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Christian Thought in the Medieval Islamicate World
ʿAbdīshōʿ of Nisibis and the Apologetic Tradition
Av Salam Rassi
Inbunden, 2022
1647 kr
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Christian Thought in the Medieval Islamicate World: ʿAbdīshōʿ of Nisibis and the Apologetic Tradition is the first monograph-length study and intellectual biography of ʿAbdīshōʿ of Nisibis (d. 1318), bishop and polymath of the Church of the East. Focusing on his works of apologetic theology, it …
India in the Persian World of Letters
Ḳhān-i Ārzū among the Eighteenth-Century Philologists
Inbunden, 2022
1599 kr
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.This book traces the development of philology (the study of literary …
The Epistle of Salim Ibn Dhakwan
Inbunden, 2001
4855 kr
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The epistle ascribed to Salim Ibn Dhakwan is a tract against 'wrong' doctrines regarding the classification and treatment of opponents. Written by an Ibadi before AD 800 and taking issue with both Kharijite extremists and Murji'ites, it was brought to the attention of Western Islamicists in the …
Rewriting Caucasian History
The Medieval Armenian Adaptation of the Georgian Chronicles. The Original Georgian Texts and The Armenian Adaptation
Inbunden, 1996
5287 kr
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After the invention of a national script, c.400 AD, Armenians rapidly developed their own literary forms, drawing on foreign texts as well as their own traditions. Historical writing is the most original genre in classical and medieval Armenian literature. Greek works (including the Chronicle of …
The Wine Song in Classical Arabic Poetry
Abú Nuwás and the Literary Tradition
Inbunden, 1997
4655 kr
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The classical period of Arab civilization produced the most extensive and highly developed bacchic tradition in world literature, In this book, the author traces the history of classical Arabic wine poetry from its origins in sixth century Arabia to its heyday in Baghdad at the turn of the ninth …
Sufism and Islamic Reform in Egypt
The Battle for Islamic Tradition
Inbunden, 1996
3388 kr
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One of the most important sects in the Islamic world, Sufism has had a long and active history. Yet it has been no stranger to controversy. This has been particularly pronounced in modern times, as radical Islamic groups and modernist reformers have sought to identify Sufism as a source of either …
Commentary on Midrash Rabba in the Sixteenth Century
The Or ha-Sekhel of Abraham ben Asher
Inbunden, 2016
2100 kr
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Printed editions of midrashim, rabbinic expositions of the Bible, flooded the market for Hebrew books in the sixteenth century. First published by Iberian immigrants to the Ottoman Empire, they were later reprinted in large numbers at the famous Hebrew presses of Venice. This study seeks to shed …
The Primeval Flood Catastrophe
Origins and Early Development in Mesopotamian Traditions
Av Y. S. Chen
Häftad, 2019
998 kr
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Previous research on Mesopotamian Flood traditions tended to focus on a few textual sources. How the traditions originated and developed as a whole has not been seriously investigated. By systematically examining a large body of relevant cuneiform sources of diverse genres from the Early Dynastic …
Ownership and Inheritance in Sanskrit Jurisprudence
Inbunden, 2020
1755 kr
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Ownership and Inheritance in Sanskrit Jurisprudence provides an account of various theories of ownership (svatva) and inheritance (dāya) in Sanskrit jurisprudential literature (Dharmaśāstra). It examines the evolution of different juridical models of inheritance--in which families held property in …
A Revolution in Rhyme
Poetic Co-option under the Islamic Republic
Inbunden, 2021
1894 kr
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A Revolution in Rhyme: Poetic Co-option under the Islamic Republic offers, for the first time, an original, timely examination of the pivotal role poetry plays in policy, power and political legitimacy in modern-day Iran. Through a compelling chronological and thematic framework, Shams presents …
Defending God in Sixteenth-Century India
The Śaiva Oeuvre of Appaya Dīkṣita
Inbunden, 2021
2077 kr
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This book is the first in-depth study of the Śaiva oeuvre of the celebrated polymath Appaya Dīkṣita (1520-1593). Jonathan Duquette documents the rise to prominence and scholarly reception of Śivādvaita Vedānta, a Sanskrit-language school of philosophical theology which Appaya single-handedly …
The Cult of Saints among Muslims and Jews in Medieval Syria
Inbunden, 2002
4277 kr
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This accessible study is the first critical investigation of the cult of saints among Muslims and Jews in medieval Syria and the Near East. Through case studies of saints and their devotees, discussion of the architecture of monuments, examination of devotional objects, and analysis of ideas of …
Makers of Modern Indian Religion in the Late Nineteenth Century
Inbunden, 2002
3452 kr
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This is a book about religious transformation in South Asia in the nineteenth century. On the one hand, a fundamental conceptual transformation in the world of religion among people who were exposed to English language and culture took place. This transformation crystallized religious communities …
The Legend of Miaoshan
Revised Edition
Inbunden, 2004
2850 kr
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In Chinese legend, the princess Miaoshan defied her father by refusing to marry, and pursued her austere religious vocation to the death, but returned to life to be his saviour and the saviour of all mankind. The story is inseparable from the female bodhisattva Guanyin, whose cult dominated …
Wisdom, Politics, and Historiography
Tractate Avot in the Context of the Graeco-Roman Near East
Inbunden, 2004
5603 kr
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In third-century CE Palestine, the leading member of the rabbinic movement put together a highly popular wisdom treatise entitled Tractate Avot. Though Avot has inspired hundreds of commentaries, this book marks the first comprehensive effort to situate Avot within the context of the Graeco-Roman …
Ibâdism
Origins and Early Development in Oman
Inbunden, 2010
2719 kr
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Ibâdism represents a branch of the third great division in Islam, that of the Khawârij. It survives in some isolated communities in North Africa, but manifested itself periodically in Oman as a full Imamate well into the twentieth century. Using early material recorded in Basran and Omani sources, …
Ibn `Arabī's Mystical Poetics
Inbunden, 2012
2283 kr
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Muhyī l-Dīn Ibn `Arabī (1165-1240) was a hugely influential figure in the development of Sufism, yet although interest in his work continues to grow, his poetry has received very little attention. This book is the first full-length monograph devoted to his Dīwān (collected poems). It begins by …
A Portrait of Five Dynasties China
From the Memoirs of Wang Renyu (880-956)
Inbunden, 2013
1853 kr
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The anecdotal literature of late-medieval China is not unknown, but it is under-used. Glen Dudbridge explores two collections of anecdotal memoirs to construct an intimate portrait of the first half of the tenth century as seen by people who lived through it. The author Wang Renyu's adult life …
The Primeval Flood Catastrophe
Origins and Early Development in Mesopotamian Traditions
Av Y. S. Chen
Inbunden, 2013
2003 kr
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Previous research on Mesopotamian Flood traditions tended to focus on a few textual sources. How the traditions originated and developed as a whole has not been seriously investigated. By systematically examining a large body of relevant cuneiform sources of diverse genres from the Early Dynastic …
Sacred Landscape in Medieval Afghanistan
Revisiting the Faḍā"il-i Balkh
Av Arezou Azad
Inbunden, 2013
2765 kr
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This book is about a sacred place called Balkh, known to the ancient Greeks as Bactra. Located in the north of today's Afghanistan, along the silk road, Balkh was holy to many. The Prophet Zoroaster is rumoured to have died here, and during late antiquity, Balkh was the home of the Naw Bahār, a …
