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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This work is a critical Arabic text edition of K. al-Bayāḍ wa-l-sawād min khaṣāʾiṣ ḥikam al-ʿibād fī naʿt al-murīd wa-l-murād, a substantial Sufi handbook of early Sufism by Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. al-Ḥasan al-Sīrjānī (d. ca. 470/1077).
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Drawing on medieval Arabic sources and earlier scholarship, this book is a study of the life and work of Ibn Dāniyāl (d. 1310). It also presents the first full English translation of his shadow play "The Phantom.”
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For the first time al-Ghazzī’s authoritative biography of ‘Abd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī, al-Wird al-Unsī, is being presented in this critical edition along with new critical reviews of al-Nābulusī’s large body of works and of modern literature on him.
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This book offers an examination of the origins of Shīʿite Islam as viewed through the lens of the traditions surrounding its earliest and most infamous heretic, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sabaʾ, and the sectarian movement he purportedly founded, the Sabaʾīya.
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This book offers an early Shiite/Fatimid controversy against Sunnite scholars in matter of Islamic law. Al-Qadi al-Nu'man (d. 363/974) refutes Ibn Qutayba's (d. 276/889) argument according to which succinct legal formulas exempt civil servants from the need of long dissertations of jurists.
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This volume provides new insights into the transmission of the textual sources of Islam and combines this with the dynamics of these scriptures by paying close attention to how believers interpret and apply them.
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As a corpus-based study which aims at profiling the food culture of medieval Cairo, the book is an attempt to reconstruct the menu of Cairenes as well as their various daily practices, customs and habits related to food and eating.
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This critical edition of Mustafa Âli’s Epic Deeds of Artists about the lives and works of calligraphers and painters offers insight into the artistic, cultural, social, and religious traditions that produced the great artists of the Ottoman and Persianate worlds.
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This book is a pioneering work on a key iconographic motif, that of the dragon. It examines the perception of this complex, multifaceted motif within the overall intellectual and visual universe of the medieval Irano-Turkish world. Using a broadly comparative approach, the author explores the ...
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Ibn Khallād was a disciple of the famous Muʿtazilī theologian, Abū Hāshim al-Jubbāʾī (d. 933). His otherwise lost theological summa, K. al-Uṣūl, has reached us embedded in the Ziyādāt Sharḥ al-Uṣūl by the Zaydī Imām al-Nāṭiq bi-l-ḥaqq (d. 1033). This volume contains an editio princeps of this text.
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