The Khawārij and religious identity formation in early Islam [PDF]
, 2017 The problems inherent to the sources for early Islam continue to challenge scholars when it comes to making positivist statements regarding the formation of early Muslim identity.
Rodney L. Thomson
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“Perfect Hearts and Pure Pages”: The Transmission and Recitation of the Qur’an in Mamluk Cairo—the Shāṭibiyya as a Case Study [PDF]
The Ḥirz al-Amānī wa-Wajh al-Tahānī of Abū al-Qāsim b. Fīrruh al-Shāṭibī (d. 590/1193) became one of the most widely studied texts associated with the recitation of the Qur’an. A didactic versification of Abū ʿAmr al-Dānī’s (d.
Hearn, Jonathan
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Angels in Islam: a commentary with selected translations of Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī’s Al-Ḥabā’ik fī akhbār almalā’ik (The Arrangement of the Traditions about Angels) [PDF]
, 2010 This thesis presents a commentary with selected translations of Jalāl al-Dīn cAbd al- Raḥmān al-Suyūṭī’s Al-Ḥabā’ik fī akhbār al-malā’ik (The Arrangement of the Traditions about Angels).
Burge, Stephen Russell
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The conservation history of the mausoleum of Shajarat al-Durr [PDF]
, 2016 This M.A. thesis aims to critically analyze the conservation history of the mausoleum of Shajarat al-Durr. Although Shajarat al-Durr’s biography is a well-published topic in the field of Islamic History, her only surviving architectural patronage lacks ...
Shoukry, Farah
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Emerging Subjectivity in the Long 19th-Century Middle East [PDF]
What, actually, meant “modernisation” for the long 19th century Middle Easterner? Stephan Guth finds the essence of the so-called Arab(ic) “Renaissance” (and corresponding movements in Turkish) in emerging subjectivity and the subjects’ new attitude ...
Guth, Stephan
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The Impact of Maghribi Ḥadīth Commentaries on the Mashriq [PDF]
, 2021 Trad, Khaoula
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Esotericism in a Manuscript Culture: Ahmad al-Buni and His Readers through the Mamluk Period. [PDF]
, 2014 In this dissertation I address the spread and reception of the works of the North African Sufi, author on the controversial ‘science of letters and names’ (‘ilm al-huruf wa-al-asma’), and putative ‘magician’ Ahmad al-Buni, from the period near the end of
Gardiner, Noah Daedalus
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Remembering the infallible imams: narrative and memory in medieval Twelver Shi'ism [PDF]
, 2015 As the Twelver Shi'a coalesced into an increasingly distinct community between the 10th and 12th centuries CE, a new type of religious literature emerged.
Pierce, Matthew Odes
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Musicological Writings from the Modern Arab “Renaissance” in Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth-Century Syria and Egypt [PDF]
, 2019 Historians designate the early decades of the nineteenth century as the beginning of the modern era in the Middle East, initiated by Napoleon’s 1798 invasion of Egypt and the subsequent European colonial presence that extended into the twentieth century.
Popper, Tess
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The Shīʿa in Iraqi Heresiography [PDF]
The book addresses the presentation of the Shiʿa in the theological-doxographical literature of Iraq up to the early fourth century of Islam. Understanding doxographies primarily as textual products of third-century kalam circles, it provides historians ...
Weaver, James
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