The Great Mosque of Damascus

Biographical note Readership Reviews

Publication Type:

Book

Pages, Illustrations:

xxiv, 400 pp. 107 illus.

Imprint:

BRILL

Language:

English

Biographical note

Finbarr Barry Flood, Ph.D. (1993) in Art History, Edinburgh University, is an Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, Washington, D.C. He has published numerous articles on early Buddhist and Islamic art.

Readership

All those interested in Islamic and Byzantine history, or architectural history, early medieval Syria, the history of science and technology, cross-cultural aspects of medieval visual culture, and Orientalism.

Reviews

'...a compelling account...a book that will be read with profit by all those concerned with the material culture of the Early Islamic and Byzantine worlds.’
Marcus Milwright, Journal of Islamic Studies.
'...this is a superbly informed, enthusiastically written, imaginatively crafted book for the historian of art or culture.'
Oleg Grabar, JSAH, 2001.

€109.00$141.00

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102

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ISBN13:

9789004252714

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Crisis and Continuity at the Abbasid Court

Maaike van Berkel, University of Amsterdam, Nadia El Cheikh, American University Beirut, Hugh Kennedy, SOAS, London and Letizia Osti

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.

€199.00$277.00

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Volume:

101

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ISBN13:

9789004211407

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Mālik and Medina

Umar F. Abd-Allah Wymann-Landgraf, Nawawi Foundation

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.

€136.00$189.00

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100

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ISBN13:

9789004234154

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Al-Māturīdī and the Development of Sunnī Theology in Samarqand

Ulrich Rudolph, University of Zurich, translated by Rodrigo Adem, University of Chicago

In this book Ulrich Rudolph offers an analysis of al-Maturidi's (d. 944 CE) eminent contribution to the formation of Sunni theology.

€96.00$133.00

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ISBN13:

9789004230668

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New Title

The Intensification and Reorientation of Sunni Jihad Ideology in the Crusader Period

Suleiman A. Mourad, Smith College and James E. Lindsay, Colorado State University

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.

€203.00$282.00

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ISBN13:

9789004233614

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The Comfort of the Mystics

Gerhard Böwering, Yale University and Bilal Orfali, American University of Beirut

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.

€107.00$149.00

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ISBN13:

9789004234178

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New Title

Through the Eyes of the Beholder

Edited by Judy A. Hayden, University of Tampa and Nabil I. Matar, University of Minnesota

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.

€101.00$140.00

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ISBN13:

9789004221505

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Herbal Medicine in Yemen

Edited by Ingrid Hehmeyer, Ryerson University, and Hanne Schönig, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, with the collaboration of Anne Regourd, Austrian Academy of Sciences

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 ...

€168.00$234.00

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ISBN13:

9789004218857

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The Lineaments of Islam

Edited by Paul M. Cobb, University of Pennsylvania

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 ...

€143.00$196.00

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ISBN13:

9789004216778

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Sufism, Black and White

Edited by Bilal Orfali, American University of Beirut and Nada Saab, Lebanese American University

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).

€99.00$136.00

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ISBN13:

9789004210455

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The Performing Arts in Medieval Islam

Li Guo, University of Notre Dame

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.”