Serija: Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture
(Išleidimo metai: 30-Jun-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781399538732)
This study explores the distinctive features of Fatimid ideology and propaganda, as demonstrated in the largest and most notable mosque of this era, built in Cairo during the Fatimid period (909-1171 AD). It specifically examines the numerous Quranic...Daugiau...
Serija: Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture
(Išleidimo metai: 31-May-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781474492263)
Offers the first book-length study of archiving in the Cairo sultanate. Archives are not only sources for history but have their own histories too, which shape how historians can tell stories of the past. This book explores the archival histo...Daugiau...
Serija: Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture
(Išleidimo metai: 30-Apr-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781399522052)
Explores how the story about al- usayns death at Karbala developed into a paradigmatic myth in formative Shi ism. In 680 CE al- usayn ibn ?Ali, the grandson of the Prophet Mu ammad, was killed in a battle at Karbala. Ancient accounts desc...Daugiau...
Surveys a turbulent chapter of Syrian history from multiple perspectives, recalibrating the underlying power dynamics of the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries. Between 1050 and 1128 the nomadic Seljuq Turks and European Crus...Daugiau...
Serija: Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture
(Išleidimo metai: 31-Dec-2024, Hardback, Leidėjas: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781399530187)
Studies rebellion as historical phenomenon and literary construct in early Islamicate contexts. Between Rebels and Rulers in the Early Islamicate World offers the first dedicated examination of the phenomenon of rebellion across the ea...Daugiau...
Examines ?Attars didactic poetry in historical context from a rhetorical, reader-centered perspective Much Persian sufi literature is explicitly didactic, aiming to instruct its readers and motivate pious reform. Moving beyond a re...Daugiau...
Explores the only known private book collection from medieval Jerusalem This book discusses the only known private book collection from pre-Ottoman Jerusalem for which we have a trail of documents. It belonged to an otherwise unknow...Daugiau...
The second Muslim caliph, Umar ibn al-Khattab, once reportedly exclaimed, I do not know how to treat Zoroastrians! He and other Muslims encountered Zoroastrians during the conquest of Arabia but struggled to formulate a consistent policy toward...Daugiau...
Shows how and why an ancient city destroyed and then rebuilt by Mongols became the Pearl of the Iranian east This book tells the history of Herat, from its desolation under Chingiz Khan in 1222, to its capitulation to Tamerlane in...Daugiau...
Political Thought in the Mamluk Period covers the political thought produced by legal theorists, jurists, judges and administrators of the late Ayyubid and early Mamluk period as they tackled a central question: how best to govern their c...Daugiau...
Serija: Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture
(Išleidimo metai: 30-Jun-2023, Hardback, Leidėjas: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781399503174)
Surveys a turbulent chapter of Syrian history from multiple perspectives, recalibrating the underlying power dynamics of the late eleventh and early twelfth centuries. Between 1050 and 1128 the nomadic Seljuq Turks and European Crus...Daugiau...
Analyses the narrative function of Kharijism in 9th- and 10th-century Islamic historiography Why are stories told about the Kharijites? The Islamic tradition portrays Kharijism as a heretical movement of militantly pious zealots, a...Daugiau...
Serija: Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture
(Išleidimo metai: 23-Feb-2023, Hardback, Leidėjas: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781474492065)
This book discusses the only known private book collection from pre-Ottoman Jerusalem for which we have a trail of documents. It belonged to an otherwise unknown resident, Burhan al-Din; after his death, his books were sold in a public auction and...Daugiau...
Serija: Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture
(Išleidimo metai: 21-Feb-2023, Hardback, Leidėjas: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781474475112)
Much Persian sufi literature is explicitly didactic, aiming to instruct its readers and motivate pious reform. Moving beyond a recapitulation of religious content, The Poetics of Spiritual Instruction investigates the performative function of didacti...Daugiau...
During the rise of Islam, Muslim fascination with Christian monastic life was articulated through a fluid, piety-centred movement. Bradley Bowman explores this confessional synthesis between like-minded religious groups in the medieval Near East. He...Daugiau...
Jokha Alharthi re-appraises the relationship between love, poetry and Arab society in the 8th to 11th centuries. She avoids clich s about the purity of love in Udhri poetry, instead questioning the traditional emphasis on chastity and the assumptio...Daugiau...
Mustafa Banister presents a thorough investigation of a forgotten dynasty: the Cairene descendants of the Abbasid family. He uncovers the public and private lives of the 18 men invested as caliphs during the period of Mamluk rule in Egypt and Syria...Daugiau...
The balsam of Matarea was a substance famous as a panacea among physicians in the Middle East and Europe during the Antique and Medieval periods. It was used in many aspects of medieval life and is associated with figures such as the Virgin Mary,...Daugiau...
Serija: Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture
(Išleidimo metai: 29-Nov-2022, Hardback, Leidėjas: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781474489522)
The second Muslim caliph, Umar ibn al-Khattab, once reportedly exclaimed, I do not know how to treat Zoroastrians! He and other Muslims encountered Zoroastrians during the conquest of Arabia but struggled to formulate a consistent policy toward the...Daugiau...
Serija: Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture
(Išleidimo metai: 30-Sep-2022, Hardback, Leidėjas: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781474499347)
Shows how and why an ancient city destroyed and then rebuilt by Mongols became the Pearl of the Iranian east This book tells the history of Herat, from its desolation under Chingiz Khan in 1222, to its capitulation to Tamerlane in...Daugiau...
Serija: Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture
(Išleidimo metai: 03-Feb-2022, Hardback, Leidėjas: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781474479646)
Covers the political thought produced by legal theorists, jurists, judges and administrators of the late Ayyubid and early Mamluk period as they tackled a central question: how best to govern their communities. Political Thought...Daugiau...
This book traces the journey of new Muslims as they joined the early Islamic community and articulated their identities within it. It focuses on Muslims of slave origins, who belonged to the society in which they lived but whose slave background r...Daugiau...
This book offers a fresh perspective on religious culture in the medieval Middle East. It investigates the ways Muslims thought about and practiced at sacred spaces and in sacred times through two detailed case studies: the shrines in honour of th...Daugiau...
This book shows how political and administrative forces shaped the way justice was applied in medieval Egypt. It introduces the model that evolved during the 7th to the 9th centuries, which involved 4 judicial institutions: t...Daugiau...
Serija: Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture
(Išleidimo metai: 09-Nov-2021, Hardback, Leidėjas: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781474485982)
Classical Islam presents studies of the career of the Prophet Muhammad and the environment from which he sprang; the evolution of Islamic mysticism; political thought; and philosophical themes. It also includes investigations into the development of...Daugiau...
Serija: Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture
(Išleidimo metai: 09-Nov-2021, Hardback, Leidėjas: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781474485906)
The papers collected in Islam and the Crusades showcase multiple perspectives, especially as viewed from the Muslim side. The volume explores the distinctive nature of Islamic jihad as expressed in poetry, sermons and inscriptions; the development of...Daugiau...
Serija: Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture
(Išleidimo metai: 09-Nov-2021, Hardback, Leidėjas: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781474485944)
This volume explores the impact of the Turks on the medieval Islamic world. It covers themes such as nomadism, shamanism, clan and social structure, the role of women, military expertise, engagement with Islamic orthodoxy and the daily interface betw...Daugiau...
In the late medieval period, manuscripts galore circulated in Middle Eastern libraries. Yet very few book collections have come down to us as such or have left a documentary trail. This book discusses the largest private book collection of the pre...Daugiau...
