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Meşāʽir üş-şuʽarā or Tezkere of ʽĀşık Çelebi
Av G. M. Meredith-Owens, Asik Celebi
Inbunden, 2012
1905 kr
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This sixteenth century biographical dictionary of Ottoman poets with comments on their style and examples of their work was one of Gibb's principle sources for Ottoman poetry in its most flourishing period. Turkish text.
Turkestan Down to the Mongol Invasion
Av W. Barthold
Häftad, 1977
832 kr
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Academician Barthold’s famous work begins in the late 7th century with the Muslim invasions of what became Russian Central Asia and carries the history of the region through the period of Abbasid centralization, that of the rise of local Muslim dynasties and successive phases of Turkish dominance …
Censure of Speculative Theology of Ibn Qudama
(Tahrim al-Nazar fi Kutub al al-Kalam)
Inbunden, 2012
426 kr
Kommande
Muwaffaq al-Din Ibn Qudama (1147-1223) was an ascetic, jurisconsult and traditionalist theologian of the Hanbali school mainly resident in Damascus. His Tahrim al-Nazar is an attack on the rationalist views of the earlier jurist of Baghdad, Ibn ‘Aqil (d. 119). Ibn Qudama took the traditionalist …
Kitab al-nasikh wa-l-mansukh of Abu ‘Ubaid al-Qasim b. Sallam
(MS Istanbul, Topkapi, Ahmet III A 143)
Av John Burton
Inbunden, 2009
1290 kr
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The term nasikh wa mansukh, usually translated as ‘abrogation’, relates to theories arising from the early exegesis of the Qur’an, in an attempt to resolve apparent contradictions in the Qur’anic text between different statements, especially those bearing on regulations. In such cases, verses later …
Sanglax
A Persian Guide to the Turkish Language
Inbunden, 1960
825 kr
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Sanglax begins with a grammar of the variety of Turkish known as Cagatay but the bulk of the work consists of a Turkish-Persian dictionary. Facsimile text in Persian and Turkish.
Vagaries of the Qasidah
Inbunden, 2015
1097 kr
Kommande
A study of the tradition and practice of early Arabic poetry, this book provides an investigation of the multiple versions of early poems that exist in various Abbasid collections. It offers a corrective to the more exaggerated claims concerning this poetry and revises some hitherto fundamental …
Kashf al-Mahjub
The ‘Revelation of the Veiled’ of Ali b. ‘Uthman al-Jullãbi Hujwiri. An early Persian Treatise on Sufism
Häftad, 2014
894 kr
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Al-Hujwīrī came from Ghazna, now in Afghanistan, then the capital of the mighty Ghaznavid Empire. He was a Sufi mystic who travelled widely in the Middle East and Transoxiana. The Kashf al-Maḥjūb was probably written in Lahore, where he is buried, not long before his death in about 1074. One of the …
Uddat al-Jalis of Ibn Bishri
An Anthology of Andalusian Arabic Muwashshat
Av Alan Jones, Alan Jones
Inbunden, 1992
1727 kr
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This is an anthology of outstanding literary importance, probably the most valuable work of Arabic poetry to surface this century. It contains the largest and best collection of Andalusian Muwashshat, 354 in all, of which over 280 are not known from any other source. This is an Arabic text.
Mission to the Lord Sophy of Persia (1539 – 1542)
Av Michel Membre, Alexander H. Morton
Häftad, 1993
542 kr
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The description of his mission to the court of the Shah Tahmasp I of Persia by the Venetian Michele Membre is one of the most informative as well as one of the most individual of the few European accounts of 16th century Persia.
Late Antiquity
Eastern Perspectives
Av Teresa Bernheimer, Adam J. Silverstein
Inbunden, 2012
1520 kr
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In the past four decades, as the field of late antique studies has begun to gather real momentum, scholars have debated the place of early Islam within the late antique world, particularly in relation to the issue of where and when ‘Late Antiquity’ ends. Although the Sasanian empire (in what is now …
Mujùn
Libertinism in Medieval Muslim Society and Literature
E-bok, 2013
1711 kr
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This book is about an aspect of medieval Arabic culture and literature known in Arabic as mujùn (roughly ‘libertinism, licentiousness, frivolity, indecency, profligacy, shamelessness, impertinence’, etc.), a concept that students of mediaeval Arabic texts may find rather hard to define but which is …
Islamic Crosspollinations
Interactions in the Medieval Middle East
Av James Montgomery, Anna Ayşe Akasoy m. fl.
Inbunden, 2007
931 kr
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Islam as a cultural, intellectual, and religious venture appears in the popular imagination as a monolithic entity. Orientalists of the traditional ilk have tended to describe it in essentialist terms, whilst many fundamentalist Muslims themselves promote their construction of a pure and …
Averroes’ Tahafut al-Tahafut
(The Incoherence of the Incoherence)
Häftad, 2008
940 kr
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Ibn Rushd, known to Christian Europe as Averroes, came from Córdoba in Spain and lived from 1126 to 1198. He is regarded as the last great Arab philosopher in the Classical tradition, and, under the patronage of the Almohad ruler Abu Ya’quib Yusuf, was a very prolific one. The Tahafut al-Tahafut, …
Mujùn
Libertinism in Medieval Muslim Society and Literature
Inbunden, 2013
2344 kr
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This book is about an aspect of medieval Arabic culture and literature known in Arabic as mujùn (roughly ‘libertinism, licentiousness, frivolity, indecency, profligacy, shamelessness, impertinence’, etc.), a concept that students of mediaeval Arabic texts may find rather hard to define but which is …
Qur’an
Av Alan Jones
Häftad, 2007
808 kr
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The Qur'an is the sacred book of Islam. For Muslims it is the word of God revealed in Arabic by the archangel Gabriel to the Prophet Muhammad, and thence to mankind. Originally it was delivered orally: traditional sources indicate that Muhammad always recited his message.
Qur’an
Av Alan Jones
Inbunden, 2007
2411 kr
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The Qur'an is the sacred book of Islam. For Muslims it is the word of God revealed in Arabic by the archangel Gabriel to the Prophet Muhammad, and thence to mankind. Originally it was delivered orally: traditional sources indicate that Muhammad always recited his message. He was a preacher; he …
Averroes’ Tahafut al-Tahafut
(The Incoherence of the Incoherence)
E-bok, 2008
717 kr
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Ibn Rushd, known to Christian Europe as Averroes, came from Córdoba in Spain and lived from 1126 to 1198. He is regarded as the last great Arab philosopher in the Classical tradition, and, under the patronage of the Almohad ruler Abu Ya’quib Yusuf, was a very prolific one. The Tahafut al-Tahafut, …
Late Antiquity
Eastern Perspectives
Av Teresa Bernheimer, Adam J. Silverstein
E-bok, 2012
1259 kr
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In the past four decades since the field of late antique studies began to gather real momentum, scholars have debated the place of early Islam within the late antique world, particularly in relation to the issue of where and when ‘Late Antiquity’ ends. Although the Sasanian empire (in what is now …
Abbasid Studies IV
E-bok, 2013
1968 kr
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Soon after their successful revolution in 750 AD, the Abbāsids supplanted the Umayyad dynasty, built the new city of Baghdad, Iraq which became the capital of the Islamic Empire. The civilization that the Abbāsids helped to create carried forth the torch of knowledge lit by ancient Greece, Rome, …
Averroes
On the Harmony of Religion and Philosophy
E-bok, 2012
338 kr
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In this treatise Ibn Rushd (Averroes) sets out to show that the Scriptural Law (shar’) of Islam does not altogether prohibit the study of philosophy by Muslims, but, on the contrary, makes it a duty for a certain class of people, those with the capacity for “demonstrative” or scientific reasoning. …
Medieval Islamic Swords and Swordmaking
Av Robert Hoyland, Brian Gilmour
E-bok, 2012
370 kr
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One of the problems pervading the study of medieval Islamic technology is the lack of surviving technical treatises. Tradition tended to be handed down by example and by word of mouth, and apprenticeships could last for decades. Fortunately, however, occasional treatises do exist. The treatise “On …
Short History of the Gibb Memorial Trust and its Trustees
A Century of Oriental Scholarship
Inbunden, 2023
962 kr
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Provides an unusual history of an important institution promoting Islamic scholarship in BritainPresents authoritative biographies of leading scholars by those working in the same fieldBrings together leading scholars of Middle Eastern history, literature, Islamic mysticism and religious studies to …
Shiʿite Legal Theory
Sources and Commentaries
Av Kumail Rajani, Robert Gleave
Inbunden, 2023
1371 kr
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Treats the strands of Shi'ite legal theory as a family of legal traditions, providing illustrative examples with editions of previously unpublished worksExamines for the first time in English an intergrated analysis of Shiite traditions and legal theories, including the validity of personal …
Persianate Prose and the Making of Malay Muslim Literature
Text, Translation and Commentary of the Durr al-Majalis
Inbunden, 2025
2468 kr
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The book investigates lines of connection and shared literary heritage between the Persianate and Malay-Indonesian worlds over many centuries. Majid Daneshgar provides a critical and comparative study of Persianate-Malay stories, with specific focus on Durr al-Maj?lis, or Pearl of Gatherings a …
Ottoman Poets and Poetics in the Sixteenth Century
Introducing Asik Çelebi's and Latifi's Biographical Dictionaries
Inbunden, 2025
1870 kr
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This book offers the first-ever partial English translation and commentary of what are arguably the two most important Ottoman biographical dictionaries of poets: the tezkires of As??k C?elebi and Latifi. While tezkires are mostly culled for their factual data, this book focuses on the non-entry …
History of Ottoman Poetry, Volume I
1300-1450
Inbunden, 2025
2186 kr
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Volume I of E.J.W. Gibb’s classic study of Ottoman Poetry – here reissued with a new foreword by Christine Woodhead – covers the period 1300 to c. 1450.Gibb’s History of Ottoman Poetry, first published in six volumes between 1900 to 1909, provided the first extended account in English of Ottoman …
History of Ottoman Poetry, Volume II
1450–1520
Inbunden, 2025
2186 kr
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The second volume in E.J.W. Gibb’s classic study of Ottoman Poetry, reissued with a new foreword by Christine Woodhead, covers the period c.1450 to the early 16th century.Gibb’s History of Ottoman Poetry, first published in six volumes between 1900 to 1909, provided the first extended account in …
History of Ottoman Poetry, Volume III
1520–1700
Inbunden, 2025
2099 kr
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Volume III of E.J.W. Gibb’s classic study of Ottoman Poetry covering the period from 1520 to c. 1700, is now reissued with a new foreword by Christine Woodhead.Gibb’s History of Ottoman Poetry, first published in six volumes between 1900 to 1909, provided the first extended account in English of …
History of Ottoman Poetry, Volume IV
1700–1850
Inbunden, 2025
2186 kr
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Volume IV of E.J.W. Gibb’s classic study of Ottoman Poetry – here reissued with a new foreword by Christine Woodhead – covers the 18th and early 19th centuries.Gibb’s History of Ottoman Poetry, first published in six volumes between 1900 to 1909, provided the first extended account in English of …
