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Author | : Said Aljoumani |
Publisher | : Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-02-28 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781474492065 |
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Explores the only known private book collection from medieval Jerusalem
Author | : Sonja Brentjes |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 876 |
Release | : 2023-01-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1351692690 |
Download Routledge Handbook on the Sciences in Islamicate Societies Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Routledge Handbook on the Sciences in Islamicate Societies provides a comprehensive survey on science in the Islamic world from the 8th to the 19th century. Across six sections, a group of subject experts discuss and analyze scientific practices across a wide range of Islamicate societies. The authors take into consideration several contexts in which science was practiced, ranging from intellectual traditions and persuasions to institutions, such as courts, schools, hospitals, and observatories, to the materiality of scientific practices, including the arts and craftsmanship. Chapters also devote attention to scientific practices of minority communities in Muslim majority societies, and Muslim minority groups in societies outside the Islamicate world, thereby allowing readers to better understand the opportunities and constraints of scientific practices under varying local conditions. Through replacing Islam with Islamicate societies, the book opens up ways to explain similarities and differences between diverse societies ruled by Muslim dynasties. This handbook will be an invaluable resource for both established academics and students looking for an introduction to the field. It will appeal to those involved in the study of the history of science, the history of ideas, intellectual history, social or cultural history, Islamic studies, Middle East and African studies including history, and studies of Muslim communities in Europe and South and East Asia.
Author | : Said Aljoumani |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2023-11-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3111330249 |
Download Catalogue of the New Corpus of Documents from the Ḥaram Al-Sharīf in Jerusalem Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The documents from the Ḥaram al-sharīf in Jerusalem constitute one of the most important corpora from the pre-Ottoman Middle East covering broad areas of social, political, cultural and economic history. The first documents from the Ḥaram al-sharīf in Jerusalem were discovered in the 1970s and described by Donald Little (Catalogue of the Islamic Documents, Beirut/Wiesbaden 1984). In recent years, approximately 100 new documents have been discovered that are described in this catalogue. This catalogue sets the new corpus in relation to the 'old' corpus and highlights its potential for future scholarship. The main part is a description of all documents, including size, materiality, summary, editions of beginning/end of document as well as a list of personal names, place names and names of witnesses. The volume also includes the edition of ten fascinating documents (five Persian, five Arabic) with high-quality reproductions of the originals. Finally, the volume includes a list of all Ḥaram al-sharīf documents edited so far.
Author | : Zahir Bhalloo |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2023-10-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 311123973X |
Download Islamic Law in Early Modern Iran Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 modern Iran between the sixteenth to twentieth centuries. Drawing on documentary evidence and narrative sources, it reconstructs who the practitioners of Islamic law were, how they authenticated, annulled, and archived legal documents, and how they intervened in the resolution of disputes over religious endowments (waqf). The study demonstrates that following Iran's conversion to Twelver Shiʿism under the Safavids, the dominance of Uṣūlī Shiʿi legal theory, which conferred judicial authority on scholars recognized as Shiʿi jurists (mujathids), affected both the practitioners of Islamic law and the procedures of sharīʿa court practice in Iran. Shiʿi jurists in Iran, as a result, would come to exercise by the end of the nineteenth century a judicial monopoly over valid sharīʿa court practice thus laying the foundation for Ayatollah Khomeini's extension, during the Iranian revolution, of the authority of the Shiʿi jurist over political affairs.
Author | : Eike Grossmann |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 407 |
Release | : 2024-06-17 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 3111382982 |
Download Female Agency in Manuscript Cultures Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Oliver J. Thatcher |
Publisher | : Good Press |
Total Pages | : 512 |
Release | : 2019-11-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download A Source Book for Mediæval History Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A Source Book for Mediæval History is a scholarly piece by Oliver J. Thatcher. It covers all major historical events and leaders from the Germania of Tacitus in the 1st century to the decrees of the Hanseatic League in the 13th century.
Author | : Alessandro Bausi |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 2018-02-19 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 3110541572 |
Download Manuscripts and Archives Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Archives are considered to be collections of administrative, legal, commercial and other records or the actual place where they are located. They have become ubiquitous in the modern world, but emerged not much later than the invention of writing. Following Foucault, who first used the word archive in a metaphorical sense as "the general system of the formation and transformation of statements" in his "Archaeology of Knowledge" (1969), postmodern theorists have tried to exploit the potential of this concept and initiated the "archival turn". In recent years, however, archives have attracted the attention of anthropologists and historians of different denominations regarding them as historical objects and "grounding" them again in real institutions. The papers in this volume explore the complex topic of the archive in a historical, systematic and comparative context and view it in the broader context of manuscript cultures by addressing questions like how, by whom and for which purpose were archival records produced, and if they differ from literary manuscripts regarding materials, formats, and producers (scribes).
Author | : Hirschler Konrad Hirschler |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 504 |
Release | : 2016-02-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1474408796 |
Download Medieval Damascus Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The written text was a pervasive feature of cultural practices in the medieval Middle East. At the heart of book circulation stood libraries that experienced a rapid expansion from the twelfth century onwards. While the existence of these libraries is well known our knowledge of their content and structure has been very limited as hardly any medieval Arabic catalogues have been preserved. This book discusses the largest and earliest medieval library of the Middle East for which we have documentation - the Ashrafiya library in the very centre of Damascus - and edits its catalogue. This catalogue shows that even book collections attached to Sunni religious institutions could hold rather unexpected titles, such as stories from the 1001 Nights, manuals for traders, medical handbooks, Shiite prayers, love poetry and texts extolling wine consumption. At the same time this library catalogue decisively expands our knowledge of how the books were spatially organised on the bookshelves of such a large medieval library. With over 2,000 entries this catalogue is essential reading for anybody interested in the cultural and intellectual history of Arabic societies. Setting the Ashrafiya catalogue into a comparative perspective with contemporaneous libraries on the British Isles this book opens new perspectives for the study of medieval libraries.
Author | : Frederic Duncalf |
Publisher | : Palala Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2016-05-24 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781359553850 |
Download A Problem in the Use of Parallel Source Material in Medieval History Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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Author | : Konrad Hirschler |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2011-12-20 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0748654216 |
Download Written Word in the Medieval Arabic Lands Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Winner of the 2012 BRISMES book prize. 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 written word grew significantly in Egypt and Syria between the 11th and the 15th centuries, and more groups within society started to participate in individual and communal reading acts. New audiences in reading sessions, school curricula, increasing numbers of endowed libraries and the appearance of popular written literature all bear witness to the profound transformation of cultural practices and their social contexts.