329 research outputs found
Classical Islam. A Sourcebook of Religious Literature by Norman Calder; Jawid Mojadeddi; Andrew Rippin Review by: Caterina Bori
No full textRecensione del volume Classical Islam. A Sourcebook of Religious Literature by Norman Calder; Jawid Mojadeddi;
Andrew Rippi
Self-Referentiality in the Qur'an (Diskurse der Arabistik, Band 11) by Stefan Wild Review by: Caterina Bori
No full textRecensione del libro di Stephan Wild sull'autoreferenzialità nel Coran
Muhammad's Grave. Death Rites and the Making of Islamic Society by Leor Halevi Review by: Caterina Bori
No full textRecensione del volume di Halevi sulle pratiche funerarie nel periodo formativo dell'Islam (vii-x secolo
The documentary culture of a Medieval Middle Eastern State
No full textBori reviews the contents and arguments of Marina Rustow’s latest book, where she scrutinized hundreds of Fatimid administrative documents from the Cairo Geniza and reassessed the widespread idea that, before the Ottomans, the Middle East produced and preserved few documents and that, as a result, medieval Middle eastern states were either run inefficiently or were ruled by despots
Un caos senza speranza? Studiare il Corano oggi..
No full textLe pagine di questo saggio introducono un breve libro dello studioso francese Alfred Louis de Prémare, in cui lo stesso propone sinteticamente il risultato delle sue ricerche sulle origini del Corano. Il saggio è dedicato ad illustrare alcune delle traiettorie più significative che hanno caraterizzato la ricerca internazionale sul testo sacro dell'Islam e la sua storia nell'ultimo decennio collocandole nel più vasto contesto dei cambiamenti che hanno caratterizzato gli studi sulle origini dell'Islam negli ultimi quarant'anni. La prima parte del saggio guarda ad alcuni studi comparsi da poco che si occupano, in particolar modo, del significato e della funzione dei materiali di tradizione biblica e para-biblica nel Corano, una preoccupazione che è centrale in tutta l’opera di de Prémare, che ha attraversato tutta la tradizione polemica occidentale anti-islamica, e che rimane di primaria importanza nel rapporto tra musulmani e fedeli di altri monoteismi. Una seconda parte si occupa più brevemente di illustrare le nuove ricerche sui più antichi manoscritti coranici
Konrad Hirschler, The Written Word in the Medieval Arabic Lands. A Social and Cultural History of Reading Practices (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012), 201 pp. + Bibliography and Index, in: Quaderni di Studi Arabi n.s. 9 (2014), 339-40.
No full textThis is a review of a dense and rich book in which the author, Konrad Hirschler, explores the transformation of reading practices and the spread of the written word in the so-called Islamic Middle Period (10th-early 16th centuries). This study focuses in particular on the lands of Egypt and Syria and their main urban centers, Cairo and Damascus, but also Aleppo
Introduction
No full textThis introductory essays presents and critically discuss the works of those modern scholars who have identified some of the key figures responsible for spreading some of Ibn Taymiyya's writings and ideas in various regional and intellectual contexts between the 18th and the 19th century. By so doing, the rationale that informs the volume is properly illustrated as well as the novel trajectory undertaken in the issue
Ibn Taymiyya (14thto 17thcentury): Transregional spaces of reading and reception
No full textThe present article sheds light on pre- or early-modern spaces of reception of Ibn Taymiyya's thought (that is from the late 14th to the early 17th century). In the course of this study, I provide a survey and discuss evidence of the reception of Ibn Taymiyya between the second half of the 14th century up to the early 17th century in different regional contexts and intellectual environments. The materials presented here are not meant to be exhaustive. Tracing and making sense of all the pre-/early-modern trajectories of Ibn Taymiyya's reception go beyond the effort of a single - even if long - essay, but the occurrences that surface here are - I think - representative of an important feature of this reception: namely, its heterogeneity and selectivity
Theology, Politics and Society: the Missing Link. Studying Religion in the Mamluk Period
No full textThe chapter focuses on a few problematic
topics which have so far received little attention in contemporary
scholarship on religion in the Mamluk period. In particular it tries to shed light on what the author describes as a missing link between theological production and its social and political
significance, between theologians and society at large, between ideas about God and their relevance to people’s lives.
The article argues that exploring the link between society and theology may be a rewarding research enterprise. An attention to this link is generally missing in scholarship both on the intellectual and the socio-religious history of the Mamluk period. The paper identifies the reasons for this state of affairs and provides a sample of materials that proves that we do not lack the resources for pursuing research in this direction. The paper advocates an interdisciplinary approach where the efforts of experts in Islamic theology and historians interested in religion and society ought to merge
Review of Abdul-Rahman Mustafa, On Taqlid. Ibn al-Qayyim's Critique of Authority in Islamic Law, (Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 2013). In: 6/1 (2015), pp. 130-36.
No full textThe review presents at length a translation and its introduction to the section on taqlīd of Iʿlām al-muwaqqiʿīn ʿan Rabb al-ʿālamīn by the Ḥanbalī damascene scholar, Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya (d. 751/1350). The review critically discusses the book within the latest scholarly work on Ibn Taymiyya and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya. Its length and nature makes it similar to a review article rather than a simpler review
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