Projecting a New Empire

Eugenio Garosi

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East | nr. 42
• Seventh and eighth-century papyri, inscriptions, and coins constitute the main evidence for the rise of Arabic as a hegemonic language emerging from t... Lees meer

Essays in Islamic Philology, History, and Philosophy

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East | nr. 31
• The articles in this volume are dedicated to Professor Ahmad Mahdavi Damghani for the breadth and depth of his interests and his influence on those in... Lees meer

Dämonenglaube im Islam

Tobias Nünlist

• Hardcover | Duits | Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East | nr. 28
• Der Glaube an Dämonen (ğinn) ist in islamisch geprägten Gesellschaften weit verbreitet. Da sie sowohl im Koran als auch in den Prophetenworten vielfac... Lees meer

Le contre-discours coranique

Mehdi Azaiez

• Hardcover | Frans | Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East | nr. 30
• This book deals with a prominent literary element of the Koran, the "counter-discourse", the citations of opposing voices. This feature of the Koranic... Lees meer

Connected Stories

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East | nr. 44
• Concepts such as influence, imitation, emulation, transmission or plagiarism are transcendental to cultural history and the subject of universal debat... Lees meer

"The Compassionate and Benevolent" Jewish Ruling Elites in the Medieval Islamicate World

Miriam Frenkel

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East | nr. 39
• This is a monograph about the medieval Jewish community of the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria. Through deep analyses of contemporary historical... Lees meer

The Qur'ān

Karim Samji

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East | nr. 32
• The corpus coranicum eludes familiar categories and resists strict labels. No doubt the threads woven into the fabric are exceptionally textured, vari... Lees meer

Greater Khorasan

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East | nr. 29
• The modern sense of "Greater Khorasan" today corresponds to a territory which not only comprises the region in the east of Iran but also, beyond Irani... Lees meer

"The Compassionate and Benevolent" Jewish Ruling Elites in the Medieval Islamicate World

Miriam Frenkel

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East | nr. 39
• This is a monograph about the medieval Jewish community of the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria. Through deep analyses of contemporary historical... Lees meer

L'Ibadisme Dans Les Sociétés de l'Islam Médiéval

• Hardcover | Frans | Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East | nr. 33
• The history of Ibadism is still marginalized in Islamic studies, while there has been a significant increase of the available sources from Oman and No... Lees meer

Creation and Contemplation

Julien Decharneux

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East | nr. 47
• In Creation and Contemplation, Julien Decharneux explores the connections between the cosmology of the Qur'ān and various cosmological traditions of L... Lees meer

Philosophising the Occult

Michael-Sebastian Noble

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East | nr. 35
• Was it mere encyclopedism that motivated Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d.1210), one of the most influential Islamic theologians of the twelfth century, to the... Lees meer

Le contre-discours coranique

Mehdi Azaiez

• Paperback | Frans | Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East | nr. 30
• This book deals with a prominent literary element of the Koran, the "counter-discourse", the citations of opposing voices. This feature of the Koranic... Lees meer

The Maghrib in the Mashriq

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East | nr. 40
• This is a pioneering book about the impact that knowledge produced in the Maghrib (Islamic North Africa and al-Andalus = Muslim Iberia) had on the res... Lees meer

The Reach of Empire

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East | nr. 37
• How could an empire stretching from the Hindukush to the Atlantic be governed for about 300 years, from ca. 650 to the 950s? How far did the geographi... Lees meer

Transregional and Regional Elites - Connecting the Early Islamic Empire

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East | nr. 36
• Transregional and regional elites of various backgrounds were essential for the integration of diverse regions into the early Islamic Empire, from Cen... Lees meer

Projecting a New Empire

Eugenio Garosi

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East | nr. 42
• Seventh and eighth-century papyri, inscriptions, and coins constitute the main evidence for the rise of Arabic as a hegemonic language emerging from t... Lees meer

The Heritage of Edirne in Ottoman and Turkish Times

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East | nr. 34
• Modern scholarship has not given Edirne the attention it deserves regarding its significance as one of the capitals of the Ottoman Empire. This edited... Lees meer

Recht und historische Entwicklung der Scharia im Islam

Christian Müller

• Hardcover | Duits | Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East | nr. 46
• Hat die Scharia eine Geschichte? Und welche gesellschaftliche Rolle spielt das Rechtsdenken (fiqh) im Islam? Hierauf bietet dieses Buch fundierte Antw... Lees meer

Islamic Law in Early Modern Iran

Zahir Bhalloo

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East | nr. 48
• Historical studies on the practice of Islamic law (sharīʿa) tend to focus on practice in a Sunni setting during the Mamluk or Ottoman periods. This bo... Lees meer

The First Arabic Annals

Edward Zychowicz-Coghill

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East | nr. 41
• The earliest development of Arabic historical writing remains shrouded in uncertainty until the 9th century CE, when our first extant texts were compo... Lees meer

Neither Belief Nor Unbelief

Sona Grigoryan

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East | nr. 45
• The book re-examines the religious thought and receptions of the Syrian poet Abū l-ʿAlāʾ al-Maʿarrī (d.1057) and one of his best known works - Luzūm m... Lees meer