Brill Academic Pub, 2011. — 601 p. — (Islamic History and Civilization). 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 ?‚lis (1541-1600) Epic Deeds of Artists (1587), was hitherto considered to be primarily a biographic dictionary. Based on a comprehensive...
The University of North Carolina Press, 2014. — 256 p. — (Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks). — ISBN: 978-1-4696-1776-3. Ranging from simple head scarf to full-body burqa, the veil is worn by vast numbers of Muslim women around the world. What Is Veiling? explains one of the most visible, controversial, and least understood emblems of Islam. Sahar Amer's evenhanded...
İstanbul: Seha, 1992. — 190 s. Osmanlı Devleti'nin yükseliş döneminde yaşayan, tesirleri günümüzde de devam eden alimlerden birisi de İmam Birgivî'dir. Kur'an ve Sünnet doğrultusunda bir yaşam tarzını savunan Birgivî dersleri, vaazları, eserleri ile bidatlerin ortadan kalkmasına gayret etmiş, makama, mevkî'ye ehemmiyet vermemiş, cesur ve mücadeleci bir âlimdir. Birgivî hakkında...
Cambridge University Press — 2013 — 224 p. — ISBN10: 1107030234 / ISBN13: 978-1107030237 The prophet Muhammad and the early Islamic community radically redefined the concept of time that they had inherited from earlier religions' beliefs and practices. This new temporal system, based on a lunar calendar and era, was complex and required sophistication and accuracy. From the...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2011. — 512 p. — (Islamic History and Civilization: Studies and Texts 89). For many Muslims, the textual sources of Islam provide the guiding principles on which they base their beliefs. These texts have also been studied by Western scholars of Islam for centuries. Most of their work has focussed on the historicity of the texts, often at the expense...
Paris Le Sycomore, 1980. — 192 p. Livre troisième : L'empire des Arabes Les Arabes en Syrie. Les Arabes à Bagdad. Les Arabes en Perse et dans L'Inde. Les Arabes en Égypte. Les Arabes dans l'Afrique septentrionale. Les Arabes en Espagne. Les Arabes en Sicile, en Italie et en France. Luttes du christianisme contre l'islamisme. Les croisades.
Paris Le Sycomore, 1980. — 117 p. Livre quatrième : Les mœurs et les institutions des Arabes. Les Arabes nomades et Arabes sédentaires des campagnes. Les Arabes des villes. - Mœurs et coutumes. Institutions politiques et sociales des Arabes. Les femmes en Orient. Religion et morale.
Paris Le Sycomore, 1980. — 152 p. Livre premier: Le milieu et la race L'Arabie. Les Arabes. Les Arabes avant Mahomet. Livre deuxième: Les origines de la civilisation arabe Mahomet. Naissance de l'empire arabe. Le Coran. Les conquêtes des Arabes.
Paris Le Sycomore, 1980. — 197 p. Livre cinquième : La civilisation des Arabes. Origine des connaissances des Arabes. Leur enseignement et leurs méthodes. Langue, philosophie, littérature et histoire. Mathématiques et astronomie. Sciences géographiques. Sciences physiques et leurs applications. Science naturelles et médicales. Les arts Arabes. Peinture, sculpture, arts...
Routledge, 2006. — 284 p. — ISBN10: 0415385687 / ISBN13: 978-0415385688. With contributions from specialists in different areas of classical Islamic thought, this accessible volume explores the ways in which medieval Muslims saw, interpreted and represented the world around them in their writings. Focusing mainly on the eighth to tenth centuries AD, known as the ‘formative...
The University of North Carolina Press, 2005. — 336 p. — (Islamic Civilization and Muslim Networks). Crucial to understanding Islam is a recognition of the role of Muslim networks. The earliest networks were Mediterranean trade routes that quickly expanded into transregional paths for pilgrimage, scholarship, and conversion, each network complementing and reinforcing the...
Cambridge University Press, 2000. — 242 p. Premodern Arabic biography has served as a major source for the history of Islamic civilization. In the first book-length study to explore the origins and development of classical Arabic biography, Michael Cooperson demonstrates how Muslim scholars used the notions of heirship and transmission to document the activities of political,...
University of California Press, 2004. — 422 p. — (Transformation of the Classical Heritage). From the stony desolation of Jordan's desert, it is but a step through a doorway into the bath house of the Qusayr 'Amra hunting lodge. Inside, multicolored frescoes depict scenes from courtly life and the hunt, along with musicians, dancing girls, and naked bathing women. The traveler...
Cambridge University Press, 200. — 249 p. Since the beginning of its history, Islam has encountered other religious communities both in Arabia and in the territories conquered during its expansion. Muslims faced other religions from the position of a ruling power and were therefore able to determine the nature of that relationship in accordance with their world-view and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. - 252 p. Introduction: Be(Yond)Fore Orientalism; Medieval Muslims and the Other Translation, Travel, and the Other: The Fascination with Greek and Oriental Cultures European Barbarity and Civilization in Some Medieval Arabic Geographical Sources: Al-Mas‘Udi and Al-Bakri as Two Case Studies Writing the North: Europe and Europeans in Medieval Arabic...
Pluto Press, 2013. — 184 p. Memoirs of an Early Arab Feminist is the first English translation of the memoirs of Anbara Salam Khalidi, the iconic Arab feminist. At a time when women are playing a leading role in the Arab Spring, this book brings to life an earlier period of social turmoil and women's activism through one remarkable life. Anbara Salam was born in 1897 to a...
Oxford University Press, 2016. — 464 p. Arabic-Islamic Views of the Latin West provides an insight into how the Arabic-Islamic world perceived medieval Western Europe in an age that is usually associated with the rise and expansion of Islam, the Spanish Reconquista, and the Crusades. Previous scholarship has maintained that the Arabic-Islamic world regarded Western Europe as a...
Brill Academic Pub, 2011. — 649 p. — (Islamic History and Civilization). This is a pioneering study which analyzes the food cultures of medieval Cairenes on the basis of a large corpus of historical texts in Arabic. Individual chapters discuss what, why, and how the inhabitants of medieval Cairo ate what they did, and in which ways food shaped their everyday lives. Given the...
Penguin Books Ltd., 2019. — 464 p. Islamic civilization was once the envy of the world. From a succession of glittering, cosmopolitan capitals, Islamic empires lorded it over the Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia and swathes of the Indian subcontinent, while Europe cowered feebly at the margins. For centuries the caliphate was both ascendant on the battlefield and...
Brill Academic Publishers, 2009. — 521 p. — (Islamic History and Civilization: Studies and Texts 78). 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...
4th Revised edition. — Intercultural Press Inc, 2006. — 289 p. This book helps to recognize Arabs with respect to modern times. It explains the attitude and moods of Arabs. The book covers such topics as beliefs and values; religion and society; the role of the family; friends and strangers; men and women; social formalities and etiquette; and communication styles.
Cambridge University Press, 2012. — 306 p. — ISBN10: 1107018684 / ISBN13: 978-1107018686 Long before Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope en route to India, the peoples of Africa, the Middle East, and Asia engaged in vigorous cross-cultural exchanges across the Indian Ocean. This book focuses on the years 700 to 1500, a period when powerful dynasties governed both...
Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 150 p. High rates of divorce, often taken to be a modern and western phenomenon, were also typical of medieval Islamic societies. By pitting these high rates of divorce against the Islamic ideal of marriage,Yossef Rapoport radically challenges usual assumptions about the legal inferiority of Muslim women and their economic dependence on men....
Cambridge University Press, 2014. — 224 p. Physical, sensory, and mental impairments can influence an individual's status in society as much as the more familiar categories of gender, class, religion, race, and ethnicity. This was especially true of the early modern Arab Ottoman world, where being judged able or disabled impacted every aspect of a person's life, including...
Brill Academic Pub, 2005. — 506 p. — (Islamic History and Civilization). This volume deals with the genesis of selected classical Arabic texts as the products of different milieus, and the implications which these texts had for Islamic societies in medieval times. It explores the concepts and images which Muslim scholars from the 8th to the 14th century presented in their...
Walter de Gruyter, 2009. — 387 p. — ISBN: 9783110198256 The published life's work of the founding father of German sociology is now being made available for international research and teaching with a new complete edition. Volume 10 is the sixth of a projected 24-volume edition. The predominant theme in Tamer's writings from 1916 to 1918 is the First World War he saw literary...
Brill, 2010. — 300 p. — ISBN10: 900419441X / ISBN13: 978-9004194410. This book brings together edited articles from the second edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam that are relevant to food culture, health, diet, and medicine in pre-Islamic Muslim societies. This compilation consists of edited entries on agriculture and irrigation, with attention for various staples and...
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