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23 produkter
History and Memory in the Abbasid Caliphate
Writing the Past in Medieval Arabic Literature
Av Letizia Osti, Roy Mottahedeh
Häftad, 2024
479 kr
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Abu Bakr al-Suli was an Abbasid polymath and table companion, as well as a legendary chess player. He was perhaps best known for his work on poetry and chancery, which would have a long-lasting influence on Arabic literature. His decades of service at the court of at least three caliphs give him a …
Cross Veneration in the Medieval Islamic World
Christian Identity and Practice under Muslim Rule
Av Charles Tieszen, Roy Mottahedeh
Häftad, 2019
502 kr
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One of the most common religious practices among medieval Eastern Christian communities was their devotion to venerating crosses and crucifixes. Yet many of these communities existed in predominantly Islamic contexts, where the practice was subject to much criticism and often resulted in …
Roma in the Medieval Islamic World
Literacy, Culture, and Migration
Av Kristina Richardson, Roy Mottahedeh
Häftad, 2022
313 kr
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Winner of the 2022 Dan David Prize for outstanding scholarship that illuminates the past and seeks to anchor public discourse in a deeper understanding of historyWinner of the 2023 Medieval Academy of America Monica H. Green Prize for Distinguished Medieval ResearchHonorable Mention in the 2023 …
Writing History in the Medieval Islamic World
The Value of Chronicles as Archives
Häftad, 2020
473 kr
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In the ‘encyclopaedic’ fourteenth century, Arabic chronicles produced in Mamluk cities bore textual witness to both recent and bygone history, including that of the Fatimids (969–1171CE). For in two centuries of rule over Egypt and North Africa, the Isma‘ili Fatimids had left few self-generated …
Eastern Frontier
Limits of Empire in Late Antique and Early Medieval Central Asia
Av Robert Haug, Roy Mottahedeh
Häftad, 2020
488 kr
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Transoxania, Khurasan, and Tukharistan – which comprise large parts of today’s Central Asia – have long been an important frontier zone. In the late antique and early medieval periods, the region was both an eastern political boundary for Persian and Islamic empires and a cultural border separating …
Narrating Muslim Sicily
War and Peace in the Medieval Mediterranean World
Av William Granara, Roy Mottahedeh
Häftad, 2021
488 kr
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In 902 the last Byzantine stronghold in Sicily fell, and the island would remain under Muslim control until the arrival of the Normans in the eleventh century. Drawing on a lifetime of translating and linguistic experience, William Granara here focuses on the various ways in which medieval Arab …
School of Hillah and the Formation of Twelver Shi‘i Islamic Tradition
Av Aun Hasan Ali, Roy Mottahedeh
Inbunden, 2023
1279 kr
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Against the background of long-standing narratives in which Twelver Shi‘ism is viewed as fundamentally authoritarian, The School of Hillah and the Formation of Twelver Shi‘i Islamic Tradition builds upon recent scholarship in the fields of Religious Studies, Anthropology, and History to argue that …
School of Hillah and the Formation of Twelver Shi‘i Islamic Tradition
Av Aun Hasan Ali, Roy Mottahedeh
Häftad, 2025
417 kr
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Against the background of long-standing narratives in which Twelver Shi‘ism is viewed as fundamentally authoritarian, The School of Hillah and the Formation of Twelver Shi‘i Islamic Tradition builds upon recent scholarship in the fields of Religious Studies, Anthropology, and History to argue that …
Music and Musicians in the Medieval Islamicate World
A Social History
Av Lisa Nielson, Roy Mottahedeh
Häftad, 2022
459 kr
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During the early medieval Islamicate period (800–1400 CE), discourses concerned with music and musicians were wide-ranging and contentious, and expressed in works on music theory and philosophy as well as literature and poetry. But in spite of attempts by influential scholars and political leaders …
Arab Conquests and Early Islamic Historiography
The Futuh al-Buldan of al-Baladhuri
Av Ryan J. Lynch, Roy Mottahedeh
Häftad, 2021
488 kr
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Winner of the 2021 Southeast Regional Middle East and Islamic Studies Society Book Prize Of the available sources for Islamic history between the seventh and eighth centuries CE, few are of greater importance than al-Baladhuri’s Kitab Futuh al-buldan (The Book of the Conquest of Lands). Written in …
Female Sexuality in the Early Medieval Islamic World
Gender and Sex in Arabic Literature
Av Pernilla Myrne, Roy Mottahedeh
Häftad, 2021
544 kr
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In the early Islamic world, Arabic erotic compendia and sex manuals were a popular literary genre. Although primarily written by male authors, the erotic publications from this era often emphasised the sexual needs of women and the importance of female romantic fulfilment. Pernilla Myrne here …
Gender and Succession in Medieval and Early Modern Islam
Bilateral Descent and the Legacy of Fatima
Av Alyssa Gabbay, Roy Mottahedeh
Häftad, 2021
459 kr
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In Gender and Succession in Medieval and Early Modern Islam: Bilateral Descent and the Legacy of Fatima, Alyssa Gabbay examines episodes in pre-modern Islamic history in which individuals or societies recognized descent from both men and women. Fatima, daughter of the Prophet Muhammad, features …
Cross Veneration in the Medieval Islamic World
Christian Identity and Practice under Muslim Rule
Av Charles Tieszen, Roy Mottahedeh
Inbunden, 2017
1849 kr
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One of the most common religious practices among medieval Eastern Christian communities was their devotion to venerating crosses and crucifixes. Yet many of these communities existed in predominantly Islamic contexts, where the practice was subject to much criticism and often resulted in …
Writing History in the Medieval Islamic World
The Value of Chronicles as Archives
Inbunden, 2019
1707 kr
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In the ‘encyclopaedic’ fourteenth century, Arabic chronicles produced in Mamluk cities bore textual witness to both recent and bygone history, including that of the Fatimids (969–1171CE). For in two centuries of rule over Egypt and North Africa, the Isma‘ili Fatimids had left few self-generated …
Roma in the Medieval Islamic World
Literacy, Culture, and Migration
Av Kristina Richardson, Roy Mottahedeh
Inbunden, 2021
1393 kr
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Winner of the 2022 Dan David Prize for outstanding scholarship that illuminates the past and seeks to anchor public discourse in a deeper understanding of historyWinner of the 2023 Medieval Academy of America Monica H. Green Prize for Distinguished Medieval ResearchHonorable Mention in the 2023 …
Music and Musicians in the Medieval Islamicate World
A Social History
Av Lisa Nielson, Roy Mottahedeh
Inbunden, 2021
1466 kr
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During the early medieval Islamicate period (800–1400 CE), discourses concerned with music and musicians were wide-ranging and contentious, and expressed in works on music theory and philosophy as well as literature and poetry. But in spite of attempts by influential scholars and political leaders …
Eastern Frontier
Limits of Empire in Late Antique and Early Medieval Central Asia
Av Robert Haug, Roy Mottahedeh
Inbunden, 2019
1758 kr
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Transoxania, Khurasan, and ?ukharistan – which comprise large parts of today’s Central Asia – have long been an important frontier zone. In the late antique and early medieval periods, the region was both an eastern political boundary for Persian and Islamic empires and a cultural border separating …
The City in Late Medieval Anatolia
Cross-Cultural Interaction and Urbanism in the Middle East
Av Rachel Goshgarian, Roy Mottahedeh
Inbunden, 2030
1479 kr
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History and Memory in the Abbasid Caliphate
Writing the Past in Medieval Arabic Literature
Av Letizia Osti, Roy Mottahedeh
Inbunden, 2022
1556 kr
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Abu Bakr al-Suli was an Abbasid polymath and table companion, as well as a legendary chess player. He was perhaps best known for his work on poetry and chancery, which would have a long-lasting influence on Arabic literature. His decades of service at the court of at least three caliphs give him a …
Gender and Succession in Medieval and Early Modern Islam
Bilateral Descent and the Legacy of Fatima
Av Alyssa Gabbay, Roy Mottahedeh
Inbunden, 2020
1565 kr
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In Gender and Succession in Medieval and Early Modern Islam: Bilateral Descent and the Legacy of Fatima, Alyssa Gabbay examines episodes in pre-modern Islamic history in which individuals or societies recognized descent from both men and women. Fatima, daughter of the Prophet Muhammad, features …
Arab Conquests and Early Islamic Historiography
The Futuh al-Buldan of al-Baladhuri
Av Ryan J. Lynch, Roy Mottahedeh
Inbunden, 2019
1758 kr
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Winner of the 2021 Southeast Regional Middle East and Islamic Studies Society Book Prize Of the available sources for Islamic history between the seventh and eighth centuries CE, few are of greater importance than al-Baladhuri’s Kitab Futuh al-buldan (The Book of the Conquest of Lands). Written in …
Female Sexuality in the Early Medieval Islamic World
Gender and Sex in Arabic Literature
Av Pernilla Myrne, Roy Mottahedeh
Inbunden, 2019
2126 kr
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In the early Islamic world, Arabic erotic compendia and sex manuals were a popular literary genre. Although primarily written by male authors, the erotic publications from this era often emphasised the sexual needs of women and the importance of female romantic fulfilment. Pernilla Myrne here …
Loyalty and Leadership in an Early Islamic Society
Häftad, 2001
375 kr
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This masterful portrait of an Islamic society undergoing a great social upheaval has become one of the most significant contributions to our understanding of pre-modern Islamic history. Loyalty and Leadership in an Early Islamic Society concentrates on the Buyid dynasty that ruled in Iran and Iraq …
