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Great Mosque of Damascus
Studies on the Makings of an Umayyad Visual Culture
Inbunden, 2000
3300 kr
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The celebrated Great Mosque of Damascus was built in the early eighth century by the Umayyad caliph al-Walīd b. ‘Abd al-Malik. This book provides a detailed study of this Mosque. Using textual, visual, and archaeological evidence, the author attempts to reconstruct some of the basic formal and …
Bā ʿAlawī Sufis of the Hadhramawt Valley
A Premodern Intellectual and Social History (317-992/929-1583)
Av Omar Edaibat
Inbunden, 2026
2603 kr
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While a considerable scholary literature exists on the Banū ʿAlawī sāda's Indian Ocean diaspora and their more recent history in Hadhramawt, their premodern origins remain poorly understood, with lingering concerns surrounding the reliablity of available sources on their formative history in the …
I of the Heart
Texts and Studies in Honor of Seyyed Hossein Nasr
Inbunden, 2025
2667 kr
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I of the Heart is a tribute to one of the most widely respected and influential pioneers in the field of Islamic Studies, Seyyed Hossein Nasr. For sevendecades, and in over 90 books and 600 articles,Professor Nasr has drawn significant attention to the riches of the Islamic intellectual heritage, from …
Early Mamluk Syrian Historiography, Volume 1
Av Guo
Inbunden, 1998
2338 kr
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This laudable work offers a study, translation and partial edition of one of the most important early Mamluk sources and its author. In addition to the work's contribution to Mamluk history, it also makes a significant contribution towards the ultimate goal of having the key texts of early Mamluk …
Early Mamluk Syrian Historiography, Volume 2
Av Guo
Inbunden, 1998
2381 kr
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This laudable work offers a study, translation and partial edition of one of the most important early Mamluk sources and its author. In addition to the work's contribution to Mamluk history, it also makes a significant contribution towards the ultimate goal of having the key texts of early Mamluk …
Society and Culture in the Early Modern Middle East
Studies on Iran in the Safavid Period
Av Newman
Inbunden, 2003
3344 kr
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The volume comprises a collection of 20 of the 43 papers presented at the Third International Round Table on Safavid Persia, held at the University of Edinburgh in August, 1998 and edited by the Round Table's organiser. The Third Round Table, the largest of the series to date, continued the …
Texts, Documents and Artefacts
Islamic Studies in Honour of D.S. Richards
Inbunden, 2003
3600 kr
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The volume brings together 17 articles by leading Islamicists and Arabists, on a variety of topics in Medieval and Early Modern times, including the Qur‘ān, Shi'ism, Ἁbbāsid historiography, the Crusaders, and Mamluk history.
Oliphant
Islamic Objects in Historical Context
Inbunden, 2004
2387 kr
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Setting a group of medieval carved ivory horns in the specific artistic and historical context in which they were manufactured, used and re-used, this book presents a mine of information for the study of medieval history. The first chapters explore such technical aspects as the cutting and carving …
Islamic Art in the 19th Century
Tradition, Innovation, and Eclecticism
Av Doris Behrens-Abouseif, Stephen Vernoit
Inbunden, 2005
2593 kr
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This collection of essays provides a timely reassessment of nineteenth-century Islamic art and architecture. The essays demonstrate that the arts of that era were vibrant and diverse, making ingenious use of native traditions and materials or adopting imported conventions and new technologies. …
Beyond the Legacy of Genghis Khan
Inbunden, 2006
2351 kr
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This publication offers a wide-ranging account of the Mongols in western and eastern Asia in the aftermath of Genghis Khan's disruptive invasions of the early thirteenth century, focusing on the significant cultural, social, religious and political changes that followed in their wake. The issues …
From al-Andalus to Khurasan
Documents from the Medieval Muslim World
Inbunden, 2006
2361 kr
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As in many areas of pre-modern history, the study of medieval Islamic history has been critically hindered by the lack of available evidence. Unlike many parallel fields, however, the shortage of contemporary documentary evidence for medieval Islam has less to do with the survival of documents and …
Canonization of al-Bukhārī and Muslim
The Formation and Function of the Sunnī Ḥadīth Canon
Inbunden, 2007
3439 kr
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The two 'Authentic' ḥadīth collections of al-Bukhārī and Muslim are the most famous books in Islam after the Qur'ān – a reality left unstudied until now. This book charts the origins, development and functions of these two texts through the lens of canonicity. It examines how the books went from …
Annals of the Caliphs' Kitchens
Ibn Sayyār al-Warrāq's Tenth-Century Baghdadi Cookbook
Inbunden, 2007
3371 kr
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Written nearly a thousand years ago, Al-Warraq's cookbook is the most comprehensive work of its kind. This traditional cookbook with more than 600 recipes from the luxurious cuisine of medieval Islam is also a rare guide to the contemporary culinary culture.
Beyond Death
The Mystical Teachings of ʿAyn al-Quḍāt al-Hamadhānī
Inbunden, 2010
2479 kr
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The twelfth-century Iranian mystic ‘Ayn al-Quḍāt al-Hamadhānī (d. 1131) wrote vividly of his explorations of death as a state of consciousness which he experienced while alive. This state and his visions of Doomsday and the innumerable non-corporeal worlds that lie past the world of matter confront …
Die Eroberung von Damaskus
Quellenkritische Untersuchung zur Historiographie in klassisch-islamischer Zeit
Inbunden, 2009
5090 kr
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The conquest of Damascus is one of the main events of the Islamic conquests in bilād al-Shām. Consequently, it appears with approximately 1000 narratives in the Islamic literature. This book shows the dependencies of these narratives. It therefore exemplifies the historiography from 700-1300 CE …
Mustafa Âli's Epic Deeds of Artists
A Critical Edition of the Earliest Ottoman Text about the Calligraphers and Painters of the Islamic World
Av Esra Akın
Inbunden, 2011
3076 kr
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The earliest known Ottoman literary source about the lives and works of calligraphers, painters, limners, and book-binders of the Ottoman and Persianate worlds, Mustafa ʿÂli’s (1541-1600) Epic Deeds of Artists (1587), was hitherto considered to be primarily a biographic dictionary. Based on a …
Nuṣayrī - 'Alawīs
An Introduction to the Religion, History and Identity of the Leading Minority in Syria
Inbunden, 2009
3078 kr
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Friedman offers new and updated research on the Nusayrī-‘Alawī sect, today a leading group in Syria, covering a variety of aspects and focusing on the Middle Ages. A century after Dussaud's Histoire et religion des Nosairîs (1900), he reviews the history and religion of the sect in the light of old …
Analysing Muslim Traditions
Studies in Legal, Exegetical and Maghāzī Ḥadīth
Av Harald Motzki, Nicolet Boekhoff-van der Voort m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
4122 kr
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Since its inception, the study of Ḥadīth conducted by scholars trained in the Western academic tradition has been marked by sharp methodological debates. A focal issue is the origin and development of traditions on the advent of Islam. Scholars' verdicts on these traditions have ranged from “late …
Histories of the Middle East
Studies in Middle Eastern Society, Economy and Law in Honor of A.L. Udovitch
Av Margariti Eleni Roxani, Adam Sabra m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
2439 kr
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For four decades Abraham L. Udovitch has been a leading scholar of the medieval Islamic world, its economic institutions, social structures, and legal theory and practice. In pursuing his quest to understand and explain the complex phenomena that these broad rubrics entail, he has published widely, …
Entre mémoire et pouvoir
L'espace syrien sous les derniers Omeyyades et les premiers Abbassides (v. 72-193/692-809)
Inbunden, 2010
3939 kr
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Cet ouvrage entend démontrer qu’une solide culture de l’écriture de l’histoire existait dans la Syrie du 2e/8e siècle, et propose de nouvelles approches méthodologiques afin d’offrir un accès vers cette historiographie perdue, tiraillée entre mémoire et oubli. En étudiant la fabrique des héros …
Baṣran Muʿtazilite Theology: Abū ʿAlī Muḥammad b. Khallād’s Kitāb al-uṣūl and its reception
A Critical Edition of the Ziyādāt Sharḥ al-uṣūl by the Zaydī Imām al-Nāṭiq bi-l-ḥaqq Abū Ṭālib Yaḥyā b. al-Ḥusayn b. Hārūn al-Buṭḥānī (d. 424/1033)
Av Camilla Adang, Wilferd Madelung m. fl.
Inbunden, 2010
2942 kr
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Abū ʿAlī Muḥammad Ibn Khallād al-Baṣrī was a distinguished disciple of the Muʿtazilī theologian and founder of the Bahshamiyya, Abū Hāshim al-Jubbāʾī (d. 321/933). He is reported to have written a theological summa, Kitāb al-Uṣūl, as well as an autocommentary. None of the works of Ibn Khallād has …
After One Hundred Years
The 1910 Exhibition "Meisterwerke muhammedanischer Kunst" Reconsidered
Av Andrea Lermer, Avinoam Shalem
Inbunden, 2010
3560 kr
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The exhibition "Meisterwerke muhammedanischer Kunst" that took place in Munich in 1910 marked a turning point in the approach to Islamic Art. The show attempted to break free of Orientalism and exotic fantasies and, in doing so, set a new standard for the reception of Islamic art in Europe. …
Islamic Scholarly Tradition
Studies in History, Law, and Thought in Honor of Professor Michael Allan Cook
Av Asad Ahmed
Inbunden, 2011
3300 kr
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The volume contains highly original articles on Islamic history, law, and thought, each either proposing new hypotheses or readjusting existing ones. The contributions range from studies in the formulation of the pre-Islamic Arabian calendar to notes on the "blood-money group" in Islamic law, and …
Food and Foodways of Medieval Cairenes
Aspects of Life in an Islamic Metropolis of the Eastern Mediterranean
Inbunden, 2011
4512 kr
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This monograph is a pioneering study and reconstruction of the food cultures and menu of medieval Cairenes and their daily practices, customs and habits in relation to food and eating, through the analysis of a large corpus of historical texts in Arabic. Paulina B. Lewicka explains what, why and …
Caliph and the Heretic
Ibn Sabaʾ and the Origins of Shīʿism
Av Sean Anthony
Inbunden, 2011
3010 kr
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This book is an examination of the traditions and legends concerning early Islam’s first and most infamous heretic, the Yemenite Jew known as ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sabaʾ. Tracing the evolution and transformation of the many stories and narratives about Ibn Sabaʾ as adapted by Sunnī and Shīʿī scholars …
Epistle of the Eloquent Clarification Concerning the Refutation of Ibn Qutayba by Al-Qāḍī al-Nuʿmān b. Muḥammad (d. 363/974)
Critical Edition with an Introduction
Inbunden, 2012
2205 kr
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This is an edition of an early Shiite/Fatimid Arabic epistle that includes a controversy pertaining to several issues on Islamic law. Al-Qadi al-Nu'man (d. 363/974), the most famoust jurist of the early Fatimid period refutes the illustious Ibn Qutayba (d. 276/889). In his book Adab al-Katib, Ibn …
Performing Arts in Medieval Islam
Shadow Play and Popular Poetry in Ibn Daniyal's Mamluk Cairo
Av Li Guo
Inbunden, 2011
2314 kr
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This is a study of the life and work of Ibn Dāniyāl (d. 1310), a Cairo-based eye doctor, poet, playwright, court jester, and arguably one of the most controversial cultural figures of his time. Drawing on medieval Arabic sources, many still in manuscript and some used for the first time, the author …
Mālik and Medina
Islamic Legal Reasoning in the Formative Period
Av Umar F. Abd-Allah Wymann-Landgraf
Inbunden, 2013
4568 kr
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This book studies the legal reasoning of Mālik ibn Anas (d. 179 H./795 C.E.) in the Muwaṭṭa’ and Mudawwana. Although focusing on Mālik, the book presents a broad comparative study of legal reasoning in the first three centuries of Islam. It reexamines the role of considered opinion (ra’y), dissent, …
Intimate Invocations
Al-Ghazzī's Biography of 'Abd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī (1641-1731)
Av Samer Akkach
Inbunden, 2012
3807 kr
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Despite the growing interest in the intellectual history of early modern Arabs and Ottomans, many key figures of the period remain unknown. In this unique biographical account, edited and published here for the first time, Muḥammad Kamāl al-Dīn al-Ghazzī (1760-1799), the chief Shafi‘i jurisconcult …
Sufism, Black and White
A Critical Edition of Kitāb al-Bayāḍ wa-l-Sawād by Abū l-Ḥasan al-Sīrjānī (d. ca.470/1077)
Inbunden, 2012
3229 kr
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This critical Arabic text edition of K. al-Bayāḍ wa-l-sawād min khaṣāʾiṣ ḥikam al-ʿibād fī naʿt al-murīd wa-l-murād ("The Black and White in the Words of Wisdom by Bondsmen Describing the Seeker and the Mystic Quest"), a substantial handbook of early Sufism by Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. al-Ḥasan …
