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Book Synopsis The Origins of Modern Arabic Fiction by : Matti Moosa
Download or read book The Origins of Modern Arabic Fiction written by Matti Moosa and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Moosa's exhaustive discussion, demonstrating the influence of both Western and Islamic ideology and culture, presents many works of fiction for the first time to Western students of Arabic literature.
Book Synopsis God and Sheikh Adi are Perfect by : Philip G. Kreyenbroek
Download or read book God and Sheikh Adi are Perfect written by Philip G. Kreyenbroek and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 2005 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until the late 20th century the West was unaware of the existence of an extensive corpus of Yezidi religious texts. These were traditionally transmitted orally, and were kept secret from outsiders. It was not until the 1970s that a few Yezidi intellectuals began to commit these texts to writing. These first publications included only specimens of the most prestigious genres, which for a time were thought to be representative of Yezidi religious literature as a whole. It was later discovered, however, that this literature was far richer. Furthermore it became clear that an understanding of Yezidi oral culture as a whole was indispensable for a proper understanding of the religious texts.The present work offers the reader a representative selection of the main genres of Yezidi religious texts, with translation and commentary. The texts are intended, moreover, to cover the topics most often addressed in the Yezidi religious tradition.The first introductory chapter aims to introduce the reader to the Yezidi community's history, aspects of its religion, and its social structures and institutions. The next chapter focuses on some of the implications of the oral transmission of this literature and on its contents, especially the sacred history of Yezidism. The third chapter discusses aspects of orality and the transition to written culture, questions of performance and reception, and the formal characteristics of the various types of texts.
Book Synopsis Landscapes of Resistance by : Benjamin Rassbach
Download or read book Landscapes of Resistance written by Benjamin Rassbach and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-11-11 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On August 3, 2014, the Sinjar region of Northern Iraq was attacked by the “Islamic State”. Killing and abducting thousands, the jihadists also destroyed many of the religious minority’s shrines. Others, however, were defended by local fighters and groups affiliated with the PKK. In the aftermath of the genocide, stories of divine intervention into the defence bolstered land claims of serveral Kurdish political groups. Through extensive fieldwork in the region, I trace imaginaries of Sinjar as a landscape of resistance and a communal history of continuous persecution to current political disputes and attempts to construct a unified Yezidi identity.
Book Synopsis From Saladin to the Mongols by : R. Stephen Humphreys
Download or read book From Saladin to the Mongols written by R. Stephen Humphreys and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1977-01-01 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upon the death of Saladin in 1193, his vast empire, stretching from the Yemen to the upper reaches of the Tigris, fell into the hands of his Ayyubid kinsmen. These latter parceled his domains into a number of autonomous principalities, though some common identity was maintained by linking these petty states into a loose confederation, in which each local prince owed allegiance to the senior member of the Ayyubid house. Such an arrangement was, of course, highly unstable, and at first glance Ayyubid history appears to be no more than a succession of unedifying squabbles among countless rival princelings, until at last the family's hegemony was extinguished by two events: 1) a coup d'état staged by the palace guard in Egypt in 1250, and 2) the Mongol occupation of Syria, brief but destructive, in 1260. But appearances to the contrary, the obscure quarrels of Saladin's heirs embodied a political revolution of highest importance in Syro-Egyptian history. The seven decades of Ayyubid rule mark the slow and sometimes violent emergence of a new administrative relationship between Egypt and Syria, one in which Syria was subjected to close centralized control from Cairo for the unprecedented period of 250 years. These years saw also the gradual decay of a form of government--the family confederation--which had been the most characteristic political structure of Western Iran and the Fertile Crescent for three centuries, and its replacement by a unitary autocracy. Finally, it was under the Ayyubids that the army ceased to be an arm of the state and became, in effect, the state itself. When these internal developments are seen in the broader context of world history as it affected Syria during the first half of the thirteenth century--Italian commercial expansion, the Crusades of Frederick II and St. Louis, the Mongol expansion--then the great intrinsic interest of Ayyubid history becomes apparent. Professor Humphreys has developed these themes through close examination of the political fortunes of the Ayyubid princes of Damascus. For Damascus, though seldom the capital of the Ayyubid confederation, was, nevertheless, its hinge. The struggle for regional autonomy vs. centralization, for Syrian independence vs. Egyptian domination, was fought out at Damascus, and the city was compelled to stand no less than eleven sieges during the sixty-seven years of Ayyubid rule. Almost every political process of real significance either originated with the rulers of Damascus or was closely reflected in their policy and behavior. The book is cast in the form of a narrative, describing a structure of politics which was in no way fixed and static, but dynamic and constantly evolving. Indeed, the book does not so much concern the doings of a group of rather obscure princes as it does the values and attitudes which underlay and shaped their behavior. The point of the narrative is precisely to show what these values were, how they were expressed in real life, and how they changed into quite new values in the course of time.
Download or read book Islamic Art written by Barbara Brend and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a region-by-region history of the art of the Islamic world, looking at architecture, the art of the book, mosaics, pottery, textiles, and other decorative art forms.
Book Synopsis The Mongols and the Islamic World by : Peter Jackson
Download or read book The Mongols and the Islamic World written by Peter Jackson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ilkhanate: from Tegüder Aḥmad to Öljeitü -- Muslim Ilkhans, the Buddhists and the People of the Book -- Rashīd al-Dīn, Islam and the Mongols -- The Islam of Ghazan, his generals and his minister: the view from outside -- EPILOGUE -- Legitimation by Chinggisid descent -- Allegiance to Mongol norms and institutions -- Turkicization -- The exodus of Muslims from the Mongol world -- The spread of Islam across Eurasia -- The movement of peoples and the emergence of new ethnicities -- The integration of Eurasia within a single disease zone: the Black Death -- CONCLUSION -- APPENDIX 1 Glossary of Technical Terms -- APPENDIX 2 Genealogical Tables and Lists of Rulers -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
Book Synopsis An Ayyubid Notable and His World by : D. W. Morray
Download or read book An Ayyubid Notable and His World written by D. W. Morray and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1994 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of a long neglected source and its author adds significantly to our knowledge of northern Syria on the eve of the Mongol invasion. It is also an invaluable guide to the recently published Arabic text.
Book Synopsis The Dragon in Medieval East Christian and Islamic Art by : Sara Kuehn
Download or read book The Dragon in Medieval East Christian and Islamic Art written by Sara Kuehn and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-07-12 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange by : Anonymous
Download or read book Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange written by Anonymous and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the shrouded corpse hung a tablet of green topaz with the inscription: 'I am Shaddad the Great. I conquered a thousand cities; a thousand white elephants were collected for me; I lived for a thousand years and my kingdom covered both east and west, but when death came to me nothing of all that I had gathered was of any avail. You who see me take heed: for Time is not to be trusted.' Dating from at least a millennium ago, these are the earliest known Arabic short stories, surviving in a single, ragged manuscript in a library in Istanbul. Some found their way into The Arabian Nights but most have never been read in English before. Tales of the Marvellous and News of the Strange has monsters, lost princes, jewels beyond price, a princess turned into a gazelle, sword-wielding statues and shocking reversals of fortune.
Book Synopsis The Citadel of Cairo by : Nasser O. Rabbat
Download or read book The Citadel of Cairo written by Nasser O. Rabbat and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This architectural history of the Citadel of Cairo uses indices from maps, photographs, plans of hitherto unstudied structures, and a large array of historical documents to chronologically reconstruct the Citadel's development from its foundation by Salah al-Din until it reached its most monumental form in the middle of the fourteenth century. The study analyzes the influence of Mamluk socio-political hierarchy on the conceptualization of the Citadel's spaces and forms; assesses its impact on medieval Cairo; proposes a new interpretation for the development of Mamluk royal architecture; and presents new definitions for a number of medieval architectural terms. By weaving the history of the Citadel together with the history of Cairo and the Mamluk system, this book is relevant to historians of architecture and urbanism and medieval historians.
Book Synopsis Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art & Architecture: Three-Volume Set by : Jonathan Bloom
Download or read book Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art & Architecture: Three-Volume Set written by Jonathan Bloom and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-05-14 with total page 1697 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture is the most comprehensive reference work in this complex and diverse area of art history. Built on the acclaimed scholarship of the Grove Dictionary of Art, this work offers over 1,600 up-to-date entries on Islamic art and architecture ranging from the Middle East to Central and South Asia, Africa, and Europe and spans over a thousand years of history. Recent changes in Islamic art in areas such as Afghanistan, Iran, and Iraq are elucidated here by distinguished scholars. Entries provide in-depth art historical and cultural information about dynasties, art forms, artists, architecture, rulers, monuments, archaeological sites and stylistic developments. In addition, over 500 illustrations of sculpture, mosaic, painting, ceramics, architecture, metalwork and calligraphy illuminate the rich artistic tradition of the Islamic world. With the fundamental understanding that Islamic art is not limited to a particular region, or to a defined period of time, The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture offers pathways into Islamic culture through its art.
Download or read book The Diez Albums written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-11-14 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The five Diez albums in Berlin, acquired by Heinrich Friedrich von Diez in Constantinople around 1789, contain more than 400 figurative paintings, drawings, fragments, and calligraphic works originating for the most part from Ilkhanid, Jalayirid, and Timurid workshops. Gonnella, Weis and Rauch unite in this volume 21 essays that analyse their relation to their “parent” albums at the Topkapı Palace or examine specific works by reflecting upon their role in the larger history of book art in Iran. Other essays cover aspects such as the European and Chinese influence on Persianate art, aspects related to material and social culture, and the Ottoman interest in Persianate albums. This book marks an important contribution to the understanding of the development of illustrative imagery in the Persianate world and its later perception. Contributors are: Serpil Bağcı, Barbara Brend, Massumeh Farhad, Julia Gonnella, Claus-Peter Haase, Oliver Hahn, Robert Hillenbrand, Yuka Kadoi, Charles Melville, Gülru Necipoğlu, Bernard O'Kane, Filiz Ҫakır Phillip, Yves Porter, Julian Raby, Christoph Rauch, Simon Rettig, David J. Roxburgh, Karin Rührdanz, Zeren Tanındı, Lâle Uluç, Ching-Ling Wang, and Friederike Weis.
Book Synopsis Cairo, Jerusalem & Damascus by : David Samuel Margoliouth
Download or read book Cairo, Jerusalem & Damascus written by David Samuel Margoliouth and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Cairo, Jerusalem, & Damascus: three chief cities of the Egyptian Sultans by : David Samuel Margoliouth
Download or read book Cairo, Jerusalem, & Damascus: three chief cities of the Egyptian Sultans written by David Samuel Margoliouth and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 2017 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book itself is intensely interesting both in its historical account and its description of these three great cities and is profusely illustrated with most beautiful pictures and drawings of the famous places in them. The difference of "atmosphere” of Cairo and Jerusalem which, though both so distinctly Eastern, are yet in many ways so unlike, is wonderfully conveyed. The pictures in this book make you long to go there and, indeed, this delightful volume must give almost equal pleasure to those who have been in the places and those who have not, for it seems to take back those who have been there and it brings the scenes and places to those who have never actually seen them.
Download or read book Tamta's World written by Antony Eastmond and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The compelling story of a thirteenth-century Christian noblewoman ransomed to the family of Saladin, made a ruler by the Mongols, and with extraordinary connections across continents and cultures from the Mediterranean to Mongolia. This book will be important for students and scholars of Byzantine, Crusader and Islamic history, art and architecture.
Book Synopsis LAMENT OF SINZAR by : vijay kumar pal
Download or read book LAMENT OF SINZAR written by vijay kumar pal and published by Shashwat Publication. This book was released on 2023-12-20 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THIS BOOK IS THE REFLECTION OF CRUELTIES AGAINST KAFFIR YAZIDIS WOMEN AND MEN BY ABU-BAKER-AL-BAGHDADI, AS HE CITED SO MANY VERSES OF QURAN AND DID ACCORDINGLY. IN THIS BOOK IT HAS BEEN DESCRIBED, THAT HOW A TERRORIST USED THE JURISPRUDENCE FOR SAVE HIS ALL EVIL DEEDS , THOUGH ACCORDING TO THE CIVIL SOCIETY RULES, THESE ALL ACTIVITIES CAN NOT BE IMMUNE, BECAUSE THESE DEEDS ARE NOT BAD AS PER SOME CULT;S JURISPRUDENCE, WHICH WERE FOLLOWING BY THE ABU-BAKER-AL-BAGHDADI, HOW SUCH ATROCITIES AGAINST KAFFIRS OR NON-MUSLIMS CAN BE CERTIFIED AS GOOD , NATURALLY THIS THE QUESTION, IT IS STILL NIT ANSWERABLE ANY ANYBODY, THOUGH MANY SCHOLARS ARE ALSO TRIED TO HIDE SUCH ACTIVITIES BY THEIR CUNNING APPROACH, BUT EVERY THING IS NOW CRYSTAL CLEAR DUE TI INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, AND IN THIS BOOK DISCLOSES ALL THE IRRELEVANT AND ANTI-HUMAN EVIL DEEDS, WHICH WERE COMMITTED BY ABU-BAKER-AL-BAGHDADI AGAINST KAFFIR OR NON-MUSLIM WOMEN. IN A NUT SHELL WE CAN NOT DEFEND ANY IDEOLOGY, WHICH IS BASED ON SUCH TYPE OF STUPIDITY IN FAVOUR OF CERTAIN GROUP AND COWARD PEOPLE WHO HAVE NO DARE TO EXPOSE IT, SO THIS IS THE TINY EFFORT TO EXPOSE THE REALITY, THOUGH SOME PEOPLE SUPPOSE THE ABU-BAKER-AL-BAGHDADI WAS REAL HERO , AS WE HAVE WRITTEN IN MANY QURANIC VERSES AND JURISPRUDENCE , HE WAS HERO ACCORDING TO THIS IDEOLOGY, THOUGH ACCORDING TO HUMANITY HE WAS A MONSTER ONLY TO HUMILIATE THE PEOPLE ON THE BASES OF CULT, AND HE DID ACCORDINGLY HATE SPREADING AND KILLING THE INNOCENT PEOPLE, ON THE BASES OF HIS JURISPRUDENCE OF STUPIDITY.
Download or read book Hay dramagitakan handēs written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
