Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2007

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• Annals of the Caliphs' Kitchens

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  • Author: Nasrallah
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  • Paperback edition. This English translation of al-Warraq’s tenth-century cookbook offers a unique glimpse into the culinary culture of medieval Islam. Hundreds of recipes, anecdotes, and poems, with an extensive Introduction, a Glossary, an Appendix, and color illustration. Informative and entertaining to scholars and general readers.

• Approaches to Arabic Linguistics

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  • Editors Harald Motzki; Everhard Ditters
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  • This Liber Amicorum discusses topics on the history of Arabic grammar, Arabic linguistics, and Arabic dialects, domains in which Kees Versteegh plays a leading role.

• Arab Painting

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  • Author: A. Contadini
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  • Arab painting is treated here as a significant artistic corpus in its own right. Rejecting the traditional emphasis on individual paintings, the distinguished contributors to this volume stress the integration of text and image as a more productive theoretical framework.

• The Bible in Arab Christianity

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  • Author: D.R. Thomas
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  • This collection illustrates the place of the Bible in Arab Christianity as a source of authority and information about Christian experiences under early Islam, and the importance attached to upholding its authenticity in the face of Muslim criticisms.

• The Canonization of al-Bukhārī and Muslim

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  • Author: A.C. Brown
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  • Drawing on canon studies, this book investigates the origins, development and functions of the core of the Sunni ḥadīth canon, the 'Authentic' ḥadīth collections of al-Bukhārī and Muslim, from the time of their authors to the modern period.

• Chance and Determinism in Avicenna and Averroes

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  • Author: C. Belo
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  • This book addresses the issue of determinism in Avicenna and Averroes through an analysis of their views on chance, matter and divine providence. It sets the debate against the philosophical/historical background of Aristotelianism, Neoplatonism and Islamic theology.

• The Chronicles and Annalistic Sources of the Early Mamluk Circassian Period

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  • Author: Sami G. Massoud
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  • This book examines in a detailed and comprehensive manner, the genealogy of the historiography of the Early Mamluk Circassian period and provides a source-critical assesment of the sources for the reign of al-Zāhir Barqūq (784-91, 792-801/1382-9, 1390-9).

• Corpus Inscriptionum Arabicarum Palaestinae, Addendum

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  • Author: M. Sharon
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  • The squeezes of the Arabic inscriptions collected by Max van Berchem in the Middle East are presented here in a systematic way accompanied by their studies and photographs. This is the first of hopefully two volumes which will cover all the existing squeezes in the Archives, representing many inscriptions which do no longer exist.

• The Dispensatory of Ibn at-Tilmīḏ

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  • Author: O. Kahl
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  • This book offers a critical Arabic edition, annotated English translation, introductory study, and two-way glossaries of a pharmacological masterpiece composed around the middle of the 12th century CE in Baghdad by the Nestorian physician Ibn at-Tilmīḏ.

• Early Islamic Legal Theory

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  • Author: J.E. Lowry
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  • This book offers a comprehensive reinterpretation of Shāfiʿī’s Risāla and shows how Shāfiʿī sought to formulate an all-embracing hermeneutic that portrays the law as a tightly interlocking structure organized around defined interactions of the Qurʾān and the Sunna.

• The Encounter of Eastern Christianity with Early Islam

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  • Editors Emmanouela Grypeou; Mark N. Swanson
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  • The contributions in this volume deal with crucial subjects of political and theological dialogue and controversy that characterized the varying responses of the Christian communities in the Byzantine Eastern provinces to the Islamic conquest and its subsequent impact on Byzantine society and history.

• Encyclopedia of Canonical Ḥadīth

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  • Author: G.H.A. Juynboll
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  • This encyclopedic work on Islam comprises English translations of all canonical ḥadīths, complete with their respective chains of transmission (isnāds). By conflating the variant versions of the same ḥadīth, the repetitiveness of its literature has been kept wherever possible to a minimum. The latest methods of isnād analysis, described in the general introduction, have been employed in an attempt to identify the person(s) responsible for each ḥadīth. The book is organized in the alphabetical order of those persons. These are the so-called ‘common links’. Each of them is listed with the tradition(s) for the wording of which he can be held accountable, or with which he can at least be associated.

• Facts and Artefacts - Art in the Islamic World

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  • Editors Annette Hagedorn; Avinoam Shalem
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  • In this impressive collection honouring the German scholar of Islamic art Jens Kröger on his 65th birthday, Avinoam Shalem and Annette Hagedorn bring together twenty-five contributions from a highly distinguished group of experts on Islamic art and specialists of central and south Asian art. Unpublished artefacts and new interpretations are presented in this book.

• The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qur'ān

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  • Author: Arthur Jeffery
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  • Republication of Arthur Jeffery’s important study, The Foreign Vocabulary of the Qur’ān, offers a new generation of scholars and students access to this foundational text. Arranged in Arabic alphabetical order, Jeffery’s compendium of philological scholarship remains an indispensable tool for any serious study of Qur’ānic semantics.

• From al-Andalus to Khurasan

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  • Editor Petra Sijpesteijn
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  • This volume collects papers given at the conference "Documents and the History of the Early Islamic Mediterranean World", including editions of unpublished documents and historical studies, which make use of documentary evidence from al-Andalus, Sicily, Egypt, the Arabian Peninsula, Syria and Khurasan.

• Historic Cities of the Islamic World

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  • Author: C.E. Bosworth

• Historical Muscat

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  • Author: E. Peterson
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  • An examination of the historical environment of Muscat, the capital of Oman, and the damage sustained by the city’s historical legacy since 1970. It includes a historical gazetteer of Muscat and its environs and numerous maps and photographs.

• Ibn Taymiyya's Theodicy of Perpetual Optimism

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  • Author: Jon Hoover
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  • This comprehensive study of Muslim jurist Ibn Taymiyya’s (d. 1328) theodicy of perpetual optimism exposits and analyses his writings on God’s justice and wise purpose, divine determination and human agency, the problem of evil, and juristic method in theological doctrine.

• Knowledge Triumphant

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  • Author: F. Rosenthal
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  • In Knowledge Triumphant, Franz Rosenthal observes that the Islamic civilization is one that is essentially characterized by knowledge ('ilm), for ''ilm is one of those concepts that have dominated Islam and given Muslim civilization its distinctive shape and complexion.'

• Law, Custom, and Statute in the Muslim World

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  • Editor Ron Shaham
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  • This collective volume deals with the main components in the laws of Islamic societies, past and present: sharīʿa, custom, and statute. Some chapters focus on one of these components, other discuss the interplay between two or even all three of them.