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Historia y Civilización Islámica de BrillSerie

Esta serie profundiza en la rica y diversa historia del Islam, abarcando desde sus primeras apariciones hasta la era premoderna. Cubre un vasto alcance geográfico, desde las fronteras occidentales hasta las orientales del mundo islámico. La colección presenta estudios analíticos sobre temas, dinastías y figuras clave, junto con traducciones anotadas y ediciones de textos. Sirve como un recurso invaluable para comprender las tradiciones intelectuales, literarias y culturales que dieron forma a la civilización islámica.

The origins of Islamic jurisprudence
Das Aleppiner Kalifat (A.D. 1261)
Islamic mysticism contested
After one hundred years
The dragon in Medieval East Christian and Islamic art
The construction of knowledge in Islamic civilization

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  • The construction of knowledge in Islamic civilization

    • 283 páginas
    • 10 horas de lectura

    This study examines the role of the state in the construction of knowledge in Islamic civilization in its early classical period (third/ninth and fourth/tenth centuries). Different voices representing different social groups - savants, littérateurs, religious scholars, state officials - all brought their particular conception of knowledge to bear on the formation of the various branches of knowledge known to Islamic civilization. Reading the works of various branches of knowledge alongside the administrative encyclopedia of Qudāma b. Ja'far (d. 337/948), a state official in the employ of the Abbasid dynasty, has served to highlight the particular point of view of the state in the intellectual and cultural dialogue of the day. At the same time, this approach has shown Islamic civilization to be as much a dialogue of values between the different social groups of the day as a series of events or collection of ideas.

    The construction of knowledge in Islamic civilization

  • The dragon in Medieval East Christian and Islamic art

    • 298 páginas
    • 11 horas de lectura

    This book is a pioneering work on a key iconographic motif, that of the dragon. It examines the perception of this complex, multifaceted motif within the overall intellectual and visual universe of the medieval Irano-Turkish world. Using a broadly comparative approach, the author explores the ever-shifting semantics of the dragon motif as it emerges in neighbouring Muslim and non-Muslim cultures. The book will be of particular interest to those concerned with the relationship between the pre-Islamic, Islamic and Eastern Christian (especially Armenian) world. The study is fully illustrated, with 209 (b/w and full colour) plates, many of previously unpublished material. Illustrations include photographs of architectural structures visited by the author, as well as a vast collection of artefacts, all of which are described and discussed in detail with inscription readings, historical data and textual sources.

    The dragon in Medieval East Christian and Islamic art

  • Islamic mysticism contested

    • 844 páginas
    • 30 horas de lectura

    Islamic mysticism was contested from the formative period of Islam till the present. Criticism of and opposition to mystical conceptions of Islam and their adherents constitute an integral part of an ongoing debate inside the Islamic tradition. Controversies and polemics concerning Islamic mysticism often shaped and coincided with socio-political configurations. This volume results from a collective effort by a group of Islamicists and area specialists with a variety of disciplinary orientations to arrive at a comprehensive view of these controversies and polemics wherever and whenever found. The thirty-five contributions and the introduction are united in their historicising approach, while taking into account the wider socio-political context. Detailed indexes facilitate consultation of the work and give it an added value as work of reference and research tool.

    Islamic mysticism contested

  • The origins of Islamic jurisprudence

    • 326 páginas
    • 12 horas de lectura
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    The current view among Western scholars of Islam concerning the early development of Islamic jurisprudence was shaped by Joseph Schacht's famous study on the subject published 50 years ago. Since then new sources became available which make a critical review of his theories possible and desirable. This volume uses one of these sources to reconstruct the development of jurisprudence at Mecca, virtually unknown until now, from the beginnings until the middle of the second Islamic century. New methods of analysis are developed and tested in order to date the material contained in the earliest compilations of legal traditions more properly. As a result the origins of Islamic jurisprudence can be dated much earlier than claimed by Schacht and his school.

    The origins of Islamic jurisprudence

  • Verbranntes Ufer

    • 516 páginas
    • 19 horas de lectura

    "Verbranntes Ufer" zeichnet erstmals das Bild der Entwicklung der syro-palastinensischen Hafenstadte nach der Vertreibung der letzten Kreuzfahrer. Die Arbeit diskutiert die verfehlte Flottenpolitik der Mamluken und beschreibt anschaulich die politische, sozialgeschichtliche und wirtschaftliche Entwicklung der syro-palastinensischen Kuste. "Verbranntes Ufer" is the first complete presentation of the history of the Syro-Palestinian coast after the expulsion of the last crusaders. The work discusses the unsuccessful sea policy of the Mamluks and describes the political, social and economic history of the Syro-Palestinian coast.

    Verbranntes Ufer

  • Timbuktu and the Songhay empire

    • 412 páginas
    • 15 horas de lectura

    The other contemporary documents included are a new English translation of Leo Africanus's description of West Africa, some letters relating to Sa'dian diplomacy and conquests in the Sahara and Sahel, al-Ifrani's account of Sa'dian conquest of Songhay, and an account of this expedition by an anonymous Spaniard.

    Timbuktu and the Songhay empire

  • The Great Mosque of Damascus

    • 400 páginas
    • 14 horas de lectura
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    The celebrated Great Mosque of Damascus was built in the early eighth century by the Umayyad caliph al-Walīd b. 'Abd al-Malik. This book provides a detailed study of this Mosque. Using textual, visual, and archaeological evidence, the author attempts to reconstruct some of the basic formal and decorative features of the Umayyad mosque, to locate it within its broader urban context, and to consider its role within al-Walīd's unprecedented programme of architectural patronage. The work explores the intracultural and intercultural functions of religious architecture within an official visual discourse intended to project a distinctive Muslim identity in a manner determined by Umayyad political aspirations. It will be of particular interest to those concerned with the relationship between the Umayyad caliphate and Byzantium.

    The Great Mosque of Damascus