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Book E J W Gibb Memorial Series

Download or read book E J W Gibb Memorial Series written by and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book E  J  W  Gibb Memorial Series

Download or read book E J W Gibb Memorial Series written by and published by . This book was released on 1905* with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of Ottoman Poetry

Download or read book A History of Ottoman Poetry written by Elias John Wilkinson Gibb and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elias John Wilkinson Gibb (1857-1901) was a Scottish Orientalist who was born and educated in Glasgow. After studying Arabic and Persian, he developed an interest in Turkish language and literature, especially poetry, and in 1882 he published Ottoman Poems Translated into English Verse in the Original Forms. This was a forerunner to the six-volume classic presented here, A History of Ottoman Poetry, published in London between 1900 and 1909. Gibb died in London of scarlet fever at the age of 44, and only the first volume of his masterpiece appeared before his death. His family entrusted to his friend Edward Granville Browne (1862-1926), a distinguished Orientalist in his own right who had made a special study of Babism, the task of posthumously publishing the five remaining volumes. Browne characterized the work as "one of the most important, if not the most important, critical studies of any Muhammadan literature produced in Europe during the last half-century." The first volume contains a long and compelling introduction by Gibb on the entire subject, in which he argues that Ottoman poetry often rose and fell in tandem with Ottoman power. Gibb divides Ottoman poetry into two great schools, the Old or Asiatic (circa 1300-1859), which generally was characterized by its deference to Persian influences; and the New or European (from 1859 onward), which was influenced by French and other Western poetry. According to Gibb, the Old or Asiatic School went through a four periods: a formative period (1300-1450); a period (1450-1600) in which works were modeled after the Persian poet Jami; a period (1600-1700) dominated by the influences of Persian poets Urfi Shirazi and Saʼib Tabrizi; and a period of uncertainty that lasted until 1859. The European school that followed was inaugurated by Ibrahim Sinasi (1826-71), who in 1859 produced a small but momentous collection of French poetry translated into Turkish verse. The influence of the collection was far-reaching and eventually changed the course of Ottoman poetry. Gibb is known for his masterful translations that brilliantly render into English both the meaning and the form of Ottoman, Persian, and Arabic poetry. For almost a century after his death, a family trust financed the Gibb Memorial Series of editions and translations into English of Arabic, Persian, and Turkish texts.

Book Bulletin

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  • Author : University of Aberdeen. Library
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1913
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 414 pages

Download or read book Bulletin written by University of Aberdeen. Library and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mohammedan Theories of Finance

Download or read book Mohammedan Theories of Finance written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Jewish Quarterly Review

Download or read book The Jewish Quarterly Review written by Cyrus Adler and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal of the American Oriental Society

Download or read book Journal of the American Oriental Society written by American Oriental Society and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of members in each volume.

Book Sufism in the West

Download or read book Sufism in the West written by Jamal Malik and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-04-18 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the increasing Muslim diaspora in post-modern Western societies, Sufism – intellectually as well as sociologically – may eventually become Islam itself due to its versatile potential. Although Sufism has always provoked considerable interest in the West, no volume has so far been written which discusses this aspect of Islam in terms of how it is practised in Western societies. Bringing together leading international authorities to survey the history of Islamic mysticism in North America and Europe, this book elaborates the ideas and institutions which organize Sufism and folk-religious practices. The chapters cover: the orders and movements their social base organization and institutionalization recruitment-patterns in new environments channels of disseminating ideas, such as ritual, charisma, and organization reasons for their popularity among certain social groups the nature of their affiliation with the countries of their origin. Providing a fascinating insight into how Sufism operates within different spheres of society, Sufism in the West is essential reading for students and academics with research interests in Islam, Islamic history and social anthropology.

Book Mission to the Lord Sophy of Persia  1539 1542

Download or read book Mission to the Lord Sophy of Persia 1539 1542 written by Michele Membré and published by Gibb Memorial Trust. This book was released on 1999 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English translation with introduction and notes of the account by the Venetian Michele Membre of a visit to the Safavid court, written in the 16th century.

Book A History of Islamic Societies

Download or read book A History of Islamic Societies written by Ira M. Lapidus and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-13 with total page 1019 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This third edition of Ira M. Lapidus's classic A History of Islamic Societies has been substantially revised to incorporate the insights of new scholarship and updated to include historical developments in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Lapidus's history explores the beginnings and transformations of Islamic civilizations in the Middle East and details Islam's worldwide diffusion to Africa, Spain, Turkey and the Balkans, Central, South and Southeast Asia, and North America, situating Islamic societies within their global, political, and economic contexts. It accounts for the impact of European imperialism on Islamic societies and traces the development of the modern national state system and the simultaneous Islamic revival from the early nineteenth century to the present. This book is essential for readers seeking to understand Muslim peoples."--Publisher information.

Book Philosophy in the Renaissance of Islam

Download or read book Philosophy in the Renaissance of Islam written by Kraemer and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-09-20 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Islam in Iran

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  • Author : Il?i?a Pavlovich Petrushevski?
  • Publisher : SUNY Press
  • Release : 1985-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780887060700
  • Pages : 416 pages

Download or read book Islam in Iran written by Il?i?a Pavlovich Petrushevski? and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scholarly and authoritative history of the emergence and growth of Islam in Iran during the early and later medieval periods. This book, by I. P. Petrushevsky, the foremost Soviet Iranologist, was originally published in Russia in 1966. After discussing the Arabian environment in which the faith of Islam arose, and the character--legal, social and doctrinal--of the new message, the author moves on to trace the peculiarly Iranian development of Islamic beliefs, the schisms which arose in its early history, and the eventual creation of a Sunni orthodoxy. Written from the Russian perspective, with Russia's long contact with Iranian and Turkish Muslim neighbors, it provides a stimulating and salutary balance to the study of the Islamic world.

Book Averroes    Questions in Physics

Download or read book Averroes Questions in Physics written by and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: overall title and the commentary of Narboni, but in which the treatise is given a close association rath De Substantia Orbis VII, which immedi ately follows it in the text. This third version is the sole case in which a Hebrew translator can be named: the translation was made by Todros Todrosi in the year 1340. The only conclusion to be drawn from his translation is that Todrosi may definitively be eliminated as the translator of any of the other ver sions. However, we may be able to draw a tentative conclusion as to the formation of the Hebrew collection. The earliest evidence for the existence of the nine treatise collec tion is the commentary of Narboni, completed in 1349. The fact that nine years earlier one treatise could be attached to a work outside the corpus may indicate that the Hebrew collection of nine treatises was formed during those nine years, or mar even indicate that Narboni him self collected the various treatises. 5 Narboni, however, was not the translator of these works In fact, no 1 definitive indication of the translator's identity exists. 6 3. The Nature of the Question-Form Steinschneider offered the following general characterization of Aver roes' Quaestiones: These are mostly brief discussions, more or less answers to questions; they may be partially occasioned by topics i9 his commentaries and may be considered as appendices to them.

Book Sufi Martyrs of Love

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  • Author : C. Ernst
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2016-04-30
  • ISBN : 1137095814
  • Pages : 250 pages

Download or read book Sufi Martyrs of Love written by C. Ernst and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sufism is a religion which emphasizes direct knowledge of the divine within each person, and meditation, music, song, and dance are seen as crucial spiritual strides toward attaining unity with God. Sufi paths of mysticism and devotion, motivated by Islamic ideals, are still chosen by men and women in countries from Morocco to China, and there are nearly one hundred orders around the world, eighty of which are present and thriving in the United States. The Chishti Sufi order has been the most widespread and popular of all Sufi traditions since the twelfth-century. Sufi Martyrs of Love offers a critical perspective on Western attitudes towards Islam and Sufism, clarifying its contemporary importance, both in the West and in traditional Sufi homelands. Finally, it provides access to the voices of Sufi authorities, through the translation of texts being offered in English for the first time.

Book Man versus Society in Medieval Islam

Download or read book Man versus Society in Medieval Islam written by Franz Rosenthal and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-10-09 with total page 1180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Man versus Society in Medieval Islam, Franz Rosenthal (1914-2003) investigates the tensions and conflicts that existed between individuals and society as the focus of his study of Muslim social history. The book brings together works spanning fifty years: the monographs The Muslim Concept of Freedom, The Herb. Hashish versus Medieval Muslim Society (Brill, 1971), Gambling in Islam (Brill, 1975), and Sweeter than Hope. Complaint and Hope in Medieval Islam (Brill,1983), along with all the articles on unsanctioned practices, sexuality, and institutional learning. Reprinted here together for the first time, they constitute the most extensive collection of source material on all these themes from all genres of Arabic writing, judiciously translated and analyzed. No other study to date presents the panorama of medieval Muslim societies in their manifold aspects in as detailed, comprehensive, and illuminating a manner.

Book A Literary History of Persia

Download or read book A Literary History of Persia written by E.G. Browne and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2020-09-23 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Browne's famous work, first published in 1902, was the essential text on literary history in Persian studies for many years. As an overview of Persian literature from the earliest times until Firdawsi, it continues to be a valuable reference. Out of print for some time, it is now reissued as a library edition, in facsimile to capture the feel of the original edition.

Book The Ocean of the Soul

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  • Author : Hellmutt Ritter
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2012-11-08
  • ISBN : 9004244840
  • Pages : 860 pages

Download or read book The Ocean of the Soul written by Hellmutt Ritter and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-11-08 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ocean of the Soul is one of the great works of the German Orientalist Hellmut Ritter (1892-1971). It presents a comprehensive analysis of the writings of the mystical Persian poet Far?d al-D?n ‘At?t??r. The book was first published in 1955.