Writing And Representation In Medieval Islam

Author : Julia Bray
Publisher : Routledge Studies in Middle Ea
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0415385687

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Writing and Representation in Medieval Islam by Julia Bray Pdf

This new book explores the ways in which medieval Muslims, saw, interpreted and represented the world around them in their writings. Focusing mainly on the eighth to tenth centuries AD, known as the formative period of Islamic thought, the book examines historiography, prose literature and those Arabic prose genres which do not fall neatly into either category. Filling a gap in the literature by providing detailed discussions of both primary texts and of recent scholarship, the book will be welcomed by students and scholars of classical Arabic literature, Islamic history and medieval history.

Author : Julia Bray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Arabic literature
ISBN : OCLC:648148785

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Writing and Representation in Medieval Islam by Julia Bray Pdf

Author : Julia Bray
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134171545

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Writing and Representation in Medieval Islam by Julia Bray Pdf

With contributions from specialists in different areas of classical Islamic thought, this accessible volume explores the ways in which medieval Muslims saw, interpreted and represented the world around them in their writings. Focusing mainly on the eighth to tenth centuries AD, known as the ‘formative period of Islamic thought’, the book examines historiography, literary prose and Arabic prose genres which do not fall neatly into either category. Filling a gap in the literature by providing detailed discussions of both primary texts and recent scholarship, Writing and Representation in Medieval Islam will be welcomed by students and scholars of classical Arabic literature, Islamic history and medieval history.

Author : Josef W. Meri
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 980 pages
File Size : 41,6 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 : Mimi Hanaoka
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 40,9 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 : Josef Meri
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351668231

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Routledge Revivals: Medieval Islamic Civilization (2006) by Josef Meri Pdf

Islamic civilization flourished in the Middle Ages across a vast geographical area that spans today's Middle and Near East. First published in 2006, Medieval Islamic Civilization examines the socio-cultural history of the regions where Islam took hold between the 7th and 16th centuries. 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, history of science, Islamic arts, Islamic studies, Middle Eastern studies, Near Eastern studies, politics, religion, Semitic studies, theology, and more. Entries also explore the importance of interfaith relations and the permeation of persons, ideas, and objects across geographical and intellectual boundaries between Europe and the Islamic world. This reference work provides an exhaustive and vivid portrait of Islamic civilization and brings together in one authoritative text all aspects of Islamic civilization during the Middle Ages. Accessible to scholars, students and non-specialists, this resource will be of great use in research and understanding of the roots of today's Islamic society as well as the rich and vivid culture of medieval Islamic civilization.

Author : Nadia Maria El Cheikh
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674495968

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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 : Judith M. Bennett,Ruth Mazo Karras
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191667305

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The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe by Judith M. Bennett,Ruth Mazo Karras Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Women and Gender in Medieval Europe provides a comprehensive overview of the gender rules encountered in Europe in the period between approximately 500 and 1500 C.E. The essays collected in this volume speak to interpretative challenges common to all fields of women's and gender history - that is, how best to uncover the experiences of ordinary people from archives formed mainly by and about elite males, and how to combine social histories of lived experiences with cultural histories of gendered discourses and identities. The collection focuses on Western Europe in the Middle Ages but offers some consideration of medieval Islam and Byzantium. The Handbook is structured into seven sections: Christian, Jewish, and Muslim thought; law in theory and practice; domestic life and material culture; labour, land, and economy; bodies and sexualities; gender and holiness; and the interplay of continuity and change throughout the medieval period. It contains material from some of the foremost scholars in this field, and it not only serves as the major reference text in medieval and gender studies, but also provides an agenda for future new research.

Author : Leslie Brubaker,Julia M. H. Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0521013275

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Gender in the Early Medieval World by Leslie Brubaker,Julia M. H. Smith Pdf

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Author : Lena Salaymeh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107133020

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The Beginnings of Islamic Law by Lena Salaymeh Pdf

This is a major and innovative contribution to our understanding of the historical unfolding of Islamic law. Scrutinizing its historical contexts, Salaymeh proposes that Islamic law is a continuous intermingling of innovation and tradition. The book's interdisciplinary approach provides accessible explanations and translations of complex materials and ideas.

Author : Uriel Simonsohn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-16
Category : Islam
ISBN : 9780192871251

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Female Power and Religious Change in the Medieval Near East by Uriel Simonsohn Pdf

Female Power and Religious Change in the Medieval Near East engages with two levels of scholarly discussion that are all too often dealt with separately in modern scholarship: the Islamization of the Near East and the place of women in pre-modern Near Eastern societies. It outlines how these two lines of inquiry can and should be read in an integrative manner. Major historical themes such as conversion to Islam, Islamization, religious violence, and the regulation of Muslim/non-Muslim ties are addressed and reframed by attending to the relatively hidden, yet highly meaningful, role that women played throughout this period. This book is about the history of Islam from the perspective of female social agents. It argues that irrespective of their religious affiliation, women possessed crucial means for affecting or hindering religious changes, not only in the form of religious conversion, but also in the adoption of practices and the delineation of communal boundaries. Its focus on the role and significance of female power in moments of religious change within family households offers a historical angle that has hitherto been relatively absent from modern scholarship. Rather than locating signs of female autonomy or authority in the political, intellectual, religious, or economic spheres, Female Power and Religious Change in the Medieval Near East is concerned with the capacity of women to affect religious communal affiliations thanks to their kinship ties.

Author : Kristina Richardson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780748645084

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Difference and Disability in the Medieval Islamic World by Kristina Richardson Pdf

Medieval Arab notions of physical difference can feel singularly arresting for modern audiences. Did you know that blue eyes, baldness, bad breath and boils were all considered bodily 'blights', as were cross eyes, lameness and deafness? What assumptions about bodies influenced this particular vision of physical difference? How did blighted people view their own bodies? Through close analyses of anecdotes, personal letters, (auto)biographies, erotic poetry, non-binding legal opinions, diaristic chronicles and theological tracts, the cultural views and experiences of disability and difference in the medieval Islamic world are brought to life.

Author : David Morgan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015005688950

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Medieval Historical Writing in the Christian and Islamic Worlds by David Morgan Pdf

Author : Patricia Blessing
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-08
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781474411301

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Architecture and Landscape in Medieval Anatolia, 1100-1500 by Patricia Blessing Pdf

Anatolia was home to a large number of polities in the medieval period. Given its location at the geographical and chronological juncture between Byzantines and the Ottomans, its story tends to be read through the Seljuk experience. This obscures the multiple experiences and spaces of Anatolia under the Byzantine empire, Turko-Muslim dynasties contemporary to the Seljuks, the Mongol Ilkhanids, and the various beyliks of eastern and western Anatolia. This book looks beyond political structures and towards a reconsideration of the interactions between the rural and the urban; an analysis of the relationships between architecture, culture and power; and an examination of the region's multiple geographies. In order to expand historiographical perspectives it draws on a wide variety of sources (architectural, artistic, documentary and literary), including texts composed in several languages (Arabic, Armenian, Byzantine Greek, Persian and Turkish). Original in its coverage of this period from the perspective of multiple polities, religions and languages, this volume is also the first to truly embrace the cultural complexity that was inherent in the reality of daily life in medieval Anatolia and surrounding regions.

Author : Wolfram Brandes,Felicitas Schmieder,Rebekka Voß
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110472639

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Peoples of the Apocalypse by Wolfram Brandes,Felicitas Schmieder,Rebekka Voß Pdf

This volume addresses Jewish, Christian and Muslim future visions on the end of the world, focusing on the respective allies and antagonists for each religious society. Spanning late Antiquity to the early modern period, the collected papers examine distinctive aspects represented by each religion’s approach as well as shared concepts.