Abu Nu‛aym Al-Iṣfahānī (d. 430/1038): His Professional Life [PDF]
, 2022 Abu Nu‛aym al-Iṣfahānī (d. 430/1038), a celebrated scholar and author of many works, famed for his Ḥilya, and mostly remembered as a Sufi advocate, historiographer, and hadith traditionist.
Al-Kaisi, Meis
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Chase Robinson, Islamic Civilization in Thirty Lives: The First 1,000 Years
Al-'Usur al-Wusta, 2017 The technique of using biography to make history accessible to newcomers is alive and well. Oneworld publishes the Makers of the Muslim World series, and Oxford University Press has The World in a Life.
Brian Ulrich
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Kâfiyeci’nin Eserleri ve Arap Dil Bilimine Katkıları: Tespit, Tasnif ve Değerlendirme
Cumhuriyet İlahiyat Dergisi, 2020 Al-Kāfiyajī (d. 879/1474) is one of the fifteenth-century Ṣarukhan-oghullari, Ottoman and Mamlūk scholars. He wrote more than one hundred works. This article explores al-Kāfiyajī’s life and works.
Murat Tala
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Between Cordoba and Nīsābūr: The Emergence and Consolidation of Ashʿarism (Fourth–Fifth/Tenth–Eleventh Century) [PDF]
, 2015 This chapter discusses the history of Ashʿarism in the fourth to fifth/tenth to eleventh centuries. Ashʿarism was, besides Māturīdism, the most important school of Sunni kalām.
Thiele, Jan
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The role of Madīna in the emergence of the Mosque-dār al-Imāra combination. A preliminary note [PDF]
, 2017 This contribution aims to complete the debates concerning the Mosque of the Prophet in Madīna with a study focused on the dwelling quarters that populated the surroundings of the blessed building over time (622-711).
Santi, Aila
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The Jewish and Muslim Reception of ʿAbd al-Jabbār’s Kitāb al-Jumal wa-l-ʿuqūd: A Survey of Relevant Sources [PDF]
, 2014 The Muʿtazila was not an exclusively Muslim phenomenon, since their teachings were also adopted by medieval Jewish savants. In recent years, a number of Muʿtazilī works were rediscovered or substantially completed by adopting a comparative methodology ...
Thiele, Jan
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Ebü’l-Kāsım Abdurrahman es-Sakalî (öl. 380/990 [?]) ve Tasavvuf Tarihindeki Yeri
, 2021 In this article, the biography of Abū al-Ḳāsim ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ṣaqalī (d. 380/990 [?]), who is the author of works, al-Anwār fī ʿilm al-asrār wa makāmāt al-abrār and al-Dalāla ʿalā Allāh, is presented.
H. B. Başer
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New readings in Arabic historiography from late medieval Egypt and Syria : proceedings of the themed day of the Fifth Conference of the School of Mamluk Studies [PDF]
, 2021 The present volume contributes to research on historic Arabic texts from late medieval Egypt and Syria. Departing from dominant understandings of these texts through the prisms of authenticity and “literarization,” it engages with questions of textual ...
Termonia, Maya, Van Steenbergen, Jo
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Al-Madāʾinī and the Narratives of the ʿAbbāsid Dawla [PDF]
, 2017 Peer ...
Lindstedt, Ilkka Juhani
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Knowledge Collaboration among Jews, Christians, Zoroastrians, and Muslims in the Abbasid Near East [PDF]
, 2022 This thematic section unearths several ways professionals from a variety of religious communities in the Near East collaborated with one another during the medieval period. Modern scholars of intellectual history have often attempted to trace connections
Gibson, Nathan P.
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