Books on Astrology, Astronomical Tables, and Almanacs in the Library Inventory of Bayezid II [PDF]
This study focuses on those books pertaining to astrological and practical celestial pursuits that are listed in the inventory of manuscripts in the book treasury of the Topkapı Palace in Istanbul, commissioned by the Ottoman sultan Bayezid II from his ...
Fleischer, Cornell H., Şen, A. Tunç
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The Renaissance of Shi'i Islam [PDF]
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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III. Murat Divanı'nın bağlamlı dizin ve işlevsel sözlüğü [PDF]
Klasik Türk Edebiyatı, Osmanlı dönemi boyunca altı yüzyıl hüküm sürmüş Türk Edebiyatı'nın en uzun edebî dönemidir. Hayat şartlarının, düşünce dünyasının ve alfabenin değişmesinden dolayı günümüz insanının bu edebiyatı anlaması zorlaşmıştır.
Aydoğdu, Gülden Esra
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Reforming Categories of Science and Religion in the Late Ottoman Empire [PDF]
This dissertation shows that ideas of science and religion are not transhistorical by presenting a longue durée study of conceptions of science and religion in the Ottoman Empire. I demonstrate that the idea of science(s) was subject to a tectonic change
Tekin, Kenan
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Secularism in the Arab World: Contexts, Ideas and Consequences [PDF]
Explores secularism and secularisation in Arab societies since the mid-19th century. This book is a translation of Aziz al-Azmeh’s seminal work Al-\u27Ilmaniya min mandhur mukhtalif that was first published in Beirut in 1992.
al-Azmeh, Aziz, Bond, David
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Divine respite in the Ottoman tafsīr tradition: reconciling exegetical approaches to Q.11:117 [PDF]
The tafsīr tradition is, as an accumulative and overarching science, a direct reflection of the trends emerging in other Islamic sciences. Exegesis on verses as Q.2:29, which concerned ontological ethics, Q.17:15, which concerned responsibility, and Q.11:
Mol, A.J.W.
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Historicizing Sunni Islam in the Ottoman Empire, c. 1450-c. 1750 [PDF]
Articles collected in Historicizing Sunni Islam in the Ottoman Empire, c. 1450–c. 1750 engage with the idea that “Sunnism” itself has a history and trace how particular Islamic genres – ranging from prayer manuals, heresiographies, creeds, hadith and ...
Krstić, Tijana, Terzioğlu, Derin
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Gestation times correlated with lunar cycles: Ibn al-Kammād's animodar of conception across North Africa [PDF]
One of the subjects Arabic astrologers dealt with in the medieval era was the animodar of conception, which used lunar cycles to determine gestation times and to verify the degree of an ascendant, in accordance with one of the principles of Pseudo ...
Díaz-Fajardo, Montse
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Musicological Writings from the Modern Arab “Renaissance” in Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth-Century Syria and Egypt [PDF]
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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There is no doubt. Muslim scholarship and society in 17th-century Central Sudanic Africa [PDF]
In central sudanic Africa, the seventeenth century was a period of upheaval and major social change. Relations of power shifted, as did trade-routes and the meaning of Islam for ruling elites.
Dalen, D.A.M.E. van
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