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Author: Linda G. Jones
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012-08-06
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 110702305X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA remarkable book analysing the importance of oratory for transmitting religious knowledge, legitimising rulers and inculcating moral values in the medieval Islamic world.
Author: Yosi Yisraeli
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2016-12-08
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 1317160274
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Mediterranean and its hinterlands were the scene of intensive and transformative contact between cultures in the Middle Ages. From the seventh to the seventeenth century, the three civilizations into which the region came to be divided geographically – the Islamic Khalifate, the Byzantine Empire, and the Latin West – were busily redefining themselves vis-à-vis one another. Interspersed throughout the region were communities of minorities, such as Christians in Muslim lands, Muslims in Christian lands, heterodoxical sects, pagans, and, of course, Jews. One of the most potent vectors of interaction and influence between these communities in the medieval world was inter-religious conversion: the process whereby groups or individuals formally embraced a new religion. The chapters of this book explore this dynamic: what did it mean to convert to Christianity in seventh-century Ireland? What did it mean to embrace Islam in tenth-century Egypt? Are the two phenomena comparable on a social, cultural, and legal level? The chapters of the book also ask what we are able to learn from our sources, which, at times, provide a very culturally-charged and specific conversion rhetoric. Taken as a whole, the compositions in this volume set out to argue that inter-religious conversion was a process that was recognizable and comparable throughout its geographical and chronological purview.
Author: Sara Scalenghe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-07-21
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 1107044790
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is the first on the history of both physical and mental disabilities in the Middle East and North Africa during Ottoman rule.
Author: Mimi Hanaoka
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-09-09
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1316785246
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntriguing dreams, improbable myths, fanciful genealogies, and suspect etymologies. These were all key elements of the historical texts composed by scholars and bureaucrats on the peripheries of Islamic empires between the tenth and fifteenth centuries. But how are historians to interpret such narratives? And what can these more literary histories tell us about the people who wrote them and the times in which they lived? In this book, Mimi Hanaoka offers an innovative, interdisciplinary method of approaching these sorts of local histories from the Persianate world. By paying attention to the purpose and intention behind a text's creation, her book highlights the preoccupation with authority to rule and legitimacy within disparate regional, provincial, ethnic, sectarian, ideological and professional communities. By reading these texts in such a way, Hanaoka transforms the literary patterns of these fantastic histories into rich sources of information about identity, rhetoric, authority, legitimacy, and centre-periphery relations.
Author: Ayşe Almıla Akca, Mona Feise-Nasr, Leonie Stenske, Aydın Süer
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2023-08-07
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 3110788365
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: A. C. S. Peacock
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-10-17
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 1108499368
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new understanding of the transformation of Anatolia to a Muslim society in the thirteenth-fourteenth centuries based on previously unpublished sources.
Author: Hassan S. Khalilieh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-05-02
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1108481450
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis pioneering research brings into focus the Islamic contribution and influence in the development of the modern law of the sea.
Author: Alison Vacca
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-09-21
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 1107188512
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the Christian caliphal provinces of Armenia and Caucasian Albania as part of the larger Iranian cultural sphere.
Author: Jonathan E. Brockopp
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-08-10
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 1108509061
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMuslim scholars are a vital part of Islam, and are sometimes considered 'heirs to the prophets', continuing Muhammad's work of establishing Islam in the centuries after his death. But this was not always the case: indeed, Muslims survived the turmoil of their first century largely without the help of scholars. In this book, Jonathan Brockopp seeks to determine the nature of Muslim scholarly communities and to account for their emergence from the very beginning of the Muslim story until the mid-tenth century. By analysing coins, papyri and Arabic literary manuscripts from the ancient mosque-library of Kairouan, Tunisia, Brockopp offers a new interpretation of Muslim scholars' rise to positions of power and influence, serving as moral guides and the chief arbiters of Muslim tradition. This book will be of great benefit to scholars of comparative religion and advanced students in Middle Eastern history, Islamic Studies, Islamic Law and early Islamic literature.
Author: Ahmed Fekry Ibrahim
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-08-09
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1108651178
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPre-modern Muslim jurists drew a clear distinction between the nurturing and upkeep of children, or 'custody', and caring for the child's education, discipline, and property, known as 'guardianship'. Here, Ahmed Fekry Ibrahim analyzes how these two concepts relate to the welfare of the child, and traces the development of an Islamic child welfare jurisprudence akin to the Euro-American concept of the best interests of the child, enshrined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Challenging Euro-American exceptionalism, he argues that child welfare played an essential role in agreements designed by early modern Egyptian judges and families, and that Egyptian child custody laws underwent radical transformations in the modern period. Focusing on a variety of themes, including matters of age and gender, the mother's marital status, and the custodian's lifestyle and religious affiliation, Ibrahim shows that there is an exaggerated gap between the modern concept of the best interests of the child and pre-modern Egyptian approaches to child welfare.
