The Spiritual Background of Early Islam
Studies in Ancient Arab Concepts
Biographical note
M. M. Bravmann (1909-77) worked at the Columbia University Library and taught at
Dropsie College, New York University and Columbia University. A prolific Semitic philologist Bravmann has been called the last in a scholarly line through Delitzsch, Nöldeke, Barth and Brockelmann.
Dropsie College, New York University and Columbia University. A prolific Semitic philologist Bravmann has been called the last in a scholarly line through Delitzsch, Nöldeke, Barth and Brockelmann.
Reviews
'...a must for the library of every Arabist and Islamologist.'
S.D. Goitein, JAOS, 1974.
'This work is to be most thoroughly recommended.'
W. Montgomery Watt, Bull. of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 1973.
'...un riche champ d'investigations à la sociologie religieuse.'
Jean-Pierre Charnay, Archives de Sociologie des Religions.
'...l'érudition philologique redoutable de M.M. Bravmann.'
O. Carré, Revue des sciences philosophiques et théologiques, 1976.
'Bravmann's careful philological studies provide helpful data...'
A.T. Welch, Orientalistische Literaturzeitung, 1978.
S.D. Goitein, JAOS, 1974.
'This work is to be most thoroughly recommended.'
W. Montgomery Watt, Bull. of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 1973.
'...un riche champ d'investigations à la sociologie religieuse.'
Jean-Pierre Charnay, Archives de Sociologie des Religions.
'...l'érudition philologique redoutable de M.M. Bravmann.'
O. Carré, Revue des sciences philosophiques et théologiques, 1976.
'Bravmann's careful philological studies provide helpful data...'
A.T. Welch, Orientalistische Literaturzeitung, 1978.
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Humor in Early Islam, first published in 1956, is a pioneering study by the versatile and prolific scholar Franz Rosenthal (1914–2003), who (having published an article on mediaeval Arabic blurbs), should have written this text himself. It contains an annotated translation of an Arabic text on a ...
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Goitein’s selection of studies dealing with Islamic institutions and social history offers a general introduction to Islamic civilization by one who lived all his life with Islam. His fruit of specialized research gives a rounded view of important aspects of Islamic civilization and provides the ...
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In Knowledge Triumphant, Franz Rosenthal observes that the Islamic civilization is one that is essentially characterized by knowledge ('ilm), for ''ilm is one of those concepts that have dominated Islam and given Muslim civilization its distinctive shape and complexion.'
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From 1884-1885, Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje stayed in Mecca. He became intimately acquainted with the daily life of the Meccans and the thousands of pilgrims from all over the world.
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