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Dämonenglaube im Islam
Inbunden, 2015
2679 kr
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Der Glaube an Dämonen (ğinn) ist in islamisch geprägten Gesellschaften weit verbreitet. Da sie sowohl im Koran als auch in den Prophetenworten vielfach erwähnt werden, gelten Zweifel an ihrer Existenz als verpönt. Die Studie untersucht das Wesen von Dämonen und mit ihnen verwandten Kräften anhand …
Essays in Islamic Philology, History, and Philosophy
Av Alireza Korangy, Wheeler M. Thackston m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
2321 kr
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The articles in this volume are dedicated to Professor Ahmad Mahdavi Damghani for the breadth and depth of his interests and his influence on those interests. They attest to the fact that his fervor and rigorously surgical attention to detail have found fertile ground in a wide variety of …
Greater Khorasan
History, Geography, Archaeology and Material Culture
Av Rocco Rante
Inbunden, 2015
1174 kr
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The modern sense of “Greater Khorasan” today corresponds to a territory which not only comprises the region in the east of Iran but also, beyond Iranian frontiers, a part of Afghanistan and Turkmenistan. In the past this entity was simply defined as Khorasan.In the Sassanid era Khorasan defined the …
contre-discours coranique
Av Mehdi Azaiez
Inbunden, 2015
2060 kr
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This book deals with a prominent literary element of the Koran, the “counter-discourse”, the citations of opposing voices. This feature of the Koranic text has been neglected in earlier scholarship although it is connected to the larger question of the religious milieu in which the Koran emerged. …
Qur'ān
A Form-Critical History
Av Karim Samji
Inbunden, 2018
1563 kr
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The corpus coranicum eludes familiar categories and resists strict labels. No doubt the threads woven into the fabric are exceptionally textured, varied, and complex. Accordingly, the introductory chapter of this book demonstrates the application of form criticism to the text. Chapter two then …
L’ibadisme dans les sociétés de l’Islam médiéval
Modèles et interactions
Inbunden, 2018
1563 kr
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The history of Ibadism is still marginalized in Islamic studies, while there has been a significant increase of the available sources from Oman and North Africa. This books provides an overview of the scattered communities that formed the Ibadi archipelago during medieval times. It gives an insight …
Dämonenglaube im Islam
Häftad, 2018
272 kr
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Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East are published as supplement to Der Islam founded in 1910 by Carl Heinrich Becker, an early practitioner of the modern study of Islam. Following Becker's lead, the mission of the series is the study of past societies of the Middle East, their …
contre-discours coranique
Av Mehdi Azaiez
Häftad, 2018
272 kr
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Heritage of Edirne in Ottoman and Turkish Times
Continuities, Disruptions and Reconnections
Av TBD, Birgit Krawietz m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
1563 kr
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Modern scholarship has not given Edirne the attention it deserves regarding its significance as one of the capitals of the Ottoman Empire. This edited volume offers a reinterpretation of Edirne’s history from Early Ottoman times to recent periods of the Turkish Republic. Presently, disconnections …
Philosophising the Occult
Avicennan Psychology and 'The Hidden Secret' of Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī
Inbunden, 2020
1506 kr
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Was it mere encyclopedism that motivated Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d.1210), one of the most influential Islamic theologians of the twelfth century, to theorize on astral magic – or was there a deeper purpose? One of his earliest works was The Hidden Secret (‘al-Sirr al-Maktūm’), a magisterial study of …
Transregional and Regional Elites – Connecting the Early Islamic Empire
Av Hannah-Lena Hagemann, Stefan Heidemann
Inbunden, 2020
1474 kr
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Transregional and regional elites of various backgrounds were essential for the integration of diverse regions into the early Islamic Empire, from Central Asia to North Africa. This volume is an important contribution to the conceptualization of the largest empire of Late Antiquity. While previous …
Reach of Empire
Av Stefan Heidemann, Katharina Mewes
Inbunden, 2024
1521 kr
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How could an empire stretching from the Hindukush to the Atlantic be governed for about 300 years, from ca. 650 to the 950s? How far did the geographic, political, economic, and linguistic reach of the Islamic Empire extend within and beyond the societies that it governed? Based on case studies on …
Qur'ān
A Form-Critical History
Av Karim Samji
Häftad, 2019
350 kr
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The corpus coranicum eludes familiar categories and resists strict labels. No doubt the threads woven into the fabric are exceptionally textured, varied, and complex. Accordingly, the introductory chapter of this book demonstrates the application of form criticism to the text. Chapter two then …
First Arabic Annals
Fragments of Umayyad History
Inbunden, 2021
1306 kr
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The earliest development of Arabic historical writing remains shrouded in uncertainty until the 9th century CE, when our first extant texts were composed. This book demonstrates a new method, termed riwāya-cum-matn, which allows us to identify citation-markers that securely indicate the quotation …
Maghrib in the Mashriq
Knowledge, Travel and Identity
Av Maribel Fierro, Mayte Penelas
Inbunden, 2021
1481 kr
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This is a pioneering book about the impact that knowledge produced in the Maghrib (Islamic North Africa and al-Andalus = Muslim Iberia) had on the rest of the Islamic world. It presents results achieved in the Research Project "Local contexts and global dynamics: al-Andalus and the Maghrib in the …
“The Compassionate and Benevolent”: Jewish Ruling Elites in the Medieval Islamicate World
Alexandria as a Case Study
Av Miriam Frenkel, Tzemah Yoreh
Inbunden, 2020
1481 kr
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This is a monograph about the medieval Jewish community of the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria. Through deep analyses of contemporary historical sources, mostly documents from the Cairo Geniza, life stories, conducts and practices of private people are revealed. When put together these …
Projecting a New Empire
Formats, Social Meaning, and Mediality of Imperial Arabic in the Umayyad and Early Abbasid Periods
Inbunden, 2022
1673 kr
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Seventh and eighth-century papyri, inscriptions, and coins constitute the main evidence for the rise of Arabic as a hegemonic language emerging from the complex fabric of Graeco-Roman-Iranian Late Antiquity. This volume examines these sources in order to gauge the social ecology of Arabic writing …
Recht und historische Entwicklung der Scharia im Islam
Inbunden, 2022
1824 kr
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Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East are published as supplement to Der Islam founded in 1910 by Carl Heinrich Becker, an early practitioner of the modern study of Islam. Following Becker's lead, the mission of the series is the study of past societies of the Middle East, their …
Neither Belief nor Unbelief
Intentional Ambivalence in al-Maʿarrī’s Luzūm
Inbunden, 2022
1701 kr
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The book re-examines the religious thought and receptions of the Syrian poet Abū l-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī (d.1057) and one of his best known works - Luzūm mā lā yalzam (The Self-Imposed Unnecessity), a collection of poems, which, although widely studied, needs a thorough re-evaluation regarding matters …
Connected Stories
Contacts, Traditions and Transmissions in Premodern Mediterranean Islam
Av Mohamed Meouak, Cristina Puente
Inbunden, 2022
1791 kr
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Concepts such as influence, imitation, emulation, transmission or plagiarism are transcendental to cultural history and the subject of universal debate. They are not mere labels imposed by modern historiography on ancient texts, nor are they the result of a later interpretation of ways of …
Creation and Contemplation
The Cosmology of the Qur'ān and Its Late Antique Background
Inbunden, 2023
1652 kr
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In Creation and Contemplation, Julien Decharneux explores the connections between the cosmology of the Qur’ān and various cosmological traditions of Late Antiquity, with a focus on Syriac Christianity. The first part of the book studies how, in exhorting its audience to contemplate the world, the …
“The Compassionate and Benevolent”: Jewish Ruling Elites in the Medieval Islamicate World
Alexandria as a Case Study
Häftad, 2022
279 kr
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Islamic Law in Early Modern Iran
Sharīʿa Court Practice in the Sixteenth to Twentieth Centuries
Inbunden, 2023
1718 kr
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Historical studies on the practice of Islamic law (sharīʿa) tend to focus on practice in a Sunni setting during the Mamluk or Ottoman periods. This book decenters Sunni and Mamluk and Ottoman normativity by investigating the practice of sharīʿa in a Twelver Shiʿi Persian-speaking milieu, in early …
Projecting a New Empire
Formats, Social Meaning, and Mediality of Imperial Arabic in the Umayyad and Early Abbasid Periods
Häftad, 2024
319 kr
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Seventh and eighth-century papyri, inscriptions, and coins constitute the main evidence for the rise of Arabic as a hegemonic language emerging from the complex fabric of Graeco-Roman-Iranian Late Antiquity. This volume examines these sources in order to gauge the social ecology of Arabic writing …
Creation and Contemplation
The Cosmology of the Qur'ān and Its Late Antique Background
Häftad, 2024
276 kr
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In Creation and Contemplation, Julien Decharneux explores the connections between the cosmology of the Qur’ān and various cosmological traditions of Late Antiquity, with a focus on Syriac Christianity. The first part of the book studies how, in exhorting its audience to contemplate the world, the …
Pre-Modern Arabic Documents
A Concise Introduction into Reading and Publishing
Inbunden, 2026
1380 kr
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Reading Arabic original documents is a serious challenge. At first sight, Arabic original documents seem to be casual and therefore rather illegible. Yet upon closer acquaintance, the opposite shows to be true: Arabic documents are highly formal. Written by professional scribes, they follow rather …
