This series reprints the best of the titles in Islamic Studies that were published by Brill. Titles that have been out of print for a long time, but are still important for libraries and scholars will become easily available to a wider audience. The best of two centuries of scholarship, newly typeset and with new introductions by some of the foremost scholars in Islamic Studies make the Brill Classics in Islam an indispensable part of any islamic studies collection.
Brill, 2016. — viii, 180 p., 5 illus. — (Brill Classics in Islam. Volume 8). — ISBN 978-90-04-32135-9. I.Y. Kratchkovsky (Ignatii Iul'ianovich Krachkovskii) was an iconic scholar, and Among Arabic Manuscripts, Memories of Libraries and Men gives us a good indication of what made him so outstanding. Hugely influential in its time, especially in Eastern Europe, it inspired...
Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1978. — 255 p. F. De Jong's research about the Sufi orders and institutions in 19th century Egypt. The book deals with the Muhammad Ali's reforms connected with the Sufi orders and Sufi hierarchy in the Ottoman Egypt.
Brill, 2009. — xvi, 336 p. — (Brill Classics in Islam. Volume 4). — ISBN 978-90-04-17200-5. In a series of essays devoted to key terms and ideas in Islam, Bravmann argues on the basis of pre-Islamic and early Islamic texts for an Arabian background to the rise of the religion. In pursuing a through philological examination of the evidence, Bravmann finds core values and ideas...
Brill, 2010. — xxii, 416 p. — (Brill Classics in Islam. Volume 5). — ISBN 978-90-04-17931-8. Goitein’s selection of studies dealing with Islamic history, religion, and institutions offers a wide-ranging, sensitive, and highly original introduction to a civilization by one who lived all his life studying and observing Islam. Eschewing simplistic notions, Goitein poses...
Brill, 2008. — xxvi, 230 p. — (Brill Classics in Islam. Volume 3). — ISBN 978-90-04-16241-9. Ignaz Goldziher wrote his book ‘Die Zahiriten’ in 1883. The English translation of this standard work on Islamic jurisprudence appeared in 1971. The book has been in print ever since. This new edition in the Brill Classics in Islam series shows that The Ẓāhirīs has not lost any of its...
Brill, 2011 — xvi, 184 pp. — (Brill Classics in Islam, Volume: 6) — ISBN: 978-90-04-21148-3 Humor in Early Islam, first published in 1956, is a pioneering study by the versatile and prolific scholar Franz Rosenthal (1914–2003), who (having published an article on mediaeval Arabic blurbs), should have written this text himself. It contains an annotated translation of an Arabic...
Brill, 2014. — 1158 p. — (Brill Classics in Islam, Volume: 7) — ISBN: 978-90-04-27088-6 In Man versus Society in Medieval Islam, Franz Rosenthal (1914-2003) investigates the tensions and conflicts that existed between individuals and society as the focus of his study of Muslim social history. The book brings together works spanning fifty years: the monographs The Muslim Concept...
Brill, 2006. — xxii, 330 p. — (Brill Classics in Islam Volume 1). — ISBN 978-90-04-15449-0. From 1884-1885, Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje stayed in Mecca. He became intimately acquainted with the daily life of the Meccans and the thousands of pilgrims from all over the world. This volume deals with social and family life, funeral customs and marriage. It is a unique insight in...
Brill, 2007. — 376 p. — (Brill Classics in Islam 2). — ISBN10: 9004153861 / ISBN13: 978-9004153868. In Knowledge Triumphant, Franz Rosenthal observes that the Islamic civilization is one that is essentially characterized by knowledge ('ilm), for 'ilm is one of those concepts that have dominated Islam and given Muslim civilization its distinctive shape and complexion.' There is...
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