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The rise of the Arabic book
\"During the thirteenth century, Europe's largest library owned fewer than 2,000 volumes. Libraries in the Arab world at the time had exponentially larger collections. Five libraries in Baghdad alone held between 200,000 and 1,000,000 books each, including multiple copies of standard works so that their many patrons could enjoy simultaneous access. How did the Arabic codex become so popular during the Middle Ages, even as the well-established form languished in Europe? Beatrice Gruendler's The Rise of the Arabic Book answers this question through in-depth stories of bookmakers and book collectors, stationers and librarians, scholars and poets of the ninth century. The history of the book has been written with an outsize focus on Europe. The role books played in shaping the great literary cultures of the world beyond the West has been less known-until now. An internationally renowned expert in classical Arabic literature, Gruendler corrects this oversight and takes us into the rich literary milieu of early Arabic letters\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Featured Reviews: Islam and Nationhood in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Surviving Empires. By Xavier Bougarel,. Trans. Christopher Mobley,. Islam of the Global West. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018, xii, 262 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Tables. Maps. $114.00, hard bound
According to Bougarel, the imperial legacies that have informed and reshaped political projects and social realities in the region include Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian frameworks, traces from the local histories of the earlier Byzantine and Venetian empires, as well as more direct and strong influences from the quasi-imperial political projects of the interwar and the post-1945 Yugoslav states. Furthermore, the political leadership turned to the Muslim world for help, which arrived in the form of military assistance, humanitarian aid, and foreign jihadists. Furthermore, re-Islamization campaigns helped widen the divide between the country's diverse communities. Since mid-2000s, the IC has resumed its role as a national proxy institution, taking advantage of the SDA weakness.
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Risale-i Mi'mariyye: An Early-Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Treatise on Architecture
In his introduction, Crane notes that the education, activities and historical environment of the Ottoman architect are still poorly known (pp. 2-3). Since the second edition, including the bibliography and footnotes as well as Crane's general introduction to sources, has not been updated, these remarks do not take into account Gülru Necipoglu's comprehensive work The Age of Sinan (Princeton, 2005) and Crane's own critical edition and translation Sinan's Autobiographies:Five Sixteenth-Century Texts (Brill, 2006). Crane's translation of hendese as mathematics and temsil as analogy (p. 20) do not correspond to Cafer's conscious choice of words that becomes noticeable when considered in relation to the entire contents of the book.
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Islamic Manuscripts
Book reviewed in this article: The Book in the Islamic World: The Written Word and Communication in the Middle East, George N. Attiyeh, editor A Manuscript Catalogue of Some Private Collections in Yemen, Abdullah Mohammed Al‐Hibshy, compiler Julian Yohansin, editor
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An Ottoman Century: The District of Jerusalem in the 1600s
These issues, as well as the integration of the district of Jerusalem in the emerging world economy and its political implications, make this study an important contribution to the comparative study of Ottoman and world history. In his detailed examination, Ze'evi uses Ottoman, Arabic, and Western contemporary sources and makes constant use of current research on the Ottoman empire, the Islamic world, and various aspects of the study of history in general. As a result, he helps to bring the study of Palestine and the Ottoman empire out of the margins of the historical debate. Within two centuries, the Ottoman principality in western Anatolia became a world empire, a major power to reckon with in Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Mediterranean basin. There are several theories that try to explain how this particular dynasty reached these heights while others disappeared within a few generations. Among the reasons suggested is the Ottoman way of rule. While many studies focused on the center of the empire in its formative years, it is just as important to examine how, as the empire spread beyond its nucleus in later periods, the Ottomans dealt with newly acquired territories. With the conquest of the Arabic-speaking regions in the sixteenth century, the empire grew tremendously and became much more heterogeneous. Ze'evi's study is a detailed examination of how the district of Jerusalem evolved to become a typical Ottoman region in the seventeenth century. The study is based on Ottoman archival sources (both local from the Shari(c)a courts of law and from the central archives in Istanbul), Arabic contemporary sources, European travel descriptions, as well as modern studies. The book includes an introduction, seven chapters, conclusion, notes, bibliography, and an index.
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