Studies in Islamic History and Institutions
Author: Goitein
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-09-25
Total Pages: 403
ISBN-13: 9004662359
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Goitein
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-09-25
Total Pages: 403
ISBN-13: 9004662359
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Ami Ayalon
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1995-03-23
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 0195087801
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Middle Eastern newspapers evolved in the 19th century and were shaped during a period of accelerated change into a unique political, social and cultural role. Drawing on a wealth of sources, this study explores the press as a fundamental Middle Eastern institution.
Author: Ibrahim M. Abu-Rabi
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 506
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Leading scholars discuss ideology and hotly contested post-structuralist theory.
Author: Robert Bertram Serjeant
Publisher: Variorum Publishing
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 360
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Arnoud Vrolijk
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2013-11-11
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 900426633X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Arabic is the only living language to have been taught in Dutch higher education for more than four centuries. Practical usefulness, however, has been a prerequisite from the start. Knowledge of Arabic was to promote Dutch interests in the Muslim world, or to help refute Islam. As a cognate of Classical Hebrew, the study of Arabic served as an ancillary science to Biblical studies. Nevertheless, many Arabists such as Thomas Erpenius and Jacobus Golius rose to international distinction. With more than 110 colour illustrations from the Leiden Oriental collections, Arabic Studies in the Netherlands. A Short History in Portraits, 1580-1950 by Arnoud Vrolijk and Richard van Leeuwen will help the reader to gain insight into a fascinating aspect of Dutch intellectual history.
Author: George Saliba
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 1995-07-01
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0814738893
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A History of Arabic Astronomy is a comprehensive survey of Arabic planetary theories from the eleventh century to the fifteenth century based on recent manuscript discoveries. George Saliba argues that the medieval period, often called a period of decline in Islamic intellectual history, was scientifically speaking, a very productive period in which astronomical theories of the highest order were produced. Based on the most recent manuscript discoveries, this book broadly surveys developments in Arabic planetary theories from the eleventh century to the fifteenth. Taken together, the primary texts and essays assembled in this book reverse traditional beliefs about the rise and fall of Arabic science, demonstrating how the traditional “age of decline” in Arabic science was indeed a “Golden Age” as far as astronomy was concerned. Some of the techniques and mathematical theorems developed during this period were identical to those which were employed by Copernicus in developing his own non-Ptolemaic astronomy. Significantly, this volume will shed much-needed light on the conditions under which such theories were developed in medieval Islam. It clearly demonstrates the distinction that was drawn between astronomical activities and astrological ones, and reveals, contrary to common perceptions about medieval Islam, the accommodation that was obviously reached between religion and astronomy, and the degree to which astronomical planetary theories were supported, and at times even financed, by the religious community itself. This in stark contrast to the systematic attacks leveled by the same religious community against astrology. To students of European intellectual history, the book reveals the technical relationship between the astronomy of the Arabs and that of Copernicus. Saliba’s definitive work will be of particular interest to historians of Arabic science as well as to historians of medieval and Renaissance European science.
Author: Albert Habib Hourani
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 630
ISBN-13: 9780674010178
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Chronicles the history of Arab civilization, looking at the beauty of the great mosques, the importance attached to education, the achievements of Arab science, the role of women, internal conflicts, and the Palestinian question.
Author: Anastasia Valassopoulos
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-09-13
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 1317981057
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book seeks to both showcase and further develop innovative research and debates on contemporary Arab cultural production. Popular culture in the form of cinema, popular music, literature, visual media and cyber-cultures, both local and imported, enjoy a central role in Arab cultural life, and the contributors to this innovative collection showcase the tremendous cultural output emerging from the Arab world. They present sensitive, conceptual readings whilst remaining mindful of the place of this work within a wider framework that seeks to prevent isolationist readings of cultural phenomena. Making sense of the place of culture in the Arab world, and agreeing upon a broadly recognisable and commonly accepted set of terms within which to discuss this output, is a new and urgent challenge. Arab Cultural Studies aspires to understand, communicate and theorise these forms. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal for Cultural Research.
Author: Ami Ayalon
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 0195041402
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this study of the rise of modern Arabic, Ayalon examines 19th-century linguistic change in the Eastern Arab world, describing how the language responded to the infiltration of Western politics, technology, and culture. Focusing on the realm of political discourse, Ayalon looks at a wide array of evidence--local chronicles, travel accounts, translations of European writings, Arab political treatises, newspapers and periodicals, and dictionaries--to show how shifts in the color, tone, and meaning of the Arab vocabulary reflected a new socio-political and cultural reality.
Author: Tim Mackintosh-Smith
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2019-04-30
Total Pages: 681
ISBN-13: 0300180284
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A riveting, comprehensive history of the Arab peoples and tribes that explores the role of language as a cultural touchstone This kaleidoscopic book covers almost 3,000 years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloose Arab peoples and tribes who conquered lands and disseminated their language and culture over vast distances. Tracing this process to the origins of the Arabic language, rather than the advent of Islam, Tim Mackintosh-Smith begins his narrative more than a thousand years before Muhammad and focuses on how Arabic, both spoken and written, has functioned as a vital source of shared cultural identity over the millennia. Mackintosh-Smith reveals how linguistic developments--from pre-Islamic poetry to the growth of script, Muhammad's use of writing, and the later problems of printing Arabic--have helped and hindered the progress of Arab history, and investigates how, even in today's politically fractured post-Arab Spring environment, Arabic itself is still a source of unity and disunity.