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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Charles Pellat
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:959715350
Author : James E. Montgomery
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748683338
Edinburgh University Press will publish two self-contained guides to reading al-Jahiz that also shed light on his society and its writings. This first volume, 'In Praise of Books', is devoted to bibliomania and al-Jahiz's bibliophilia. Volume 2, In Censure of Books, explores Al-Jahiz's bibliophobia. Al-Jahiz was a bibliomaniac, theologian, and spokesman for the political and cultural elite, a writer who lived, counselled and wrote in Iraq during the first century of the 'Abbasid caliphate. He advised, argued and rubbed shoulders with the major power brokers and leading religious and intellectual figures of his day, and crossed swords in debate and argument with the architects of the Islamic religious, theological, philosophical and cultural canon. His many, tumultuous writings engage with these figures, their ideas, theories and policies. They give us an invaluable but much-neglected window onto the values and beliefs of this cosmopolitan elite.
Author : Josef W. Meri
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 980 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Islam
ISBN : 9780415966900
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 : Yosef Ben-Jochannan
Publisher : Black Classic Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0933121296
Dr. Ben critically examines the history, beliefs, and myths that are the foundation of Judaism. Christianity, and Islam.
Author : Rebecca Stott
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781408831014
Soon after publication of On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin received a letter that deeply unsettled him. He had expected outrage and accusations of heresy, but this letter was different: it accused him of taking credit for a theory that wasn't his. Yet when he tried to trace his intellectual forebears, he found that history had already forgotten them...Rediscovering Aristotle on the shores of Lesbos and Leonardo da Vinci fossil hunting in the Tuscan hills, this is a masterful retelling of the collective daring of a few like-minded men, whose early theories flew in the face of prevailing political and religious orthodoxies and laid the foundations for Darwin's revolutionary idea.
Author : Jāḥiẓ
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04
Category : Black people
ISBN : 1532708688
Al-Jahiz, a Afro-Iraqi scholar of the 9th century, demonstrate that the original man (Black African) is to be honored for the many outstanding and unique attributes they posses over other races. A firsthand account of the achievements of the native African.
Author : Oliver Leaman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 561 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781472569455
Philosophy flourished in the Islamic world for many centuries, and continues to be a significant feature of cultural life today. Now available in paperback, The Biographical Encyclopedia of Islamic Philosophy covers all the major and many minor philosophers, theologians, and mystics who contributed to its development. With entries on over 300 thinkers and key concepts in Islamic philosophy, this updated landmark work also includes a timeline, glossary and detailed bibliography. It goes beyond philosophy to reference all kinds of theoretical inquiry which were often linked with philosophy, such as the Islamic sciences, grammar, theology, law, and traditions. Every major school of thought, from classical Peripatetic philosophy to Sufi mysticism, is represented, and entries range across time from the early years of the faith to the modern period. Featuring an international group of authors from South East Asia, the Indian Subcontinent, the Middle East and North Africa, Europe and North America, The Biographical Encyclopedia of Islamic Philosophy provides access to the ideas and people comprising almost 1400 years of Islamic philosophical tradition.
Author : James E. Lindsay
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2005-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313061059
From the time of its birth in Mecca in the 7th century C.E., Islam and the Islamic world rapidly expanded outward, extending to Spain and West Africa in the west, and to Central Asia and the Indian Subcontinent in the east. An examination of the daily life in these Islamic regions provides insight into a civilized, powerful, and economically stable culture, where large metropolitan centers such as Damascus, Baghdad, and Cairo thrived in many areas, including intellectual and scientific inquiry. In contrast with medieval Europe, there is little common knowledge in the West of the culture and history of this vibrant world, as different from our own in terms of the political, religious, and social values it possessed, as it is similar in terms of the underlying human situation that supports such values. This book provides an intimate look into the daily life of the medieval Islamic world, and is thus an invaluable resource for students and general readers alike interested in understanding this world, so different, and yet so connected, to our own. Chapters include discussions of: the major themes of medieval Islamic history; Arabia, the world of Islamic origins; warfare and politics; the major cities of Damascus, Baghdad, and Cairo; religious rituals and worship; and a section on curious and entertaining information. Author James E. Lindsay further provides a focused look at the daily lives of urban Muslims during this time period, and of their interactions with Jews, Christians and other Muslims. Timelines, tables (including a calendar conversion to align the Islamic lunar and the Christian solar dates, and a dynastic table highlighting the major genealogies of the ancient ruling families), a bibliography, and a glossary of important dates and technical terms are also provided to assist the reader.
Author : Ludwig W. Adamec
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-14
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781442277243
Muslims believe that the Koran is God’s message in Arabic, revealed through the medium of the Prophet Muhammad for the guidance of the Arabs and subsequently for all humanity. There is both unity and variety in the Islamic world. Muslims are not a homogeneous people who can be explained solely by their normative texts: the Koran and the Sunnah. Muslims differ vastly in their interpretation of Islam: modernists want to reinterpret Islam to adapt to the requirements of modern times while traditionalists tend to look to the classical and medieval periods of Islam as their model of the Islamic state. This third edition of Historical Dictionary of Islam contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on major sects, schools of theology, and jurisprudence, as well as aspects of Islamic culture. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Islam.
Author : Alan Mikhail
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199315291
Since humans first emerged as a distinct species, they have eaten, fought, prayed, and moved with other animals. In this stunningly original and conceptually rich book, historian Alan Mikhail puts the history of human-animal relations at the center of transformations in the Ottoman Empire from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Mikhail uses the history of the empire's most important province, Egypt, to explain how human interactions with livestock, dogs, and charismatic megafauna changed more in a few centuries than they had for millennia. The human world became one in which animals' social and economic functions were diminished. Without animals, humans had to remake the societies they had built around intimate and cooperative interactions between species. The political and even evolutionary consequences of this separation of people and animals were wrenching and often violent. This book's interspecies histories underscore continuities between the early modern period and the nineteenth century and help to reconcile Ottoman and Arab histories. Further, the book highlights the importance of integrating Ottoman history with issues in animal studies, economic history, early modern history, and environmental history. Carefully crafted and compellingly argued, The Animal in Ottoman Egypt tells the story of the high price humans and animals paid as they entered the modern world.
Author : Madeleine Pelner Cosman,Linda Gale Jones
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 987 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781438109077
Capturing the essence of life in great civilizations of the past, each volume in the
Author : Rkia Elaroui Cornell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781786075222
Rabi‘a al-‘Adawiyya is a figure shrouded in myth. Certainly a woman by this name was born in Basra, Iraq, in the eighth century, but her life remains recorded only in legends, stories, poems and hagiographies. The various depictions of her – as a deeply spiritual ascetic, an existentialist rebel and a romantic lover – seem impossible to reconcile, and yet Rabi‘a has transcended these narratives to become a global symbol of both Sufi and modern secular culture. In this groundbreaking study, Rkia Elaroui Cornell traces the development of these diverse narratives and provides a history of the iconic Rabi‘a’s construction as a Sufi saint. Combining medieval and modern sources, including evidence never before examined, in novel ways, Rabi‘a From Narrative to Myth is the most significant work to emerge on this quintessential figure in Islam for more than seventy years.
Author : Jack Tannous
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691203157
In the second half of the first millennium CE, the Christian Middle East fractured irreparably into competing churches and Arabs conquered the region, setting in motion a process that would lead to its eventual conversion to Islam. Largely agrarian and illiterate, Christians often called “the simple” outnumbered Muslims well into the era of the Crusades, and yet they have typically been invisible in our understanding of the Middle East's history