An Islamic Response to Greek Astronomy is an edition, translation of and commentary on the astronomical work of the fourteenth-century Central Asian religious scholar sadr al-Shari'a al-Bukhari. sadr al-Shari'a develops the works of the thirteenth-century Maragha researchers, which set the tone for the astronomical research until the eventual demise of Ptolemaic astronomy. This work elucidates the development and achievement of the long tradition of reforming Ptolemaic astronomy. It corroborates...
New Trends in Qur'ānic Studies (International Qur'anic Studies Association Studies in the Qu, #2)
by Mun'im Sirry
Encyclopedie de l'Islam. Tome III H-Iram (Encyclopedie de l'Islam, #3)
Shi'ism and Politics in the Middle East (Columbia/Hurst) (Comparative Politics and International Studies)
by Laurence Louer
Laurence Louer's timely study immediately precedes the outbreak of unrest in Bahrain that triggered the escalation of the so-called Arab Spring of 2011. In addition to issues relating to the role of Shiite Islamist movements in regional politics, she provides context for the Bahraini conflict and Shiism's wider implications as a political force in the Arab Middle East. Louer's study depicts Bahrain's troubles as a phenomenon rooted in local perceptions of injustice rather than in the fallout fr...
This second volume of Oeuvres philosophiques et scientifiques d'al-Kindi deals with the first metaphysical and cosmological writings in Islamic philosophy. It contains a new critical edition and French translation of six treatises due to al-Kindi, all devoted to these matters. It also contains fragments quoted by the Philosopher's successors. All those writings, rigorously edited and translated, brought together point out the true conception of philosophy of al-Kindi, philosopher and mathematici...
Arab migration is not just a feature of recent instabilities in the Middle East. The Lebanese and Syrians have a long established history of migration to Africa, North and South America as well as Europe, while North African Arabs have long established links to France. The Yemeni community in Britain is one of the most established and yet least known of all migrant groupings. Yemenis began settling in British ports at the beginning of the 20th century, and after World War II they became part of...
Learning Arabic in Renaissance Europe (1505-1624) (The History of Oriental Studies, #6)
by Robert Jones
From the first Arabic grammar printed at Granada in 1505 to the Arabic editions of the Dutch scholar Thomas Erpenius (d.1624), some audacious scholars - supported by powerful patrons and inspired by several of the greatest minds of the Renaissance - introduced, for the first time, the study of Arabic language and letters to centres of learning across Europe. These pioneers formed collections of Arabic manuscripts, met Arabic-speaking visitors, studied and adapted the Islamic grammatical traditio...
Codices, Avicenna Latinus, Volume Codices
In the years 1961-1972 Marie-Therese d'Alverny published in Archives d'Histoire Doctrinale et Litteraire du Moyen Age 11 fascicles of a study of the codicological tradition of the Latin Avicenna. In these she identifies and describes more than 150 Latin manuscripts of the Avicennan corpus preserved in European libraries, thus laying the foundation for work later published in the Avicenna Latinus series. These fascicles are photomechanically reprinted here, together with hitherto unpublished mate...
Balkans and Islam
In the growing body of literature about the evolution and the role of Islam in Europe as a whole and the Balkans in particular, this volume holds a special place as it offers a multidisciplinary approach to the encounter-transformation-discontinuity-continuity of Islam in the region. Thus, it provides excellent material for students of social and political studies, history and even architecture, at the bachelor and master level. At the same time, it aspires to attract the attention of researcher...
Following 9/11 examines the religious ramifications of 9/11 and its aftershocks through the lens of the New York Times. At the moment of the attacks, the Times turned to its standards of journalistic comprehension and its institutional memory regarding religious phenomena to grasp the news with customary tools of coverage. The events made good copy, surely, but also uncovered persistent themes in the treatment of religion in the Times. Day in, day out, the New York Times is one of the most impor...
Book Making and Writing in the Hijaz: Era of the Prophet and the Rashidun Caliphate (Studies)
by Maged A. Badahdah
'Confusing Islam with violence is now commonplace. No book to my knowledge has thus far tackled this problem head on. In fact, on the contrary, many students of Islam as well as media commentators have succumbed to treating Islam uncritically, i.e. as a 'label' ' for violence, practically and theoretically. Here lies the significance of A Divine Duty: it bucks this trend coherently, convincingly, and clearly. At a moment when many self-anointed experts are flooding the world's libraries with boo...
Ricoldus de Montecrucis. Tractatus Seu Disputatio Contra Saracenos Et Alchoranum (Corpus Islamo-Christianum. Series Latina, #9)
by Daniel Pachurka
Mapping UK Muslim Development NGO's (Religions and Development Research Programme, #30)
by Mohammed Ralf Kroessin
Domains of Contestation (Religions and Development Research Programme, #36)
by Sarah White