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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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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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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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Buddhist and Islamic Orders in Southern Asia [PDF]

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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Ibn Taymiyya on Reason and Revelation [PDF]

In Ibn Taymiyya on Reason and Revelation, Carl Sharif El-Tobgui offers a comprehensive analysis of Ibn Taymiyya’s ten-volume magnum opus, Darʾ taʿāruḍ al-ʿaql wa-l-naql, elucidating its author’s foundational reconstitution of rationality through the ...
Sharif El-Tobgui, Carl
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The Maqāmāt of Badīʿ al-Zamān al-Hamadhānī [PDF]

Through investigations of manuscripts, this book explores important aspects of the life of Badîʿ al-Zamân al-Hamadhânî’s Maqâmât. The broad concerns of the book are divided into three sections: authorship, texts, and contexts. Each chapter in this volume
Alex Pomerantz, Maurice, Orfali, Bilal
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Of Islamic Grammatology: Ibn Turka’s Lettrist Metaphysics of Light* [PDF]

, 2016
As Derrida charged, Plato’s famous declaration of speech’s superiority to writing would seem to have resonated with inheritor cultures similarly transitioning from orality to literacy, and especially the Islamicate; despite the explosion of writerly ...
Melvin-Koushki, Matthew
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