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Kingship And Ideology In The Islamic And Mongol Worlds

by Anne F. (University Of Massachusetts, Amherst) Broadbridge

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 What were the attitudes to diplomacy and kingship in the medieval Islamic world? Anne Broadbridge explores the ideologies of two different powers, the Mongol Khanates of the Golden Horde in Iran and Anatolia and the Mamluk Sultans of Syria and Egypt, who ruled from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century.
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Universalism And Regionalism In The Early Islamic World - The Beginnings Of Local History-Writing

by Harry (University Of York) Munt

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 An innovative exploration of the understudied phenomenon of local history-writing in the early Islamic World. Harry Munt situates local history-writing within its historical contexts, examining how Muslim scholars used this genre to think about their local community's place within a larger, more universal Muslim community.
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An Islamic Legal Philosophy - Ibn ?Abd Al-Salam And The Ethical Turn In Islamic Law

by Mariam (Brandeis University, Massachusetts) Sheibani

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 Traces the ethical turn in medieval Islamic legal philosophy through the work of the prominent jurist and legal philosopher Ibn ?Abd al-Salam (d. 660/1262). Mariam Sheibani examines how Ibn ?Abd al-Salam advanced a comprehensive analysis of the law's purposive and coherent rationality, situated within wider historical and intellectual contexts.
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Mantle Of The Sufi Kings - Political Sufism And The Rise Of Early Modern Iran

by Hani (State University Of New York At Buffalo) Khafipour

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 Explores how loyalty, social cohesion, and political Sufism shaped the rise of early modern Iran, revealing an empire's cultural and religious legacy. Examining the evolution of Safavid political theology, Hani Khafipour offers a bold interpretation of Iran's history with important implications for current religio-political discourse.
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Late Ottoman Origins Of Modern Islamic Thought - Turkish And Egyptian Thinkers On The Disruption Of Islamic Knowledge

by Andrew (University Of Oxford) Hammond

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 Andrew Hammond offers a significant, innovative reappraisal of the role of Late Ottoman Turkish scholars in shaping modern Islamic thought. Focusing on three key figures, Hammond demonstrates their lasting impact on Turkish and Arab Islamist ideology, which has been neglected by previous histories.
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Agents Of The Hidden Imam - Forging Twelver Shiâ€˜Ism, 850-950 Ce

by Edmund (Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen) Hayes

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 Reconstructing the roles and careers of key actors in the drama of early Occultation politics and the emergence of the first leaders of Twelver Shi?ism, this book demonstrates how they established the doctrines and institutions of Twelver Shi?ism, the dominant branch of Shi?i Islam in the world today.
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Female Religiosity In Central Asia - Sufi Leaders In The Persianate World

by Aziza (Columbia University, New York) Shanazarova

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 Invites readers into the complex and little-known world of female religiosity and authority in early modern Central Asia, offering a unique analysis of the story of Agha-yi Buzurg. Intended for scholars, educators and students of Islamic studies and Central Asian history, as well as those interested in gender history and Sufism.
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Islamic Law In Circulation - Shafi'I Texts Across The Indian Ocean And The Mediterranean

by Mahmood Kooria

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 Looking at the spread and survival of Islamic legal ideas in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean littorals in the second millennium CE, this book focuses on the Shafi?i school of Islamic law to explore the nuances of juridical exchanges across several centuries and vast regions.
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Revealed Sciences - The Natural Sciences In Islam In Seventeenth-Century Morocco

by Justin K. Stearns

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 Provides a detailed overview of the place of the natural sciences in the scholarly and educational landscape of Early Modern Morocco, this study challenges previous negative depictions of the natural sciences in the Muslim world to demonstrate the vibrancy of an Early Modern Muslim society in seventeenth-century Morocco.
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Persian Historiography Across Empires - The Ottomans, Safavids, And Mughals

by Sholeh A. Quinn

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 The comparative study of Persian historiography of the early modern Islamic empires, the Ottomans, Safavids and Mughals, presenting in-depth case analyses alongside a wide array of primary sources to illustrate the extensive universe of literary-historical writing that Persian historiography can be found within.
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Opposing The Imam - The Legacy Of The Nawasib In Islamic Literature

by Nebil (University Of Miami) Husayn

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 Islam's fourth caliph, Ali, can be considered one of the most revered figures in Islamic history. Examining the enduring legacy of the nawasib, early Muslims who were hostile to the ascendancy of Ali and his descendants, this study reveals a period of contestation and the eventual rehabilitation of Ali's reputation in Sunni Islam.
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The Sufi Saint Of Jam - History, Religion, And Politics Of A Sunni Shrine In Shi'I Iran

by Shivan (University Of St Andrews, Scotland) Mahendrarajah

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 Spanning 900 years of history, this book explores the genesis, florescence, degeneration, and regeneration of the 'saint cult' and shrine-complex of Shaykh al-Islam Ahmad-i Jam. Cult and shrine fell into decline under Iran's first Shi?i shahs, but are enjoying a renaissance under the Ayatollahs despite being an adamantly Sunni institution.
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Late Ottoman Origins Of Modern Islamic Thought - Turkish And Egyptian Thinkers On The Disruption Of Islamic Knowledge

by Andrew (University Of Oxford) Hammond

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 Andrew Hammond offers a significant, innovative reappraisal of the role of Late Ottoman Turkish scholars in shaping modern Islamic thought. Focusing on three key figures, Hammond demonstrates their lasting impact on Turkish and Arab Islamist ideology, which has been neglected by previous histories.
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Islamic Law In Circulation - Shafi''I Texts Across The Indian Ocean And The Mediterranean

by Mahmood Kooria

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 Analysing the spread and survival of Islamic legal ideas and commentaries in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean littorals, Islamic Law in Circulation focuses on Shfism, one of the four Sunn schools of Islamic law. It explores how certain texts shaped, transformed and influenced the juridical thoughts and lives of a significant community over a millennium in and between Asia, Africa and Europe. By examining the processes of the spread of legal texts and their roles in society, as well as thinking about how Afrasian Muslims responded to these new arrivals of thoughts and texts, Mahmood Kooria weaves together a narrative with the textual descendants from places such as Damascus, Mecca, Cairo, Malabar, Java, Aceh and Zanzibar to tell a compelling story of how Islam contributed to the global history of law from the thirteenth to the twentieth century.
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Islamic Law In Circulation - Shafi''I Texts Across The Indian Ocean And The Mediterranean

by Mahmood Kooria

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Agents Of The Hidden Imam - Forging Twelver Shi‘Ism, 850-950 Ce

by Edmund Hayes

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Agents Of The Hidden Imam - Forging Twelver Shi‘Ism, 850-950 Ce

by Edmund Hayes

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The Economics Of Ottoman Justice - Settlement And Trial In The Sharia Courts

by Bogac (University Of Vermont) Ergene e Metin (University Of Connecticut) Cosgel

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 By offering both an economic and legal analysis of legal practice in a sharia court in the Ottoman Empire during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, this book highlights how different gender, religious, and socioeconomic groups participated in legal practice and interacted with other groups.
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The First Of The Modern Ottomans - The Intellectual History Of Ahmed Vasif

by Ethan L. (University Of Toronto) Menchinger

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 This book explores Ottoman intellectual life, politics and reform during the eighteenth century through the study of the key statesmen and historian Ahmed VÃ¢sif. It is for students and researchers of intellectual history, the Enlightenment period, the Ottoman Empire and the Middle East.
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Non-Muslim Provinces Under Early Islam - Islamic Rule And Iranian Legitimacy In Armenia And Caucasian Albania

by Alison (University Of Tennessee, Knoxville) Vacca

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 This book explores the Christian provinces of Armenia and Caucasian Albania as caliphal provinces and part of the larger Iranian cultural sphere. It is aimed at historians of Islam, Iran and the Caucasus, and for those studying themes of memory, diversity and Muslim-Christian relations in the Near East.
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The Mystics Of Al-Andalus - Ibn Barrajan And Islamic Thought In The Twelfth Century

by Yousef (University Of Chicago) Casewit

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 This book is a study of the writings of Ibn Barrajan, an influential Sunni mystic who introduced a worldview to the Muslim West based in Muslim scripture and Neoplatonic cosmology. It will be of interest to researchers of the medieval Islamic world, and those studying the history of mysticism and Sufism in the Muslim West.
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Collective Liability In Islam - The Â€˜Aqila And Blood Money Payments

by Nurit (Tel-Aviv University) Tsafrir

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 Offering the first close analysis of the ?Aqila, a group jointly liable for blood money payments on behalf of its members, this study traces the transformation of this important institution from pre-Islamic custom to the Shari?a, and follows its further re-shaping through the modern period, in relation to Islamic religion, state, and society.
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Arabic Poetics - Aesthetic Experience In Classical Arabic Literature

by Lara (Princeton University, New Jersey) Harb

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 Revealing how an aesthetic of wonder underlies classical Arabic treatments of poetry, the Quran, and Aristotelian poetics, this fresh look at the question of literary quality, using the framework of aesthetic theory, is essential reading for scholars and students of Arabic literature, Islamic Studies, literary theory and Islamic art history.
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Islam, Literature And Society In Mongol Anatolia

by A. C. S. (University Of St Andrews, Scotland) Peacock

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 Bringing together previously unpublished sources in Arabic, Persian and Turkish, Peacock focuses on the period of Mongol domination in Anatolia in the thirteenth-fourteenth centuries to offer new understanding of the process of Islamisation in Anatolia and integrate its study with that of the broader Islamic world.
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