Islam In The Middle Ages

Author : Jacob Lassner,Michael Bonner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-11-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313047091

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Islam in the Middle Ages by Jacob Lassner,Michael Bonner Pdf

In the Middle Ages, a varied and vibrant Islamic culture flourished in all its aspects, from religious institutions to legal and scientific endeavors. Lassner, Reisman, and Bonner detail how all three montheist traditions are linked to the same sacred history. They trace the most current scholarship on the Arabian background to Islam, the prophet's early religious message and its appeal. They the Qur'an and how it would have been understood by the earliest generations of Muslims. How much does historical memory come into play in current depictions of this early era? Beyond religious institutions, Muslim scholars and scientists were vital to both the transmission of knowledge from the Greek civilization and to the uninterrupted progress of science. The authors explore the role that non-Muslim minorities played within this culture and they detail the splits within the Muslim world that continue to this day.

Author : Houari Touati
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226808772

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Islam and Travel in the Middle Ages by Houari Touati Pdf

In the Middle Ages, Muslim travelers embarked on a rihla, or world tour, as surveyors, emissaries, and educators. On these journeys, voyagers not only interacted with foreign cultures—touring Greek civilization, exploring the Middle East and North Africa, and seeing parts of Europe—they also established both philosophical and geographic boundaries between the faithful and the heathen. These voyages thus gave the Islamic world, which at the time extended from the Maghreb to the Indus Valley, a coherent identity. Islam and Travel in the Middle Ages assesses both the religious and philosophical aspects of travel, as well as the economic and cultural conditions that made the rihla possible. Houari Touati tracks the compilers of the hadith who culled oral traditions linked to the prophet, the linguists and lexicologists who journeyed to the desert to learn Bedouin Arabic, the geographers who mapped the Muslim world, and the students who ventured to study with holy men and scholars. Travel, with its costs, discomforts, and dangers, emerges in this study as both a means of spiritual growth and a metaphor for progress. Touati’s book will interest a broad range of scholars in history, literature, and anthropology.

Author : M. Frassetto,D. Blanks
Publisher : Springer
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1999-12-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780312299675

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Western Views of Islam in Medieval and Early Modern Europe by M. Frassetto,D. Blanks Pdf

Western Views of Islam in Medieval and Early Modern Europe considers the various attitudes of European religious and secular writers towards Islam during the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period. Examining works from England, France, Italy, the Holy Lands, and Spain, the essays in this volume explore the reactions of Westerners to the culture and religion of Islam. Many of the works studied reveal the hostility toward Islam of Europeans and the creation of negative stereotypes of Muslims by Western writers. These essays also reveal attempts at accommodation and understanding that stand in contrast to the prevailing hostility that existed then and, in some ways, exists still today.

Author : Jacob Lassner,Michael Bonner
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780275985691

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Islam in the Middle Ages by Jacob Lassner,Michael Bonner Pdf

"Islam in the Middle Ages addresses the intellectual and religious achievements of medieval Muslims against the backdrop of an evolving political and social history that shaped the ways in which Muslims understood themselves and the larger world. Unlike many authors of similar surveys, Lassner and Bonner not only emphasize historical trends, but show readers how difficult it is to fashion a coherent historical narrative out of the complex and often contradictory primary sources. Readers thus participate in the intricate process by which professional historians attempt to reconstruct the past. At the same time, since classical Islamic civilization is so important for Muslims in the present-day Near East, this book will help the reader understand the contemporary Islamic world." --Book Jacket.

Author : Richard William Southern
Publisher : Cambridge : Harvard University Press
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105080532695

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Western Views of Islam in the Middle Ages by Richard William Southern Pdf

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Author : Josef W. Meri
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 980 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135456030

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Medieval Islamic Civilization by Josef W. Meri Pdf

Medieval Islamic Civilization examines the socio-cultural history of the regions where Islam took hold between the seventh and sixteenth century. This important two-volume work contains over 700 alphabetically arranged entries, contributed and signed by international scholars and experts in fields such as Arabic languages, Arabic literature, architecture, art history, history, history of science, Islamic arts, Islamic studies, Middle Eastern studies, Near Eastern studies, politics, religion, Semitic studies, theology, and more. This reference provides an exhaustive and vivid portrait of Islamic civilization including the many scientific, artistic, and religious developments as well as all aspects of daily life and culture. For a full list of entries, contributors, and more, visit www.routledge-ny.com/middleages/Islamic.

Author : Speros Vryonis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004685892

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Islam and Cultural Change in the Middle Ages by Speros Vryonis Pdf

Author : Gustave E. von Grunebaum
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226864921

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Medieval Islam by Gustave E. von Grunebaum Pdf

From the Preface: "This book book has grown out of a series of public lectures delivered in the spring of 1945 in the Division of the Humanities of the University of Chicago. It proposes to outline the cultural orientation of the Muslim Middle Ages, with eastern Islam as the center of attention. It attempts to characterize the medieval Muslim's view of himself and his peculiarly defined universe, the fundamental intellectual and emotional attitudes that governed his works, and the mood in which he lived his life. It strives to explain the structure of his universe in terms of inherited, borrowed, and original elements, the institutional framework within which it functioned, and its place in relation to the contemporary Christian world. "A consideration of the various fields of cultural activity requires an analysis of the dominant interest, the intentions, and, to some extent, the methods of reasoning with which the Muslim approached his special subjects and to which achievement and limitations of achievement are due. Achievements referred to or personalities discussed will never be introduced for their own sake, let alone for the sake of listing the sum total of this civilization's major contributions. They are dealt with rather to evidence the peculiar ways in which the Muslim essayed to understand and to organize his world. "The plan of the book thus rules out the narration of political history beyond the barest skeleton, but it requires the ascertaining of the exact position of Islam in the medieval world and its significance. This plan also excludes a study of Muslim economy, but it leads to an interpretation of the social structure as molded by the prime loyalties cherished by the Muslim."

Author : Nimrod Hurvitz,Christian C. Sahner,Uriel Simonsohn,Luke Yarbrough
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520296725

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Conversion to Islam in the Premodern Age by Nimrod Hurvitz,Christian C. Sahner,Uriel Simonsohn,Luke Yarbrough Pdf

Conversion to Islam is a phenomenon of immense significance in human history. At the outset of Islamic rule in the seventh century, Muslims constituted a tiny minority in most areas under their control. But by the beginning of the modern period, they formed the majority in most territories from North Africa to Southeast Asia. Across such diverse lands, peoples, and time periods, conversion was a complex, varied phenomenon. Converts lived in a world of overlapping and competing religious, cultural, social, and familial affiliations, and the effects of turning to Islam played out in every aspect of life. Conversion therefore provides a critical lens for world history, magnifying the constantly evolving array of beliefs, practices, and outlooks that constitute Islam around the globe. This groundbreaking collection of texts, translated from sources in a dozen languages from the seventh to the eighteenth centuries, presents the historical process of conversion to Islam in all its variety and unruly detail, through the eyes of both Muslim and non-Muslim observers.

Author : Michael Frassetto
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781498577571

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Christians and Muslims in the Middle Ages by Michael Frassetto Pdf

The conflict and contact between Muslims and Christians in the Middle Ages is among the most important but least appreciated developments of the period from the seventh to the fourteenth century. Michael Frassetto argues that the relationship between these two faiths during the Middle Ages was essential to the cultural and religious developments of Christianity and Islam—even as Christians and Muslims often found themselves engaged in violent conflict. Frassetto traces the history of those conflicts and argues that these holy wars helped create the identity that defined the essential characteristics of Christians and Muslims. The polemic works that often accompanied these holy wars was important, Frassetto contends, because by defining the essential evil of the enemy, Christian authors were also defining their own beliefs and practices. Holy war was not the only defining element of the relationship between Christians and Muslims during the Middle Ages, and Frassetto explains that everyday contacts between Christian and Muslim leaders and scholars generated more peaceful relations and shaped the literary, intellectual, and religious culture that defined medieval and even modern Christianity and Islam.

Author : John Joseph Saunders
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415059145

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A History of Medieval Islam by John Joseph Saunders Pdf

This is an introduction to the history of the Muslim East from the rise of Islam to the Mongol conquests. It explains and indicates the main trends of Islamic historical evolution during the Middle Ages, and will help the non-Orientalist to understand something of the relationship between Islam and Christendom in those centuries.

Author : Josef W. Meri
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 980 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Islam
ISBN : 9780415966900

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Medieval Islamic Civilization by Josef W. Meri Pdf

Examines the socio-cultural history of the regions where Islam took hold between the 7th and 16th century. This two-volume work contains 700 alphabetically arranged entries, and provides a portrait of Islamic civilization. It is of use in understanding the roots of Islamic society as well to explore the culture of medieval civilization.

Author : Samer M. Ali
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780268074975

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Arabic Literary Salons in the Islamic Middle Ages by Samer M. Ali Pdf

Arabic literary salons emerged in ninth-century Iraq and, by the tenth, were flourishing in Baghdad and other urban centers. In an age before broadcast media and classroom education, salons were the primary source of entertainment and escape for middle- and upper-rank members of society, serving also as a space and means for educating the young. Although salons relied on a culture of oral performance from memory, scholars of Arabic literature have focused almost exclusively on the written dimensions of the tradition. That emphasis, argues Samer Ali, has neglected the interplay of oral and written, as well as of religious and secular knowledge in salon society, and the surprising ways in which these seemingly discrete categories blurred in the lived experience of participants. Looking at the period from 500 to 1250, and using methods from European medieval studies, folklore, and cultural anthropology, Ali interprets Arabic manuscripts in order to answer fundamental questions about literary salons as a social institution. He identifies salons not only as sites for socializing and educating, but as loci for performing literature and oral history; for creating and transmitting cultural identity; and for continually reinterpreting the past. A fascinating recovery of a key element of humanistic culture, Ali’s work will encourage a recasting of our understanding of verbal art, cultural memory, and daily life in medieval Arab culture.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004277878

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Diverging Paths? by Anonim Pdf

Diverging Paths? provides a wide-ranging comparative analysis of institutions, power, and social relations in medieval Christendom and Islam.

Author : John Victor Tolan
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Christianity and other religions
ISBN : 9780231123334

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Saracens by John Victor Tolan Pdf

Medieval Christian writers distorted the teachings of Islam and caricatured its believers in a variety of ways. This book provides a comprehensive study of Christian polemical responses to Islam in the Middle Ages.