Entre Mémoire Et Pouvoir

Author : Antoine Borrut
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004190979

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Entre mémoire et pouvoir by Antoine Borrut Pdf

Dans une perspective d'histoire de la mémoire et d'histoire des sens, cet ouvrage offre une nouvelle approche de l'espace syrien du 2e/8e siècle, mettant en lumière les projets historiographiques omeyyades et abbassides et leurs pratiques du pouvoir. In a perspective of history of memory and history of the meanings, this book offers a fresh approach of the 2nd/8th century Syrian space, revealing Umayyad and Abbasid historiographical projects, as well as their practices of power.

Author : Antoine Borrut,Paul M. Cobb
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004190986

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Umayyad Legacies by Antoine Borrut,Paul M. Cobb Pdf

Building on new interest in the study of memory and Islamic historiography and including interdisciplinary perspectives from Arabic literature, art, and archaeology, the papers in this book consider the achievements of the Umayyad dynasty in the Near East and Islamic Spain, and highlight the shaping of our knowledge of the Umayyad past.

Author : Antoine Borrut
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 543 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004466326

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Between Memory and Power by Antoine Borrut Pdf

Between Memory and Power intends to demonstrate that a robust culture of historical writing existed in 2nd/8th century Syria, and to offer new methodological approaches to access this now lost history, torn between memory and oblivion. By studying the making of Umayyad heroes or Abbasid origins-myths, this book aims to reveal the successive meanings granted to Syrian history, and to identify the various layers of historical writing and rewriting during the first centuries of Islam. Taken together, these elements make possible a history of meanings of the very space of Syria, articulated around power and its expression, which grants a clear coherence to the period, extending well beyond the dynastic caesura of 132/750.

Author : Tocquet, Robert
Publisher : Montréal : Presses Sélect
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Memory
ISBN : 289132319X

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Action et pouvoir de la mémoire by Tocquet, Robert Pdf

Author : Benjamin Anderson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300219166

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Cosmos and Community in Early Medieval Art by Benjamin Anderson Pdf

In the rapidly changing world of the early Middle Ages, depictions of the cosmos represented a consistent point of reference across the three dominant states--the Frankish, Byzantine, and Islamic Empires. As these empires diverged from their Greco-Roman roots between 700 and 1000 A.D. and established distinctive medieval artistic traditions, cosmic imagery created a web of visual continuity, though local meanings of these images varied greatly. Benjamin Anderson uses thrones, tables, mantles, frescoes, and manuscripts to show how cosmological motifs informed relationships between individuals, especially the ruling elite, and communities, demonstrating how domestic and global politics informed the production and reception of these depictions. The first book to consider such imagery across the dramatically diverse cultures of Western Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic Middle East, Cosmos and Community in Early Medieval Art illuminates the distinctions between the cosmological art of these three cultural spheres, and reasserts the centrality of astronomical imagery to the study of art history.

Author : Heba Mostafa
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-04
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789004690189

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Architecture of Anxiety, Body Politics and the Formation of Islamic Architecture by Heba Mostafa Pdf

Structured as five microhistories c. 632-705, this book offers a counternarrative for the formation of Islamic architecture and the Islamic state. It adopts a novel periodization informed by moments of historical violence and anxiety around caliphal identities in flux, animating histories of the minbar, throne, and maqsura as a principal nexus for navigating this anxiety. It expands outward to re-assess the mosque and palace with a focus on the Qubbat al-Khadraʾ and the Dar al-Imara in Kufa. It culminates in a reading of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem as a site where eschatological anxieties and political survival converge.

Author : Elsa Cardoso
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000878424

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The Door of the Caliph by Elsa Cardoso Pdf

This book focuses on the conceptualization of the court, palace and ruler of the Umayyad Caliphate of al-Andalus. Western terminology still plays a normative role in the representation of foreign courts, determining concepts that fit poorly into chronologies with their own dynamics and specificities, which is the case of Muslim courts. While Court Studies is a well-developed field for modern Western societies, Muslim medieval courts lack a consistent field of research. Sources elaborate a specific terminology for medieval Muslim court societies. In the specific case of the Umayyad Caliphate of al-Andalus, the court is usually articulated as Bāb Suddat al-Khalīfa (“The door of the Sudda of the caliph”) – a reference to the symbology of the main city gate of Cordoba – or simply as Bāb. Bāb Suddat al-Khalīfa became the most emblematic concept to name the Umayyad palace and its society, which will be additionally interpreted in the framework of the performance of ceremonial. The strong conceptualization of the Umayyad court of Cordoba was highlighted through the articulation of ceremonial, as the mis-en-scène of the conceptualization, expressed by gestures, insignia and hierarchies. The preliminary comparative perspective with the Umayyad Caliphate of Damascus, the ‘Abbasid and Fatimid Caliphates and the Byzantine Empire further discusses the Umayyad Andalusi model in relation to other dynasties. While this book focuses on the Umayyad conceptualization and articulation of ceremonial, this model will be discussed within the Mediterranean and Eastern framework of the 10th and 11th centuries, which broadens the interest of the book to other fields of research.

Author : Alain Delattre,Marie Legendre,Petra Sijpesteijn
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004386549

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Authority and Control in the Countryside by Alain Delattre,Marie Legendre,Petra Sijpesteijn Pdf

Authority and Control in the Countryside looks at the economic, religious, political and cultural instruments that local and regional powers in the late antique to early medieval Mediterranean and Near East used to manage their rural hinterlands.

Author : Christian Mauder
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1328 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004444218

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In the Sultan’s Salon: Learning, Religion, and Rulership at the Mamluk Court of Qāniṣawh al-Ghawrī (r. 1501–1516) (2 vols) by Christian Mauder Pdf

Building on his award-winning research, Christian Mauder’s In the Sultan’s Salon constitutes the first detailed study of the intellectual, religious, and political culture of the court of the Mamluk Sultanate (1250–1517), one of the most important polities in Islamic history.

Author : Jelle Bruning,Janneke H. M. de Jong,Petra M. Sijpesteijn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2022-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009170017

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Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean World by Jelle Bruning,Janneke H. M. de Jong,Petra M. Sijpesteijn Pdf

Maps Egypt's political, economic and cultural connections throughout the Mediterranean and beyond between 500 and 1000 CE.

Author : Jean-Louis Dumortier,Veronica Granata,Philippe Raxhon ,Julien Van Beveren
Publisher : Presses universitaires de Namur
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9782870378687

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Devoir de mémoire et pouvoir des fictions by Jean-Louis Dumortier,Veronica Granata,Philippe Raxhon ,Julien Van Beveren Pdf

Quand ont disparu les derniers témoins des faits dont la jeunesse devrait garder le souvenir pour n’être pas condamnée à refaire les erreurs du passé, quand la mise en mots de ces faits risque le confinement dans les écrits d’historiens, sur quoi peut-on tabler pour faire connaitre aux enfants et aux adolescents ces évènements qui ne peuvent pas tomber dans l’oubli sous peine de compromettre l’avenir de nos fragiles démocraties ? On peut tabler sur les fictions, qui donnent à connaitre le passé par l’intermédiaire de personnages pris dans les tourmentes de l’Histoire. Ce volume d’actes du colloque de Liège (2-4 mai 2013) réunit des études d’historiens et de didacticiens du français en vue de créer des supports d’apprentissage qui relèvent du devoir de mémoire, c’est-à-dire, de ce dont les enfants et les adolescents d’aujourd’hui, les adultes de demain doivent se souvenir pour s’épanouir en humanité.

Author : Aomar Hannouz
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004681248

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Le Cycle de ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib by Aomar Hannouz Pdf

This book aims to demonstrate that the accounts that feature Muḥammad’s grandfather in Ibn Isḥāq’s Sīra are the product of narrative engineering. Through a narrative sequence in which ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib is the hero, several intriguing episodes follow one another in a causal manner and lead to the birth of a future prophet. Articulated with a historical anthropology, the narrative analysis reveals that the Sīra is the heir to the royal literature of the ancient Near East. Using motifs and themes from the culture of the Fertile Crescent, the Sīra makes ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib a royal figure in the service of legitimising the Abbasid dynasty, heir par excellence to Ishmael and restorer of the Abrahamic covenant. Cet ouvrage entend démontrer que les récits qui mettent en scène le grand-père de Muḥammad dans la Sīra d’Ibn Isḥāq sont le produit d’une ingé nierie narrative. À travers une séquence narrative dont ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib est le héros, plusieurs épisodes intriguants s’enchainent d’une manière cau sale et aboutissent à la naissance d’un futur pro phète. Articulée à une anthropologie historique, l’analyse narrative révèle que la Sīra est l’héritière de la littérature royale du Proche-Orient ancien. À partir de motifs et de thématiques issus de la culture du croissant fertile, la Sīra fait de ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib une figure royale au service de la légitimation de la dynastie abbasside, héritier par excellence d’Ismaël et restaurateur de l’alliance abrahamique.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2020-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004434332

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Cities of Medieval Iran by Anonim Pdf

Cities of Medieval Iran brings together studies in urban geography, archaeology, and history of medieval Iranian cities, covering the millennium from 500 to 1500 AD, with a focus on urban actors themselves.

Author : Sergio La Porta,Alison M. Vacca
Publisher : Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-12-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781614910961

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An Armenian Futuh Narrative by Sergio La Porta,Alison M. Vacca Pdf

The History of the Armenian priest Łewond is an important source for the history of early Islamic rule and the only contemporary chronicle of second/eighth-century caliphal rule in Armenia. This volume presents a diplomatic edition and new English translation of Łewond's text, which describes events that took place during the century and a half following the Prophet Muḥammad's death in AH 11/632 CE. The authors address Łewond's account as a work of caliphal history, written in Armenian, from within the Caliphate. As such, this book provides a critical reading of the Caliphate from one of its most significant provinces. Reading notes clarify many aspects of the period covered to make the text understandable to students and specialists alike. Extensive commentary elucidates Łewond's narrative objectives and situates his History in a broader Near Eastern historiographical context by bringing the text into new conversations with a constellation of Arabic, Greek, and Syriac works that cover the same period. The book thus stresses the multiplicity of voices operating in the Caliphate in this pivotal period of Near Eastern history.

Author : Fred M. Donner,Rebecca Hasselbach-Andee
Publisher : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781614910749

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Scripts and Scripture by Fred M. Donner,Rebecca Hasselbach-Andee Pdf

How did Islam's sacred scripture, the Arabic Qur'an, emerge from western Arabia at a time when the region was religiously fragmented and lacked a clearly established tradition of writing to render the Arabic language? The studies in this volume, the proceedings of a scholarly conference, address different aspects of this question. They include discussions of the religious concepts found in Arabia in the centuries preceding the rise of Islam, which reflect the presence of polytheism and of several varieties of monotheism including Judaism and Christianity. Also discussed at length are the complexities surrounding the way languages of the Arabian Peninsula were written in the centuries before and after the rise of Islam-including Nabataean and various North Arabian dialects of Semitic-and the gradual emergence of the now-familiar Arabic script from the Nabataean script originally intended to render a dialect of Aramaic. The religious implications of inscriptions from the pre-Islamic and early Islamic centuries receive careful scrutiny. The early coalescence of the Qur'an, the kind of information it contains on Christianity and other religions that formed part of the environment in which it first appeared, the development of several key Qur'anic concepts, and the changing meaning of certain terms used in the Qur'an also form part of this rich volume.