Knowledge Collaboration among Jews, Christians, Zoroastrians, and Muslims in the Abbasid Near East [PDF]
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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The Case of variae lectiones in Classical Islamic Jurisprudence: Grammar and the Interpretation of Law [PDF]
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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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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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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Humor y excentricidad en Ṭabaqāt al-Šu‘arā’ al-muḥdaṯīn de Ibn al-Mu‘tazz
The purpose of this paper is to call attention to this book by Ibn al-Mu‘tazz, sometimes neglected, emphasizing its worth as a literary work and as a source for the study of humour in Arabic literature.
Teresa Garulo
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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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Wandel weiblicher religiöser Autorität im Frühislam [PDF]
Priesterinnen, Wahrsagerinnen, Zauberinnen, Prophetinnen – im frühen 7. Jh. gab es eine Vielzahl an weiblichen religiösen Autoritäten auf der Arabischen Halbinsel. Mit dem Aufkommen des Islam änderte sich das.
Decker, Doris
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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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Literature and territory: Madrid (Maŷrīṭ) in the Mugrib of Ibn Sa´īd (13th century) [PDF]
Se analizan y traducen los datos que Ibn Sa ́īd al-Magribī (Granada, 1214-Túnez, 1286) ofrece sobre Madrid en la antología histórica y literaria del Mugrib , donde se recopilan biografías ordenadas geográficamente, y, en este caso, desde la ...
Mazzoli-Guintard, Christine +1 more
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