The New Cambridge History Of Islam Volume 4 Islamic Cultures And Societies To The End Of The Eighteenth Century

Author : Robert Irwin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1107457009

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The New Cambridge History of Islam: Volume 4, Islamic Cultures and Societies to the End of the Eighteenth Century by Robert Irwin Pdf

Robert Irwin's authoritative introduction to the fourth volume of The New Cambridge History of Islam offers a panoramic vision of Islamic culture from its origins to around 1800. The introductory chapter, which highlights key developments and introduces some of Islam's most famous protagonists, paves the way for an extraordinarily varied collection of essays. The themes treated include religion and law, conversion, Islam's relationship with the natural world, governance and politics, caliphs and kings, philosophy, science, medicine, language, art, architecture, literature, music and even cookery. What emerges from this rich collection, written by an international team of experts, is the diversity and dynamism of the societies which created this flourishing civilization. Volume four of The New Cambridge History of Islam serves as a thematic companion to the three preceding, politically oriented volumes, and in coverage extends across the pre-modern Islamic world.

Author : Robert Irwin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 921 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Islamic civilization
ISBN : 1316183599

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The New Cambridge History of Islam by Robert Irwin Pdf

This volume traces the second great expansion of the Islamic world eastwards from the eleventh century to the eighteenth. As the faith crossed cultural boundaries, the trader and the mystic became as important as the soldier and the administrator. Distinctive Islamic idioms began to emerge from other great linguistic traditions apart from Arabic, especially in Turkish, Persian, Urdu, Swahili, Malay and Chinese. The Islamic world transformed and absorbed new influences. As the essays in this collection demonstrate, three major features distinguish the time and place from both earlier and modern experiences of Islam. Firstly, the steppe tribal peoples of central Asia had a decisive impact on the Islamic lands. Secondly, Islam expanded along the trade routes of the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea. Thirdly, Islam interacted with Asian spirituality, including Hinduism, Sikhism, Buddhism, Taoism and Shamanism. It was during this period that Islam became a truly world religion.

Author : Robert Irwin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 921 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Islam
ISBN : 052151536X

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The New Cambridge History of Islam by Robert Irwin Pdf

Author : Maribel Fierro
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1107456959

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The New Cambridge History of Islam: Volume 2, The Western Islamic World, Eleventh to Eighteenth Centuries by Maribel Fierro Pdf

Volume 2 of The New Cambridge History of Islam is devoted to the history of the Western Islamic lands from the political fragmentation of the eleventh century to the beginnings of European colonialism towards the end of the eighteenth century. The volume embraces a vast area from al-Andalus and North Africa to Arabia and the lands of the Ottomans. In the first four sections, scholars - all leaders in their particular fields - chart the rise and fall, and explain the political and religious developments, of the various independent ruling dynasties across the region, including famously the Almohads, the Fatimids and Mamluks, and, of course, the Ottomans. The final section of the volume explores the commonalities and continuities that united these diverse and geographically disparate communities, through in-depth analyses of state formation, conversion, taxation, scholarship and the military.

Author : Zainab Kabba
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781040032862

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Knowledge, Authority, and Islamic Education in the West by Zainab Kabba Pdf

Drawing on immersive fieldwork in the United States, Canada, and Turkey, this ethnographic exploration illuminates the transformative experiences of emerging adult Muslims on their quest for religious knowledge. This book unravels the significance of four residential learning settings, revealing their role as catalysts for reshaping Islamic tradition. Delving into the interplay between technology’s pervasive influence and the decentralized nature of Islamic interpretation, Zainab Kabba unveils a vibrant tapestry of knowledge producers vying to shape religious understanding and practice among Western Muslims. At the heart of this narrative lies the delicate balance between teachers and students, continuously communicating and recalibrating components that bring religious authority to life. Kabba dissects this relationship, highlighting the emergence of a complex landscape that she terms the ‘Muslim Education Industrial Complex’, where religious knowledge has become a commodity. This study offers profound insights into the challenges of intra-Muslim dialogue and the adaptive resilience of American Sunni-Muslim communities. Amidst a digital age and the complexities of global geopolitics surrounding Islam, it showcases how these communities reinterpret classical Islamic narratives, navigating tradition to steer their path forward. This book invites readers to ponder the evolution of Islamic learning, the dynamics of authority, and the enduring quest for knowledge amidst the currents of a rapidly changing world.

Author : Maribel Fierro,Mayte Penelas
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110713442

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The Maghrib in the Mashriq by Maribel Fierro,Mayte Penelas Pdf

This is a pioneering book about the impact that knowledge produced in the Maghrib (Islamic North Africa and al-Andalus = Muslim Iberia) had on the rest of the Islamic world. It presents results achieved in the Research Project "Local contexts and global dynamics: al-Andalus and the Maghrib in the Islamic East (AMOI)", funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (FFI2016-78878-R AEI/FEDER, UE) and directed by Maribel Fierro and Mayte Penelas. The book contains 18 contributions written by senior and junior scholars from different institutions all over the world. It is divided into five sections dealing with how knowledge produced in the Maghrib was integrated in the Mashriq starting with the emergence and construction of the concept 'Maghrib' (sections 1 and 2); how travel allowed the reception in the Maghrib of knowledge produced in the Mashriq but also the transmission of locally produced knowledge outside the Maghrib, and the different ways in which such transmission took place (sections 3 and 4), and how the Maghribis who stayed or settled in the Mashriq manifested their identity (section 5). The book will be of interest not only for those whose research concentrates on the Maghrib but more generally for those who want to understand the complex and shifting dynamics between 'centres' and 'peripheries' as regards intellectual production and circulation.

Author : Sebastian R. Prange
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108424387

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Monsoon Islam by Sebastian R. Prange Pdf

Reveals a distinct trajectory of Islamic history that developed among Muslim merchant communities across the medieval Indian Ocean.

Author : Glaire Anderson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780190913243

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A Bridge to the Sky by Glaire Anderson Pdf

A Bridge to the Sky explores the close connections between science, arts, and visual culture as they developed in the medieval Islamic lands. It presents a significant study of the career of 'Abbas Ibn Firnas, (d. 887), the most celebrated 'scientist' and polymath of early Islamic Spain, best known for conducting an experiment that has been celebrated as a milestone in the history of human flight.

Author : Michael Segre
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317818021

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Higher Education and the Growth of Knowledge by Michael Segre Pdf

This book sketches the history of higher education, in parallel with the development of science. Its goal is to draw attention to the historical tensions between the aims of higher education and those of science, in the hope of contributing to improving the contemporary university. A helpful tool in analyzing these intellectual and social tensions is Karl Popper's philosophy of science demarcating science and its social context. Popper defines a society that encourages criticism as "open," and argues convincingly that an open society is the most appropriate one for the growth of science. A "closed society," on the other hand, is a tribal and dogmatic society. Despite being the universal home of science today, the university, as an institution that is thousands of years old, carries traces of different past cultural, social, and educational traditions. The book argues that, by and large, the university was, and still is, a closed society and does not serve the best interests of the development of science and of students' education.

Author : Christian Sahner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190257378

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Among the Ruins by Christian Sahner Pdf

As a civil war shatters a country and consumes its people, historian Christian C. Sahner offers a poignant account of Syria, where the past profoundly shapes its dreadful present. Among the Ruins blends history, memoir and reportage, drawing on the author's extensive knowledge of Syria in ancient, medieval, and modern times, as well as his experiences living in the Levant on the eve of the war and in the midst of the "Arab Spring". These plotlines converge in a rich narrative of a country in constant flux - a place renewed by the very shifts that, in the near term, are proving so destructive. Sahner focuses on five themes of interest to anyone intrigued and dismayed by Syria's fragmentation since 2011: the role of Christianity in society; the arrival of Islam; the rise of sectarianism and competing minorities; the emergence of the Ba'ath Party; and the current pitiless civil war. Among the Ruins is a brisk and illuminating read, an accessible introduction to a country with an enormously rich past and a tragic present. For anyone seeking to understand Syria, this book should be their starting point.

Author : Nathan Spannaus
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780190654900

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Preserving Islamic Tradition by Nathan Spannaus Pdf

The end of the eighteenth century was a transformational period for the Muslim communities of the Russian Empire and their relationship with the tsarist state. Though they had been under Russian rule since the sixteenth century, it was at this time that they were incorporated into the imperial bureaucracy, most significantly through the founding of an official hierarchy for the Islamic religious scholars in 1788. The introduction of a state-backed structure for Muslim religious institutions altered Islamic religious authority and, in turn, religious discourse. One of the major figures to emerge from this new context was Abu Nasr Qursawi (1776-1812). A controversial figure who was condemned for heresy in Bukhara in 1808, Qursawi put forward a sweeping reform of the Islamic scholarly tradition. Focusing on taqlid, the principle of conformity to established doctrine, Qursawi argued that its overuse had weakened scholarship in the areas of Islamic law (fiqh) and theology (kalam) and undermined scholars' ability to serve as religious guides. In Preserving Islamic Tradition, Nathan Spannaus presents the first detailed analysis of Qursawi's reformist project, both in its contours and broad historical setting. Spannaus shows how state control of Muslim institutions impacted religious discourse, but also how it altered the entire religious environment into the twentieth century. Addressing issues of modernity, secularity, tradition, and intellectual history, Preserving Islamic Tradition demonstrates how the interaction with a European imperial state transformed the Islamic tradition, both directly and indirectly, and elicited new forms of religious thought and discourse.

Author : Ahmet T. Kuru
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108419093

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Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment by Ahmet T. Kuru Pdf

Analyzes Muslim countries' contemporary problems, particularly violence, authoritarianism, and underdevelopment, comparing their historical levels of development with Western Europe.

Author : Nadia Maria El Cheikh
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674736368

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Women, Islam, and Abbasid Identity by Nadia Maria El Cheikh Pdf

When the Abbasids overthrew the Umayyads in 750 CE and ushered in Islam’s Golden Age, ideas about gender and sexuality were central to the process by which the caliphate achieved self-definition and articulated its systems of power and thought. Nadia Maria El Cheikh’s study reveals the importance of women to the writing of early Islamic history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 932 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004384163

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Christian-Muslim Relations. A Bibliographical History. Volume 12 Asia, Africa and the Americas (1700-1800) by Anonim Pdf

Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History 12 is a complete history of the works on relations from 1700 to 1800 in the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia, Africa and the Americas. It contains descriptions, assessments and bibliographical details of these works.

Author : Christian C. Sahner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199396702

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Among the Ruins by Christian C. Sahner Pdf

An accessible history of Syria's cultural and religious past documents such issues as the role of Christianity in society, the emergence of the Ba'ath party, and the arrival of Islam, and traces the origins of the current civil war.