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- alusur-10272
- author: Beers, Theodore S.
- title: Review of Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ, Kalīlah and Dimnah
- date: 2022-12-01
- words: 5509
- flesch: 70
- summary: These religious flourishes are not found in the earliest extant manuscripts of the Arabic Kalīla and Dimna, such as the one used for the edition of ʿAbd al-Wahhāb ʿAzzām.9 As Fishbein notes, there are other versions of Kalīla and Dimna that are set in a still more explicitly Islamic context, with quotes from Qurʾanic verses and aḥādīth. edition itself, which has been carried out competently and with an honest, realistic perspective on the complicated nature of the codicology and textual history of the Arabic Kalīla and Dimna—the result being a version of the text that meets the standard for general-purpose use and citation.
- keywords: adab; al-ʿuṣūr; allāh; arabic; arabic kalīla; basis; beers; book; case; century; chapter; copies; different; dimna; e n; early; edition; english; example; f t; fishbein; general; ibn; ibn al; introduction; kalīla; library; literature; manuscript; map; middle; montgomery; muqaffaʿ; n s; n t; notes; original; period; persian; question; read; s e; s h; section; study; t h; text; theodore; translation; use; versions; word; work; worth; wusṭā; ʿabd; ʿazzām
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- alusur-10273
- author: Gordon, Matthew S.
- title: Review of Anderson, Fenwick, & Rosser-Owen (eds.), The Aghlabids and Their Neighbors
- date: 2022-12-01
- words: 2828
- flesch: 65
- summary: One understands that Talbi, the most important modern scholar of Aghlabid history bar none, and a prolific writer on Maghribi history more generally, knew of t he book and w as s lat ed to contribute a foreword. He relates these examples of public writing to the factional infighting between rival Sunni madhhabs in Ifrīqiya and, in time, Sicily, and the shifting postures on the part of Aghlabid emirs in response.
- keywords: abbasid; aghlabid; al-ʿuṣūr; book; center; century; chapter; close; cultural; e l; e n; e s; e t; early; editors; emirate; gordon; history; ifrīqiya; islamic; m e; maghrib; material; matthew; n g; n s; n t; neighbors; new; north; o n; p e; r e; sources; studies; study; talbi; topic; volume; wusṭā
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- alusur-10274
- author: Balbale, Abigail Krasner
- title: Review of Albarrán, Ejércitos benditos
- date: 2022-12-01
- words: 2438
- flesch: 65
- summary: also considers the objects, architecture, and inscriptions that reflected this vision of holy war, and the destruction of objects and symbols of the enemy that accompanied war. Based on his doctoral disserta- tion, “Los discursos de guerra santa y la memoria de las primeras batallas del Islam, al-Andalus, Siglos X-XIII” (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 2019), this book reflects the author’s broad familiarity with a wide range of Arabic, Latin, and Castilian sources on the concept and practice of holy war.
- keywords: al-ʿuṣūr; albarrán; andalus; battles; book; chapter; demonstrates; e n; e t; early; h e; holy; holy war; ibn; islamic; jihad; memory; period; power; practice; r e; scholars; t h; umayyad; war; wusṭā
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- alusur-10275
- author: Smarandache, Bogdan C.
- title: Review of Lindsay & Mourad (eds. and trans.), Muslim Sources of the Crusader Period
- date: 2022-12-01
- words: 5353
- flesch: 69
- summary: “Juridical directive”— an alternative to “legal opinion” widely u s e d i n c u r r e n t s c h N.b., James Lindsay and Suleiman Mourad have translated the term ابــو العزائــم in the Ayyūbid inscription at the shrine of Isaac and Rebecca (Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum Palaestinae, no. 5, 5:40) as “fearless warrior” (p. 207).
- keywords: al-ʿuṣūr; anthology; arabic; bogdan; c t; cambridge; chapter; christian; context; crusades; d s; dīn; e d; e defenders; e g; e n; e r; e s; frankish; franks; h e; history; ibn; inscriptions; islamic; jihad; l e; lindsay; m e; mamluk; mourad; muslim; n c; n d; n g; n s; n t; new; o n; o t; passage; paul; period; perspectives; press; r r; r u; reactions; s l; s s; s t; safe; smarandache; sources; students; t e; t h; t p; t r; t t; terms; texts; toronto; trans; u n; u s; university; volume; western; wusṭā
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- alusur-10276
- author: Lawrence, Jonathan
- title: Review of Balda-Tillier, Histoires d’amour et de mort
- date: 2022-12-01
- words: 5275
- flesch: 61
- summary: I s l a m ; throughout this chapter, she argues that by excluding pagans and animals as well as those who breach Islamic legal dicta (by, for example, committing suicide) from being martyrs, Mughulṭāy “draws an Islamic framework” for the concept of love martyrdom (p. 150). She mentions the contemporary theoretical opposition the book would have received from neo-Ḥanbalite thought, which opposed the idea of love martyrdom, a theoretical position best elaborated in Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya’s (d. 751/1350) earlier Rawḍat al-muḥibbīn (p. 12).8
- keywords: abī; al-ʿuṣūr; analysis; arabic; balda; book; cairo; chapter; contemporary; death; different; divine; d’amour; e d; e l; e s; experience; genre; histoires; history; ibn; ideas; intellectual; islamic; jawziyya; jonathan; lawrence; literary; love; man; martyrdom; monica; mubīn; mughulṭāy; n e; n t; new; o n; passionate; profane; qayyim; r e; reception; s t; stories; t e; text; theoretical; theory; tillier; tradition; university; work; wusṭā; wāḍiḥ; wāḍiḥ al; ʿishq; ḥadīth; ḥajala
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- alusur-10277
- author: Smail, Kader
- title: Review of O’Meara, The Kaʿba Orientations
- date: 2022-12-01
- words: 2059
- flesch: 69
- summary: When al-Azraqī wrote his chronicle, the building size had supposedly not changed since ʿAbd al-Malik b. Marwān rebuilt the Kaʿba. Although there are legitimate grounds for questioning the value of historical information dating back to a century or more before al-Azraqī lived, one can hardly dismiss out of hand his testimony on the measurements of the Kaʿba during Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 30 (2022) 643 • Kader Smail his lifetime.
- keywords: aesthetic; al-ʿuṣūr; architecture; author; azraqī; book; building; chapter; ettinghausen; grabar; historical; islam; islamic; kaʿba; malik; meccan; new; o’meara; religious; sources; university; walīd; wusṭā; ʿabd
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- alusur-10278
- author: Klasova, Pamela
- title: Review of Qutbuddin, Arabic Oration
- date: 2022-12-01
- words: 5770
- flesch: 63
- summary: The first monograph on early Arabic oration as a genre in a Western language was Stefan Dähne’s 2001 dissertation: Stefan Dähne, “Reden der Araber: die politische h̲uṭba in der klassischen arabischen Literatur (Frankfurt am Main: P. Lang, 2001). Albrecht Noth in his influential The Early Arabic Historical Tradition: A Source- Critical Study dismissed the entire genre of early Arabic orations as “fictions from beginning to end.”4
- keywords: al-ʿuṣūr; arabic; arabic oration; arabic oratory; authenticity; author; book; c e; chapter; classical; context; discussion; e n; e s; early; early arabic; eid; example; friday; genre; h e; historical; important; islamic; klasova; language; literary; main; medieval; modern; n c; n d; n g; n s; n t; o n; o r; o s; orality; oration; oratory; pamela; period; piety; poetry; political; qutbuddin; rhetoric; ritual; s t; scholars; sermon; sources; speeches; structure; studies; t e; t h; t o; tahera; themes; tradition; u n; u t; western; wusṭā; ḥajjāj
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- alusur-10279
- author: Enderle, Ellen
- title: Rethinking the Wearable in the Middle Ages
- date: 2022-12-01
- words: 4772
- flesch: 53
- summary: g e m s t o n e s , t h n , a n d t h e “ a s p
- keywords: ages; al-ʿuṣūr; art; bard; body; byzantine; c e; c t; center; centuries; century; conference; crowns; d t; dress; e b; e d; e e; e g; e n; e r; e s; early; ellen; enderle; enkolpia; f t; garments; gold; graduate; h e; imperial; jewelry; l e; l t; m e; material; medieval; middle; mongol; n c; n d; n s; n t; o n; objects; ornaments; p r; paper; r n; r t; s h; s s; s t; s w; session; silk; symposium; t e; t h; t o; t t; t w; textiles; u l; w e; wearable; wearing; women; wusṭā
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- alusur-10280
- author: Behrens-Abouseif, Doris
- title: Remarks by the Recipient of the 2021 MEM Lifetime Achievement Award
- date: 2022-12-01
- words: 3479
- flesch: 71
- summary: While working on the topography of late Mamluk Cairo for my MA, I discovered a Mamluk building! The conference organized by Frédéric Bauden, Mamluk Cairo, a Crossroads of Embassies, was an eye-opener.
- keywords: al-ʿuṣūr; architecture; art; behrens; book; cairo; culture; doris; e c; e n; e s; e t; egypt; german; history; islamic; mamluk; material; mem; michael; n t; new; o n; phd; r e; students; studies; study; t h; t o; time; waqf; wusṭā; years
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- alusur-10292
- author: Antrim, Zayde; Vacca, Alison M.
- title: Masthead & Table of Contents
- date: 2022-12-01
- words: 886
- flesch: 49
- summary: Book Review Editors Malika Dekkiche, University of Antwerp Luke Yarbrough, University of California, Los Angeles Editorial Board, Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā Manan Ahmed, Columbia University Sean Anthony, The Ohio State University Mushegh Asatryan, University of Calgary Hannah Barker, Arizona State University Francesca Bellino, Università di Napoli “L’Orientale” Evrim Binbaş, Universität Bonn Amina Elbendary, The American University in Cairo Corisande Fenwick, University College London Eve Krakowski, Princeton University Josef Meri, Hamad Bin Khalifa University Oya Pancaroğlu, Boğaziçi University Michael Pifer, University of Michigan Walid Salih, University of Toronto Vanessa Van Renterghem, Institut national des langues et civilisations orientales (Paris) Board of Directors, Middle East Medievalists Stephennie Mulder (President), The University of Texas at Austin Najam Haider (Vice President), Barnard College Robert Haug (Secretary), University of Cincinnati Adam Talib (Board Member), Durham University Arezou Azad (Board Member), University of Oxford Khodadad Rezakhani (Board Member), Leiden University Amanda Hannoosh Steinberg (Board Member), Harvard University Shireen Hamza (Graduate Student Representative), Harvard University Natalie Kontny-Wendt (Graduate Student Representative), University of Hamburg Journal Website For submissions, archives, contact information, announcements, and more, please visit: https://journals.library.columbia.edu/ index.php/alusur/index Copyright and Permissions Editors Zayde Antrim, Trinity Colege Alison M. Vacca, Columbia University Managing Editor Christiane-Marie Abu Sarah, Erskine College Middle East Medievalists (MEM) is an international professional non-profit association of scholars interested in the study of the medieval Middle East, expansively defined to include all geographies with prominent Muslim political, religious, or social presences between 500-1500 CE.
- keywords: al-ʿuṣūr; alon; board; college; columbia; contents; dar; early; east; editors; graduate; harvard; international; material; medieval; medievalists; member; michael; middle; period; petra; rebellion; representative; review; sijpesteijn; student; study; table; umayyad; university; wusṭā
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- alusur-10320
- author: Lindstedt, Ilkka
- title: Reconsidering Islām and Dīn in the Medinan Qurʾan
- date: 2023-03-21
- words: 10244
- flesch: 64
- summary: However, here, too, al-islām translates effortlessly as “obedience.” My rendering of the words al-islām dīnan as “obedience as regards law” is, then, not a resort to special pleading but quite ordinary in the context of Qurʾanic Arabic.46 Considering the widespread impression among modern scholars and translators that Qurʾan 5:3 refers to and indeed explicitly names a religion known as Islam, it might be informative to note what the classical exegete al-Ṭabarī has to say about the phrase al-islām dīnan.
- keywords: 3:85; abraham; accusative; al-ʿuṣūr; al-ʿuṣūr al; allāh; arabic; article; believers; cambridge; case; century; christian; context; coran; date; des; development; dictionary; dome; donner; dīn; dīnan; earlier; early; edinburgh; eighth; english; evidence; example; expression; following; gentile; god; group; historical; identity; ilkka; inscription; interpretation; islamic; islām; izutsu; judgment; late; law; legal; lindstedt; meaning; medinan; muslims; muslimīn; new; niemi; obedience; obedient; opinion; oriental; oxford; paris; people; phrase; possible; present; press; princeton; prophet; qurʾan; qurʾanic; reconsidering; regards; reified; religion; religious; rock; scholars; second; self; semantic; sense; sinai; social; society; studies; study; translation; university; university press; verse; word; wusṭā
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- alusur-6779
- author: Bonner, Michael
- title: In Search of the Early Islamic Economy
- date: 2019-11-15
- words: 19799
- flesch: 59
- summary: Rethinking the Islamic Agricultural Revolution,” Journal of World History 20 (2009): 187–206; and L. I. Conrad, “Ṭāʿūn and Wabāʾ: Conceptions of Plague and Pestilence in Early Islam,” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 25 (1982): 268–307. See C. Robinson, “Reconstructing Early Islam: Truth and Consequences,” in Method and Theory in the Study of Islamic Origins, ed.
- keywords: abū; activity; agricultural; al-ʿuṣūr; al-ʿuṣūr al; ancient; antiquity; approach; arabian; arabic; arabs; archaeological; arguments; armies; army; article; azraqī; bang; beginning; bonner; boom; borrut; brill; byzantine; byzantium; caliphate; caliphs; cambridge; cambridge university; capitalism; case; century; certain; commerce; commercial; commodities; comparative; control; crone; data; discussion; dār; earlier; early caliphate; early islamic; east; eastern; economic; economy; eds; eighth; empires; end; entire; era; europe; events; evidence; exchange; expansion; fairs; finley; fiscal; free; frontier; goods; great; growth; historians; historical; history; ibn; idem; imperial; important; information; instance; institutions; islamic; islamic economy; islamic law; islamic world; journal; kind; kitāb; known; language; large; late; law; leiden; literary; literature; local; long; marketplace; markets; meccan; medieval; merchants; michael; middle; military; modern; muslim; muḥammad; mémoire; narrative; near; new; north; order; orient; oriental; origins; oxford; particular; performance; persian; place; point; polanyi; political; politics; pouvoir; poverty; present; press; prices; princeton; principles; process; production; prophet; provinces; questions; quraysh; recent; religious; research; resources; rise; role; roman; rome; scale; scholars; search; second; sense; sequence; series; social; society; sources; space; state; studies; study; syria; systems; terms; things; time; trade; tradition; tributary; umayyad; university; university press; use; view; way; wealth; work; world; wusṭā; york; ʿukāẓ; ḥawqal
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- alusur-6780
- author: Klasova, Pamela
- title: Reacting to Muḥammad: Three Early Islamic Poets in the Kitāb al-Aghānī *
- date: 2019-11-15
- words: 36451
- flesch: 71
- summary: al-Rayb is also occasionally said to have died this way, which supports the association of death by snakebite with brigandry.81 Whether a poem attributed later to Abū Khirāsh or his own authentic production, these verses contain the typically Jāhilī belief in the unpredictable nature of fate, which lurks at every corner, ready to take down a man, along with the Jāhilī theme of bravery in the face of this reckless force. The poems of the slave of the Banū al-Ḥasḥās outweigh a noble origin and wealth.
- keywords: 2nd; abī; abū; abū al; abū khirāsh; abū miḥjan; accompany; aghānī; akhbār; al-ʿuṣūr al; american; amorous; ancient; anthony; appendix; arabic; arabic poetry; arabs; arazi; army; article; asad; ashʿār; audiences; authenticity; authority; aṣmaʿī; b. al; banū al; battle; bedouins; beirut; believers; birr; black; blood; bloomington; body; book; bravery; brigand; brill; brothers; cairo; caliph; cambridge; case; centuries; century; chains; chicago; claims; classical; clear; close; community; companions; comparison; construction; contemporary; context; conversion; cultural; culture; day; days; death; defiance; defiant; desert; different; discussion; dog; domestic; drinking; drory; dubayya; dār al; dīwān; earlier; early; early islamic; elegy; emergent; encyclopaedia; enemy; entry; example; exile; existence; face; fact; family; famous; faraj al; fate; fear; focus; following; forbidden; form; free; friends; fī al; gelder; general; generosity; god; goldziher; good; great; grey; group; hair; hayʾa al; heroic; historical; history; honor; hudhaliyyīn; hudhayl; hāshim al; ibn al; image; immortals; important; imprisonment; imruʾ al; indiana; individual; insight; instance; islamic; islamic poetry; isnāds; iṣfahānī; james; jamīl; journal; jāhiliyya; jāhilī; jāhilī poetry; khabar; kitāb al; klasova; klasova al-ʿuṣūr; know; language; later; law; leiden; life; line; literary; literature; lives; living; london; long; main; making; man; material; maṭbaʿat al; meaning; means; mecca; memory; mention; message; meter; michael; modern; monroe; montgomery; morning; movement; mufaḍḍal al; mukhaḍram; mukhaḍram poetry; muqbil; muslim; mute; muʾassasat al; muḥammad; mālik; narratives; narrators; new; noble; odes; old; oral; order; origins; oxford; pagan; pamela; past; people; period; perspective; piety; place; poem; poetic; poetry; poets; points; position; power; practice; praise; present; press; princeton; private; process; prophet; punishment; qaṣīdah; quraysh; qurʾān; qurʾānic; reception; reference; regard; region; related; relationship; religion; religious; return; right; rise; role; routledge; saying; saʿd; schoeler; scholars; second; sentiments; sharḥ; shiʿr al; shows; similar; single; slave; snake; social; society; sources; spirit; spread; state; status; stetkevych; studies; study; sukkarī; suzanne; suḥaym; sword; term; thaqafī; thaʾr; themes; things; thirsty; time; tone; tradition; transmission; tribal; tribe; tribesmen; true; umayyad; understanding; unease; university; university press; use; value; van; vengeance; verses; version; view; war; warrior; way; white; wine; women; words; work; world; writing; written; wusṭā; york; young; zuhayr; ʿabbāsid; ʿabd al; ʿamr al; ʿumar; إذا; مــا; مــن; وال; ḍabbī; ḥaraj; ḥasḥās; ḥijāz; ṭawīl
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- alusur-6784
- author: Schine, Rachel
- title: Nourishing the Noble: Breastfeeding and Hero-Making in Medieval Arabic Popular Literature
- date: 2019-11-15
- words: 19126
- flesch: 65
- summary: P. Bearman et al. P. Bearman et al.
- keywords: 2nd; abū; account; ahl al; al-ʿarabī; al-ʿilmiyya; al-ʿuṣūr al; amīra; anbiyāʾ; animals; anxieties; arabe; arabic; arabic literature; arabic popular; arbāb; audiences; aḥmad; b. al; bearman; beirut; bird; birth; black; blood; body; bonds; boy; breastfeeding; breasts; brill; cain; cairo; case; central; century; certain; child; childhood; children; circumstances; class; claudia; common; comparative; cultural; dalhama; dead; death; des; dhat; dhāt al; difference; discourse; dār al; dārim; earliest; early; edinburgh; egyptian; eliezer; encyclopaedia; epic; et al; example; existence; experience; family; farhi; fashion; father; feature; female; figures; fitna; fol; fosterage; foundling; fāṭima; fī al; gazelle; gender; giladi; god; haskala; helen; hero; heroes; heroic; hilāl; himma; hishām; history; human; husband; ibn; identities; image; infant; international; islam; islamic; issue; jewish; jews; journal; judeo; junduba; kathīr; kinship; kitāb al; kruk; kueny; kutub; lactation; large; later; law; left; legal; legitimacy; leiden; life; like; literary; literature; lives; london; lyons; main; making; manuscript; marriage; maternal; meaning; means; medieval; middle; milk; min al; modern; moses; mother; motifs; mujāhidīn; muslim; muḥammad; muḥammad al; names; narrative; nature; new; newborn; noble; notes; number; nurse; nursing; online; order; origins; ott; oxford; parents; paris; period; peter; physical; popular; popular literature; power; preliminary; press; princess; prophetic; prophets; protagonists; pure; purity; qiṣaṣ al; qualities; question; quran; qurʾān; qutayba; rachel; reading; relationship; remke; reynolds; role; romance; sallām; samawʾal al; sayf; schine; schine al-ʿuṣūr; semen; set; sexual; shaʿbiyya; shiʿi; shuʾm al; similar; siyar; skin; social; society; son; sources; standard; status; stories; studies; study; suckling; survival; sīrat al; sīrat dhāt; tafsīr; tafsīr al; tales; test; text; times; tobi; tradition; traits; translation; tribe; tunisian; umm; umm al; university; verse; version; warrior; wen; wet; wife; women; works; world; wusṭā; york; yosef; young; zayd; zayd al; ʿabd al; ʿalī; ʿantar; ʿarāʾis al; ʿumar al; ʿuyūn al; אילא; אלדי; האדא; اال; الــذي; الــى; المولــود; بــه; فــي; مــا; مــن; هــذا; يــا; ḥalīma; ḥaqāʾiq al; ḥusna
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- alusur-6785
- author: O’Malley, Austin
- title: An Unexpected Romance: Reevaluating the Authorship of the Khosrow-nāma*
- date: 2019-11-15
- words: 16097
- flesch: 67
- summary: One of the difficulties for ʿAṭṭār scholarship has been the dearth of biographical information, both within his 7. George Morrison (Leiden: Brill, 1981); Seyyed Hossein Nasr, “Some Observations on the Place of ʿAṭṭār within the Sufi Tradition,” in Colloquio italo-iraniano sul poeta mistico Fariduddin ʿAṭṭār (Roma, 24–25 Marzo 1977) (Rome: Accademia An Unexpected Romance: Reevaluating the Authorship of the Khosrow-nāma* Austin O’MAlley The University of Arizona (austinomalley@email.arizona.edu)
- keywords: 2nd; accepted; al-ʿuṣūr; al-ʿuṣūr al; arabic; argument; article; asrār; attribution; austin; authentic; authorship; awliā; aḥmad; basis; bnf; brill; case; century; claims; common; composition; conclusion; consistent; cross; didactic; din; din ʿaṭṭār; divān; doxology; early; ebn; edited; edition; elāhi; encyclopaedia; evidence; fact; farid al; fifteenth; finished; flight; folios; forgery; friend; god; gol; greek; hermez; history; ibid; introduction; islam; javāher; kadkani; ketāb; khosrow; khosrownāma; khwāja; khāna; king; later; leiden; leonard; lewisohn; life; likely; lines; literary; literature; london; love; manuscript; manṭeq; manṭeq al; mas̱navis; mention; mokhtār; moḥammad; moṣibat; mystical; nayshāburi; new; ninth; number; nāma; oeuvre; online; original; o’malley; panegyric; particular; persian; philologika; place; poem; poetry; poets; points; possible; praise; preface; present; press; qalb; qoṭb; quatrains; question; reading; recension; references; religious; repetition; reżā; ritter; romance; romantic; royal; rumi; scholarship; section; seventh; shabestari; shackle; shafiʿi; sharḥ; sharḥ al; shaykh; sokhan; spiritual; spurious; story; studies; style; stylistic; sufism; taẕkerat; taẕkerat al; tehran; terms; thirteenth; title; tradition; undisputed; unexpected; university; verse; version; works; world; writing; wusṭā; zabur; ās̱ār; ʿarabi; ʿaṭṭār; اســت; کــه; ṭayr
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- alusur-6786
- author: Pogossian, Zaroui
- title: Women, Identity, and Power: A Review Essay of Antony Eastmond, Tamta’s World
- date: 2019-11-15
- words: 18214
- flesch: 56
- summary: However, her methodological considerations on the facets of Armenian identity and the tension between modern scholarly discourse limited by a “national” view and the available evidence would have added depth to Eastmond’s own analysis.10 Zekiyan, too, has explored the multiple components of medieval Armenian identity, emphasizing its “polyvalence.” Both labels were used to denote Muslims in medieval Armenian sources, rather than reflecting ethnic belonging.31 Presumably, both women converted to Christianity after their marriage to Xawṙas, given that Xawṙas and Zmruxt eventually commissioned a Gospel manuscript that commemorated Xut‘lu Xat‘un.
- keywords: academy; al-ʿuṣūr; al-ʿuṣūr al; analysis; anatolia; anderson; ani; armenian; armenian academy; armenian history; armenian sources; arménienne; art; association; aunts; available; awag; axt‘ala; blood; book; byzance; byzantine; cagumə; case; centre; centuries; century; chalcedonian; christian; church; city; civilisation; claims; community; complex; contemporary; context; corpus; court; cultural; culture; dans; daughter; des; different; discussion; d’histoire; early; eastmond; erevan; essay; evidence; example; family; father; features; fluid; formation; ganjakec‘i; garsoïan; georgian; gospels; great; hand; hay; hayoc; hałbat; high; historical; histories; historiography; history; holy; hoṙomos; husband; idem; identities; identity; importance; inscriptions; interactions; iwanē; kingdom; kirakos; kurdish; languages; les; lidov; life; lineage; liturgical; long; main; manuscript; margaryan; marriage; material; medieval; medieval armenian; military; modern; monastery; mongol; mother; mxargrʒeli; names; national; new; notes; origin; paintings; paris; patmut‘iwn; peoples; pogossian; point; political; position; possible; power; press; problems; process; queen; questions; reference; region; relevant; religious; remarks; research; review; revue; role; rome; sargis; scene; scholars; sciences; siècle; social; son; sources; specific; structures; studies; study; subject; sultanate; tamar; tamta; theological; thirteenth; time; title; transformations; translation; t‘amt‘a; university; use; vardan; vol; wall; water; wife; wine; women; world; wusṭā; xlat; xošak; zak‘arids; zak‘arē; zaroui; zekiyan; ēǰmiacin; ōrbēlean
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- alusur-6787
- author: Gallorini, Louise
- title: Mysticism and Ethics in Islam
- date: 2019-11-15
- words: 3448
- flesch: 64
- summary: Concluding the first panel was a paper by Khaled Abdo (Muʾminūn bilā ḥudūd Institute), “From Criticism of Sufism to the Reform of Sufi Ethics: Discovering the works of al-Daylamī.” This paper explored the works of al-Daylamī (d. 1192), focusing in particular on his book The Reformation of Ethics (Iṣlāḥ al-akhlāq), which deals with Sufi ethics and the reformation of Sufism as well as the Sufi stance toward philosophy; al-Daylamī’s book has been so far overlooked as a potentially theoretical grounding work on this subject.
- keywords: al-ʿuṣūr; american; arabic; beirut; chair; conference; context; different; e n; e r; early; ethical; ethics; ghazālī; h e; islamic; l e; mathnawī; mysticism; n g; n t; o n; panel; paper; presentation; relationship; s e; s t; scholars; second; sheikh; studies; sufi; sufism; t e; t h; university; works; world; wusṭā; zayed
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- alusur-6788
- author: Sidky, Hythem
- title: Daniel Alan Brubaker, Corrections in Early Qurʾānic Manuscripts
- date: 2019-11-15
- words: 9542
- flesch: 70
- summary: i m p s e s t c o r r e s p o n d t o The plethora of early manuscripts at our disposal combined with digital technologies making them accessible has reawakened a fervor among both scholars a n d t h e p u b l i c .
- keywords: addition; al-ʿuṣūr; alan; allāh; apparent; b e; book; brubaker; c e; c o; c r; c t; cairo; century; changes; codex; corrections; d t; daniel; different; e l; e n; e r; e s; early; edition; erasure; evidence; example; explanation; f t; formula; g e; g t; god; h e; huwa; hythem; k e; l o; later; line; m e; manuscripts; muslim; muṣḥafs; n c; n d; n g; n n; n s; n t; o n; o u; omission; original; orthographic; p r; p t; phrase; quranic; qurʾānic; r n; r r; r s; r t; rasm; reader; reading; s c; s o; s s; s t; scribal; scribe; second; sidky; standard; standardization; states; t e; t h; t o; t t; t u; text; time; u b; u l; u n; u r; u s; variants; verse; w e; word; works; wusṭā; ʿuthmānic
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- alusur-6790
- author: Legendre, Marie
- title: Jennifer A. Cromwell, Recording Village Life: A Coptic Scribe in Early Islamic Egypt.
- date: 2019-11-15
- words: 4353
- flesch: 67
- summary: The chapter reveals that the drafting of tax documents was a closely regulated process in the twenty or so years in which they are attested at Djeme and that only one scribe at a time was involved in drawing up such texts. Chapter 4, “Recording Taxes,” shows that Aristophanes was first involved in drawing up fiscal documents in 724, when he wrote tax demand notes for the office of the amīr of Luxor and Esna, Sahl b.
- keywords: administration; al-ʿuṣūr; aristophanes; book; chapter; coptic; cromwell; djeme; documents; e n; e r; e s; early; fiscal; h e; hand; history; islamic; l e; late; m e; n o; n t; new; o t; p t; period; r t; receipts; recording; s o; s t; scribal; scribe; t e; t h; t t; t y; tax; taxes; texts; theban; time; village; wusṭā
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- alusur-6791
- author: Steven Judd, Steven
- title: Mathieu Tillier, L’invention du cadi: La justice des Musulmans, des Juifs et des Chrétiens aux premiers siècles de l’Islam.
- date: 2019-11-15
- words: 2172
- flesch: 61
- summary: f a l l s the sources impose, Tillier augments the narrative and legal sources with a careful study of legal papyri, arguably the only truly primary source available. Despite these difficulties, Tillier carefully avoids reading too much Mathieu Tillier, L’invention du cadi: La justice des Musulmans, des Juifs et des Chrétiens aux premiers siècles de l’Islam.
- keywords: abbasid; communities; e n; e t; evidence; institutional; islamic; justice; later; legal; n t; narrative; notes; papyri; procedures; qāḍī; s e; s t; sources; t h; t t; tillier; witnesses; work
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- alusur-6792
- author: Sánchez, Ignacio
- title: Hans-Peter Pökel, Der unmännliche Mann: Zur Figuration des Eunuchen im Werk von al-Ǧāḥiẓ (gest. 869)
- date: 2019-11-15
- words: 2007
- flesch: 60
- summary: The sources used in the book are reviewed in chapter 2, and Pökel devotes several pages to the most important of them, K. al-Ḥayawān, but he does not say much about how al-Jāḥiẓ conceived of the long section on eunuchs in his work (K. al-Ḥayawān, 1:106– 181) or about how the section is connected with the rest of the chapters. In chapter 2, Pökel reviews the figure of al-Jāḥiẓ and surveys the corpus of Jāḥiẓian works on which he bases his study.
- keywords: al-ʿuṣūr; aristotle; body; book; castration; chapter; edinburgh; eunuchs; gender; greek; human; humoral; islam; jāḥiẓ; k. al; late; nature; press; problemata; pökel; section; study; tradition; understanding; university; works; wusṭā; ḥayawān
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- alusur-6793
- author: Lynch, Ryan J.
- title: Scott Savran, Arabs and Iranians in the Islamic Conquest Narrative
- date: 2019-11-15
- words: 2208
- flesch: 55
- summary: This discussion furnishes an opportunity for Savran to introduce the “audience trope” that is such an integral part of the depiction of the Sasanians in Islamic sources (and a key part of the book’s final three chapters). 4. Albrecht Noth and Lawrence Conrad, The Early Arabic Historical Tradition: A Source-Critical Study (Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 1994); Tayeb El-Hibri, Parable and Politics in Early Islamic History: The Rashidun Caliphs (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010); and Tayeb El-Hibri, Reinterpreting Islamic Historiography: Hārūn al-Rashīd and the Narrative of the ʿAbbāsid Caliphate (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).
- keywords: accounts; al-ʿuṣūr; arab; arabic; book; chapter; conquests; discussion; e n; e s; early; form; historical; historiography; identity; iranians; islamic; memory; narrative; period; persian; press; process; sasanian; savran; sources; studies; university; wusṭā
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- alusur-6794
- author: Schine, Rachel
- title: Adam Talib, How Do You Say “Epigram” in Arabic? Literary History at the Limits of Comparison
- date: 2019-11-15
- words: 3170
- flesch: 69
- summary: Talib makes his case by presenting extensive paratextual a n d p o e t e r e
- keywords: al-ʿuṣūr; arabic; book; century; chapter; collections; e e; e m; e n; e s; epigram; form; genre; literary; maqāṭīʿ; maqṭūʿ; n s; n t; poems; poetry; r e; r t; s s; s t; short; t e; t h; t t; talib; term; use; wusṭā
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- alusur-6795
- author: Bianchini, Janna
- title: William Chester Jordan, The Apple of His Eye: Converts from Islam in the Reign of Louis IX. J
- date: 2019-11-15
- words: 2054
- flesch: 72
- summary: But when faced with the question of whether Louis IX’s evangelical efforts among Muslims actually produced converts, or what might have become of such converts after their baptisms, most historians would demur; given the limited William Chester Jordan, The Apple of His Eye: Converts from Islam in the Reign of Louis IX. On this subject, Jordan’s own first book is still required reading: William C. Jordan, Louis IX and the Challenge of the Crusade: A Study in Rulership (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1979).
- keywords: book; conversion; converts; crusade; e n; e t; efforts; france; jews; jordan; king; louis; muslims; n t; press; princeton; royal; t h; university
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- alusur-6798
- author: van Lit, O.P., L. W. Cornelis
- title: Joel Blecher, Said the Prophet of God: Hadith Commentary across a Millennium
- date: 2019-11-15
- words: 4151
- flesch: 78
- summary: As Blecher says, “hadith commentaries sometimes had as much or more to say about the exegetical history of the hadith than about the hadith upon which it claimed to comment” (p. 44). Further analysis of this issue would also shed more light on how representative commentaries on al-Bukhārī are of hadith commentaries in general.
- keywords: blecher; book; bukhārī; c e; chapter; collection; commentaries; commentary; commentators; e e; e n; e s; e t; h e; hadith; ibn; l e; l l; m e; n c; n t; o n; r e; s s; s t; studies; t h; t t; t u; writing; ḥajar
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- alusur-6799
- author: Parkes Allen, Jonathan
- title: Thomas A. Carlson, Christianity in Fifteenth-Century Iraq. Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
- date: 2019-11-15
- words: 4736
- flesch: 58
- summary: In more recent years, “Assyrian” and “Chaldean” have emerged as signifiers of aspirational national identities attached to East Syriac communities, names that have also been used for the proliferation of separate churches coming out of the medieval Church of the East thanks to new connections with the Catholic Church and Protestant bodies. In a similar vein, it is not so much a criticism of Carlson’s findings as a caution to point out that a number of his conclusions rest upon one or two works by a single author, which, Carlson implicitly argues, ought to be taken as representative of the wider East Syriac 7. Alessandro Mengozzi, Israel of Alqosh and Joseph of Telkepe: A Story in a Truthful Language; Religious Poems in Vernacular Syriac (North Iraq, 17th Century) (Leuven: Peeters, 2002); idem, “Neo-Syriac Literature in Context: A Reading of the Durektha On Revealed Truth by Joseph of Telkepe (17th Century),” in Redefining Christian Identity: Christian Cultural Strategies Since the Rise of Islam, ed.
- keywords: al-ʿuṣūr; armenian; book; carlson; century; chapter; christian; christianity; church; communities; community; discussion; e e; e l; e n; e s; early; east; f t; fifteenth; h e; history; instance; iraq; islam; late; medieval; middle; minorsky; muslim; n c; n s; n t; new; ninth; o n; o u; oxford; period; poetry; political; press; r e; recent; region; religious; ritual; s c; s o; s s; s t; saints; shāh; source; syriac; t e; t h; t o; u n; u s; university; world; wusṭā
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- alusur-6800
- author: Connelly, Coleman
- title: The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Philosophy. Edited by Khaled El-Rouayheb and Sabine Schmidtke. Oxford Handbooks
- date: 2019-11-15
- words: 3756
- flesch: 67
- summary: 6. On the perception that Ibn Taymiyya is “doing philosophy” or “falsafa” in the modern sense, see Anke von Kügelgen, “The Poison of Philosophy: For instance, many later contributions to Islamic philosophy come in the form of commentaries or even versifications, which were often dismissed as derivative or unoriginal on the basis of inadequate study.
- keywords: al-ʿuṣūr; arabic; century; chapters; e l; e n; e s; e t; editors; falsafa; handbook; historical; ibn; islamic; n d; n s; n t; ninth; o l; o n; oxford; p h; period; philosophers; philosophical; philosophy; r e; r s; r t; rouayheb; schmidtke; sense; t h; t t; term; theology; twelfth; volume; world; wusṭā
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- alusur-6802
- author: Leiser , Gary
- title: Remembering Speros Vryonis, Jr.
- date: 2019-11-15
- words: 2358
- flesch: 74
- summary: Curiously, when Vryonis was — Gary Leiser Independent Scholar (leiser.gary@gmail.com) Remembering Speros Vryonis, Jr. Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 27 (2019): 344 teaching at the University of Athens, he said certain people there accused him of being a Turkish spy. Afterward Vryonis entered Harvard, earning an MA in 1952 and a PhD in 1956 with a dissertation entitled “The Internal History of Byzantium during the Time of Troubles, 1057–81.”
- keywords: al-ʿuṣūr; athens; byzantine; california; center; greek; hellenic; history; languages; life; medieval; minor; parents; sacramento; shaw; speros; studies; turkish; ucla; university; vryonis; work; wusṭā; year
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- alusur-6804
- author: Walmsley, Alan
- title: Remembering Kenneth G. Holum
- date: 2019-11-15
- words: 5091
- flesch: 69
- summary: — Gideon Avni It is my great honor to write about my dear doctoral adviser, my Doktorvater—as the Germans still say today—and my friend and mentor, Ken Holum. Not only does Ken Holum indisput- ably belong at the top of the protagonist category; he was also a great bloke.
- keywords: al-ʿuṣūr; ancient; antique; archaeological; byzantine; caesarea; doktorvater; e c; e d; e l; e n; e o; e r; early; excavations; expedition; experience; f t; graduate; great; h e; history; holum; jerusalem; k e; ken; kenneth; late; marsha; mentor; n d; n g; n s; n t; o l; o n; o u; publications; r s; r t; remembering; roman; s h; s t; scholar; site; students; study; t e; t h; t o; teaching; time; university; wusṭā; years
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- alusur-6805
- author: Borrut, Antoine
- title: Remembering Michael Bonner
- date: 2019-11-15
- words: 5236
- flesch: 73
- summary: w i t h increasing animation the Italian TV game show he had watched daily while visiting Remembering Michael Bonner Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 27 (2019): 356 Daniela’s family. Indeed, he took us seriously and sought out our advice in matters great and small—about the department, about something he was writing or thinking of Remembering Michael Bonner Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 27 (2019): 361 teaching.
- keywords: al-ʿuṣūr; ann; arabic; arbor; bonner; c e; classes; conversations; day; e d; e m; e o; e s; early; graduate; h e; history; ibn; interests; islamic; knowledge; l e; learning; mesa; michael; n c; n d; n e; n g; n s; n t; o n; opportunity; passage; r e; reading; research; s s; s t; students; t h; table; text; time; university; work; wusṭā; years
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- alusur-6807
- author: Whitcomb, Donald
- title: Remarks by the Recipient of the 2018 MEM Lifetime Achievement Award Given at the Annual Meeting of Middle East Medievalists
- date: 2019-11-15
- words: 4095
- flesch: 64
- summary: MEM Awards Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 27 (2019): iii-ix This acknowledgement of my work in Islamic archaeology comes as a complete surprise and therefore is all the more appreciated. I found that, in the field of Islamic archaeology, this was a new and rare approach that necessit at ed study of historical contexts as well as art historical resources.
- keywords: achievement; adams; al-ʿuṣūr; archaeological; archaeology; artifacts; award; chicago; cities; city; culture; e n; e o; e s; e t; early; east; evidence; field; historical; history; iran; islamic; lifetime; material; mem; middle; n n; n s; n t; near; new; o l; o n; palestinian; port; r e; recipient; remarks; research; s t; site; studies; study; today; whitcomb; wusṭā; year
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- alusur-6809
- author: Borrut, Antoine; Gordon, Matthew
- title: Letter from the Editors
- date: 2019-11-15
- words: 974
- flesch: 58
- summary: n c e annually and has averaged well over two hundred pages per issue, involves no small amount of effort. Issues of the newly formatted journal (2015 to the present) will be obtainable through our website.
- keywords: al-ʿuṣūr; book; editors; https://www.middleeastmedievalists.com/; https://www.middleeastmedievalists.com/volume-index/; issue; journal; maryland; new; online; reviews; support; thanks; university; work; wusṭā
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- alusur-6823
- author: Borrut, Antoine; Gordon, Matthew S.
- title: Letter from the Editors
- date: 2018-11-15
- words: 1160
- flesch: 64
- summary: e s e a i t y , u n d e
- keywords: al-ʿuṣūr; articles; book; dossier; islamic; journal; membership; new; online; reviews; scholarship; studies; university; west; wusṭā
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- alusur-6848
- author: Pinckney Stetkevych, Suzanne
- title: Remarks by the Recipient of the 2017 MEM Lifetime Achievement Award Given at the Annual Meeting of Middle East Medievalists
- date: 2018-11-15
- words: 3212
- flesch: 64
- summary: For me, that was Arabic poetry, clearly text-based and grounded in a variety of Islamic and Middle East Studies fields, but now engaging as well a wide range of exhilarating ideas, from linguistics to literary theory, from structuralism to ritual theory, that held the promise of bringing classical Arabic poetry out of the Orientalist closet and engaging and integrating it into a broader humanistic enterprise. My engagement with the ritual aspects of Arabic poetry left me perfectly poised to absorb and apply the work that appeared in fields as diverse as the classics, folklore, linguistics and literary theory on rituals of royalty and court ceremony, together with performance and performative (speech act) theory.
- keywords: abbasid; achievement; age; al-ʿuṣūr; arabic; burdah; classical; cultural; e n; early; east; history; islamic; lifetime; literary; mem; middle; n t; pinckney; poem; poetic; poetry; qaṣida; r e; rhyme; ritual; s e; stetkevych; studies; study; suzanne; t h; t r; university; work; wusṭā; years
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- alusur-6852
- author: Fierro, Maribel; Cressier, Patrice
- title: Introduction
- date: 2018-11-15
- words: 8757
- flesch: 58
- summary: a. Arroyo Herrero, Introducción al estudio de la obra del cadí Nuʿmān (s. IV / X), al-Manāqib wa-l- Maṯālib, Trabajo Fin de Grado, Universidad de Salamanca, September 2015; Introducción al estudio de la obra del cadí Nuʿmān (s. IV / X), al-Manāqib wa-l-Maṯālib.
- keywords: abbasid; abū; al-ʿuṣūr; al-ʿuṣūr al; allāh; almohad; almoravids; andalus; annales; arabic; ariza; articulation; bennison; brill; british; buresi; califat; caliphal; caliphate; caliphs; cambridge; case; centuries; century; cordoban; cressier; dans; de al; de la; del; des; dossier; early; edinburgh; eleventh; empire; estudios; fact; fatimid; fierro; fin; formation; histoire; history; iberian; ibn; iii; imamate; introduction; islamic; islamic west; ismaili; jihād; journal; knowledge; las; legacy; legitimacy; leiden; les; lettres; london; los; l’islam; madrid; maghreb; mahdī; maribel; maroc; medieval; modern; morocco; musulman; máster; new; north; oxford; paris; pascal; patrice; political; politique; pouvoir; power; press; qanṭara; religious; rendus; review; rise; rule; siècle; special; state; staëvel; studies; study; sunni; trabajo; twelfth; tūmart; umayyad; understanding; universidad; university; van; vols; west; work; world; wusṭā; york; árabes; ʿabd; ʿabd al; ʿalī
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- alusur-6853
- author: Toral-Niehoff, Isabel
- title: Writing for the Caliphate: The Unique Necklace by Ibn ʿAbd Rabbih*
- date: 2018-11-15
- words: 8086
- flesch: 60
- summary: 89 • Isabel Toral-NIehoff Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 26 (2018) that are organized following a systematic and scientific epistemology of knowledge (inspired by Greek models and philosophy, still in statu nascendi then in al-Andalus),41 the ʿIqd is arranged in accordance with thematic clusters that follow a descending hierarchy of knowledge (descensus).42 The systematic structure of the ʿIqd also made it very manageable, so that later authors like al-Nuwayrī and al-Qalqashandī were able to easily excerpt whole books from the ʿIqd for their own works.43 The ʿIqd reflects a broad curriculum that includes, for example, knowledge of statecraft, the military, diplomacy, courtly etiquette, literature, poetry, history, and diverse witty anecdotes; this suggests that it encompassed the broad base of knowledge that a cultivated member of the courtly elite in Cordoba would be expected to have. Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 26 (2018): 80-95 Writing for the Caliphate: The Unique Necklace by Ibn ʿAbd Rabbih* Isabel Toral-NIehoff Freie Universität Berlin (itoral@zedat.fu-berlin.de)
- keywords: abbasid; abū; adab; al-ʻiqd; al-ʻiqd al; al-ʿuṣūr; al-ʿuṣūr al; andalus; andalusiers; arabic; author; baghdad; book; boston; brill; caliphal; caliphate; cambridge; century; collar; context; cordoba; court; cultural; culture; de al; de ibn; del; des; east; eds; emir; encyclopaedic; estudios; fact; famous; farīd; greek; gros; history; ibn; ibn abd; ibn al; ibn ʿabd; ideology; iraq; isabel; islamic; kitāb; knowledge; later; legitimacy; leiden; literary; literature; local; los; madrid; man; martinez; material; medieval; muḥammad; necklace; niehoff; period; perspective; political; pre; program; quellenuntersuchungen; rabbih; raḥmān; reading; regime; safran; second; studies; study; text; time; toral; umayyad; unique; universal; werkmeister; wisdom; work; world; writing; wusṭā; zum; ʻabdrabbih; ʿabd; ʿabd al; ʿabd rabbih; ʿiqd
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- alusur-6855
- author: Thiele, Jan
- title: Facing the Mahdī’s True Belief: Abū ʿAmr al-Salālijī’s Ashʿarite Creed and the Almohads’ Claim to Religious Authority
- date: 2018-11-15
- words: 8714
- flesch: 67
- summary: A preliminary revision of the revised proof can be found in al-Juwaynī’s earlier works al-Irshād27 and Lumaʿ al-adilla fī qawāʿid ahl al-sunna wa-al-jamāʿa,28 where he still relies on the proof from accidents argument. In fact, the description qāʾim bi-nafsihi was open to interpretation, and it appears that al-Ashʿarī himself hesitated in regard to whether or not it could be rightly—or exclusively—applied to God.34
- keywords: abī; abū; abū al; accidents; adilla; al-ʿaqīda; al-ʿaqīda al; al-ʿuṣūr; al-ʿuṣūr al; almohad; almohades; arabic; argument; ashʿarite; atoms; attributes; authority; averroes; beirut; belief; burhāniyya; chapter; claim; community; creed; cressier; doctrine; dīn; d’averroès; eds; eternal; existence; fact; fierro; gimaret; god; ibn; imām; irshād; islamic; jan; juwaynī; kalām; kitāb; knowledge; kubrā; later; living; los; madrid; mahdī; man; maribel; molina; movement; muḥammad; oxford; par; passage; perspectivas; philosophy; political; position; possible; powerful; problemas; proof; rational; reasoning; religious; salālijī; scholars; specific; sunni; teaching; text; theologians; theological; theology; thiele; true; tūmart; west; world; wusṭā; ʿabd; ʿalī; ʿamr; ʿan; ʿaqīda; ʿuthmān
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- alusur-6856
- author: Albarrán, Javier
- title: The Jihād of the Caliphs and the First Battles of Islam: Memory, Legitimization and Holy War, from Cordoba to Tinmal
- date: 2018-11-15
- words: 20233
- flesch: 69
- summary: M. Fierro, “Abd al-Rahman III frente al califato fatimí y al reino astur-leonés: campañas militares y procesos de legitimación político-religiosa,” in Rudesindus. “Abd al-Raḥmān III frente al califato fatimí y al reino astur-leonés: campañas militares y procesos de legitimación político-religiosa.”
- keywords: a. al; abī; abū; akhbār al; al-ʿuṣūr al; albarrán; allāh; almanzor; almohad; almohades; ambrosio; andalus; arabic; authority; badr; battles; bayān al; beirut; biblioteca; brill; caliph al; caliphate; caliphs; cambridge; campaigns; capital; case; century; charisma; christian; commemoration; compostela; conquests; context; cordoba; cressier; cultural; dans; de al; de ibn; de la; del; discourse; discursive; dār al; early; eds; elements; enemies; estudios; example; expeditions; fact; fierro; fight; figure; futūḥ al; fī al; garcía; ghazawāt; ghazawāt al; god; government; guerre; hand; hijra; hishām; historia; history; holy; huici; ibn al; ibn tūmart; ibn ʿabd; ibn ʿidhārī; ibn ḥayyān; ibn ḥubaysh; idea; iii; important; infidels; introduction; islam; islamic; isḥāq; javier; jihād; jihād al; journal; jumān; kadhim; kitāb al; las; leiden; life; london; los; m. fierro; madrid; maghrib; maghāzī; maghāzī al; mahdī; mahdī ibn; marrākushī; medieval; memory; military; miranda; molina; movement; mss; muqtabas; murtaḍā; muslim; muʾmin; muḥammad; nazm al; naẓm; new; order; oxford; paris; period; place; political; política; power; press; princeton; prophet; qanṭara; qarawiyyin; qattan; qaṭṭān; qurʾān; qāḍī al; rabbih; rasūl; rawḍāt al; raḥmān; recontextualization; religion; religious; remembrance; return; role; ruler; rāshidūn; santiago; second; sense; shām; siècle; society; sources; state; studies; study; sur; symbolic; tawḥīd; term; times; tradition; trans; tūmart; umayyad; university; vol; wa al; war; work; wusṭā; wāqidī; wāḥid al; xie; y al; year; york; yuman; ʿabd al; ʿalī; ʿidhārī al; ḥayyān; ḥubaysh; ṭabarī
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- alusur-6857
- author: Buresi, Pascal
- title: Preparing the Almohad Caliphate: The Almoravids*
- date: 2018-11-15
- words: 9193
- flesch: 63
- summary: F. Rodríguez Mediano, “Instituciones judiciales: cadíes y otras magistraturas,” in El retroceso territorial de Al-Andalus: Almorávides y Almohades, siglos XI al XIII, ed. In El retroceso territorial de Al-Andalus: Almorávides y Almohades, siglos XI al XIII, ed.
- keywords: abū; akhbār al; al-ʿuṣūr al; allāh; almohad; almohad caliphate; almoravid; almovarids; andalus; arab; authority; b. tashfīn; bakr; banū; bayān; beginning; berber; beyrouth; buresi; caliphate; capital; central; century; certain; construction; control; cordoba; de al; del; des; different; dynasties; dynasty; dār al; east; eastern; eleventh; elites; emir; emirate; established; estudios; fifth; ghouirgate; ghāniya; god; government; governor; granada; great; guichard; historiography; history; ibn; ibn al; important; imām; islam; islamic; jihād; lamtūna; law; les; lithām; local; lévi; l’ordre; madrid; maghrib; mahdī; marrakech; military; model; movement; muslim; muʾmin; muʿjib; nature; new; north; opposition; organization; paris; pascal; people; period; perspective; political; power; prince; provençal; provincial; qāḍī; religious; respect; sources; sovereign; structures; system; tashfīn; title; tribal; tribes; twelfth; tūmart; veil; way; west; western; wusṭā; yaḥyā; yāsīn; yūsuf; yūsuf b.; ʿabd al; ʿalī; ʿalī b.; ʿidhārī; ʿumar
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- alusur-6861
- author: Vacca, Alison M.
- title: Navigating Language in the Early Islamic World
- date: 2018-11-15
- words: 4262
- flesch: 64
- summary: He also suggested, then, that we might uncover the variations of early Islamic Arabic by revisiting the traditional corpora, focusing s p e c t r e n ( S a n
- keywords: arabic; arabization; documents; e n; e s; early; early islamic; east; g e; greek; h e; history; islamic; l e; language; n c; n d; n g; n n; n p; n s; n t; near; o n; period; persian; r e; r n; r o; r r; r s; r t; s t; syriac; t e; t h; t o; texts; u n; u r; umayyad; university; use; world
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- alusur-6862
- author: Seeden, Helga
- title: Post-Eurocentric Poetics: New Approaches from Arabic, Turkish and Persian Literature
- date: 2018-11-15
- words: 1935
- flesch: 59
- summary: Persian literary theory argues that creation and interpretation are controvertible, as are the poet and critic. She argued that, if viewed in its entirety, the uninterrupted and self-contained tradition of Persian literary production over half a millennium possessed its own “dynamic for the transmission of literary tradition.”
- keywords: al-ʿuṣūr; american; arabic; beirut; century; conference; context; culture; e n; literary; literature; medieval; modern; n t; ottoman; panel; persian; poetics; poetry; prose; rashwan; rhetoric; scholars; speaker; theory; translation; turkic; turkish; university; wusṭā
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- alusur-6863
- author: Gallorini, Louise
- title: Approaches to the Study of Pre-Modern Arabic Anthologies
- date: 2018-11-15
- words: 3264
- flesch: 70
- summary: Panel 5: “Poetry” Chaired by Tayeb El-Hibri (University of Massachusetts, Amherst,) the last panel of the day, on the topic of poetry, began with a presentation by Adam Talib (Durham University) on the relationship between poetry anthologies and dīwān. The different presentations explored the overwhelming presence of anthologies i n p r e - m o
- keywords: anthologies; anthology; arabic; aub; author; c t; conference; e c; e d; e m; e n; genre; h e; ibn; l e; n s; n t; o n; panel; paper; poetry; presentation; r e; r n; s e; s t; second; sources; t e; t h; text; u n; university; work
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- alusur-6867
- author: Brown, Peter
- title: Muriel Debié. L’écriture de l’histoire en syriaque. Transmissions interculturelles et constructions identitaires entre hellénisme et islam.
- date: 2018-11-15
- words: 3635
- flesch: 67
- summary: Christians, Zoroastrians, and Iranian Political Culture in Late Antiquity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2015), 23–58. 4. Bar Hebraeus, The Ecclesiastical Chronicle, translated by David Wilmshurst (Piscataway, New Jersey: Gorgias Press, 2016), 244. bibliographies attached to each text shows how, in recent decades, Syriac studies have lurched forward. What can scholars who are not directly involved in the progress of Syriac studies draw from this magnificent book?
- keywords: al-ʿuṣūr; author; cambridge; christianity; christians; chronicle; church; culture; debié; different; e n; e s; early; east; edessa; empire; great; h e; historians; historical; historiography; history; islam; kingdom; local; long; l’écriture; medieval; memory; middle; muriel; n t; new; past; press; r e; roman; studies; study; syriac; syriaque; t e; t h; t t; time; tradition; university; western; world; wusṭā
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- alusur-6868
- author: Pomerantz, Maurice A.
- title: Abū Isḥāq al-Ṣābiʾ, Dīwān Rasāʾil al-Ṣābīʾ.
- date: 2018-11-15
- words: 3062
- flesch: 74
- summary: i s aforementioned group of epistolographers more esteemed by his contemporaries and influential for later generations of scribes than al-Ṣābiʾ. One possible reason for the oversized presence of al-Ṣābiʾ and his letters must Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 26 (2018)
- keywords: abū; al-ʿuṣūr; buyid; collection; dhannūn; dīwān; e n; edition; editor; foundation; furqān; hachmeier; ibn; ibrāhīm; isḥāq; iḥsān; letters; manuscripts; n t; rasāʾil; review; sayyid; scribes; shīrāzī; t e; t h; texts; thāmirī; work; wusṭā; ṣābiʾ; ṣāḥib
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- alusur-6869
- author: Melchert, Christopher
- title: Lena Salaymeh, The Beginnings of Islamic Law: Late Antique Islamicate Legal Traditions
- date: 2018-11-15
- words: 1417
- flesch: 55
- summary: My approach in this review will therefore be to look past her theory to see whether she explains particular early legal problems in ways that seem useful to a traditional historian of Islamic law. It is the nature of Scripture to be interpretable in multiple ways, and the most an historian should try to do is to assess why some interpretation either Lena Salaymeh, The Beginnings of Islamic Law: Late Antique Islamicate Legal Traditions (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016), xiii+242 pp.
- keywords: al-ʿuṣūr; beginnings; chapter; divorce; earlier; historian; history; islamic; jewish; law; legal; muslim; prisoners; qurʾān; salaymeh; system; understanding; wusṭā
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- alusur-6870
- author: Renard, John
- title: Sabine Schmidtke, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology
- date: 2018-11-15
- words: 1623
- flesch: 70
- summary: u l a r ) r e c e i v e m o r e explicit coverage than their lesser known Māturīdī counterparts, with Pazdāwī (d. 1100) a notable exception in this regard. Here a brief summary listing of points of agreement/disagreement o n m a j o r t h e m e s w o u l d h a v e b e e n pedagogically useful.
- keywords: chapters; chs; coverage; e n; early; handbook; historical; islamic; major; medieval; oxford; studies; theological; theology; thought; volume
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- alusur-6871
- author: Shachar, Uri
- title: Diego R. Sarrio Cucarella, Muslim-Christian Polemics across the Mediterranean:
- date: 2018-11-15
- words: 3686
- flesch: 65
- summary: e s e e m i n g p o In fact, the first chapter consists of replies to every single claim that is found in Paul of Antioch’s Letter to a Muslim Friend (although it is important to note that al-Qarāfī probably responded to some later rendition of the original letter).
- keywords: ajwiba; al-ʿuṣūr; book; c e; c t; chapter; christian; christianity; cucarella; e e; e l; e n; h e; history; islam; l l; m e; muslim; n s; n t; new; o n; paul; polemical; polemics; political; qarāfī; r e; religious; s e; t e; t h; t s; t t; time; words; wusṭā
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- alusur-6872
- author: Walker, Paul E.
- title: Michael Brett, The Fatimid Empire. The Edinburgh History of the Islamic Empires
- date: 2018-11-15
- words: 1369
- flesch: 64
- summary: Online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_COM_30871 pale by comparison to the many items of information I picked up from this book, interpretations of issues I am now forced to rethink and look at in a new light, terms such as “seveners” I previously thought misleading and obsolete but may have been convinced otherwise, along with many works in the bibliography that ought to be read or reread. Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 26 (2018): 249-251 Book Review Those of us intimately involved in the study of Fatimid history, as well as others who teach areas of Islamic history in which this dynasty played a significant role, have long lamented the lack of a good, substantial one-volume account of that era suitable for use in classroom instruction and also generally available and accessible for anyone inter- ested in the period.
- keywords: al-ʿuṣūr; beck; book; brett; c.h; daʿwa; der; edinburgh; empire; english; fatimid; history; islamic; ismaili; michael; münchen; paul; volume; work; world; wusṭā
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- alusur-6873
- author: Ali, Kecia
- title: Matthew S. Gordon and Kathryn Hain, eds., Concubines and Courtesans
- date: 2018-11-15
- words: 3370
- flesch: 61
- summary: Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 26 (2018): 252-257 Book Review In this exciting new volume, co-ed-itors Matthew Gordon and Kathryn Hain provide scholars and students an important resource for the study of slavery and enslaved women. One of the merits of this volume is the number of enslaved women about whom it presents biographical information— though of varying levels of detail and facticity.
- keywords: abbasid; al-ʿuṣūr; battuta; book; c e; concubinage; concubines; contexts; contributors; courtesans; e n; e s; e t; enslaved; free; gordon; h e; hain; history; households; ibn; islamic; legal; marriage; muslim; n c; n s; n t; o n; qiyān; r e; relationships; s o; scholars; sexual; slavery; social; study; t h; university; volume; w e; women; wusṭā
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- alusur-6874
- author: Durand-Guédy, David
- title: Vanessa Van Renterghem, Les élites bagdadiennes au temps des Seldjoukides
- date: 2018-11-15
- words: 7387
- flesch: 72
- summary: See, notably, the reviews by T. El-Hibri in the International Journal of Middle East Studies 34 (2002): 736-738; V. Van Renterghem in the Bulletin Critique des Annales Islamologiques 18 (2002): 65-67; and, most importantly, Shahab Ahmed in the Journal of the American Oriental Society 123/1 (2003): 179-182. and studies simply overlooked and, above all, by a thesis which proved untenable.13 That being said, and despite what Van Renterghem implies, her book and Ephrat’s have much in common: the same main biographical sources, the same focus on the ʿulamāʾ (not the only elites dealt with by Van Renterghem, but certainly the most documented), and the same themes (e.g. assessing Baghdad’s attraction or the family background of the ʿulamāʾ). Here, it seems to me that the most important sources on Saljuq Baghdad encapsulate a Ḥanbalī-Abbasid point of view that, to some extent, was embraced by Van Renterghem.
- keywords: abbasid; al-ʿuṣūr; analysis; bagdadiennes; baghdad; book; c t; cambridge; case; century; chap; chapter; cities; city; data; david; durand; e c; e l; e n; eleventh; elites; example; figures; george; great; guédy; h e; history; ibn; iranian; isfahan; issue; les; makdisi; maps; medieval; military; n n; n s; n t; new; o n; o t; period; power; press; renterghem; s e; s o; s s; s t; s u; saljuq; scholarship; section; seldjoukides; shiḥna; social; society; sources; studies; study; t e; t h; t u; table; temps; text; time; transmitters; u r; urban; van; van renterghem; vanessa; volume; work; wusṭā
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- alusur-6875
- author: Daniel , Elton L.
- title: Ehsan Yarshater
- date: 2018-11-15
- words: 1001
- flesch: 65
- summary: F i n a l l y , o n e m u s t m a k e a s p e c i a l acknowledgement of what Mary Boyce called Yarshater’s “genius in envisaging ends and securing means,” as it applies to conceiving, organizing, and producing major collaborative scholarly projects. With the recommendation and support of Henning, Yarshater received a visiting position at Columbia University in 1958, and, in 1961, was appointed to the new Kevorkian chair in Iranian studies there, which he held until his retirement in 1999.
- keywords: columbia; ehsan; history; iranian; persian; studies; university; yarshater
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- alusur-6994
- author: Borrut, Antoine
- title: Letter from the Editors
- date: 2017-11-15
- words: 918
- flesch: 60
- summary: UW stands as a platform from which to bring out significant new scholarship. Finally, we are also determined to promote non-Anglophone scholarship.
- keywords: al-ʿuṣūr; committed; discussion; east; format; history; islamic; middle; new; open; previous; reviews; scholarship; wusṭā
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- alusur-6995
- author: Donner, Fred M.
- title: The Maturing of Medieval Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
- date: 2017-11-15
- words: 3917
- flesch: 62
- summary: Language study in Iran has been difficult for American students since 1979 for obvious reasons. I would say that programs for language study in Turkey, which have until recently been quite robust, must be put on our watch list as political developments play out in that country.
- keywords: 1970s; al-ʿuṣūr; american; arabic; award; century; different; e e; e n; e s; e t; early; eastern; field; history; islamic; l e; language; late; m e; medieval; mem; middle; n t; o n; programs; r e; s t; scholars; students; studies; study; summer; t h; texts; today; training; university; word; wusṭā; years
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- alusur-6996
- author: Thomas Miller, Matthew
- title: Important New Developments in Arabographic Optical Character Recognition
- date: 2017-11-15
- words: 4282
- flesch: 51
- summary: al-Wusṭā 25 (2017) producing a library of OCR models that gradually will cover all major typefaces and editorial styles used in modern Arabic-script printing. al-Wusṭā 25 (2017) Appendix: Performance of Text-Specific Models Table A: Performance of #1-Based Model on Other Texts Table B: Performance of #2-Based Model on Other Texts Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 25 (2017) New Developments in Arabographic Optical Character Recognition • 13 Appendix: Performance of Text-Specific Models Table D: Performance of #4-Based Model on Other Texts Table C: Performance of #3-Based Model on Other Texts
- keywords: accuracy; al-ʿuṣūr; arabic; arabographic; character; collections; data; developments; different; digital; figure; high; ibn; images; islamicate; kiessling; kraken; lines; long; low; miller; model; neural; new; number; ocr; open; openiti; optical; performance; persian; printed; process; quality; rates; recognition; results; romanov; savant; scans; script; software; specific; standard; table; term; texts; time; training; typefaces; university; use; work; wusṭā
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- alusur-6997
- author: Treadwell, Luke
- title: The Numismatic Evidence for the Reign of Aḥmad b. Ṭūlūn
- date: 2017-11-15
- words: 15769
- flesch: 65
- summary: Miṣr dinars with standard inscriptions, including Jaʿfar’s title al-Mufawwaḍ, were struck in small quantities in 264/877 and early 265/878.83 Why did Ibn Ṭūlūn issue dinars that bore his own ism and patronymic in 265/878? Hassan cited Vollers’ edition of Ibn al–Dāya: idem.,
- keywords: 2010a; 257/870; 258/871; 261/874; 262/875; 265/878; abbasid; abū; abū aḥmad; account; al-ʿuṣūr al; allāh; amirs; amājūr; annual; army; arrangements; authority; available; aḥmad; aḥmad al; aḥmad b.; b. ṭūlūn; baghdad; balawī; bates; bear; bonner; brother; bughā; caliph; caliph al; caliphal; campaign; capital; career; case; central; centre; century; chapter; charge; chronology; coinage; coins; conflict; context; control; damascus; deal; demands; des; dies; difficult; dinars; dāya; early; egypt; egyptian; events; evidence; financial; following; funds; fusṭāṭ; gold; good; gordon; governor; governorship; half; hassan; history; ibn al; ibn ṭūlūn; iraq; islamic; jaʿfar; kharāj; lands; late; letter; life; line; luke; maghrib; maqrīzī; military; mint; miṣr; mudabbir; mufawwaḍ; muwaffaq; muʿtamid; mūsā; n.d; narrative; new; nicol; ninth; niḥrīr; notes; numismatic; numismatic evidence; order; period; political; power; powerful; precious; province; question; region; reign; relations; relationship; responsibility; revenues; right; role; ruler; saffarid; samarra; second; section; son; sources; state; succession; syria; sīra; tax; territories; text; thughūr; time; title; title al; tradition; treadwell; treasury; tulunid; turkish; use; vol; wa al; wusṭā; year; zanj; ṭabarī
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- alusur-6998
- author: Cooperson, Michael
- title: The Abbasid “Golden Age”: An Excavation
- date: 2017-11-15
- words: 13053
- flesch: 64
- summary: On the other hand, Stetkevych’s further argument that nineteenth- and twentieth-century neo-classical poets invoked Abū Tammām, al-Buḥturī, et al., to construct the image of a lost Arab-Islamic utopia is fully convincing.46 What remains to be determined why the poets of this particular period should have been chosen to play this role. This trope has been tirelessly repeated since al-Ṭahṭāwī, and still appears regularly when Arabic media has reason to refer to the Abbasids.
- keywords: abbasid; abbasid period; abū; adab; age; ages; al-ʿarabiyyah; al-ʿarabī; al-ʿuṣūr al; approach; arabic; arabs; argument; baghdad; basis; beirut; bibliothèque; brill; cairo; cambridge; case; centuries; century; civilization; claim; classical; community; cooperson; cultural; culture; dawlah; decadence; decline; des; dynasties; dār; dār al; d’herbelot; early; early abbasid; eastern; edinburgh; edition; eds; effect; end; essay; european; example; excavation; fall; figures; golden; golden age; great; hammer; hand; historical; histories; historiography; history; ibn; ibn al; intellectual; islamic; istanbul; journal; jurjī; khaldūn; khalīfah; knowledge; kremer; kulturgeschichte; language; later; leiden; les; life; lists; literary; literature; literaturgeschichte; london; long; lore; making; material; medieval; memory; michael; middle; modern; muslim; muḥammad; new; order; orientale; ottoman; paper; paradigm; paris; particular; past; people; period; periodization; persian; peter; philosophy; place; point; possible; pre; purgstall; question; qutaybah; reader; reality; reference; religion; result; rise; scholarship; science; society; sources; studies; study; tamaddun; taʾrīkh; term; theory; things; thought; time; tradition; trope; tārīkh; ummah; und; university; von; way; webb; work; world; writing; wusṭā; york; zaidan; zaydān; ādāb; ḥanbal; ḥājjī
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- alusur-6999
- author: Vacca, Alison M.
- title: Conflict and Community in the Medieval Caucasus
- date: 2017-11-15
- words: 23822
- flesch: 61
- summary: Asad Q. Ahmed, et al. Abstract In the 230s/850s, the caliph al-Mutawakkil sent his general, Bughā al-Kabīr, to assert control over the wayward northern frontier of the ʿAbbāsid Caliphate.
- keywords: abū; abū al; accounts; al-ʿabbās; al-ʿuṣūr al; albania; alison; alliances; ally; amīrs; andalus; arab; arabic; arcruni; armenian; armenian history; armenian sources; armenianness; armies; army; article; ashūṭ; athīr; authors; avars; ašot; aḥmad; b. al; bagarat; bagratuni; balādhurī; barton; basfurrajān; battle; beirut; book; borders; boundaries; brill; bughā; bughā al; caliphal; cambridge; campaign; canard; caucasian; caucasus; century; christian; christianness; claims; clear; close; communal; communities; community; concerns; conflict; conquerors; construction; context; coope; course; daughter; david; death; des; descriptions; differences; different; dār; early; ei2; emirates; erevan; ethnic; ethnicity; ethnonyms; example; ełišē; fact; family; father; forces; garsoïan; gender; general; georgian; groups; gurgēn; hamalsarani; hayoc; historians; history; house; hratarakč‘ut‘yun; ibn; ibn al; identities; identity; iii; interpretation; islam; islamic; ismāʿīl; isḥāq; isḥāq b.; khuwaythiyya; king; kitāb; kitāb al; known; k‘art‘li; later; laurent; leiden; les; lines; literature; local; loyalties; loyalty; l’arménie; main; markers; markwart; marriage; medieval; medieval armenian; medieval caucasus; michael; middle; military; minorsky; modern; moments; muslim; mutawakkil; muḥammad; mūsā; mūsā b.; narrative; new; nina; ninth; noble; north; note; oxford; patmut‘iwn; patricians; payne; people; period; persecution; persian; political; possible; power; press; prince; protagonists; reading; relations; relationship; religion; religious; rise; robert; samarrāʾ; saʿīd; scholars; sense; sharvān; siege; smbat; social; society; son; sources; state; studies; study; suny; syriac; tajārib al; tačik; taʾrīkh; ter; term; territory; texts; thomson; tiflīs; time; tp‘ilisi; trans; translation; troops; turk; t‘ovma; t‘ovma arcruni; und; university; use; vacca; vaspurakan; violence; vladimir; wife; women; world; wusṭā; xut; yaʿqūbī; yūsuf; zurāra; zurārid; zīrak; łevondyan; ʿabbāsid; ṣanāriyya; ṭabarī
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- alusur-7000
- author: Hoyland, Robert G.
- title: Reflections on the Identity of the Arabian Conquerors of the Seventh-Century Middle East
- date: 2017-11-15
- words: 15869
- flesch: 61
- summary: Let us have a look, beginning with the Qurʾanic verse that Donner regards as a clear support of his thesis: Those who believe, and Jews and Sabians and Christians—those who believe in God and the Last Day and who act righteously—will have no fear and shall not grieve (on the Day of Judgement) (5:69) Shoemaker, “‘The Reign of God Has Come’: Eschatology and Empire in Late Antiquity and Early Islam,” Arabica 61 (2014): 514-58. 17. “‘The Reign of God Has Come’: Eschatology and Empire in Late Antiquity and Early Islam.”
- keywords: abraham; abū; al-ʿuṣūr; al-ʿuṣūr al; ancient; antique; antiquity; antoine; approach; arab; arab identity; arabian; arabian conquerors; arabic; army; belief; believers; book; brill; cambridge; case; century; change; christians; common; community; confessional; conquered; conquerors; conquests; constitution; course; crone; day; different; discussion; document; donner; e.g.; earliest; early; early islam; east; eighth; empire; et al; evidence; example; faith; fear; followers; fred; god; good; greek; group; historical; history; hoyland; ibid; ibn; idea; identity; imperial; inscriptions; islam; islamic; jesus; jews; john; journal; late; legal; leiden; liverpool; meaning; medina; members; messenger; middle; monotheism; movement; muhammad; muhājirūn; muslim; muʿāwiya; nature; near; new; non; note; number; origins; oxford; papyri; path; patricia; people; period; poetry; pohl; point; power; press; princeton; prophet; province; qurʾan; qurʾanic; recent; reflections; religion; religious; review; right; righteous; rise; robert; role; roman; saracens; scheiner; scholars; self; sense; seventh; son; sources; state; studies; study; term; texts; time; true; umayyad; university; university press; use; visions; way; webb; world; wusṭā; years; york
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- alusur-7001
- author: Antrim, Zayde
- title: Spatial Thought in Islamicate Societies
- date: 2017-11-15
- words: 4311
- flesch: 63
- summary: i n t e r d e p e She argued, following Miquel, that medieval Arabic geography was not merely a vector carrying ancient geography to Renaissance Europe, and that its significance cannot be properly appreciated without understanding the social and political context in which i t e m e r g e d .
- keywords: al-ʿuṣūr; century; charles; conference; ducène; e b; e c; e d; e e; e n; e p; e r; e s; f t; franz; genre; geography; h e; ibn; islamicate; l e; maps; n d; n g; n s; n t; o n; panel; paper; political; r n; s o; s s; s t; societies; space; spatial; t e; t h; t o; t u; t y; thought; tübingen; u e; u n; u r; university; work; wusṭā
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- alusur-7002
- author: Dehghani Farsani , Yoones
- title: New Insights into Early Islamic Historiography
- date: 2017-11-15
- words: 16045
- flesch: 69
- summary: Kitāb al-futūḥ is a “fanciful history […] written from a Shīʿī viewpoint”, 2 certain suspicions swirl around this work. a s n o t p r e v e n t e d specialists to use Ibn Aʿtham’s texts for various purposes, although their access to the Kitāb al-futūḥ was for a long time 1.
- keywords: abū; accounts; al-ʿabbās; al-ʿuṣūr al; arabic; arḍ; azdī; aʿtham; aʿtham al; aḥmad; b. al; basis; book; byzantine; c l; c o; c t; case; century; city; conrad; contribution; critical; d t; dawla; dehghani; der; des; different; donner; e c; e d; e e; e n; e p; e t; earlier; early; early islamic; events; example; f t; fact; farsani; fiction; fitna; fred; fsaw; fsw; futūḥ; futūḥ al; g e; g t; general; geographical; god; greek; h e; h u; haytham; historical; histories; historiography; history; ibn; ibn al; ibn aʿtham; iii; important; insights; islamic; isnād; isḥāq; jens; jews; k e; khaybar; kitāb al; l e; l l; l s; l t; l y; land; later; leiden; lindstedt; literature; long; m e; madāʾinī; major; manuscript; manṣūr; material; medieval; middle; muqātil; muslim; muḥammad; n c; n d; n g; n h; n l; n s; n t; narrative; new; nicetas; ninth; o l; o n; o u; origins; p o; p r; p t; place; political; prophet; question; qurʾān; r e; r l; r o; r r; reports; research; ridda; s c; s e; s t; scheiner; scholars; second; sense; shām; sources; status; studies; study; t h; t o; t r; t t; t w; taʾrīkh; text; textual; themes; time; tradition; translation; u c; u l; u r; u s; u t; und; university; use; viii; vols; w e; word; work; writing; wusṭā; wāqidī; yoones; ʿabbāsid; ʿabdallāh; ʿalī; ʿasākir; ʿubayd; ʿumar; ḥadīth; ḥasan
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- alusur-7003
- author: Wood, Philip
- title: Peter Webb, Imagining the Arabs: Arab Identity and the Rise of Islam
- date: 2017-11-15
- words: 3565
- flesch: 63
- summary: It was not simply a period of ungodly impiety for all writers, and he emphasizes the degree to which authors like al-Balādhurī recognized a nobility among pre-Islamic Arabs that a n t Turning much received wisdom on its head, he argues that there was no homogenous Arab people that lived in pre-Islamic Arabia to whom Muhammad delivered his message.
- keywords: al-ʿuṣūr; arabic; arabs; century; christian; conquerors; cultural; e b; e c; e l; e n; e s; e t; early; ethnonym; h e; identity; inscriptions; islamic; language; late; muslims; n s; n t; near; new; o n; peninsula; poetry; pre; r e; r t; roman; s t; script; t h; taghlib; term; use; webb; written; wusṭā
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- alusur-7004
- author: Gordon, Matthew S.
- title: Joshua Mabra, Princely Authority in the Early Marwānid State: The Life of ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Marwān
- date: 2017-11-15
- words: 3300
- flesch: 69
- summary: Joshua Mabra, in his concise and understated new book, sees the shift as having taken place under ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz ibn Marwān (d. 85/705), the newly appointed governor, and, again, in good measure, because of his approach to office. a r w ā n a n d , following the latter’s demise and his own ascent to office, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz himself, could count on the backing of the Quḍāʿa.
- keywords: al-ʿazīz; al-ʿuṣūr; arab; argument; authority; book; brother; central; century; chapter; close; coptic; early; egypt; evidence; gordon; governor; history; ibn; islamic; joshua; kalb; mabra; malik; marwānid; matthew; modern; muslim; new; office; particular; period; point; political; politics; princely; second; state; umayyad; wusṭā; ʿabd; ʿabd al-ʿazīz
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- alusur-7005
- author: Klasova, Pamela
- title: Lyall Armstrong, The Quṣṣāṣ of Early Islam
- date: 2017-11-15
- words: 4357
- flesch: 68
- summary: quṣṣāṣ he collected These are related to either of two issues: (1) a conflation of qaṣaṣ and quṣṣāṣ and (2) authenticity.
- keywords: al-ʿuṣūr; arabic; armstrong; author; aʿtham; berkey; book; chapter; e n; e s; early; east; h e; ibn; islamic; later; main; material; meaning; medieval; n s; n t; o n; political; popular; preachers; preaching; public; qaṣaṣ; qaṣṣa; quṣṣāṣ; qāṣṣ; r e; religious; s s; s t; scholars; society; sources; stories; storytellers; t e; t h; t r; t t; term; time; wusṭā; ʿathamina; ḥadīth
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- alusur-7006
- author: Gordon, Matthew S.
- title: Christophe Picard, La Mer des Califes: Une histoire de la Méditerranée musulmane
- date: 2017-11-15
- words: 3780
- flesch: 67
- summary: T h e s e c o f g e o g r a p h
- keywords: abbasid; al-ʿuṣūr; book; byzantine; califes; century; chapter; coastal; des; e e; e l; e n; e r; early; evidence; h e; history; ibn; investment; islamic; jihad; maritime; medieval; mediterranean; military; muslim; méditerranée; n t; new; ninth; o n; picard; r n; r t; s e; sea; sources; t e; t h; t s; umayyad; works; wusṭā
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- alusur-7008
- author: Ulrich, Brian
- title: Chase Robinson, Islamic Civilization in Thirty Lives: The First 1,000 Years
- date: 2017-11-15
- words: 2925
- flesch: 64
- summary: Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 25 (2017): 204-209 Book Review The technique of using biography t o m Covering such a broad subject as “Islamic civilization” from 600 to 1525 naturally involves choices, and one aspect of this review will be to highlight the choices which have been made.
- keywords: al-ʿuṣūr; author; biographies; biography; book; career; century; civilization; culture; e e; e l; e n; e r; e s; high; history; ibn; islamic; islamic civilization; life; material; modern; n t; o n; period; political; r o; religious; robinson; role; s o; s s; s t; section; sources; t o; world; wusṭā
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- alusur-7009
- author: Adil, Sabahat F.
- title: Mona Hassan, Longing for the Lost Caliphate: A Transregional History
- date: 2017-11-15
- words: 1242
- flesch: 61
- summary: In terms of sources, this chapter centers on historical documents to examine attitudes towards the caliphate, which ought to be contrasted with the emphasis on texts such as juridical in earlier chapters. i m collective memory, particularly in terms of subsequent conceptualizations of the caliphate, which is the topic of Chapter 2, “Recapturing Lost Glory and Legitimacy.”
- keywords: baghdad; caliphate; chapter; hassan; history; islamicate; memory; studies; texts; work
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- alusur-7010
- author: Beers, Theodore S.
- title: Abolfazl Khatibi, Āyā Firdawsī Maḥmūd-i Ghaznavī rā hajv guft?
- date: 2017-11-15
- words: 3313
- flesch: 71
- summary: Still other lines have metrical faults, or employ Arabic loanwords that occur nowhere else in Firdawsī’s œuvre. There may be a few exceptions to this statement, depending on how one views the earliest works that quote lines from Firdawsī, such as the anonymous chronicle Mujmal al-tavārīkh va al-qiṣaṣ (begun in 520/1126), and indeed the Chahār maqālah.
- keywords: abolfazl; al-ʿuṣūr; arabic; book; century; chapter; copies; date; difficult; early; ferdowsi; firdawsī; form; ghaznah; hajv’nāmah; khatibi; later; lines; manuscripts; maḥmūd; n t; new; niẓāmī; number; persian; poem; poet; problems; recension; shāhnāmah; sources; t h; textual; time; versions; work; wusṭā; ʿarūżī
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- alusur-7011
- author: Mauder, Christian
- title: Thomas Würtz, Islamische Theologie im 14. Jahrhundert.
- date: 2017-11-15
- words: 3253
- flesch: 71
- summary: These close connections between al-Taftāzānī and the earlier mutakallimūn and falāsifa become especially apparent when al-Taftāzānī quotes their works or implicitly tries to distance himself from their views. Nevertheless, scholars writing in European languages have largely neglected al-Taftāzānī, publishing only a few studies of very modest length about his life and works over the past decades.
- keywords: al-ʿaqāʾid; book; chapter; discussion; dīn; falsafa; h e; human; kalām; late; maqāṣid; n t; nasafiyya; o n; period; sharḥ; t h; taftāzānī; teachings; theological; thought; time; topic; tradition; works; writings; würtz
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- alusur-7012
- author: Tolmacheva, Marina
- title: Anna Dolinina
- date: 2017-11-15
- words: 1595
- flesch: 60
- summary: He presented her a copy of his 1945 book, Among Arabic Manuscripts (“Nad arabskimi rukopisiami”), with the inscription: “To Anna Dolinina in reward for abandoning German studies. But in 1960, things were changing in Soviet http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22497726 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22497726 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22497726 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22497726 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22497726 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22497726 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/936199810 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/936199810 In Memoriam: Anna Dolinina (1923—2017) • 227 Al-ʿUṣūr
- keywords: al-ʿuṣūr; anna; arabic; arabist; arkadievna; courses; dolinina; http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22497726; krachkovsky; leningrad; life; literature; modern; oriental; russian; soviet; state; students; studies; university; wusṭā
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- alusur-7013
- author: Donner , Fred M.
- title: Günter Lüling
- date: 2017-11-15
- words: 2707
- flesch: 68
- summary: Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 25 (2017): 229-234 In Memoriam Günter LüLinG (1928—2014)* Dr. Günter Lüling, author of a number of revisionist works on the Qur’ān and the history of Islam’s origins, died on 10 September 2014, in Wasser- burg am Inn, Germany. (Photo: Günter Lüling ca. 2012.
- keywords: al-ʿuṣūr; e n; e r; e t; early; erlangen; günter; history; islamic; lüling; n t; o n; qur’ān; religions; s e; s t; studies; text; theology; werner; work; wusṭā
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- alusur-7014
- author: Borrut, Antoine
- title: Letter from the Editors
- date: 2016-11-15
- words: 780
- flesch: 61
- summary: It remains a significant goal of this journal to produce reviews of new works not only in European languages but those of the Middle East and North Africa as well. Fred Donner—a former president of Middle East Medievalists (MEM) and a long-time editor of UW—argues in his contribution for a reconsideration of the well-known term fatḥ, drawing on his considerable work on the early Islamic period and the Arab/Islamic conquests in particular.
- keywords: al-ʿuṣūr; colleagues; east; editors; fields; islamic; issue; mem; middle; new; online; work; wusṭā
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- alusur-7015
- author: Bulliet, Richard W.
- title: Remarks by the Recipient of the 2015 MEM Lifetime Achievement Award
- date: 2016-11-15
- words: 2012
- flesch: 69
- summary: I benefited from the works of the Orientalists, of course, but quantitative history and the history of technology were wide open fields where I could ask new and important questions and hope to find answers. I believe I have lived up to both commitments, but one consequence has been that I seldom schooled anyone in my approach to quantitative history, animal history, or history of technology.
- keywords: al-ʿuṣūr; arabic; bulliet; cards; century; columbia; east; history; islamic; middle; names; nishapur; orientalism; professor; quantitative; research; richard; studies; study; t h; technology; use; wheel; work; world; wusṭā; years
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- alusur-7016
- author: Donner, Fred M.
- title: Arabic Fatḥ as ‘Conquest’ and its Origin in Islamic Tradition
- date: 2016-11-15
- words: 7075
- flesch: 68
- summary: -13; A.F.L. Beeston et al., Sabaic Dictionary (Louvain-la-Neuve: Peeters, and Beirut: Librairie du Liban, 1982), p. 47. In doing so, they follow the medieval commentators, who for the most part explain this verse as a reference to Muḥammad’s agreement with Quraysh at al-Ḥudaybiya.24 Al-Ṭabarī’s Tafsīr provides a variety of reports arguing that in this verse fatḥ means ḥukm (a judgment) against those who opposed Muḥammad and in support of those who backed him; in summarizing, he paraphrases the verse to mean, “We gave a verdict of assistance (naṣr) and victory (ẓafr) against the polytheists (kuffār) and with you.”
- keywords: al-ʿuṣūr; al-ʿuṣūr al; anonymous; antiquity; arabian; arabic; arabic fatḥ; arabs; bedeutungsentwicklung; beirut; brill; cambridge; chronicle; commentators; community; conquest; context; der; dictionary; donner; early; evidence; example; expansion; fataḥa; fatḥ; fred; futūḥ; god; historical; ibn; islamic; judgment; languages; later; leiden; lexicon; literature; london; meaning; mecca; military; muḥammad; new; open; opening; oxford; paret; people; press; qurʾān; qurʾānic; reports; root; sabaic; semitic; sense; south; state; studies; syriac; term; translation; university; usage; use; verb; verse; victory; vols; word; wusṭā; york; zuqnīn; ḥudaybiya
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- alusur-7017
- author: Anthony, Sean W.
- title: Was Ibn Wāḍiḥ al-Yaʿqūbī a Shiʿite Historian? The State of the Question*
- date: 2016-11-15
- words: 14437
- flesch: 72
- summary: The available data about al-Yaʿqūbī is not only sparse, it is also fraught with ambiguities and contradictions, raising the question as to whether any of the data point to his sectarian loyalties. al-Wusṭā 24 (2016) remains indubitable is that al-Yaʿqūbī did in fact have a long tenure in Egypt as well.
- keywords: abbasid; abī; abū; abū bakr; account; akhbār; al-ʿuṣūr al; allegiance; analysis; anthony; arabic; author; aḥmad; aḥmad ibn; bakr; beirut; bias; biographical; brill; buldān; cairo; caliphate; caliphs; cambridge; case; century; chronicle; claim; clan; community; companions; daniel; data; date; death; dynasty; dār al; dāya; dīn; early; edition; egyptian; era; essay; evidence; family; far; features; gharb; gharb al; god; goeje; helpers; historian; historiography; history; houtsma; hāshim; ibn; ibn abī; ibn al; ibn wāḍiḥ; ibn ʿabd; idem; islamic; islāmiyya; islāmī; isḥāq; iṣfahānī; kitāb; kitāb al; knowledge; kutub; leadership; legitimacy; leiden; little; long; loyalties; maghrib; malik; manuscript; maqrīzī; maʿrūf; merits; modern; muslim; muʾassasat; muʾassasat al; muʿjam; muʿjam al; muḥammad; muḥammad al; muḥammad ibn; mūsā; mūsā al; narratives; new; non; particular; perspective; press; princeton; prophet; question; quraysh; qurʾān; reading; riḍā; rāfiḍī; scholars; sean; sectarian; shiʿa; shiʿism; shiʿite; shiʿite historian; sources; studies; study; succession; sunni; tehran; text; textual; time; tradition; treatment; tārīkh; tārīkh al; university; view; vols; waṣī; work; wusṭā; wāḍiḥ; wāḍiḥ al; yaʿqūbī; yāqūt; ʿabbās; ʿabd al; ʿalī; ʿalī al; ʿalī ibn; ʿumar; ʿuthmān; ḥadīth; ḥasan; ṭabarī; ṭūlūnids
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- alusur-7018
- author: Melvin-Koushki, Matthew
- title: Of Islamic Grammatology: Ibn Turka’s Lettrist Metaphysics of Light*
- date: 2016-11-15
- words: 37184
- flesch: 47
- summary: Nathan House et al., Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1998, 371-97. It alone may reveal the Absolute (al-iṭlāq) that otherwise transcends all perception and thought.
- keywords: 7th/13th; 9th/15th; abbasid; absolute; abū; adam; akfānī; al-ʿuṣūr al; album; alchemy; anatolia; ancient; andalus; aqquyunlu; arabic; arabo; art; article; astrology; astronomy; avicennan; aḥmad; basis; bauer; best; bodies; book; brill; burgeoning; būnī; cairo; calligraphy; cambridge; case; categories; category; celestial; centuries; century; chief; christian; coincidentia; commentary; common; comprehensive; concept; connection; consciousness; contemporary; context; continuity; copies; corpus; cosmos; course; creation; cultural; culture; david; davānī; deconstruction; degree; derrida; different; direct; diss; divine; doctrine; dāmād; dīn; early; east; eds; egypt; elite; empire; encyclopedic; end; epistemological; equal; esotericism; essence; european; example; existence; explosion; exponents; expression; extension; extramental; fact; faculty; far; fażl; form; forthcoming; framework; funūn; gardiner; general; genre; geomancy; geometry; god; grammatology; great; greatest; greek; half; hand; hearing; heart; hebrew; heirs; hellenic; hierarchy; high; historians; historical; history; holy; human; hunar; ibid; ibn al; ibn turka; ibn ʿarabī; idem; image; imagination; imperial; important; india; influential; information; insight; instance; intellectual; iran; irshād al; isfahani; islamic; islamic grammatology; islamicate; jewish; jāḥiẓ; k. al; kabbalah; kabbalist; key; khaṭṭ; knowledge; known; koushki; koushki al-ʿuṣūr; kufic; language; later; leiden; letters; lettrist; lettrist metaphysics; level; life; light; like; literary; literature; london; mafāḥiṣ; magic; magical; mainstream; majlis; major; making; mamluk; manifest; manifestation; manuscript; mass; mathematical; matter; matthew; matthew melvin; meaning; means; measure; medieval; melvin; mental; metaphysics; middle; miftāḥ al; mind; model; modern; modernity; modulation; mongol; mughal; mullā; muslim; muḥammad; mystical; mīr; nafāyis al; names; nasr; natural; nature; neoplatonic; neopythagorean; new; number; nūr; objects; observation; occult; occultist; oneness; ontological; oppositorum; oral; orality; order; ottoman; oxford; painting; particular; past; pen; perennis; period; persian; persianate; ph.d; philosophers; philosophical; philosophy; physical; place; plato; poetic; point; political; popular; post; power; practice; praise; preface; present; press; primary; princeton; principle; process; project; prophetic; purposes; quest; quran; quranic; qāżī; rasāʾil; rational; reading; realities; reality; reason; reception; refers; relevant; religion; remarkable; renaissance; respect; return; revelation; rise; role; roxburgh; safavid; sainthood; schema; scholarly; scholars; scholarship; science; scientific; script; second; section; seminal; sense; sharaf al; shiʿi; short; signature; similar; social; society; sociopolitical; space; speech; spiritual; spoken; standard; status; studies; study; subject; sufi; sufism; superiority; supreme; surviving; systematic; tablet; talismanic; tashkīk al; tawḥīdī; taşköprüzāde; tehran; term; texts; textual; textuality; thanks; theme; theoretical; theory; things; thinkers; thought; time; timurid; tradition; transcendental; transformation; translation; transmission; treatise; treatment; turkian; turn; understanding; universal; university; unprecedented; use; valorization; verse; visible; vision; visual; vols; walāya; way; western; wisdom; works; world; writerly; writing; written; wujūd; wusṭā; yazdī; york; āmulī; ʿabd al; ʿalī; ʿarabian; ʿarabī; ʿilm al; ʿulūm; ḥaiyān al; ḥarf; ḥurūf; ḥusayn; ṣadrā; ṭūsī
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- alusur-7021
- author: Brown, Jonathan
- title: A Man for All Seasons: Ibn ʿUqda and Crossing Sectarian Boundaries in the 4th/10th Century
- date: 2016-11-15
- words: 3433
- flesch: 82
- summary: Shams al-Dīn al-Dhahabī (d. 748/1348), no lover of Shiites, calls Ibn ʿUqda “the ḥadīth master of his age and the oceanic ḥadīth scholar (ḥāfiẓ al-ʿaṣr wa al-muḥaddith al-baḥr).” Ṣārim al-Dīn Ibrāhīm al-Wazīrī, al-Falak al-dawwār fī ʿulūm al-ḥadīth wa al-fiqh wa al-āthār, ed.
- keywords: abū; ahl; al-ʿuṣūr; article; aḥmad; beirut; book; brown; cairo; century; dhahabī; dār; dīn; early; ibn; ibn ʿuqda; imami; isfahan; jawzī; jonathan; khaṭīb; kitāb; kufa; later; like; major; man; muslim; muḥammad; notes; scholars; sectarian; shams; shiism; shiite; sunni; tirmidhī; transmitter; tārīkh; vols; wusṭā; zaydi; ʿabd; ʿalī; ʿuqda; ḥadīth
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- alusur-7022
- author: Mauder, Christian ; Markiewicz, Christopher
- title: A New Source on the Social Gatherings (majalis) of the Mamluk Sultan Qānṣawh al-Ghawrī
- date: 2016-11-15
- words: 2224
- flesch: 63
- summary: As with the other works of this small genre, the anonymous author of al-ʿUqūd al-jawhariyya organized his work around several topical gatherings (majālis): 1) on certain noble questions and the stories of the prophets, 2) on kings and sultans, 3) on the wisdom of the philosophers (fī ḥikmat al-ḥukamāʾ), and 4) on the schemes and duplicity of women.11 The two extant manuscripts only cover the first two topics. The participants in the majālis occasionally reference authoritative sources, such as al-Ṭabarī (d. 310/923) or al-Ḥasan ibn Muḥammad 10.
- keywords: al-ʿuqūd; al-ʿuṣūr; anonymous; beginning; bidlīsī; christian; conermann; court; culture; dissertation; early; flemming; fol; gatherings; ghawrī; history; jawhariyya; late; life; majālis; mamluk; manuscript; markiewicz; mauder; qānṣawh; reign; social; sultan; text; university; volumes; work; wusṭā
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- alusur-7023
- author: MacMaster, Thomas
- title: Sessions on Slavery The International Medieval Congress
- date: 2016-11-15
- words: 1616
- flesch: 69
- summary: Four of us, all scholars of medieval slavery, thought to organize an over-arching series of panels the following year. i n t e r e s t
- keywords: day; e d; europe; final; medieval; n e; o n; paper; questions; s e; second; sessions; slavery; slaves; study; trade; university; western; world
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- alusur-7024
- author: Heidemann, Stefan
- title: Regional and Transregional Elites: Connecting the Early Islamic Empire
- date: 2016-11-15
- words: 3601
- flesch: 64
- summary: Heidemann highlighted the exchange of military elites of different geographical and ethnic backgrounds after two to three generations as a feature that set the early Islamic empire apart from the Roman and Sasanian empires, both of which were characterised by a more evolutionary development of their elite structures. The question of military elites in the early Islamic empire was a recurrent theme in the conference papers.
- keywords: al-ʿuṣūr; caliphal; conference; e d; e e; e l; e n; e s; early; early islamic; elites; empire; h e; heidemann; ibn; imperial; important; islamic; islamic empire; land; landowning; local; military; n d; n t; o n; period; province; question; r e; regional; sources; stefan; t e; t h; t o; t r; transregional; wusṭā; ʿabbāsid
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- alusur-7026
- author: Borrut, Antoine
- title: Denis Genequand and Christian Julien Robin (eds.), Les Jafnides: des rois arabes au service de Byzance
- date: 2016-11-15
- words: 4292
- flesch: 64
- summary: n – n o r t h e G r e g F i s h e r ’ s c
- keywords: al-ʿuṣūr; antoine; arab; arabia; borrut; century; christian; denis; e d; e e; e g; e n; e t; empire; epigraphic; evidence; fact; gatier; genequand; ghassān; ghassānids; h e; history; islamic; jafnids; khazraj; l e; late; lecker; les; likely; medina; military; n t; new; o n; paris; pre; r e; r t; review; robin; roman; sixth; siècle; sources; t h; tribes; university; volume; whittow; work; wusṭā
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- alusur-7027
- author: Bonner, Michael
- title: Isabel Toral-Niehof, Al-Ḥīra, Eine arabische Kulturmetropole im spätantiken Kontext
- date: 2016-11-15
- words: 3224
- flesch: 62
- summary: h e community’s origins, including its relation to Palmyra and its trade, the Zenobia legend, and the possibility that al-Ḥīra may have played host to Manichaeans seeking refuge from Sasanid repression. r i u m p h o f Christianity at al-Ḥīra, but this can only be speculation.)
- keywords: al-ʿuṣūr; antiquity; arabian; arabic; arabs; author; bonner; book; century; chapter; christian; christianity; city; commerce; continuity; court; early; eastern; focus; historical; history; ibn; isabel; islamic; lakhmid; language; late; literary; michael; near; niehoff; picture; point; relations; role; sources; time; toral; trade; view; wusṭā; ʿibād; ḥīra
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- alusur-7028
- author: Toral-Niehof, Isabel
- title: Thomas Bauer, Die Kultur der Ambiguität: Eine andere Geschichte des Islams
- date: 2016-11-15
- words: 3982
- flesch: 60
- summary: A further point is that Bauer’s portrayal of pre-modern Islam occasionally suggests that this period was almost post-modern, which is, of course, a contradictio in adjecto (e.g., 113 “Konzeption […] ist unverkennbar postmodern”), since post- modernity presupposes modernity by its very essence. (For other questionable omissions, see the review by Irene Schneider).5 Another point concerns his under- standing of sex, gender and sexuality in pre-modern Islam, which is debatable;6 and Bauer’s almost complete neglect of female sexuality and gender in a chapter addressing sexuality in Islam is also hardly comprehensible.
- keywords: al-ʿuṣūr; ambiguity; arabic; argumentation; bauer; book; c e; chapter; contrast; cultural; e n; e t; field; ibn; idea; islam; islamic; l e; l t; modern; n d; n t; o l; period; post; pre; qurʾān; r e; s t; sexuality; studies; t h; t o; t r; t t; t u; t y; term; thomas; tolerant; u r; understanding; west; western; wusṭā
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- alusur-7029
- author: Friedman, Rachel Anne
- title: Tariq Jafer, Razī: Master of Qurʾanic Interpretation and Theological Reasoning
- date: 2016-11-15
- words: 1804
- flesch: 71
- summary: Jaffer turns, in Chapter Five, to al-Rāzī’s doctrine of the soul in Mafātīh al-ghayb. Jaffer, in Chapter Four, provides a detailed analysis of al-Rāzī’s interpretation of the Light Verse (Q 24:35) as a means of showing that al-Rāzī employed Avicennian thought as well as the paradoxical logic of al-Ghazali’s interpretation in his commentary on the particular āya, ultimately staging a developed theory of knowledge through this exegesis.
- keywords: book; chapter; commentary; exegesis; history; interpretation; islamic; jaffer; methodology; methods; qurʾān; rāzī; tafsīr; thought; verse; ʿaql
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- alusur-7030
- author: Troadec, Anne
- title: Amina Elbendary, Crowds and Sultans: Urban Protest in Late Medieval Egypt and Syria
- date: 2016-11-15
- words: 3632
- flesch: 70
- summary: i n t e r e s t i n t h e m u n d a n e , and reveal a different sense of self and identity of the authors – many of whom came from popular backgrounds – who include themselves in the narrative” (p. 82). i d e r e d
- keywords: al-ʿuṣūr; author; book; c o; century; chapter; e c; e e; e l; e n; elbendary; elite; fifteenth; h e; ibn; late; mamluk; n d; n s; n t; non; o n; order; period; political; popular; protest; r e; s e; s o; s s; s t; social; studies; t e; t h; t o; transformations; u s; urban; wusṭā
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- alusur-7031
- author: Mauder, Christian
- title: Petrus Martyr Anglerius, Legatio Babylonica. Edition, Übersetzung und Kommentar von Hans Heinrich Todt
- date: 2016-11-15
- words: 2900
- flesch: 66
- summary: i n n u m e r o us instances Petrus Martyr highlights the Mamluk dragoman’s connection to the Iberian Peninsula as an important basis for their good collaboration in Egypt. Born in the Italian town of Arona on the shores of the Lago Maggiore in 1457, Petrus Martyr held numerous diplomatic, educational and administrative posts at various localities in northern and central Italy, thereby using to full advantage his thorough education in the antique Latin cultural heritage which he had received in Milan and Rome.
- keywords: babylonica; detailed; e l; e n; edition; egypt; ghawrī; history; information; introduction; late; latin; legatio; mamluk; martyr; n n; n t; o n; period; petrus; r e; s e; section; spanish; sultan; t e; t h; t o; t r; text; todt; translation
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- alusur-7032
- author: Eltantawi , Sarah
- title: Shahab Ahmed
- date: 2016-11-15
- words: 1670
- flesch: 78
- summary: In Memoriam: Shahab Ahmed Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 24 (2016): 210 The comment typified Shahab in several respects. Wh e n I a r r i v e d a t H a r v a r d a s a doctoral student in Islamic studies in 2005, the then-chair of my department, in an attempt to orient me, mentioned a certain Shahab Ahmed.
- keywords: ahmed; al-ʿuṣūr; e l; intellectual; islamic; legal; memoriam; shahab; studies; time; world; wusṭā
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- alusur-7033
- author: Borrut, Antoine
- title: Letter from the Editors
- date: 2015-11-15
- words: 843
- flesch: 62
- summary: O u r a p p r e Our aim is attract the best work of colleagues from across the globe, drawing on new research initiatives across the many individual fields that make up Islamic and Middle Eastern studies writ large.
- keywords: al-ʿuṣūr; bulletin; colleagues; issue; middle; new; work; wusṭā
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- alusur-7034
- author: Crone, Patricia
- title: Remarks by the Recipient of the 2014 MEM Lifetime Achievement Award
- date: 2015-11-15
- words: 2345
- flesch: 72
- summary: After Meccan Trade, or at the same time (both this and other books took a long time to reach print), I published God’s Caliph with Martin Hinds. MEM Awards Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 23 (2015): iii-vi When I discussed with Matthew what I should talk about, he said he’d like to hear some manner of reflection on my work, career, books, students, and the state of the field, or some combination of these things.
- keywords: abu; al-ʿuṣūr; arabic; battle; book; crone; early; faraj; god; hinds; history; islamic; lewis; martin; meccan; patricia; siffin; story; studies; things; thought; time; trade; wusṭā; year
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- alusur-7035
- author: Humphreys, R. Stephen
- title: “The Shape of a Career” Remarks by the Recipient of the 2013 MEM Lifetime Achievement Award
- date: 2015-11-15
- words: 1947
- flesch: 66
- summary: MEM Awards Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 23 (2015): vii-x I must begin by expressing my thanks to the officers and board of Middle East Medievalists for bestowing on me the honor of a Lifetime Achievement Award. It comes from a group of colleagues whose work I greatly admire, and who have been at the heart of the extraordinary progress in studies on the medieval Middle East over the past two decades.
- keywords: achievement; al-ʿuṣūr; award; centuries; century; east; empire; field; history; islamic; lifetime; mem; middle; muslim; studies; study; synthesis; syria; time; ways; work; wusṭā
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- alusur-7036
- author: Cook, Michael
- title: Muḥammad’s Deputies in Medina
- date: 2015-11-15
- words: 37353
- flesch: 78
- summary: Abū Dujāna al-Sāʿidī SS 3-4:601.11 (Sibāʿ ibn ʿUrfuṭa al-Ghifārī)66 The third list is provided by Khalīfa in his Taʾrīkh.67 Note also the statement of al-Haytham ibn ʿAdī (d. c. 206/821) that Muḥammad appointed Ibn Umm Maktūm deputy over Medina for most of his expeditions (fī akthar ghazawātihi, see Balādhurī, Ansāb, ed.
- keywords: abū; abū dharr; abū lubāba; abū ruhm; account; agreement; al-ʿuṣūr al; alternative; ansāb; anṣār; anṣārīs; appointment; art; authority; authors; aws; aḍbaṭ al; badr al; bakr ibn; balādhurī; banū; barr; bashīr ibn; battle; beirut; biography; biʾl; blind; body; cairo; case; charge; clan; clout; commanders; concern; context; contrast; cook; course; data; death; deputies; deputy; descendants; dharr al; dhū; different; disagreement; dār al; earlier; early; ei2; evidence; example; expedition; fact; far; father; fatḥ; following; follows; ghifārī; ghālib ibn; god; history; ibn abī; ibn al; ibn al-ʿuṣūr; ibn hishām; ibn ibrāhīm; ibn isḥāq; ibn jundab; ibn manda; ibn maslama; ibn maẓʿūn; ibn muʿādh; ibn mālik; ibn qilīj; ibn qudāma; ibn rawāḥa; ibn saʿd; ibn shabba; ibn taymiyya; ibn ubayy; ibn umm; ibn ʿabd; ibn ʿaffān; ibn ʿarabī; ibn ʿasākir; ibn ʿubāda; ibn ʿuqba; ibn ʿurfuṭa; ibn ḥabīb; ibn ḥajar; ibn ḥanbal; ibn ḥazm; ibn ḥibbān; ibn ḥuṣayn; ibn ḥāritha; information; islam; islamic; istakhlafa; istīʿāb; jamhara; khalīfa; khalīfa ibn; khaybar; kulthūm ibn; landau; later; laythī; lecker; life; likely; list; little; lubāba; m. al; madīna; maghāzī; main; maktūm; maktūm al; maktūm w; maslama al; maʿrifat al; mecca; medina; members; michael; military; min al; minhāj al; mughulṭāy ibn; muḥammad al; muḥammad ibn; mūsā ibn; names; names ibn; naming; nasab; nisba al; nos; note; numayla ibn; number; nuʿaym al; nājiya ibn; occasion; pattern; people; person; place; point; political; prayer; present; prophet; qaʿda; qaḍāʾ; question; qurashīs; quraysh; qurayẓa; rabīʿ; reason; references; regard; report; role; ruhm al; sachau; salama; saʿd al; second; set; sibāʿ ibn; society; sources; sāʾib ibn; sīra al; tabūk; tafsīr; tasseron; taʾrīkh al; text; things; time; tradition; transmission; tribal; tribes; umm maktūm; unambiguous; usd al; use; uḥud; verb; view; vol; waʾl; wider; work; worth; wusṭā; wāqidī; years; zayd ibn; ʿabd al; ʿabdallāh al; ʿabdallāh ibn; ʿalā; ʿalī; ʿalī ibn; ʿamr ibn; ʿumar; ʿumrat al; ʿurfuṭa al; ʿuthmān ibn; ʿuwayf ibn; ḥajjat al; ḥamīd; ḥudaybiya; ṣaḥāba; ṭabaqāt; ṭabarī
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- alusur-7037
- author: Melchert, Christopher
- title: Māwardī’s Legal Thinking
- date: 2015-11-15
- words: 11344
- flesch: 67
- summary: It draws heavily on the Persian and Hellenistic traditions as well as on the Arabo-Islamic.32 The fourth seems to be one of his earliest works, from about 393/1002-3.33 Dedicated to the Buwayhid prince Bahā’ al-Dawlah, it too draws for its quotations on both the Persian and Islamic imperial traditions (Anūshirvān and Ardashīr on the Persian side, various Umayyad and ʿAbbāsid caliphs and their governors on the Islamic), besides various unnamed ḥukamā’, some evidently in the Hellenistic tradition.34 An unpublished manuscript in the Escorial titled al-Faḍā’il 24. Al-Wizārah mentions wazīr al-tanfīdh but says nothing of his religion.26 One might infer from such differences the evolution of Māwardī’s thinking, on the assumption that al-Wizārah is an early work and al-Aḥkām a late; however, it would be difficult to distinguish between differences occasioned by the evolution of his thought and others occasioned by genre and limits on length, and I attempt no systematic comparison here.
- keywords: abū; abū al; adab al; adultery; al-ʿilmīyah; al-ʿuṣūr al; allāh; argument; aḥkām; aḥkām al; aḥmad; baghdad; beirut; brill; cairo; caliph; century; chap; christopher; civilization; commentary; different; disagreement; discussion; dunyā; durar; dār al; dāwūd; dīn; earlier; edition; end; esp; example; fiqh; flogging; fuʾād; god; hadith; heirs; history; ibn; ibn al; imām; introduction; islamic; islamic law; isḥāq al; jurisprudents; kabīr; khiḍr; kitāb; kutub; law; legal; leiden; like; little; makdisi; meaning; melchert; messenger; modern; mukhtaṣar; munʿim; muslim; muḥammad; māwardī; n.d; nawawī; new; non; order; penalty; persian; politics; position; prayer; press; property; prophet; qur’an; reason; references; religious; report; ritual; rules; salutation; salāmu; school; second; section; shāfiʿi; shīrāzī; son; sound; stoning; studies; sulūk; sulṭānīyah; sunnah; sunni; texts; theory; thinking; time; tradition; transfers; uṣūl al; virgin; vols; waqf; way; wizārah; work; writing; wusṭā; yaʿlá; ʿabd al; ʿalaykum; ʿalī; ḥanafi; ḥanbali; ḥāwī; ḥāwī al; ṭabaqāt; ṭabarī
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- alusur-7039
- author: Conrad, Lawrence I.
- title: Ibn Aʿtham and His History
- date: 2015-11-15
- words: 23959
- flesch: 61
- summary: the Literary Source Material (Princeton: Darwin Press, 1992), 314 n. 165. 65. See Ibn Aʿtham, Kitāb al-futūḥ, I, 2:3-5:4, with the lacuna filled by the Bankipore Text, 20:16-30:8 (= Muranyi, “Ein neuer Bericht,” 239-47). Ibn Aʿtham, Kitāb al-futūḥ, I, 126:1-132:5.
- keywords: abī; abū; abū al; account; ahmet; akhbār; akhbārīs; al-ʿuṣūr al; allāh; amīn; arabic; arabic text; attention; author; authorities; authority; available; azdī; aʿtham al; aḥmad; aḥmad ibn; bakr; bankipore; basis; beginning; bericht; book; brief; brill; caliphate; case; century; clear; collective; composition; concerned; conquest; conrad; consideration; course; critical; date; day; death; der; des; details; dhayl; difficult; dāʾirat al; e.j; earlier; early; edition; eds; ein; end; et al; events; evidence; example; extant; extended; fact; fashion; father; futūḥ; futūḥ al; god; great; half; hand; heading; historical; history; hyderabad; ibid; ibn al; ibn aʿtham; ibn muḥammad; ibtidāʾ; ilā; ilā al; important; individual; informant; information; interest; interpolations; introduction; irshād al; islamic; isnāds; jaʿfar al; karbalāʾ; kashf al; khabar; kitāb al; kūfī; later; lawrence; leiden; likely; limited; line; literature; london; long; madāʾinī; main; major; material; matters; maʾmūn; medieval; modern; monographs; mss; muqtadir; muranyi; muslim; mustawfī; muḥammad; muḥammad al; names; narrative; near; neuer; new; ninth; noth; number; numerous; original; pages; particular; passage; past; patron; period; persian; point; political; popular; possible; present; press; problem; prophet; question; qāṣṣ; rashīd; reader; recension; reign; relevant; religious; reports; return; revision; ridda; riḍā; sallāmī; scholarship; scribe; second; section; shāfiʿī; shām; shīʿī; single; son; sources; studies; study; subject; support; tales; taʾrīkh; terms; text; time; tradition; translation; und; university; unknown; use; view; viii; volume; way; work; writing; wusṭā; years; yāqūt; ʿabbāsid; ʿabd; ʿabd al; ʿalid; ʿalī; ʿalī al; ʿalī ibn; ʿumar; ʿāṣim; ḥadīth; ḥasan; ḥusayn; ṭabarī
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- alusur-7040
- author: Smarandache, Bogdan C.
- title: Can Doctoral Dissertations Disappear? A Look at Ibrahim al‐Hafsi’s “Correspondance officielle et privée d’al‐Qāḍī al‐Fāḍil” and its Prospects in a Digital Age
- date: 2015-11-15
- words: 1035
- flesch: 63
- summary: Al‐Qāḍī al‐Fāḍil wrote his letters in such a florid and intricate style that excerpts made their way into medieval biographical dictionaries, chronicles, and manuals on the secretarial arts. Accordingly, volumes 2-4 of his d i s s e r t a t
- keywords: al-ʿuṣūr; al‐fāḍil; al‐hafsi; al‐qāḍī; dajani‐shakeel; dissertation; ibn; ibrahim; interlibrary; letters; literary; orient; studies; university; wusṭā
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- alusur-7041
- author: Antrim, Zayde
- title: Stephennie Mulder, The Shrines of the ʿAlids in Medieval Syria
- date: 2015-11-15
- words: 2681
- flesch: 55
- summary: See ʿAbd Allāh al-Badrī, Nuzhat al-anām fī mahāsin al-Shām not, however, weaken Mulder’s overall conclusion, which is that the patronage and visitation of ʿAlid shrines in medieval Damascus were popular acts among the city’s overwhelmingly Sunni residents and that despite powerful Sunni voices criticizing such acts in the written record there were others (such as al-Badrī in the passage referred to above) who supported and defended them. In Shrines of the ʿAlids in Medieval Syria, however, Damascus is transformed into a diverse city in which ordinary people, wealthy patrons, and bookish scholars – Sunnis and Shiʿis, men and women alike – have mingled together in ʿAlid shrines for hundreds of years.
- keywords: al-ʿuṣūr; architecture; book; centuries; century; chapter; city; damascus; e l; e n; e s; e t; ecumenism; experience; h e; history; inscriptions; islamic; medieval; mulder; n t; period; r e; s t; shiʿi; shrines; structures; sunni; syria; t h; wusṭā; ʿalid
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- alusur-7042
- author: Donner, Fred M.
- title: Robert Hoyland, In God’s Path: The Arab Conquests and the Creation of an Islamic Empire
- date: 2015-11-15
- words: 3745
- flesch: 60
- summary: But, important though it is, this is not an approach new with Hoyland, and precisely because the book is intended for non-specialists, he has a responsibility to make clear (if only in a few brief notes) that he is continuing on 1. Robert Hoyland, Seeing Islam As Others Saw It: A Survey and Evaluation of Christian, Jewish and Zoroastrian Writings on Early Islam (Princeton: Darwin Press, 1997). Hoyland is certainly correct to point out the tendency of later Islamic sources to “Islamicize” the conquest movement, projecting their later understandings back to the origins period of the community.
- keywords: al-ʿuṣūr; arab; arabic; author; believers; book; cambridge; century; conquerors; conquests; desire; donner; e n; e s; early; east; empire; europe; example; fred; god; historical; hoyland; important; islamic; later; movement; muslim; n t; near; new; non; path; press; religious; robert; s t; seventh; sources; study; syriac; t e; university; work; wusṭā
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- alusur-7043
- author: Melchert, Christopher
- title: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Maḥjūbī, Al-Muṣṭalaḥ al-ḥadīthī min khilāl Kitāb al-Jarḥ wa-al-taʿdīl li-Ibn Abī Ḥātim al-Rāzī
- date: 2015-11-15
- words: 556
- flesch: 71
- summary: The dubious underlying assumption is evidently that characterizations of men are effectively observations of fact, so that Ibn ʿĀdī and the rest must have meant exactly the same thing as Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn. Fairly often, Maḥjūbī goes beyond identifying usage in al-Jarḥ wa-al- taʿdīl, as when he interprets Yaḥyā ibn Maʿīn’s calling someone ṣuwayliḥ by means of quoting Ibn ʿĀdī, al-Dhahabī, and Ibn Ḥajar concerning the same man (134-5).
- keywords: hadith; ibn; jarḥ; maḥjūbī; taʿdīl
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- alusur-7044
- author: Vacca, Alison M.
- title: Seta Dadoyan, The Armenians in the Medieval Islamic World: Paradigms of Interaction, Seventh to Fourteenth Centuries.
- date: 2015-11-15
- words: 2379
- flesch: 67
- summary: Ḥabīb b. Maslama at all.13 Dadoyan’s footnote for Samuēl Anec‘i’s rendition of the treaty points the reader not to the Hawak‘munk‘ itself, but to a passage from a modern study of Armenian history that does not mention Samuēl at all. Significantly, the first volume of The Armenians in the Medieval Islamic World is approachable and encourages students of Armenian history to read the Armenian texts against the grain.
- keywords: anec‘i; arabic; armenian; broader; caliphal; centuries; century; dadoyan; e n; history; interaction; islamic; medieval; n t; near; period; province; samuēl; sources; treaty; umayyad; volume; world; ʿabbasid
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- alusur-7045
- author: Martin Varisco, Daniel
- title: Ṭaha Ḥusayn ʿAwaḍ Hudayl, Tamarrudāt al-qabīla fī ʿaṣr al-dawla al-Rasūlīya wa-atharhā fī al-ḥayāt al-ʿāmma fī al-Yaman
- date: 2015-11-15
- words: 459
- flesch: 59
- summary: The Intro- duction (pp. 15-20) lays out the purpose of the book, which is to highlight the inter- action of Yemeni tribes with the Rasulid state. The third part concentrates on the Yemeni tribes ʿAkk, al-Ashʿār, Madhḥaj and Ḥimyar, but also discusses other specific tribes as they related to the Rasulid state.
- keywords: book; rasulid; sources; state; tribal; tribes; yemen
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- alusur-7046
- author: Webb, Peter
- title: Aziz al-Azmeh, The Emergence of Islam in Late Antiquity: Allāh and His People
- date: 2015-11-15
- words: 3120
- flesch: 71
- summary: al-Wusṭā 23 (2015) 152 • Peter Webb the memories of pre-Islam became the property of Iraqi Muslims and often took on new significations, some seemingly different to the ‘reality’ of pre-Islamic times. One reference in the reconstituted ‘source’ of the second/eighth Ibn Isḥāq’s biography of Muhammad is quoted as evidence for the ‘fact’ that pre-Islamic Arabs had a habit of rubbing their bodies on idols (226).
- keywords: arab; arabian; arabic; azmeh; book; e h; e l; e n; e s; emergence; islam; islamic; l l; m e; muslim; n c; n d; n g; n s; n t; o n; o t; pre; r e; s s; s t; sources; t e; t h; t y
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- alusur-7047
- author: Yarbrough, Luke
- title: Jāsim Muḥammad Kaẓim, Ahl al-dhimmah fī al-mujtamaʿ al-Baghdādī fī al-ʿahdayn al-Buwayhī wa-al-Saljūqī
- date: 2015-11-15
- words: 3422
- flesch: 70
- summary: One struggles, in fact, to find Arabic historiography on ahl al-dhimmah as such before 1949, when Arthur Stanley Tritton’s foundational The Caliphs and their Non-Muslim Subjects first appeared in Arabic translation (Ahl al-dhimmah fī al-Islām, tr. Ḥ. Ḥabashī. But since then the studies have followed in quickening succession: • Qāsim ʿAbduh Qāsim, Ahl al-dhimmah fī Miṣr al-ʿuṣūr al-wusṭā: dirāsah wathāʾiqiyyah (Cairo, 1977 • Idem, Ahl al-dhimma fī Miṣr min al-fatḥ al-islāmī ḥattā nihāyat dawlat al-Mamālīk (al-Haram, 2003) • Sallām Shāfiʿī Maḥmūd, Ahl al-dhimmah fī Miṣr fī al-ʿaṣr al-Fāṭimī Jāsim Muḥammad Kaẓim, Ahl al-dhimmah fī al-mujtamaʿ al-Baghdādī fī al-ʿahdayn al-Buwayhī wa-al-Saljūqī (Baghdad:
- keywords: ahl; ahl al; al-ʿaṣr; al-ʿuṣūr; arabic; author; baghdad; book; būyid; cairo; chapter; communities; dhimmah; dhimmah fī; e l; e s; economic; final; history; islamic; miṣr; muslims; muḥammad; n e; n s; n t; new; non; o n; period; political; religious; s t; scholarship; secondary; section; sources; state; studies; study; subfield; t h; wusṭā
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- alusur-7048
- author: Bacharach, Jere L.
- title: Irene “Renie” A. Bierman-McKinney
- date: 2015-11-15
- words: 1012
- flesch: 66
- summary: Renie then went to work on her Ph.D. at the University of Chicago, which had no one in Islamic art history. In fact Renie is the only major scholar of her generation in Islamic art history who was not trained by either Oleg Grabar at Harvard or Richard Ettinghausen in New York.
- keywords: al-ʿuṣūr; art; bierman; history; irene; islamic; public; renie; students; university; work
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- alusur-7049
- author: Azad , Arezou
- title: Clifford Edmund Bosworth
- date: 2015-11-15
- words: 7254
- flesch: 70
- summary: by his own account4—the Journal of Semitic Studies, and the UNESCO series on The History of Civilizations in Central Asia, as well as numerous major translation projects in advanced age, Edmund Bosworth never lacked the time to meet and support the lowliest of scholars—myself included (I had the pleasure of Edmund’s acquaint- ance and mentorship in the last decade of his life). “Like Edmund Bosworth I have always eschewed the decent obscurity of Latin,” he declares.27 Edmund’s penchant for the underworld might also be reflected in his fine collection of Penguin original crime fiction editions.28 23.
- keywords: afghanistan; al-ʿuṣūr; annotated; arabic; art; articles; best; bibliography; book; bosworth; british; c.e; central; clifford; e e; e l; e m; e n; eastern; edinburgh; editor; edmund; edmund bosworth; encyclopaedia; english; gelder; ghaznavid; h e; history; iran; islamic; journal; l s; lands; life; literature; london; m u; manchester; medieval; memoriam; middle; military; minorsky; modern; n d; n h; n s; n t; new; o n; obituary; old; original; oxford; o’neal; persian; personal; ph.d; press; professor; r e; r t; repr; s e; s h; s s; s t; scholarly; scholars; scholarship; school; seljuq; sheffield; state; studies; t e; t h; text; time; translation; turkish; u n; u s; university; van; vladimir; vol; war; work; world; wusṭā; years; york; ṭabarī
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- alusur-7050
- author: O’Neal, Michael
- title: Clifford Edmund Bosworth: An Updated Bibliography
- date: 2015-11-15
- words: 17999
- flesch: 77
- summary: “A pioneer Arabic encyclopedia of the sciences: al Khwārizmī’s Keys of the Sciences”, Isis, LIV/1 (1963), 97–111. “Abū al-ʽAmaythal (d. 240/854)”; “Abū Dulaf (fourth/tenth century)”; “Abū Zayd al-Balkhī, Aḥmad (c.235–322/c.849–934)”; In Memoriam: Clifford Edmund Bosworth Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 23 (2015): 208 “Aḥmad Ibn Mājid (late ninth-early tenth/late fifteenth-early sixteenth century)”; “Alexander the Great”; “ʽAlī Ibn Abī Ṭālib (d. 40/660)”; “al-ʽĀmilī, Bahā’ al-Dīn (953– 1030/1547–1621)”; “al-ʽAttābī, Kulthūm Ibn ʽAmr (d. 208 or 220/823 or 835)”; “al-Būṣīrī (608–c.694/1212–c.1294)”; “Būyids”; “Ibn Abī Uṣaybʽa (c.590–668/c.1194–1270)”; “Ibn ʽAsākir (499–571/1105–76)”; “Ibn Faḍl Allāh al-ʽUmar”; “Ibn Faḍlān, Aḥmad (fl.
- keywords: 1967; 2005; 2nd; 3rd; a.d; a.h; a.j; abu; abu’l; abī; abū; actes; adab; afghanistan; africa; ages; al-ʿuṣūr; al-ʿuṣūr al; alii; allāh; amīr; angeles; annotated; april; arabian; arabic; arabischen; arabs; art; articles; arts; asia; athens; azure; aḥmad; b. al; babinger; band; banū; barthold; beirut; berkeley; berlin; bibliographical; bibliography; birthday; bis; bjrul; bosworth; bosworth al-ʿuṣūr; british; bsmes; bsoas; budapest; buhl; bull; bulletin; burckhardt; byzantine; byzantium; c.c; c.e; cairo; caliphate; cambridge; central; centuries; century; china; city; civilisation; clifford; conquest; cultural; culture; d.c; d.s; davies; dawla; delhi; des; development; dictionary; dma; documents; dynasties; dīn; early; early islamic; east; eastern; eastward; ebn; economic; edinburgh; edmund; edmund bosworth; edn; eds; egypt; ei2; ei2 vol; ei3; eir; empire; encyclopaedia; end; english; europe; foreword; fourth; french; general; geography; geschichte; ghaznavids; guide; haig; historical; historiography; history; honigmann; honour; ibn; ibn al; iii; ijmes; index; india; information; institute; international; introduction; iran; iranian; islamic; islamic history; islamic period; islamic world; islamicus; item; j.d; j.h; j.r; jbips; jerusalem; jewish; jis; john; journal; jras; jss; k.v; karachi; khan; kitāb; kramers; lanark; lands; late; leiden; lewis; library; life; literary; literature; lithgow; london; los; malik; manchester; manuscripts; manṣūr; masʿūd; maḥmūd; medieval; memoirs; memoriam; mesa; middle; military; minorsky; modern; mongol; munich; muslim; muḥammad; n.j; naṣr; near; new; new ser; notes; nāma; nūḥ; obituary; olz; oriens; oriental; original; ottoman; oxford; p.m.; papers; paris; pearson; period; persian; political; preface; press; princeton; proceedings; professor; prophet; publ; r.m; raḥmān; religion; religious; reprinted; reprints; reviews; richard; rise; rome; rule; savory; schriftums; sebüktigin; section; ser; sezgin; shāh; shām; sir; smith; social; society; south; state; studia; studies; study; supplement; survey; syria; sāsān; t.w; tehran; tenth; thaʿālibī; times; tls; totowa; translation; travels; turkish; turks; tārīkh; university; variorum; vienna; vii; viii; vladimir; vol; vols; volume; washington; wiesbaden; william; works; world; wusṭā; xii; xiii; xiv; xix; xvi; xvii; xxi/1–2; xxiv; xxvi/2; years; york; zetterstéen; ʿabbāsid; ʿabd; ʿabd al; ʿalāʾ; ʿalī; ḥasan; ṣaffārids; ṭabarī; ṭāhir
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- alusur-7052
- author: Cooperson, Michael
- title: Wolfhart P. Heinrichs
- date: 2015-11-15
- words: 1090
- flesch: 75
- summary: Wolfhart P. Heinrichs was born on October 3, 1941, into a family of philologists. In Memoriam: Wolfhart P. Heinrichs Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 23 (2015): 228 married Alma Giese, a fellow scholar of Arabic and Islam, and an accomplished translator into German.
- keywords: al-ʿuṣūr; arabic; heinrichs; memoriam; scholar; students; wolfhart; wusṭā
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- alusur-8287
- author: Antrim, Zayde
- title: Qamarayn: The Erotics of Sameness in the 1001 Nights
- date: 2020-10-01
- words: 25988
- flesch: 61
- summary: The emphasis seems to be on firmness rather than size, which is sustained by more figurative descriptions of the term “chest” (ṣadr) upon which “two pots” (ḥuqqān) or “pomegranates” (rummān) may appear.32 Significantly, this latter metaphor also appears in the poem that opens this article, which is repeated in two different stories to describe a he-character, raising questions about the extent to which breasts can be understood to sex the body.33 Reinforcing this impression of embodied sameness, both he- and she-characters are described as possessing “soft curves” (līnat al-aʿṭāf) and “hips/haunches/buttocks” (ridf) that are “quivering” (murtijj), “full to bursting” (daghaṣ), or “heavy” (thaqīl).34 Similarly, necks, arms, thighs, and bellies are praised for being soft, smooth, and silky; the belly and its navel, folds, or creaminess in particular function as a catalyst for sexual arousal in the stories.35 The provocative sight of the belly, rather than the genitals, cannot be attributed 29. See Lyons with Lyons, trans., The Arabian Nights: Tales of 1001 Nights, 3 vols.
- keywords: adult; al-ʿuṣūr al; alf; amer; analysis; antrim; arabian; arabian nights; arabic; arabic literature; article; attention; audience; badr; badr al; basis; beautiful; beauty; beginning; beloved; bibliothèque; binary; black; bnf arabe; bodies; body; book; breasts; breslau; brill; budur; bulaq; cairo; calcutta; cambridge; case; category; century; century manuscript; chapter; characters; chraïbi; classical; clear; comparison; concubines; construction; context; contrast; critical; cross; culture; descriptions; desire; difference; dressing; earlier; earliest; early; edinburgh; editions; effect; elite; embodied; embodiment; emphasis; encounters; english; episode; epps; eroticized; erotics; evidence; examples; fact; female; fifteenth; fifteenthcentury; fol; fols; form; france; french; galland; garcin; gender; gendered; gotha; haddawy; hair; harvard; hayat; hayat al; heterosexuality; historique; history; homosexuality; instance; islamic; journal; kind; king; ladies; language; later; layla; lecture; leeuwen; lesbian; like; likely; literary; literature; love; mahdi; manuscript; mardrus; marriage; marzolph; mathers; medieval; middle; mille; modern; munich; najmabadi; narrative; new; nights; nineteenth; nufus; nuits; ottoman; pair; parallel; paris; particular; period; perspective; physical; poem; poetry; point; porter; pour; press; pronouns; qamar al; qamarayn; reading; references; related; relationship; repetition; richard; rouayheb; rowson; sameness; scene; schine; scholarship; second; self; sense; series; set; seventeenth; sexed; sexual; sexuality; similar; slave; society; sources; status; stories; story; studies; study; tales; terms; text; time; today; tradition; translation; translators; ulrich; und; une; university; university press; use; van; verses; versions; vols; way; ways; wife; women; words; work; world; wusṭā; york; young; youth; zaman; zayde
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- alusur-8407
- author: Borrut, Antoine; Gordon, Matthew
- title: Letter from the Editors
- date: 2021-06-03
- words: 1336
- flesch: 63
- summary: I n t e l l e c t ( ʿ a q l ) ; Led by Michael Cook (Princeton University), Khaled El-Rouayheb (Harvard University), Jack Tannous (Princeton University), and our own Antoine Borrut (University of Maryland) and held at Princeton over four successive summers, the seminar takes its name from the N o r w e g i a n g o v e r n m e n t ’ s p r e s t
- keywords: articles; e l; e n; editors; islamic; issue; n t; new; topics; university
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- alusur-8408
- author: Fierro, Maribel
- title: Remarks by the Recipient of the 2019 MEM Lifetime Achievement Award Given at the Annual Meeting of Middle East Medievalists (New Orleans, 14 November 2019)
- date: 2021-06-03
- words: 3125
- flesch: 66
- summary: At the university, I held on to my initial interests in heresy and the history of al-Andalus, but a new and related i n t e r e s t s l o w l y e n MEM Awards Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 28 (2020): iv-ix I a m v e r y h o n o r e d a n d e x t r e m e l y grateful to be the 2019 recipient of the Middle East Medievalists Lifetime Achievement Award.
- keywords: academic; al-ʿuṣūr; andalus; arabic; award; contact; csic; e n; e r; english; fierro; h e; history; interest; life; maribel; n t; scholars; spain; spanish; study; t h; time; way; ways; work; wusṭā; years
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- alusur-8409
- author: Treadwell, Luke
- title: Who Compiled and Edited the Mashhad Miscellany?
- date: 2020-10-01
- words: 16039
- flesch: 65
- summary: This apparatus includes both the introductory remarks with which they prefaced the miscellany’s texts and the critical comments that they inserted in the Risālas of Abū Dulaf. From the final paragraph of Section 5 onward, reference will be made to Abū Dulaf as the editor of the miscellany.
- keywords: 2nd; abū dulaf; account; aghras; akademii; akhbār; akhbār al; al-ʿuṣūr al; arabic; author; aḥmad; b. al; b. faḍlān; baghdad; book; bosworth; brief; brill; bukhara; buldān; bulghār; century; chapter; china; claim; commentary; comments; context; court; critical; description; dulaf al; earlier; early; eastern; edinburgh; edition; editorial; editors; embassy; encyclopaedia; end; example; eyewitness; faqīh; figure; final; forthcoming; fī al; geography; god; half; hādhā; hādhā al; ibn al; ibn faḍlān; ibn khurradādhbih; identity; information; interest; iran; islamic; izdatelstvo; journey; khazrajī; khurradādhbih; kind; king; kitāb al; known; kovalevskiǐ; krachkovskiǐ; lands; leiden; like; list; literary; literature; london; long; lp1; luke; majmūʿa; manuscript; maqāma; mashhad; mashhad miscellany; masālik; medieval; middle; minorsky; miquel; miscellany; mission; montgomery; moscow; mukhtaṣar; muʿjam; nadīm; narrative; nauk; naṣr; new; notes; online; paper; passages; patrons; peoples; person; poem; press; question; reader; reference; remains; remarks; report; reportage; return; risāla; role; rus; samanid; scholars; second; second risāla; section; sezgin; studies; study; tauris; tenth; text; thaʿālibī; time; togan; towns; translation; travels; treadwell; tribes; turkish; turks; underworld; university; version; volga; work; writing; wusṭā; yāqūt; ʿabbād; ṣāḥib
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- alusur-8410
- author: Bruning, Jelle
- title: A Call to Arms: An Account of Ayyubid or Early Mamluk Alexandria
- date: 2020-10-01
- words: 19978
- flesch: 80
- summary: Aḥmad b. Muṭarrif, al-Tartīb fī al-lugha, 2:18–19 (copied in Ibn Faḍl Allāh al-ʿUmarī, Masālik al-abṣār, 91); al-Gharnāṭī, Tuḥfat al-albāb (wa-nukhbat al-aʿjāb), ed. Tuḥfat al-albāb (wa-nukhbat al-aʿjāb).
- keywords: abū al; account; addition; akhbār al; al-ʿilmiyya; al-ʿuṣūr al; al-ʿāṣ; alexandria; allāh; ancient; apocalyptic; arabic; arms; attacks; author; ayyubid; ayyūb al; aḥmad; b. al; b. ʿabd; basin; battle; beirut; benjamin; brill; bruning; buldān; byzantine; cairo; cambridge; century; christian; city; coast; college; copyist; date; day; defenses; description; destruction; dhikr al; dhū al; dikka; décobert; dār al; dīn al; d’alexandrie; d’archéologie; early; eastern; edition; egypt; eighth; end; enemy; et al; example; famous; faḍāʾil al; features; fikr; fortress; fourteenth; fourth; friday; futūḥ; fī al; garrison; gate; god; goeje; governor; grammar; great; green; harawī; ibid; ibn al; ibn ʿabd; ibrāhīm; ifao; ilmām; iskandariyya; islamic; islāmī; iḥyāʾ al; jan; jelle; jubayr; jāmiʿ al; khiṭaṭ; king; kitāb al; kom; kutub; kutub al; large; leiden; lighthouse; literary; location; london; m. al; maktabat; maktabat al; mamluk; mamluk alexandria; manuscript; manuscript st; maqrīzī; masālik; masālik al; masʿūdī; maʿrifat al; maṭbaʿat; medieval; mediterranean; michael; middle; min al; mirror; miṣr; miṣriyya; monuments; mosque; mukhtaṣar; murūj al; muslim; muʾassasat al; muʿjam al; muḥammad; muḥāḍara; muṣṭafā; médiévale; near; nihāyat al; notes; nukhbat al; number; nuwayrī; order; oxford; para; paragraph; paris; people; period; pharos; place; press; religious; ribāṭ; ruler; s.v; sayyid; second; son; sources; state; studies; suyūṭī; taʾrīkh al; text; thimār al; time; tradition; tudela; tuḥfat al; uhrayqil; university; wahhāb; walls; western; words; wusṭā; year; yāqūt al; zamān; ākām al; āthār; āthār al; ʿabd al; ʿalī; ʿamr; ʿumar; ḥusn al; ṣabbāgh; ṣādir
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- alusur-8411
- author: Tayyara, Abed el-Rahman
- title: The Rebellious Son: Umayyad Hereditary Succession and the Origins of Ḥijāzī Opposition
- date: 2020-10-01
- words: 17016
- flesch: 71
- summary: In With Reverence for the Word: Medieval Scriptural Exegesis in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, edited by Jane McAuliffe et al., 320–28. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān not only denied the Day of Judgment but also claimed that none of the deceased Qurayshite 20.
- keywords: 46:17; abī; abū; account; adab; al-ʿarabī; al-ʿilmiyya; al-ʿuṣūr al; allegiance; allāh; allāh al; ansāb; appointment; article; authorities; authority; b. al; bakr; balādhurī; basran; baṣrī; beirut; berg; biographical; borrut; brill; bukhārī; cairo; caliphal; caliphate; caliphs; cambridge; central; circulation; commentaries; debate; development; different; discussion; disobedient; dispute; dār al; early; et al; evolution; example; exegesis; fī al; genres; hereditary; historical; historiography; history; ibn al; identity; interpretation; islamic; isnād; iṣfahānī; jarīr; kathīr; khalīfa; kitāb al; kutub; later; leaders; leiden; les; literature; london; main; marsham; marwān; mecca; medinan; mizzī; motzki; mujāhid; muqātil; muslim; muʾassasat al; muʿāwiya; muḥammad; muḥammad al; māwardī; narrative; nasāʾī; new; opposition; origins; oxford; past; period; political; press; prominent; prophet; qatāda; qurʾān; qurʾānic; rahman; razzāq; razzāq al; raḥmān; raḥmān b.; raḥmān narrative; rebellious; rebellious son; religious; report; rituals; riyadh; role; saʿd; scholars; second; son; sources; studies; study; succession; suddī; suyūṭī; tafsīr al; tahdhīb; tayyara; taʾrīkh; taʾrīkh al; tradition; transmission; transmitters; umayyad; university; verse; version; view; vols; works; wusṭā; yazīd; zajjāj; zubayr; zuhrī; ʿabbās; ʿabd al; ʿabd allāh; ʿalī; ʿaṭiyya; ʿaṭā; ʿumar; ʿāʾisha; ḥadīth; ḥajar; ḥasan al; ḥijāzī; ḥusayn; ṭabaqāt; ṭabarī
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- alusur-8412
- author: van Bladel, Kevin
- title: A Brief History of Islamic Civilization from Its Genesis in the Late Nineteenth Century to Its Institutional Entrenchment
- date: 2020-10-01
- words: 12480
- flesch: 49
- summary: Recognizing this, specialists continue to posit modified, hybrid, and rationalized Islamic civilizations, sometimes using different terminology for the same effect.46 Even if Islamic civilization foundations and journals keep their names, can historians abandon Islamic civilization and enhance their analysis? Social scientists affirm or deny Islamic civilization, sometimes with pseudoscience.44 Islamic civilization forms a unitary target for polemicists as much as it does a unitary platform for apologists.
- keywords: 19th; ahmed; al-ʿuṣūr; al-ʿuṣūr al; american; approach; arabic; arabs; article; becker; bladel; book; brief; cambridge; case; century; characteristics; chicago; chicago press; civilization; classical; college; committee; common; concept; courses; cultural; culture; der; des; development; different; distinct; early; east; eastern; education; encyclopaedia; english; essay; european; example; general; general education; genesis; greek; grunebaum; historians; historical; history; hodgson; human; idea; influence; islamic civilization; islamic history; journal; kevin; kremer; language; late; latin; law; life; london; master; medieval; middle; minorsky; model; muhammadan; muhammadan civilization; muslim; muslim civilization; narrative; new; nineteenth; non; peoples; present; press; problem; rehatsek; religion; review; rosenthal; scholars; semitic; sense; social; society; specialists; states; students; studies; study; subject; term; time; today; toynbee; twentieth; unitary; united; unity; university; university press; use; van; variety; volumes; von; von grunebaum; way; western; western civilization; work; world; wusṭā; years; york
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- alusur-8413
- author: Pierre, Simon
- title: Le stylite (esṭūnōrō) et sa ṣawmaʿa face aux milieux cléricaux islamiques et miaphysites (Ier–IIe / VIIe-VIIIe siècles)
- date: 2020-10-01
- words: 27697
- flesch: 71
- summary: jusqu’à ce que l’évêque du pays en ait été informé !221 Cet élément montre que de nombreux reclus et stylites entouraient les abbés et officiaient comme ministres du culte (šammōšē), parfois à la limite de la légalité canonique. Comment, et à partir de quand, le terme ṣawmaʿa était-il devenu une traduction acceptable pour l’esṭūnō syriaque
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- alusur-8414
- author: Garnier, Sébastien; Klasova, Pamela; Keegan, Matthew L.
- title: Introduction: A Note from the Holbergians
- date: 2020-10-01
- words: 1350
- flesch: 53
- summary: Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 28 (2020): 228-230 On the last day of each year’s Holberg Seminar, we Holbergians would gather at the home of Michael Cook and his wife Kim for a delicious and delightful dinner. Rather spontaneously, each member of the group shared their own reflections and heartfelt thanks to Michael, to Kim, and to the professors and graduate students who made up the Holberg Seminar.
- keywords: academic; al-ʿuṣūr; days; dinner; experience; fields; garnier; graduate; holberg; holbergians; long; mailto; meeting; members; michael; note; scholarly; scholars; seminar; students; sébastien; wusṭā
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- alusur-8415
- author: Borrut, Antoine
- title: Introduction: The Holberg Seminar
- date: 2020-10-01
- words: 725
- flesch: 48
- summary: Michael invited Khaled El-Rouayheb (Harvard University), Jack Tannous (Princeton University), and myself to assist in organizing the seminar, starting with the selection of participants. Another option was for participants to give a talk on a topic of interest, such as new scholarly trends or recent publications.
- keywords: antoine; borrut; dinner; graduate; holberg; june; michael; participants; princeton; scholarly; scholarship; seminar; students; university; work; year
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- alusur-8416
- author: Beers, Theodore S.
- title: The Treatment of Coeval Persian Poetry in Arabic Anthologies of the Eleventh/Seventeenth Century: A Preliminary Study
- date: 2020-10-01
- words: 11919
- flesch: 65
- summary: Rayḥānat al-alibbā wa-zahrat al-ḥayāt al-dunyā. At this point in the notice, al-Muḥibbī wishes to transition to quoting ʿUrfī’s poetry, but he remarks that he “did not come upon any Arabic poem by him that has been conveyed by transmitters” (lam aqif lahu ʿalā shiʿr ʿarabī tanquluhu al-ruwāt).
- keywords: able; abū; al-ʿajam; al-ʿaṣr; al-ʿuṣūr; al-ʿuṣūr al; alexander; alibbā; allāh; amīn; anthologies; anthology; arabic; arabic anthologies; arabic poetry; authors; aʿyān; aḥmad; bare; beers; berlin; bih; bādī; cairo; career; case; century; chapter; coeval; coeval persian; connection; court; cultural; damascus; discussion; dīn; dīvān; early; edition; eleventh; encyclopædia; example; fact; figures; following; ganjoor; ghazal; history; holberg; ibn; ibn maʿṣūm; india; intellectual; intishārāt; iranica; islamic; khafājī; khaled; khāna; kih; life; line; literary; literature; long; maʿṣūm; maḥāsin; meter; min; modern; mughal; muḥammad; muḥibbī; nafḥat; nafḥat al; new; note; notices; number; original; ottoman; paper; period; persian; persian poetry; poetry; poets; point; possible; press; process; qahramān; ramaq; rayḥāna; relevant; rouayheb; sadd; safavid; scholars; scholarship; second; section; seventeenth; shiʿi; shīrāzī; sources; studies; sulāfat; sustenance; tabrīzī; tehran; text; theodore; time; title; tradition; translation; treatment; turkic; university; verse; vols; way; work; wusṭā; ʿabd; ʿalī; ʿurfī; ḥulw; ṣāʾib
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- alusur-8417
- author: Garnier, Sébastien
- title: Dans le ventre de l’histoire: Sindbad le marin ou la satire du glouton?
- date: 2020-10-01
- words: 8988
- flesch: 77
- summary: 2. Toute étude sur les Voyages se heurte à la question des sources, de leurs éditions et traductions. Néanmoins, c’est en provoquant ces mêmes animaux qu’il se procure quantité de noix de coco et réalise des affaires florissantes.
- keywords: ainsi; al-ʿuṣūr; al-ʿuṣūr al; alf; alimentaire; alors; andré; arabe; arabian; arabic; auquel; aussi; autres; aux; avait; aventures; baʿda; bellino; bencheikh; berlin; beyrouth; bien; bnf; bulletin; būlāq; caire; calcutta; calife; car; caverne; cela; ces; cette; chaque; chez; cleveland; comme; commerce; contes; courant; critique; croix; culture; cycle; c’est; dangers; dans; dans la; dans un; de la; demeure; dernier; des; deux; deuxième; dieu; dire; douce; dār; d’abord; d’un; d’être; eddine; editore; ei2; ei3; elle; encore; ensuite; et une; faim; fait; faraj; figure; fin; fois; fortune; francesca; français; fruits; gallimard; garnier; gerhardt; grand; huwa; héros; ibid; ici; ils; jamais; jamal; jan; jean; journal; j’ai; kitāb; langlès; laquelle; layla; le marin; lecture; les; leurs; literature; lui; l’adab; l’avait; l’eau; l’histoire; l’ingestion; l’édition; l’île; mais; manger; mangé; marin; marzolph; medioevo; mer; mes; mia; mille; mille et; min; miquel; moi; morale; mort; motif; mss; même; n.s; nafsī; nights; nombre; non; nos; notre; nourriture; nous; nuits; nuove; néanmoins; n’a; n’est; opposant; orientale; par; paris; parvient; pas; passage; persian; peut; pour; première; prospettive; public; puis; pétis; que; qui; qu’il; qu’un; repas; ricerca; richesses; romanzo; récit; sailor; sans; seconde; selon; sept; ses; seul; sindbad; soit; son; sont; sort; sous; story; studi; sur; sébastien; s’y; tales; tanūḫī; temps; terre; texte; tout; toutes; trad; traduction; troisième; ulrich; una; une; van; ventre; version; viaggi; vieillard; voir; voyages; wusṭā; édité; également; été; être; île; šidda; ṣādir; ṭufaylī
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- alusur-8418
- author: Keegan, Matthew L.
- title: Adab without the Crusades: The Inebriated Solidarity of a Young Officer’s Hunting Epistle
- date: 2020-10-01
- words: 12693
- flesch: 66
- summary: It is therefore not simply a story of Yaghmur’s personal experience but a more general account of fleeting pleasures in the face of the terrible triumvirate of Time (al-zamān), Fickle Fortune (al-dahr), and the Passing Days (al-ayyām).3 Yaghmur’s epistle begins by urging the reader to face the uncertainties of Fate (al-qadar) by seizing the day (ightinām al-ʿumr), but it ends with the recognition that all 1. ʿ Imād al-Dīn al-Iṣfahānī, Kharīdat al-qaṣr wa-jarīdat ahl al-ʿaṣr (Levant), ed. ʿImād al-Dīn calls Yaghmur an “Arabized Turk (min muwalladī al-atrāk) and one of Damascus’s well-known military men (umarāʾihā al-maʿrūfīn).”11 What this epistle apparently represents is a text originally composed by someone who was part of a broader military elite but who was marginal to the world of adab and Arabic scholarship.
- keywords: abī; abū; abū al; account; activities; activity; adab; age; ahl; al-ʿaṣr; al-ʿuṣūr al; anthological; anthologist; anthology; anttila; arabic; article; asceticism; author; bauer; behavior; beirut; book; brill; case; century; certain; cervantes; classical; companions; companionship; contemplation; counter; crusades; cultural; dahr; damascus; days; devotion; discourse; drinking; dīn; dīn al; dīniyya; earlier; edinburgh; edition; egypt; elite; end; epistle; evening; example; fact; form; fāʾida; god; good; group; hamadhānī; history; hunting; hämeen; ibid; ibn; inebriated; islamic; jarīdat; jihad; journal; keegan; kharīda; kind; kitāb; kitāb al; known; leiden; levant; licentiousness; life; like; likely; literary; literature; long; mamluk; man; maqāma; material; matthew; medieval; men; military; modern; movement; munqidh; muslim; muzdawija; narrative; narrator; new; non; nūr; party; past; period; personal; piety; pleasures; poetry; preacher; press; propaganda; prose; qaṣr; qāsim; reader; religious; review; scholars; second; sense; shāma; sixth; social; solidarity; storm; studies; text; time; tradition; twelfth; university; useless; usāma; vase; wahrānī; way; wine; work; world; wusṭā; yaghmur; young; ʿimād al; فــي; مــن; ḥarīrī; ḥikāyat; ṭardiyya
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- alusur-8419
- author: Klasova, Pamela
- title: Ḥadīth as Common Discourse: Reflections on the Intersectarian Dissemination of the Creation of the Intellect Tradition
- date: 2020-10-01
- words: 26069
- flesch: 76
- summary: This a verse from a poem by Abū al-Ṭayyib al-Mutanabbī, which starts Malūmukumā yajillu ʿan al-malāmī See Abū al-Ṭayyib al-Mutanabbī, Dīwān al-Mutanabbī (Beirut: Dār Ṣādir, 1964), 483. 136. See my earlier discussion of Dāwūd b. al-Muḥabbir. 137. The ḥadīth of Abū Umāma, in turn, was narrated by al-Ṭabarānī in al-Awsaṭ145 and by Abū al-Shaykh [b. Ḥibbān] in his Kitāb Faḍāʾil al-aʿmāl from the narration of Saʿīd b. al-Faḍl al-Qurashī, who said: “ʿUmar b.
- keywords: a. al; abī; abū; abū al; adbara; adbir; ahl al; al-ʿaql; al-ʿilmiyya; al-ʿirāqī; al-ʿuṣūr al; allāh; allāh b.; almighty; amir; aqbala; aqbil; arabic; article; authority; azdī; aḥmad; aḥmad b.; aḥādīth al; b. abī; b. al; b. muslim; b. ʿabd; basra; beirut; bika; book; boundaries; cairo; case; century; circles; commentaries; commentary; common; common discourse; context; creation; creature; crow; day; different; discourse; discussion; divine; doctrine; dār al; dāraquṭnī; dāwūd; dāwūd b.; dīn; earlier; early; eighth; essence; evil; example; existence; family; father; faḍl; faḍl al; form; free; fī al; god; goldziher; good; groups; hadith; hishām; historical; human; ibn; ibn al; ideas; ilayya; imam al; important; instance; intellect; intellectual; islamic; ismāʿīl; isnāds; iyyāka; iḥyāʾ; jaʿfar; jaʿfar al; kashshī; khalaqa; khalaqtu; khalqan; kitāb al; klasova; knowledge; known; kufa; kulaynī; kutub; kāfī; lahu; lammā; later; light; literary; london; lord; love; m. al; m. b.; maktabat al; meaning; means; medieval; messenger; metaphysics; minka; modern; moezzi; mullā; munkar al; murtaḍā al; muslim; muʾassasat al; muʿtazilī; muḥabbir; muḥammad; muḥammad al; mālik; najm al; narrators; new; noble; nuskha al; obligation; order; oxford; pamela; peace; pen; people; philosophy; press; prominent; prophet; qum; qāla; qāla lahu; reality; reason; reliable; reward; rijāl; riyadh; role; saying; scholars; second; shaykh; shīʿī; source; spirit; spread; studies; study; substance; sunnī; taklīf; terms; text; theology; thing; thumma; time; tirmidhī; tradition; transmitters; university; use; uṣūl al; variants; version; wa-ʿizzatī; way; weak; wisdom; words; world; wusṭā; yaḥyā; zabīdī; ʿabd; ʿabd al; ʿalī; ʿalī b.; ʿaql; ʿulūm al; ʿumar; ʿīsā; ʿīsā al; ḥadīth; ḥakīm al; ḥasan; ḥasan al; ḥasan b.; ṣadrā; ṣādiq; ṣāliḥ; ṣūfī
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- alusur-8420
- author: Livingston, Daisy
- title: The Paperwork of a Mamluk Muqṭaʿ: Documentary Life Cycles, Archival Spaces, and the Importance of Documents Lying Around
- date: 2020-10-01
- words: 14400
- flesch: 54
- summary: The phenomenon of document reuse, for instance, has been highlighted as a practice with profound implications for understanding archiving. The nontextual reuses identified above are challenging to interpret, but they serve to highlight a broader range of document reuses than has previously earned comment.
- keywords: activities; administrative; afterlives; al-ʿuṣūr; al-ʿuṣūr al; amirs; amtliche; arabic; arabische; archival; archival practices; archive; archiving; article; ashmūnayn; azkā; aḥmad; bahāʾ; blazon; briefe; brill; bundle; cairo; cambridge; century; chancery; christian; clear; collection; contemporary; context; corpus; culture; cut; cycles; daisy; decrees; deliberate; der; des; destruction; diem; different; disposal; documentary; documentation; documents; dossier; dīn; dīwān; economy; egypt; endorsed; entre; esp; evidence; examples; fact; fatimid; fig; folding; function; geniza; genres; hirschler; historical; history; individual; initial; instance; iqṭāʿ; islamic; jean; kind; late; left; legal; leiden; life; like; lives; livingston; lost; mamluk; manuscripts; material; medieval; middle; military; modern; muqṭaʿs; nationalbibliothek; nature; new; notes; oriental; original; ottoman; outside; oxford; paperwork; papyrussammlung; period; petition; phd; phenomenon; physical; place; point; possible; practices; preservation; press; rapoport; recto; reuse; rural; rustow; setting; social; society; spaces; stages; state; studies; term; textual; time; traces; understanding; university; value; verso; vienna; visible; way; written; wusṭā
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- alusur-8421
- author: Mauder, Christian
- title: Being Persian in Late Mamluk Egypt: The Construction and Significance of Persian Ethnic Identity in the Salons of Sultan Qāniṣawh al-Ghawrī (r. 906–922/1501–1516)
- date: 2020-10-01
- words: 17444
- flesch: 59
- summary: P. J. Bearman et al., 7:164–177 (Leiden: Brill, 1960–2009), 165. 6. Given the recent boom in the study of Mamluk diplomacy, the following list of relevant studies does not claim to be exhaustive: M. Ağalarlı, “XVI. In The Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd ed., edited by P. J. Bearman et al., 10:716–718.
- keywords: abouseif; accounts; al-ʿuqūd; al-ʿuṣūr al; amitai; ancestry; arabic; arabs; article; arts; background; behrens; bonn; brill; cairo; cambridge; capital; case; century; christian; conermann; conquest; construction; context; cook; court; cultural; culture; debate; des; dīn; d’hulster; earlier; early; east; edinburgh; egypt; egyptian; et al; ethnic; ethnic identity; ethnicity; europe; european; example; factors; flemming; forthcoming; fārisī; general; ghawrī; ghiyāth al; groups; göttingen; haarmann; historical; history; ibn; identification; identities; identity; important; intellectual; introduction; iran; iranian; irwin; islamic; islamicate; journal; kawkab; kawkab al; knowledge; lands; language; late; late mamluk; learning; leiden; les; life; linguistic; literature; majālis; majālis al; mamluk; mamluk court; mamluk egypt; mamluk sultanate; mauder; medieval; members; middle; mongol; muḥammad; nachtgesprächen; nafāʾis; new; origin; ottoman; participants; past; patronage; period; persian; persian ethnic; persian identity; persianate; person; petry; place; pohl; point; political; premodern; presence; present; press; prophet; question; qāniṣawh al; regional; religious; research; rise; rulers; salon; savant; second; sharīf; sitting; sixteenth; social; societies; society; sources; specific; strategies; studies; study; sultan; sultan al; sultanate; sulṭāniyya; syria; texts; times; timurid; tradition; translation; turkish; türk; und; university; university press; work; world; wusṭā; yosef; ʿalī; ʿazzām
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- alusur-8423
- author: Van Steenbergen, Jo
- title: Why Do We Need a New Textbook?
- date: 2020-10-01
- words: 942
- flesch: 47
- summary: There definitely were great history textbooks out there (Hodgson, Lapidus, Hourani, Endress & Hillenbrand, Egger, Choueiri, Noth & Paul, Haarmann, Garcin, et al.). Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 28 (2020): 409-410 Teaching Note Back in early 2007, when I started teaching an undergraduate survey course on Islamic history, I was frustrated in my search for teaching materials that would align with how I had come to appreciate that history.
- keywords: cultural; discourses; dynastic; early; history; islamic; modern; new; practices; social; steenbergen; teaching; textbook; van; wave; west; world
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- alusur-8424
- author: Barker, Hannah
- title: Teaching Medieval Slavery and Captivity: An Online Pedagogical Resource
- date: 2020-10-01
- words: 1013
- flesch: 63
- summary: For those of us teaching the medieval Middle East, I hope that this website w i l l h e l p a d d r e s s t h r e e p e d a g o A website, Teaching Medieval Slavery and Captivity (www.medievalslavery.org), turned out to be the best way to meet these twin goals of sharing resources and making it easier to teach about the long history of slavery and captivity, whether as the focus of an entire course or as the topic for a single day’s discussion.
- keywords: barker; captivity; east; hannah; history; medieval; middle; slavery; societies; sources; students; teaching; website
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- alusur-8426
- author: Gordon, Matthew
- title: Amikam Elad, The Rebellion of Muḥammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya in 145/762: Ṭālibīs and Early ʿAbbāsīs in Conflict
- date: 2020-10-01
- words: 1377
- flesch: 69
- summary: The episode also contributed an early and significant chapter to the long history of Middle Eastern messianism; we owe a goodly portion of the extant literature on al-Nafs al-Zakiyya to the interest of later Muslim Amikam Elad, The Rebellion of Muḥammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya in 145/762: Ṭālibīs and Early ʿAbbāsīs in Conflict. Elad probably knows more about al-Nafs al-Zakiyya than any living scholar and, Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 28 (2020)
- keywords: abbasid; account; arabic; book; early; elad; history; ibrāhīm; islamic; kennedy; long; matthew; nafs; rebellion; volume; wusṭā; zakiyya
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- alusur-8427
- author: Hernández, Adday
- title: Mālik b. Anas, Al-Muwaṭṭaʾ: The Recension of Yaḥyā b. Yaḥyā al-Laythī; A Translation of the Royal Moroccan Edition
- date: 2020-10-01
- words: 2988
- flesch: 63
- summary: i o n i n al-Andalus, although apparently it did not influence fiqh substantially in that period.13 Yaḥyā b. Yaḥyā, who had transmitted it to al-Andalus, was then regarded as the introducer of the orthodox canon, which included both the Muwaṭṭaʾ in relation to ḥadīth and Nāfiʿ’s (d. 169/785) qirāʾa (reading variant) of the Qurʾan.14 Y a ḥ y ā b . A n a s ( d . 1 7 9 / 7 9 6 ) , w a s t h e eponym of the school and one of the 1. Jonathan A. C. Brown, “Mālik, the Muwaṭṭaʾ, and Sunni Identity,” Muwaṭṭaʾ Roundtable, Islamic Law Blog, December 7, 2019, https://islamiclaw.blog/2019/12/07/malik-muwatta-sunni-identity/. 2. Mālik b.
- keywords: adday; al-ʿuṣūr; anas; andalus; arabic; edition; english; fierro; fiqh; hernández; history; ibn; introduction; islamic; law; legal; manuscript; maribel; moroccan; muwaṭṭaʾ; mālik; n s; n t; o n; recension; royal; s t; school; t h; time; translation; umayyads; work; wusṭā; yaḥyā; yaḥyā b.; ʿabd
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- alusur-8428
- author: Schönléber, Mónika
- title: Ibn Aʿtham al-Kūfī, Qiṭʿa min Kitāb al-futūḥ, li-l-ʿallāma al-muʾarrikh Abī Muḥammad Aḥmad b. Aʿtham al-Kūfī, al-mutawaffā baʿda sanat 320 h, qūbilat ʿalā nuskha qadīma min al-qarn al-sādis al-hijrī, akhrajahu wa-waḍaʿa fahārisahu Markaz Iḥyāʾ al-Turāth a
- date: 2020-10-01
- words: 4928
- flesch: 71
- summary: A ʿ t h a m al-Kūfī’s Kitāb al-futūḥ, made by Qays al-ʿAṭṭār and printed in 2017 in Karbalāʾ, Iraq.1 Although the Kitāb al-futūḥ has been edited several times over the past half-century, the present volume deserves special attention as it is based on a manuscript—MS Ankara (Saib 5418), kept in Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi Kütüphanesi of Ankara University—that has not been used for any of the work’s previous printed editions. Mustawfī, Tarjuma-yi Kitāb al-futūḥ, ed.
- keywords: al-ʿaṭṭār; al-ʿuṣūr; ankara; arabic; available; aʿtham; birmingham; dublin; dār; e e; e n; edited; editions; editor; footnotes; futūḥ; h e; ibn; ibn aʿtham; introduction; istanbul; kitāb; kitāb al; kūfī; line; manuscript; mss; muḥammad; mónika; n s; n t; o n; persian; poems; r e; r t; s e; s t; schönléber; sources; t e; t h; t t; text; textual; time; vols; volume; work; wusṭā; zakkār; zarzūr
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- alusur-8429
- author: Hámori, András
- title: Al-Muḥassin b. ʿAlī al-Tanūkhī, Stories of Piety and Prayer: Deliverance Follows Adversity
- date: 2020-10-01
- words: 3152
- flesch: 76
- summary: al-Wusṭā 28 (2020) Al-Muḥassin b. ʿAlī al-Tanūkhī’s Stories of Piety and Prayer • 432 tunabbī ʿan tafaḍḍuli allāhi ʿazza wa-jalla ʿalā man ḥaṣala qablahu fī maḥṣalihi wa-nazala bihi mithlu balāʾihi wa-muʿḍilihi bimā atāḥahu lahu min ṣunʿin amsaka bihi al-armāqa wa-maʿūnatin ḥulla bihā min al-khināqi wa-luṭfin gharībin najjāhu wa-farajin ʿajībin anqadhahu wa-talāfāhu, wa-in khafiyat tilka al-asbābu wa-lam tablugh mā ḥadatha min dhālika al-fikru wa-l-ḥisābu . . . ʿ Alī al-Tanūkhī, al-Faraj baʿd al-shidda, ed.
- keywords: abbasid; abī; al-ʿuṣūr; andrás; arabic; baʿd; book; bray; chapters; deliverance; e t; edition; english; example; faraj; god; hámori; man; min; muḥassin; n t; ordinary; original; passage; piety; prayer; reader; register; robert; sense; shidda; shāljī; stories; story; style; stylistic; t h; t t; tanūkhī; translation; wusṭā; ʿalā; ʿalī
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- alusur-8430
- author: Ballan, Mohamad
- title: Luke B. Yarbrough, Friends of the Emir: Non-Muslim State Officials in Premodern Islamic Thought
- date: 2020-10-01
- words: 4478
- flesch: 67
- summary: Throughout the chapter, Yarbrough highlights how Muslim jurists developed diverse rationales for limiting, discouraging, or prohibiting the employment of non-Muslim officials; how these rationales were frequently repeated and developed during moments of tension with states or non-Muslim elites; and how jurists sought, above all, to mediate between their madhhab traditions and contemporary exigencies. Chapter 2 (“Preludes to the Discourse: Non-Muslim Officials and Late Ancient Antecedents”) presents a synchronic study of non-Muslim officials and the reasons for their employment while surveying late antique discourses around dissenting officials, particularly surviving writings on non-Christian officials in the Eastern R o m a n E m p
- keywords: book; c o; chapter; competition; discourse; e l; e n; e o; e s; h e; islamic; juristic; m e; medieval; muslim; n c; n d; n g; n s; n t; non; o l; o n; o r; o u; officials; premodern; prescriptive; r e; r s; resources; s c; s o; s s; s t; state; t e; t h; t o; t u; u s; university; world; yarbrough
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- alusur-8431
- author: Varisco, Daniel
- title: Al-Malik al-Afḍal al-ʿAbbās b. ʿAlī b. Dāwūd al-Rasūlī, Bughyat al-fallāḥīn fī al-ashjār al-muthmira wa-l-rayāḥīn
- date: 2020-10-01
- words: 2881
- flesch: 71
- summary: I suspect that al-Afḍal is quoting his father about al-Ashraf here, since this is the usual formula used. al-Wahībī misreads the Cairo manuscript, which I read as taṭammu rather than yaḍummu; the verb taṭammu is used in the text of Ibn al-Waḥshiyya.11 I suspect that the reference on p. 198, line 4, is to grapevines in the village of al-Janāt, as in the Cairo manuscript, rather than al-jibāl.
- keywords: afḍal; agriculture; ahmet; al-ʿabbās; al-ʿuṣūr; ashraf; bughyat; cairo; century; copies; copy; dār; edition; editor; errors; fallāḥīn; father; filāḥa; iii; library; malik; manuscript; medieval; milḥ; note; original; rasulid; sanaa; sources; studies; text; varisco; wahībī; wusṭā; yemen; ʿalī
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- alusur-8432
- author: Durand-Guédy, David
- title: Jean Aubin, Études sur l’Iran médiéval: Géographie historique et société
- date: 2020-10-01
- words: 3280
- flesch: 64
- summary: Although Aubin’s analysis stands the test of time remarkably well, many critical editions have since been published (for example: Bayhaqī in article 7; Shabānkāraʾī in article 9; Ibn Bazzāz in articles 11–13; Faryūmadī in article 17).6 In Iran, Aubin (Ūbin) is known mostly through translations of articles quoting him, starting with Denise Aigle’s collection of articles (The Mongol Empire between Myth and Reality: Studies in Anthropological History [Leiden: Brill, 2015]).
- keywords: able; aigle; al-ʿuṣūr; analysis; article; aubin; book; cambridge; century; david; des; durand; e n; editions; european; guédy; history; iran; iranian; iranica; issues; jean; journal; les; local; l’iran; l’islam; medieval; monde; mongol; new; paris; period; persian; press; publication; research; review; safavid; social; sources; studia; tehran; timurid; university; volume; work; world; wusṭā
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- alusur-8433
- author: Sharma, Sunil
- title: Nile Green, ed., The Persianate World: The Frontiers of a Eurasian Lingua Franca & Abbas Amanat and Assef Ashraf, eds., The Persianate World: Rethinking a Shared Sphere
- date: 2020-10-01
- words: 2896
- flesch: 58
- summary: The underlying questions in the volume edited by Amanat and Ashraf, as articulated in the introduction by Ashraf and the first essay by Amanat (“Remembering the Persianate”), are whether the “category of Iran” can effectively be marginalized in Persianate studies, and how Iranian s t u Stressing the existence of a vast sociocultural sphere connected by Persophonie (fārsī-zabān), a harmonious “comfort zone,” the editors emphasize the viability of Persianate studies as an academic field whose purview extends beyond language and literature.
- keywords: al-ʿuṣūr; amanat; ashraf; asian; case; communities; cultural; different; e c; e n; e s; e t; east; edited; essays; green; historical; history; india; introduction; iran; l e; l l; language; literary; n s; networks; new; o n; persianate; persianate world; scholars; shared; sharma; sphere; spread; studies; study; sunil; t h; term; texts; university; use; volume; world; wusṭā
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- alusur-8434
- author: Walravens, Meia
- title: Emma J. Flatt, The Courts of the Deccan Sultanates: Living Well in the Persian Cosmopolis
- date: 2020-10-01
- words: 3153
- flesch: 59
- summary: n c e p t , engaging with Sheldon Pollock’s work on the Sanskrit Cosmopolis, as well as with Richard Eaton’s and Philip Wagoner’s use of the term Persian Cosmopolis (pp. 17–24). She explains that the way a courtier in the Persian Cosmopolis thought about what constitutes courtliness and how to achieve it was influenced by the idea, prevalent in Islamic advice literature as well as in Sufi thought and medico-philosophical theories, that both the body and the character were malleable and could be perfected (or corrupted) via internal and external forces.
- keywords: al-ʿuṣūr; arabic; arguments; bahmani; body; book; cambridge; chapter; cosmopolis; courtly; courts; culture; deccan; e n; emma; example; flatt; idea; inshāʾ; islamic; language; literature; meia; mobility; n d; n t; persian; political; practices; press; skills; social; society; studies; sultanates; t h; t s; university; use; walravens; wusṭā
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- alusur-8435
- author: Mauder, Christian
- title: Thomas Bauer, Warum es kein islamisches Mittelalter gab: Das Erbe der Antike und der Orient
- date: 2020-10-01
- words: 3513
- flesch: 60
- summary: 3. For a useful overview of current systems of periodization of Islamic history and the debates about them, see F. Donner, “Periodization as a Tool of the Historian with Special Reference to Islamic History,” Der Islam 91, no. 1 (2014): 20–36, especially 28–36; and with regard to early Islam in particular, A. Borrut, “Vanishing Syria: Periodization and Power in Early Islam,” Der Islam 91, no. 1 (2014): 37–68. f o r m “medieval”—English scholarly litera- ture about Islam and Islamic history.
- keywords: ages; al-ʿuṣūr; antiquity; bauer; beginning; book; calls; century; chapter; christian; cultural; der; e c; e n; early; eleventh; f t; gab; history; intellectual; islamic; late; middle; mittelalter; n t; new; o n; period; periodization; political; r t; t e; t h; t t; term; thomas; time; warum; works; world; wusṭā
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- alusur-8484
- author: Thomas Miller, Matthew
- title: The Poetics of the Sufi Carnival: The Rogue Lyrics (Qalandariyyāt) as Heterotopic Countergenre(s)
- date: 2022-04-01
- words: 26029
- flesch: 61
- summary: The turn away from the Kaʿba in this poem (and, in other qalandarī poems, the turn away from the mosque, ascetics’ lodge, etc.) is, in a sense, a metaphoric performance of the qalandarī poet’s rejection of the poetic world of ascetic-homiletic and royal court poetry. Lewis seems to gesture toward this type as well when he remarks in the introduction to his discussion of a selection of Sanāʾī’s qalandarī ghazals that “the genre [qalandarī poems] frequently assumes an anthem-like quality, celebrating spiritual virtues of debauchery.”
- keywords: abū; address; al-ʿuṣūr; al-ʿuṣūr al; analysis; anecdote; antinomian; arabic; arabic poetry; art; ascetic; asceticism; beauty; beloved; boast; brill; bruijn; cambridge; carnival; carnivalesque; categories; century; chicago; christian; city; classical; classical persian; complex; context; countergenre; court; court poetry; cupbearer; destruction; development; different; dilapidated; discussion; dīn; dīvān; early; early persian; earthly; edebiyât; ehsan; end; entire; example; fakhr; fakhr al; figure; focus; form; franklin; gambling; general; generic; genre; ghazal; god; heart; heterotopic; historical; history; holy; homiletic; homiletic poetry; hunsberger; image; immortals; important; infidel; infidelity; intishārāt; introduction; inversion; iran; islamic; islamic poetry; journal; julie; kadkanī; kaʿba; kennedy; khamriyyāt; kharābāt; khusraw; khāqānī; king; kulliyyāt; larger; later; leiden; leonard; lewis; lewisohn; life; like; line; literary; literature; love; madḥ; mamdūḥ; manuscripts; master; matthew; mawʿiẓa; meaning; medieval; medieval persian; meisami; microcosms; middle; miller; mock; monastery; monothematic; motif; muslim; mute; muḥammad; muḥtasham; mystical; nature; new; normative; number; nuwās; nāma; nāṣir; opening; order; panegyric; panegyric poetry; particular; path; patterns; paul; pearls; people; period; persian genre; persian ghazal; persian literature; persian poetry; persian sufi; persona; piety; pious; place; poem; poetic; poetic world; poetry; poets; point; political; politics; power; praise; premodern; press; princeton; prophet; qalandariyyāt; qalandariyyāt poetry; qalandarī; qalandarī poetry; qasida; qasida poetry; qaṣīda; qibla; raḥīl; reader; reading; recitation; relationship; religion; religious; riżā; rogue; role; royal; sanāʾī; scholars; scott; sections; self; sense; shafīʿī; shahr; shiʿr; similar; social; society; spaces; speech; sperl; spiritual; stetkevych; structure; studies; study; subgenres; sufi; sufi poetry; symbolic; system; tauris; tawḥīd; tehran; terms; thematic; themes; thomas; times; tradition; transgressive; type; tārīkh; university; university press; values; verse; way; ways; wine; winehouse; work; world; writing; wusṭā; yarshater; york; young; youth; zuhdiyyāt; āshūb; ʿaṭṭār; ʿirāqī; کنیم; ḥakīm; ḥāfiẓ; ṣuʿlūk
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- alusur-8556
- author: Weitz, Lev
- title: The Long Arm of the Provincial Law: A Custody Battle in a Qāḍī Petition from the Medieval Fayyūm
- date: 2022-04-08
- words: 16487
- flesch: 67
- summary: It appears more certain that Ṭalīt’s majlis al-ḥukm was a local center of judicial activity and that, whatever the title of its chief authority, Ṭuṭūn-related matters fell under its purview. The Long Arm of the Provincial Law • 59 the Christian character of Ṭuṭūn gives one to suspect that Ṭalīt’s majlis al-ḥukm served as the local center of Islamic legal services for its neighboring village.31 We can thus imagine that Ṭuṭūnites would have made the short four-kilometer walk to Ṭalīt to get their legal documents drawn up and registered, and there encountered the Banū Rizq and other locals who served the court.32 No doubt more members of this family will turn up as more documents are published and studied.33 Overall, the Banū Rizq’s literacy and connections to their local court suggest that they constituted part of the Muslim civilian elite of the southern Fayyūm.
- keywords: abū; african; al-ʿuṣūr al; allāh; arabic; arabische; archive; arm; aus; aḥmad; b. al; b. rizq; banū; beirut; bulletin; cairo; cambridge; capital; care; case; centuries; century; chancery; child; chrest.khoury; christian; collection; congress; court; cpr; custodian; custody; date; daughter; delegate; der; des; development; different; discussion; document; documentary; dār al; dīn; dīn al; early; egypt; egyptian; elements; eleventh; epistolary; example; family; father; fatimid; fatāwā; fayyūm; features; fifth; following; formula; fourth; genre; girl; god; grandmother; grohmann; hand; high; higher; historical; history; ibn; ibn al; ibrāhīm; ibrāhīm b.; inv; islamic; judge; judicial; khalīfa; kutub; later; law; legal; letters; lev; library; life; likely; line; local; long; long arm; lost; majlis; majlis al; maternal; medieval; metropolitan; minor; muslim; muḥammad; muḥammad al; n.d; new; note; opinion; oriental; overall; p.cair.arab; p.fahmitaaqud; p.genizahcambr; p.shomali; p.vind.arab; paper; papyrus; period; petition; place; press; property; provincial; provincial law; qāḍī; reading; record; recto; register; rescript; right; rizq; rustow; school; scribe; second; sharḥ; shāfiʿī; similar; social; southern; state; studies; study; style; support; tenth; text; tillier; university; ushmūnayn; vanthieghem; verso; village; weitz; witness; witnesses; wusṭā; years; ʿabd al; ʿalī; الـله; ḥasan; ḥasan b.; ḥukm; ṭalīt; ṭaḥāwī; ṭuṭūn
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- alusur-8598
- author: Munt, Harry
- title: The Umayyad and Early Abbasid Inscriptions in the Prophet’s Mosque in Medina
- date: 2022-06-27
- words: 37935
- flesch: 73
- summary: From Classical to Modern Times, edited by C. Edmund Bosworth et al., 95–111. Saʿd b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-Rāshid et al., Āthār minṭaqat Makka al-mukarrama (Riyadh: Wizārat al-Maʿārif, Wikālat al-Āthār wa-l-Matāḥif, 1423/2003), 122.
- keywords: abbasid; abbasid al; abbasid inscriptions; abī; abū al; akhbār al; al-ʿabbās al; al-ʿaqīqī; al-ʿazīz al; al-ʿiqd al; al-ʿuṣūr al; allāh al; allāh b.; american; amīr al; andrew; antique; arabic; architectural; article; authority; aʿlāq al; aḥmad; b. al; b. ʿabd; bahjat al; basis; beirut; blair; bless; brill; building; bāb al; cairo; caliph; caliph al; caliphal; caliphate; cambridge; case; centuries; century; city; clear; commander; compassionate; corner; course; courtyard; damascus; date; decoration; des; different; discussion; dome; durra al; dār al; dīn al; earlier; early; early abbasid; early islamic; eastern; edinburgh; edition; eighth; elad; end; entrance; epigraphic; era; esp; et al; evidence; example; extant; fact; faithful; family; faraj al; fihrist; fikra al; flood; foundation; fīrūzābādī; george; gharb al; ghassān; god; gold; governor; great; great mosque; harry; hillenbrand; history; holy; hārūn al; ibid; ibn al; ibn rusta; ibn ʿabd; imperial; important; imām al; information; inscribed; inscriptions; inside; islamic; jaʿfar al; jerusalem; journal; jāsir; khulāṣat al; kitāb al; late; legitimacy; leiden; literary; local; london; long; madīna al; maghānim al; mahdī; mahdī al; makka al; maktabat al; malik; manāsik; manṣūr; marsham; masjid al; material; maʿālim al; maṭbaʿa al; mecca; medieval; medina; memory; mentions; merciful; messenger; minṭaqat; modern; monuments; mosaic; mosque; mukarrama; munt; muʾassasat al; muʾminīn; muḥammad al; muṭāba; mūsā al; nadīm; nafs al; nafīsa; najjār; naṣr al; near; new; ninth; northern; noted; number; omeyyade; oriental; outside; oxford; period; place; political; power; premodern; press; prophet; qibla; question; qurʾanic; qāsim al; rcea; recension; references; relevant; religion; reports; reward; rock; rule; rusta; rāshid; saffāḥ; samhūdī; sauvaget; saʿd al; second; servant; similar; sirr al; society; son; sources; studies; study; taʾrīkh al; taḥqīq al; text; thaqāfa al; thought; time; title; title al; turāth al; umayyad; umayyad inscriptions; umayyad mosque; university; use; verses; wadād al; wafāʾ al; wall; walīd; western; wizārat al; work; world; wusṭā; yaḥyā; year; zabāla; zakiyya; āthār; ʿabd al; ʿabd allāh; ʿalids; ʿalī; ʿumar; ḥamad al; ḥasan al; ḥusayn; ṣalāḥ al; ṭabarī; ṭāhir
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- alusur-8608
- author: Miller, Nathaniel A.
- title: Dear Muʿāwiya: An “Epistolary” Poem on a Major Muslim Military Defeat during the Mediterranean Campaigns of AH 28–35/649–56 CE
- date: 2023-03-13
- words: 16958
- flesch: 69
- summary: See, for example, A. F. L. Beeston et al., Sabaic Dictionary/Dictionaire Sabéen (Louvain-la-Neuve: Peeters; Beirut: Roger S. Bagnall et al., 383–84 (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley, 2012); L. S. B. MacCoull, “BM 1079, CPR IX 44, and the Chrysargyron,”
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- alusur-8698
- author: Schine, Rachel
- title: Translating Race in the Islamic Studies Classroom
- date: 2022-11-27
- words: 34636
- flesch: 55
- summary: Robert L. Reece, “Color Crit: Critical Race Theory and the History and Future of Colorism in the United States,” Journal of Black Studies 50, no. 1 (2019): 3–25, at 21. 365 • Rachel Schine Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 30 (2022) like a flat “cow-like” nose (furṭūsuhu ka-furṭūs al-ʿijl).206 When Fāṭima’s father first sees the child, he remarks not that he is dark, but that he is “of the Black kind” (aswad al-jins), whom another tribesman remarks are “not lineally exchangeable with” and “completely unlike” white people (nasl al-bīḍ mā yabdulu bi-sūd, wa-laysa al-bīḍ ḥaqqan mithla sūd).207 This split perception overlaps strongly with the divide between the heroes and villains and their supporters and detractors in the text, such that the pious Arab-Muslim figures with whom ʿAbd al-Wahhāb is most aligned acknowledge his group membership and likeness to them while their Christianized detractors do not, focusing instead on his stereotyped blackness. Scrutiny of animal pedigrees, using the tools of ʿilm al-ansāb, could explain everything from the makeup of one’s own camel herd to the exotic appearances of rare creatures at the world’s far edges—erudite trivia that is adab’s bread and butter.
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- alusur-8799
- author: McLaren, Andrew
- title: Dating Ibn Aʿtham’s History: Of Persian Manuscripts, Obscure Biographies, and Incomplete Isnāds
- date: 2022-09-19
- words: 27496
- flesch: 72
- summary: I Lindstedt et al., 103–30. Compare Ibn Aʿtham, Futūḥ, 4:205–6 (in which al-Ḥasan dies naturally) with Mustawfī, Futūḥ, 789–91 (in which al-Ḥasan is poisoned in a conspiracy led by his erstwhile opponent, Muʿāwiya b. Abī Sufyān).
- keywords: 2nd; 320/932; 350/961; abū; abū al; accounts; age; al-ʿuṣūr al; allāh al; allāh b.; andrew; arabic; argument; article; astarābād; authorities; aʿtham al; aḥmad; aḥmad al; aḥmad b.; b. al; b. ʿabd; baghdādī; bakr al; balawī; balādhurī; basis; bayhaqī; beirut; biographical; biography; bombay; brill; broader; cairo; cambridge; case; catalogue; century; certain; chapter; chronological; ci2; circa; claim; composition; conclusion; connections; conrad; contemporary; course; date; dating; dawla; death; decades; des; development; dhū al; different; dār al; dāʾirat al; earlier; early; encyclopaedia; end; esp; et al; evidence; figures; following; fourth; frähn; futūḥ; gharb al; hadith; historical; historiography; history; hyderabad; ibn abī; ibn al; ibn aʿtham; ibn funduq; ibn ʿadī; ibrāhīm al; important; imām al; information; instance; iranica; irshād; irshād al; islamic; islamicate; isnāds; jaʿfar al; jurjān; khaṭīb al; kitāb al; knowledge; kāmil; kūfī; later; leiden; likely; lindstedt; links; literature; lithographs; london; long; m. al; madāʾinī; maktabat al; malik al; manuscripts; maʿrifat al; mclaren; mention; min; missing; modern; muqtadir; muslim; mustawfī; muʾassasat al; muḥammad al; near; new; ninth; notes; old; older; original; particular; period; persian; picture; place; point; possible; press; princeton; problem; question; reason; refer; reign; related; relative; report; sahmī; sallāmī; scholars; second; shaban; shaʿbī; sources; strand; structure; studies; study; taʾrīkh; taʾrīkh al; teacher; tenth; text; textual; thaʿālibī; time; tradition; translation; transmission; turn; university; version; vols; work; writing; wusṭā; wāqidī; years; yāqūt; yāqūt al; ʿabd al; ʿalī; ʿalī al; ḍuʿafāʾ al; ḥarrānī; ḥasan; ḥātim al; ṭabaqāt al
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- alusur-8881
- author: Pecorini Goodall, Leone
- title: ‘The ʿAbbas after Whom Those Who Rule in Baghdad Are Named’: Al-ʿAbbās b. al-Walīd in Late Antique Accounts of the Marwānids and the Third Fitna
- date: 2022-11-29
- words: 28350
- flesch: 67
- summary: In al-Ṭabarī he invokes his troops by asking “Where are the people of the Qurʾan who desire Paradise?”(ʿayn ahl al-Qurʾān alladhīna yurīdūna al-janna). C. F. Robinson et al., 3 vols.
- keywords: account; agapius; ahl al; al-ʿabbās; al-ʿabbās al; al-ʿazīz; al-ʿuyūn; al-ʿuṣūr al; allāh; anon; anonymous; ansāb; antique; antoine; arabic; arabic sources; arabs; armenian; ashrāf; authority; aḥmad b.; b. al; b. khayyāṭ; b. marwān; b. muḥammad; b. zuhayr; b. ʿabd; baghdad; balādhurī; banū; beirut; bishr; blankinship; borrut; brill; brother; byzantine; caliph; caliph al; caliphal; caliphate; cambridge; case; central; century; christian; christian sources; chronicle; chronographia; circuit; city; claim; common; concubine; conquest; cousin al; damascus; death; defection; dei; different; dionysius; discussion; dynasty; dār al; earlier; early; edinburgh; eighth; elite; encyclopaedia; entre; et al; events; fact; fall; family; figure; fitna; focus; following; foreshadowing; frontier; goodall; governor; greek; hajīns; hilkens; hishām; hishām b.; historical; historiography; history; hoyland; i. b.; ibn; ibrāhīm; ibrāhīm b.; idem; imperial; imprisonment; internal; islamic; islamic sources; j. b.; judd; khabar; khalifa; khalīfa b.; khayyat; khālid; killing; kitāb al; late; leiden; leone; literature; liverpool; london; long; madāʾinī; main; maktabat al; malik; malik b.; marwān; marwān al; marwānid; maslama; maslama b.; masʿūdī; material; means; medieval; memory; mention; michael; military; minor; mother; msyr; muhallabid; muslim; mémoire; narrative; nasab al; nasṭūs; nasṭūs b.; new; north; notice; paris; pecorini; people; period; place; point; pouvoir; presence; present; press; princeton; quraysh; raiding; regicide; reign; representation; revolt; revolution; robinson; role; rule; ruṣāfa; saʿīd; siege; significant; similar; son al; sons; sources; state; status; studies; study; succession; sulaymān; support; syriac; text; theophanes; theophilus; thughūr; time; tradition; trans; transmission; tyana; tārīkh; tārīkh al; umayyad; umm; uncle; university; use; vacca; vols; walīd b.; works; wusṭā; yazīd b.; yaʿqūbī; year; york; zubayrī; zuqnīn; łewond; ʿabbāsid; ʿabd al; ʿabd al-ʿazīz; ʿalī al; ʿanjar; ʿasākir; ʿayn al; ʿumar; ʿumar b.; ḥakam; ḥazm al; ḥimṣ; ṭabarī
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- alusur-8889
- author: Borrut, Antoine; Gordon, Matthew; Vacca, Alison
- title: Letter from the Editors
- date: 2021-12-05
- words: 1709
- flesch: 65
- summary: r o u g h o r y :
- keywords: alison; antoine; arabic; colleagues; e e; e n; islamic; issue; journal; matthew; medieval; mem; membership; n t; new; reviews; study; t t
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- alusur-8890
- author: Cook, Michael
- title: Remarks by the Recipient of the 2020 MEM Lifetime Achievement Award Given at the Annual Meeting of Middle East Medievalists
- date: 2021-12-05
- words: 3773
- flesch: 75
- summary: H e r e , t h e n , i s h I r e a l l y l
- keywords: al-ʿuṣūr; arabic; award; book; career; cook; discipline; dissertations; e l; e n; e t; early; english; field; good; h e; history; learning; michael; new; people; persian; princeton; r e; scholars; t h; t t; things; time; way; work; wusṭā; years
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- alusur-8895
- author: Saif, Liana
- title: A Preliminary Study of the Pseudo-Aristotelian Hermetica: Texts, Context, and Doctrines
- date: 2021-12-05
- words: 31629
- flesch: 64
- summary: For example, in Aristoteles Arabus, F. E. Peters identifies five separate texts: al-Isṭimākhīs, al-Isṭimāṭīs, al-Malāṭīs (equating it with al-Madīṭīs), the K. ʿIlal al-rūḥāniyyāt, and Dhakhīrat Iskandar.17 In Geschichte des Arabischen Schrifttums, Fuat Sezgin lists al-Shuʿrā and K. ʿIlal al-rūḥāniyyāt under the heading “Astronomy, Astrology, and Magic”18 and includes under Aristotelian works al-Isṭimākhīs, al-Ustuwwaṭṭās (which he deems identical to al-Isṭimāṭīs), al-Malāṭīs or al-Miyalāṭīs, and Dhakhīrat Iskandar.19 He went as far as stating that al-Shuʿrā was the basis for the part of Arabe 2577 that contains al-Ustuwaṭṭās and K. ʿIlal al-rūḥāniyyāt, an opinion accepted by Sezgin.79 However, a comparison of the works does not support this assertion.
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- alusur-8897
- author: von Schöneman, Katja
- title: Created After, From, and For the Man? : Development of Premodern Shiʿi Exegetic Discourse on the Creation of Woman
- date: 2021-12-05
- words: 16383
- flesch: 63
- summary: In Muslima Theology: The Voices of Muslim Women Theologians, edited by E. Aslan et al., 115–32. M. Al-Sharmani et al., 44–64 (Oxford: Oneworld, 2015); von Schöneman, “‘Confine Your Women!’”; eadem, “Evolution of Rabbinic Discourse on the Creation of Woman in Late Antiquity” (MA thesis, University of Helsinki, 2019), available at https://helda.helsinki.fi/handle/10138/306271. 40.
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- alusur-8898
- author: Mugler, Joshua
- title: The Life of Christopher
- date: 2021-12-05
- words: 34561
- flesch: 90
- summary: ثم اوصله فسلك لوقته وسأل: ز 2546 كانت: س؛ الكريمة كانت قد: ز 2547 في: س؛ –ز 2548 والعشرين: س؛ والعشرون: ز 2549 ايار: س؛ أيار سنة ست وخمسين وثلثماية للهجرة: ز 2550 الى ما: صححته؛ الى ما الى ما: س؛ الى: ز 2551 ليبسانات: صححته؛ لمسنا: س؛ جسد: ز 2552 الى المدينة: س؛ –ز 2553 وحصل على مايدة: س؛ ووضعوه على مائدة من: ز Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 29 (2021) س؛ فيه: ز 2329 اذا ما: س؛ فلما: ز 2330 الخراسانية:
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michael; middle; mind; modern; moiseeva; moment; monastery; money; moscow; mountain; mugler; mugler al-ʿuṣūr; murder; muslim; mānik; names; nasrallah; nature; necessary; need; new; nicholas; night; nikephoros; noble; northern; note; numerous; obscure; obvious; occurrence; omits; ordination; orient; orientalis; original; orphans; paris; path; patriarch; patriarch christopher; patriarchate; patronage; paul; people; persians; person; peter; phd; picture; place; pleased; plot; point; poor; position; possession; possible; powerful; predecessors; preface; presence; present; press; previous; priest; prison; proche; prominent; prophet; pstgu; punishment; pure; qarghuwayh; qarmaṭīs; raid; rashīq; reading; reason; rebellion; rebels; reference; region; religion; request; reward; righteous; river; romans; rughaylī; rule; saint; satisfied; sayf al; saying; saʿīd al; sa‘ïd; scholars; sciences; second; sections; sees; servant; set; shepherd; sinai; single; sir; situation; siècle; small; sofia; soul; source; speech; spiritual; state; story; stratopedarkhēs; style; sum; sur; symeon; syriac; syrians; syrie; tarsus; tenth; term; territory; text; theodore; things; thought; time; town; translation; treiger; tribe; turāth; tārīkh; university; use; valuable; variants; venom; version; virtuous; war; way; wealth; wine; word; work; worthy; wusṭā; xie; yaʿīsh; yaḥyā; year; young; yūḥannā; yūḥannā al; z omits; zayat; zeal; ʿabd al; ʿīsā; اال; االب; االحســان; االختيــار; االخرى; االخــر; االرض; االشــيا; االشيا; االكتــراث; االميــر; االنطاكييــن; االهوازي; االول; ابــن; ابن; اتفــق; اجتمــع; احد; اخــر; اخيــرا; اذا; ارادوا; اســمه; اصحابــه; افعــال; اكتيســفون; اكثر; اكثــر; الباب; البطريــرك; البــاب; البيعة; التــي; التي; الحاجــة; الحرب; الحســد; الحــال; الخراسانية; الخيــر; الدولة; الدولــة; الديــار; الذي; الذيــن; الرجــل; الرهبــان; الروم; الزمــان; الزيات; الس; الســام; الســيد; الصالــح; الصــورة; الطبيعــة; الطعــام; العصيــان; الــذي; الــذي كان; الــراي; الــروم; الــى; الــى ان; الــى انطاكيــة; الــى ذلــك; الفــرس; الفقــرا; القديس; القديــس; القــول; الكاثوليــك; الكراســي; الكنيســة; الليــل; المحســن; المدينة; المدينــة; المســلمين; المســيح; المسيح; المعــروف; المعنــى; المقــدم; الملعــون; الملــك; الن; الناس; النصــارى; النــاس; النــه كان; النه; الواجــب; الوارد; الوقت; الوقــت; الى; اليــه; اليــه فــي; اليه; اليهــا; امــره; امين; ان ذلــك; انا; انبــا; انســان; انطاكية; انطاكيــة; انــه; انه; اهــل; اهلهــا; ايديهــم; ايضا; ايضــا; ايه; بالجملــة; بحســب; بحلب; بطريــركا; بطــرس; بعد; بعــد; بــان; بــل; بــل كان; بــه; بلد; بها; بهــا; بيــده; بيــن; تبــارك; تقــدم; توفــي; ثــم; جــرت; جماعــة; جملة; جملــة; حتــى; حتى; حــال; حلــب; حمــدان; حمل; خريســطوفورس; ذاك; ذكــره; ذلــك; ذلــك الوقــت; ذلك; راس; راســه; راى; رايــت; رجل; رشــيق; رشيق; رييــس; ز al-ʿuṣūr; زاد; ســار; ســيدي; ســيف; سيف; شديد; شــاش; شــديد; شــي; صححته; صــدره; صورتــه; طرسوس; طريقــة; عتيــدا; عزيمتــه; عســكر; عسكر; عــاد; عــن; عقلــه; علــى كل; علــى مــا; على; عليــك; علينــا; عليه; عليهــم; عند; عنــد; عيســى; غيــر; ــات; ــة; ــذه; ــرى; فاجابــه; فاعــاد; فعله; فــكان; فــي; فــي االول; فــي ذلــك; فــي كل; فــي هــذا; فــي وقــت; فقد; فقــال; فقــط; فكان; فكيف; فلذلــك; فلســت; فلما; فمــا كان; فمــاذا; فيــه; فيما; فيمــا; فيه; فيهم; قايــا; قبله; قتل; قرعونــة; قــد; كان; كان فــي; كان قــد; كانت; كانــت; كانــوا; كانوا; كبيــر; كثيرة; كثيريــن; كثيــرة; كلها; كنــا; لعمــري; لــم; لــه; لــه فــي; لــه مــن; لــي; للبطريرك; لما; لموضــع; لهم; ليــس; ليلــة; ما كان; مانك; مثــل; محابــاة; مدينتــه; مدينــة; معه; مــا; مــدة; مــع; مــن; مــن ال; مــن النصــارى; مــن اهــل; مــن بعــد; مــن كان; مــن هللا; مما; ممن; منــي; منهــم; موقــع; نحــن; نظــر; نفســه; نفوســهم; هاهنا; هاهنــا; هذا; هذه; هــذا; هــو; هــي; هللا; هنــاك; وابن; واحــد; واخذ; واخــذ; واذا; وال; وال كان; والساسل; وامــا; وان; وجــب; وحصــل; وحــده; وذاك; وذلك; وردوا; وصــار; وقد; وقــد كان; وقــوم; وكان; وكبــر; وكــذا; وكيــف; ولكــن; ولكنــه; ولم; ومعــه; ومنهم; وهذا; وهو; ويكــون; يجب; يجــدوا; يحســن; يدعــا; يســيرة; يسمى; يصبــر; يصلح; يعرف; يعــرف; يــا; يــوم; يكتــب; يكــن; يكن; يكون; يمكنــه; يمكننــي; ينثنــي; ḥamdānid
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- alusur-8902
- author: García-Sanjuán, Alejandro
- title: Feeling Bad about Emotional History: The Case of Andalucismo
- date: 2021-12-05
- words: 9955
- flesch: 49
- summary: See also González Ferrín’s rather enthusiastic presentation of Olagüe’s work in a recent online interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdrqef9ViGE. Hirschkind exhibits both a complete ignorance of the historical sources and a gullible attitude toward negationist literature, as when he reports uncritically that “according to González Ferrín, the conflicting views in this particular debate devolve almost entirely on the interpretation of two coins.
- keywords: academic; account; al andalus; al-ʿuṣūr; al-ʿuṣūr al; alejandro; andalucismo; andalus; andalusia; approach; april; arab; article; bad; book; cambridge; case; catholic; century; claims; conquest; conquista; convivencia; critics; csic; cuando; current; córdoba; de al; de la; del; different; early; emotional; emotional history; envahi; españa; evidence; fact; fascist; feeling; ferrín; fierro; form; francoist; fraud; fuimos; garcía; general; gonzález; gonzález ferrín; guichard; hirschkind; hispania; historians; historical; history; iberian; ibérica; ideas; idem; identity; islam; islamic; islámica; journal; knowledge; la conquista; legitimacy; les; literature; los; l’espagne; madrid; manzano; medieval; modern; monroe; myth; narrative; national; nationalism; negationism; new; occidente; olagüe; origins; pasado; past; país; press; putten; recent; research; review; revista; rodríguez; sanjuán; scholarly; scholarship; segovia; sobre; social; spain; spanish; studies; study; tergiversación; una; university; van; wolf; words; work; wusṭā; y la; years; árabes
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- alusur-8903
- author: Pregill, Michael E.
- title: Blurred Boundaries and Novel Normativities: The Jews of Arabia, the Quranic Milieu, and the “Islamic Judaism” of the Middle Ages
- date: 2021-12-05
- words: 27443
- flesch: 45
- summary: I do not think it unfair to say that inquiry into the intersections between Islam and Judaism, especially in the era before the full flowering of the Judeo-Arabic culture of the Middle Ages, remains marginal to mainstream Jewish studies despite the important implications of such research.119 Hughes positions himself as a scholar of religion first and seems condensed and repurposed (or simply taken over verbatim) from Shared Identities as well. As one means of indexing this marginality, one might peruse the conference schedules and archived 297 • Michael e. Pregill Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 29 (2021) foremost, but his main academic appointment is in Jewish studies, and so his books address numerous problematic approaches and conceptions that remain conspicuous in the latter field: the persistent emphasis on rabbinic normativity; the perennial quest to discern the original roots of an essentialized Judaism; the corresponding neglect of the complex and, yes, fluid nature of Jewish identity at various points in Late Antiquity; and the consequent foreclosure of the possibility that the historical dialogue between Jews and Muslims exerted a significant impact on integral aspects of both. Seen in this light, Hughes’s attempt to revive Wasserstrom’s project is laudable, renewing the call for a more vigorous investigation of this supposedly obscure period in Jewish history and especially for more scholarly activity in this area on the model of the ample attention now paid to the Jewish-Christian “symbiosis” of the early centuries CE.
- keywords: academy; address; ages; ahmed; al-ʿuṣūr; al-ʿuṣūr al; american; antique; antiquity; apocalyptic; approach; arab; arabia; area; argument; article; aspects; attempt; background; basis; beginning; blurred; book; border; boundaries; boundary; boyarin; brill; cambridge; case; categories; centuries; century; chapter; chicago; christian; christianity; claims; clear; coherent; common; communal; communities; community; complex; concept; conception; contemporary; context; critical; crone; cultural; culture; current; decades; difference; discourse; discussion; distinction; doctrina; donner; earlier; early; early islam; early jewish; early muslim; encounter; end; engagement; established; evidence; example; field; figures; form; geiger; goitein; groups; historical; historiography; history; hughes; ibid; ibn; ideas; identities; identity; ideological; impact; important; influence; insights; intellectual; isawiyya; islam; islamic; islamic judaism; islamic period; islamic studies; isrāʾīliyyāt; issues; isḥāq; jewish; jewish identity; jewish studies; jews; journal; judaism; judeo; kind; language; late; lecker; leiden; life; likely; literary; literature; long; maimonides; main; major; making; material; means; medieval; medina; messianic; michael; middle; milieu; modern; movement; muslim; muḥammad; nature; new; normative; normativities; note; notion; novel; number; numerous; older; original; origins; oxford; particular; past; pennsylvania; period; perspective; phenomena; philadelphia; point; political; politics; pregill; premodern; present; press; previous; primary; princeton; princeton university; problematic; problems; project; prophet; question; quran; quranic; qurʾān; rabbinic; real; reality; recent; reference; relations; relevant; religion; religious; religious studies; research; review; rise; sa’adya; scholarly; scholars; scholarship; second; secrets; self; sense; shared; shared identities; shoemaker; significant; social; sources; specific; studies; study; subject; survey; symbiosis; term; text; theoretical; thought; time; today; traditions; treatment; understanding; university; university press; use; value; wasserstrom; way; work; world; wusṭā; years; york; ḥijāz
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- alusur-8904
- author: Burt, Clarissa
- title: Pre-Modern Comparative Literary Practice in the Multilingual Islamic World(s): (Oxford Comparative Criticism and Translation Research Centre/OCCT, University of Oxford, 22–24 July 2021)
- date: 2021-12-05
- words: 4475
- flesch: 69
- summary: p r o p h e t Bringing the P e r s i a n R a d ī f i n t o
- keywords: arabic; century; comparative; conference; d t; e c; e d; e e; e n; e s; g t; h e; islamic; l e; l l; l t; literary; literature; modern; multilingual; n d; n g; n s; n t; o n; ottoman; p e; paper; persian; poetry; practice; pre; quran; r e; r l; r s; r y; s c; s l; s s; s t; sufi; t e; t h; t o; t r; t t; t u; t y; translation; u l; u n; u r; u s; university; use
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- alusur-8905
- author: Slingluff, Sarah
- title: Wendy M. K. Shaw. What Is “Islamic” Art? Between Religion and Perception
- date: 2021-12-05
- words: 2761
- flesch: 69
- summary: “Islamic” Art? elucidates philosophies in Islamic poetry to explicate a theory of perceptual culture in Islamic art. I m a g e ” (chapter 7), inhabits this Christian vs. Islamic dynamic that she criticizes in her assessments of early scholars in the fields of art history and Islamic art, particularly Alois Riegl, Erwin Panofsky, Ernst Kühnel, Oleg Grabar, and Owen Jones.
- keywords: ahmed; art; book; chapter; christian; discussion; e n; e r; e s; field; h e; history; islamic; n s; n t; r t; readers; s s; s t; scholars; shaw; t e; t h; t t; work; wusṭā
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- alusur-8906
- author: Smail, Kader
- title: Daniella Talmon-Heller. Sacred Place and Sacred Time in the Medieval Islamic Middle East: A Historical Perspective
- date: 2021-12-05
- words: 2487
- flesch: 59
- summary: At the intersection of history, anthropology, and religion, Sacred Place and Sacred Time in the Medieval Islamic Middle East examines the dual issues of sacred place and sacred time while surveying the development of rites associated with them. Talmon- Heller considers what a sacred space is and what can be inferred from its geographical location.
- keywords: al-ʿuṣūr; ascalon; book; daniella; early; east; edinburgh; evidence; head; heller; history; islamic; kader; material; medieval; memory; middle; month; new; pilgrimage; place; press; rajab; religious; sacred; sanctity; second; shrines; smail; studies; talmon; time; university; wusṭā; ʿalids; ḥusayn
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- alusur-8907
- author: Fierro, Maribel
- title: Ana Labarta (with Carmen Barceló). Anillos de la Península Ibérica, 711–1611
- date: 2021-12-05
- words: 1601
- flesch: 72
- summary: The medieval religious, legal, and cultural norms related to the use of rings—whatever such norms there were— are dealt with in an illuminating section that highlights the Mālikī dislike of men’s using gold or iron rings; as mentioned, this prohibition is to be related to the almost complete prevalence of silver rings found in Islamic contexts (p. 51). Were gold rings reused, and would such reuse explain their disappearance?
- keywords: ana; arabic; barceló; carmen; gold; iberian; islamic; labarta; muslim; peninsula; religious; rings; study
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- alusur-8908
- author: Albarrán, Javier
- title: Alejandro García Sanjuán. Yihad: La regulación de la guerra en la doctrina islámica clásica
- date: 2021-12-05
- words: 3623
- flesch: 57
- summary: However, as García Sanjuán states, it is not possible to establish a dichotomy between the warlike jihād of the ʿulamāʾ and the spiritual jihād of the Sufis, since war remained, in works such as that of Ibn al-Mubārak, conceptualized as a form of asceticism (pp. 109–10). In addition to outlining his selection of sources, García Sanjuán specifies in the introduction how he will address the study of jihād.
- keywords: al-ʿuṣūr; albarrán; alejandro; author; book; cambridge; chapter; clear; concept; doctrinal; example; garcía; garcía sanjuán; god; h e; holy; ibn; idea; introduction; islamic; javier; jihād; legal; meaning; medieval; n t; notion; o n; perspective; point; practice; press; quranic; s e; s t; sacralization; sanjuán; sources; studies; t h; university; violence; war; warlike; work; wusṭā; yihad; ʿulamāʾ
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- alusur-8909
- author: Raad, Philip
- title: The Mā lidhdhat al-ʿishq illā li-l-majānīn; Ḥiyākat al-kalām; and Lima ishtadda ʿishq al-insān li-hādhā al-ʿālam?
- date: 2021-12-05
- words: 1970
- flesch: 58
- summary: The editors of the series made their selections from the following manuscripts of al-Faraj baʿd al-shidda: MS Istanbul, Fatih Millet Kütüphanesi, Fatih 4013 and MS Istanbul, Nuruosmaniye Kütüphanesi, A limited number of excerpts from Ḥiyākat al-kalām (Weaving Words) have also been adapted into audio recordings in Levantine Mā lidhdhat al-ʿishq illā li-l-majānīn
- keywords: arabic; bilal; disability; editors; faraj; fools; https://www.libraryofarabicliterature.org/ar/books_ar/%d9%84%d9%90%d9%85%d9%8e-%d8%a7%d8%b4%d8%aa%d8%af%d9%91%d9%8e-%d8%b9%d8%b4%d9%82-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%a5%d9%86%d8%b3%d8%a7%d9%86-%d9%84%da%be%d8%b0%d8%a7-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b9%d8%a7%d9%84%d9%85%d8%9f/; humanity; kennedy; library; literature; love; orfali; philip; readers; selections; series; social; texts; university; words; world; young
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- alusur-8910
- author: Bori, Caterina
- title: Konrad Hirschler. A Monument to Medieval Syrian Book Culture: The Library of Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī
- date: 2021-12-05
- words: 4894
- flesch: 69
- summary: Although quite a few of Ibn Taymiyya’s occasional writings are recorded in Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī’s Ibn ʿAbd al-Hādī, also known as Ibn Mibrad, was a minor scholarly personality.
- keywords: al-ʿuṣūr; book; bori; brill; catalog; caterina; chapters; collection; corpus; culture; damascene; damascus; dīn; e n; e r; edinburgh; endowment; fihrist; hadith; hirschler; history; hādī; ibn; ibn ʿabd; important; khirqa; konrad; leiden; library; local; madrasa; manuscripts; material; medieval; monument; muḥammad; n t; notes; o n; philology; project; s e; scholarly; sources; sufi; syrian; t e; taymiyya; transmission; works; wusṭā; yūsuf; ʿabd; ʿabd al; ʿumariyya; ḥanbalism; ḥanbalī; ṣāliḥiyya
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- alusur-8911
- author: Bardi, Alberto
- title: Alexandre M. Roberts. Reason and Revelation in Byzantine Antioch: The Christian Translation Program of Abdallah ibn al-Fadl
- date: 2021-12-05
- words: 3108
- flesch: 69
- summary: o r e accurately by analyzing the social context in which they occurred and by taking manuscript analysis into account and Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 29 (2021) Alexandre M. Roberts’ Reason and Revelation in Byzantine Antioch • 347 studying texts as entities embodied in their transmission and in the flux of history, rather than as abstract entities as in old-school philology. i o n ; i t r e m a i n s t
- keywords: antioch; arabic; book; byzantine; e c; e n; e s; fadl; greek; ibn; n d; n s; n t; o n; philosophy; r e; roberts; s c; s l; s t; science; sources; t e; t h; t r; translations
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- alusur-8912
- author: Montel, Aurélien
- title: Eneko López Martínez de Marigorta. Mercaderes, Artesanos y ulemas: Las ciudades de las coras de Ilbira y Pechina en época omeya
- date: 2021-12-05
- words: 3217
- flesch: 71
- summary: i n t e r e s t d i t e r r
- keywords: almeria; andalus; author; book; century; cities; city; d t; e c; e d; e e; e n; e s; elvira; f t; h e; important; islamic; l e; local; m e; mediterranean; n c; n d; n t; o n; pechina; r e; r t; sources; t e; t h; t o; t s; t t
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- alusur-8913
- author: Ballestín, Xavier
- title: Julián M. Ortega Ortega. La conquista islámica de la Península Ibérica: Una perspectiva arqueológica
- date: 2021-12-05
- words: 4679
- flesch: 63
- summary: Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 29 (2021) Julián M. Ortega Ortega’s La conquista islámica de la Península Ibérica • 332 Ortega’s approach to original sources s Suffice it to say that such a “revolution” has often been understood as a direct and lasting result of t he Islamic conquest.
- keywords: al-ʿuṣūr; andalus; archaeological; armies; attention; book; c t; conquest; culture; data; e g; e l; e n; e s; e u; f t; field; gothorum; h e; iberian; islamic; material; middle; n c; n d; n s; n t; new; o n; o t; ortega; p t; r e; r t; regnum; research; s o; s s; s t; s u; settlements; sources; t e; t h; t l; t t; u n; u r; u t; wusṭā
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- alusur-9040
- author: Huseini, Said Reza
- title: The Rebellion of al-Ḥārith b. Surayj (116–28/734–46): The Local Perspective
- date: 2022-12-01
- words: 20407
- flesch: 66
- summary: Scholars have argued that al-Ḥārith exploited current messianic expectations among Muslims with his use of black symbolism.118 P. Bearman et al.
- keywords: abbasid; abū al; afghanistan; african; akhbār; al-ʿuṣūr al; allāh; arab; arab muslim; arabic; article; asad; asia; authority; aʿtham; aʿtham al; aḥmad; b. al; b. surayj; b. ʿabd; background; bactrian; bactrian documents; bactrian rulers; balkh; balādhurī; banners; battle; beginning; beirut; black; blankinship; brill; buddhist; caliph; cambridge; central; century; china; chinese; city; coins; color; conquest; context; control; conversion; converts; des; different; dirhams; documents; dār al; early; east; eastern; economic; edinburgh; eighth; elites; empire; encyclopaedia; end; et al; evidence; forces; frontier; futūḥ; gardīzī; garrison; government; governor; groups; guzgan; haug; history; huseini; ibid; ibn; important; information; instance; iranian; iraq; islam; islamic; jihād; jizya; khurasan; khurāsān; king; kitāb al; large; later; leaders; legal; leiden; local; local arab; local bactrian; local rulers; london; malik; marw; medieval; middle; military; modern; movement; murjiʾa; muslim; muḥammad; muḥammad al; narratives; naṣr; new; non; northern; number; online; oriental; oxford; people; period; personal; phd; policy; political; population; power; powerful; press; princeton; qaghān; qurʾān; qutayba; rebellion; region; regional; relations; religious; revolt; revolution; reza; role; rulers; sasanian; school; sears; shūrā; sims; situation; social; society; sogdian; soldiers; sources; state; steppe; studies; sunna; support; supporters; surayj; tax; taʾrīkh; taʾrīkh al; tehran; time; troops; turks; türgesh; umayyad; university; university press; vaissière; war; western; williams; wusṭā; ʿabbāsid; ʿabd al; ḥārith; ḥārith b.; ṭabarī
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- alusur-9044
- author: Hagemann, Hannah-Lena
- title: Was Muṭarrif b. al-Mughīra al-Thaqafī a Khārijite? Rebellion in the Early Marwānid Period
- date: 2022-12-01
- words: 13570
- flesch: 68
- summary: Michael Jan de Goeje et al., 3 parts in 16 vols. P. Bearman et al.
- keywords: 2nd; abū; account; akhbār; akhbār al; al-ʿuṣūr; al-ʿuṣūr al; ansāb; article; ashʿath; athīr; authority; b. al; bakkār; balādhurī; battle; beirut; brief; brill; brother; caliphate; cambridge; case; century; context; crone; different; dixon; dār al; early; edinburgh; encyclopaedia; et al; fact; family; father; following; god; governor; hagemann; hannah; historical; history; ibid; ibn al; instance; iraqi; islamic; issue; jawzī; khawārij; khārijism; khārijite; kitāb; kitāb al; kāmil; kūfa; later; leiden; lena; london; madāʾin; main; malik; marwānid; material; mikhnaf; miskawayh; mughīra al; muhallab; muslim; muḥammad; muṣʿab; muṭarrif; new; nuwayrī; paper; particular; people; period; piety; point; press; prophet; question; qum; rebellion; rebels; report; revolt; rule; scholarship; second; section; shaban; shabīb; shūrā; sources; states; studies; study; support; supporters; taʾrīkh; taʾrīkh al; thaqafī; tradition; tribal; troops; umayyad; university; uprising; version; work; wusṭā; yazīd; zubayr; ʿabd al; ʿumar; ʿurwa; ḥajjāj; ḥamza; ṭabarī
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- alusur-9328
- author: Şimşek, Ayşegül
- title: Portrait of a Jurist between Obedience and Rebellion: The Case of Abū Ḥanīfa
- date: 2022-12-01
- words: 10760
- flesch: 71
- summary: Kitāb al-Aṣl is one of the earliest Islamic legal texts, and in it al-Shaybānī aims to collect his master Abū Ḥanīfa’s teachings. Kitāb al-Sunna, two of Abū Ḥanīfa’s students, Ibn al-Mubārak (d. 181/797) and Abū Yūsuf (d. 182/798), state that Abū Ḥanīfa approved the sword (yarā al-sayf).23
- keywords: 2nd; abbasid; absaṭ; abī; abū; abū al; abū jaʿfar; abū ḥanīfa; akbar; al-ʿuṣūr al; allāh; armed; ayşegül; aṣl; b. al; b. ʿalī; baghy; beirut; brill; brothers; caliph; cambridge; chapter; claim; community; dhahab; dār; dār al; dīn; early; edinburgh; ess; fiqh; god; ibn; ibn al; ibrāhīm; ibrāhīm al; image; imam; islamic; iṣfahānī; jaʿfar; jaṣṣāṣ; jurist; kitāb; kitāb al; later; legitimacy; leiden; maqātil; maqātil al; masʿūdī; murūj; muslim; muḥammad; new; obedience; people; portrait; press; prophet; qurashī; rebellion; rebels; reports; revolt; right; rulers; scholars; sources; support; text; theology; tārīkh; ṭālibiyyīn; umayyad; university; unjust; van; views; wrong; wusṭā; york; zayd; zayd b.; şimşek; ʿabd; ʿabd al; ʿalī; ḥanafī; ḥanīfa; ḥasan; ṭabarī
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- alusur-9331
- author: Stokes, Phillip W.
- title: Key to the Kingdom: Variation as a Key to Understanding the Arabic Gospel Manuscripts
- date: 2023-02-13
- words: 19597
- flesch: 62
- summary: Specifically, I document and test whether and how lexical, grammatical, and orthographic variation form meaningful patterns across Arabic Gospel manuscripts by comparing instances of idiosyncratic variation in each domain. The scholarship on the comparison of Arabic Gospel manuscripts and the establishment of Vorlagen as well as genetic relationships between families based on those Vorlagen is long, and a full review is beyond the scope of the present paper.12 I will take Kashouh’s classification as a starting point and reference other proposals as relevant to the data presented below.13
- keywords: accusative; al-ʿuṣūr; alif; analysis; approach; arabe; arabic; arabic gospel; arabic versions; blau; borg; brill; case; christian; classical; classical arabic; close; clustering; comparison; component; corpus; data; degree; different; discussion; distinct; distribution; early; example; fact; families; family; family jb; features; figure; form; god; gospel; grammar; grammatical; grammatical variation; group; heaven; history; idiosyncratic; important; inflection; instances; islamic; jc 3; kashouh; key; kingdom; language; leiden; lexical; linguistic; malakūt; manuscripts; matthew; meaningful; men; middle; middle arabic; nature; nominal; nominative; non; nunated; order; orthographic; particular; patterns; pca; phillip; phrase; plural; possible; principal; putten; related; relationships; results; sar; scribal; scribes; second; section; shared; significant; similar; sinai; sinai arabic; single; singular; spelling; stokes; studies; study; table; tanwīn; text; textual; thousands; traditions; translations; understanding; university; use; van; variants; variation; vat; verbal; versions; vocalized; ways; word; wusṭā; ʾilay; ت ت
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- alusur-9394
- author: Grant, Philip
- title: Entangled Symbols: Silk and the Material Semiosis of the Zanj Rebellion (869–83)
- date: 2022-12-01
- words: 15800
- flesch: 59
- summary: Whitfield, Silk, 206; Eilers et al., “Abrīšam iii.” 74. It began in Basra in 255/869 with one ʿAlī b. Muḥammad, probably an Arab from a village named Warzanīn near Rayy, who claimed both to be an ʿAlid (according to our admittedly hostile sources, al-Ṭabarī and al-Masʿūdī),3 with a variety of different genealogies, and to hear voices from heaven.
- keywords: abū; access; account; africa; agency; al-ʿuṣūr al; analysis; army; art; attention; b. al; baghdad; balfour; banner; basra; bechtold; black; blue; brill; bulliet; caliph; cambridge; centuries; century; chichester; clear; cloth; color; colorants; commander; cotton; course; cultivation; culture; david; defectors; details; different; dimensions; distribution; dumit; dyes; early; east; economic; edinburgh; egypt; entangled; entanglement; evidence; example; fighting; forces; form; fragment; garments; gifts; gordon; government; grant; green; handbook; haraway; historians; historical; history; honor; human; ibid; ibn; importance; indigo; iran; islamic; jacoby; journal; khilaʿ; khilʿa; labor; later; leiden; london; long; luʾluʾ; making; material; materiality; means; medieval; men; modern; morus; mukhtāra; mulberry; museum; muslim; mussak; muwaffaq; muḥammad; natural; new; notes; number; object; online; paris; paul; persian; philip; place; political; popovic; possible; press; processes; production; range; rebellion; rebels; red; revolt; robes; role; science; semiosis; semiotic; september; shaylama; shibl; silk; silk cloth; silk robes; slaves; social; sources; sourdel; state; stewart; studies; study; symbolic; symbols; taʾrīkh; textiles; textual; things; time; trade; trans; troops; turn; university; uprising; use; war; white; wiley; women; work; world; writing; wusṭā; york; zanj; zanj rebellion; zanj rebels; ʿabbasid; ʿalī; ḥasan; ṭabarī; ṭirāz
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- alusur-9499
- author: Dar, Alon
- title: Governors and Provincial Elites in Umayyad Egypt: A Case Study of One “Rebellion” (709–10 CE)
- date: 2022-12-01
- words: 8689
- flesch: 68
- summary: The coexistence of elite families in Egypt meant that provincial governors had to balance a complex and delicate sociopolitical arrangement. Immediately after assassinating the governor, they sent a letter to the caliph, expressing their loyalty to him despite their act.38 Here, again, it is tempting to analyze the case as a matter of “weak” or “strong” government, but it is important to recognize that plots to kill governors were dealt with depending on the power relations in the particular situation and that the Umayyad political system allowed the reintegration of rebels, even at the very high position of provincial governor.
- keywords: abī; account; al-ʿuṣūr al; alexandria; allāh; arab; b. al; b. ʿabd; banū; birdī; caliph; caliphate; case; century; chief; competition; confrontation; dar; dār al; early; egypt; elites; encyclopaedia; fahm; families; family; governor; hagemann; history; ibn; ibn yūnus; important; islamic; kindī; leaders; local; malik; members; military; mosque; muʿāwiya; new; notables; office; oxford; period; police; political; position; power; press; province; provincial; qurra; qurra b.; raḥmān; rebellion; rebels; religious; rifāʿa; role; sharīk; shurṭa; social; sources; state; studies; taghrī; tribal; tribe; umayyad; university; wulāt; wusṭā; yūnus; ʿabd al; ʿumar; ḥudayj; ṣāḥib; ṣāḥib al
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- alusur-9651
- author: Roohi, Ehsan
- title: A Form-Critical Analysis of the al-Rajīʿ and Biʾr Maʿūna Stories: Tribal, Ideological, and Legal Incentives behind the Transmission of the Prophet’s Biography
- date: 2022-10-17
- words: 29947
- flesch: 68
- summary: Some time would have had to pass such that the traditionists, now seeing the late-Umayyad crucifixions in retrospect, recognized these incidents as fitting for the elaboration of the story of al-Rajīʿ. See Kister, “Biʾr Maʿūna,” 342; Watt, Muhammad at Medina, 34; Arafat, “The Development of a Dramatic Theme,” 15; Jones, “The Chronology of the Maghāzī,” 267, where al-Rajīʿ and Biʾr Maʿūna are considered roughly simultaneous; Watt, Muhammad at Medina, 33, where the mission is taken as a proselytizing one; Kister, “Biʾr Maʿūna,” 356, where Nawfal’s role at al-Rajīʿ is accepted as a historical fact; and Keshk, “The Historiography of an Execution,” 13, where the author assigns the primary status to Khubayb’s story vis-à-vis Hujr’s. 230.
- keywords: 2nd; abū al; accounts; african; al-ʿilmiyya; al-ʿuṣūr al; allāh; analysis; ansāb; anthony; anṣār; approach; arabic; arafat; article; aws; aḥwaṣ; b. al; b. thābit; b. ʿabd; b. ʿalī; b. ʿawf; b. ʿuqba; b. ḥazm; banū al; bayhaqī; beirut; berg; biblical; biography; biʾr; biʾr maʿūna; body; book; brill; bulletin; caliphate; cambridge; case; century; certain; character; christian; clan; community; companions; conrad; context; critical; criticism; crucified; crucifixion; dalāʾil al; darwin; david; day; death; der; development; dimashq; donner; dramatic; dār al; early; early islamic; east; ehsan; encyclopaedia; end; episode; et al; events; evidence; example; execution; expeditions; fact; faizer; family; faḍāʾil; fikr; following; form; form criticism; genesis; god; great; hishām; historical; historiography; history; hudhayl; ibid; ibn; ibn al; ibn hishām; ibn isḥāq; imtāʿ al; islam; islamic; issue; isḥāq; iḥyāʾ al; iṣfahānī; jewish; jews; john; journal; juynboll; khazraj; khubayb; khubayb b.; kister; kitāb al; kutub; later; lawrence; lecker; leiden; life; literary; literature; london; madīnat; maghāzī; man; martyrdom; martyrs; massacre; material; maʿmar; maʿrifat al; maʿūna; maʿūna stories; mecca; medieval; medina; members; method; michael; min; motifs; motzki; murder; muslim; muḍar; muḥammad; muḥammad al; mūsā; mūsā b.; n.d; najjār; narratives; nawfal; naḍīr; new; noth; number; oriental; origins; oxford; participants; people; period; place; poem; poetry; political; prayer; present; press; princeton; prophet; question; quraysh; qurayẓa; qurʾān; raid; rajīʿ; rasūl; raḥmān al; religious; reports; roohi; routledge; rāshid; saʿd; saʿīd al; scholars; school; schöller; sectarian; sheffield; shihāb al; shīʿī; significance; similar; sitz; social; society; sources; state; stories; story; studies; study; sulaym; sīra; sīra al; tafsīr; taʾrīkh; taʾrīkh al; theme; thābit; time; topoi; tradition; trans; transmission; tribal; tribe; turāth; umayya al; umayyad; university; usd al; watt; way; words; wusṭā; wāqidī; york; zayd; zayd b.; zuhrī; ʿabd al; ʿadī; ʿalā al; ʿalī; ʿamr b.; ʿasākir; ʿawf; ʿulūm al; ʿumar; ʿuqba; ʿurwa; ʿuthmān; ʿāmir; ʿāmir b.; ʿāṣim; ʿāṣim b.; ḥadīth; ḥanẓala al; ḥassān; ḥassān b.; ḥazm; ḥujr; ḥusayn; ṭabaqāt; ṭabarī
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- alusur-9935
- author: Sijpesteijn, Petra M.
- title: Closing Ranks: Discipline and Loyalty in the Umayyad Army
- date: 2022-12-01
- words: 18421
- flesch: 62
- summary: Even ʿAbd al-Raḥmān’s critical report to the caliph and ʿAbd al-Malik’s expression of support for ʿAbd al-Raḥmān and trust in his judgment fail to impress al-Ḥajjāj.97 Another remonstration to the caliph, however, ends less well for the governor. P. Bearman et al., 3:39–43 (Leiden: Brill, 1971), at 41, that the troops returned “at the instigation of Bishr” seems a mistake.
- keywords: 2nd; abbasid; absolute; abī; account; actions; administrative; ahl; al-ʿuṣūr al; allāh; allāh b.; amān; anas; ansāb; arabic; army; arrival; article; ashrāf; authority; b. al; baker; balādhurī; battle; baṣra; behavior; bishr; brill; caliph; caliph ʿabd; caliphal; caliphate; cambridge; camp; case; century; closing; conflict; context; control; crone; crucifixion; death; decision; different; earlier; early; edinburgh; edition; egypt; empire; et al; events; example; family; fighting; firnhaber; followers; form; general; god; good; governance; government; governor; hagemann; handbook; hannah; historical; history; hudhayl; ibid; ibn al; image; inhabitants; introduction; iraq; islamic; issue; jārūd; khālid; khārijites; klasova; kāmil; kūfa; late; leaders; leiden; lena; letter; like; liverpool; local; main; malik; marsham; marwānid; masʿūdī; medieval; men; military; min; mubarrad; muhallab; murūj; muslim; new; obedience; order; oxford; past; pay; people; petra; point; policy; political; position; power; present; press; protest; public; punishment; ranks; rebellion; rebels; resistance; revolt; routledge; rule; safe; sayed; schonaers; sharīk; sijpesteijn; similar; slaves; soldiers; sources; state; stipends; structure; studies; study; supporters; syrian; system; taʾrīkh; threat; time; tribal; troops; umayyad; university; university press; use; violence; violent; vols; way; words; writing; wusṭā; yazīd; years; york; yūsuf; zubayr; ʿabd al; ʿamr; ḥajjāj; ḥajjāj b.; ṭabarī
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- alusur-9995
- author: Sijpesteijn, Petra M.; Dar, Alon
- title: Introduction: Acts of Rebellion and Revolt in the Early Islamic Caliphate
- date: 2022-12-01
- words: 4045
- flesch: 47
- summary: Such rebellions required long and careful preparation and organization. Such rebellions did not intend to end interactions but rather sought to maintain bonds in order to communicate grievances and thereby negotiate a different relationship.5
- keywords: abū; acts; al-ʿuṣūr; alon; authorities; baker; brill; caliphate; cambridge; case; dar; diverse; dossier; early; egypt; empire; firnhaber; governance; groups; hagemann; handbook; history; huseini; individuals; introduction; islamic; leiden; local; material; medieval; movements; petra; political; press; princeton; rebellions; rebels; relationships; revolt; routledge; schonaers; shows; sijpesteijn; social; sources; state; studies; system; umayyad; university; world; wusṭā
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