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Sufism in the Unated Arab Emirates
No full textThis essay aims to provide a brief overview of Sufism in the United Arab Emirates, both in its historical and contemporary contexts. Consideration has been given firstly to the increasing support of local leaderships for the Sufi orientation of Islam as an antidote to the spread of Salafism and political Islam; and secondly to the unfortunately scarce written documentation of the presence and revival of the schools to date. In many cases, the contribution of daily press and social media has proved crucial
Inventory of the manuscripts preserved in the Kahle’s Archive at the University of Turin (not included in the printed Catalogue edited by R. Tottoli, M.L. Russo, M. Bernardini)
No full textThe manuscripts were discovered during the reorganization of the materials in the Archive of Paul Kahle and were thus not included in the printed catalogue (R. Tottoli - M.L. Russo - M. Bernardini, "Catalogue of the Islamic manuscripts from the Kahle Collection in the Department of Oriental Studies of the University of Turin", Rome 2011). Most of these manuscripts relates to the shadow play, literature, religion and folklore.
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Literature - Epics
Literature - Poetry
Literature - Magic
Literature - Shadow Play
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Erudito, storico e muftı̄: la figura di Abū l‐Wafāʾ b. ʿUmar b. ʿAbd al‐Wahhāb al‐ʿUrḍī al‐ Šāfiʿī di Aleppo (993‐1071/1585‐1660) nelle fonti biograficoletterarie.
No full textThis article presents an overview of a notable family of Aleppo, the al-‘Urḍī /’Urḍī–zāda who was mainly active and became prominent in the late 16th and most of the 17th centuries. Based on literary and archival material, the author focuses in particular on the figure of Abū l-Wafā’ al-‘Urdi (d. 1660), a well-known jurist, shafiite muftī and historian. His unfinished magnum opus, the biographical compilation entitled Maʿādin al-ḏahab fi’l-aʿyān al-mušarrafa bi-him Ḥalab [The Gold mines regarding the distinguished personalities by whom Aleppo is ennobled] is one of the last examples of local historiography and provides first-hand insight into the life of ottoman Aleppo.
In addition, the article presents a selection of unpublished documents from the city’s Sharia Court Records which bear witness to the socio-economic role of Abū l-Wafā’ al-‘Urdi and his family as part of the local elite
Sufism in the United Arab Emirates
No full textFor more than two decades, there has been a noticeable re-emergence of Sufism in some Arab states bordering the Persian Gulf. Spiritually-minded scholars from other Muslim countries have moved to the region and disseminated knowledge of taṣawwuf through teaching, publicity and the media, including some satellite TV channels. This phenomenon seems to stem from a precise political pattern on the side of local leaderships, aimed at countering the spread of fundamentalist thought and preventing extremist drifts. With regard to the United Arab Emirates in particular, the commitment of this country to supporting the Sufi movement as an effective instrument of a ‘balanced Islam’ (islām muʿtadil) is quite clear
Pax Mongolica and its Impact on Patterns of Governance
No full textStoria del periodo mongolo e post-mongol
Rome as a Hub of Arabic Studies in the 17th Century: A View from Vienna
No full textThe Orientalist Sebastian Tengnagel, the Catholic imperial librarian in Vienna from 1608 to 1636, saw Rome as the capital of Oriental studies and for years dreamed of going there to refine his knowledge of Arabic. He never succeeded in leaving Vienna, but throughout his life he remained interested in developments of Oriental studies in Rome: he was curious about the activities and libraries of Raimondi, Lomellini, Strachan, Abel and Scialac; he had especially regular contact with the College of Maronites and was always updated on the publications of the Propaganda Fide Printing House. Nonetheless, in letters exchanged with the Jesuit Petrus Lansselius and the traveller Pietro Della Valle, he did not hesitate to criticise Roman censorship and the increasing restriction of Oriental studies. With this mixture of enthusiasm and frustration, the case of Tengnagel in Vienna provides a useful mirror to look at the perception of Arabic studies in Rome from the perspective of northern Europe, bridging the Orientalism of northern European philologists with that of the Catholic missionaries. Tengnagel had 14 Qur’ans and dozens of devotional Turkish books: his collection and his marginal notes, even more than his rather reticent letters, show a keen interest in the Muslim tradition and an attempt to find common ground between the three monotheistic religions. Following the trajectories of these texts and their provenance, we encounter Ottoman soldiers who died on the battlefield, Catholic soldiers plundering libraries in Hungary, cardinals active in peace talks with the Ottoman Empire, bibliophile dragomans, physicians, mystics, rabbis, and Lutheran, Calvinist, and Anglican scholars, in a tangle of violence and knowledge
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