Brockelmann's History of the Arabic Written Tradition offers bio-bibliographic information about works written in Arabic and their authors, with an emphasis on manuscripts from the classical period. This originally multivolume reference work is divided in chronologically organiz…
Brockelmann's History of the Arabic Written Tradition offers bio-bibliographic information about works written in Arabic and their authors, with an emphasis on manuscripts from the classical period. This originally multivolume reference work is divided in chronologically organiz…
"Brockelmann's History of the Arabic Written Tradition offers bio-bibliographic information about works written in Arabic and their authors, with an emphasis on manuscripts from the classical period. This multivolume reference work is divided in chronologically organized section…
When the Ayatollah Khomeini pronounced the fatwa against the novelist Salman Rushdie in 1989, the world awoke to the question which unifies the fifteen essays in this volume: What is the contentious relationship between the world's fastest growing religion and an increasingly se…
Borrowed Imagination: The British Romantic Poets and Their Arabic-Islamic Sources examines masterpieces of English Romantic poetry and shows the Arabic and Islamic sources that inspired Coleridge, Wordsworth, Blake, Shelley, Keats, and Byron when composing their poems in the eig…
From history to theology: Ali in Islamic belief
From history to theology: Ali in Islamic belief
Covering a wide range of texts from the ninth through twentieth centuries, this study reveals how woman's access to literary speech has been mediated through her body. Early Arabo-Islamic discourse, in which the female voice--often associated with sexual wit or trickery--is subo…
The history of Islamic thought in the Middle Ages, the impact of Greek philosophy and science, and the formation of an own theological tradition, is a long and complex one. The articles in this volume dedicated to Hans Daiber, one of the pioneering scholars in this field, offer …
Der Gebrauch der Alphabetschrift verbindet die jüdische, christliche und muslimische Kultur des Mittelalters. Zwischen den Religionen dieser Kulturen gab es seit jeher intensive Wechselbeziehungen, u. a. durch Übersetzungen bedeutender (heiliger) Texte. Als fundierende Zentralte…
