Islamic world, Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Islamic world, Middle Eastern history
A. Hilal Ugurlu deposited Philanthropy in the Form of a Hair Strand: Sacred Relics in Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Lands in the group
Islamicate Studies on Humanities Commons 1 week, 6 days ago
From the last quarter of the eighteenth century, the caliphal status and the legitimacy of the Ottoman sultans were constantly and increasingly challenged. One of the most effective and powerful tools that they utilized in order to strengthen their diminishing image in the eyes of their subjects was the re-appropriation of sacred places, either by…[Read more]
Alexandre Roberts deposited In Mecca’s Backyard in the group
Islamicate Studies on Humanities Commons 1 month ago
Review of The Red Sea from Byzantium to the Caliphate: AD 500–1000, by Timothy Power (American University in Cairo, 2012).
Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited Poetry Translation Masterclass: Theory, Problems, Practice in the group
Islamicate Studies on Humanities Commons 3 months, 3 weeks ago
This course (held during Jan-Feb 2021) offers an introduction to the art of translating poetry from a practitioner’s perspective. It is designed for poetry lovers and translators of all backgrounds—ranging from those who have never translated before but are interested in understanding what it is all about, to those who have been translating for…[Read more]
Gregor M. Schwarb deposited A Hamaḏānian Patchwork in the group
Islamicate Studies on Humanities Commons 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Among the numerous Jewish uṣūl al-dīn compositions in the Second Firkovitch Collection at the Russian National Library in St. Petersburg there is one that I have labelled “A Hamaḏānian Patchwork”. You might just as well call it “A Persian Carpet”. It is another magnificent specimen of “diachronic intertextualities”.
The treatise, which is…[Read more]Lloyd Graham deposited The Magic Symbol Repertoire of Talismanic Rings from East and West Africa in the group
Islamicate Studies on Humanities Commons 4 months, 4 weeks ago
In West Africa, Berber groups such as the Tuareg use inscribed silver jewelry – rings, pendants and plaques – as talismans. A ring with a curved or flat frontal area may be inscribed with a linear cipher or, if large, carry a “magic square” design. A survey of 132 Tuareg/Berber items revealed that the symbol repertoire appears to be drawn from ov…[Read more]
Lloyd Graham deposited A comparison of the Seven Seals in Islamic esotericism and Jewish Kabbalah in the group
Islamicate Studies on Humanities Commons 5 months ago
In Islamic mysticism and theurgy, the Seven Seals represent in graphic form the Greatest Name of God; in Jewish Kabbalah, the Seals bear individual Divine Names which collectively form a “Great Name.” We review and compare the primary interpretations and secondary associations for each Seal in Islam and Judaism, from which it is clear that the two…[Read more]
Ismail Royer deposited Pakistan’s Blasphemy Law and Non-Muslims – Urdu in the group
Islamicate Studies on Humanities Commons 7 months, 2 weeks ago
This is an Urdu translation of the work “Pakistan’s Blasphemy Law and Non-Muslims”
Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited High Tide of the Eyes: Poems by Bijan Elahi in the group
Islamicate Studies on Humanities Commons 7 months, 2 weeks ago
The hermit-poet of modern Persian literature, Bijan Elahi (1945-2010) was a modernist poet, a prolific translator of Eliot, Rimbaud, Michaux, Hölderlin, and the founder of Other Poetry, the leading avant-garde movement within Persian modernism. Elahi passed the last three decades of his life in seclusion in his house in Tehran. He stopped…[Read more]
Jake Benson deposited The Raja of Mahmudabad Palace Library Project in the group
Islamicate Studies on Humanities Commons 8 months, 1 week ago
Over the course of the last year the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library (HMML) and the Roshan Institute for Persian Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park (Roshan Institute-UMD) have begun collaborating with the Raja of Mahmudabad family on the preservation of their important manuscript collection. The project will help protect the…[Read more]
Sukari B. Salone deposited Unreality, Reality, and Themes in Kezilahabi’s Rosa Mistika and Mahfouz’s Midaq Alley in the group
Islamicate Studies on Humanities Commons 8 months, 1 week ago
This work provides a close linguistic and thematic analysis of the dialogues in the two novels Midaq Alley by N. Mahfouz and Rosa Mistika by E. Kezilahabi, as they reflect fundamental assumptions about gender, tradition, and modernity. Certain complex clauses that have been traditionally recognized in Logic and Philosophy to be used in argument…[Read more]
Rouco Collazo Jorge deposited Levantamiento arquitectónico y análisis arqueológico del castillo de Píñar como punto de partida para su conservación in the group
Islamicate Studies on Humanities Commons 9 months, 3 weeks ago
This paper presents an applied methodology for the graphic documentation, analysis and criteria determination for the protection and conservation of built heritage. One of the main risks when restoring medieval rammed earth architecture is the lacking of an optimal graphic base of its structures. This paper’s main objective is the holistic k…[Read more]
Gregor M. Schwarb deposited Diachronic Intertextualities: Falsafa, Kalām, Uṣūl al-Fiqh in the group
Islamicate Studies on Humanities Commons 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Computer-aided comparison between large textual corpora, first and foremost in the areas of falsafa, ʿilm kalām, and uṣūl al-fiqh, Muslim & Jewish & Christian.
Behnam M. Fomeshi deposited Nimā Yushij in the group
Islamicate Studies on Humanities Commons 10 months, 3 weeks ago
Nimā Yushij (1897-1960), the first major modern Persian poet, developed a poetic form later called New Poetry, Free Poetry or Nimāic Poetry to remove the restrictions of traditional rhyme and meter. Although he was not the only or even the first trying to modernize Persian poetry, he was the one on whom was bestowed the title “the father of mod…[Read more]
Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited “The Persianate Cosmology of Historical Inquiry in the Caucasus: ʿAbbās Qulī Āghā Bākīkhānūf’s Cosmological Cosmopolitanism,” Comparative Literature (2019) in the group
Islamicate Studies on Humanities Commons 11 months, 1 week ago
This article engages with cosmopolitan conceptions of culture that flourished in the nineteenth century Caucasus with a view to clarifying the relevance of these legacies today. I focus in particular on the polymath writer ʿAbbās Qulī Āghā Bākīkhānūf (1794–1847). As I explore Bākīkhānūf’s historical writing, I consider how the Persianate liter…[Read more]
Behnam M. Fomeshi deposited شاعر در آینۀ تصویر: بررسی طرح روی جلد ترجمههای اشعار والت ویتمن در ایران in the group
Islamicate Studies on Humanities Commons 11 months, 3 weeks ago
بخشی از مطالعات ادبی بینارشتهای شامل بررسی ارتباط میان ادبیات و تصویر میشود. در این زمینه ارتباط میان ادبیات و سینما شناختهشدهترین حوزۀ پژوهشی است که تعداد چشمگیری اثر پژوهشی، اعم از رساله و مقاله، در این حوزه نگاشته شده است. در همین زمینه میتوان به ارتباط میان ادبیات و نقاشی اشاره کرد که در سالهای اخیر شاهد تعداد انگشتشماری اثر تحقیق…[Read more]
Behnam M. Fomeshi deposited Literary Translation in Modern Iran: A Sociological Study in the group
Islamicate Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year ago
Book Review Literary Translation in Modern Iran: A Sociological Study by Esmaeil Haddadian-Moghaddam, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2014, ISBN 978 90 272 5854 0 (hbk), 236 pp
Metehan Karakurt deposited Farabi’de Dini Çoğulculuğun Temelleri ve Sınırları in the group
Islamicate Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 2 months ago
Dini çoğulculuk, dini dışlayıcılık ve kapsayıcılıktan farklı olarak, her dinsel inanış taraftarlarının kendi dinleri içinde kalarak ilahi selamete erişeceğini söyler. Temelde, teolojik ve felsefi boyutları olan dini çoğulculuk tartışmasının siyasete bakan bir yönü de vardır. İslam tarihinde Meşşâî felsefenin kurucusu ve mutluluk filozofu ola…[Read more]
Rouco Collazo Jorge deposited Análisis arqueológico de la torre-puerta de la alcazaba de Guadix (Granada) in the group
Islamicate Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 5 months ago
Este artículo tiene como objetivo realizar el análisis de la secuencia constructiva de la torre-puerta de la alcazaba medieval de Guadix (Granada). Para ello, se efectuó un levantamiento tridimensional de la estructura mediante fotogrametría, una lectura estratigráfica de paramentos en profundidad y una caracterización de técnicas constr…[Read more]
Alessandra Ciucci deposited Performing l-ḥrig: music, sound and undocumented migration across the contemporary Mediterranean (Morocco–Italy) in the group
Islamicate Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 6 months ago
Based on ethnographic research that is part of a larger project on the role of music and sound among migrant Moroccan men in Italy, this article focuses
on ‘L-ḥərraga’, a song that narrates the voyage and the experience of undocumented migration that ends with the tragic death of a young
Moroccan man crossing the Mediterranean. Through ‘L-ḥər…[Read more]Alessandra Ciucci deposited Performing ‘L-ʿalwa’: a sacred and erotic journey in Morocco in the group
Islamicate Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 6 months ago
‘L-ʿalwa’, a sung poem whose text recounts the pilgrimage to a saint’s shrine in Morocco, is celebrated for its ability to convey images and emotions stirred up by the sacred journey. As part of the repertory of ʿaita—a genre of sung poetry from the Moroccan plains and plateaus traditionally performed by professional female singer-danc…[Read more]
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