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Culture of Letter-Writing in Pre-Modern Islamic Society

Author : Adrian Gully
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 074863374X
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Culture of Letter-Writing in Pre-Modern Islamic Society written by Adrian Gully and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2008-02-07 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Culture of Letter-Writing in Pre-Modern Islamic Society received an honourable mention from the British-Kuwait Friendship Society at BRISMES 2009Writing letters was an important component of intellectual life in the Middle Islamic period, telling us much about the cultural history of pre-modern Islamic society. This book offers a unique analysis of letter-writing, focusing on the notion of the power of the pen. The author looks at the wider context of epistolography, relating it to the power structures of Islamic society in that period. He also attempts to identify some of the similarities and differences between Muslim modes of letter-writing and those of western cultures.One of the strengths of this book is that it is based on a wide range of primary Arabic sources, thus reflecting the broader epistemological importance of letter-writing in Islamic society.

Negotiating Transcultural Relations in the Early Modern Mediterranean

Author : Stephen Ortega
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317089197
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Negotiating Transcultural Relations in the Early Modern Mediterranean written by Stephen Ortega and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Negotiating Transcultural Relations in the Early Modern Mediterranean is a study of transcultural relations between Ottoman Muslims, Christian subjects of the Venetian Republic, and other social groups in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Focusing principally on Ottoman Muslims who came to Venice and its outlying territories, and using sources in Italian, Turkish and Spanish, this study examines the different types of power relations and the social geographies that framed the encounters of Muslim travelers. While Stephen Ortega does not dismiss the idea that Venetians and Ottoman Muslims represented two distinct communities, he does argue that Christian and Muslim exchange in the pre-modern period involved integrated cultural, economic, political and social practices. Ortega's investigation brings to light how merchants, trade brokers, diplomats, informants, converts, wayward souls and government officials from different communities engaged in similar practices and used comparable negotiation tactics in matters ranging from trade disputes, to the rights of male family members, to guarantees of protection. In relying on sources from archives in Venice, Istanbul and Simancas, the book demonstrates the importance of viewing Mediterranean history from a variety of perspectives, and it emphasizes the importance of understanding cross-cultural history as a negotiation between different social, cultural and institutional actors.

India and the Islamic Heartlands

Author : Gagan Sood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107121272
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book India and the Islamic Heartlands written by Gagan Sood and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gagan D. S. Sood recaptures a vanished and forgotten world that spanned India and the Islamic heartlands in the eighteenth century.

Human Struggle

Author : Mona Siddiqui
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108608884
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Human Struggle written by Mona Siddiqui and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many of the great thinkers and poets in Christianity and Islam led lives marked by personal and religious struggle. Indeed, suffering and struggle are part of the human condition and constant themes in philosophy, sociology and psychology. In this thought-provoking book, acclaimed scholar Mona Siddiqui ponders how humankind finds meaning in life during an age of uncertainty. Here, she explores the theme of human struggle through the writings of iconic figures such as Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Muhammad Ghazali, Rainer Maria Rilke and Sayyid Qutb - people who searched for meaning in the face of adversity. Considering a wide range of thinkers and literary figures, her book explores how suffering and struggle force the faithful to stretch their imagination in order to bring about powerful and prophetic movements for change. The moral and aesthetic impulse of their writings will also stimulate inter-cultural and interdisciplinary conversations on the search for meaning in an age of uncertainty.

Medieval Empires and the Culture of Competition

Author : Samuel England
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474425259
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Empires and the Culture of Competition written by Samuel England and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-07 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to look critically at digital technologies and the role they play within queer lives in contemporary India

Persian Prose

Author : Bo Utas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0755617819
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book Persian Prose written by Bo Utas and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume V of A History of Persian Literature presents a broad survey of Persian prose: from biographical, historiographical, and didactic prose, to scientific manuals and works of popular prose fiction. It analyzes the rhetorical devices employed by writers in different periods in their philosophical and political discourse; or when their aim is primarily to entertain rather than to instruct , the chapters describe different techniques used to transform old stories and familiar tales into novel versions to entice their audience. Many of the texts in prose cited in the volume share a wealth of common lore and literary allusions with Persian poetry. Prose and poetry frequently appear on the same page in tandem. In different ways, therefore, this creative interplay demonstrates the perennial significance of intertextuality, from the earliest times to the present; and help us in the process to further our understanding and enhance our enjoyment of Persian literature in its different manifestations throughout history

Licit Magic: The Life and Letters of al-Ṣāḥib b. ʿAbbād (d. 385/995)

Author : Maurice A. Pomerantz
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004348042
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Licit Magic: The Life and Letters of al-Ṣāḥib b. ʿAbbād (d. 385/995) written by Maurice A. Pomerantz and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-12-18 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Licit Magic: The Life and Letters of al-Ṣāḥib b. ʿAbbād (d. 385/995) Maurice A. Pomerantz explores the biography and literary output of a major tenth-century Muslim statesman, literary patron, and intellectual. His nearly two-decade reign as vizier on behalf of two Buyid amirs was an important period for the flowering of Arabic letters, Muʿtazilī theology and Shīʿism in Western Iran. Making use of Ibn ʿAbbād’s large corpus of letters (rasāʾil), Pomerantz explores the role that eloquence played in the conduct of administration, the maintenance of social networks of elites, and persuasion. Licit Magic argues that the eloquent expression that Ibn ʿAbbād displayed in his letters was central to his exercise of power.

Britain and the Islamic World, 1558-1713

Author : Gerald MacLean
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191619906
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Britain and the Islamic World, 1558-1713 written by Gerald MacLean and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-05-26 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before they had an empire in the East, the British travelled into the Islamic world to pursue trade and to form strategic alliances against the Catholic powers of France and Spain. First-hand encounters with Muslims, Jews, Greek Orthodox, and other religious communities living together under tolerant Islamic rule changed forever the way Britons thought about Islam, just as the goods they imported from Islamic countries changed forever the way they lived. Britain and the Islamic World tells the story of how, for a century and a half, merchants and diplomats travelled from Morocco to Istanbul, from Aleppo to Isfahan, and from Hormuz to Surat, and discovered a world that was more fascinating than fearful. Gerald MacLean and Nabil Matar examine the place of Islam and Muslims in English thought, and how British monarchs dealt with supremely powerful Muslim rulers. They document the importance of diplomatic and mercantile encounters, show how the writings of captives spread unreliable information about Islam and Muslims, and investigate observations by travellers and clergymen who reported meetings with Jews, eastern Christians, Armenians, and Shi'ites. They also trace how trade and the exchange of material goods with the Islamic world shaped how people in Britain lived their lives and thought about themselves.

Epistolary Poetry in Byzantium and Beyond

Author : Krystina Kubina
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000375668
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Epistolary Poetry in Byzantium and Beyond written by Krystina Kubina and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Letters were an important medium of everyday communication in the ancient Mediterranean. Soon after its emergence, the epistolary form was adopted by educated elites and transformed into a literary genre, which developed distinctive markers and was used, for instance, to give political advice, to convey philosophical ideas, or to establish and foster ties with peers. A particular type of this genre is the letter cast in verse, or epistolary poem, which merges the form and function of the letter with stylistic elements of poetry. In Greek literature, epistolary poetry is first safely attested in the fourth century AD and would enjoy a lasting presence throughout the Byzantine and early modern periods. The present volume introduces the reader to this hitherto unexplored chapter of post-classical Greek literature through an anthology of exemplary epistolary poems in the original Greek with facing English translation. This collection, which covers a broad chronological range from late antique epigrams of the Greek Anthology to the poetry of western humanists, is accompanied by exegetical commentaries on the anthologized texts and by critical essays discussing questions of genre, literary composition, and historical and social contexts of selected epistolary poems. Chapters 3 and 4 of this book are freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) 4.0 license available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/10.4324/9780429288296

A Late Mamluk Medical Regimen for Travellers

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004708200
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book A Late Mamluk Medical Regimen for Travellers written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-10-24 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifteenth-century travel regimen entitled al-Isfār ʿan ḥikam al-asfār (‘The unveiling of the wisdoms of the books’) written by the Cairene jurist-physician Ibn al-Amshāṭī (d. 1496) is an interesting example of the postclassical medical literature. It includes, besides a travel regimen (written likely as a health guide for the pilgrimage to Mecca), a short pharmacopoeia of single and compound remedies deemed useful for the traveller. The work was composed for Kamāl al-Dīn al-Bārizī (d. 1452), the head of the Mamluk Chancery. The Arabic edition, English translation, and commentary of this text are framed by a detailed introductory study of the Arabic-language tradition of travel regimens and various medico-pharmacological glossaries.

Composing Egypt

Author : Hoda A. Yousef
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804799210
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Composing Egypt written by Hoda A. Yousef and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-22 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this innovative history of reading and writing, Hoda Yousef explores how the idea of literacy and its practices fundamentally altered the social fabric of Egypt at the turn of the twentieth century. She traces how nationalists, Islamic modernists, bureaucrats, journalists, and early feminists sought to reform reading habits, writing styles, and the Arabic language itself in their hopes that the right kind of literacy practices would create the right kind of Egyptians. The impact of new reading and writing practices went well beyond the elites and the newly literate of Egyptian society, and this book reveals the increasingly ubiquitous reading and writing practices of literate, illiterate, and semi-literate Egyptians alike. Students who wrote petitions, women who frequented scribes, and communities who gathered to hear a newspaper read aloud all used various literacies to participate in social exchanges and civic negotiations regarding the most important issues of their day. Composing Egypt illustrates how reading and writing practices became not only an object of social reform, but also a central medium for public exchange. Wide segments of society could engage with new ideas about nationalism, education, gender, and, ultimately, what it meant to be part of "modern Egypt."

The Power of the Brush

Author : Hwisang Cho
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 029574782X
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (957 download)

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Download or read book The Power of the Brush written by Hwisang Cho and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2020-10-14 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the ways written culture interacts with philosophical, social, and political changes, The Power of the Brush examines the social effects of an “epistolary revolution” in sixteenth-century Korea and adds a Korean perspective to the evolving international discourse on the materiality of texts. It demonstrates how innovative uses of letters and the appropriation of letter-writing practices empowered cultural, social, and political minority groups: Confucians who did not have access to the advanced scholarship of China; women using vernacular Korean script, who were excluded from the male-dominated literary culture, which used Chinese script; and provincial literati, who were marginalized from court politics. The physical peculiarities of new letter forms such as spiral letters, the cooptation of letters for purposes other than communication, and the rise of diverse political epistolary genres combined to form a revolution in letter writing that challenged traditional values and institutions. New modes of reading and writing that were developed in letter writing precipitated changes in scholarly methodology, social interactions, and political mobilization. Even today, remnants of these traditional epistolary practices endure in media and political culture, reverberating in new communications technologies.

Arabic Language

Author : Kees Versteegh
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748645292
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Arabic Language written by Kees Versteegh and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering all aspects of the history of Arabic, the Arabic linguistic tradition, Arabic dialects, sociolinguistics and Arabic as a world language, this introductory guide is perfect for students of Arabic, Arabic historical linguistics and Arabic sociolinguistics. Concentrating on the difference between the two types of Arabic the classical standard language and the dialects Kees Versteegh charts the history and development of the Arabic language from its earliest beginnings to modern times. Students will gain a solid grounding in the structure of the language, its historical context and its use in various literary and non-literary genres, as well as an understanding of the role of Arabic as a cultural, religious and political world language. New for this edition: additional chapters on the structure of Arabic, Bilingualism and Arabic pidgins and creoles; a full explanation of the use of conventional Arabic transcription and IPA characters; an updated bibliography and all chapters have been revised and updated in light of recent research.

Written Word in the Medieval Arabic Lands

Author : Konrad Hirschler
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748654216
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Written Word in the Medieval Arabic Lands written by Konrad Hirschler and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2012 BRISMES book prize. How the written text became accessible to wider audiences in medieval Egypt and Syria. Medieval Islamic societies belonged to the most bookish cultures of their period. Using a wide variety of documentary, narrative and normative sources, Konrad Hirschler explores the growth of reading audiences in a pre-print culture.The uses of the written word grew significantly in Egypt and Syria between the 11th and the 15th centuries, and more groups within society started to participate in individual and communal reading acts. New audiences in reading sessions, school curricula, increasing numbers of endowed libraries and the appearance of popular written literature all bear witness to the profound transformation of cultural practices and their social contexts.

Documentary Arabic Private and Business Letters on Papyrus

Author : Eva Mira Grob
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110247046
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Documentary Arabic Private and Business Letters on Papyrus written by Eva Mira Grob and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2010 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arabic letters on papyrus challenge the modern reader. There are few to no diacritical dots to distinguish homographs, no systematic spacing between single words, and in the majority of cases a low degree of graphical structuring. However, contemporary readers usually read and understood these documents easily - probably because the recipient of a letter knew what to expect. The letters are formulaic, and their information packaging follows an algorithm typical for their time and content. Here formulaic letter writing means not only the reuse of the same formulae or topoi but expressing thoughts in a predictable linguistic way and order, both as a matter of readability and as one of adequacy and politeness. The main concern of this work is to discover these unwritten rules and norms behind Arabic letter writing on papyrus.

Kitāb Dustūr al-gharāʾib wa-maʿdan al-raghāʾib and Related Texts

Author : Mustafa Mughazy
Publisher : V&R Unipress
ISBN 13 : 3847011138
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Kitāb Dustūr al-gharāʾib wa-maʿdan al-raghāʾib and Related Texts written by Mustafa Mughazy and published by V&R Unipress. This book was released on 2020-05-11 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first publication of the official correspondence of the leading religious scholar and literary figure, Shaykh Muhammad ibn Abi al-Hasan al-Bakri al-Siddiqi al-Shafi'i Sibt Al al-Hasan. It provides a window into the world of an influential religious scholar in sixteenth century Cairo and his network of contacts in the Ottoman Empire and beyond. Muhammad al-Bakri corresponded with Sultan Murad III, the grand vizier Sokollu Mehmed Pasha, and with various officials in Mecca, including the sharifian ruler of Mecca, al-Hasan ibn Abi Numayy. The collection also contains two letters addressed to Sa'di rulers of Morocco and one to the Mughal Emperor Akbar, as well as letters to a variety of lesser Ottoman officials. It is an important source for the history of Ottoman Egypt and the Hijaz.

Mamluk Cairo, a Crossroads for Embassies

Author : Frédéric Bauden
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004384634
Total Pages : 909 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Mamluk Cairo, a Crossroads for Embassies written by Frédéric Bauden and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-01-07 with total page 909 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mamluk Cairo, a Crossroads for Embassies offers an up-to-date insight into the diplomacy and diplomatics of the Mamluk sultanate with Muslim and non-Muslim powers. This rich volume covers the whole chronological span of the sultanate as well as the various areas of the diplomatic relations established by (or with) the Mamluk sultanate. Twenty-six essays are divided in geographical sections that broadly respect the political division of the world as the Mamluk chancery perceived it. In addition, two introductory essays provide the present stage of research in the fields of, respectively, diplomatics and diplomacy. With contributions by Frédéric Bauden, Lotfi Ben Miled, Michele Bernardini, Bárbara Boloix Gallardo, Anne F. Broadbridge, Mounira Chapoutot-Remadi, Stephan Conermann, Nicholas Coureas, Malika Dekkiche, Rémi Dewière, Kristof D’hulster, Marie Favereau, Gladys Frantz-Murphy, Yehoshua Frenkel, Hend Gilli-Elewy, Ludvik Kalus, Anna Kollatz, Julien Loiseau, Maria Filomena Lopes de Barros, John L. Meloy, Pierre Moukarzel, Lucian Reinfandt, Alessandro Rizzo, Éric Vallet, Valentina Vezzoli and Patrick Wing.