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Barren Women
Religion and Medicine in the Medieval Middle East
Av Sara Verskin
Inbunden, 2020
1506 kr
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Barren Women is the first scholarly book to explore the ramifications of being infertile in the medieval Arab-Islamic world. Through an examination of legal texts, medical treatises, and works of religious preaching, Sara Verskin illuminates how attitudes toward mixed-gender interactions; legal …
Harmonizing Similarities
A History of Distinctions Literature in Islamic Law
Inbunden, 2019
1529 kr
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"Harmonizing Similarities" is a study of the legal distinctions (al-furūq al-fiqhiyya) literature and its role in the development of the Islamic legal heritage. This book reconsiders how the public performance of Islamic law helped shape legal literature. It identifies the origins of this tradition …
Before Sufism
Early Islamic renunciant piety
Inbunden, 2020
1474 kr
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Christopher Melchert proposes to historicize Islamic renunciant piety (zuhd). As the conquest period wound down in the early eighth century c.e., renunciants set out to maintain the contempt of worldly comfort and loyalty to a greater cause that had characterized the community of Muslims in the …
Qur’an Commentary and the Biblical Turn
A History of Muslim Exegetical Engagement with the Biblical Text
Av Samuel Ross
Inbunden, 2024
1481 kr
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The Qur’an and the Bible have been called "intertwined scriptures" due to the Qur’an’s frequent invocation of biblical narratives and figures. But what is the history of Muslims’ exegetical engagement with the biblical text? Through a comprehensive survey of more than 170 Qur’an commentaries, …
Barren Women
Biology, Medicine and Religion in the Medieval Middle East
Av Sara Verskin
Häftad, 2022
314 kr
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This book explores the ramifications of being infertile in the medieval Arab-Islamic world by examining legal texts, medical treatises, and works of religious preaching. Sara Verskin illuminates how attitudes toward mixed-gender interactions; legal theories pertaining to marriage, divorce, and …
Histoire, Société Et Études Islamiques Au 21e Siècle
Directions, Connexions, Approches
Av Vincent Legrand, Ayang Utriza Yakin
Inbunden, 2024
1828 kr
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Conciliation in the Qurʾan
The Qurʾanic Ethics of Conflict Resolution
Inbunden, 2022
1538 kr
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Conciliation in the Qurʾan addresses an existing imbalanced focus in Islamic Studies on conflict in the Qurʾan, and moves beyond a restrictive approach to ṣulḥ (reconciliation) as a mediation process in fragmented social contexts. The book offers a critical analysis of conciliation as a holistic …
Literary Spectacles of Sultanship
Historiography, the Chancery, and Social Practice in Late Medieval Egypt
Inbunden, 2023
1701 kr
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The so-called Mamluk sultans who ruled Egypt and Syria between the late thirteenth and early sixteenth centuries AD have often been portrayed as lacking in legitimacy due to their background as slave soldiers. Sultanic biographies written by chancery officials in the early period of the sultanate …
Harmonizing Similarities
A History of Distinctions Literature in Islamic Law
Häftad, 2021
308 kr
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"Harmonizing Similarities" is a study of the legal distinctions (al-furūq al-fiqhiyya) literature and its role in the development of the Islamic legal heritage. This book reconsiders how the public performance of Islamic law helped shape legal literature. It identifies the origins of this tradition …
Itinerant Prophets
Rewritings, Appropriations and Metamorphoses of Prophetic Figures in the Religious, Literary and Historiographical Texts of Pre-modern Islam
Av Mehdi Azaiez, Rémy Gareil m. fl.
Inbunden, 2028
1666 kr
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The figure of the prophet circulates in all fields of the textual and visual production of premodern Islam. This volume focuses on two aspects of this phenomenon: On the one hand, it investigates the historical transformations of this figure in diverse social and political contexts and genres of …
Before Sufism
Early Islamic renunciant piety
Häftad, 2022
294 kr
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Christopher Melchert proposes to historicize Islamic renunciant piety (zuhd). As the conquest period wound down in the early eighth century c.e., renunciants set out to maintain the contempt of worldly comfort and loyalty to a greater cause that had characterized the community of Muslims in the …
Les Empires Berbères: Constructions Et Déconstructions d'Un Objet Historiographique
Inbunden, 2024
1652 kr
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Barāhima’s Dilemma
Ibn al-Rāwandī’s ›Kitāb al-Zumurrud‹ and the Epistemological Turn in the Debate on Prophecy
Inbunden, 2024
2148 kr
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When debating the need for prophets, Muslim theologians frequently cited an objection from a group called the Barāhima – either a prophet conveys what is in accordance with reason, so they would be superfluous, or a prophet conveys what is contrary to reason, so they would be rejected. The Barāhima …
Conciliation in the Qurʾan
The Qurʾanic Ethics of Conflict Resolution
Häftad, 2023
276 kr
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Conciliation in the Qurʾan addresses an existing imbalanced focus in Islamic Studies on conflict in the Qurʾan, and moves beyond a restrictive approach to ṣulḥ (reconciliation) as a mediation process in fragmented social contexts. The book offers a critical analysis of conciliation as a holistic …
Kulturen Des Sehens
Begriffsgeschichtliche Untersuchungen Zur Visualität Im Islam
Inbunden, 2024
1930 kr
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Topkapı Qurʾān Manuscript H.S. 32
History, Text, and Variants
Inbunden, 2024
1843 kr
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This study presents a comprehensive and systematic examination of a revered Qurʾān manuscript, commonly attributed to the third Islamic Caliph, ʿUthmān b. ʿAffān (d. 35/656), housed at the Topkapı Palace Museum in Istanbul, Türkiye (identified as H.S. 32). Halaseh offers a meticulous analysis of …
Canon and Censorship in Islamic Intellectual History
Av Mohammad Gharaibeh, Bacem Dziri m. fl.
Inbunden, 2026
1268 kr
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Since no religious institution has emerged from Islamic religious history that is the sole and binding determinant of legitimate faith, Muslim scholars had to legitimize their religious positions in a different way. Canonisation and censorship processes, this volume argues, played a decisive role …
Literary Spectacles of Sultanship
Historiography, the Chancery, and Social Practice in Late Medieval Egypt
Häftad, 2025
276 kr
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The so-called Mamluk sultans who ruled Egypt and Syria between the late thirteenth and early sixteenth centuries AD have often been portrayed as lacking in legitimacy due to their background as slave soldiers. Sultanic biographies written by chancery officials in the early period of the sultanate …
