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Place Between Two Places
The Quranic Barzakh
Inbunden, 2017
2050 kr
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For believers in a resurrection of the body, there arises the question of what happens after death but before the Last Day: the intermediate state. For most Muslims, the intermediate state is the barzakh. It is a fantastical and frightening time in the grave. The present study will examine where …
Jurist and the Theologian
Speculative Theology in Shāfiʿī Legal Theory
Inbunden, 2017
1338 kr
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This in-depth study examines the relation between legal theory (uṣūl al-fiqh) and speculative theology (ʿīlm al-kalām). It compares the legal theory of four classical jurists who belonged to the same school of law, the Shāfiʿī school, yet followed three different theological traditions. The aim of …
Religious Culture in Late Antique Arabia
Selected Studies on the Late Antique Religious Mind
Av Kirill Dmitriev, Isabel Toral-Niehoff
Inbunden, 2017
1338 kr
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This volume explores aspects of religious culture in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Arabian Peninsula across Late Antiquity – the period of dynamic and historically crucial developments, culminating in the emergence of Islam. While it would be impossible to provide an exhaustive examination of …
Princely Authority in the Early Marwānid State
The Life of ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Marwān
Av Joshua Mabra
Inbunden, 2017
1362 kr
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‘Abd al-‘Azīz b. Marwān (d. 86/705) reigned as the amīr of Egypt and walī al-‘ahd (heir apparent) to the Islamic caliphate for over 20 years. This book intends to revive this largely forgotten amīr and demonstrate the critical role he played in the formation of the Marwānid dynasty. The founding …
Reconstruction of a Source of Ibn Isḥāq’s Life of the Prophet and Early Qurʾān Exegesis
A Study of Early Ibn ʿAbbās Traditions
Häftad, 2017
844 kr
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This important work is a source-critical study of a group of traditions (aḥādīth) found in Ibn Isḥāq's Biography (Sīra) of the prophet Muḥammad, widely considered one of the most important early historical texts on the Prophet's life. Through a meticulous isnād-cum-matn analysis, the author reveals …
Ash‘arism encounters Avicennism
Sayf al-Dīn al-Āmidī on Creation
Av Laura Hassan
Inbunden, 2020
1756 kr
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This study of Sayf al-Dīn al-Āmidī’s (d. 631/1233) teachings on creation offers close analysis of all of his extant works of falsafa and kalām. Some of these were not known to previous scholars, yet they bear witness to key facets of the interaction between the historically inimical traditions of …
Women in Shiʿism
Ancient Stories, Modern Ideologies
Av Amina Inloes
Inbunden, 2019
1756 kr
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What is the nature and social role of women? In today’s Shi‘ism, these questions are often answered through the “separate-but- equal” ideology which emphasizes the role of women as wives and mothers, and places men in authority. But is this the only ideology which can be derived from Shi‘i …
Making of the Mosque
A Survey of Religious Imperatives
Av Essam Ayyad
Inbunden, 2019
2251 kr
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The fact that many features are standard to the oldest surviving mosques suggests that a canonical type, mostly a courtyard surrounded by four porticoes, did exist early in Islamic history. While the structure built by the Prophet in Madina, soon after the Hijra in 622 AD, is believed by many to …
Exceptional Qu'ran
Flexible and Exceptive Rhetoric in Islam's Holy Book
Inbunden, 2022
1646 kr
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This monograph examines the principle of dispensation in the Qur'an, which seems to be, if not unique, articulated in a new manner compared to previous religions (cf. Deut 12,32). The Qur'anic dispensations have never been systematically studied and this monograph aims to fill this vacuum in the …
Early Philosophical Ṣūfism
The Neoplatonic Thought of Ḥusayn Ibn Manṣūr al-Ḥallāğ
Inbunden, 2018
2160 kr
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This study challenges the conventional image of the tenth-century Sufi mystic Al-Husayn Ibn Manṣūr al-Ḥallāğ (d. 929) as an anti-philosophical mystic. Unlike the predominantly theological or text-historical studies which constitute much of the scholarly literature on Ḥallāğ, this study is …
Fâṭima, Daughter of Muhammad (2nd ed.)
Second Edition
Inbunden, 2017
1465 kr
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The only child of Muhammad to survive him, Fâṭima was from early times taken up by Shî’a Islam, for whose adherents she is the virgin mother, the heavenly intercessor with untold power before God’s throne, and the grieving mother of al-Husayn, the Shî’a's most important martyr. During her life she …
Half of my Heart
The Narratives of Zaynab, Daughter of ʿAlî
Inbunden, 2018
1719 kr
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As Abû ʿAbd Allâh al-Ḥusayn, son of ʿAlî and Fâṭima and grandson of Muḥammad, moved inexorably towards death on the field of Karbalâʾ, his sister Zaynab was drawn ever closer to the centre of the family of Muḥammad, the ‘people of the house’ (ahl al-bayt). There she would remain for a few historic …
Fâṭima, Daughter of Muhammad (2nd ed.)
Second Edition
Häftad, 2019
1047 kr
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The only child of Muhammad to survive him, Fâṭima was from early times taken up by Shî’a Islam, for whose adherents she is the virgin mother, the heavenly intercessor with untold power before God’s throne, and the grieving mother of al-Husayn, the Shi’a's most important martyr. During her life she …
Zwischen Māturīdīya und Ašʿarīya
Abū Šakūr as-Sālimi und sein Tamhīd fī bayān at-tauḥīd
Inbunden, 2019
2270 kr
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The present work provides a new edition and substantial German commentary of the important theological Arabic work Al-Tamhīd fī bayān al-tauḥīd (“Introduction to the explanation of monotheism”) by the 5th/11th century scholar Abū Shakūr al-Sālimī. The work and its author belong to the theological …
Angels Hastening
The Karbalāʾ Dreams
Inbunden, 2021
1472 kr
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When, on an autumn Medina night in 61/680, the night that saw al-Ḥusayn killed, Umm Salama was torn from her sleep by an apparition of a long-dead Muḥammad, she slipped effortlessly into a progression of her co-religionists who, irrespective of status, gender or standing with God, were the …
Half of my Heart
The Narratives of Zaynab, Daughter of ʿAlî
Häftad, 2020
840 kr
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As Abû ʿAbd Allâh al-Ḥusayn, son of ʿAlî and Fâṭima and grandson of Muḥammad, moved inexorably towards death on the field of Karbalâʾ, his sister Zaynab was drawn ever closer to the centre of the family of Muḥammad, the ‘people of the house’ (ahl al-bayt). There she would remain for a few historic …
Rediscovering al-Azdī and the Futūḥ al-Shām Narrative
Manuscripts, Parallel Texts, Research History
Inbunden, 2021
1998 kr
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The Futūḥ al-Shām (The Conquests of Greater Syria), usually attributed to Abū Ismāʿīl Muḥammad b. ʿAbdallāh al-Azdī al-Baṣrī, is one of the primary sources used for historians studying the early Muslim expansion into Greater Syria. This study revaluates the Futūḥ al-Shām narrative and the question …
Langage et théologie chez Abū Bakr Ibn al-ʿArabī (543/1148)
Les informations subtiles de la somme de théorie légale (Nukat al-Maḥṣūl fī ʿilm al-uṣūl)
Inbunden, 2023
1579 kr
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The Qāḍī Abū Bakr Ibn al-ʿArabī was an Ašʿarite theologian, a Maliki jurist and an Andalusian traditionalist of the fifth-sixth / eleventh-twelfth century. His influence in the Muslim West is undeniable: he is one of the most important figures in the history of ašʿarism in al-Andalus, and …
Angels Hastening
The Karbalāʾ Dreams
Häftad, 2021
818 kr
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When, on an autumn Medina night in 61/680, the night that saw al-Ḥusayn killed, Umm Salama was torn from her sleep by an apparition of a long-dead Muḥammad, she slipped effortlessly into a progression of her co-religionists who, irrespective of status, gender or standing with God, were the …
Baghdad during the time of ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī
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Av Pascal Held
Inbunden, 2022
1539 kr
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A study of the life and background of ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī, putative founder of the Qādiriyya order, investigating the sources for his life and attributed works. The book seeks to elucidate the ideas of al-Jīlānī, and to formulate a picture of the most prominent trends of pious and mystical …
Guide to a Life of Moral Integrity
An Annotated Translation of Bustān al-ʿārifīn by Abū al-Layth al-Samarqandī
Av Peri Bearman
Inbunden, 2025
1274 kr
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A translation of al-Samarqandī's Bustān al-ʿārifīn – a tenth-century religio-legal primer to navigating the chaos and conflict of everyday life – accompanied by an introduction to its literary and historical contexts, and an accessible commentary exploring the larger themes encountered in the work.
Shiʿite Rulers, Sunni Rivals, and Christians in Between
Muslim-Christian Relations in Fāṭimid Palestine and Egypt
Av Steven Gertz
Häftad, 2024
603 kr
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A historical study of the Fāṭimid caliphate in Palestine and Egypt during the fourth/tenth and fifth/eleventh centuries.
