Download or read book Social Life Under the Abbasids 170 289 AH 786 902 AD written by M. M. Ahsan and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 1979 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arab Background Series provides the English-speaking, educated reader with a series of books which attempt to clarify the historical past of the Arabs and to analyse their present problems. The contributors to the series, who come from many parts of the world, are all specialists in their own fields. This variety of approach and attitude creates for the English-speaking reader a unique picture of the Arab world.
Download or read book Social Life Under the Abbasids written by M. M. Ahsan and published by International Book Centre. This book was released on 1979-01-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Social Life Under the Abbasids 170 289 786 902 written by Muhammad Manazir Ahsan and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis studies the social life of the Abbasids during the 3rd/9th century (170-289/786-902), the "Golden Age" of Abbasid Iraq. Though stigmatised by various political and administrative crises the downfall of the Barmakids, civil war between Aman and Ma'mun, Turkish ascendancy, Zanj rebellion, transfer of the capital from Baghdad to Samarra and again from Samarra to Baghdad etc., the general pattern of life remained laregely unchanged, notwithstanding a strain of refinement that runs throughout the cultural and social life of the century. The thesis has been divided into seven chapters, a resum4 whereof is given hereunder : Chapter I deals with the various types of sources used in the preparation of the present thesis. The sources portraying the social life contemporary, near contemporary, dhimmi, secondary etc., have been classified into several groups with an assessment of their comparative value and reliability. Chapter II examines the evolution of various forms and designs of head-gear, foot-wear and garments in common use in a historical perspective. The dress of the various social classes, the state functionaries, the dhimmis and the sufis has also been dealt with underlining the regional, ethnic and ceremonial differences effecting form and design. Chapter III discusses food habits and describes the various kinds of food prepared from meat, fish, bread, rice, vegetables, ans other ingredients e.g., spices, oil and fat, sweetening agents etc. There is a brief description of the trade in edibles and the regulation of food prices etc. The chapter also discusses the table and social manners of the period. Chapter IV investigates and discusses hunting, a popular pastime of the period. There is a description of the use of the predatory beasts and birds for this purpose, various weapons and devices employed in hunting and the economic aspects of hunting e.g., the prices of the hunting animals, annual hunting budgets of the caliphs and the attitude of the fiqh towards hunting. Chapter V surveys the popular indoor and outdoor games of the period, their organisation, rules and regulations, the sports popular among women and children and the attitude of the fiqh vis-a-vis these pastimes. Chapter VT deals with the festival and festivities observed during the period under study by the court and the people in general, both Muslims and non-Muslims. Chapter VII reviews the housing situation in Abbasid Iraq, the prices of the houses, the housing rent, and the cost of land, the interior and exterior structure and decoration of dwelling houses, and the basic amenities e.g., the water supply, sanitation, cooling and heating system. The public baths found in almost every city, their maintenance, supervision personnel and the role they played in the social life of the early Abbasid period have also been discussed.
Download or read book Social Life Under the Abbasids written by M. M. Ahsan and published by Stacey International. This book was released on 2007-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Abbasids provided the cultural revolution in the history of Arabia much of which filters through into modern day Iraq. For anyone who has an interest in these areas, be it academic or more general, this book provides a thorough and comprehensive view of all aspects of life under the Abbasids.
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Download or read book Cuisine and Empire written by Rachel Laudan and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2015-04-03 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rachel Laudan tells the remarkable story of the rise and fall of the world’s great cuisines—from the mastery of grain cooking some twenty thousand years ago, to the present—in this superbly researched book. Probing beneath the apparent confusion of dozens of cuisines to reveal the underlying simplicity of the culinary family tree, she shows how periodic seismic shifts in “culinary philosophy”—beliefs about health, the economy, politics, society and the gods—prompted the construction of new cuisines, a handful of which, chosen as the cuisines of empires, came to dominate the globe. Cuisine and Empire shows how merchants, missionaries, and the military took cuisines over mountains, oceans, deserts, and across political frontiers. Laudan’s innovative narrative treats cuisine, like language, clothing, or architecture, as something constructed by humans. By emphasizing how cooking turns farm products into food and by taking the globe rather than the nation as the stage, she challenges the agrarian, romantic, and nationalistic myths that underlie the contemporary food movement.
Download or read book Feasting in the Archaeology and Texts of the Bible and the Ancient Near East written by Peter Altmann and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together the work of scholars using various methodologies to investigate the prevalence, importance, and meanings of feasting and foodways in the texts and cultural-material environments of the Hebrew Bible and the ancient Near East. Thus, it serves as both an introduction to and explication of this emerging field. The offerings range from the third-millennium Early Dynastic period in Mesopotamia to the rise of a new cuisine in the Islamic period and transverse geographical locations such as southern Iraq, Syria, the Aegean, and especially the southern Levant. The strength of this collection lies in the many disciplines and methodologies that come together. Texts, pottery, faunal studies, iconography, and anthropological theory are all accorded a place at the table in locating the importance of feasting as a symbolic, social, and political practice. Various essays showcase both new archaeological methodologies—zooarchaeological bone analysis and spatial analysis—and classical methods such as iconographic studies, ceramic chronology, cultural anthropology, and composition-critical textual analysis.
Download or read book Administrative Development written by Muhammad A. Al-Buraey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1986. The main purpose of this work is to present a developmental perspective different from the prevailing Western one. The author hopes that this point of view will contribute towards the goal of developing a general theory of world development of human societies that presently does not exist. Though the focus of this study is on Islamic views of administrative development, other aspects of development - such as the political and socio-economic - are also discussed.
Download or read book Routledge Revivals Medieval Islamic Civilization 2006 written by Josef Meri and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 1790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Islamic civilization flourished in the Middle Ages across a vast geographical area that spans today's Middle and Near East. First published in 2006, Medieval Islamic Civilization examines the socio-cultural history of the regions where Islam took hold between the 7th and 16th centuries. This important two-volume work contains over 700 alphabetically arranged entries, contributed and signed by international scholars and experts in fields such as Arabic languages, Arabic literature, architecture, history of science, Islamic arts, Islamic studies, Middle Eastern studies, Near Eastern studies, politics, religion, Semitic studies, theology, and more. Entries also explore the importance of interfaith relations and the permeation of persons, ideas, and objects across geographical and intellectual boundaries between Europe and the Islamic world. This reference work provides an exhaustive and vivid portrait of Islamic civilization and brings together in one authoritative text all aspects of Islamic civilization during the Middle Ages. Accessible to scholars, students and non-specialists, this resource will be of great use in research and understanding of the roots of today's Islamic society as well as the rich and vivid culture of medieval Islamic civilization.
Download or read book Iraq written by Heather Bleaney and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well-considered answers to the many questions raised by the situation in Iraq, past and present, are rare. This first comprehensive, thematically organised, bibliography devoted to Iraq is based on the full Index Islamicus database and is drawn from a wide variety of European-language journals and books. Featuring an extensive introduction to the subject and its literature by Peter Sluglett, this bibliography will help readers to find their way through the massive secondary literature now available. Following the pattern established by the Index Islamicus, both journal articles and book publications are included, as well as important internet resources. The editors have taken care to add much new material to bring its coverage up to date, and supplement the previously published volumes, while the most important and/or influential publications are conveniently highlighted in the introduction. An indispensable gateway for all those with a more than superficial interest in what is, and what has been, happening in this nation so much the focus of attention today.
Download or read book Egypt and Syria in the Fatimid Ayyubid and Mamluk Eras III written by Urbain Vermeulen and published by Peeters Publishers. This book was released on 2001 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each volume deals with a wide variety of scholarly subjects, all revolving around the central theme of Syro-Egypt's high and late medieval history. Topics dealt with include archaeology, architecture, codicology, economic, political, and religious history, as well as belles-lettres.
Download or read book written by Yedida Kalfon Stillman and published by دائرة الثقافة والسياحة – أبوظبي، مركز أبوظبي للغة العربية، مشروع كلمة للترجمة . This book was released on 2019-04-03 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: تتناول هذه الدراسة بالتحليل والبحث تاريخ الأزياء والألبسة العربية والإسلامية منذ ما قبل الإسلام حتى أواخر القرن العشرين في شتى الأقطار والأصقاع الإسلامية عند الخلفاء والسلاطين والنخب الحاكمة وصفوة المجتمع والطبقة الكادحة علاوة على ملابس الشرطة وعسس الأسواق والجواري والمطربات وألبسة أهل الذمة والأقليات الأخرى في المجتمعات الإسلامية. بالإضافة إلى الملابس العسكرية والأزياء ذات الطبيعة الإحتفالية والطقوسية مثل الملابس الكهنوتية وملابس رجال الدين الإسلامي.
Download or read book The Last Pagans of Iraq written by Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume analyses the religious, philosophical and folkloristic content of Ibn Waḥshiyya's (d. 931) Nabatean Agriculture, a book containing rich information on Late Antique paganism in Iraq. The book also contains 61 translated excerpts from the Nabatean Agriculture.
Download or read book Qusayr Amra written by Garth Fowden and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2004-09-20 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the stony desolation of Jordan's desert, it is but a step through a doorway into the bath house of the Qusayr 'Amra hunting lodge. Inside, multicolored frescoes depict scenes from courtly life and the hunt, along with musicians, dancing girls, and naked bathing women. The traveler is transported to the luxurious and erotic world of a mid-eighth-century Muslim Arab prince. For scholars, though, Qusayr 'Amra, probably painted in the 730s or 740s, has proved a mirage, its concreteness dissolved by doubts about date, patron, and meaning. This is the first book-length contextualization of the mysterious monument through a compelling analysis of its iconography and of the literary sources for the Umayyad period. It illuminates not only the way of life of the early Muslim elite but also the long afterglow of late antique Syria.
Download or read book Salt and Civilization written by S.A.M. Adshead and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Highly recommended as a thorough examination of the commodity history of salt'-The Geographical Journal. Salt has been called the primordial addiction. It has been an object of almost universal consumption since Neolithic times. This book sets out to place the particular histories of salt in a global perspective and write the history of a human commodity as a theme in world history. From pagan man, through classical Rome, Byzantium, early Islam, the Dark Ages, the Renaissance to the modern world, the production, distribution, consumption and taxation of salt are examined. The author shows how a history of salt cannot be separated from the histories of commerce, medicine, diet, cooking, taxation, invention and war. Although taken for granted today, salt has been of critical economic and cultural importance to countries and peoples throughout history; the instigator and catalyst to actions and events ranging from the first maritime expedition of Muslim forces to Columbus's discovery of America. After Salt and Civilization salt can not be taken for granted again.
Download or read book Mantua Humanistic Studies Volume III written by Edoardo Scarpanti and published by Universitas Studiorum. This book was released on 2018-10-26 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents:Time, inner language, ‘open society’: Victor Egger’s influence on Henri Bergson (by Riccardo Roni).Il linguaggio economico-sociale, aspetti storico-politico-lessicali nell’età vittoriana di Our mutual friend. L’immagine allegorica come strumento di introspezione (by Sabrina Mazzara).The iconographic transformation of the “tail of the dragon of the eclipse” into the “hunting cheetah” (by Maria Vittoria Fontana).Was Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta a uxoricide? New Research on the Premature Death of Polissena Sforza († 1 June 1449) (by Anna Falcioni).Design e corpo umano. Lo stupore come strumento del sapere (by Andrea Lupacchini).Lorelei, Nixen e altre Wasserfrauen nell’opera di Joseph von Eichendorff (by Sonia Saporiti).Who is the Pedagogist and how he practices on couple and family problems (by Franco Blezza).
Download or read book Popular Culture in Medieval Cairo written by Boaz Shoshan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-05-16 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elite and that of the people. This book presents a stimulating discussion of a subject previously only touched upon. The author tests his theories against similar phenomena in European society and with reference to several standard authorities in anthropology and social history. Popular culture in medieval Cairo will, therefore, be of interest to students and specialists in Middle Eastern studies and also to medieval historians.
