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Indo-Muslim Cultures in Transition
The authors in this volume analyze the rich layers of circulation and exchange of art, architecture, and literature within South Asia from the sixteenth through the twentieth centuries, focusing on the interaction of Muslims and Islamic traditions with other people and traditions there.
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Abbasid studies IV : occasional papers of the School of Abbasid Studies Leuven, July 5-July 9, 2010
A mosaic of ʻAbbāsid studies / Monique Bernards -- Of mummies, poets, and water nymphs : tracing the codicological limits of Ibn Khurradādhbih's geography / Travis Zadeh -- Who invited the microcosm? / Emily Selove -- Tyrant dreamers face Abrahamite interpreters : a recurring motif in al-Ṭabarī's history / Johan Weststeijn -- The rhetoric of gifts, or, When objects talk / Antonella Ghersetti -- A grammarian's life in his own voice : autobiographical fragments in Arabic biographical literature / Letizia Osti -- A preliminary study of al-Shāfiʻīʼs Ibṭāl al-Istiḥsān : appearance, reality, and legal interpretation / Joseph E. Lowry -- Abū Isḥāq al-Naẓẓām : the ultimate constituents of nature are simple properties and Rūḥ / David Bennett -- The enigmatic reign of al-Wāthiq / John P. Turner -- Ibn Qutayba and the Ahl Khurāsān : the Shuʻūbiyya revisited / Ignacio Sánchez -- Al-Maʼmūn's military units and their commanders up to the end of the Siege of Baghdad (195/810-198/813) / Amikam Elad.
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The contemporary Arab contribution to world culture: an Arab-Western dialogue
This volume comprises a selection of papers delivered at a research meeting of the International Association of Intercultural Studies (IAIS) which took place on the premises of UNESCO in Paris in March, 2009. As suggested by its title, it addresses prejudices prevailing not only in Western societies, but also in marginalised ones, especially among their Western-oriented intelligentsia.
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Cosmopolitanisms in Muslim Contexts
This volume focuses on moments in world history when cosmopolitan ideas and actions pervaded specific Muslim societies and cultures, exploring the tensions between regional cultures, isolated enclaves and modern nation-states. Models from the past are chosen from 4 geographic areas: the Swahili coast, the Ottoman Empire/ Turkey, Iran and Indo-Pakistan. Each region is covered in 2 chapters, proving a basis for the comparison of specific cosmopolitan instances in Muslim contexts.Cosmopolitanism is a key concept in social and political thought, standing in opposition to closed human group ideologies such as tribalism, nationalism and fundamentalism. Much recent discussion of this concept has been situated within Western self-perceptions with little inclusion of information from Muslim contexts; this volume redresses the balance.
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From codicology to technology : Islamic manuscripts and their place in scholarship
Long description: Islamic manuscripts are voices from the past, revealing scholarly debates and networks, as well as aspects of daily life. They allow us to witness the transmission of knowledge and economic and cultural exchanges of centuries gone by. The present articles mirror this variety of aspects involved when dealing with Islamic manuscripts, and emphasize their importance as sources for our knowledge of history. The articles cover research on single manuscripts, as well as collections, the problems of editing, as well as cataloguing. New technologies have extended the possibilities of preserving and presenting manuscripts – accessible online, digitised and catalogued, they serve an international research community and become a worldwide cultural heritage.
Biographical note: Stefanie Brinkmann is lecturer at the Institute of Oriental Studies at Leipzig University, Germany. She is active as team member of projects on Islamic manuscripts held at Leipzig University Library. Educated in Arabic and Persian Studies, as well as Italian Philology, she holds a PhD in Arabic Studies.
Beate Wiesmueller has been research associate in projects on cataloguing Islamic manuscripts and Oriental rare books. Since 2006 she is research associate in Leipzig for projects on Islamic manuscripts. She has authored several publications on Oriental collections and holds a M.A. in Islamic Studies, English Philology and Comparative Religious Studies.
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From Bāwīṭ to Marw: Documents from the Medieval Muslim World
This volume collects papers given at the Vienna conference (2009) of the International Society for Arabic Papyrology (ISAP), including editions of previously unpublished Coptic and Arabic documents, and historical and linguistic studies based on documentary evidence from Early Islamic Egypt.
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