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"Sīra and ṭabaqāt" : the origins of Arabic biographical literature
Piśmiennictwo biograficzne jest ważnym i bogato reprezentowanym działem średniowiecznej literatury arabskiej. Powszechnie jego początki wiąże się z powstaniem uznanego tradycyjnie za najstarsze dzieło tego nurtu – biografii proroka Muḥammada, de facto ...
Ostafin, Barbara
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Imagery Techniques in the Prose of Mystical Preaching in the 5th Century [PDF]
The prose of Islamic mystical meetings in the fifth century has characteristics that distinguish it from other literary prose. Features that can be investigated in both verbal and spiritual fields.
Amirreza Kafashi, Bahman Nozhat
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[Nebent.:] K. Ṭabaqāt al-Umam ou les catégories des nations par Abou Qâsim ibn Ṣâʿid lʾAndalousÜberw. in arab.
Andalusī, Ṣāʿid Ibn-Aḥmad
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Analysis of Verena Klemm's Portrayal of the Personality of Hazrat Fatima (PBUH) [PDF]
The personality of Hazrat Fatima (PBUH), a lady who holds a special position and dignity in the Quran, Prophetic hadiths, Sunni sources, and especially Shiite sources, has been a subject of interest for Orientalists.
Shahla Bakhtiari +1 more
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Analytical Comparison of How the Life of Jalal al-Din Khwarazmshah is Narrated in Historiographical and Literary Texts (Representation of the Narration of the Indus Battle, 1221 AD) [PDF]
In historical texts, one can find traces of historical characters who are close to the heroes of romances in terms of actions and personality traits. The authors of these texts have made every effort to show these events as real.
Ebrahim Khodayar, Atefeh Salarvand
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A Harem in Disorder: Narrating Elite Female Seclusion in Late Mughal Delhi
ABSTRACT This article examines the late Mughal period, a time of dramatic political reconfiguration, to trace the relevance of practices of elite female seclusion, and particularly of the complex space of the imperial harem, to narrations of an empire under strain.
Emma Kalb
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The past and future of the study of Islamic esotericism
Abstract The study of Islamic esotericism, particularly the concept of al‐bāṭiniyya, remains fragmented. While often studied under various labels like “mysticism” and “occultism,” it is widely equated to Sufism. Scholars still hesitate to use the term al‐bāṭiniyya due to its historical pejorative connotations, linking it to extremist adherence to ...
Liana Saif
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Abstract This paper contributes to a growing literature on state capacity with reference to the early modern Asian empires. The historiography of these states, and especially the Mughal empire of South Asia, has moved away from an image of unrestrained despotism towards that of a constrained state, but has yet to explore fully what these constraints ...
Safya Morshed
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Golden Horde Historiography: The Contribution and Potential of Historico-Biographical Literature » [PDF]
Among the more than thirty works written in the genre of historical and biographical literature “Tabaqat al-hanafiya”, the work by Mahmud ibn Sulayman al-Kafawi holds a special place, since in this work al-Kafawi first used the productive approach ...
A.K. Muminov
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