L Adab Toujours Recommencé Origins Transmission And Metamorphoses Of Adab Literature

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 890 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004526358

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L’adab, toujours recommencé by Anonim Pdf

The notion of adab is at the very heart of the Islamicate cultures. Born in the crucible of the Arabic and Persian civilisations of the Late Antiquity period, nourished by Greek, Syriac and Indian influences, this polysemic notion could cover a variegated range of meanings, ranging from good behaviour, good manners, etiquette, proper knowledge of the rules, to belles-lettres, and finally, literature. This volume addresses the notion of adab through four perspectives, which correspond to the four parts into which it is divided: “Origins”; “Transmissions”; “Metamorphosis” of the “Origins” and finally “Origins” through the lens of modernity.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Islamic Literatures: Texts and
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 900452634X

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L'Adab, Toujours Recommencé: « Origins », Transmission, and Metamorphoses of Adab Literature by Anonim Pdf

This volume provides a thorough analysis of the "Origins", "Transmissions" and "Metamorphoses" of the Islamicate notion of Adab through a variety of multidisciplinary up-to-date research perspectives, from the Middle Ages up to the Modern era.

Author : Cathérine Mayeur-Jaouen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004415997

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Adab and Modernity by Cathérine Mayeur-Jaouen Pdf

Adab is a concept situated at the heart of Arabic and Islamic civilization. What became of it, towards modernity? The question of the civilising process (Norbert Elias) helps us reflect on this story.

Author : Sergey Minov
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781800640344

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The Marvels Found in the Great Cities and in the Seas and on the Islands by Sergey Minov Pdf

This volume presents the original text, accompanied by an English translation and commentary, of a hitherto unpublished Syriac composition, entitled the Marvels Found in the Great Cities and in the Seas and on the Islands. Produced by an unknown East Syrian Christian author during the late medieval or early modern period, this work offers a loosely organized catalogue of marvellous events, phenomena, and objects, natural as well as human-made, found throughout the world. The Marvels is a unique composition in that it bears witness to the creative adoption by Syriac Christians of the paradoxographical literary mode of ‘aǧā’ib that enjoyed great popularity among their Arabic- and Persian-speaking Muslim neighbours. In this composition, the East Syrian author blends together a number of different paradoxographical traditions: some inherited from the earlier Christian works in Syriac, such as the Alexander Romance, some borrowed directly or indirectly from Muslim geographical and other works, and some, apparently, circulating as a part of local oral lore. Combining entertainment and didacticism, he provides his audience with a fascinating panorama of imaginary geography, which at the same time has unmistakable Christian features. This edition makes a fascinating Syriac work available to a wider audience, and provides detailed insights into the rich assortment of traditions creatively woven together by its author. Thanks to the combination of the original text, English translation and commentary, it will be of interest to scholars and readers alike.

Author : Emily J. Cottrell
Publisher : Barkhuis
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789493194199

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Prophets, Viziers and Philosophers by Emily J. Cottrell Pdf

Prophets, viziers, and philosophers stand at the crossroads of civilizations. In world literature, they came to represent Judeo-Christian, Persian and Greek influences. As literary figures, they convey a sense of supranatural authority, elicited from their intimate experience of the divine, the mundane and the physical. Stemming from both orally transmitted material and some of the earliest foreign works to be translated into Arabic (the Bible; the Pañchatantra; the Alexander Romance), the three types of authoritative wisdom reveal a pivotal, civilizational moment in the development of Arabic literature from an oral tradition to a written one. By the middle of the eighth century CE, the unique fusion of Graeco-Roman political theology with Persian and Indian political traditions led to the renewal of questions already associated with authority in the Biblical and Byzantine traditions.The development of Arabic prose literature during the 8th-11th century CE captured, in a multiplicity of literary genres (legendary biographies, philosophical doxographies, mirrors for princes, collections of wise sayings and theological essays), a protean wisdom embedded in divine knowledge, practical discipline, scientific achievements and moral teachings. The collection of essays assembled in this volume addresses the models of divine and practical wisdom in some of the earlier Arabic prose texts passed down to us. All essays were initially presented and discussed at an international conference held at the Freie Universität Berlin in October 2014. More than isolated case studies, the contributions offer ground-breaking new research on essential works and figures of the early translation movement (from Greek, Syriac and Middle-Persian into Arabic). They also address, from the viewpoints of intertextuality and philology, the dissemination process of innovative syntheses elaborated by original medieval thinkers.

Author : Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2006-09-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781402041150

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Islamic Philosophy and Occidental Phenomenology on the Perennial Issue of Microcosm and Macrocosm by Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka Pdf

By proposing the Microcosm and Macrocosm analogy for dialogue between Islamic Philosophy and Occidental Phenomenology, the authors of this volume are reviving the perennial positioning of the human condition in the play of forces within and without the human being. This theme has run from Plato through the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Modernity, and has been ignored by contemporaries. It now acquires a new pertinence and striking significance due to the scientific discoveries into the "infinitely small" in life, on the one hand, and the prodigious technological discoveries of the "infinitely great" on the other. Both open up undreamt-of prospects for the continuing conquest of cosmic forces. The human person – thrown into turmoil by the new approaches to life and needing to acquire new habits of mind, having lost security of all beliefs – desperately seeks a new clarification of the Human Condition within the unity of everything-there-is, of cosmic forces, and of his destiny. The dialogue between Islamic Philosophy and phenomenology of life can show the way. Papers by: Gholam-Reza A'awani, Mehdi Aminrazavi, Roza Davari Ardakani, Mohammad Azadpur, Gary Backhaus, Marina Banchetti-Robino, William Chittick, Seyed Mostafa Muhaghghegh Damad, Golamhossein Ebrahimi Dinani, Nader El-Bizri, Kathleen Haney, Salahaddin Khalilov, Sayyid Mohammad Khamenei, Mahmoud Khatami, Mieczyslaw Pawel Migon, Nikolay Milkov, Sachiko Murata, Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Daniela Verducci.

Author : Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781617979521

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The Mulid of al-Sayyid al-Badawi of Tanta by Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen Pdf

Every year, in the heart of the Nile Delta, a festival takes place that was for centuries the biggest in the Muslim world: the mulid of al-Sayyid Ahmad al-Badawi of Tanta. Since the thirteenth century millions of believers from neighboring regions and countries have flooded into Tanta, Egypt’s fourth-largest city, to pay devotional homage to al-Badawi, a much-loved saint who cures the impotent and renders barren women fertile. This book tells for the first time the history of a mulid that for long overshadowed even the pilgrimage to Mecca. Organized by Sufi brotherhoods, it had, by the nineteenth century, grown to become the scene of a boisterous and rowdy festival that excited the curiosity of European travelers. Their accounts of the indecorous dancing and sacred prostitution that enlivened the mulid of al-Sayyid al-Badawi fed straight into Orientalist visions of a sensual and atavistic East. Islamic modernists as well as Western observers were quick to criticize the cult of al-Badawi, reducing it to a muddle of superstitions and even a resurgence of anti-Islamic pagan practices. For many pilgrims, however, al-Badawi came to embody the Egyptian saint par excellence, the true link to the Prophet, his hagiographies and mulid standing for the genuine expression of a shared popular culture. Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen shows that the mulid does not in fact stand in opposition to religious orthodoxy, but rather acts as a mirror to Egyptian Islam, uniting ordinary believers, peasants, ulama, and heads of Sufi brotherhoods in a shared spiritual fervor. The Mulid of al-Sayyid al-Badawi of Tanta leads us on a discovery of this remarkably colorful and festive manifestation of Islam.

Author : Alexandre Papas,Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783112208991

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Family Portraits with Saints by Alexandre Papas,Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen Pdf

Die Reihe Islamkundliche Untersuchungen wurde 1969 im Klaus Schwarz Verlag begründet und hat sich zu einem der wichtigsten Publikationsorgane der Islamwissenschaft in Deutschland entwickelt. Die über 330 Bände widmen sich der Geschichte, Kultur und den Gesellschaften Nordafrikas, des Nahen und Mittleren Ostens sowie Zentral-, Süd- und Südost-Asiens.

Author : Fatna Aït Sabbah
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Muslim women
ISBN : 0807762318

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Woman in the Muslim Unconscious by Fatna Aït Sabbah Pdf

Author : Rachida Chih,Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen,Rüdiger Seesemann
Publisher : Ergon Verlag
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Sufi literature
ISBN : 3956500431

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Sufism, Literary Production, and Printing in the Nineteenth Century by Rachida Chih,Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen,Rüdiger Seesemann Pdf

The present volume is the outcome of various research activities conducted over several years at the Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought (ISITA, based at Northwestern University Evanston, IL) and the Institut Francais d'Archeologie Orientale (IFAO) in Cairo. Supported with a generous grant from the Ford Foundation, Rudiger Seesemann organised various events and workshops under the umbrella of ISITA, focusing on Sufi texts and contexts as well as the literary production in the Tijaniyya Sufi order. At the IFAO, a group of French and francophone researchers convened a series of conferences and meetings, resulting in three major publications that propose new readings of sources pertaining to the history of Sufism.

Author : Francesco Chiabotti,Eve Feuillebois-Pierunek,Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen,Luca Patrizi
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 701 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004335134

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Ethics and Spirituality in Islam by Francesco Chiabotti,Eve Feuillebois-Pierunek,Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen,Luca Patrizi Pdf

This volume explores the relation between ethics and spirituality in Islam through an examination of the genres of Sufi adab, including manuals and hagiographical accounts, from the formative period of Sufism until modernity.

Author : Lucio Biasiori,Giuseppe Marcocci
Publisher : Springer
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319539492

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Machiavelli, Islam and the East by Lucio Biasiori,Giuseppe Marcocci Pdf

This volume provides the first survey of the unexplored connections between Machiavelli’s work and the Islamic world, running from the Arabic roots of The Prince to its first translations into Ottoman Turkish and Arabic. It investigates comparative descriptions of non-European peoples, Renaissance representations of Muḥammad and the Ottoman military discipline, a Jesuit treatise in Persian for a Mughal emperor, peculiar readers from Brazil to India, and the parallel lives of Machiavelli and the bureaucrat Celālzāde Muṣṭafá. Ten distinguished scholars analyse the backgrounds, circulation and reception of Machiavelli’s writings, focusing on many aspects of the mutual exchange of political theories and grammars between East and West. A significant contribution to attempts by current scholarship to challenge any rigid separation within Eurasia, this volume restores a sense of the global spreading of books, ideas and men in the past.

Author : Alexandre Papas
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004392601

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Sufi Institutions by Alexandre Papas Pdf

This volume describes the social and practical aspects of Islamic mysticism (Sufism) across centuries and geographical regions. Its authors seek to transcend ethereal, essentialist and “spiritualizing” approaches to Sufism, on the one hand, and purely pragmatic and materialistic explanations of its origins and history, on the other. Covering five topics (Sufism’s economy, social role of Sufis, Sufi spaces, politics, and organization), the volume shows that mystics have been active socio-religious agents who could skillfully adjust to the conditions of their time and place, while also managing to forge an alternative way of living, worshiping and thinking. Basing themselves on the most recent research on Sufi institutions, the contributors to this volume substantially expand our understanding of the vicissitudes of Sufism by paying special attention to its organizational and economic dimensions, as well as complex and often ambivalent relations between Sufis and the societies in which they played a wide variety of important and sometimes critical roles. Contributors are Mehran Afshari, Ismail Fajrie Alatas, Semih Ceyhan, Rachida Chih, Nathalie Clayer, David Cook, Stéphane A. Dudoignon, Daphna Ephrat, Peyvand Firouzeh, Nathan Hofer, Hussain Ahmad Khan, Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen, Richard McGregor, Ahmet Yaşar Ocak, Alexandre Papas, Luca Patrizi, Paulo G. Pinto, Adam Sabra, Mark Sedgwick, Jean-Jacques Thibon, Knut S. Vikør and Neguin Yavari

Author : Sanjay Subrahmanyam
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781839762383

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Connected History by Sanjay Subrahmanyam Pdf

A collection of essays that span many regions and cultures, by an award-winning historian Sanjay Subrahmanyam is becoming well known for the same sort of reasons that attach to Fernand Braudel and Carlo Ginzburg, as the proponent of a new kind of history - in his case, not longue durée or micro-history, but 'connected history': connected cross-culturally, and spanning regions, subjects and archives that are conventionally treated alone. Not a research paradigm, he insists, it is more of an oppositionswissenschaft, a way of trying to constantly break the moulds of historical objects. The essays collected here, some quite polemical - as in the lead text on the notion of India-as-civilization, or another, assessing such a literary totem as V. S. Naipaul - illustrate the breadth of Subrahmanyam's concerns, as well as the quality of his writing. Connected History considers what, exactly, is an empire, the rise of 'the West' (less of a place than an idea or ideology, he insists), Churchill and the Great Man theory of history, the reception of world literature and the itinerary of subaltern studies, in addition to personal recollections of life and work in Delhi, Paris and Lisbon, and concluding remarks on the practice of early-modern history and the framing of historical enquiry.

Author : Kirill Dmitriev,Julia Hauser,Bilal Orfali
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004409552

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Insatiable Appetite: Food as Cultural Signifier in the Middle East and Beyond by Kirill Dmitriev,Julia Hauser,Bilal Orfali Pdf

Insatiable Appetite: Food as Cultural Signifier in the Middle East and Beyond explores the cultural ramifications of food and foodways in the Mediterranean and Arab-Muslim countries.