The Trans-Saharan Book Trade: Manuscript Culture, Arabic Literacy and Intellectual History in Muslim Africa, edited by Graziano Krätli and Ghislaine Lydon [PDF]
, 2018 First author ...
Ngom, Fallou
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The caliph and the falcons: a ninth‐century history from Iceland to Iraq
Early Medieval Europe, EarlyView.In the late ninth and early tenth centuries, an extraordinary number of falcons were given to the ʿAbbāsid caliphs in Baghdad, many of which were white. Gifts from competing dynasties in the northern provinces of the Caliphate, at least some of these birds were almost certainly gyrfalcons from near the Arctic Circle.
Caitlin Ellis, Sam Ottewill‐Soulsby
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The Metrical Features of Old Swahili Dance Poems
Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2021 This paper aims to describe the metrical features of tumbuizo, Swahili poems which, allegedly due to their antiquity, present very different stylistic elements from later compositions based on regular metres inspired from Arabic poetry.
Emiliano Minerba
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The Role of Dice in the Emergence of the Probability Calculus
International Statistical Review, EarlyView.Summary The early development of the probability calculus was clearly influenced by the roll of dice. However, while dice have been cast since time immemorial, documented calculations on the frequency of various dice throws date back only to the mid‐13th century.
David R. Bellhouse, Christian Genest
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Klasizm ve Modernizm Bağlamında Halil Merdem Bek’in Şiir Anlayışı
Fırat Üniversitesi İlahiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, 2022 Öz: Osmanlı ve Suriye tarihinin en buhranlı günlerinde yaşayan Halil Merdem Bek,Suriye’nin yetiştirdiği önde gelen edebiyatçı ve şairlerdendir. O, gerçek edebiyatçının sadece klasik Arap edebiyatıyla yetinemeyeceğine; Arap edebiyatının yanında batı ...
Yusuf Karataş, Süleyman Can
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Higher Objectives of Islamic Law (Maqāṣid al‐Sharīʿa) in Substantiating Justice in Land Tax
The Muslim World, EarlyView.Abstract This article discusses the relationship between the systemization of kharāj (land tax) and the higher objective of Islamic law or Maqāṣid al‐Sharīʿa. After the conquest of Sawād region (located in modern‐day southern Iraq), the First Caliph ʿUmar (634 ‐ 644 CE) introduced a new approach to the distribution of ghanīmah (spoils of war), leaving ...
Öznur Özdemir, Mehmet Asutay
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Translation theory and practice in the Abbasid era [PDF]
, 2014 textThis paper explores the theoretical approaches to translation and the dynamics of language politics during the ʻAbbāsid-era translation movement through the lens of three prominent figures of the ʿAbbāsid era, Ḥunayn ibn Isʹhāq, Mattā bin Yūnus
Goodin, Katherine Sproul
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Literary Modernity between Arabic and Persian Prose: Jurji Zaydan's Riwayat in Persian Translation [PDF]
, 2008 Our understanding of nineteenth-century literary practice is often mediated by the national literature model of study that continues to govern discussions of modern literature. Put differently, contemporary evaluations of literary texts of the nineteenth
Kamran Rastegar
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The Persian Translation of Arabic Aesthetics: Rādūyānī’s Rhetorical Renaissance [PDF]
, 2015 Notwithstanding its value as the earliest extant New Persian treatment of the art of rhetoric, Rādūyānī’s Interpreter of Rhetoric (Tarjumān al-Balāgha) has yet to be read from the vantage point of comparative poetics.
Gould, Rebecca Ruth
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