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History of the Arabic Written Tradition Supplement Volume 3 - ii
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 624

History of the Arabic Written Tradition Supplement Volume 3 - ii

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-10-08
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  • Publisher: BRILL

The present English translation reproduces the original German of Carl Brockelmann’s Geschichte der Arabischen Litteratur (GAL) as accurately as possible. In the interest of user-friendliness the following emendations have been made in the translation: Personal names are written out in full, except b. for ibn; Brockelmann’s transliteration of Arabic has been adapted to comply with modern standards for English-language publications; modern English equivalents are given for place names, e.g. Damascus, Cairo, Jerusalem, etc.; several erroneous dates have been corrected, and the page references to the two German editions have been retained in the margin, except in the Supplement volumes, where new references to the first two English volumes have been inserted. Supplement volume SIII-ii offers the thee Indices (authors, titles, and Western editors/publishers).

A Comparative Lexical Study of Qur'ānic Arabic
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 666

A Comparative Lexical Study of Qur'ānic Arabic

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-11-11
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  • Publisher: BRILL

In this analytical work, the lexical relationships between Arabic, based on the Qur'ānic register, and Akkadian, Ugaritic, Aramaic, Syriac, Hebrew, Phoenician Epigraphic, South Arabian and Ge‘ez are established. Its aim is to assess the various degrees of cultural proximity between these Semitic languages.

The Quranic Sufism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 236

The Quranic Sufism

This book aims at outlining the fundamental tenets of Sufi Mysticism, which derived its inspiration from the teachings of the Quran and developed as 'a process of spititual culture' within the framework of Islam. Book devoted to delineations of Sufi concepts of God in immanence and transcendence; the worship of God and the descent of the absolute ; inward and outward experience of divine presence; the concepts of good and evil, free will and determinism. The Quranic Sufism is highly acclaimed. It fills the void felt by researchers and scholars as well as general readers.

A Concise Dictionary of the Persian Language
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 380

A Concise Dictionary of the Persian Language

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1876
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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An English-Persian Dictionary
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 492

An English-Persian Dictionary

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1882
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Words of Ecstasy in Sufism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 204

Words of Ecstasy in Sufism

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1985-01-01
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  • Publisher: SUNY Press

This is the first in-depth study in English of the import and impact of ecstatic utterances (shathiyat) in classical Islamic mysticism. It makes available an important body of mystical aphorisms and reveals not only the significance of these sayings in the Sufi tradition, but also explains their controversial impact on Islamic law and society. This study descrives the development and interpretation of shathiyat in classical Sufism and analyzes the principal themes and rhetorical styles of these sayings, using as a basis the authoritative Commentary on Ecstatic Sayings by Ruzbihan Baqli of Shiraz. The special topic of mystical faith and infidelity receives particular emphasis as a type of ecstatic expression that self-reflectively meditates on the inadequacy of language to describe mystical experience. The social impact of ecstatic sayings is clarified by an analysis of the political causes of Sufi heresy trials (Nuri, Hallaj, and 'Ayn al-Qudat) and the later elaboration of Sufi martyrologies. This study also examines the attitudes of Islamic legal scholars toward shathiyat, and concludes with a comparison of Sufi ecstatic expressions with other types of inspired speech.

The Divine Guide in Early Shi'ism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 298

The Divine Guide in Early Shi'ism

The Imam, the Divine Guide, is the central point around which the Shi'ite religion turns. The power of Shi'ism comes from the actions of the Imam. This title is reserved exclusively for the sucessors of the prophets in their mission. The author shows that from the beginning of Shi'ite Islam until the tenth century, the Imam was primarily a master of knowledge with supernatural powers, not a jurist theologian. The Imam is the threshold through which God and the creatures communicate. He is thus a cosmic necessity, the key and the center of the universal economy of the sacred. The author presents Shi'ism as a religion founded on double dimensions where the role of the leader remains constantly...

Variance in Arabic Manuscripts
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 425

Variance in Arabic Manuscripts

In Arabic and Islamic studies, the subject of variance in general and that of textual variation in particular has not been investigated exhaustively so far. In the present book the variation in texts of the “closed transmission” will be studied, focusing on a small corpus of didactic and model poems, with a view to establishing what degree of text stability and change was allowed by the medium manuscript. Categories of variance (relating to work-titles, text, number of verses and their sequence, page-layout, context) and the means of controlling them in the manuscripts of the poems are identified and detailed descriptions of the copies are given. The monograph also includes a presentation of some major traits of the cultural background to the study of Arabic didactic poetry and of its dissemination in which memorization has played a crucial role. The intended readers,editors and other users of manuscripts, are helped to acquaint themselves with the methods employed in the manuscripts to control variation and they are given an overview of the large spectrum of Arabic didactic poetry and of its place in the traditional culture of learning in Islamicate societies.