The Power Of Oratory In The Medieval Muslim World

Author : Linda G. Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139536806

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The Power of Oratory in the Medieval Muslim World by Linda G. Jones Pdf

Oratory and sermons had a fixed place in the religious and civic rituals of pre-modern Muslim societies and were indispensable for transmitting religious knowledge, legitimising or challenging rulers and inculcating the moral values associated with being part of the Muslim community. While there has been abundant scholarship on medieval Christian and Jewish preaching, Linda G. Jones's book is the first to consider the significance of the tradition of pulpit oratory in the medieval Islamic world. Traversing Iberia and North Africa from the twelfth to the fifteenth centuries, the book analyses the power of oratory, the ritual juridical and rhetorical features of pre-modern sermons and the social profiles of the preachers and orators who delivered them. The biographical and historical sources, which form the basis of this remarkable study, shed light on different regional practices and the juridical debates between individual preachers around correct performance.

Author : Yaniv Fox,Yosi Yisraeli
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317160274

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Contesting Inter-Religious Conversion in the Medieval World by Yaniv Fox,Yosi Yisraeli Pdf

The Mediterranean and its hinterlands were the scene of intensive and transformative contact between cultures in the Middle Ages. From the seventh to the seventeenth century, the three civilizations into which the region came to be divided geographically – the Islamic Khalifate, the Byzantine Empire, and the Latin West – were busily redefining themselves vis-à-vis one another. Interspersed throughout the region were communities of minorities, such as Christians in Muslim lands, Muslims in Christian lands, heterodoxical sects, pagans, and, of course, Jews. One of the most potent vectors of interaction and influence between these communities in the medieval world was inter-religious conversion: the process whereby groups or individuals formally embraced a new religion. The chapters of this book explore this dynamic: what did it mean to convert to Christianity in seventh-century Ireland? What did it mean to embrace Islam in tenth-century Egypt? Are the two phenomena comparable on a social, cultural, and legal level? The chapters of the book also ask what we are able to learn from our sources, which, at times, provide a very culturally-charged and specific conversion rhetoric. Taken as a whole, the compositions in this volume set out to argue that inter-religious conversion was a process that was recognizable and comparable throughout its geographical and chronological purview.

Author : Sara Scalenghe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107044791

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Disability in the Ottoman Arab World, 1500-1800 by Sara Scalenghe Pdf

This book is the first on the history of both physical and mental disabilities in the Middle East and North Africa during Ottoman rule.

Author : Mimi Hanaoka
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107127036

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Authority and Identity in Medieval Islamic Historiography by Mimi Hanaoka Pdf

An innovative exploration of the local histories of the Persianate world and its preoccupation with identity, authority, and legitimacy.

Author : Ayşe Almıla Akca, Mona Feise-Nasr, Leonie Stenske, Aydın Süer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783110788365

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Practices of Islamic Preaching by Ayşe Almıla Akca, Mona Feise-Nasr, Leonie Stenske, Aydın Süer Pdf

Author : A. C. S. Peacock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108499361

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Islam, Literature and Society in Mongol Anatolia by A. C. S. Peacock Pdf

A new understanding of the transformation of Anatolia to a Muslim society in the thirteenth-fourteenth centuries based on previously unpublished sources.

Author : Hassan S. Khalilieh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108481458

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Islamic Law of the Sea by Hassan S. Khalilieh Pdf

This pioneering research brings into focus the Islamic contribution and influence in the development of the modern law of the sea.

Author : Alison Vacca
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107188518

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Non-Muslim Provinces under Early Islam by Alison Vacca Pdf

This book explores the Christian caliphal provinces of Armenia and Caucasian Albania as part of the larger Iranian cultural sphere.

Author : Jonathan E. Brockopp
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107106666

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Muhammad's Heirs by Jonathan E. Brockopp Pdf

This book describes the emergence of Muslim scholarly communities from the origins of Islam until the mid-tenth century through the examination of early Muslim texts and discourse. It is for scholars and advanced students studying Middle Eastern history, Islamic studies, Islamic law and early Islamic literature.

Author : Ahmed Fekry Ibrahim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108470568

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Child Custody in Islamic Law by Ahmed Fekry Ibrahim Pdf

A longitudinal history of Islamic child custody law, challenging Euro-American exceptionalism to reveal developments that considered the best interests of the child.

Author : Avner Giladi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107054219

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Muslim Midwives by Avner Giladi Pdf

This book reconstructs the role of midwives in medieval to early modern Islamic history through a careful reading of a wide range of classical and medieval Arabic sources. The author casts the midwife's social status in premodern Islam as a privileged position from which she could mediate between male authority in patriarchal society and female reproductive power within the family. This study also takes a broader historical view of midwifery in the Middle East by examining the tensions between learned medicine (male) and popular, medico-religious practices (female) from early Islam into the Ottoman period and addressing the confrontation between traditional midwifery and Western obstetrics in the first half of the nineteenth century.

Author : Paul M. Love, Jr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108472500

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Ibadi Muslims of North Africa by Paul M. Love, Jr Pdf

Combining manuscript analysis with digital tools to show how people and books worked together to build a religious tradition in North Africa.

Author : Sarah Bowen Savant
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107292314

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The New Muslims of Post-Conquest Iran by Sarah Bowen Savant Pdf

How do converts to a religion come to feel an attachment to it? The New Muslims of Post-Conquest Iran answers this important question for Iran by focusing on the role of memory and its revision and erasure in the ninth to eleventh centuries. During this period, the descendants of the Persian imperial, religious and historiographical traditions not only wrote themselves into starkly different early Arabic and Islamic accounts of the past but also systematically suppressed much knowledge about pre-Islamic history. The result was both a new 'Persian' ethnic identity and the pairing of Islam with other loyalties and affiliations, including family, locale and sect. This pioneering study examines revisions to memory in a wide range of cases, from Iran's imperial and administrative heritage to the Prophet Muhammad's stalwart Persian companion, Salman al-Farisi, and to memory of Iranian scholars, soldiers and rulers in the mid-seventh century.

Author : Thomas A. Carlson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107186279

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Christianity in Fifteenth-Century Iraq by Thomas A. Carlson Pdf

Reveals a religiously diverse pre-industrial society in the Middle East, broadening studies of global Christianity and challenging Islamic history's exceptionalism.

Author : Nurit Tsafrir
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108498647

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Collective Liability in Islam by Nurit Tsafrir Pdf

Provides a close analysis of theʿAqila, a group collectively liable for blood money payments, in Islamic law and history.