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Narratives of Islamic origins: The beginnings of Islamic historical writing. Darwin Press, 1998.

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Čhulālongkō̜nmahāwitthayālai), International Conference the Phantasm in Southern Thailand: Historical Writings on Patani and the Islamic World (2009. International Conference the Phantasm in Southern Thailand: Historical Writings on Patani and the Islamic World. Regional Studies Program (Southeast Asian Studies), School of Liberal Arts, Walailak University, 2009.

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Robinson, Chase F. Islamic Historical Writing, Eighth through the Tenth Centuries. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199236428.003.0013.

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This chapter discusses how the remarkable achievement of Al Tabari — a young Arab scholar — says something about both his exceptional abilities and energies and the context in which he wrote. His primary education took place against the backdrop of the so-called mihna, a period of over twenty years when a succession of caliphs attempted to impose a measure of theological uniformity through persuasion and coercion. Meanwhile, political and social turbulence at the centre of the polity resulted in the splintering off of provinces that had earlier paid regular tribute to the capitals in Syria and

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Choueiri, Youssef M. Arab Historical Writing. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199225996.003.0025.

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This chapter traces the principal historiographical developments in the Arab world since 1945. It is divided into two major parts. The first part deals with the period extending from 1945 to 1970. During this period the discourse of either socialism or nationalism permeated most historical writings. The second part presents the various attempts made to decolonize, rewrite, or theorize history throughout the Arab world. The chapter then shows how in the various states of the Arabic world—some but not all of which have become fundamentalist Islamic regimes—Western models continued to be followed

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Conrad, Lawrence I., Fred M. Donner, and Abd al-Aziz Duri. Rise of Historical Writing among the Arabs. Princeton University Press, 2016.

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Conrad, Lawrence I., Abd Al-Aziz Duri, and Fred M. Donner. Rise of Historical Writing among the Arabs. Princeton University Press, 2014.

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Duri, Abd Al-Aziz, and Fred M. Donner. Rise of Historical Writing among the Arabs. Princeton University Press, 2014.

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Salaymeh, Lena. Historical Research On Islamic Law. Edited by Markus D. Dubber and Christopher Tomlins. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198794356.013.39.

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This chapter provides a partial sketch of recent Islamic legal historiography in the West, with modest suggestions for future research. It suggests that historical research on Islamic law is a burgeoning field facing many of the political and normative challenges of scholarship in Islamic studies more generally. It would behove this field to confront these challenges more directly both by acknowledging them and by recognizing how they influence the contemporary writing of historiography. In turn, it is important to resist allowing contemporary politics to dictate the borders and content of his

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Urquízar-Herrera, Antonio. Historical Dislocation and Antiquarian Appropriation. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198797456.003.0005.

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Chapter 4 provides a general explanation of the early modern creation of an antiquarian historical interpretation framework for Islamic buildings. Seventeenth-century Rodrigo Caro’s description of Seville ‘Arab stones’, included in his book Antigüedades y principado de la ilustríssima ciudad de Sevilla (1634), provides a valuable example that is used to introduce this historiographical turn. Upon this case, the antiquarian treatment of Spanish Islamic buildings is compared with other contemporary genres of writing dealing with Islamic architecture (traveller’s books, pilgrims’ books, geographi

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Urquízar-Herrera, Antonio. The Foundations of an Antiquarian Literature for Islamic Architecture. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198797456.003.0006.

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Chapter 5 explores the codification of antiquarian writing in Spain in its original form as expressed by Ambrosio de Morales in Las Antigüedades de las ciudades de España (1575), and particularly it considers the consequences of the inclusion of Córdoba Mosque and Madinat al-Zahra in this commentary. The terms of the description and Morales’ use of antiquarian tools are analyzed. In addition, the chapter deals with the interesting methodological debate Morales’ writings gave rise (Pedro Díaz de Ribas, Gregorio López Madera, Alonso Morgado, among others) to around the use of antiquarian tools i

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Borrut, Antoine. The Future of the Past. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190498931.003.0009.

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Writing the history of the first centuries of Islam poses thorny methodological problems, because our knowledge rests upon narrative sources produced later in Abbasid Iraq. The creation of an “official” version of the early Islamic past (i.e., a vulgate), composed contemporarily with the consolidation of Abbasid authority in the Middle East, was not the first attempt by Muslims to write about their origins. This Abbasid-era version succeeded when previous efforts vanished, or were reshaped, in rewritings and enshrined as the “official” version of Islamic sacred history. Attempts to impose diff

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Urquízar-Herrera, Antonio. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198797456.003.0001.

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This introductory chapter opens with the case study of the amendments that the historian Ambrosio de Morales introduced in the manuscript version of his core book Las Antigüedades de las ciudades de España (1575) before sending it to print. The changes in the description of Córdoba Mosque reveal the conflictive status of Islamic architecture in the Spanish historical writing of the time. Upon this example the subject of Admiration and Awe is introduced through three angles: the connection of the topic of the interpretation of Islamic monuments to sixteenth and seventeenth historiographical bui

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Quadri, Junaid. Transformations of Tradition. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190077044.001.0001.

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This book is a study of the Muslim world’s entanglement with colonial modernity. More specifically, it is an historical examination of the development of the long-standing, indigenous tradition of learning and praxis known as Islamic law (shariʿa, fiqh) as a result of its imbalanced interaction with new European modes of knowing during, and in the immediate aftermath of, the colonial experience. Drawing upon the writings of jurist-scholars from the Ḥanafī school of law writing in Cairo, Kazan, Lucknow, Baghdad, and Istanbul, Transformations of Tradition reveals several central shifts in Islami

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Hirschler, Konrad. Islam: The Arabic and Persian Traditions, Eleventh–Fifteenth Centuries. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199236428.003.0014.

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This chapter deals with how the Islamic historical writing of the Middle Period developed directly from the early Islamic tradition, and its legacy remained deeply inscribed into the ways history was written and represented between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries. However, as historians started to develop new styles and new genres, they turned to previously neglected aspects of the past, their social profile changed, and the writing of history became a more self-conscious, and to some degree self-confident, cultural practice. Most importantly, those issues that had motivated earlier histo

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Urquízar-Herrera, Antonio. Admiration and Awe. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198797456.001.0001.

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This book offers the first systematic analysis of the cultural and religious appropriation of Andalusian architecture by Spanish historians during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Early Modern Spain was left with a significant Islamic heritage: Córdoba Mosque had been turned into a cathedral, in Seville the Aljama Mosque’s minaret was transformed into a Christian bell tower, and Granada Alhambra had become a Renaissance palace. To date this process of Christian appropriation has frequently been discussed as a phenomenon of hybridisation. However, during that period the construction of

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Tiburcio, Alberto. Muslim-Christian Polemics in Safavid Iran. Edinburgh University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474440462.001.0001.

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This book is a study on the history of polemical exchanges between Catholic missionaries and Muslim ʿulama in Safavid Iran. The book is centred around the figure of ʿAli Quli Jadid al-Islam, a Portuguese missionary who embraced Islam and worked as a court translator for Shah Sultan Husayn. The book explores the context in which he worked, focusing on broader conditions of Muslim-Christian relations in Iran, and examining his interreligious polemical writings. The latter, conceived in response to cycles of polemics linking Iran to Rome and Mughal India, adapted the historical conventions of pol

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Stern, Karen B. Writing on the Wall. Princeton University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691161334.001.0001.

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Few direct clues exist to the everyday lives and beliefs of ordinary Jews in antiquity. Prevailing perspectives on ancient Jewish life have been shaped largely by the voices of intellectual and social elites, preserved in the writings of Philo and Josephus and the rabbinic texts of the Mishnah and Talmud. Commissioned art, architecture, and formal inscriptions displayed on tombs and synagogues equally reflect the sensibilities of their influential patrons. The perspectives and sentiments of nonelite Jews, by contrast, have mostly disappeared from the historical record. Focusing on these forgot

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Ibrahim, Ayman S. Conversion to Islam. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197530719.001.0001.

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Why did non-Muslims convert to Islam during Muhammad’s life and under his immediate successors? How did Muslim historians portray these conversions? Why did their portrayals differ significantly? To what extent were their portrayals influenced by their time of writing, religious inclinations, and political affiliations? These are the fundamental questions that drive this study. Relying on numerous works, including primary sources from over a hundred classical Muslim historians, this investigation is the first scholarly study to detect, trace, and analyze conversion themes in early Muslim histo

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Snow, Nancy E., ed. The Oxford Handbook of Virtue. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199385195.001.0001.

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This volume provides a representative overview of philosophical work on virtue. It is divided into seven parts: conceptualizations of virtue, historical and religious accounts, contemporary virtue ethics and theories of virtue, central concepts and issues, critical examinations, applied virtue ethics, and virtue epistemology. Forty-two chapters by distinguished contributors offer insights and directions for further research. The volume is unique in bringing together work on virtue ethics and virtue epistemology, thereby providing an overview of the most recent thinking on virtue in the field o

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Hernandez, Rebecca. The Legal Thought of Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198805939.001.0001.

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This book offers a new theoretical perspective on the thought of the great fifteenth-century Egyptian polymath, Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī (d. 1505). In spite of the enormous popularity that al-Suyūṭī’s works continue to enjoy amongst scholars and students in the Muslim world, he remains underappreciated by western academia. This project contributes to the fields of Mamluk Studies, Islamic Studies, and Middle Eastern Studies not only an interdisciplinary analysis of al-Suyūṭī’s legal writing within its historical context, but also a reflection on the legacy of the medieval jurist to modern debates

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Idris, Murad. Policing Humanity. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190658014.003.0009.

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This chapter examines the opposition between productive war and purposeless violence through Immanuel Kant’s and Sayyid Quṭb’s writings on peace. Kant criticizes colonialism, but he passively sanctions its historical structures, and his ambiguities about intervention and statehood open to imperial action. Kant’s discussions of Arabian Bedouins, political economy, and hospitality, and his construction of the globe through imagery drawn from Orientalism, reframe how his peace plan produces an unjust enemy. Meanwhile, Quṭb’s theorizations of empire and postcolonialism diagnose Euro-American empir

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Silverstein, Adam J. Esther and Ancient Persian Storytelling. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198797227.003.0006.

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This chapter argues that both the Hebrew and the Greek versions of Esther, as well as some ancient midrashim on the story, belonged to an ancient Persian storytelling context. Scholars have shown that Esther can be contextualized—historically or literarily—with reference to ancient Greek writings on Persia. In this chapter, it is shown that ancient Persian stories, which are preserved in Islamic-era texts, are just as important for the contextualization of Esther. Moreover, we revisit de Goeje’s theory regarding the possible relationship between Esther and the prologue of the 1001 Nights, and

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Silverstein, Adam J. Veiling Esther, Unveiling Her Story. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198797227.001.0001.

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This book examines the ways in which the biblical book of Esther was read, understood, and used in Muslim lands, from ancient to modern times. It zeroes-in on a selection of case studies, covering works from various periods and regions of the Muslim world, including the Qur’an, premodern historical chronicles and literary works, the writings of a nineteenth-century Shia feminist, a twentieth-century Iranian dictionary, and others. These case studies demonstrate that Muslim sources contain valuable materials on Esther, which shed light both on the Esther story itself and on the Muslim peoples a

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Penn, Michael Philip. When Christians First Met Muslims: A Sourcebook of the Earliest Syriac Writings on Islam. University of California Press, 2015.

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Penn, Michael Philip. When Christians First Met Muslims: A Sourcebook of the Earliest Syriac Writings on Islam. University of California Press, 2015.

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When Christians first met Muslims: A sourcebook of the earliest Syriac writings on Islam. University of California Press, 2015.

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Scalenghe, Sara. Disability in the Premodern Arab World. Edited by Michael Rembis, Catherine Kudlick, and Kim E. Nielsen. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190234959.013.5.

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Arab Sunni Muslim discourses and experiences of physical and sensory impairments are surveyed from the rise of Islam in the seventh century until about 1800. The geographical focus of this discussion, which is primarily a function of the available scholarship, is Egypt and Greater Syria, the area that corresponds roughly to today’s Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Israel and the Palestinian territories. Impairments appear frequently in premodern Arabic writings, especially in literature, chronicles, biographies and autobiographies, legal texts, and medical compendia, leaving the reader with the imp

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Finkel, Andrew. Turkey. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/wentk/9780199733057.001.0001.

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Turkey occupies a strategic position in today's world: culturally, historically, and geographically, it is the link between Islam and Western democracy, between Europe and the Middle East. The only predominantly Muslim nation to be a member of NATO and an ally of Israel, Turkey straddles both Europe and Asia. And it boasts an economy larger than any of the states that have joined the EU in recent years--Istanbul alone has a bigger economy than that of Hungary or the Czech Republic--with pipelines that carry much of the world's oil and gas. Andrew Finkel has spent twenty years in Turkey writing

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Schneider, Axel, and Daniel Woolf. Editors’ Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199225996.003.0001.

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This concluding volume in The Oxford History of Historical Writing covers a very small period in comparison with some of its companions: barely two‐thirds of a century. As with the other volumes, the boundary dates are both fluid and imprecise: 1945 is a watershed date for the world in the sense that it marked the end of the Second World War and the division of Europe into a Western and an Eastern bloc. Elsewhere in the world, other dates are more meaningful: for China, 1949 is the critical year; and in much of Africa the decolonization of the 1950s and 1960s marked a significant rupture with

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Nelson, Derek R., and Paul R. Hinlicky, eds. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Martin Luther. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acref/9780190461843.001.0001.

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125 scholarly articlesThe Oxford Encyclopedia of Martin Luther is a collaboration of the leading scholars in the field of Reformation research and the thought, life, and legacy of influence – for good and for ill – of Martin Luther. In 2017 the world marks 500 years since the beginning of the public work of Luther, whose protest against corrupt practices and the way theology was taught captured Europe’s attention from 1517 onward.Comprising 125 extensive articles, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Martin Luther examines:• the contexts that shaped his social and intellectual world, such as previous th

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