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Key Classical Works on Islamic Ethics : قراءات في عيون الترا…
This book transcends the narrow philosophical concept of ethics confined to the Greek model, demonstrating that “Islamic ethics” is an interdisciplinary field. It encompasses both theoretical and practical ethics, incorporating disciplines such as Qurʾān, ḥadīth, biography of the Prophet (sīra), theology (kalām), jurisprudence (fiqh), Sufism, and philosophy. The book provides analyti…
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- 978-90-04-45947-2
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- xxxiv, 341 pp.
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- Studies in Islamic Ethics, Volume: 7
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Islamic Sensory History : Volume 2: 600–1500
Islamic Sensory History, Volume 2: 600–1500 presents a selection of texts translated into English from Arabic and Persian. These selected texts all offer illustrative engagements with issues related to the sensorium in different times, places, and social milieus throughout the early and medieval history of Islamic societies. Each chapter is prefaced by an introductory essay by the translator,…
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- 978-90-04-51593-2
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- xxii, 594 pp.
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- Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East, Volume: 182.2
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Islamic Ethics and the Genome Question
Islamic Ethics and the Genome Question is one of the very first academic works, which examine the field of genomics from an Islamic perspective. This twelve-chapter volume presents the results from a pioneering seminar held in 2017 at the Research Center for Islamic Legislation & Ethics, College of Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, in Qatar. The contributors to this volume, coming …
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- 978-90-04-39213-7
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- xiv, 340 pp.
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- Studies in Islamic Ethics, Volume: 1
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Intra-European Litigation in Eighteenth-Century Izmir : The Role of the Merch…
Scholars have long debated the use of law to settle international trade disputes in the early modern period. In this book, Tijl Vanneste uses the case study of commercial litigation before the Dutch consular court of Izmir to argue that merchants relied on a particular blend of mercantile customs, which he calls ‘the merchants’ style’, and specific legal forms and procedures, laid down in…
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- 978-90-04-49823-5
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- Approx. 390 pp.
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- Mediterranean Reconfigurations, Volume: 4
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Documents and the History of the Early Islamic World
Historians have long lamented the lack of contemporary documentary sources for the Islamic middle ages and the inhibiting effect this has had on our understanding of this critically important period. Although the field is richly served by surviving evidence, much of it is hard to locate, difficult to access, and philologically intractable. Presenting a mixture of historical studies and new edit…
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- 978-90-04-28434-0
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- oer.unej.ac.id
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- Islamic History and Civilization, Volume: 111
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The Presence of the Prophet in Early Modern and Contemporary Islam = Volume 1…
The three-volume series titled The Presence of the Prophet in Early Modern and Contemporary Islam, is the first attempt to explore the dynamics of the representation of the Prophet Muhammad in the course of Muslim history until the present. This first collective volume outlines his figure in the early Islamic tradition, and its later transformations until recent times that were shaped by Proph…
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- 9789004466739
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- 736 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East, Volume: 159/1 The Presence of the Prophet in Early Modern and Contemporary Islam, Volume: 159/1
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The Presence of the Prophet in Early Modern and Contemporary Islam = Volume 3…
This third collective volume of the series The Presence of the Prophet explores the expressions of piety and devotion to the person of the Prophet and their individual and collective significance in early modern and modern times. The authors provide a rich collection of regional case studies on how the Prophet’s presence and aura are individually and collectively evoked in dreams, visions, an…
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- 9789004522626
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- 630 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East, Volume: 159/3 The Presence of the Prophet in Early Modern and Contemporary Islam, Volume: 159/3
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The Presence of the Prophet in Early Modern and Contemporary Islam
This second collective volume of the series The Presence of the Prophet explores the growing importance of the figure of the Prophet Muhammad for questions of authority and power in early modern and modern times. The authors provide a rich collection of case studies on how Muhammad’s material, spiritual, and genealogical heritage has been claimed for the foundation of Muslim empires, revolut…
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- 9789004466753
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- 520 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East, Volume: 159/2 The Presence of the Prophet in Early Modern and Contemporary Islam, Volume: 159/2
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The Making of a Mosque with Female Imams = Serendipities in the Production of…
In the last decade a number of women-led mosques have emerged in Europe and North America. In The Making of a Mosque with Female Imams Jesper Petersen documents the serendipitous, yet predictable, emergence of the Mariam Mosque in Copenhagen. The study first demonstrates that individuals’ facing the unpredictable plays a decisive role in social processes. This leads to an investigation of how…
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- 9789004523029
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- 312 hlm,: ill, lamp;
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The Land between Two Seas: Art on the Move in the Mediterranean and the Black…
The Land Between Two Seas: Art on the Move in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea 1300-1700 focuses on the strong riverine ties that connect the seas of the Mediterranean system (from the Western Mediterranean through the Sea of Marmara, the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov) and their hinterland. Addressing the mediating role of the Balkans between East and West all the way to Poland and Lithuania…
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- 9789004515468
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- 416 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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