A Neo Fatimid Treasury Of Books
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A Neo Fatimid Treasury Of Books
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Author : Olly Akkerman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2022
A Neo Fatimid Treasury Of Books written by Olly Akkerman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with HISTORY categories.
Explores communities, manuscripts and their spaces of dwellingUtilises extensive archival and ethnographic fieldwork including unique access to the Alawi Bohra treasury of booksShows that the manuscript transmission of Fatimid manuscripts is as much alive today as centuries agoArgues that the Alawi Bohra community's manuscript collection is fundamental to the construction of its Neo-Fatimid identityShifts the focus from the study of manuscripts as material objects to the social framework within which they gain meaning through their interaction with readersThis book tells the story of a manuscript repository found all over the pre-modern Muslim world: the khizanat al-kutub, or treasury of books. The focus is on the undisclosed Arabic manuscript culture of a small but vibrant South Asian Shi'i Muslim community, the Bohras. It looks at how books that were once part of one of the biggest imperial book repositories of the medieval Muslim world, the khizanat of the Fatimids of North Africa and Egypt (909CE-1171CE) ended up having a rich social life among the Bohras across the Western Indian Ocean, starting in Yemen and ending in Gujarat. It shows how, under strict conditions of secrecy, and over several centuries, one khizana was turned into another, its manuscripts gaining new meanings in the new social realities in which they were preserved, read, transmitted, venerated and copied into. What emerged was a new distinctive Bohra Ismaili manuscript culture shaped by its local contexts.
Rulers As Authors In The Islamic World
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2024-02-06
Rulers As Authors In The Islamic World written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-06 with History categories.
How widespread was authorship among rulers in the premodern Islamic world? The writings of different types of rulers in different regions and periods are analyzed in this book, from the early centuries in the central lands of Islam to 19th century Sudan. The composition of poetry appears as the most fertile area for authorship among rulers. Prose writings show a wide variety, from astrology to bookmaking, from autobiography to creeds. Some of the rulers made claims to special knowledge, but in all cases authorship played a special role in the construction of the rulers' authority and legitimacy. Contributors: Ahmed Ibrahim Abushouk, Sean W. Anthony, María Luisa Ávila†, Teresa Bernheimer, Philip Bockholt, Sonja Brentjes, Christiane Czygan, David Durand-Guédy, Anne-Marie Eddé, Sinem Eryılmaz, Maribel Fierro, Adam Gaiser, Angelika Hartmann†, Livnat Holtzman, Maher Jarrar, Robert S. Kramer, Christian Mauder, Matthew Melvin-Koushki, Letizia Osti, Jürgen Paul, Petra Schmidl, Tilman Seidensticker.
Shi I Materiality Beyond Karbala
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2024-05-23
Shi I Materiality Beyond Karbala written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-23 with History categories.
This book examines material and multi-sensorial expressions of Shiʿi Islam in diverse, and understudied demographic and geographic contexts.It engages with conceptual debates and makes several propositions that push the frontiers of scholarship on Islamic and Religious Studies, Material Religion, Heritage Studies, and Anthropology and Sociology of Religion.The contributions presented in this volume demonstrate how material things and less thing-like materialities make the praesentia and potentia of the Sacred tangible, how they cultivate intimate relations between human and more-than-human beings, and how they act as links and gateways to the Elsewhere and Otherworldly. The volume posits that materialities of religion are integral to processes of heritagization shaped by competing social and political actors involved in the construction and canonization of religious—in this case, Shiʿi—heritage.
No Birds Of Passage
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Author : Michael O’Sullivan
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2023-09-19
No Birds Of Passage written by Michael O’Sullivan and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-19 with History categories.
A sweeping account of three Gujarati Muslim trading communities, whose commercial success over nearly two centuries sheds new light on the history of capitalism, Islam, and empire in South Asia. During the nineteenth century, three Gujarati Muslim commercial castes—the Bohras, Khojas, and Memons—came to dominate Muslim business in South Asia. Although these communities constitute less than 1 percent of South Asia’s Muslim population, they are still disproportionately represented among the region’s leading Muslim-owned firms today. In No Birds of Passage, Michael O’Sullivan argues that the conditions enabling their success have never been understood, thanks to stereotypes—embraced equally by colonial administrators and Muslim commentators—that estrange them from their religious identity. Yet while long viewed as Hindus in all but name, or as “Westernized” Muslims who embraced colonial institutions, these groups in fact entwined economic prerogatives and religious belief in a distinctive form of Muslim capitalism. Following entrepreneurial firms from Gujarat to the Hijaz, Hong Kong, Mombasa, Rangoon, and beyond, O’Sullivan reveals the importance of kinship networks, private property, and religious obligation to their business endeavors. This paradigm of Muslim capitalism found its highest expression in the jamaats, the central caste institutions of each community, which combined South Asian, Islamicate, and European traditions of corporate life. The jamaats also played an essential role in negotiating the position of all three groups in relation to British authorities and Indian Muslim nationalists, as well as the often-sharp divisions within the castes themselves. O’Sullivan’s account sheds light on Gujarati Muslim economic life from the dawn of colonial hegemony in India to the crisis of the postcolonial state, and provides fascinating insights into the broader effects of capitalist enterprise on Muslim experience in modern South Asia.
A Neo Fatimid Treasury Of Books
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Author : Olly Akkerman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024-05-31
A Neo Fatimid Treasury Of Books written by Olly Akkerman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-31 with History categories.
Explores communities, manuscripts and their spaces of dwelling
Islam I
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Author : Georges Tamer
language : de
Publisher: Kohlhammer Verlag
Release Date : 2023-07-26
Islam I written by Georges Tamer and has been published by Kohlhammer Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-26 with Religion categories.
Der Islam ist heute mit ca. 1,8 Milliarden Gläubigen eine lebendige, schnell wachsende Glaubensgemeinschaft. Der erste Band der dreiteiligen Darstellung des Islam in der Reihe "Die Religionen der Menschheit" beschreibt die Entstehung des Islam, die Wirkung des Propheten Muhammad, den Koran sowie seine komplexe Verflechtung mit der Bibel und die Ausdehnung des Islam zu einer weltweit verbreiteten Religion. In weiteren Kapiteln werden die Herausbildung und Eigenheiten verschiedener Konfessionen kenntnisreich und verständlich dargestellt. Abschließend werden die wichtigsten islamischen Dynastien vorgestellt und ihre Bedeutung für den Islam ebenso wie für ihre nicht-muslimische Umgebung erklärt.
Fatimid Empire
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Author : Michael Brett
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2017-02-03
Fatimid Empire written by Michael Brett and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-03 with History categories.
A complete history of the Fatimids, showing the significance of the empire to Islam and the wider worldThe Fatimid empire in North Africa, Egypt and Syria was at the centre of the political and religious history of the Islamic world in the Middle Ages, from the breakdown of the aAbbasid empire in the tenth century, to the invasions of the Seljuqs in the eleventh and the Crusaders in the twelfth, leading up to its extinction by Saladin. As Imam and Caliph, the Fatimid sovereign claimed to inherit the religious and political authority of the Prophet, a claim which inspired the conquest of North Africa and Egypt and a following of believers as far away as India. The reaction this provoked was crucial to the political and religious evolution of mediaeval Islam. This book combines the separate histories of Isma'ilism, North Africa and Egypt with that of the dynasty into a coherent account. It then relates this account to the wider history of Islam to provide a narrative that establishes the historical significance of the empire.Key FeaturesThe first complete history of the Fatimid empire in English, establishing its central contribution to medieval Islamic historyCovers the relationship of tribal to civilian economy and society, the formation and evolution of the dynastic state, and the relationship of that state to economy and societyExplores the question of cultural change, specifically Arabisation and IslamisationGoes beyond the history of Islam, not only to introduce the Crusades, but to compare and contrast the dynasty with the counterparts of its theocracy in Byzantium and Western Europe
Islam Authoritarianism And Underdevelopment
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Author : Ahmet T. Kuru
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2019-08
Islam Authoritarianism And Underdevelopment written by Ahmet T. Kuru and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08 with History categories.
Analyzes Muslim countries' contemporary problems, particularly violence, authoritarianism, and underdevelopment, comparing their historical levels of development with Western Europe.
Islamisation
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Author : A. C. S. Peacock
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2017-03-08
Islamisation written by A. C. S. Peacock and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-08 with Reference categories.
The spread of Islam and the process of Islamisation (meaning both conversion to Islam and the adoption of Muslim culture) is explored in the twenty-four chapters of this volume. Taking a comparative perspective, both the historical trajectory of Islamisation and the methodological problems in its study are addressed, with coverage moving from Africa to China and from the seventh century to the start of the colonial period in 1800. Key questions are addressed. What is meant by Islamisation? How far was the spread of Islam as a religion bound up with the spread of Muslim culture? To what extent are Islamisation and conversion parallel processes? How is Islamisation connected to Arabisation? What role do vernacular Muslim languages play in the promotion of Muslim culture? The broad, comparative perspective allows readers to develop a thorough understanding of the process of Islamisation over eleven centuries of its history.
Lost Libraries
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Author : J. Raven
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2004-01-31
Lost Libraries written by J. Raven and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-31 with History categories.
This pioneering volume of essays explores the destruction of great libraries since ancient times and examines the intellectual, political and cultural consequences of loss. Fourteen original contributions, introduced by a major re-evaluative history of lost libraries, offer the first ever comparative discussion of the greatest catastrophes in book history from Mesopotamia and Alexandria to the dispersal of monastic and monarchical book collections, the Nazi destruction of Jewish libraries, and the recent horrifying pillage and burning of books in Tibet, Bosnia and Iraq.