Facts and Artefacts - Art in the Islamic World
Festschrift for Jens Kröger on his 65th Birthday
Biographical note
Annette Hagedorn, Ph. D (1990) in Islamic Art History, University of Bonn, since 1993 research on the influence of Islamic Art on applied arts and art theory in Europe in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Articles and the publications Auf der Suche nach dem neuen Stil (Berlin 1998), The Phenomenon of 'Foreign' in Oriental Art (Reichert, 2006)
Avinoam Shalem,Ph.D (1995), History of Art, University of Edinburgh, is professor of Islamic Art at Munich University. He has published extensively on Islamic 'minor arts' including Islam Christianized (Peter Lang, 2 ed., 1998), The Oliphant (Brill, 2004) and co-edited Austausch diplomatischer Geschenke in Spätantike und Byzanz (Reichert 2005).
Avinoam Shalem,Ph.D (1995), History of Art, University of Edinburgh, is professor of Islamic Art at Munich University. He has published extensively on Islamic 'minor arts' including Islam Christianized (Peter Lang, 2 ed., 1998), The Oliphant (Brill, 2004) and co-edited Austausch diplomatischer Geschenke in Spätantike und Byzanz (Reichert 2005).
Readership
All those interested in Islamic Art and History and the artistic interactions between Europe and North America and the Islamic World.
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In al-Ḥīra. Eine arabische Kulturmetropole im spätantiken Kontext, Isabel Toral-Niehoff draws a vivid portrait of this multicultural Late Antique Arab city located in the frontier zone between Byzantium and Iran and emphasizes its significance for Arab culture and early Islam.
In al-Ḥīra. Eine ...
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In Mysticism and Philosophy in al-Andalus, Michael Ebstein underscores the many links that connect the intellectual world of the Andalusi mystics Ibn Masarra (269/883-319/931) and Ibn al-ʿArabi (560/1165-638/1240) to the Ismāʿīlī tradition.
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The reign of al-Muqtadir (295-320/908-32) is a crucial epoch in Abbasid history. Four scholars question the picture of decline attached to this period, exploring the formal and informal power relationships that shaped politics at the court of this caliph.
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This book studies the legal reasoning of Mālik ibn Anas. It emphasizes that the Sunnī schools of law emerged during the formative period as independent legal methodologies.
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The Intensification and Reorientation of Sunni Jihad Ideology provides an account of the preaching of a revitalized vision of jihad in Crusader-era Syria by Sunni scholars, including Ibn ʿAsākir, as a major propaganda tool of the Counter-Crusade and Sunni revival.
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This work is a critical Arabic text edition of Salwat al-ʿārifīn wa-uns al-mushtāqīn, a manual of early Sufism by Abū Khalaf al-Ṭabarī (d. ca. 470/1077). It is an integral part of Sufi literature and reflects Islamic developments in Nishapur in northeastern Iran.
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The collection is the first to bring together a number of accounts about the Holy Land written by early modern authors from different religious and regional backgrounds.
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Traditional medicine in Yemen is largely plant-based. Fourteen scholars represent both humanities and natural sciences in studying herbal medicines and their multifaceted applications within traditional Yemeni society. Approaches are based on textual analysis, empirical research and laboratory ...
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In honor of Fred M. Donner's distinguished career as an interpreter of early Islam, this volume collects more than a dozen studies by his students. They range over a wide array of sub-fields in Islamic studies, including Islamic history, historiography, Islamic law, Qur'anic studies and ...
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