Ḥāwī L Funūn Wa Salwat Al Maḥzūn Encompasser Of The Arts And Consoler Of The Grief Stricken By Ibn Al Ṭaḥḥān

Author : George Dimitri Sawa
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004465497

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Ḥāwī l-Funūn wa-Salwat al-Maḥzūn, Encompasser of the Arts and Consoler of the Grief-Stricken by Ibn al-Ṭaḥḥān by George Dimitri Sawa Pdf

Ḥāwī l-Funūn (Encompasser of the Arts) of Ibn al-Ṭaḥḥān (d. ca. 1057) is a medieval Arabic music dictionary that complements other sources because of the practical knowledge of the author: an accomplished singer, lutenist and composer.

Author : George Dimitri Sawa
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004542785

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Mutʿat Al-Asmāʿ Fī ʿilm Al-Samāʿ, the Ears' Pleasure and the Science of Listening to Music by Aḥmad B. Yūsuf Al-Tīfāshī Al-Qafṣī (580-651/1184-1253) by George Dimitri Sawa Pdf

The book deals with musicians' behaviour at the court; the process of composition; modes, repertoire and instruments in Andalusia, the Maghreb, Persia and the Middle East; new poetic forms: zajal and muwashshaḥ; dance and shadow dance in Andalusia and the Middle East.

Author : George Dimitri Sawa
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004383654

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Musical and Socio-Cultural Anecdotes from Kitāb al-Aghānī al-Kabīr by George Dimitri Sawa Pdf

This volume contains annotated translations of anecdotes, on musicological and socio-cultural topics, from al-Iṣbahānī’s The Grand Book of Songs. Includes music theory and treatises; instruments; composition techniques; education and transmission; vocal and instrumental performances; solo and ensemble music; improvisations; emotions; dances; social status.

Author : Israel Katz
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004284142

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Henry George Farmer and the First International Congress of Arab Music (Cairo 1932) by Israel Katz Pdf

Musicologist Henry George Farmer (1882-1965) participated in the First International Congress of Arab Music in Cairo in 1932. His journal and minutes, which are presented in this book, reveal aspects and inner-workings of the Congress that have hitherto remained unknown.

Author : George Sawa,Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015015535795

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Music Performance Practice in the Early ʻAbbāsid Era 132-320 A.H./750-932 A.D. by George Sawa,Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies Pdf

Author : Ibrahim Akel,William Granara
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004429031

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The Thousand and One Nights: Sources and Transformations in Literature, Art, and Science by Ibrahim Akel,William Granara Pdf

The essays in this volume scrutinize the expanse of sources for The Arabian Nights or The Thousand and One Nights in all of their static and dynamic complexity. They follow the trajectory of the Nights’ texts, the creative, scholarly commentaries, artistic encounters and relations to science.

Author : Nadia Maria El Cheikh,Bilal Orfali
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004459090

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Approaches to the Study of Pre-Modern Arabic Anthologies by Nadia Maria El Cheikh,Bilal Orfali Pdf

The aim of this volume is to raise and discuss questions about the different approaches to the study of pre-modern Arabic anthologies from the perspectives of philology, religion, history, geography, and literature.

Author : Israel J. Katz
Publisher : Studies on Performing Arts & L
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9004431950

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Robert Lachmann's Letters to Henry George Farmer (from 1923 to 1938) by Israel J. Katz Pdf

"Robert Lachmann's letters to Henry George Farmer, from the years 1923-38, provide insightful glimpses into his life and his progressive research projects. From an historical perspective, they offer critical data concerning the development of comparative musicology as it evolved in Germany during the early decades of the twentieth century. The fact that Lachmann sought contact with Farmer can be explained from their mutual, yet diverse interests in Arab music, particularly as they were then considered to be the foremost European scholars in the field. During the 1932 Cairo International Congress on Arab Music, they were selected as presidents of their respective committees"--

Author : Hans Daiber
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 831 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004441811

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From the Greeks to the Arabs and Beyond by Hans Daiber Pdf

From the Greeks to the Arabs and Beyond written by Hans Daiber, is a six volume collection of Daiber’s scattered writings, journal articles, essays and encyclopaedia entries on Greek-Syriac-Arabic translations, Islamic theology and Sufism, the history of science, Islam in Europe, manuscripts and the history of oriental studies. It also includes reviews and obituaries. Vol. V and VI are catalogues of newly discovered Arabic manuscript originals and films/offprints from manuscripts related to the topics of the preceding volumes.

Author : Josef van Ess
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 2742 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004336483

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Kleine Schriften by Josef van Ess (3 vols) by Josef van Ess Pdf

Kleine Schriften, written by the eminent German scholar of Islamic Studies Josef van Ess, is a unique three-volume collection of Van Ess' widely scattered short writings, journal articles, encyclopaedia entries, (autobiographical) essays, reviews and lectures, in (mainly) German, English and French, some of which are published here for the first time.

Author : Meir Hatina,Yona Sheffer
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004459120

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Cultural Pearls from the East: In Memory of Shmuel Moreh (1932-2017) by Meir Hatina,Yona Sheffer Pdf

Cultural Pearls from the East offers persuasive insights on Muslim-Arab culture and its evolving intellectual features and literary tests, from the dawn of Islam to modern times.

Author : Moshe Sharon
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004440562

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Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum Palaestinae, Volume Seven: J (2) Jerusalem 1 by Moshe Sharon Pdf

The religious and strategic importance of Western Palestine in the Islamic period is clearly reflected in the hundreds of Arabic inscriptions found, the texts of which cover a variety of topics including construction, dedication, religious endowments, epitaphs, Qur'anic texts, prayers and invocations, all now assembled in this Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum Palaestinae (CIAP). The inscriptions are arranged according to site, and are studied in their respective topographical, historical and cultural contexts. In this way the Corpus offers more than a survey of inscriptions: it represents the epigraphical angle of the geographical history of the Holy Land under Islam.

Author : Mahnaz Moazami
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004433953

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Laws of Ritual Purity by Mahnaz Moazami Pdf

In Laws of Ritual Purity: Zand ī Fragard ī Jud-Dēw-Dād (A Commentary on the Chapters of the Widēwdād), the redactors present a comprehensive attempt to develop, systematize, scrutinize, and augment the Avestan and post-Avestan inheritance. By delving into numerous legal details, they provide illuminating insights into the everyday activities, encounters, and practices that are defined and governed by observance of ritual purity.

Author : Antonia Bosanquet
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004437968

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Minding their Place by Antonia Bosanquet Pdf

In Minding Their Place Antonia Bosanquet analyses the relevance of space to Ibn al-Qayyim’s (d. 751/1350) rulings about non-Muslim subjects in Aḥkām ahl al-dhimma. She shows how his definition of their social role develops his theological view of inter-religious relations.

Author : Hamid Reza Ghelichkhani
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9789004432895

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A Handbook of Persian Calligraphy and Related Arts by Hamid Reza Ghelichkhani Pdf

This volume puts together a first-of-a-kind handbook, and contains the most important termini technici, expressions, and techniques connected to the traditional art of Persian calligraphy, calligraphy as well as related arts, like illumination, historiated painting, book binding, etc. The content is based on thirty prominent classical Persian treatises, composed between twelfth and twentieth centuries.