Table of ContentsList of Figures, Table and Illustrations Contributors Introduction: Interreligious Dialogue: From Religion to Geopolitics  Giuseppe Giordan and Andrew P. Lynch Part 1: Interreligious Coexistence, Sacred Spaces and Multi-Religious Rituals 1 European Identities, Heritage, and the Iconic Power of Multi-Religious Buildings: Cordoba’s Mosque Cathedral and Berlin’s House of One  Mar Griera, Marian Burchardt and Avi Astor 2 Struggling to Establish Jewish-Muslim Dialogue in a Paris Synagogue after the 2015 Attacks  Samuel Sami Everett 3 The Lingsar Festival on Lombok, Indonesia: Cooperation and Contestation at a Shared Sacred Site  Volker Gottowik 4 Beyond Interreligious Dialogue: Oral-Based Interreligious Engagements in Indonesia  Izak Y.M. Lattu 5 Geopolitics and Interreligious Dialogue: A Phenomenological Turn in Transnational Churches  Tanner Morrison Part 2: Interreligious Governance and Politics 6 Enacting Diversity: Boundary Work and Performative Dynamics in Interreligious Activities  Alexander-Kenneth Nagel 7 Interfaith Dialogue and Peacebuilding: A Case Study on Bosnia-Herzegovina’s Post-conflict Educational System  Giuseppe Giordan, Adriana Michilli and Siniša Zrinščak 8 Municipal Interreligious Dialogue in Bordeaux: Between the “Politics of Diversity” and a Catholicentric Laïcité  Gwendoline Malogne-Fer 9 Minorities and Interreligious Dialogue: From Silent Witnesses to Agents of Change  Emanuela C. Del Re 10 Interreligious and Interfaith Dialogue in Post-Soviet Russia: Debates about Secularism and Post-secularism  Marianna Napolitano Part 3: Interreligious Action and Social Context 11 Commitment without Borders: Jewish-Muslim Relations and the Making of a Cosmopolitan Habitus in Berlin  Elisabeth Becker 12 Conversion Dialogue and Resilient Pluralism  Oleg Dik 13 More than Tea and Samosas: Dialogue for Action in Leicester  Tom Wilson 14 Through One Another’s Lenses: Photovoice and Interfaith Dialogue  Roman R. Williams, William L. Sachs, Catherine Holtmann, Elena G. van Stee, Kaitlyn Eekhoff, Michael Bos and Ammar Amonette 15 Interreligious Education in a Post-secular World: The Relevance of the Radhakrishnan Commission’s Recommendations in the Indian Context  Arpita Mitra 16 The Cube of Love Experience at School: Fostering Peaceful Societies Through a Pedagogy of Dialogue  Marianna Pavan and Alberto García Index

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Book SynopsisMuslim women’s freedom, or assumed lack thereof, has long been a Western obsession. Almost never do we ask, what does agency look like to Muslim women? Who or what do they think constrains them, and how do they challenge that? Focussing on the little-researched area of the Australian Muslim community, this book brings together for the first time diverse accounts from Australian Muslim researchers, leaders, and community workers to interrogate how Muslim women understand, experience, and fight for agency. Academic and activist, personal and political, this ground-breaking book features the people at the centre of the debate. Contributors are Feda Abdo, Amira Aftab, Mahsheed Ansari, Fadi Baghdadi, Susan Carland, Tasneem Chopra, Mehreen Faruqi, Derya Iner, Balawyn Jones, Souha Korbatieh, Ghena Krayem, Mehal Krayem and Ayah Wehbe.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors 1 Introduction  Susan Carland and Ghena Krayem 2 Al-Mu’minah Down Under: The Untold Stories and Legacies of Muslim Women Pioneers in Australia  Mahsheed Ansari 3 Muslim Women’s Agency Through a Feminist Institutionalist Lens  Amira Aftab 4 Western and Australian Women’s Agency to Counter Islamophobia  Derya Iner and Souha Korbatieh 5 Muslim Women’s Agency in Australian Domestic Violence Services  Ghena Krayem and Mehal Krayem 6 The Pathology of Hyper Masculinity and Abuse in Muslim Leadership  Tasneem Chopra 7 The Difficulty of Muslim Women Fighting Sexism: Then and Now  Susan Carland 8 Rejecting the Reductionism of Muslim Women  Fadi Baghdadi 9 ‘Left out’ and ‘Ignored’: Experiences of Australian, Lebanese-Muslim Women with Hearing Loss  Ayah Wehbe 10 Finding a Way Forward: The Revival of Female Islamic Scholarship in Australia  Feda Abdo and Balawyn Jones 11 Politics of Representation: Overcoming the Narrow Perception of Muslim Women  Mehreen Faruqi Index

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Book SynopsisIn The Second Canonization of the Qurʾān, Nasser studies the transmission and reception of the Qurʾānic text and its variant readings through the work of Ibn Mujāhid (d. 324/936), the founder of the system of the Seven Eponymous Readings of the Qurʾān. The overarching project aims to track and study the scrupulous revisions the Qurʾān underwent, in its recited, oral form, through the 1,400-year journey towards a final, static, and systematized text. For the very first time, the book offers a complete and detailed documentation of all the variant readings of the Qurʾān as recorded by Ibn Mujāhid. A comprehensive audio recording accompanies the book, with more than 3,500 audio files of Qurʾānic recitations of variant readings.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Foreword Chapter 1: Preliminaries. The Second Canonization of the Qurʾān Chapter 2: Survival of the fittest 2.1: The Irregular readings of the Canonical Readings 2.2: Sixty-Six Problematic Transmissions in Ibn Mujāhid’s Kitāb al-Sabʿa Chapter 3: Ḥadīth and Qurʾān rijāl criticism Chapter 4: Orality revisited. The Written Transmission of Qirāʾāt 4.1: The Regional Codices 4.2: Early different forms of Qirāʾāt transmission Chapter 5: The Nature of the Qurʾānic variants 5.1: Standardization of Arabic and the Qurʾānic text through the principles of Qurʾānic recitation (uṣūl al-Qirāʾa) 5.2: The individual variants (farsh) of the Qurʾān Conclusion and future research Bibliography

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Book SynopsisThis volume focuses on Muslims in Finland, Greece, Ireland and Portugal. It highlights how Muslim experiences can be understood in relation to country’s particular historical routes, political economies, and post-colonial legacies. It also reveals that country particularities shaping European Muslim experiences cannot be understood independently of global dynamics.Trade ReviewCHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2020 These outstanding works have been selected for their excellence in scholarship and presentation, the significance of their contribution to the field, and their value as an important - often the first - treatment of their subject.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction  José Mapril, Tuomas Martikainen and Adil Hussain Khan Part 1: Governing Islam and Muslims 1 The Founding of the Islamic Council of Finland  Tuomas Martikainen 2 State and Religion in Peripheral Europe: State-Religion Relations, Corporatism and Islam in Portugal and Ireland (1970–2010)  Luís Pais Bernardo 3 The Governance of Islamic Religious Education in Finland: Promoting “General Islam” and the Unity of All Muslims  Tuula Sakaranaho Part 2: Politics of Recognition 4 Concepts of Authority in Irish Islam  Adil Hussain Khan 5 Nation-state, Citizenship and Belonging: A Socio-historical Exploration of the Role of Indigenous Islam in Greece  Venetia Evergeti 6 Perceptions of Mis/Recognition: The Experience of Sunni Muslim Individuals in Dublin, Ireland  Des Delaney Part 3: Public Debates and (In)Visibility 7 Explaining the Absence of a Veil Debate: The Mediating Role of Ethno-nationalism and Public Religion in the Irish Context  Stacey Scriver 8 Muslim Migration Intelligence and Individual Attitudes toward Muslims in Present-day Portugal  Nina Clara Tiesler and Susana Lavado 9 From the Margins to the Fore: Muslim Immigrants in Contemporary Greece  Panos Hatziprokopiou Part 4: Mobilities and Belonging 10 Iraqi Diaspora and Public Space in a Multicultural Suburb in Finland  Marko Juntunen 11 Sudanese and Somali Women in Ireland and in Finland: Material Religion and Culture in the Formation of Migrant Women’s Identities in the Diaspora  Yafa Shanneik and Marja Tiilikainen 12 The Socio-spatial Configuration of Muslims in Lisbon  Jennifer McGarrigle  References  Index

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Book SynopsisIn Reading Islam Fabio Vicini offers a journey within the intimate relations, reading practices, and forms of intellectual engagement that regulate Muslim life in two enclosed religious communities in Istanbul. Combining anthropological observation with textual and genealogical analysis, he illustrates how the modes of thought and social engagement promoted by these two communities are the outcome of complex intellectual entanglements with modern discourses about science, education, the self, and Muslims’ place and responsibility in society. In this way, Reading Islam sheds light on the formation of new generations of faithful and socially active Muslims over the last thirty years and on their impact on the turn of Turkey from an assertive secularist Republic to an Islamic-oriented form of governance.Trade Review‘For the better part of a century, Turkey has been a major center of intellectual, educational, and ethical reform in modern Islam. In this vividly written and theoretically sophisticated book, Fabio Vicini takes readers through a reading of the two most foundational currents in that reform movement, and shows their deep relevance for education, ethics, and civility in the broader Muslim world. This is a must-read book for all students of Islamic affairs.’ Robert W. Hefner, Pardee School of Global Affairs, Boston University ‘Fabio Vicini’s Reading Islam is both methodologically careful and theoretically insightful, reflecting the best qualities of ethnographic writing on the social life of Islam in Turkey. Vicini describes in rich detail the forms of piety and intellectual development encouraged in religious communities active in Turkey. It is certainly refreshing to read an analysis of religious practice that takes seriously the practitioners’ orientation toward transcendence in developing religious knowledge and ethical reasoning.’ Kim Shiveley, Kutztown University ‘This perceptive study of brotherhood, ethics and self-disciplining in religious communities focused on reading Said Nursi’s Risale-i Nur draws attention to aspects of religious tradition hitherto neglected in studies of Turkish Islam. Vicini’s thoughtful analysis engages critically with a large body of contemporary social theory and provides essential new insight into the interiorizing practices of these communities and Islamic piety in general, offering a sympathetic understanding of Muslim life in modern Turkey.’ Martin van Bruinessen, Comparative Study of Contemporary Muslim Societies, Utrecht UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on Transliteration and Turkish Pronunciation Introduction: Reading Islam in Modern Times  1 Reading is Transcending  2 Accommodating Modernity  3 Thinking Islam  4 A Revival of Muslim Civility  5 Fieldwork in Two Concealed Communities  6 Before and after July 15  7 Outline of the Book 1 Outreaches of Religious Service  1 Reading the Risale  2 Reforming Society through Educational Service  3 From Hizmet to Individual Duty  4 Modernity and the Displacement of Islamic Ethics  5 The Islamic Revival, Urban Life and Community 2 Living the Brotherhood  1 Daily Life in the Houses  2 Discipline and Prayer  3 Time and Prayer  4 Living by Example  5 Brotherhood between Pedagogy and Authority  6 Brotherhood between Civility and Corporate Personality  7 Virtues of Mutuality  8 Living Sincerity 3 Reading, Reflection and the Search for Transcendence  1 Appealing to the Imagination  2 Iterative Reading  3 Reading as Cultural Practice  4 Genealogies of Reflection  5 Toward a Sufi Cosmology  6 Reflecting on Death 4 Putting Islam to Work  1 Education, the Nation and the Islamic “Ethos”  2 Accessing Quality Education  3 Modern Times, Docile Methods  4 From Jihad to Reforming Society  5 Life and Tutoring in the Gülen Housings  6 Romanticizing Prophethood  7 Learning by Example  8 Embodying Responsibility 5 Politics of Brotherhood  1 “You’ll Be of Service to This Country”  2 The Nur Self’s Spaces of Will and Freedom  3 The Relativity of the Good: On the Modern Liberal Conception of the Self  4 Being an Aware and Responsible Muslim  5 On Brotherhood and Moral Reasoning Conclusion References Index

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Book SynopsisEssay on Islamization is a study of the Islamization of all Muslim societies and their conversion to orthodox Islam which, with its chapels, soldier monks and holy war, leads to fundamentalism as well as to a moral puritanism. Cherkaoui gauges the importance of this global phenomenon by analyzing the empirical data of some sixty Muslim and non-Muslim societies. He also conducts two ethnographic surveys to identify the metamorphoses of Muslim religious practices and their causes.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction 1 Disenchantment of the World, Depopulation of the Heavens  1 Persistence of Faith in Islam Countries, Progress of Atheism Elsewhere  2 Orientation toward the Human or toward the Divine: Progressive Secularization or Resilience of the Religious  Conclusion 2 Time for the Sacred  1 Rising Religiosity  2 The Time of the Sacred and Education  3 Variations in Rates of Practice by Social Determinants  4 Cultual, Media and Cultural Practices  5 Integration, Regulation and Trust 3 Twilight of the Gods  1 The Disenchantment of the World  2 Works and Days: Islam Paganized and Chthonian Beliefs  3 The Paradox of Consequences of Colonization  4 The Political Instrumentalization of Salafism and the Enchanted World 4 Is a Rational Explanation of Islamization Possible?  1 Exogenous Causes   1.1 Socio-Economic Changes Lead to a Secular Decline in Religiosity   1.2 The Religious Market Would Account for the Practices of Believers and Their Intensity of Belief   1.3 The Separation of Church and State Would Influence Religious Practice   1.4 The Extension of Islam Could Be Explained by the Policy Pursued by Certain States with Virtually Unlimited Financial Means   1.5 The Media Have Influenced Muslim Public Opinion   1.6 The Muslim Is Searching for His Identity, His Belonging and Reference Groups  2 Endogenous Explanations   2.1 The Relative Deprivation of Young People Is the Cause of This Popular Enthusiasm for Islam and for Their Proselytism   2.2 The Perception that Muslims Have of Themselves and Others Is a Reflection of Both the Spread of Islam and Their Zeal   2.3 The Transformations of the Social Morphology of Muslim Countries, the End of Popular Islam and the Growing Domination of Scriptural Islam, Could Be Causes of This Green Tidal Wave   2.4 The Structures of Interaction and Interdependence Explain the Diffusion of Religious Practices 5 Deprivation and Islamization: Socio- Educational Mobility and Its Consequences  1 Social Mobility and Educational Mobility  2 Generative Mechanisms of Mobility  3 Meritocracy or Dominance Structure? 6 The Mechanisms that Produce Islamic Fundamentalism: an Outline for an Interpretation of Its Genesis  1 Elective Affinities between Popular Islam and Social Morphology  2 Transformations of Morphology and the Decline of Popular Islam: the Resurgence of Salafism  3 The Prophecy of the “Proletaroid” Intellectuals as a Response to the Crisis of Society  4 Rational Choice Theory and Altruistic Suicide 7 From Absolute Monotheism to Ethical Puritanism  1 The Ethical Puritanism of Muslims and Moral Tolerance In the West  2 Muslims and the Magic of Modernity  Conclusion 8 Confidence in Institutions: an International Comparison  1 Trust as the Basis for the Legitimacy of the Social Order  2 Time of Suspicion 9 Islam and Democracy: Comparative Analysis of Individual and Collective Preferences  1 Morphologies and Democracies   2 The People’s Choice: Democracy or Authoritarianism  3 Taxonomy of Democracies  4 Distribution of Countries according to the Three Models. Place of the Muslims in the Democratic Trihedron Bibliography Index Nominum

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Book SynopsisFrom the first Arabic grammar printed at Granada in 1505 to the Arabic editions of the Dutch scholar Thomas Erpenius (d.1624), some audacious scholars - supported by powerful patrons and inspired by several of the greatest minds of the Renaissance – introduced, for the first time, the study of Arabic language and letters to centres of learning across Europe. These pioneers formed collections of Arabic manuscripts, met Arabic-speaking visitors, studied and adapted the Islamic grammatical tradition, and printed editions of Arabic texts - most strikingly in the magnificent books published by the Medici Oriental Press at Rome in the 1590s. Robert Jones’ findings in the libraries of Florence, Leiden, Paris and Vienna, and his contribution to the history of grammar, are of enduring importance.Trade Review"There is more in Learning Arabic in Renaissance Europe than there is space here even to hint at. It is a densely argued tour de force..." Robert Irwin, in: Times Literary Supplement, September 18, 2020 “Jones’ work represents a unique technical contribution to the history of Arabic grammar in Europe, to the perception of Arabic language and of its linguistic categories, and to the knowledge of the Orientalist milieu of late Renaissance Europe as a whole.” Sara Fani, Università di Napoli “L’Orientale” in: Eurasian Studies Volume19, Issue 2(2021).Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface List of Illustrations Abbreviations Part 1: Learning Arabic in Renaissance Europe (1505–1624) Introductory Remarks  1 The Difficulties  2 The Achievement  3 Dramatis Personae  4 Middle Ages to Renaissance: Continuity  5 Middle Ages to Renaissance: Discontinuity  6 Spain 1 The Books  1 Manuscript Acquisition  2 Arabists Abroad  3 Agents  4 Eastern Christians in Europe  5 The Spoils of War  6 Vienna  7 Tunis  8 Lepanto  9 Hungary  10 Piracy  11 The Value of Plunder to Arabic Studies 2 The Teachers  1 Captives and Converts  2 Leo Africanus  3 Paul Willich  4 Darwīsh Ibrāhīm  5 Neophytes at Rome  6 François de Boulogne  7 Juan Andrés  8 ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Muḥammad  9 Aḥmad ibn Qāsim al-Ḥajarī  10 Ḥusayn of Buda 3 The Rules  1 Preamble  2 Pedro de Alcalá  3 Leo Africanus to Nicolaus Clenardus  4 Guillaume Postel and Teseo Ambrogio  5 Mid-Century Polyglot Handbooks  6 Jakob Christmann and Ruthger Spey  7 The Medicean Grammars  8 The Medicean Grammars in Europe  9 Joseph Justus Scaliger and Franciscus Raphelengius  10 Thomas Erpenius  11 1620–1624 Supplement Part 2 The Arabic and Persian Studies of Giovanni Battista Raimondi (c. 1536–1614) 4  The Alphabetum Arabicum  1 Introduction  Figura  2 Arabic Script in the Alphabetum arabicum  3 Arabic Script in other Renaissance Arabic Grammars  Potestas  4 Arabic Vocalization. Imāla  5 Vocalization in the Alphabetum arabicum  6 Arabic Consonants in the Alphabetum arabicum  7 Arabic Consonants in other Renaissance Arabic Grammars  8 Conclusion 5 The Grammars of 1592  1 The Ājurrūmiyya within the Islamic Grammatical Tradition  2 The Ājurrūmiyya within the European Grammatical Tradition  3 The Rome Edition of 1592  4 The Kāfiya  5 Conclusion 6 The Liber Tasriphi  1 Introduction  2 Arabic Terms Preserved  3 Translations ad verbum and ad sensum  4 Postel and the Morphology of the Verb  5 Conclusion 7 Arabic Grammar Translated in Manuscript  1 A Note on the Derived Forms of the Verb  2 Kitāb Miʾat ʿāmil 8 Grammars of Persian Translated in Manuscript  1 Introduction  2 Qawānīn al-furs  3 Other Grammars of Persian Concluding Remarks Appendix 1: The Identification of a copy of Bartholomaeus Radtmann’s Introductio in linguam arabicam, Frankfurt a.d. Oder, 1592, now in the British Library Appendix 2: Arabic Transliteration Appendix 3: Saltini’s Manuscript Descriptions Extended Appendix 4: Raimondi on Arabic, Persian and other Languages Appendix 5: Raimondi’s Latin Translation from Avicenna’s Arabic Canon Appendix 6: Raimondi’s Grammar and Dictionary List Appendix 7: Raimondi and the Lead Books of Granada Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis study addresses encounters between Jews and Muslims in interwar Berlin. Living on the margins of German society, the two groups sometimes used that position to fuse visions and their personal lives. German politics set the switches for their meeting, while the urban setting of Western Berlin offered a unique contact zone. Although the meeting was largely accidental, Muslim Indian missions served as a crystallization point. Five case studies approach the protagonists and their network from a variety of perspectives. Stories surfaced testifying the multiple aid Muslims gave to Jews during Nazi persecution. Using archival materials that have not been accessed before, the study opens up a novel view on Muslims and Jews in the 20th century. This title is available in its entirety in Open Access.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Map of Muslim and Jewish Places in West Berlin Acknowledgements Glossary Introduction PART 1: THE SETTING 1. Crossroads 2. The Spaces in Between PART 2: CASE STUDIES 3. The Hiking Club: S. M. Abdullah and the Oettinger Women 4. An Artist’s View: Lisa Oettinger Between ‘Civilizations’ 5. The Sting of Desire: Hugo Marcus’s Theology of Male Friendship 6. The Rebels: Luba Derczanska and her Friends 7. An Indian Muslim in Jewish Berlin: Khwaja Abdul Hamied Summary and Conclusion Archival Materials, Websites, Copyrights of Images References Index of Names General Index

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Book SynopsisAround 1900 the small Ethiopian community in Jerusalem found itself in a desperate struggle with the Copts over the Dayr al-Sultan monastery located on the roof of the Holy Sepulchre. Based on a profoundly researched, impassioned and multifaceted exploration of a forgotten manuscript, this book abandons the standard majority discourse and approaches the history of Jerusalem through the lens of a community typically considered marginal. It illuminates the political, religious and diplomatic affairs that exercised the city, and guides the reader on a fascinating journey from the Ethiopian highlands to the Holy Sepulchre, passing through the Ottoman palaces in Istanbul. Have a look inside the bookTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Acknowledgments for the English Edition List of Figures Note on Transliteration and Dates Introduction: A Historical Emergency: The Paradoxical Posterity of a Failed Manuscript  1 A Sidestep  2 Three Readings  3 Microcosm, Macrocosm 1 Dayr al-Sultan: A Rooftop Monastery  1 A Monastery on a Roof  2 One Place, Two Memories  3 Histories and Research about the Monastery  4 The Limits of Previous Studies 2 An Enigmatic Unpublished Manuscript  1 The Archives of the Ethiopian Orthodox Community  2 An Unpublished Manuscript  3 A Cryptic Text 3 The Archaeology of a Militant Propaganda Text  1 A Text Based on Another Dated 1893  2 Sources: The Backbone of the Text  3 Adaptations, Additions and Interpretations  4 A Linguistically Challenged and Challenging Text 4 Conflicts and Protections: 1850–1903  1 Dayr al-Sultan: An Unending Local Conflict  2 A Community with No Legal Autonomy  3 Having Their Voices Heard in Istanbul 5 With Memory as His Only Weapon  1 A New Stage in the Ethiopian Claims  2 Making up for the Absence of Legal Documentation  3 Justifying the Absence of Legal Documentation  4 A Respond to the Coptic Arguments 6 The Reflection of an Ethiopia in Transformation  1 A Dearth of Written Ethiopian Sources  2 No Ethiopian Kings Concerned about Jerusalem?  3 A New Interest for Jerusalem  4 Differentiating Ethiopians from Copts  5 Presenting the Community as Homogeneous 7 The Ethiopians in a Global City  1 Rediscovering Jerusalem  2 Imperial Ethiopia  3 The Opening of an Ottoman City  4 Modernization of Local Administration  5 Protection and Involvement in Conflict over the Holy Sites  6 Acting and Evolving Depending on Others …  7 … And Yet Declaring Oneself Isolated from Others Conclusion: The Keys to Power: The Ethiopians at the Doors of the Sanctuary Amharic Text and English Translation of Walda Madhen Appendix 1: German Version of the Ethiopian Anonymous Text of 1893 Appendix 2: Letter Written by Samuel Gobat to James Howard Harris, Earl of Malmesbury, June 29, 1852 Appendix 3: Account of Giovanni Battista Albengo, 1893 Appendix 4: Short Chronology Sources and Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Islam in Post-communist Eastern Europe: Between Churchification and Securitization Egdūnas Račius reveals how not only the governance of religions but also practical politics in post-communist Eastern Europe are permeated by the strategies of churchification and securitization of Islam. Though most Muslims and the majority of researchers of Islam hold to the view that there may not be church in Islam, material evidence suggests that the representative Muslim religious organizations in many Eastern European countries have been effectively turned into ecclesiastical-bureaucratic institutions akin to nothing less than ‘national Muslim Churches’. As such, these ‘national Muslim Churches’ themselves take an active part in securitization, advanced by both non-Muslim political and social actors, of certain forms of Islamic religiosity.Trade Review‘Račius’ book is one of the best overviews of the macro-trends that run through post-communist Islam in Eastern Europe.’ Gianfranco Bria in Studia Islamica 117 (2022), 375-379. 'Račius’ book stands out as a successful synthesis of research on Islam in Eastern Europe […]. Rather than offering chapters on the individual countries, in each chapter the author juxtaposes the arrangements and constellations in all seven countries that he focuses on. Equally important is that Račius brings the discussion of Eastern European Islam into the broader debate on Islam in Europe. […] This thought-provoking book makes an important contribution to the debate on Islam not only in post-socialist Europe but across the whole of the continent.' Michael Kemper in Die Welt des Islams 61 (2021), 492-494.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Introduction: What? The Churchification of Islam; Where? In Eastern Europe 1 Notions of Church  1.1 Grappling with Terms: Church and Other Forms of Religious Collectivities  1.2 Islam—A Church-Less Religion? 2 Islam in Minority (Diaspora) Contexts  2.1 The Diaspora: Between Migration, Ethnicity and Religion  2.2 Muslims as (Religious) Diaspora(s): Immigrants versus Autochthons  2.3 Fiqh al-aqalliyyat versus ‘Euro-Islam’/‘European’ Islam  2.4 Patterns of Governance of Religion (with an Eye on Islam) in (Western) Europe 3 Key Concepts in the Regimes of Governance of Religion in Europe  3.1 The Churchification of Islam in Europe  3.2 The Securitization of Islam in Europe  3.3 Religious Nationalism  3.4 The Analytical Framework and Model 4 State-Church Relations in Eastern Europe: An Overview  4.1 Islam in Eastern Europe: The Context  4.2 Historical Precedents of State-Church Relations in Eastern Europe  4.3 Frameworks of Governance of Islam in Post-communist Eastern Europe 5 Three Levels of (Non)Accommodation of Islam in Eastern Europe  5.1 Legal Level  5.2 Practical Politics Level  5.3 Non-Muslim Social Actors Level 6 Bottom-Up View: Dynamics in the Islamic Field  6.1 From Islamic Spiritual Administrations into National Muslim Churches   6.1.1 “Encompasses the totality of believers of that faith understood here as a set of dogmas, rituals and ethics”   6.1.2 “Has an ecclesiastical-bureaucratic structure staffed by professional (ordained) clergy”  6.2 Inner-Islamic Plurality and Community Dynamics Conclusions: The Winners, the Losers, and the Prospects Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn The Semantics of Qurʾanic Language: al-Āḫira, Ghassan el Masri offers a semantic study of the concept al-āḫira ‘the End’ in the Qurʾān. The study is prefaced with a detailed account of the late antique concept of etymologia (Semantic Etymology). In his work, he demonstrates the necessity of this concept for appreciating the Qurʾān’s rhetorical strategies for claiming discursive authority in the Abrahamic theological tradition. The author applies the etymological tool to his investigation of the theological significance of al-āḫira, and concludes that the concept is polysemous, and tolerates a large variety of interpretations. The work is unique in that it draws extensively on Biblical material and presents a plethora of pre-Islamic poetry verses in the analysis of the concept.Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Etymology, Historic and Semantic 3. Arabian Terms and Notions 4. Time between Beginning and End 5. Biblical Vocabulary 6. The Qurʾanic Shifts 7. The Middle Meccan Period 8. The Late Meccan Period 9. The Medinan Developments 10. Conclusion Appendix – Occurrences of the Root ʾ-ḫ-r and their Correlates Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Moroccan Female Religious Agents: Old Practices and New Perspectives, Ouguir studies Moroccan female religious agents in particular historical women saints and Sufis, the way they constructed powerful saintly personalities that challenged the dominant conventional norms, and the way they are received by venerators and feminist Islamist activists of modern Morocco. Through hagiographic and oral narratives, Ouguir examines the techniques religious women followed to achieve ethical self-formation and strong religious personalities that promoted them to leadership. She also examined the venerators’, murshidᾱt and Islamist feminists’ reception of women saints in their discourses. Ouguir states convincingly that Moroccan religious women agents in both Morocco’s past and present are to be highlighted for broader discourses on Muslim women and feminism.Table of ContentsPreface Ix Acknowledgements Notes on Transliteration 1 Introduction: Theories and Concepts  1 A Review  2 Research Design  3 The Conceptual Background 2 Sufism and Gender  1 Moroccan Islam  2 Approaches to Moroccan Islam  3 Sufism in Relation to Gender  4 Women’s Mysticism in Islamic History  5 Islamic Hagiography  6 Moroccan Hagiography  7 Diversity, Hierarchy and Authenticity 3 Moroccan Female Saints  1 The Construction of Sainthood  2 Types of Agency  3 Women Saints: ʿAzīza ʾal-Saksāwiyya (14th Century), ʿĀʾisha ʿal-ʿIdrīsiya (16th Century) and Fāṭima Muhdūz (19th Century) 4 Moroccan Women Venerators’ Reception of Historical Women Saints  1 Devoted Women, Shrines and Saint Veneration  2 Murshidāt and Waʿiḍāt as Religious Agents  3 Murshidāt’s and Wāʿiẓāt’s Reception of Women Saints  4 Murshidāt’s and Wāʿiẓāt’s Attendees 5 Moroccan Feminist Activists’ Reception of Historical Women Saints  1 Moroccan Feminism  2 Islamist Feminist Associations  3 Moroccan Feminist Activists’ Reception of Women Saints  4 Islamist Feminism Conclusion Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn ‘They Love Us Because We Give Them’ Zakāt, Dauda Abubakar describes the practice of Zakāt in northern Nigeria. Those who practice this pillar of Islam annually deduct Zakāt from their wealth and distribute it to the poor and needy people within their vicinity, mostly their friends, relatives and neighbours. The practice of giving and receiving Zakāt in northern Nigeria often leads to the establishment of social relations between the rich and needy. Dauda Abubakar provides details of the social relationship in the people’s interpersonal dealings with one another that often lead to power relations, high table relations etc. The needy reciprocate the Zakāt they collect in many ways, respecting and given high positions to the rich in society.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements List of Figures Abbreviations Arabic Transliteration Map of Nigerian states Map of Plateau State Map of Jos North local government and its localities Introduction  1 Theoretical Considerations  2 Components of Gift Exchange  3 The Obligation of Reciprocity  4 Different Dimensions of Gift Exchange  5 Gifts and Self-Presentation in Society  6 There Is No Free Gift in Jos  7 Methodology  8 Chapter Outlines 1 Zakāt and Various Forms of Giving  1 The Practice of zakāt in West Africa  2 Northern Nigeria and Jos  3 Jos  4 Islam in Jos  5 Economic Activity among the Hausa Muslims  6 Overview of the Practice of zakāt 2 Muslim Attitudes to Giving in Jos  1 Social and Religious Significance of Giving  2 Other Forms of Giving  3 Religious Significance of Giving  4 Perceptions of Gifts as Opposed to zakāt 3 Administration of Zakāt by Muslim Groups in Jos  1 Qādiriyya and Tijāniyya Sufi Orders  2 Izala’s Department of Zakāt and Waqf  3 Administration of zakāt by Muslim Yoruba Societies in Jos 4 Deductions of Zakāt in Jos  1 Individuals and zakāt Deduction  2 The Private Practice of zakāt  3 Who Deducts zakāt?  4 Factors Responsible for the Payment of zakāt  5 Nisāb and the Role of the Print Media  6 Process of zakāt Deductions 5 Distribution of Zakāt in Jos  1 Process of zakāt Distribution  2 Beneficiaries of zakāt  3 Gender Imbalance among zakāt Beneficiaries  4 Muslim Scholars and zakāt  5 Classification of zakāt Beneficiaries  6 The Challenges of New Interpretations of asnāf al-thamāniya 6 Zakāt and Social Relationships in Jos  1 Zakāt: Tool for Deepening Relationships  2 Zakāt and Social Bonds  3 Zakāt Distribution and Power Relations  4 Zakāt and Social Status  5 Group Loyalty  6 Dual Role of zakāt: Worship and Social Relationships Conclusion Appendix: List of Informants Glossary of Arabic and Hausa Words Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Know Thy Enemy, Meir Litvak analyzes the re-articulations of the “Others” in modern Shiʿism, as a novel way to examine the formulation of modern Shiʿi identity and place in the world. Among these others, which have transformed into "enemies" in the modern period are the West, apostates, Wahhabism, Jews, Baha'is and feminism. Looking at the rhetorical themes that Shiʿi writers use, the book demonstrates the contrast between the collective positive “We” and the negative threatening "Other" as a major principle in the evolution of Shiʻism as the minority branch of Islam. It offers a complex view of Shiʿi identity combining a sense of victimhood and insecurity together with conviction of intellectual and moral superiority and long-term triumph.

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Book SynopsisSenior scholars of Islamic studies and the anthropology of Islam gather in this volume to pay tribute to one of the giants of the field, Dale F. Eickelman. In diversely arrayed, rigorous and compelling chapters, leading historians, anthropologists, and political scientists elaborate through their own original research on Dale’s unique contributions to the study of the modern Muslim world. Eickelman’s reflections on the diverse intellectual traditions of Muslim societies and the scholars and laypersons who enact them remain defining as a framework for intellectual inquiry into the modern Muslim world and the profound changes that are transpiring within it. Contributors are Jon W. Anderson, el-Sayed el-Aswad, Simeon Evstatiev, Allen James Fromherz, Harvey E. Goldberg, Gilles Kepel, Mandana Limbert, Simon O’Meara, Abdelrhani Moundib, Muhammad Khalid Masud, Nadav Samin, Susan Slyomovics, Jenny White and Muhammad Qasim Zaman.Table of ContentsPreface  Nadav Samin Abbreviations List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction: Dale Eickelman on Knowledge, Authority and Change   Allen James Fromherz PART 1 Knowledge 1 An Anthropologist’s “Day in (Rabbinical) Court” in Late Ottoman Tripoli   Harvey E. Goldberg 2 Islamic Education in Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century India   Muhammad Qasim Zaman 3 Interpretive Anthropology and Islam in Morocco: A Comparison between Geertz and Eickelman   Abdelrhani Moundib 4 Out of Sight in Morocco, or How to See the Jinn in the Modern-day Museum   Simon O’Meara PART 2 Authority 5 Rethinking New Media in the Public Sphere: Beyond the Freedom Paradox   Jon W. Anderson 6 New Moroccan Publics: Prisons, Cemeteries and Human Remains   Susan Slyomovics 7 Rethinking Knowledge and Power Hierarchy in the Muslim World   el-Sayed el-Aswad 8 Salafism as a Contested Concept   Simeon Evstatiev PART 3 Change 9 Religiosity, Men of Learning, and Oil Wealth in the Land of the Imamate   Mandana Limbert 10 The Unbearable Lightness of Being Turkish   Jenny White 11 The Radicalization of Islam in Germany   Gilles Kepel 12 Madrasas Promoting Social Harmony? Debates over the Role of Madrasa Education in Pakistan   Muhammad Khalid Masud  Dale F. Eickelman’s Publications  Index

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Book SynopsisThe Introduction and the chapter Toleration and Religious Polemics are available in Open Access. Searching for Compromise? is a collection of articles researching the issues of toleration, interreligious peace and models of living together in a religiously diverse Central and Eastern Europe during the Early Modern period. By studying theologians, legal cases, literature, individuals, and congregations this volume brings forth unique local dynamics in Central and Eastern Europe. Scholars and researchers will find these issues explored from the perspectives of diverse groups of Christians such as Catholics, Hussies, Bohemian Brethren, Old Believers, Eastern Orthodox, Lutherans, Calvinists, Moravians and Unitarians. The volume is a much-needed addition to the scholarly books written on these issues from the Western European perspective. Contributors are Kazimierz Bem, Wolfgang Breul, Jan Červenka, Sławomir Kościelak, Melchior Jakubowski, Bryan D. Kozik, Uladzimir Padalinski, Maciej Ptaszyński, Luise Schorn-Schütte, Alexander Schunka, Paul Shore, Stephan Steiner, Bogumił Szady, and Christopher Voigt-Goy.Table of ContentsContents List of Illustrations Notes on Editors List of Contributors Introduction: Searching for Compromise  Maciej Ptaszyński PART 1: Terms of Coexistence between Law and Tradition 1 “Private,” “Public,” and “Domestic” Exercise of Religion—Origins of an Instrument of Early Modern Religious Peacemaking  Christopher Voigt-Goy 2 “He May Be Evangelical, Yet a True Patron by Descent” The Right of Patronage in the Religious Changes in Red Ruthenia in the 16th and 17th Centuries  Bogumił Szady 3 Social Conditions of Religious Coexistence in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: Three Cases of the Late Sixteenth Century  Uladzimir Padalinski 4 Worshipping Together or Just under One Roof? Reformed and Lutheran Church Agreements in Poland in the Early Seventeenth Century  Kazimierz Bem 5 How Many Dissenters Can a Roman Catholic Priest Serve? Examples from Bukovina, Suwałki Region, and Latgale at the Turn of the 18th Century  Melchior Jakubowski PART 2: Theology, Communication, Politics 6 Religious Toleration and Literary Dialogues in the Bohemian Reformation (1436–1517)  Jan Červenka 7 Dantiscus from Augsburg (1530) to Regensburg (1541): Authority, Toleration, and Orthodoxy in the Roman Church  Bryan D. Kozik 8 Jacob Schmidt Also Called Fabricius (1551–1629): The Unfulfilled Leader of the Second Reformation in Gdańsk  Sławomir Kościelak 9 Toleration and Religious Polemics: The Case of Jonas Schlichting (1592–1661) and the Radical Reformation in Poland  Maciej Ptaszyński Part 3: Radical Century or Age of Toleration? 10 Reformed Irenicism and Pan-Protestantism in Early Modern Europe  Alexander Schunka 11 A Transconfessional Religion of the Heart: The Moravian Church of Herrnhut  Wolfgang Breul 12 A Tale of Two Cities: Protestant Preachers and Private Tutors in Vienna Under the Rule of Emperor Charles VI  Stephan Steiner 13 The Longue Durée of Irenicism in the Thought of Adam František Kollár (1718–1783)  Paul Shore Afterword  Luise Schorn-Schütte Index

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Book SynopsisThe accommodation of religious diversity in contemporary pluralist societies is undoubtedly amongst the most salient issues on today’s political agenda, not least due to the challenges posed by migration. A subject of considerable debate is how to reconcile the demands of religious and cultural diversity alongside political unity, that is, how to create a political community that is cohesive and stable and satisfies the legitimate aspirations of minorities. This volume provides a critical analysis of the institutional accommodations and legal frameworks conceived by and/or for historical religious groups and assesses their potential and shortcomings in providing for an integrated society based on human- and minority rights protection.Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors Introduction   Roberta Medda- Windischer, Kerstin Wonisch and Alexandra Cosima Budabin 1 Regulation of Muslim Religious Minority Groups and the European State: The Unique Case of Legal Pluralism in Greece   Kyriaki Topidi 2 Women and Sharia Law in the UK   Elham Manea 3 The System of Bilateral Legislation Tested by ‘Neo’ Religious Groups: The Case of Italy   Francesco Alicino 4 The Three Junctions of the Italian ‘Islamic Policy’   Alessandro Ferrari 5 Religious Diversity in Greece: Recent Developments and the Challenges of the Molla Sali Case   Christos Tsevas 6 Rabbinical Court Decisions and Their Impact on Jewish Society   Elimelech Westreich and Avishalom Westreich 7 Legal Pluralism, Religious Identity and Citizenship in the State of Israel: The Case of Non-Orthodox Jews   Anna Parrilli 8 Russian Orthodox Church and Migration in Russia: When Hell Is Paved with Good Intentions   Kiryl Kascian and Hanna Vasilevich 9 Conclusions   Silvio Ferrari 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 SynopsisThrough the application of scientific methods of analysis to a corpus of medieval manuscripts found in the Cairo Genizah, this work aims to gain a better understanding of the writing materials used by Jewish communities at that time, shedding new light not only on the production of manuscripts in the Middle Ages, but also on the life of those Jewish communities.Table of ContentsAcknowledgement List of Figures List of Tables Abbreviations Résumé [Francais] Kurzfassung [Deutsch] Introduction 1 The Cairo Genizah  1 Historical Background  2 Presentation of the Corpus 2 Writing Materials  1 Writing Surfaces  2 Writing Inks 3 Experimental Methods  1 Experimental Protocol 4 Results and Discussion  1 Use of Writing Surfaces  2 Ink Typology  3 Elemental Composition of the Inks and Writing Surfaces within the General Dataset  4 Conclusion of the Chapter 5 Implications of This Research, Conclusions and Outlook  1 Inks Detected on Jewish Legal Documents  2 Arabic Documents  3 Religious Documents  4 Autographs of Maimonides  5 Conclusions and Outlook Documents Studied Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisIn Freedom through Submission Johannes Renders explores Danish-Muslim statements on human freedom. Within a context where public talk of Islam is largely mediated by an incessant succession of controversies, the notion of freedom is weaponized both by and against a growing Muslim community. Danish Muslims take issue with liberal associations of the notion with autonomy and choice, and seek to reconfigure the public debate that pits freedom against Islam. This book brings out a sophisticated and reflective Muslim discourse, in which freedom is something individuals must simultaneously exercise, surrender, and achieve through a cultivated relinquishing of the will to Allah.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Transliteration, Translation, and Dates List of Figures Introduction  1 An Ethnography of Muslim-Talk on Freedom  2 An Anthropology of Religious Discourse 1 Is This Really Freedom?  1 Questioning  2 Resistance  3 Redefinition 2 Allah Named Himself  1 Ineffable and Perfect  2 Willing and Knowing  3 Planning and Attracting 3 Willing Submission  1 Always Surrounded  2 Willingly Surrendered  3 Already Muslim 4 Everything Is for Allah  1 Worship-Subjection  2 Spiritual Combat  3 Knowing-Belief 5 This Is Real Freedom!  1 Emancipation from Authority  2 Liberation through Authority  3 Iterative Choice Conclusion  1 Freedom as Submission  2 Freedom as Fantasy  3 Freedom as Promise Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisFrom 1884-1885, Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje stayed in Mecca. He became intimately acquainted with the daily life of the Meccans and the thousands of pilgrims from all over the world. This volume deals with social and family life, funeral customs and marriage. It is a unique insight in one the most important places in islamic culture. With a new foreword by Jan Just WitkamTrade Review"...I can recommend anyone to read (his book on) Atjeh and Mekka. His analysis gives a lot of insight and shows the room there is within Islam" – Anwar Ibrahim, in: NRC Handelsblad "...stands as a monument to the work of a great Islamist, and as testimony to much of the inner meaning of one of the world's greatest centres of religion." – William R. Roff, in: Journ. of Asian and African Studies, 1972 "...this interesting book of one of the greatest scholars in the field of Islam studies." – in: Bibliotheca Orientalis, 1971 "Jan Just Witkam provides a useful introduction about Hurgronje, his background, residence in Arabia, and later work for the Dutch government in the Dutch East Indies." – in: Choice, Nov. 2007 "It should become an instant "must-read" to a new generation of scholars and be adopted ... to teach social history, social linguistics, Islam, and the late nineteenth-century history of the Middle East." – Isa Blumi, in: American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 3 (2008)

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Book SynopsisIn Revelation in the Qur’an Simon P. Loynes presents a semantic study of the Arabic roots n-z-l and w-ḥ-y in order to elucidate the modalities of revelation in the Qur’an. Through an exhaustive analysis of their occurrences in the Qur’an, and with reference to pre-Islamic poetry, Loynes argues that the two roots represent distinct occurrences, with the former concerned with spatial events and the latter with communicative. This has significant consequences for understanding the Qur’an’s unique concept of revelation and how this is both in concord and at variance with earlier religious traditions.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Note on Transliteration, Conventions, and Abbreviations Introduction  1 The Roots n-z-l and w-ḥ-y in Previous Scholarship  2 Overall Approach of the Study 1 Divine Sending Down (tanzīl) I: Actors, Spatiality, and Interaction  1 Overview of the Root n-z-l  2 Spatial Implications of the Root n-z-l and the Author of the Act  3 The Divine Sending Down of Non-revelatory Things 2 Divine Sending Down (tanzīl) II: The Revelatory Message  1 The Celestial Scripture  2 The Divine Sending Down of the Celestial Scripture  3 The Relationship of the Celestial Scripture to the Qur’anic Revelations  4 The Primary Celestial Event 3 God’s Esoteric Communication (waḥy)  1 The Root w-ḥ-y in Pre-Islamic Poetry  2 The Root w-ḥ-y in the Qur’an  3 Adopting a Translation for the Root w-ḥ-y 4 The Chronological Distribution and Literary Contexts of the Roots n-z-l and w-ḥ-y  1 The Chronological Distribution of the Roots n-z-l and w-ḥ-y  2 Form-Critical Analysis of the Roots n-z-l and w-ḥ-y  3 Addressing the Chronological Distribution of the Roots 5 The Principal Rhetorical Functions of Divine Sending Down and Divine Communication  1 The Principal Rhetorical Function of Divine Sending Down  2 The Principal Rhetorical Function of Divine Communication  3 The Dynamic Nature of the Qur’an’s Self-Referentiality 6 The Qur’anic Concept of Revelation  1 From Divine Sending Down (tanzīl) to Divine Communication (waḥy)  2 Implications of the Study Appendix 1: Verses with the Root n-z-l Classified according to Formal Type Appendix 2: Verses with the Root w-ḥ-y Classified according to Formal Type Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book invites to rethink certain aspects of halal, and in particular the issue of the halal market and halal certification in Muslim-minority contexts. Rather than limiting itself to elucidating the doctrinal traditions relating to halal/haram, or on the contrary, focusing only on the external economic, financial, political or demographic factors that explain the changes taking place, Rethinking Halal shows the need to underline the points of balance between the aspects of religious doctrine on the one hand and the economic or political contextual aspects on the other hand. Through the study of various countries, Rethinking Halal demonstrates that Islam underwent a process of positivisation, that is, a kind of reframing of its rules and principles through the lens of a characteristically modern standardising, scientificising, and systematising mind. Contributors are Ayang Utriza Yakin, Louis-Léon Christians, Baudouin Dupret, Jajat Burhanudin, Syafiq Hasyim, Zaynab El Bernoussi, En-Chieh Chao, Rossella Bottoni, Lauren Crossland-Marr, Konrad Pędziwiatr, Matteo Benussi, Harun Sencal and Mehmet Asutay.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Abbreviations Notes on Contributors 1 Rethinking Halal: Critical Perspective on Halal Markets and Certification  Ayang Utriza Yakin, Louis-Léon Christians, and Baudouin Dupret Part 1 Halal Market: Genealogy and Current Trends 2 Rethinking Halal: Hegemony, Agency, and Process  Harun Sencal and Mehmet Asutay 3 Halal Practices at the Dawn of Southeast Asian Modernity: Some Cases of Halal Fatwas in al-Manār in the Beginning of the Twentieth Century  Jajat Burhanudin 4 Halal Issues, Ijtihād, and Fatwa-Making in Indonesia and Malaysia  Syafiq Hasyim 5 Developing the Halal Market: China’s Opportunity to Strengthen MENA Ties and Uighur/Hui Issues  Zaynab El Bernoussi 6 Science, Politics, and Islam: The Other Origin Story of Halal Authentication in Indonesia  En-Chieh Chao Part 2 Halal Certification: New Interpretations in Critical Perspective 7 Halal Certification, Standards, and Their Ramifications in Belgium  Ayang Utriza Yakin 8 The Italian and Spanish Legal Experiences with Halal Certifying Bodies  Rossella Bottoni 9 The Process of Eating Ethically: A Comparison of Religious and National Food Certifications in Italy  Lauren Crossland-Marr 10 Halal Certification as a Source of Intra- and Inter-Group Tensions among Muslims in Poland  Konrad Pędziwiatr 11 Living Halal in the Volga Region: Lifestyle and Civil Society Opportunities  Matteo Benussi Index

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Book SynopsisModern biomedical technologies managed to revolutionise the End-of-Life Care (EoLC) in many aspects. The dying process can now be “engineered” by managing the accompanying physical symptoms or by “prolonging/hastening” death itself. Such interventions questioned and problematised long-established understandings of key moral concepts, such as good life, quality of life, pain, suffering, good death, appropriate death, dying well, etc. This volume examines how multifaceted EoLC moral questions can be addressed from interdisciplinary perspectives within the Islamic tradition. Contributors Amir Abbas Alizamani, Beate Anam, Hamed Arezaei, Asma Asadi, Pieter Coppens, Hans Daiber, Khalid Elzamzamy, Mohammed Ghaly, Hadil Lababidi, Shahaboddin Mahdavi, Aasim Padela, Rafaqat Rashid and Ayman Shabana. تمكنت التكنولوجيا الحديثة في المجالات الطبية والحيوية من إحداث ثورة في مجال الرعاية الصحية عندما يكون المريض على مشارف نهاية العُمْر. فأصبح من الممكن الآن «هندسة» بعض جوانب مرحلة الاحتضار، وذلك بإدارة الأعراض الجسدية المصاحبة ومحاولة تأخير أو تعجيل حدث الوفاة. وقد أثار هذا النوع من التدخلات الطبية أسئلة وإشكالات معقدة حول عدد من المفاهيم الأخلاقية ضاربة الجذور في التراث الإسلامي خاصة، وفي الإرث الإنساني عامة، كمفاهيم: الحياة الطيبة وجودة الحياة والألم والمعاناة والميتة الصالحة. تقدم البحوث المنشورة في هذا الكتاب نماذج لكيفية معالجة هذه الأسئلة والإشكالات المتعددة الجوانب من خلال النظر في عدد من العلوم الإسلامية والمجالات المعرفية ذات الصلة. المساهمون حامد آرضائي، وأسماء أسدي، وبياته أنعم، وعاصم پادلا، وهانس دايبر، ورفقات رشيد، وخالد الزمزمي، وأمير عباس علي زماني، وأيمن شبانة، ومحمد غالي، وپيتر كوپنس، وهديل لبابيدي، وشهاب الدين مهدوي.

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Book SynopsisEssay on Islamization is a study of the Islamization of all Muslim societies and their conversion to orthodox Islam which, with its chapels, soldier monks and holy war, leads to fundamentalism as well as to a moral puritanism. Cherkaoui gauges the importance of this global phenomenon by analyzing the empirical data of some sixty Muslim and non-Muslim societies. He also conducts two ethnographic surveys to identify the metamorphoses of Muslim religious practices and their causes.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction 1 Disenchantment of the World, Depopulation of the Heavens  1 Persistence of Faith in Islam Countries, Progress of Atheism Elsewhere  2 Orientation toward the Human or toward the Divine: Progressive Secularization or Resilience of the Religious  Conclusion 2 Time for the Sacred  1 Rising Religiosity  2 The Time of the Sacred and Education  3 Variations in Rates of Practice by Social Determinants  4 Cultual, Media and Cultural Practices  5 Integration, Regulation and Trust 3 Twilight of the Gods  1 The Disenchantment of the World  2 Works and Days: Islam Paganized and Chthonian Beliefs  3 The Paradox of Consequences of Colonization  4 The Political Instrumentalization of Salafism and the Enchanted World 4 Is a Rational Explanation of Islamization Possible?  1 Exogenous Causes   1.1 Socio-Economic Changes Lead to a Secular Decline in Religiosity   1.2 The Religious Market Would Account for the Practices of Believers and Their Intensity of Belief   1.3 The Separation of Church and State Would Influence Religious Practice   1.4 The Extension of Islam Could Be Explained by the Policy Pursued by Certain States with Virtually Unlimited Financial Means   1.5 The Media Have Influenced Muslim Public Opinion   1.6 The Muslim Is Searching for His Identity, His Belonging and Reference Groups  2 Endogenous Explanations   2.1 The Relative Deprivation of Young People Is the Cause of This Popular Enthusiasm for Islam and for Their Proselytism   2.2 The Perception that Muslims Have of Themselves and Others Is a Reflection of Both the Spread of Islam and Their Zeal   2.3 The Transformations of the Social Morphology of Muslim Countries, the End of Popular Islam and the Growing Domination of Scriptural Islam, Could Be Causes of This Green Tidal Wave   2.4 The Structures of Interaction and Interdependence Explain the Diffusion of Religious Practices 5 Deprivation and Islamization: Socio- Educational Mobility and Its Consequences  1 Social Mobility and Educational Mobility  2 Generative Mechanisms of Mobility  3 Meritocracy or Dominance Structure? 6 The Mechanisms that Produce Islamic Fundamentalism: an Outline for an Interpretation of Its Genesis  1 Elective Affinities between Popular Islam and Social Morphology  2 Transformations of Morphology and the Decline of Popular Islam: the Resurgence of Salafism  3 The Prophecy of the “Proletaroid” Intellectuals as a Response to the Crisis of Society  4 Rational Choice Theory and Altruistic Suicide 7 From Absolute Monotheism to Ethical Puritanism  1 The Ethical Puritanism of Muslims and Moral Tolerance In the West  2 Muslims and the Magic of Modernity  Conclusion 8 Confidence in Institutions: an International Comparison  1 Trust as the Basis for the Legitimacy of the Social Order  2 Time of Suspicion 9 Islam and Democracy: Comparative Analysis of Individual and Collective Preferences  1 Morphologies and Democracies   2 The People’s Choice: Democracy or Authoritarianism  3 Taxonomy of Democracies  4 Distribution of Countries according to the Three Models. Place of the Muslims in the Democratic Trihedron Bibliography Index Nominum

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Book SynopsisSince its announcement by Xi Jinping in 2015, “Sinicization” has become the slogan that guides Chinese official policy towards religion. What does it mean? What effects is it having on Chinese religions? Where will it lead? This book, with contributions from experts in the major religious traditions in China, is one of the first in English that answers these questions. From the top down, Sinicization is a project to control all forms of religion in China, even ancient indigenous forms, to make them conform to the demands of its Party-State. From the bottom up, however, religious believers are using the slogan either to sincerely attempt to adapt traditional practices to their modern cultural context or to protect their faith by offering lip service to government demands – or some combination of the two.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction   Richard Madsen 1 Sinicization or Chinafication?  Cultural Assimilation vs. Political Domestication of Christianity in China and Beyond   Fenggang Yang 2 “Official Confucianism” as Newly Sanctioned by the Chinese Communist Party   Yong Chen 3 The Sinicization of Buddhism and Its Competing Reinventions of Tradition   Weishan Huang 4 Already Post-Modern: Buddhist Stone Images in Luoyang and the Question of Sinicization  Buddhist Stone Images in Luoyang and the Question of Sinicization   Dong Wang 5 Faith in the Future/Practices of the Past  A Sinicized Islamic Revival among the Hui of Xining   Alexander Stewart 6 Xiejiao, Cults, and New Religions: Making Sense of the New Un-Sinicized Religions on China’s Fringe   J. Gordon Melton Index

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Book SynopsisThis book is the only comprehensive treatment in any language of a rather “exotic” Balkan Jewish community. It places the Jewish community of Bosnia and Herzegovina into the context of the Jewish world, but also of the world within which it existed for around five hundred years under various empires and regimes. The Bosnian Jews might have remained a mostly unknown community to the rest of the world had it not played a unique role within the Bosnian Wars of the early 1990s, providing humanitarian aid to its neighbor Serbs, Croats, and Muslims. Watch Francine Friedman's presentation on The Jews of Bosnia and HerzegovinaTable of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures, Maps and Tables Terms, Definitions, Abbreviations and Acronyms Introduction: Like Salt for Bread  1 Bosnia and Herzegovina  2 Identity, Ethnicity, and Religion in the Lands of the Former Yugoslavia  3 The Jews of Bosnia and Herzegovina 1 The Sephardic Strand  1 Introduction  2 Early Jewish Settlement in Iberia  3 The Jews in Medieval Spain  3.1 The Visigothic Era  3.2 The Moorish Period  3.3 The Reconquista Period  3.3.1 Decline of the Jewish Position in Christian Spain  3.3.2 Conversos, the Crown, and the Inquisition  3.3.2.1 The Conversos  3.3.2.2 The Inquisition  4 Expulsion of the Jews from Iberia and the Journey to the Balkans  5 The Jewish Experience in Iberia 2 The Jews in the Ottoman Empire  1 Introduction  2 Iberian Jews Enter the Ottoman Empire  3 Sephardic Settlement in Bosnia and Herzegovina  3.1 Sarajevo  3.1.1 Jewish Settlement Patterns in Sarajevo  3.2 Smaller Bosnian Jewish Communities  3.2.1 Mostar  3.2.2 Banja Luka  3.2.3 Bihać  3.2.4 Travnik  3.2.5 Derventa  3.2.6 Bijeljina  3.2.7 Brčko  3.2.8 Žepče  3.2.9 Zvornik  4 The Ottoman Administration and the Jews  5 The Jews and the Ottoman Communal Organization  5.1 Dhimmıhood  5.2 Taxation of the Dhimmı  6 The Sarajevo Megillah  7 Ottoman Reforms and the Jews  8 The Jews in the Ottoman Economy  9 Bosnian Jewish Marital Customs  10 Bosnian Jewish Communal Organization  10.1 Religious, Social, and Cultural Administration  11 The Effect of Messianism on the Ottoman Jews: Shabtai Zvi  12 The Decline of the Ottoman Empire  12.1 The Effect of the Ottoman Decline on the Bosnian Jews  12.2 The Rise of Nationalism  13 Sephardic Culture in the Ottoman Empire  13.1 Judeo-espanjol  14 Spain and the Sephardim  15 The Jewish Experience in the Ottoman Empire 3 The Ashkenazic Strand  1 Introduction  2 Origins and Development of the Ashkenazim  3 Jewish Relations with Austro-Hungarian Society  4 Jewish Communal Administration  5 Austro-Hungarian Occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina  6 Bosnian Jewish Political Activity  7 Bosnian Jewish Demographic Profile  8 Bosnian Jewish Socioeconomic Life  9 Bosnian Jewish Communal Life  10 Bosnian Jewish Religious Life  11 Bosnian Jewish Cultural Life: Print, Media, the Arts  12 The Bosnian Jews under Austria-Hungary 4 The Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes/the First Yugoslavia  1 Introduction  2 The Balkan Wars  3 South Slavic Jews in World War i  4 The Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes  5 Bosnian Jewish Interwar Demographic Profile  5.1 Bosnian Jews in the Provinces  6 Relations between Bosnian Sephardim and Ashkenazim  7 Yugoslav and Bosnian Jewish Interwar Occupational Profile  8 Economic Situation of the Bosnian Jews  9 Bosnian Jewish Political Activity  10 Bosnian Jewish Communal Organization  10.1 Zionism  10.2 Integrationalism  10.3 Diaspora Nationalism  10.4 The Local Community  10.5 Communal Leadership  10.6 Communal Religious Organizations  10.7 Communal Religious Leadership  10.8 Schools and Language  11 Bosnian Jewish Cultural Activity  11.1 Jewish Newspapers  11.2 Jewish Artists  11.3 Jewish Authors, Essayists, Poets  12 Bosnian Jewish Social and Charitable/Humanitarian Organizations  12.1 La Benevolencija  12.2 Other Bosnian Jewish Communal/Humanitarian Organizations  12.3 Youth and Workers’ Societies  13 Bosnian Jews in the Spanish Civil War  14 Antisemitism in Interwar Yugoslavia  14.1 Bosnian Jewish Response to the Rise of Yugoslav Fascism  15 Bosnian Jews in Interwar Yugoslavia 5 World War ii  1 Introduction: The Collapse of Yugoslavia and the Rise of the Independent State of Croatia  2 Bosnian Jewish Demographic Profile in the Independent State of Croatia  3 “The Hunt for the Jews”  3.1 Bosnian Response to the Establishment of the Independent State of Croatia  3.2 Anti-Jewish Legislation  3.3 Honorary Aryans  4 The Rationale for Impoverishment of the Jewish Population  4.1 Theft of Jewish Personal Property  4.2 Appointment of Povjerenici for the Plunder of Jewish Businesses  4.3 Ustaše Control over Jewish Communal Organizations  4.3.1 Plunder of Bosnian Jewish Communal Property  5 The Sarajevo Haggadah During World War ii  6 Early Violence against the Jews  7 Bosnian Jews in the First Months of Occupation  8 The Catholic Church in the Independent State of Croatia  9 The Islamic Religious Community in the Independent State of Croatia  10 The Shoah in Bosnia and Herzegovina  10.1 Ustaše Establishment of Concentration Camps  10.1.1 Deportations of Bosnian Jews  10.1.2 Bosnian Jews in Concentration Camps  10.1.3 Number of World War ii Bosnian Jewish Victims  11 The Italian Zone  11.1 Jews in Italy’s Zone ii  11.1.1 Rab Concentration Camp  12 Jewish Participation in the Resistance  12.1 Bosnian Jews in the Partisans  12.2 Bosnian Jewish Prisoners of War  12.3 The Četniks and the Jews  13 The Handžar Division  14 Holocaust Survivors  15 Bosnian Righteous among the Nations  16 The Bosnian Jews in World War ii 6 The Communist Era  1 Introduction  2 Popular Identification and Its Impact on Bosnia and Herzegovina  2.1 Narod  2.2 Narodnost  2.3 Etničke Manjine  2.4 Evolution of the Concept of Narod  3 Bosnian Jewish Relations with the Socialist State and Society  3.1 Postwar Reconstruction of the Yugoslav Jewish Community  3.2 Jewish Industrial Property  3.3 Demographic Profile of the Bosnian Jewish Community  3.3.1 The Effect of Aliyah on Bosnian Jewish Demography  3.3.2 Occupational Profile of Yugoslav Jews  4 Post-World War ii Bosnian Jewish Communal Life  4.1 Jewish Communal Organization  4.2 Bosnian Jewish Communal Property under Socialism  4.2.1 Synagogues  4.2.2 Cemeteries  5 Bosnian Jewish Cultural Life  6 Yugoslav-Israeli Relations and Their Effect on Yugoslavia’s Jews  7 Antisemitism in Communist Yugoslavia  8 Visible Shoah Commemorations  9 Yugoslavia’s Interethnic Relations  9.1 The Collapse of “Brotherhood and Unity”  9.2 The Empowerment of Nationalist Leaders  10 The Yugoslav Crisis and Its Effects on Bosnia and Herzegovina  10.1 The Bosnian Leadership Crisis  10.2 Ethnic Politics in Bosnia and Herzegovina  11 The Bosnian Jewish Community at the End of Communist Yugoslavia 7 War in the 1990s  1 Introduction: European Nationalism at the End of the Twentieth Century  2 Ancient Ethnic Hatreds?  3 The Wars of Yugoslav Succession  3.1 Opening Shots of the Bosnian War  3.2 The Bosnian War  3.2.1 Sarajevo Besieged  3.2.2 The International Response to the Bosnian War  4 The Role of the Bosnian Jewish Community in the Bosnian War  4.1 The Rediscovery of Jewish Identity  4.2 The Reestablishment of La Benevolencija  4.3 The Bosnian Jewish Community in the Bosnian War  4.4 The Organization of the Jewish Community in Besieged Sarajevo  4.4.1 The Split Logistical Center  4.4.2 La Benevolencija-sponsored Programs  4.4.2.1 Magacin (Warehouse)  4.4.2.2 Women’s Section: Bohoreta  4.4.2.3 Health Service  4.4.2.4 Pharmacy  4.4.2.5 Clinic  4.4.2.6 House Visit Program  4.4.2.7 People’s Kitchen  4.4.2.8 Radio Station and Postal Service  4.4.2.9 Department for Cultural and Religious Questions  4.4.2.10 Computer Center  4.4.2.11 Evacuations  5 The Sarajevo Haggadah During the Bosnian War  6 Bosnian Jews in the Bosnian War 8 The Postwar Bosnian Jewish Community  1 Introduction  2 The Dayton Peace Accords and Their Implications  3 Characterization of the Bosnian War  4 Bosnia and Herzegovina and the European Union  5 Profile of the Postwar Bosnian Jewish Community  5.1 Synagogues and Cemeteries  5.2 Sociocultural Condition of the Bosnian Jewish Community  6 Bosnian Jewish Involvement in Postwar BiH  7 The Sarajevo Haggadah  8 The Bosnian View of the Shoah  9 Antisemitism in Bosnia and Herzegovina  10 Expropriation, Nationalization, Restitution in Postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina  10.1 Status of Bosnian Jewish Personal and Communal Property  11 The Claims Conference  12 Sejdić-Finci  13 Bosnian Relations with Israel  14 Future Prospects Bibliography Index 872

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Book SynopsisIn this volume amulets and talismans are studied within a broader system of meaning that shapes how they were manufactured, activated and used in different networks. Text, material features and the environments in which these artifacts circulated, are studied alongside each other, resulting in an innovative approach to understand the many different functions these objects could fulfil in pre-modern times. Produced and used by Muslims and non-Muslims alike, the case studies presented here include objects that differ in size, material, language and shape. What the articles share is an all-round, in-depth approach that helps the reader understand the complexity of the objects discussed and will improve one’s understanding of the role they played within pre-modern societies. Contributors Hazem Hussein Abbas Ali, Gideon Bohak, Ursula Hammed, Juan Campo, Jean-Charles Coulon, Venetia Porter, Marcela Garcia Probert, Anne Regourd, Yasmine al-Saleh, Karl Schaefer and Petra M. Sijpesteijn.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Notes on Transliteration, Names of Persons and Places and Dates Introduction. Transmission, Efficacy and Collections: Amulets in Interaction with Their Environment  Marcela Garcia Probert and Petra M. Sijpesteijn Part 1 Transmission 1 Specimens of Judaeo-Arabic and Arabic Magical Texts from the Cairo Genizah  Gideon Bohak 2 A Twentieth-Century Manuscript of the Kitāb al-Mandal al-Sulaymānī (Ar. IES 286, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia): Texts on Practices & Texts in Practices  Anne Regourd 3 Arabic Medical-Magical Manuscripts: A Living Tradition  Petra M. Sijpesteijn Part 2 Efficacy 4 Casting Discord: An Unpublished Spell from the Egyptian National Library  Hazem Hussein Abbas Ali 5 “This Blessed Place”: The Talismanic Significance of House Inscriptions in Ottoman Cairo  Juan E. Campo 6 A Talismanic Scroll: Language, Illumination, and Diagrams  Yasmine Al-Saleh 7 The Material Nature of Block Printed Amulets: What Makes Them Amulets?  Karl Schaefer Part 3 Collecting and Collections 8 Arabic Magical Texts in Original Documents: A Papyrologist Answers Five Questions You Always Wanted to Ask  Ursula Hammed 9 Amulets and Talismans in the Earliest Works of the Corpus Bunianum  Jean-Charles Coulon 10 Twigs in the Tawfik Canaan Collection of Palestinian Amulets  Marcela Garcia Probert 11 The Collection of Arabic and Persian Seals and Amulets in the British Museum: Notes on a History  Venetia Porter Glossary Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume is devoted to the texts, traditions, and practices of the Land of Israel from the end of the Second Temple period through late antiquity. Based upon a conference organized by the Yeshiva University Center for Israel Studies, this collection uses a range of critical methodologies and sources, including the Palestinian and Babylonian Talmudim, archaeology, and Samaritan and Jewish liturgical poetry. It presents a vibrant, complex, and multi-layered series of snapshots of rabbinic culture, written by leading contemporary scholars.Table of ContentsPreface List of Illustrations Contributors Part 1 Torat Erets Yisrael 1 Rabbinic Paleontology: Jewish Encounters with Fossil Giants in Roman Antiquity  Elisha Fine and Steven Fine 2 Tosefta Eduyot 1:1 On the Fear of Losing Torah and the Redaction of Tannaitic Materials  Michal Bar-Asher Siegal 3 Minhag and Popular Practice in Roman Palestine  Stuart Miller 4 The Roman Freedman and the Ḥalal: The Legal Models That Shaped Rabbinic Law on the Status of Converts in Marriage  Yael Wilfand 5 Shimon b. Shatah, the Donkey, and the Diamond: The Treasure and the Blessing, Law and Artistry  Nachman Levine 6 Whence Leprosy? An Inquiry into the Theodicies of the Tannaim  Shlomo Zuckier 7 Feasting, Fasting, and the Bounty of the Land: Rituals of Sukkot in Samaritan and Rabbinic Antiquity  Laura Lieber 8 Two Parallel Consolatory Poems for Tisha be’Av in Aramaic and Hebrew  Moshe Bernstein Part 2 Torat Erets Yisrael in Babylonia 9 The Motif of the Forgetting and Restoration of Law: An Inter-Talmudic Difference about the Divine Role in Rabbinic Law  Alyssa Gray 10 The Use of Literary Considerations as a Key for Assessing the Reliability of Memrot in the Babylonian Talmud: The Case of the Lo Shanu Ela Traditions  Barak Cohen 11 Cultural Attitudes towards Scent in the Interpretation of Isaiah 11:3  Meira Wolkenfeld 12 “And God Blessed Them”: Procreation in Palestinian Halakhah and Babylonian Aggadah  Shana Strauch Schick Part 3 Tributes to Yaakov Elman 13 Remembering Yaakov Elman ז״ל  Lawrence Schiffman 14 Perpetual Motion  Shai Secunda 15 Professor Yaakov Elman: A Talmud Scholar of Singular Depth and Scope  Shana Strauch Schick 16 A Tribute to Professor Yaakov Elman  Meira Wolkenfeld List of Yaakov Elman’s Publications Index

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Book SynopsisThe Qur’anic surahs and passages that are customarily taken to postdate Muhammad’s emigration to Medina occupy a key position in the formative period of Islam: they fundamentally shaped later convictions about Muhammad’s paradigmatic authority and universal missionary remit; they constitute an important basis for Islam’s development into a religion with a strong legal focus; and they demarcate the Qur’anic community from Judaism and Christianity. The volume exemplifies a rich array of approaches to the challenges posed by this part of the Qur’an, including its distinctive literary and doctrinal features, its relationship to other late antique traditions, and the question of oral composition. Contributors are Karen Bauer, Saqib Hussain, Marianna Klar, Joseph E. Lowry, Angelika Neuwirth, Andrew J. O’Connor, Cecilia Palombo, Nora K. Schmid, Nicolai Sinai, Devin J. Stewart, Gabriel S. Reynolds, Neal Robinson and Holger Zellentin.Table of ContentsList of Figures and Tables Introduction  Nicolai Sinai Part 1 Literary Features of the Medinan Qurʾan 1 Towards a Compositional Grammar of the Medinan Suras  Nicolai Sinai 2 Lexical Layers vs Structural Paradigms in the Opening of Sūrat al-Baqara: Typically Medinan Structures in Q 2, Q 3, and Some Shorter Medinan Compositions  Marianna Klar 3 Formulae and Repetition in the Medinan Qurʾan: The Story of the Golden Calf between Meccan and Medinan Suras  Cecilia Palombo 4 Interrogative Rhetoric and Deliberative Discourse in the Medinan Suras  Nora K. Schmid 5 Vocatives in the Qurʾan and the Framing of Prophetic Proclamations  Devin J. Stewart Part 2 Ritual, Prophetology, and Law: Some Medinan Themes 6 The Qibla of Muhammad’s Community Reconsidered  Angelika Neuwirth 7 Obeying God and His Messenger: Medinan Prophetology in the Meccan Qurʾan?  Andrew J. O’Connor 8 Law in the Medinan Qurʾan: The Case of Biblical Incest Law and Its Qurʾanic Reiteration  Holger Zellentin Part 3 Studies of Individual Suras 9 The Dynamics of Sūrat Āl ʿImrān (Q 3)  Neal Robinson 10 A Guide to the Legal Material in Sūrat al-Nisāʾ (Q 4)  Joseph E. Lowry 11 Emotive Rhetoric, Plot, and Persuasion in a Jihād Surah (Q 8 al-Anfāl)  Karen Bauer 12 Intratextuality, Doublets, and Orality in the Qurʾan, with Attention to Suras 61 and 66  Gabriel S. Reynolds 13 Q 63 (Sūrat al-Munāfiqūn): A Text-Critical and Structural Analysis  Saqib Hussain Index

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Book SynopsisSeven new scholarly essays present original research that includes rare historical and photographic materials highlighting the significance of Islamic civilization and its vexed legacy in a variety of contemporary European countries and challenging the perception of European identity as exclusively Christian. This volume unearths a rich, complex history of relationships between Muslims and Christians in Europe whose value lies in the close and continued connections between them that began so long ago on European soil.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction, Elizabeth Drayson Part 1: Islamic Heritage and cultural politics 1 Turkey and the Politics of Memory: Consequences for Domestic and Foreign Affairs and Security in the Region, Karol Kujawa 2 The Legacy of the Ottoman (Turkish) Age in Slovakia in the 21st century, Gabriel Pirický 3 Islamophobia, Orientalism and “Jihadist Radicalisation” in the TV Series El Príncipe (2014-6), Carlos Yebra López Part 2: Islamic Heritage and Architecture 4 Hybridity as an appellation of twentieth-century Islamic built environment, Nuno Grancho 5 Mosques and cemeteries of the Polish Muslim Tatars as an example of Islamic legacy in the Central Eastern European landscape in the 21st century, Agata S. Nalborczyk 6 Revisiting the Ottoman-period Mosques in Albania: A Critical Observation on Late Interventions, Edmond Manahasa 7 Monumental Heritage and Past Conflict: The Ambiguous Role of Al-Andalus in Modern Spain and the Role of Art History, Elena Paulino Montero Index

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Book SynopsisIs there a “return to the religious” in post-Communist Eastern Europe that differs from religious trends in the West and the Middle East? Looking beyond immediate events, this book situates public talk about religion and religious practice in the longue durée of the two entangled pasts —Byzantine and Ottoman—that implicitly underpin contemporary politics. Islam, Christianity, and Secularism situates Bulgaria in its wider region, indicating ongoing Middle Eastern, Russian, and other European influences shaping patterns of religious identity. The chapters point to overlapping and complementary views of ethno-religious belonging and communal practices among Orthodox Christians and Muslims throughout the region. Contributors are Dale F. Eickelman, Simeon Evstatiev, Kristen Ghodsee, Galina Evstatieva, Ilia Iliev, Daniela Kalkandjieva, Plamen Makariev, Momchil Metodiev, Daria Oreshina, Ivan Zabaev and Angeliki Ziaka.Table of ContentsNote on Transliteration List of Figures Notes on Contributors  Introduction On the Eastern Edge of Europe: Christianity, Islam, and the Bulgarian Political Imagination   Dale F. Eickelman and Simeon Evstatiev part 1 Secularism in Bulgaria and Its Region 1 Byzantine and Ottoman Pasts, Modern Politics Religious Belongings and Balkan Secularities   Simeon Evstatiev and Dale F. Eickelman 2 Regulating Religious Freedoms in the 21st Century Nationality, Religion, and Symphonic Secularism   Kristen Ghodsee 3 Salafism Is Coming “Balkan” versus “Arab” Islam in Bulgaria under Milletic Secularism   Simeon Evstatiev part 2 Christian and Muslim Men and Women under State Atheism and Postsocialist Secularism 4 Symbols and Identity in Bulgaria Parallels between Communist Atheism and Western Secularism   Momchil Metodiev 5 Caesar and God in the Public Sphere Religious and Secular Discourse in Post-Atheist Bulgaria   Daniela Kalkandjieva 6 The Hijab in Contemporary Bulgaria Muslim Views on Veiling   Galina Evstatieva 7 Fasting and Aging in a Bulgarian Muslim Community   Ilia Iliev part 3 Religion, Publicity, and Concealment in Orthodox-Majority Societies 8 Parallel Paths Christian-Muslim Symbiosis and Religious Education in Greece   Angeliki Ziaka 9 The Russian Orthodox Church Federal Visibility Versus Local-Level Concealment   Ivan Zabaev and Daria Oreshina 10 Religion and the Challenges of Public Legitimization The Bulgarian Orthodox Church   Plamen Makariev Index

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Book SynopsisDynamics of Islam in the Modern World scrutinizes and analyzes Islam in context. It posits Muslims not as independent and autonomous, but as relational and interactive agents of change and continuity who interplay with Islamic(ate) sources of self and society as well as with resources from other traditions. Representing multiple disciplinary approaches, the contributors to this volume discuss a broad range of issues, such as secularization, colonialism, globalization, radicalism, human rights, migration, hermeneutics, mysticism, religious normativity and pluralism, while paying special attention to three geographical settings of South Asia, the Middle East and Euro-America.Trade Review‘The multiple engagements of Islam—Muslim actors and texts, collectivities and institutions—within the folds of modernity are boldly charted in this book. It is a volume that all will welcome.’ Bruce B. Lawrence, Duke University ‘This collection of essays is an important and welcome contribution to scholarship on the dynamic forces that shape the ways in which contemporary Muslim communities interpret and engage with Islam. Multidisciplinary in its approaches, it examines, through case studies from South Asia, the Middle East and Euro-America, the impact of Western hegemony as well as ideologies such as secularism, scientism and nationalism on modern Muslim thought, practices and institutions.’ Ali S. Asani, Harvard University ‘This volume treats us to a kaleidoscopic prism refracting the tensions and richness through which Muslim life and Islamic ideas are weaved into the fabric of global society. Offering us multiple windows into the intellectual legacy of Jamal Malik, it diagnoses multiple historical aporias inherited by the global age we are living through, squeezed between the unrelenting surges of Western normative hubris and the epistemic fragility of dialogic openings.’ Armando Salvatore, McGill UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Transliteration List of Figures and Tables Notes on Contributors Introduction: Dynamics of Islam in the Modern World, Ali Altaf Mian Part 1: Islam, Modernity and Science 1. Islam and the Global History of Secularity, Reinhard Schulze 2. Negotiating Modernity Through Constructions of History in Modern Muslim Religious Thought, Armina Omerika 3. Between Science and Mysticism: Sabir Multani and the Reform of Humoral Medicine in Pakistan, Stefan Reichmuth Part 2: Islamic Activism and Radicalism 4. Peaceful and Militant Interpretations of Jihad: A Comparative Study of Contemporary South Asian Exegetes, Tariq Rahman 5. The Word of God for the Indian Muslim of Today: Abul Kalam Azad’s Tarjuman al-Qurʾan, Jan-Peter Hartung 6. Post-Migrant Dynamics of Islam: Muslim Youth and Salafism in Germany, David Yuzva Clement Part 3: Islamic Normativity and Shariʿa 7. Islam and Human Rights: Breaks and Continuity in a Complex Debate, Mouez Khalfaoui 8. Islamic Law: The Struggle Against Time, Reik Kirchhof 9. Negotiating Everyday Lived Islam: A Case Study of Pakistani Diaspora in Canada, Syed FurrukhZad Part 4: Islamic Mysticism and Globalization 10. Prophetic Descent in the Early Modern Tariqa Muhammadiyya Khalisa, Soraya Khodamoradi 11. Dynamics of Mystical Islam in the American Space: Ahmed Abdur Rashid’s “Applied Sufism”, Michael E. Asbury and Saeed Zarrabi-Zadeh 12. “Transplanted” Sufism: Complications of a Category, Marcia Hermansen Part 5: Islamic Pluralism and Dialogue 13. Discourses of Tolerance and Dialogue in Contemporary Islam, Itzchak Weismann 14. Religious Pluralism and Religious Plurality in Pakistan, Hasnain Bokhari Afterword: Dynamics of Islam in Context, Pnina Werbner Honoring Jamal Malik Tabula Gratulatoria Jamal Malik’s Publication List Index

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Book SynopsisIn Reading Islam Fabio Vicini offers a journey within the intimate relations, reading practices, and forms of intellectual engagement that regulate Muslim life in two enclosed religious communities in Istanbul. Combining anthropological observation with textual and genealogical analysis, he illustrates how the modes of thought and social engagement promoted by these two communities are the outcome of complex intellectual entanglements with modern discourses about science, education, the self, and Muslims’ place and responsibility in society. In this way, Reading Islam sheds light on the formation of new generations of faithful and socially active Muslims over the last thirty years and on their impact on the turn of Turkey from an assertive secularist Republic to an Islamic-oriented form of governance.Trade Review‘For the better part of a century, Turkey has been a major center of intellectual, educational, and ethical reform in modern Islam. In this vividly written and theoretically sophisticated book, Fabio Vicini takes readers through a reading of the two most foundational currents in that reform movement, and shows their deep relevance for education, ethics, and civility in the broader Muslim world. This is a must-read book for all students of Islamic affairs.’ Robert W. Hefner, Pardee School of Global Affairs, Boston University ‘Fabio Vicini’s Reading Islam is both methodologically careful and theoretically insightful, reflecting the best qualities of ethnographic writing on the social life of Islam in Turkey. Vicini describes in rich detail the forms of piety and intellectual development encouraged in religious communities active in Turkey. It is certainly refreshing to read an analysis of religious practice that takes seriously the practitioners’ orientation toward transcendence in developing religious knowledge and ethical reasoning.’ Kim Shiveley, Kutztown University ‘This perceptive study of brotherhood, ethics and self-disciplining in religious communities focused on reading Said Nursi’s Risale-i Nur draws attention to aspects of religious tradition hitherto neglected in studies of Turkish Islam. Vicini’s thoughtful analysis engages critically with a large body of contemporary social theory and provides essential new insight into the interiorizing practices of these communities and Islamic piety in general, offering a sympathetic understanding of Muslim life in modern Turkey.’ Martin van Bruinessen, Comparative Study of Contemporary Muslim Societies, Utrecht UniversityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Note on Transliteration and Turkish Pronunciation Introduction: Reading Islam in Modern Times  1 Reading is Transcending  2 Accommodating Modernity  3 Thinking Islam  4 A Revival of Muslim Civility  5 Fieldwork in Two Concealed Communities  6 Before and after July 15  7 Outline of the Book 1 Outreaches of Religious Service  1 Reading the Risale  2 Reforming Society through Educational Service  3 From Hizmet to Individual Duty  4 Modernity and the Displacement of Islamic Ethics  5 The Islamic Revival, Urban Life and Community 2 Living the Brotherhood  1 Daily Life in the Houses  2 Discipline and Prayer  3 Time and Prayer  4 Living by Example  5 Brotherhood between Pedagogy and Authority  6 Brotherhood between Civility and Corporate Personality  7 Virtues of Mutuality  8 Living Sincerity 3 Reading, Reflection and the Search for Transcendence  1 Appealing to the Imagination  2 Iterative Reading  3 Reading as Cultural Practice  4 Genealogies of Reflection  5 Toward a Sufi Cosmology  6 Reflecting on Death 4 Putting Islam to Work  1 Education, the Nation and the Islamic “Ethos”  2 Accessing Quality Education  3 Modern Times, Docile Methods  4 From Jihad to Reforming Society  5 Life and Tutoring in the Gülen Housings  6 Romanticizing Prophethood  7 Learning by Example  8 Embodying Responsibility 5 Politics of Brotherhood  1 “You’ll Be of Service to This Country”  2 The Nur Self’s Spaces of Will and Freedom  3 The Relativity of the Good: On the Modern Liberal Conception of the Self  4 Being an Aware and Responsible Muslim  5 On Brotherhood and Moral Reasoning Conclusion References Index

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Book SynopsisSunni-Shia relations in Iran offer an analytical guide for the interpretation of inequality, securitization, and immigration. This book reorients our understanding of contemporary Iran by answering still unacknowledged questions: how is the relationship, the interaction and socio-political behaviour between the Islamic Republic and its Sunni minorities? Using unexamined sources and fieldwork, Hessam Habibi Doroh shows a clear insight into the life of Iranian Sunnis, their contention and cooperation with the state during Hasan Rouhani´s presidency. Comparison with the wider region complements this nuanced portrayal of impacts of privatization, secularization, and securitization on the sectarian relations between the state and its minorities.Table of ContentsPreface List of Figures Introduction Part 1: Confessional Minorities, Comparative Perspectives 1 Coexistence and Religious Differences in Asia 2 The Iranian Perspective Comparison and Conclusion of Part 1 Part 2: Unity and Its Enemies, Perspectives from Shia Elites Introduction to Part 2 3 Unity as the Order 4 Enemies and Their Infiltration Annex 1 Part 3: Exclusionary Co-existence, Perspectives from Sunni Communities Introduction to Part 3 5 Tolerance, Co-existence and the “Glory of Umma” 6 Injustice, Inequality and Discrimination Annex 2 Epilogue Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe development of Islamic landscapes in Europe, is first and foremost related to Islamic authority. Religious authority relies on persuasiveness and deals with issues of truth, authenticity, legitimacy, trust, and ethics with reference to religious matters. This study argues that Islamic authority-making among European Muslims is a social and relational practice that is much broader and versatile than theological proficiency and personal status. It can also be conferred to objects, activities, and events. The book explores various ways in which Islamic authority is being constituted among Muslims in Western Europe with a particular focus on the role of ‘ordinary’ Muslims.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgement Notes on Transliteration Introduction  1 Islamic Authority: Themes, Stakes, and Foci  2 Assessing Islamic Authority  3 Islamic Authority-Making: Processes, Actors, and Contexts  4 Chapters and Cases 1 The Religious Broker: Networks, Reciprocity, and Intermediary Power  1 Introduction  2 What Is a Religious Broker?  3 Religious Brokerage in the City of Rotterdam. A Historical Case  4 The Emergence of Religious Brokers  5 The Dissolution of Religious Brokers  6 Conclusions 2 The Politics of Imam Training: The Domestication of Islam in Europe  1 Introduction  2 The Quest for Imams  3 Training Initiatives in Europe  4 Assessing Imam Training in Europe: What Is at Stake?  5 The Politics of Imam Training: Conclusions 3 Authoritative Pedagogics: The Sohbet  1 Introduction  2 Hizmet  3 Sohbet as ‘Sensational Form’ and a Site of Devotional Practice  4 Sohbet in Practice  5 Hizmet as a ‘Way of Life’  6 Gender  7 Conclusions 4 Alternative Authorities: Authority-Making from Below  1 Introduction  2 Authority-Making from Below, Ethics, Senses of Space and the Production of Locality  3 Cases  4 Conclusions 5 Seeking Authentic Listening Experiences in Shi’ism: Online and Offline Intersections of Majlis Practices  Aleeha Zahra Ali and Thijl Sunier  1 Introduction  2 Shi’a Muslims, Mobility and Story of Karbala  3 Majlis: Sermon and Ritual  4 Theorising the Majlis  5 Digitisation and Shi’ism  6 Authority and Authentication  7 Transnational Authority  8 Listening as a Practice of Authentication  9 Who Sits at the Minbar? Ulama, Zakirin, Public Speakers  10 The Scholar and the Listeners: Case Study  11 Conclusions 6 Branding Islam: Imagination and Claims-Making  1 Introduction  2 Cases  3 Conclusions Conclusions  1 Reprise  2 Cross-Overs, Connections, Entanglements, and Conceptual Threads  3 Reflections  4 What Else? Glossary References Index

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Book SynopsisIn the last decade a number of women-led mosques have emerged in Europe and North America. In The Making of a Mosque with Female Imams Jesper Petersen documents the serendipitous, yet predictable, emergence of the Mariam Mosque in Copenhagen. The study first demonstrates that individuals’ facing the unpredictable plays a decisive role in social processes. This leads to an investigation of how serendipities are erased when narratives are erected retrospectively in the form of commodified products, autobiographical narratives, and research. Furthermore, Petersen conceptualizes non-Muslims’ theological productions of Islam – Islam without the worship of Allah, so to speak – and demonstrates how this influences Muslim productions of Islam.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of figures Chapter 1: Entering the field Chapter 2: Ethnographic methodology Chapter 3: Muslims in Denmark Chapter 4 Sherin Khankan Chapter 5: The emergence of a religious demand Chapter 6: The serendipitous spread of a story Chapter 7: Planning the founding of Femimam Chapter 8: The serendipitous emergence of an institution Chapter 9: The pop-up mosque and its social media adhan Chapter 10: The first Mariam Mosque Chapter 11: Politicized and commodified narratives of Sherin Khankan Conclusion Bibliography Index

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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 SynopsisThis volume is a collection of essays on transregional aspects of Malay-Indonesian Islam and Islamic Studies, based on Peter G. Riddell’s broad interest and expertise. Particular attention is paid to rare manuscripts, unique inscriptions, Qurʾān commentaries and translations, textbooks, and personal and public archives. This book invites readers to reconstruct the ways in which Malay-Indonesian Islam and Islamic studies have been structured. Contributors are Khairudin Aljunied, Majid Daneshgar, R. Michael Feener, Annabel Teh Gallop, Mulaika Hijjas, Andrew Peacock, Johanna Pink, Gregorius Dwi Kuswanta, Michael Laffan, Han Hsien Liew, Julian Millie, Ervan Nurtawab, Masykur Syafruddin, Edwin P. Wieringa and Farouk Yahya.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Maps Notes on Contributors Introduction: Peter G. Riddell’s Contribution to Malay-Indonesian Islamic Studies  Majid Daneshgar and Ervan Nurtawab Part 1 Manuscripts and Inscriptions 1 Qurʾān Manuscripts from Southeast Asia in British Collections  Annabel T. Gallop 2 Arabic Texts in Buton in the Light of the La Ode Zaenu Manuscript Collection  Andrew Peacock 3 A 15th-century Persian Inscription from Bireuen, Aceh: An Early ‘Flash’ of Sufism before Fansuri in Southeast Asia  Majid Daneshgar, Gregorius Dwi Kuswanta, Masykur Syafruddin and R. Michael Feener Part 2 Qurʾānic Commentaries, Translation and Theological Concepts 4 Eight Shades of Ibn Kathīr: The Afterlives of a Premodern Qurʾānic Commentary in Contemporary Indonesian Translations  Johanna Pink 5 An Unfaithful Translation for the Faithful: Indonesian Islamic Gatekeepers on the Free Poetic Acehnese Translation of the Qurʾān by Teungku Haji Mahjiddin Jusuf (1918–1994)  Edwin P. Wieringa 6 An Old Malay Manuscript of Tafsīr and Tajwīd: Formative Islamic Sciences in Nusantara  Majid Daneshgar 7 Navigating Anthropomorphism in Malay Islam: Tarjumān al-Mustafīd’s Treatment of the Bodily Attributes of God  Han Hsien Liew 8 Talismans with the Names of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus/Aṣḥāb al-Kahf in Muslim Southeast Asia  Farouk Yahya Part 3 Critical Reading of Identity and Culture 9 Is Jawi Islamic?  Mulaika Hijjas 10 Reason and Rationality in Twentieth-Century Southeast Asia: Harun Nasution’s Dynamic Interventions  Khairudin Aljunied 11 Playthings of Destiny: Raden Mas Kareta, His Javanese Father and African Son  Michael Laffan 12 An Islamic Paratheater: Ritual Embodiment of Saintly Narratives  Julian Millie Peter G. Riddell: Scholarly Publications Index

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Book SynopsisThis is the first systematic study of Polish women's conversion to Islam in English. Through interviews with Polish female converts to Islam and ethnographic observation, we learn about their journey to Islam in a country where Muslims constitute less than 0,5% of the population and experience daily struggles related to maintaining their national and religious identities sometimes considered to be spoiled. The analysis presented in the book illuminates different factors that shape the converts' religious lives: attempts to establish "Polish Islam" with its unique cultural flavor; a new hybrid language that includes Polish, English and Arabic elements; intersectional identities as women, Muslims, Poles, and Eastern European immigrants among those who live outside of Poland. This study offers a fascinating window into the lives of Muslims in a sociopolitical context that is considered to be on the margins of the "Muslim world."Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Authors Introduction 1 Setting the Scene: Islam in Poland 2 The Socio-Demographic Profile of Survey Respondents 3 Old and New Connections: Religious and Cultural Belonging Post-conversion among Polish Female Converts to Islam in the UK 4 Polish Platonic Islamophobia 5 Language of Polish Female Converts to Islam 6 Converted Bodies: Interior Life and Embodied Religious Practices of Polish Female Converts to Islam 7 From a ‘Salafi Bite’ to the ‘Middle Way’ Conclusions Glossary Index

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Book SynopsisThe return of Jews to their ancestral land can be seen as an act of imagination. A new country, citizenship, language, and institutions needed to be imagined in order to be created. The arts, too, have contributed to this act of envisioning and shaping the Jewish state. By examining artistic representations of Israel, Imagined Israel(s): Representations of the Jewish State in the Arts explores the ways in which the Israel imagined abroad and the one conjured within the country intersect, offering a space for the co-existence of sociopolitical, cultural, and ideological differences and tensions.Table of ContentsList of Figures Introduction  Rocco Giansante and Luna Goldberg Part 1: Building from the Ground Up: Landscape, Language, and Culture 1 The Visual Type as an Image of a People: Hebrew Typography throughout History and Its Representation of Jewish and Israeli Identity  Guy Eldar 2 Fictional Canon: Reconsidering Karl Schwarz’s Modern Jewish Art in Eretz Yisrael  Noa Avron Barak 3 Taming the Levant: Reflections on Zionism, Orientalism, and Depictions of Tel-Aviv-Jaffa in Israeli and International Comics  Ofer Berenstein Part 2: Consuming Images: Israel in America 4 Fractured Communities, Anxious Identities: Reconsidering Israel on the American Stage  Ellen W. Kaplan 5 The Sabra within the Schlemiel: Diverging Modes of American Jewish and Israeli Masculinity in Jewish American Literature  Samantha Pickette 6 Messianic Affinities: Tali Keren’s The Great Seal and Un-Charting  Chelsea Haines 7 The Short Life of the Israeli Superspy: Imagining Israel in Twentieth-Century American Crime Fiction  Reeva Spector Simon 8 Israel through the Viewfinder: Claude Lanzmann and Susan Sontag Film the Jewish State  Rocco Giansante Part 3: Within, Without: Becoming Glocal 9 Tarnishing History through Matter: Gal Weinstein’s Sun Stand Still at the Israeli Pavilion in Venice  Luna Goldberg 10 Contemporizing Yemenite Ethnicity: Hybrid Folklore in Mor Shani’s “Three Suggestions for Dealing with Time” Dance Trilogy for Inbal Dance Theater  Idit Suslik 11 A Rough, Country Face: An Iranian Intellectual Retells the Holocaust  Samuel Thrope 12 Imagined Israel? Israel in Contemporary British Theater  Glenda Abramson Part 4: Realizing Visions: Israel Reimagined 13 Resemblance, Difference, and Simulacrum in Israeli and Palestinian Art  Keren Goldberg 14 Playing Soldiers: Reimagining the Israeli Defense Forces on the Fringe Stage  Jacob Hellman 15 Disrupting Holy Binaries: The Work of Gil and Rona Yefman  Yarden Stern Index

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Book SynopsisThe political and economic rise of this small but influential community of New Christian bankers and merchants is analysed against the backdrop of its institutional dynamics, in an overall perspective never before conceived. The political, religious, economic, legal, charitable and disciplinary history of the community is thus explored through the analysis of the richly detailed protocol books, written between 1652 and 1682. This is the intimate and fascinating journey of their everyday lives, hopes and challenges, as brought to us by their leaders.Table of ContentsPreface Note on Terminology List of Illustrations Glossary of Terms Introduction  Aim and Organisation of the Work  State of the Art  Sources 1 Historical Context  1 The Western Sephardic Diaspora  2 History of the Portuguese Settlement in Hamburg (16th and 17th Century) 2 The Kahal and its Organization  1 Communal Leadership  2 Congregational Dissolution and Political Centralization (1652–1682) – The Particular Path of the Portuguese Community of Hamburg  3 Financial Administration  4 Salaried Officials  5 Instituições religiosas e educativas  6 Communal Justice  7 Social Assistance and Charitable Institutions 3 Orthodoxy and Morality  1 Social Discipline  2 Women and Communal Discicpline  3 Domestic Sphere and Family Life  4 Transgressions and Offenses Punished by the Nation’s Statutes Conclusion Annexes: Criteria for the Transcription of Manuscript Documents  1 Congregational Unification of 1652 (Talmud Torah, Keter Torah, Neve Shalom and Magen David)  2 Founding Statutes of the General Congregation Bet Israel  3 Founding Statutes of the Elementary School Talmud Torah  4 Privileges and Obligations of the Brotherhood Guemillut Hassadim  5 Foundation of the Private Brotherhood Ets Haim and its Consequent Incorporation into the General Congregation  6 Finta geral of 1656  7 Finta geral of 1658  8 Direito da Nação of 1652  9 Passages in the Protocol Book in Reference to Sabbatai Zevi  10 Commotion in the Synagogue and Schism of the Lima family / Conditions of their Re-entry into the General Congregation Bibliographic References  Primary Sources  Secondary Sources Index of People

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Book SynopsisThe Turkish market of Qur’anic translations and studies is exceedingly oversaturated. Critics find some of these lacking in proper hermeneutical judgment, impelling them to reflect on the conditions of judicious Qur’anic exegesis. These reflections have remained relatively unexplored in English academic literature. In Critical Hermeneutics, Çelik explores and compares the hermeneutical philosophies of three Turkish intellectuals, namely Alpyağıl, Cündioğlu, and Öztürk. By exploring their philosophical views on subjectivity and objectivity in the context of interpreting the Qur’an, Çelik draws major implications for reading the Qur’an in new and different ways.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Citations 1 Introduction  1 Status of prior Research  2 The Ankara School: History and Hermeneutics  3 A Return to Theoretical Deliberation  4 The Problem of Subjectivity–Objectivity  5 Overall Structure and Conceptual Framework 2 What Is Qurʾanic Hermeneutics?  1 Introduction  2 Körner’s Study of Revisionist Qurʾanic Hermeneutics  3 An Alternative Definition of Qurʾanic Hermeneutics  4 Cross-Cultural Hermeneutics  5 Qurʾanic Hermeneutics and the Statement  6 Conclusion 3 A Case against Subjectivity and Relativism: The Hermeneutics of Dücane Cündioğlu  1 Introduction  2 The Meaning of Understanding the Qurʾan  3 Hermeneutical Beginnings  4 Qurʾanic Hermeneutics and Subjectivity  5 Polysemy, Subjectivity, and the Qurʾan  6 The Natural Relations of Expressions  7 Hermeneutics in Practice  8 The Evaporation of Meaning and the Qurʾan  9 Objectivity, Subjectivity, and the Justification of Interpretations  10 The Qurʾan as a Linguistic Event  11 Lisan and kelam  12 The Diachronic Aspects of Understanding  13 Conclusive Remarks 4 Subjective Bearing Is More Fundamental to Understanding Than Objective Method: The Hermeneutics of Recep Alpyağıl  1 Introduction  2 The Problem of Private Language and Subjectivist Qurʾanic Readings  3 The Qurʾan and Art  4 Seeing-as  5 Faith and History  6 Closing Remarks 5 Between Subjective Scruples and Objective Historical Reconstruction: The Hermeneutics of Mustafa Öztürk  1 Introduction  2 Rehabilitating the Historical  3 The Two Stages of Interpretation: Reconstruction and Mediation  4 Reconstruction: An Archaeology of Meaning  5 Mediation  6 The Inescapable Particularity of Narratives  7 Rediscovering God  8 The Teleology of the Sharīʿa  9 Responding to Criticism  10 The Ethics of Interpretative Claims  11 Guarding the Lines between taḥrīf and taʾwīl  12 Concluding Remarks 6 Truth, Subjectivity, and Method  1 Introduction  2 Truth and Spirituality  3 Subjectivity and Truth  4 Objectivity and Language  5 Conclusion 7 Surplus and Futurity of Meaning: The Status of New and Divergent Readings of the Qurʾan  1 Introduction  2 The Surplus of Meaning and the Double Significance of Symbols  3 Excess and Futurity  4 The Surplus and Futurity of Meaning in Turkish Qurʾan Hermeneutics  5 Conclusion 8 Final Reflections on the State of Qurʾanic Hermeneutics in Turkey Bibliography Index

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