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Category : Islamic civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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E J W Gibb Memorial Series
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Category : Islamic civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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E. J. W. Gibb Memorial Series
Author: A History of Ottoman Poetry
Author: Elias John Wilkinson GibbPublisher:
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Category : Turkish poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 484
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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.
"E. J. W. Gibb Memorial" Series
Author: Abū Naṣr al-SarrājPublisher:
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Category : Mohammedan languages
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Bulletin
Author: University of Aberdeen. LibraryPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 414
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The Jewish Quarterly Review
Author: Cyrus AdlerJournal of the American Oriental Society
Author: American Oriental SocietyPublisher:
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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
List of members in each volume.
Mission to the Lord Sophy of Persia (1539-1542)
Author: Michele MembréPublisher: Gibb Memorial Trust
ISBN: 9780906094433
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 109
Book Description
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.
Sufism in the West
Author: Jamal MalikPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134479816
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
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.
A History of Islamic Societies
Author: Ira M. LapidusPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521514304
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1019
Book Description
"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.