Brill , 2012. — 827 p. — (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1. The Near and Middle East 103). This volume represents the state of the art in research on the Muslim legal scholar, theologian and man of letters Ibn azm of Cordoba (d. 456/1064), who is widely regarded as one of the most brilliant minds of Islamic Spain.
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...
Brill, 2022. — 338 p. — (Islamic History and Civilization 191). Naẓar , literally ‘vision’, is a unique Arabic-Islamic term/concept that offers an analytical framework for exploring the ways in which Islamic visual culture and aesthetic sensibility have been shaped by common conceptual tools and moral parameters. It intertwines the act of ‘seeing’ with the act of ‘reflecting’,...
I.B. Tauris, 2015. — 200 p. In tenth-century Iraq, a group of Arab intellectuals and scholars known as the Ikhwan al-Safa began to make their intellectual mark on the society around them. A mysterious organisation, the identities of its members have never been clear. But its contribution to the intellectual thought, philosophy, art and culture of the era - and indeed subsequent...
I.B. Tauris, 2015. — 200 p. In tenth-century Iraq, a group of Arab intellectuals and scholars known as the Ikhwan al-Safa began to make their intellectual mark on the society around them. A mysterious organisation, the identities of its members have never been clear. But its contribution to the intellectual thought, philosophy, art and culture of the era - and indeed subsequent...
I.B. Tauris, 2015. — 200 p. In tenth-century Iraq, a group of Arab intellectuals and scholars known as the Ikhwan al-Safa began to make their intellectual mark on the society around them. A mysterious organisation, the identities of its members have never been clear. But its contribution to the intellectual thought, philosophy, art and culture of the era - and indeed subsequent...
Translated and Introduced by Daniel L. Newman. — Saqi Books, 2024. — 352 p. Of the many books written by thirteenth-century Muslim-Andalusian scholar Ibn Razin al-Tujibi, only one survives - a cookbook... Compiled from his new home in Tunisia, having fled Murcia following the Christian reconquest of Spain, it features recipes from Al-Tujibi's Andalusi heritage, offering dishes...
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...
London: William Heinemann, 1890. — 135 p. When originally published in 1890, this work revealed for the first time, in collected form, the wealth of literary, traditional and historical writings produced by Arabic authors, in a text readily understood by the general reader. The passage of years has done little to erode the intrinsic value of the book, and indeed the added...
Brill, 2017. — xii, 342 p. — (Islamic History and Civilization 139). The Islamic qāṣṣ (preacher/storyteller) has been viewed most commonly as a teller of stories, primarily religious in nature and often unreliable. Building on material of over a hundred quṣṣāṣ from the rise of Islam through the end of the Umayyad period, this book offers the most comprehensive study of the...
Leiden: Brill, 2014. — 192 p. — ISBN 978-90-04-26633-9. Arabic is the only living language to have been taught in Dutch higher education for more than four centuries. Practical usefulness, however, has been a prerequisite from the start. Knowledge of Arabic was to promote Dutch interests in the Muslim world, or to help refute Islam. As a cognate of Classical Hebrew, the study...
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 pp. — 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...
Edinburgh University Press, 2022. — 528 p. — (Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art). This book traces the history of manuscript production in the Islamic West between the 10th and the 12th centuries. It interrogates the material evidence that survives from this period, paying special attention to the origin and development of Maghribī round scripts, the distinctive form of Arabic...
Edinburgh University Press, 2022. — 528 p. — (Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art). This book traces the history of manuscript production in the Islamic West between the 10th and the 12th centuries. It interrogates the material evidence that survives from this period, paying special attention to the origin and development of Maghribī round scripts, the distinctive form of Arabic...
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...
George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1972. — 218 p. A unique study of the Moors’ arrival to the Iberian peninsula in 711 until the Renaissance, examining the manner of life and the achievements in architecture, poetry, philosophy, religion, and music that developed in Andalusia, the center of the North African Arab empire on the European continent. The Arab contribution to human...
Edinburgh University Press, 2018. — 320 p. — (Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art). The Nasrid builders of the Alhambra - the best-preserved medieval Muslim palatial city - were so exacting that some of their work could not be fully explained until the invention of fractal geometry. Their design principles have been obscured, however, by the loss of all archival material. This...
Edinburgh University Press, 2018. — 320 p. — (Edinburgh Studies in Islamic Art). The Nasrid builders of the Alhambra - the best-preserved medieval Muslim palatial city - were so exacting that some of their work could not be fully explained until the invention of fractal geometry. Their design principles have been obscured, however, by the loss of all archival material. This...
Arc Humanities Press, 2020. — 184 p. This book explores a millennium of literary exchanges among the peoples of the Maghrib, or westernmost strongholds of medieval Islam. In the seventh century, Muslim expansion into the western Mediterranean initiated a new phase in the layering of heterogeneous peoples and languages in this contact zone: Arabs and Berbers, Christians and...
Oneworld Publications, 2007. — 160 p. — (Makers of the Muslim world). The importance of Muhyi al-Din Ibn al-Arabi (1165-1240) for Islamic mysticism lies in the fact that he was a speculative thinker of the highest order, albeit diffuse and difficult to understand. His central doctrine is the unity of all existence. In this text, William Chittick explores how, through the work of...
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...
Oneworld Publications, 2005. — 160 p.
Аль-Мамун (786—833) — багдадский халиф из династии Аббасидов.Сын Харуна аль-Рашида. Мать Мамуна была персидского происхождения. После смерти отца халифом стал его брат Аль-Амин, а Мамун стал губернатором Хорасана. В ходе вспыхнувшей гражданской войны, Мамун в 813 г. захватил Багдад и воцарился. Привлек к управлению государством ученых и...
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,...
Edinburgh University Press, 2006. — 280 p. This first full-length study of women and the Fatimids is a groundbreaking work investigating an unexplored area in the field of Islamic and medieval studies.The authors have unearthed a wealth of references to women, thus re-inscribing their role in the history of one of the most fascinating Islamic dynasties, the only one to be named...
Brill, 2019. — xii, 362 p. — (Islamic History and Civilization, Volume: 163). Insatiable Appetite: Food as Cultural Signifier in the Middle East and Beyond explores the cultural ramifications of food and foodways in the Mediterranean, and Arab-Muslim countries in particular. The volume addresses the cultural meanings of food from a wider chronological scope, from antiquity to...
State University of New York Press, 2012. — 334 p. A wide-ranging consideration of the place of dreams and visions in Islamic societies from the pre-modern period to the present. This book provides a marvelous appreciative look at an important aspect of the art of narrative across many facets of Muslim community life, and the endurance of that art through the centuries. The...
De Gruyter, 2021. — 574 p. 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. The book contains 18 contributions written by senior and junior scholars from different institutions all over the world. It is divided into five sections dealing with how...
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 is...
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...
Brepols, 2024. — 293 p. — (Contact and Transmission 4). Understanding and influencing nature were preeminent aims of medieval Arabic science, and attracted European fascination with its accomplishments. This volume draws together studies on central themes, presenting a world of enquiry into the earth and the heavens, and ways to harness this information for divination and the...
Brillm 2020. — xii, 160 p. — (Islamic History and Civilization 173). In this volume Yasemin Gökpinar provides insight into Ibn Faḍl-Allāh al-ʿUmarī’s Masālik al-abṣār fī mamālik al-amṣār (vol. 10) about court music from the Abbasids to the Mamluks, with special emphasis on the subject of high ranking singing slave-girls (qiyān). Her interdisciplinary study focuses on the author...
Brill, 2018. — x, 1-257 p. — (Islamic History and Civilization, 152/1). The Works of Ibn Wāḍiḥ al-Yaʿqūbī, a three volume set, contains a fully annotated translation of the extant writings of Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Yaʿqūbī, a Muslim imperial official and polymath of the third/ninth century, along with an introduction to these works and a biographical sketch of their author. The most...
Brill, 2018. — P. 261-594. — (Islamic History and Civilization 152/2). The Works of Ibn Wāḍiḥ al-Yaʿqūbī, a three volume set, contains a fully annotated translation of the extant writings of Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Yaʿqūbī, a Muslim imperial official and polymath of the third/ninth century, along with an introduction to these works and a biographical sketch of their author. The most...
Brill, 2018. — P. 597-1293. — (Islamic History and Civilization, 152/3). The Works of Ibn Wāḍiḥ al-Yaʿqūbī, a three volume set, contains a fully annotated translation of the extant writings of Abū al-ʿAbbās al-Yaʿqūbī, a Muslim imperial official and polymath of the third/ninth century, along with an introduction to these works and a biographical sketch of their author. The most...
I.B. Tauris, 2020. — 266 p. — ISBN 13: 9781788319553 This book examines the ways in which non-Arabic cultural influences interacted with the rich, complex and sometimes conflictual environment of the Arab world in the pre-independence era. It comprises a series of 11 detailed case studies, including topics such as the songs of Egyptian forced labourers in the British Army in...
Brill, 2018. — 550 p. — (Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia 122). This volume showcases a variety of innovative approaches to the study of Muslim societies and cultures, inspired by and honouring Gudrun Krämer and her role in transforming the landscape of Islamic Studies.
I.B. Tauris, 2019. — 240 p. — (The Early and Medieval Islamic World). In 902 the last Byzantine stronghold in Sicily fell, and the island would remain under Muslim control until the arrival of the Normans in the eleventh century. Drawing on a lifetime of translating and linguistic experience, William Granara here focuses on the various ways in which medieval Arab historians,...
I.B. Tauris, 2019. — 240 p. In 902 the last Byzantine stronghold in Sicily fell, and the island would remain under Muslim control until the arrival of the Normans in the eleventh century. Drawing on a lifetime of translating and linguistic experience, William Granara here focuses on the various ways in which medieval Arab historians, geographers, jurists and philologists...
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...
Brill, 2020. — 1138 p. — (Islamic History and Civilization 172). Knowledge and Education in Classical Islam: Religious Learning between Continuity and Change is a pioneering collection of essays on the historical developments, ideals, and practices of Islamic learning and teaching in the formative and classical periods of Islam (i.e., from the seventh to fifteenth centuries...
University of Toronto Press; 1971 — 943 pp. — ISBN-10: 0802015913 / ISBN-13: 978-0802015914 The most authoritative work on pre-Islamic Arabian names. Gerald Lankester Harding (8 December 1901 – 11 February 1979) was a British archaeologist who was the director of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan from 1936 to 1956. His tenure spanned the period in which the Dead Sea...
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...
Edinburgh University Press, 2011. — 257 p. How the written text became accessible to wider audiences in medieval Egypt and Syria. Medieval Islamic societies belonged to the most bookish cultures of their period. Using a wide variety of documentary, narrative and normative sources, Konrad Hirschler explores the growth of reading audiences in a pre-print culture. The uses of the...
Routledge, 2022. — 108 p. This volume examines the library of the Abbasid caliphs, known as "The House of Wisdom" ("Bayt al-Hikma"), exploring how this important institution has been misconceived by scholars’. This book places the palace library within the framework of the multifaceted cultural and scientific activities in the era of the caliphs, Harun al-Rashid and al-Ma’mun,...
Translated by Amir Al-Azraki. — McGill-Queen's University Press, 2023 . — 192 p. Anti-blackness has until recently been a taboo topic within Arab society. This began to change when Nader Kadhem, a prominent Arab and Muslim thinker, published the first in-depth investigation of anti-black racism in the Arab world in 2004. This translation of the new and revised edition of...
Brill, 2017. — 369 p. — (Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East 119). In Creating the Mediterranean: Maps and the Islamic Imagination Tarek Kahlaoui treats the subject of the Islamic visual representations of the Mediterranean. It tracks the history of the Islamic visualization of the sea from when geography was created by the Islamic state’s...
Brill, 2014. — 216 p. — (Islamic History and Civilization 109). The Quṣayr Documents, one of the few Arabic archives unearthed in situ, shed new light on a lonely 13th-century outpost on the Red Sea shore where Egyptian donkey caravans met with ships coming from the Ḥidjāz and South Arabia. This is the publication of another twenty-five business letters and process slips from...
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...
Routledge, 2019. — 244 p. This literary-historical book draws out and sheds light upon the mechanisms of "the ideological work" that the Arabic Majnūn Laylā story performed for ‘Abbāsid urbanite, imperial audiences in the wake of the disappearance of the "Bedouin cosmos." The study focuses upon the processes of primitivizing Majnūn in the romance of Majnūn Laylā as part of the...
Routledge, 2019. — 244 p. This literary-historical book draws out and sheds light upon the mechanisms of "the ideological work" that the Arabic Majnūn Laylā story performed for ‘Abbāsid urbanite, imperial audiences in the wake of the disappearance of the "Bedouin cosmos." The study focuses upon the processes of primitivizing Majnūn in the romance of Majnūn Laylā as part of the...
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...
De Gruyter, 2016. — xxxiv, 442 p. — ISBN 9783110313727. Volume 31 in the series Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East. 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...
Oneworld Publications, 2008. — 140 p. — (Makers of the Muslim world). Abu'l-Tayyib al-Mutanabbi (915-965) is often regarded as the greatest of the classical Arab poets, with his work occupying a unique position at the heart of Arab culture. Born the son of a water-carrier in Kufah, Iraq, al-Mutanabbi lived a tumultuous life spent in court employment writing panegyrics for his...
Routledge, 2020. — 186 p. This volume offers an aesthetic reading of the Muqaddima by Ibn Khaldūn (1332-1406), a text that has been studied up to the present as a work on historiography. It argues that the Muqaddima is also a comprehensive treatise on classical Arab-Islamic culture and provides a picture of classical Arab-Islamic aesthetics in its totality. The theme of the...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. — 286 p. — ISBN 978-3-319-65770-7 This edited volume offers the first extended, cross-disciplinary exploration of the cumulative problems and increasing importance of various forms of media in the Middle East. Leading scholars with expertise in Middle Eastern studies discuss their views and perceptions of the media’s influence on regional and global...
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...
Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2021. — 232 p. In the first book to address the critical role of the (un)dressed body in the formation of the modern Middle East, these essays unveil contemporary struggles over nation, gender, modernity and post-modernity. Contributions from leading interdisciplinary scholars, exploring gender representation, photography, dress and visual culture,...
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 triumphant...
National Geographic, 2008. — 320 p. — ISBN-10 9781426202803 ; ISBN-13 978-1426202803. In an era when the relationship between Islam and the West seems mainly defined by mistrust and misunderstanding, it is important to remember that for centuries Muslim civilization was the envy of the world. Lost History fills a significant void and is essential reading for anyone seeking to...
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...
I.B. Tauris, 2021. — 296 p. During the early medieval Islamicate period (800–1400 CE), discourses concerned with music and musicians were wide-ranging and contentious, and expressed in works on music theory and philosophy as well as literature and poetry. But in spite of attempts by influential scholars and political leaders to limit or control musical expression, music and...
Translated from the German by Michael Bonner. Gerlach Press, 2021. — 261 p. — ISBN: 978-3-95994-094-8 Translation of Albrecht Noth's Quellenkritische Studien (1973), co-authored by Lawrence I. Conrad. It presents criteria to evaluate the character and content of the early Islamic historical tradition, i.e. historiographical works in Arabic written in the 9th and 10th centuries....
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.
Rosen Pub Group, 2013. — 232 p. Readers are presented with a vivid portrait of the classical Islamic world through its greatest architectural sites and art treasures. Drawn from the Middle East, North Africa, Europe, and Asia, as well as from various time periods and empires, the artifacts highlighted in this book show the beauty and rich diversity of Islamic culture....
Brill, 2015. — vi, 274 p. — (Islamic History and Civilization, Volume: 120). This critical Arabic text edition of K. Makārim al-akhlāq wa-maḥāsin al-ādāb wa-badāʾiʿ al-awṣāf wa-gharāʾib al-tashbīhāt(Book of Noble Character, Excellent Conduct, Admirable Descriptions, and Curious Similes) is a substantial work of adab attributed to the prominent littérateur Abū Manṣūr...
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...
Foreword by Claudia Roden. — NYU Press, 2020. — 242 p. This popular thirteenth-century Syrian cookbook is an ode to what its anonymous author calls the “greater part of the pleasure of this life,” namely the consumption of food and drink, as well as the fragrances that garnish the meals and the diners who enjoy them. Organized like a meal, Scents and Flavors opens with...
Foreword by Claudia Roden. — NYU Press, 2020. — 242 p. This popular thirteenth-century Syrian cookbook is an ode to what its anonymous author calls the “greater part of the pleasure of this life,” namely the consumption of food and drink, as well as the fragrances that garnish the meals and the diners who enjoy them. Organized like a meal, Scents and Flavors opens with...
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....
University of Chicago Press, 2018. — 354 p. About a millennium ago, in Cairo, an unknown author completed a large and richly illustrated book. In the course of thirty-five chapters, this book guided the reader on a journey from the outermost cosmos and planets to Earth and its lands, islands, features, and inhabitants. This treatise, known as The Book of Curiosities , was...
University of Chicago Press, 2018. — 987 p. — ISBN-13: 978-0-226-54088-7 About a millennium ago, in Cairo, an unknown author completed a large and richly illustrated book. In the course of thirty-five chapters, this book guided the reader on a journey from the outermost cosmos and planets to Earth and its lands, islands, features, and inhabitants. This treatise, known as The...
Brill, 2015. — 424 p. — (Islamic History and Civilization 113). In celebration of the many contributions of Claude Gilliot to Islamic studies, an international group of twenty-one friends and colleagues join together to explore books and written culture in the Muslim world. Divided into three sections – authors, genres and traditions – the essays explore themes that have been...
Leiden: Brill, 1975. — 192 p. — ISBN 90 04 04314 4. Introduction Play and Games and Gambling Pre-Islamic Gambling, Maysir , and the Law Gambling in Belles Lettres The Social Consequences of Gambling The Metaphysics of Gambling A Note on Hazard Indexes
Berlin: Springer, 1937. — 246 S. — (Quellen und Studien zur Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und der Medizin. Bd. 6). Inhaltverzeichnis Vorwort Einleitung Rāzīs Leben und Leistungen Die biographischen Nachrichten Rāzī als Arzt und Philosoph Rāzī als Begründer einer neuen Alchimie Die Handschriften des chemischen Hauptwerks Die Leipziger Handschrift Die indischen Handschriften...
Brill, 2015. — 576 p. — (Islamic History and Civilization 110). George Dimitri Sawa’s Arabic Musical and Socio-Cultural Glossary of Kitāb al-Aghānī is the first comprehensive lexicographical study of Umayyad and early Abbāsid-era music theory and practices. It defines melodic and rhythmic modes, musical forms, instruments, technical terms and metaphors used in evaluating...
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...
Gerlach Pr., 2021. — 655 p. This work focuses on the intellectual and educational history of Baghdad in the early ‘Abbasid and Buyid periods (8th–10th centuries). It covers a wide range of disciplines taught in the metropolis before the institutionalization of the madrasa system. Among these fields of knowledge are Arabic poetry and literature, the transmission of prophetic...
The University of North Carolina Press, 2019. — 670 p. — ISBN 9781469653044 Analyzing the modernist art movement that arose in Cairo and Alexandria from the late nineteenth century through the 1960s, Alex Dika Seggerman reveals how the visual arts were part of a multifaceted transnational modernism. While the work of diverse, major Egyptian artists during this era may have...
Variorum (June 1, 1981) — 350 pp. — ISBN-10: 0860780929 / ISBN-13: 978-0860780922 The papers from learned journals reprinted in this collection are mostly concerned with Arabian institutions and society, particularly with the role of the Prophet's house in ancient an contemporary times. In this society, theocratic in nature, law and religious belief are inseparable intertwined...
Brill, 2020. — xxxviii, 374 p. — (Leiden Studies in Islam and Society, Volume: 10). Islam at 250: Studies in Memory of G.H.A. Juynboll is a collection of original articles on the state of Islamic sciences and Arabic culture in the early phases of their crystallization. It covers a wide range of intellectual activity in the first three centuries of Islam, such as the study of...
9e édition mise à jour. — Presses Universitaires de France, 2007. — 128 p. — (Collection « Que sais-je ? ») Quelle est l’histoire des Arabes depuis le premier millénaire (avant l’Islam), en passant par la constitution d’un empire et jusqu’à la renaissance du monde arabe aux XIXe et XXe siècles ? En dépit des apparences, il n’est rien de plus malaisé à écrire que l’histoire des...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 300 p. Demonstrating the vibrancy of an Early Modern Muslim society through a study of the natural sciences in seventeenth-century Morocco, Revealed Sciences examines how the natural sciences flourished during this period, without developing in a similar way to the natural sciences in Europe. Offering an innovative analysis of the...
Light & Life Publishers, 1979. — xxiii, 393 p. — ISBN-10 8183392369. Islamic Culture in Kashmir G. M. D. Sufi In this book, the reader will find a general description of Kashmir and Kashmiris, embodying the result of the latest research on the subject. To epitomize the history of Kashmir from the earliest times to the advent of Islam, the propagation and influence is discussed....
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, 2007. — 536 p. — (Islamic Philosophy, Theology and Science. Texts and Studies 74). — ISBN-10 9004157948 / ISBN-13 978-9004157941. O ye Gentlemen explores two vital strands in Arabic culture: the Greek tradition in science and philosophy and the literary tradition. They are permanent and, though drawing on Islam as a dominant religion, they are by no means dependent on...
Brill, 2010. — 300 p. — (EI Reference Guides 3). — 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...
М.: Наука, ГРВЛ, 1987. — 394 с.
Статьи сборника представляют читателю последние результаты исследований советских арабистов в области средневековой и новоарабской литературы, языкознания, исламоведения, источниковедения и историографии. Рассматриваются проблемы взаимодействия арабской культуры с культурами Востока и Запада, включая ее связи с древневосточной культурной...
М.: Наука, ГРВЛ, 1987. — 394 с.
Статьи сборника представляют читателю последние результаты исследований советских арабистов в области средневековой и новоарабской литературы, языкознания, исламоведения, источниковедения и историографии. Рассматриваются проблемы взаимодействия арабской культуры с культурами Востока и Запада, включая ее связи с древневосточной культурной...
М.: Наука, Главная редакция восточной литературы, 1982. — 440 с. — (Культура народов Востока). Книга представляет собой серию очерков, посвященных разным сторонам истории арабской культуры в средние века и написанных группой арабистов Ленинградского отделения Института востоковедения АН СССР. В них рассказывается о строе арабского языка, о рукописных арабских книгах и...
М.: Главная редакция восточной литературы издательства «Наука», 1982. — 440 с. — (Культура народов Востока). Книга представляет собой серию очерков, посвященных разным сторонам истории арабской культуры в средние века и написанных группой арабистов Ленинградского отделения Института востоковедения АН СССР. В них рассказывается о строе арабского языка, о рукописных арабских...
М.: Наука — Главная редакция восточной литературы, 1982. — 440 с. — (Культура народов Востока). Книга представляет собой серию очерков, посвященных разным сторонам истории арабской культуры в средние века и написанных группой арабистов Ленинградского отделения Института востоковедения АН СССР. В них рассказывается о строе арабского языка, о рукописных арабских книгах и...
Коллективная монография; Ин-т востоковедения РАН. — М.: ИВ РАН, 2021. — 232 с. — ISBN 978-5-907384-84-2 Монография представляет собой объединенные тремя общими темами (общественно-экономическое развитие, военно-политические тенденции и аспекты исламской мысли) исследования ярких и слабо изученных эпизодов истории арабо-османского мира. В книге представлена широкая панорама...
Коллективная монография. — М.: Институт востоковедения РАН, 2021. — 232 с. — ISBN 978-5-907384-84-2. Монография представляет собой объединенные тремя общими темами (общественно-экономическое развитие, военно-политические тенденции и аспекты исламской мысли) исследования ярких и слабо изученных эпизодов истории арабо-османского мира. В книге представлена широкая панорама...
М.: Наука, 1981. — 227 с. Сборник объединяет работы известного востоковеда Густава Эдмунда фон Грюнебаума (Gustave Edmund von Grunebaum), написанные в 40—70-х годах XX века и охватывающие широкий диапазон тем — от анализа исторических предпосылок складывания арабской нации и истоков мусульманской культуры до разработки вопросов арабской литературной теории. Для специалистов по...
Казань: Типография Императорского Университета, 1885. — VIII, 862, V с.
Михаил Александрович Машанов (1852-1924) - историк-религиовед, миссионер, знаток ислама, профессор Казанской духовной академии, в советское время профессор востоковедения, кавалер ряда орденов. Окончил Казанскую духовную академию. Специализировался на изучении истории арабов на Ближнем Востоке. Он много...
М.: Наука, Восточная литература, 1973. — 473 стр.
Книга известного швейцарского востоковеда Адама Меца (1869-1917) посвящена истории культуры арабского халифата III-IV вв. хиджры (IX-X вв. н. э. ) Ограничив свою работу рамками этих двух столетий, автор самым тщательным образом изучил огромное количество источников, выбрав из них все, что, по его мнению, служило...
2-е изд. — М.: Наука, 1973. — 473 с. Книга известного швейцарского востоковеда А. Меца – сводный труд, написанный на материале ценнейших источников, он рассказывает о культурном расцвете мусульманского мира в конце Х в. Книга знакомит читателя с самыми различными сторонами материальной культуры, общественной и культурной жизни средневекового арабского халифата. Огромное...
2-е изд. — Москва: Наука, 1973. — 476 с. Книга известного швейцарского востоковеда А. Меца - сводный труд, написанный на материале ценнейших источников, он рассказывает о культурном расцвете мусульманского мира в конце X в. Книга знакомит читателя с самыми различными сторонами материальной культуры, общественной и культурной жизни средневекового арабского халифата.
Учеб.-метод. пособие. Отв. ред. С.М. Якерсон. — СПб. : Президентская библиотека, 2016. — 296 с. — ISBN: 978-5-905273-95-7. Данное издание является первой попыткой создать учебно-методическое пособие, сфокусированное на анализе источников невербальной информации арабских рукописей. На примере анализа фронтисписов, унванных заставок и переплетов с привлечением дополнительных...
دار الجيل للطباعة والنشر والتوزيع. 282 с. الرواية الداخلية في بلاد الشام العصر الاموي. يتحدث هذا الكثاب عن الفروق الإسلامية ف بلاد الثام ف العصر الأموي والحية الفكرية فييا ف ظل الثمفخة العربية والإسلامية من عصر صدر الإسلام إلى منتصف...القرن الثاني. وفي هذا السياق يغطي الكداب جميع الفرق الإسلامية من القدرية والجبرية، والعباد والزهد، وبئ أمية و
دار كنعان للدراسات و النشر. 1993. — 255 с. يتتبع الكاتب نشأة و تاريخ حركة اخوان الصفا خلال القرنين الثالث و الرابع الهجرى من خلال منهج جدلى مستنتجا التالى - حركة اخوان الصفا هى أول صورة فى العالم للحزب السياسى - حركة اخوان الصفا أنتجت نظاما سيايسا اسلاميا صالحا للحكم - حركة اخوان الصفا هم من رواد الإبداع و التعبير الحر فى العالم
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