Revisiting Al-Andalus

Revisiting Al-Andalus PDF Author: Glaire D. Anderson
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004162275
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 341

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Revisiting al-Andalus brings together a range of new approaches to the material culture of Islamic Iberia, highlighting especially new directions in Anglo-American scholarship in this field since the influential exhibition in 1992, Al-Andalus: the Art of Islamic Spain.

Revisiting Al-Andalus

Revisiting Al-Andalus PDF Author: Glaire D. Anderson
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004162275
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 341

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Book Description
Revisiting al-Andalus brings together a range of new approaches to the material culture of Islamic Iberia, highlighting especially new directions in Anglo-American scholarship in this field since the influential exhibition in 1992, Al-Andalus: the Art of Islamic Spain.

Islam and the Politics of Culture in Europe

Islam and the Politics of Culture in Europe PDF Author: Frank Peter
Publisher: transcript Verlag
ISBN: 3839421764
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 269

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Culture is a constant reference in debates surrounding Islam in Europe. Yet the notion of culture is commonly restricted to conceptual frames of multiculturalism where it relates to group identities, collective ways of life and recognition. This volume extends such analysis of culture by approaching it as semiotic practice which conjoins the making of subjects with the configuration of the social. Examining fields such as memory, literature, film, and Islamic art, the studies in this volume explore culture as another element in the assemblage of rationalities governing European Islam. From this perspective, the transformations of European identities can be understood as a matter of cultural practice and politics, which extend the analytical frames of political philosophy, historical legacies, normative orders and social dynamics.

The Islamic World and the West

The Islamic World and the West PDF Author: Christoph Marcinkowski
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 3643800010
Category : East and West
Languages : en
Pages : 314

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The Islamic World and the West - perhaps no other topic is currently so often present in the headlines of the international media. This timely volume, which brings together contributions by 14 established Muslim and Western scholars, intends to present a somewhat more positive outlook in the currently rather strained relations between the Islamic world and Europe by drawing on shared values and possibilities of cooperation in various fields, such as reflected in worldview, education, economics, multiculturalism, religious dialogue, politics, as well as security issues, and it shall also contain a historical revaluation of some of those contacts. It is the first project within the framework of the recently signed Memorandum of Understanding between Switzerland's University of Fribourg and the Asia-Europe Institute (AEI) in Kuala Lumpur's University of Malaya, Malaysia's oldest university. Dr. Christoph Marcinkowski, is an award-winning scholar working interdisciplinary in Islamic and Middle Eastern, as well as Southeast Asian and Security Studies. He is currently Principal Research Fellow and Chairman of the Publications Committee at the International Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies (IAIS), a Malaysian think-tank, and concurrently Adjunct Professor at AEI.

Medieval Chivalry

Medieval Chivalry PDF Author: Richard W. Kaeuper
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521761689
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 445

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Richard Kaeuper presents a new analysis of chivalry, re-interpreting it as a fundamental aspect of medieval society.

Islamic Thought in the Dialogue of Cultures

Islamic Thought in the Dialogue of Cultures PDF Author: Hans Daiber
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004232044
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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Islamic thought is the most beautiful result of a multicultural dialogue. Islamic culture became a bridge between antiquity, Iranian scholars, Syriac and Arabic Christians and the Latin Middle Ages. Its richness of ideas, its plurality of values can contribute to the requirements of modern plurality. The monograph aims at a historical and bibliographical survey of the qurʾānic and rational world-view of early Islam, of the period of translations from Greek into Syriac and Arabic, and of the impact of Islamic thought on the Latin Middle Ages. Critical reflexions of Muslim scholars stimulated new scientific ideas and make us aware of the contribution of Islam to humanity.

When Jews Argue

When Jews Argue PDF Author: Ethan B. Katz
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000969568
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353

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This book re-thinks the relationship between the world of the traditional Jewish study hall (the Beit Midrash) and the academy: Can these two institutions overcome their vast differences? Should they attempt to do so? If not, what could two methods of study seen as diametrically opposed possibly learn from one another? How might they help each other reconceive their interrelationship, themselves, and the broader study of Jews and Judaism? This book begins with three distinct approaches to these challenges. The chapters then follow the approaches through an interdisciplinary series of pioneering case studies that reassess a range of topics including religion and pluralism in Jewish education; pain, sexual consent, and ethics in the Talmud; the place of reason and devotion among Jewish thinkers as diverse as Moses Mendelssohn, Jacob Taubes, Sarah Schenirer, Ibn Chiquitilla, Yair Ḥayim Bacharach, and the Rav Shagar; and Jewish law as a response to the post-Holocaust landscape. The authors are scholars of rabbinics, history, linguistics, philosophy, law, and education, many of whom also have traditional religious training or ordination. The result is a book designed for learned scholars, non-specialists, and students of varying backgrounds, and one that is sure to spark debate in the university, the Beit Midrash, and far beyond.

Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords

Dictionary of Arabic and Allied Loanwords PDF Author: Federico Corriente
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004168583
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 697

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One of the main cultural consequences of the contacts between Islam and the West has been the borrowing of hundreds of words, mostly of Arabic but also of other important languages of the Islamic world, such as Persian, Turkish, Berber, etc. by Western languages. Such loanwords are particularly abundant and relevant in the case of the Iberian Peninsula because of the presence of Islamic states in it for many centuries; their study is very revealing when it comes to assess the impact of those states in the emergence and shaping of Western civilization. Some famous Arabic scholars, above all R. Dozy, have tackled this task in the past, followed by other attempts at increasing and improving his pioneering work; however, the progresses achieved during the last quarter of the 20th c., in such fields as Andalusi and Andalusi Romance dialectology and lexicology made it necessary to update all the available information on this topic and to offer it in English.

New Serial Titles

New Serial Titles PDF Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1942

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Concepts of the Other in Near Eastern Religions

Concepts of the Other in Near Eastern Religions PDF Author: Ilai Alon
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004659366
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 387

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A Descriptive and Comparative Grammar of Andalusi Arabic

A Descriptive and Comparative Grammar of Andalusi Arabic PDF Author: University of Zaragoza
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004230270
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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Andalusi Arabic is a close-knit bundle of Neo-Arabic dialects resulting from interference by Ibero-Romance stock and interaction of some Arabic dialects. These dialects are mostly Northern but there are also some Southern and hybrid ones, brought along to the Iberian Peninsula in the eighth century A.D. by an invading army of some thousands of Arab tribesmen who, in the company of a much larger number of partially Arabicized Berbers, all of them fighting men alone, succeeded in establishing Islamic political rule and Arab cultural supremacy for a long while over these lands. The study of Andalusi Arabic is of enormous interest to the Arabic dialectologist, as well as a subject of paramount importance to those concerned with the medieval literatures and cultures of Western Europe.