Adab and Modernity

Adab and Modernity PDF Author: Cathérine Mayeur-Jaouen
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004415998
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 744

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Adab is a concept situated at the heart of Arabic and Islamic civilization. What became of it, towards modernity? The question of the civilising process (Norbert Elias) helps us reflect on this story.

Adab and Modernity

Adab and Modernity PDF Author: Cathérine Mayeur-Jaouen
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004415998
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 744

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Book Description
Adab is a concept situated at the heart of Arabic and Islamic civilization. What became of it, towards modernity? The question of the civilising process (Norbert Elias) helps us reflect on this story.

Ethics and Spirituality in Islam

Ethics and Spirituality in Islam PDF Author: Francesco Chiabotti
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004335137
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 701

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This volume explores the relation between ethics and spirituality in Islam through an examination of the genres of Sufi adab, including manuals and hagiographical accounts, from the formative period of Sufism until modernity.

Sufism in the Context of Modernism: The Concept of Adab in Naquib Al-Attas

Sufism in the Context of Modernism: The Concept of Adab in Naquib Al-Attas PDF Author:
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ISBN: 9781871031935
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 196

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Salafism and Traditionalism

Salafism and Traditionalism PDF Author: Emad Hamdeh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108485359
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241

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Provides a detailed reconstruction of the heated debates between Salafis and Traditionalist over the contested role of Islamic scholarly authority.

L’adab, toujours recommencé

L’adab, toujours recommencé PDF Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004526358
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 890

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The notion of adab is at the very heart of the Islamicate cultures. Born in the crucible of the Arabic and Persian civilisations of the Late Antiquity period, nourished by Greek, Syriac and Indian influences, this polysemic notion could cover a variegated range of meanings, ranging from good behaviour, good manners, etiquette, proper knowledge of the rules, to belles-lettres, and finally, literature. This volume addresses the notion of adab through four perspectives, which correspond to the four parts into which it is divided: “Origins”; “Transmissions”; “Metamorphosis” of the “Origins” and finally “Origins” through the lens of modernity.

Approaches to the Study of Pre-Modern Arabic Anthologies

Approaches to the Study of Pre-Modern Arabic Anthologies PDF Author: Nadia Maria El Cheikh
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900445909X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 345

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The aim of this volume is to raise and discuss questions about the different approaches to the study of pre-modern Arabic anthologies from the perspectives of philology, religion, history, geography, and literature.

Abbasid Belles Lettres

Abbasid Belles Lettres PDF Author: Julia Ashtiany
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521088657
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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'Abbasid literature was characterized by the emergence of many new genres and of a scholarly and sophisticated critical consciousness. This volume of The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature covers the prose and poetry produced in the heartland and provinces of the 'Abbasid Empire from the mid-eighth to the thirteenth centuries A.D. Chronologically organized, the book explores the main genres and provides extended studies of major poets, prose writers and literary theorists. To make the material accessible to nonspecialist readers, 'Abbasid authors are quoted in English translation wherever possible, and clear explanations of their literary techniques and conventions are provided. The volume concludes with the first comprehensive survey of the relatively unknown literature of the Yemen to appear in a European language since the manuscript discoveries of recent years.

Virtue, Piety and the Law

Virtue, Piety and the Law PDF Author: Katharina Anna Ivanyi
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004431845
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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In Virtue, Piety and the Law Katharina Ivanyi offers an analysis of Birgivī Meḥmed Efendī’s (d. 981/1573) al-Ṭarīqa al-muḥammadiyya, a major work of early modern Ottoman paraenesis, championing a conservative Islamic religiosity with considerable reformist appeal into the modern period.

Specters of World Literature

Specters of World Literature PDF Author: Mattar Karim Mattar
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474467059
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 359

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At the heart of this book is a spectral theory of world literature that draws on Edward Said, Aamir Mufti, Jacques Derrida and world-systems theory to assess how the field produces local literature as an "e;other"e; that haunts its universalising, assimilative imperative with the force of the uncanny. It takes the Middle Eastern novel as both metonym and metaphor of a spectral world literature. It explores the worlding of novels from the Middle East in recent years, and, focusing on the pivotal sites of Middle Eastern modernity (Egypt, Turkey, Iran), argues that lost to their global production, circulation and reception is their constitution in the logic of spectrality. With the intention of redressing this imbalance, it critically restores their engagements with the others of Middle Eastern modernity and shows, through a new reading of the Middle Eastern novel, that world literature is always-already haunted by its others, the ghosts of modernity.

Islam and Modernity

Islam and Modernity PDF Author: Muhammad Khalid Masud
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 074863794X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 304

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Recent events have focused attention on the perceived differences and tensions between the Muslim world and the modern West. As a major strand of Western public discourse has it, Islam appears resistant to internal development and remains inherently pre-modern. However Muslim societies have experienced most of the same structural changes that have impacted upon all societies: massive urbanisation, mass education, dramatically increased communication, the emergence of new types of institutions and associations, some measure of political mobilisation, and major transformations of the economy. These developments are accompanied by a wide range of social movements and by complex and varied religious and ideological debates. This textbook is a pioneering study providing an introduction to and overview of the debates and questions that have emerged regarding Islam and modernity. Key issues are selected to give readers an understanding of the complexity of the phenomenon from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. The various manifestations of modernity in Muslim life discussed include social change and the transformation of political and religious institutions, gender politics, changing legal regimes, devotional practices and forms of religious association, shifts in religious authority, and modern developments in Muslim religious thought.