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New Arabian Studies Volume 1
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 256

New Arabian Studies Volume 1

New Arabian Studies is an international journal covering a wide spectrum of topics including geography, archaeology, history, architecture, agriculture, language, dialect, sociology, documents, literature and religion. It provides authoritative information intended to appeal to both the specialist and general reader. Both the traditional and the modern aspects of Arabia are covered, excluding contemporary controversial politics.

Arabic Literature to the End of the Umayyad Period
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 567

Arabic Literature to the End of the Umayyad Period

The History provides an invaluable source of reference of the intellectual, literary and religious heritage of the Arabic-speaking and Islamic world.

The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 406

The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-12-14
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  • Publisher: Routledge

The Prophet and the Age of Caliphates is an accessible history of the Near East from c.600-1050AD, the period in which Islamic society was formed. Beginning with the life of Muhammad and the birth of Islam, Hugh Kennedy goes on to explore the great Arab conquests of the seventh century and the golden age of the Umayyad and Abbasid caliphates when the world of Islam was politically and culturally far more developed than the West. The arrival of the Seljuk Turks and the period of political fragmentation which followed shattered this early unity, never to be recovered. This new edition is fully updated to take into account the considerable amount of new research on early Islam, and contains a c...

The Longest Journey
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 368

The Longest Journey

The pilgrimage to Mecca, or Hajj, has been a yearly phenomenon of great importance in Muslim lands for well over one thousand years. Each year, millions of pilgrims from throughout the Dar al-Islam, or Islamic world, stretching from Morocco east to Indonesia, make the trip to Mecca as one of the five pillars of their faith. By the end of the nineteenth century, and the beginning of the twentieth, fully half of all pilgrims making the journey in any given year could come from Southeast Asia. The Longest Journey, spanning eleven modern nation-states and seven centuries, is the first book to offer a history of the Hajj from one of Islam's largest and most important regions.

Religion, Learning and Science in the 'Abbasid Period
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 616

Religion, Learning and Science in the 'Abbasid Period

Writings in learned subjects from the period eighth to thirteenth centuries, AD.

Law and the Islamic World Past and Present
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 188
The Jews of Yemen in the Nineteenth Century
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 223

The Jews of Yemen in the Nineteenth Century

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-07-10
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  • Publisher: BRILL

Discusses messianism in nineteenth-century Yemen as a social and cultural phenomenon and traces the early roots of both Jewish and Muslim messianism in Yemen from the twelfth to the nineteenth centuries with attention to messianic movements in the nineteenth century.

Society and Trade in South Arabia
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 376

Society and Trade in South Arabia

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1996
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  • Publisher: Routledge

This book is the fourth and final collection of Professor R.B. Serjeant's articles on the trade, commerce and society of South Arabia and the Yemen. The early articles concern trade; customary law is the next subject represented with social history and one or two incidental articles completing the volume.

Method, Structure, and Development in Al-F?r?b?’s Cosmology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 448

Method, Structure, and Development in Al-F?r?b?’s Cosmology

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-03-02
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This study analyzes key concepts in al-F?r?b?’s cosmology and provides a new interpretation of his philosophical development through an analysis of the Greco-Arabic sources and a contextualization of his life and thought in the cultural and intellectual milieu of his time.

Revival and Reform in Islam
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 286

Revival and Reform in Islam

Revival and Reform in Islam is at once an intellectual biography of Muhammad al-Shawkani, and a history of a transitional period in Yemeni history. This was a time when a society dominated by traditional Zaydi Shiism shifted to one characterised instead by Sunni reformism. The author traces the origins and outcomes of this transition, presenting the first systematic account of the ways in which the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century reorientation of the Zaydi madhhab, and consequent 'sunnification' of Yemeni society, were intricately linked to tensions within the political realm. In advocating juridical systematization of religious belief and practice, Shawkani espoused a socio-religious order which in its dominant features echoed key aspects of Western modernity. Yet he did so in a context bereft of Western ideational influence. This study then presents a textured account of eighteenth-century Islamic reformist thought and challenges the meaning of modernity in an Islamic context.