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The Broken Spell: The Romance Genre in Late Mughal India [PDF]

, 2013
This study is concerned with the Indian "romance" (qissah) genre, as it was understood from the seventeenth to the early twentieth century. Particularly during the Mughal era, oral and written romances represented an enchanted world populated by ...
Khan, Mohamad
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Muqātil ibn Sulaymān: a neglected figure in the early history of Qur'ānic Commentary [PDF]

, 2016
This study investigates Muqātil ibn Sulaymān's (d. 150/767) hermeneutics in his three extant Qur'an commentaries: al-Tafsῑr al-Kabῑr, Tafsῑr al-Khams Mi'at Āyah min al-Qur'ān, and al-Wujūh wa al-Naẓā'ir fῑ al-Qur'ān al-‛Aẓῑm.
Tohe, Achmad
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Buddhist and Islamic Orders in Southern Asia [PDF]

, 2020
This volume aims to foster interaction between scholars in the subfields of Islamic and Buddhist studies by increasing understanding of the circulation and localization of religious texts, institutional models, and ritual practices across Asia and ...

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The Maghrib in the Mashriq [PDF]

This book is about the impact of knowledge produced in the Islamic West on the Mashriq. Topics include the emergence and construction of the concept ‘Maghrib’, the role of travel in the transmission, reception and integration of locally produced ...

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Islam in Late Antiquity: state-making, the Bedouin, and the end of empires [PDF]

This thesis addresses two questions. First, why did Arabia become the pivot of world history in the seventh century AD after aeons of relative obscurity?
Wakeley, James Moreton
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THE ARABIC PARTICLES ‘\u3cem\u3eINNA WA AḪAWĀTU-HĀ\u3c/em\u3e’ AT THE SYNTAX-SEMANTICS INTERFACE [PDF]

, 2015
In Arabic inna wa-aḫawātu-hā ‘inna and its related sisters’ are traditionally considered as verb-like particles. They are specified as introducing equational sentences and change their constituents’ case to a different pattern from what verbs do ...
Ali, Anfal Mudhafar
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The Renaissance of Shi'i Islam [PDF]

, 2022
The renaissance of Shi’i Islam began in the 9th/15th century when the Ismailis experienced the Anjudan revival and Twelver Shi’i traditions were also renewed. This renaissance gained further strength when the Safavids succeeded in establishing a state in

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Ḥadīth and Ethics through the Lens of Interdisciplinarity [PDF]

This volume addresses the interplay of ḥadīth and ethics and contributes to examining the emerging field of ḥadīth-based ethics. The chapters cover four different sections: noble virtues (makārim al-akhlāq) and virtuous acts (faḍāʾil al-aʿmāl); concepts (

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The Transmission of the Islamic Tradition in the Early Modern Era: The Life and Writings of Aḥmad Al-Dardīr [PDF]

, 2016
This thesis examines the role of tradition and discursive knowledge transmission on the formation of the ‘ulamā’, the learned scholarly class in Islam, and their approach to the articulation of the Islamic disciplines.
Mosaad, Walead Mohammed
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Laylat al-Qadr as sacred time: sacred cosmology in Sunnī Kalām and Tafsīr [PDF]

, 2017
In this analysis we will show how the Islamic tradition constructs a sacred cosmology wherein a sacred space and sacred time are defined. In Sunni Islam only a few sacred spaces on earth exist, the majority belong to the world unseen (ʿālam al- ghayb ...
Mol, A.J.W.
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