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Author: P. M. Kurpershoek Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9789004101029 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 254
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This volume presents in translation and transcription the oral text of narratives about and poems by Slēwīḥ, one of Arabia's most famous nineteenth-century robber barons, recorded by Xālid, a sheikh of the 'Utaybah tribe of Saudi Arabia and the great-grandson of Slēwīḥ.
Author: Kamal Abdel-Malek Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004659706 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 246
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This volume is a fascinating, interpretative study of the life of the Prophet Muḥammad as depicted in the repertoire of fifty-one contemporary Egyptian singers. The repertoire is extremely diverse and ranges from narrative ballads, classical odes, and Qur'ānic chantings, to melodies of the secular songs of well-known Egyptian singers. The 'people's' Muḥammad appears as both a commanding figure, empowered by the supernatural, and a touchingly vulnerable human being, and provides this study with excellent material for its discussion of a subject that has not received much serious scholarly attention to date.
Author: P. M. Kurpershoek Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9789004101029 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 254
Book Description
This volume presents in translation and transcription the oral text of narratives about and poems by Slēwīḥ, one of Arabia's most famous nineteenth-century robber barons, recorded by Xālid, a sheikh of the 'Utaybah tribe of Saudi Arabia and the great-grandson of Slēwīḥ.
Author: Richard M. Frank Publisher: SUNY Press ISBN: 9780873953788 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 258
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Presents a classification and analysis of the metaphysics of the predominant tradition of Mu-tazila--that of Basra--in the period of the highest development (AD 900-1050). This is the first of the major schools of Sunni Muslim theology and their metaphysics, and the first book to deal with the underlying theoretical principles of earlier Islamic theology.
Author: John O. Hunwick Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9789004104945 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 778
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Annotation. A guide to the scholarly and literary production of Muslim writers of West Africa, other than Nigeria, including both biographies of scholars and lists of their writings.
Author: Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9789004109476 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 452
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The important issue of state-religion relationship in the Middle East is investigated through a sophisticated analysis of state fatwas and of the public and institutional role of the Egyptian State Mufti from 1895 to present.
Author: Imam al-Bukhari Publisher: The Other Press ISBN: 9675062983 Category : Hadith Languages : en Pages : 377
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This work comprises the historical chapters of the most important compilations of Traditions, Kitāb al-Jāmi‘ aṣ-Ṣaḥīḥ by Imām Muḥammad ibn Ismā‘īl al-Bukhārī and depicts the beginning of the Prophet’s revelation, the merits of the Prophet’s Companions and the early years of Islam up to and including the decisive turning point of Islamic history, the Battle of Badr. Although the author set out to translate the whole of the Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī, he could not accomplish the task for much of his manuscripts were destroyed in the chaos and the inter-religious holocaust that followed upon the outbreak of the Second World War and the partition of the Indian subcontinent. However this led to his realisation, in his own words, “ten years spent on analysing, translating and clarifying the Ṣaḥīḥ were a God-willed preparation for a work which for a very long time had represented an enticing dream to me: a new rendering into English of the Message of the Qur’ān and Commentary based on the principle that the doors of ijtihād have never been and never could be closed to man’s searching intellect.” The result was the author’s Qur’ānic commentary under the title The Message of the Qur’ān, published in 1980. Any scholarly reader of that work will easily recognise how much of the spirit of ḥadīth-and, hence, of the immortal labour of Imām Bukhārī-has gone into his interpretation of the word of God.
Author: P R Kumaraswamy Publisher: Scarecrow Press ISBN: 0810870150 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 420
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For over a century, the conflict between the Arabs and Jews has remained the most intractable problem confronting the world. Hardly a day passes that the Arab-Israeli Conflict is not headlined in the media. It has turned the Arabs and Israelis against one another and embittered relations within the two communities, while drawing the rest of the world into the circle of disruption. The A to Z of the Arab-Israeli Conflict provides factual background through an introductory essay, a chronology, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on the more significant persons, places and events, including the various wars and negotiations. The history, religion, culture, and archeology that this rivalry has sparked between the Arabs and Israelis over the same piece of territory is traced in this book, which offers the essential details using neutral terms and thereby allowing readers to draw conclusions for themselves.
Author: Ephraim Kahana Publisher: Scarecrow Press ISBN: 0810870703 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 406
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Given the rivalries and suspicions prevailing in the Middle East, it is not surprising that most of these states are very concerned about espionage and infiltration. With the additional threat of terrorism, nuclear weapons, a large U.S. military presence, and the Arab-Israeli conflict, the result is an impressively busy intelligence industry, proportionately larger and more extensive than in most other regions. The A to Z of Middle East Intelligence addresses intelligence issues in the region from ancient history and the Middle Ages through modern times, covering the decline of the Ottoman Empire, intelligence activity in the Middle East during and between the two world wars, and the interplay between colonial and local intelligence and counterintelligence agencies of the period. It also presents the relatively new fundamentalist terrorist organizations that have had a significant impact on international relations and on the structure and deployment of intelligence, counterintelligence, and other security organs in the Middle East today. With a chronology, an introductory essay, and over 300 cross-referenced dictionary entries on important events and key organizations involved in all aspects of intelligence gathering and analysis, as well as the biographies of key players, this is an important reference on the current situation in the Middle East.
Author: P. M. Kurpershoek
Author: Kamal Abdel-Malek
Author: P. M. Kurpershoek
Author: Richard M. Frank
Author: John O. Hunwick
Author: Egon Keck
Author: Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen
Author: Imam al-Bukhari
Author: P R Kumaraswamy
Author: Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie
Author: Ephraim Kahana