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Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
1 421 kr
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A sweeping account of the evolution of early Islamic culture.This book argues that early Islamic literature was influenced less by the Qur’an and more by the bureaucratic culture of the Diwan, the secular political system in place long before a written religious culture emerged. As Houari Touati explains, this secular Arab culture quickly outstripped written religious erudition: first, because of the diverse communities who participated in the scholarly networks of the empire; and second, because of the universalizing influence of the period’s Greco-Arabic translation movement. This process of cross-cultural fertilization, Touati recounts, flourished within Islam until the canonization of the Hadith (the official sayings, actions, and sanctions of Muhammad) began to disrupt this dynamic of interchange after the tenth century, without, however, managing to put a definitive end to it. The Fabric of Classical Islamic Culture is a wide-ranging, comparative account of the parallel development of secular and sacred culture that produced the modern Arabic world.
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
438 kr
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A sweeping account of the evolution of early Islamic culture.This book argues that early Islamic literature was influenced less by the Qur’an and more by the bureaucratic culture of the Diwan, the secular political system in place long before a written religious culture emerged. As Houari Touati explains, this secular Arab culture quickly outstripped written religious erudition: first, because of the diverse communities who participated in the scholarly networks of the empire; and second, because of the universalizing influence of the period’s Greco-Arabic translation movement. This process of cross-cultural fertilization, Touati recounts, flourished within Islam until the canonization of the Hadith (the official sayings, actions, and sanctions of Muhammad) began to disrupt this dynamic of interchange after the tenth century, without, however, managing to put a definitive end to it. The Fabric of Classical Islamic Culture is a wide-ranging, comparative account of the parallel development of secular and sacred culture that produced the modern Arabic world.
Del 116 - Islamic History and Civilization
De la figuration humaine au portrait dans l’art islamique
Inbunden, Franska, 2015
2 159 kr
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Ce livre présente une étude historique et culturel sur l'art figuration humaine et le portrait dans un contexte islamique médiéval basé sur des sources littéraires et iconographiques. Avec: Sheila Blair; Éloïse Brac de la Perrière; Oleg Grabar; Kata Keresztely; Mika Natif; Yves Porter; Houari Touati This book presents an art historical and cultural study of human figuration and portraiture in a medieval islamic context, based on literary and iconographic sources. With contributions by: Sheila Blair; Éloïse Brac de la Perrière; Oleg Grabar; Kata Keresztely; Mika Natif; Yves Porter; Houari Touati
Del 195 - Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East
How the Human Arrived in Islam and Then Disappeared
From Athens to Baghdad
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
3 726 kr
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This book argues that while the concept of the human being was a Greek invention, its reinvention was Arab before it was European. Born in Greece in the fourth century BCE, this concept of the human being disappeared at the end of Late Antiquity, before reappearing in the Abbasid Near East. It was Muslim rationalist theologians who revived it in their theodicy of a just God who can only be just by recognizing the agency of human beings in their voluntary acts. Later, Arabic-speaking philosophers gave it a space of its own under the name of ‘human sciences,’ in the 9th century. But a traditional theology got the better of it. Its reappearance had to wait for the European Renaissance, while retaining its Arab origins.