Al Hind

Author : André Wink
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004483002

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Al-Hind, Volume 1 Early Medieval India and the Expansion of Islam 7th-11th Centuries by André Wink Pdf

In this volume, André Wink analyzes the beginning of the process of momentous and long-term change that came with the Islamization of the regions that the Arabs called al-Hind—India and large parts of its Indianized hinterland. In the seventh to eleventh centuries, the expansion of Islam had a largely commercial impact on al-Hind. In the peripheral states of the Indian subcontinent, fluid resources, intensive raiding and trading activity, as well as social and political fluidity and openness produced a dynamic impetus that was absent in the densely settled agricultural heartland. Shifts of power occurred, in combination with massive transfers of wealth across multiple centers along the periphery of al-Hind. These multiple centers mediated between the world of mobile wealth on the Islamic-Sino-Tibetan frontier (which extended into Southeast Asia) and the world of sedentary agriculture, epitomized by brahmanical temple Hinduism in and around Kanauj in the heartland. The growth and development of a world economy in and around the Indian Ocean—with India at its center and the Middle East and China as its two dynamic poles—was effected by continued economic, social, and cultural integration into ever wider and more complex patterns under the aegis of Islam. Please note that Early medieval India and the expansion of Islam 7th-11th centuries was previously published by Brill in hardback (ISBN 90 04 09249 8, still available).

Author : André Wink
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004102361

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Al-Hind the Making of the Indo-Islamic World by André Wink Pdf

This is the second of a projected series of five volumes dealing with the expansion of Islam in "al-Hind," or South and Southeast Asia. It analyses the conquest of the eleventh-thirteenth centuries, the migration of Muslim groups into the subcontinent, and maritime developments in the same period.

Author : André Wink
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0391041746

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Al-Hind: The Slavic Kings and the Islamic conquest, 11th-13th centuries by André Wink Pdf

During the eleventh to thirteenth centuries, Islamic conquest and trade laid the foundation for a new type of Indo-Islamic society in which the organizational forms of the frontier and of sedentary agriculture merged in a way that was uniquely successful in the late medieval world at large, setting the Indo-Islamic world apart from the Middle East and China in the same centuries.

Author : André Wink
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : India
ISBN : 9004092498

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Al-hind by André Wink Pdf

Author : André Wink
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004483019

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Al-Hind, Volume 2 Slave Kings and the Islamic Conquest, 11th-13th Centuries by André Wink Pdf

During the early medieval Islamic expansion in the seventh to eleventh centuries, al-Hind (India and its Indianized hinterland) was characterized by two organizational modes: the long-distance trade and mobile wealth of the peripheral frontier states, and the settled agriculture of the heartland. These two different types of social, economic, and political organization were successfully fused during the eleventh to thirteenth centuries, and India became the hub of world trade. During this period, the Middle East declined in importance, Central Asia was unified under the Mongols, and Islam expanded far into the Indian subcontinent. Instead of being devastated by the Mongols, who were prevented from penetrating beyond the western periphery of al-Hind by the absence of sufficient good pasture land, the agricultural plains of North India were brought under Turko-Islamic rule in a gradual manner in a conquest effected by professional armies and not accompanied by any large-scale nomadic invasions. The result of the conquest was, in short, the revitalization of the economy of settled agriculture through the dynamic impetus of forced monetization and the expansion of political dominion. Islamic conquest and trade laid the foundation for a new type of Indo-Islamic society in which the organizational forms of the frontier and of sedentary agriculture merged in a way that was uniquely successful in the late medieval world at large, setting the Indo-Islamic world apart from the Middle East and China in the same centuries. Please note that The Slave Kings and the Islamic Conquest, 11th-13th Centuries was previously published by Brill in hardback (ISBN 90 04 10236 1, still available).

Author : André Wink
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2003-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047402749

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Al-Hind, Volume 3 Indo-Islamic Society, 14th-15th Centuries by André Wink Pdf

This third volume of Andre Wink's acclaimed and pioneering Al-Hind:The Making of the Indo-Islamic World takes the reader from the late Mongol invasions to the end of the medieval period and the beginnings of early modern times in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century. It breaks new ground by focusing attention on the role of geography, and more specifically on the interplay of nomadic, settled and maritime societies. In doing so, it presents a picture of the world of India and the Indian Ocean on the eve of the Portuguese discovery of the searoute: a world without stable parameters, of pervasive geophysical change, inchoate and instable urbanism, highly volatile and itinerant elites of nomadic origin, far-flung merchant diasporas, and a famine- and disease-prone peasantry whose life was a gamble on the monsoon.

Author : André Wink
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : India
ISBN : UOM:39015018863814

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Al-Hind, the Making of the Indo-Islamic World: Early medieval India and the expansion of Islam, 7th-11th centuries by André Wink Pdf

Author : Petra Schmidl
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 879 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007-03-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789047420507

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Volkstümliche Astronomie im islamischen Mittelalter by Petra Schmidl Pdf

This source book provides new information about a much neglected aspect of the scientific tradition of the Islamic Middle Ages, focusing on folk astronomy and its relations to religious duties (determination of the times of Muslim prayer and the direction towards the Kaaba in Mecca (Arabic qibla)).

Author : Ralf Elger,Yavuz Köse
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Arabic literature
ISBN : 3447062509

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Many Ways of Speaking about the Self by Ralf Elger,Yavuz Köse Pdf

Contributions originally presented at a conference held in Munich in 2007.

Author : Barbara D. Metcalf
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781400831388

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Islam in South Asia in Practice by Barbara D. Metcalf Pdf

This volume of Princeton Readings in Religions brings together the work of more than thirty scholars of Islam and Muslim societies in South Asia to create a rich anthology of primary texts that contributes to a new appreciation of the lived religious and cultural experiences of the world's largest population of Muslims. The thirty-four selections--translated from Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Bengali, Tamil, Gujarati, Hindavi, Dakhani, and other languages--highlight a wide variety of genres, many rarely found in standard accounts of Islamic practice, from oral narratives to elite guidance manuals, from devotional songs to secular judicial decisions arbitrating Islamic law, and from political posters to a discussion among college women affiliated with an "Islamist" organization. Drawn from premodern texts, modern pamphlets, government and organizational archives, new media, and contemporary fieldwork, the selections reflect the rich diversity of Islamic belief and practice in South Asia. Each reading is introduced with a brief contextual note from its scholar-translator, and Barbara Metcalf introduces the whole volume with a substantial historical overview.

Author : Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Bīrūnī
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-24
Category : History
ISBN : 110804719X

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Alberuni's India by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Bīrūnī Pdf

Translated and annotated by orientalist Edward Sachau (1845-1930), this 1887-8 two-volume work is the account by Muslim polymath and traveller Alberuni (973-1048) of Indian political and social life in the medieval period. Sachau published the manuscript in Arabic in 1885-6, at the same time working on an English translation. Alberuni, born in Chorasmia, south of the Aral Sea, was one of the leading scholars of his day. He accompanied the Afghan ruler Mahmud on his invasion of India in the early eleventh century, and remained there for thirteen years, making a detailed study of Indian life and culture, and in particular studying the Hindu religion. Alberuni claims that his work is not polemical in nature, but a simple historical record of facts, and he commends the learning of the Hindus in philosophy, mathematics and astronomy. Volume 1 discusses Hindu beliefs, the caste system and the calendar.

Author : Sir George Watt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Botany, Economic
ISBN : WISC:89096246947

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A Dictionary of the Economic Products of India: Index, prepared by Edgar Thurston, assisted by T. N. Mukerji by Sir George Watt Pdf

Author : Sir George Watt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Botany, Economic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044106473317

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A Dictionary of the Economic Products of India by Sir George Watt Pdf

Author : Sania Sharawi Lanfranchi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857720719

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Casting off the Veil by Sania Sharawi Lanfranchi Pdf

In 1923, when the pioneer of feminist activism, Huda Shaarawi, removed her veil in Cairo's train station, she created what became a landmark (and much-copied) gesture for feminists throughout Egypt and the Middle East and cemented her status as one of the most important feminists in twentieth-century Egypt. In Casting off the Veil, her granddaughter Sania Sharawi Lanfranchi uses never-before seen letters and photographs to explore the life and thought of Egypt's first feminist, as she campaigned against British occupation, as well as striving to improve conditions for women throughout the country. From her birth into a wealthy and powerful family, her early years spent in a harem, to her iconic status as one of the most influential feminists in Middle Eastern history, this is a fascinating portrait of a determined and ground-breaking woman, a rich and important story which will captivate everyone with an interest in Egyptian, feminist or colonial history.

Author : Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Muqaddasī
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Geography, Medieval
ISBN : IND:30000120413277

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Ahsānu-t-taqāsīm Fī Maʻrifati-l-aqālīm by Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Muqaddasī Pdf