The Qur'ān

Karim Samji

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East | nr. 32
• The corpus coranicum eludes familiar categories and resists strict labels. No doubt the threads woven into the fabric are exceptionally textured, vari... Lees meer

The Reach of Empire

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East | nr. 37
• How could an empire stretching from the Hindukush to the Atlantic be governed for about 300 years, from ca. 650 to the 950s? How far did the geographi... Lees meer

Greater Khorasan

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East | nr. 29
• The modern sense of "Greater Khorasan" today corresponds to a territory which not only comprises the region in the east of Iran but also, beyond Irani... Lees meer

L'Ibadisme Dans Les Sociétés de l'Islam Médiéval

• Hardcover | Frans | Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East | nr. 33
• The history of Ibadism is still marginalized in Islamic studies, while there has been a significant increase of the available sources from Oman and No... Lees meer

Islamic Law in Early Modern Iran

Zahir Bhalloo

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East | nr. 48
• Historical studies on the practice of Islamic law ( sharīʿa ) tend to focus on practice in a Sunni setting during the Mamluk or Ottoman periods. This ... Lees meer

Dämonenglaube im Islam

Tobias Nünlist

• Hardcover | Duits | Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East | nr. 28
• Der Glaube an Dämonen (ğinn) ist in islamisch geprägten Gesellschaften weit verbreitet. Da sie sowohl im Koran als auch in den Prophetenworten vielfac... Lees meer

Le contre-discours coranique

Mehdi Azaiez

• Paperback | Frans | Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East | nr. 30
• This book deals with a prominent literary element of the Koran, the "counter-discourse", the citations of opposing voices. This feature of the Koranic... Lees meer

"The Compassionate and Benevolent" Jewish Ruling Elites in the Medieval Islamicate World

Miriam Frenkel

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East | nr. 39
• This is a monograph about the medieval Jewish community of the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria. Through deep analyses of contemporary historical... Lees meer

Projecting a New Empire

Eugenio Garosi

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East | nr. 42
• Seventh and eighth-century papyri, inscriptions, and coins constitute the main evidence for the rise of Arabic as a hegemonic language emerging from t... Lees meer

Essays in Islamic Philology, History, and Philosophy

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East | nr. 31
• The articles in this volume are dedicated to Professor Ahmad Mahdavi Damghani for the breadth and depth of his interests and his influence on those in... Lees meer

Creation and Contemplation

Julien Decharneux

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East | nr. 47
• In Creation and Contemplation, Julien Decharneux explores the connections between the cosmology of the Qur'ān and various cosmological traditions of L... Lees meer

Recht und historische Entwicklung der Scharia im Islam

Christian Müller

• Hardcover | Duits | Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East | nr. 46
• Hat die Scharia eine Geschichte? Und welche gesellschaftliche Rolle spielt das Rechtsdenken (fiqh) im Islam? Hierauf bietet dieses Buch fundierte Antw... Lees meer

Le contre-discours coranique

Mehdi Azaiez

• Hardcover | Frans | Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East | nr. 30
• This book deals with a prominent literary element of the Koran, the "counter-discourse", the citations of opposing voices. This feature of the Koranic... Lees meer