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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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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Chapter 15 People Versus Books [PDF]
, 2022 William A. Graham is an influential and pioneering scholar of Islamic Studies at Harvard University. This volume brings together seventeen contributions to the study of the Qur’an and Islam, all influenced by his work.
Bowen Savant, Sarah
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Al-Madāʾinī and the Narratives of the ʿAbbāsid Dawla [PDF]
, 2017 Peer ...
Lindstedt, Ilkka Juhani
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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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Trabzon İlahiyat DergisiThe genre known as ‘ṭabaqāt’ in the classical period and ‘biography’ in the modern period is a common type of writing among Islamic scholars. In this type of writing, personalities who stand out for their scientific, political and social identities are ...
Ercan Şen
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Imagery Techniques in the Prose of Mystical Preaching in the 5th Century [PDF]
Matn/Pizhūhī-i AdabīThe 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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The Case of variae lectiones in Classical Islamic Jurisprudence: Grammar and the Interpretation of Law [PDF]
, 2016 The qirāʾāt or variae lectiones represent the vast corpus of Qurʾānic readings that were preserved through the historical processes associated with the textual codification and transmission of the Qurʾān.
Shah, Mustafa
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Analysis of Verena Klemm's Portrayal of the Personality of Hazrat Fatima (PBUH) [PDF]
پژوهش های تاریخیThe 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]
Matn/Pizhūhī-i AdabīIn 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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