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Economy of Certainty
An Introduction to the Typology of Islamic Legal Theory
Av Aron Zysow
Häftad, 2013
539 kr
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Aron Zysow's 1984 PhD dissertation, 'The Economy of Certainty,' remains the most important, compelling, and intellectually ambitious treatment of Islamic legal theory (usul al-fiqh) in Western scholarship to date. It continues to be widely read and cited, and remains unsurpassed in its incisive …
Hadith, Piety, and Law
Selected Studies
Häftad, 2015
769 kr
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The publication of The Formation of the Sunni Schools of Law, Ninth-Tenth Centuries C.E., first as a University of Pennsylvania doctoral dissertation in 1992, and subsequently as a monograph in 1997 (Studies in Islamic Law and Society, Brill), established Christopher Melchert as a pre-eminent …
Al-Ma'mun, the Inquisition and the Quest for Caliphal Authority
Häftad, 2016
709 kr
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The "inquisition" (Mihnah) unleashed by the seventh Abbasid caliph, 'Abdallah al-Ma'mun (r. 813-833), has long attracted the attention of modern scholars of the intellectual, political, and religious history of the early Abbasid era. Historians have seen it as the key to a wide array of puzzles and …
Sibawayhi's Principles
Arabic Grammar and Law in Early Islamic Thought
Häftad, 2017
809 kr
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Sibawayhi, a non-Arab, was the first to write on Arabic grammar and the first to explain Arabic grammar from a non-Arab perspective. Both Sibawayhi and his teacher al-Farahidi made the earliest and most significant formal recording of the Arabic language. This book argues that the science of Arabic …
Social Life under the Abbasids
Resources in Arabic and Islamic Studies 6
Av Muhammad Manazir Ahsan, Shawkat M. Toorawa
Inbunden, 2027
662 kr
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Some thirty years have passed since the original publication of M. M. Ahsan's Social Life Under the Abbasids, but it remains an invaluable resource for the study of the material culture of Abbasid life in the ninth and tenth centuries.Ahsan arranges his material thematically-costume, food, housing, …
Selected Studies in Modern Arabic Narrative
History, Genre, Translation
Av Roger Allen
Häftad, 2019
687 kr
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No Western scholar has contributed as much to the study of modern Arabic narrative as has Roger Allen. His doctoral dissertation was the very first Oxford D.Phil. in modern Arabic literature, completed in 1968 under the supervision of Mustafa Badawi. That same year, he took a position in Arabic …
Studies in Medieval Islamic Intellectual Traditions
Av Hassan Ansari, Sabine Schmidtke
Häftad, 2018
704 kr
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This book focuses on aspects of Islamic thought in Iran and Yemen, and other regions of the Middle East, from the ninth to the fifteenth century CE, through a close study of manuscript materials.The book's seventeen chapters are arranged under five rubrics: Mu'tazilism, Zaydism in Iran and in …
Arabic Belles Lettres
Av Joseph E. Lowry, Shawkat M. Toorawa
Häftad, 2020
809 kr
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Arabic Belles Lettres brings together ten studies that shed light on important questions in the study of Arabic language, literature, literary history, and writerly culture. The volume is divided into three sections. Early Narratives comprises: Joseph Lowry on the Qurʾan's allusive legal language; …
Muslim Perceptions and Receptions of the Bible
Texts and Studies
Av Camilla Adang, Sabine Schmidtke
Häftad, 2019
785 kr
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The articles brought together in this volume deal with Muslim perceptions and uses of the Bible in its wider sense, including the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament as well as the New Testament, albeit with an emphasis on the former scripture. While Muslims consider the earlier revelations to the People …
Poetics of Adonis and Yves Bonnefoy
Poetry as Spiritual Practice
Inbunden, 2021
884 kr
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This book examines the work of two major poets who wrote in the second half of the twentieth century, Yves Bonnefoy of France and the Syrian-born Adonis (born Ali Ahmed Saïd). In conducting close readings of key moments from their respective poetry, the author illustrates how both of these writers, …
On Generosity
Hilyat al-kurama' of Ibn Abi al-'Id
Av Antonella Ghersetti, Antonella Ghersetti
Inbunden, 2022
1372 kr
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The Egyptian judge and man of letters, Ibn Abi al-'Id al-Sakhawi al-Maliki, who lived in Cairo and Medina in the ninth/fifteenth century and who practised charity his whole life, compiled a work titled the Hilyat al-kurama', literally "The Ornament of the Magnanimous." On Generosity comprises an …
Restoration of Sunnism
The Early History of Islamic Law Schools and the Professoriate in Egypt, 495-647/1101-1249
Av Gary Leiser
Inbunden, 2022
1103 kr
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The Restoration of Sunnism is a study of the early history of Islamic law schools (s. madrasa, pl. madāris) and their professors in late Fāṭimid and Aiyūbid Egypt (495-647/1101-1249). It describes the origin and spread of these institutions, their teachers, and their role in the religious life of …
Political Culture of the Abbasid Court, 279-324 A.H.
Av David Marmer
Inbunden, 2026
591 kr
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This study is an analysis of the behaviour of different individuals and groups at the Abbasid court--the centre of the largest empire in the world in the eighth-ninth centuries CE--during a period of political turmoil and governmental collapse, between the years 892 and 932. The study explores how …
Islamic Jurisprudence, Islamic Law, and Modernity
Inbunden, 2024
1166 kr
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Mohammad Fadel's scholarship on Islamic law and legal history ranges from medieval institutions and the history of Islamic legal interpretation to urgent problems relating to the modern reception and re-assessment of Islamic legal doctrine. Fadel's intellectual concerns focus primarily on the …
