Islamic world, Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Islamic world, Middle Eastern history
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Nasrin Askari deposited Licit Magic – GlobalLit Working Papers 17. Persian Literary Criticism in India: Khān-i Ārzū’s Critique of Ḥazīn’s Poetry in the group Islamicate Studies on Humanities Commons 1 week, 3 days ago
In the late 17th and early 18th centuries, when a new style of Persian poetry was developing in the Persianate world, several erudite literary critics appeared in India, whose meticulous critiques of Persian poetry was unprecedented in the long history of Persian literature. A close study of the works produced by these critics reveals their vast…[Read more]
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Jake Benson started the topic The Archived Chester Beatty Library Islamic Seals Database in the discussion Islamicate Studies on Humanities Commons 1 month, 2 weeks ago
The Archived Chester Beatty Library Islamic Seals Database:
Screen Shots and Tips For Access
Jake Benson, Research Associate for Persian Manuscripts
John Rylands Research Institute and Library
University of Manchester
22 April 2023
Since the Chester Beatty Library reformatted its website in 2019, it regrettably removed the Islamic Seal Database,…[Read more] -
Kristof D'hulster deposited Licit Magic – GlobalLit Working Papers 16. Ziya Pasha, Reformist and/or Reactionary? Translations from the Hürriyet & Ḫarābāt in the group Islamicate Studies on Humanities Commons 2 months, 2 weeks ago
This working paper presents a full and annotated translation of two titles by 19th-century Ottoman author-cum-statesman Ziya Pasha: (1) a newspaper article written in exile, modern in terms of format and reformist in terms of tenor and providing an staunch and iconoclastic critique of Ottoman language and literature, and (2) the versified preface…[Read more]
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Jake Benson started the topic Group for Arabic script manuscripts in the discussion Islamicate Studies on Humanities Commons 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Greetings All,
For those interested, please join our new group devoted to Arabic script manuscripts, to share images, consult with colleagues on codicology, readings, deciphering notations and seal impressions, etc. https://hcommons.org/groups/arabic-script-manuscripts/
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Reza Rezaie Khanghah deposited The Advent Of Imam Mahdi As The Avenger Of Imam Hussein in the group Islamicate Studies on Humanities Commons 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Purpose: This article attempts to deal with the events that took place during the advent (reappearance) of Imam Mahdi, the Savior of all the worlds. In fact, in this article, we will discuss the forces that will join him when the Imam of the time appears, and above all, with Imam Hussein and how globalization can pave the way for Imam Mahdi’s…[Read more]
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Reza Rezaie Khanghah deposited Who Is Imam Mahdi, Prophesied In Other Religions, And From Holy Fatima lineage? in the group Islamicate Studies on Humanities Commons 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Purpose: In this article, we will discuss the narrations and prophecies that exist in Islam, both in Shia, Sunni and other religions regarding Imam Mahdi. This article also attempts to deal with Holy Fatima and her characteristics. Also, we will show that Imam Mahdi is mentioned not only in other religions but also in other books. Also, this…[Read more]
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Reza Rezaie Khanghah deposited Imam Mahdi And Jesus Christ Role In Establishing The Divine Government in the group Islamicate Studies on Humanities Commons 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Purpose: This article covers the events and incidents predicted before and after the appearance of Imam Mahdi and Jesus Christ. This article seeks to address the facts and inform you about the system of government of Imam Mahdi and Jesus Christ. Also, miracles and the titles of Imam Mahdi are other topics that were mentioned in this article. Also,…[Read more]
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Reza Rezaie Khanghah deposited Imam Mahdi, Antichrist Or A Promised Saviour Besides Jesus Christ? in the group Islamicate Studies on Humanities Commons 4 months, 3 weeks ago
Purpose: In this article, we discussed whether Imam Mahdi is an Antichrist or a Promised Saviour Besides Jesus Christ and other topics. This article attempts to deal with the concepts “Occultation”, “Imamat”, “Mahdaviat”, “Mahdism” and Who is Antichrist that prophesied both in Islam and Christianity. Also, this research was conducted to answer and…[Read more]
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Kristof D'hulster deposited Licit Magic – GlobalLit Working Papers 14. A Lion Walks into a Hammam… Mollā Lüṭfī (d. 1495) on Majāz/Allegory in the group Islamicate Studies on Humanities Commons 4 months, 3 weeks ago
A discussion of majāz or allegory that is commonly ascribed to the 15th-century Ottoman polygraph Mollā Lüṭfī and that builds on the works of al-Sakkākī and al-Qazwīnī.
The author gives two alternative overarching classifications: a linguistic vs. cognitive allegory classification, and a metaphor vs. hypallage classification that is supplemen…[Read more] -
Salam Rassi deposited Scribal and Commentary Traditions at the Dawn of Print: The Manuscripts of the Near Eastern School of Theology as an Archive of the Early Nahḍa in the group Islamicate Studies on Humanities Commons 5 months ago
This article focuses on the Arabic manuscript collection of the Near Eastern School of Theology (NEST). The NEST library contains several manuscripts that were donated, copied, or read by important Christian-born intellectuals of the nahḍa. Given these men’s role in the emergence of modern publishing in the Middle East, I examine the int…[Read more]
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Salam Rassi deposited Christian Thought in the Medieval Islamicate World: ʿAbdīshōʿ of Nisibis and the Apologetic Tradition in the group Islamicate Studies on Humanities Commons 5 months ago
This book is the first monograph-length study and intellectual biography of ʿAbdīshōʿ of Nisibis (d. 1318), bishop and polymath of the Church of the East. Focusing on his works of apologetic theology, this study examines the intellectual strategies he employs to justify Christianity against Muslim (and to a lesser extent Jewish) criticisms. Bet…[Read more]
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Alexandre Roberts deposited Heretics, Dissidents, and Society: Narrating the Trial of John bar ʿAbdun in the group Islamicate Studies on Humanities Commons 6 months, 3 weeks ago
This article analyzes narratives of a single series of eleventh-century events, the trial of Syrian Miaphysite (Jacobite) patriarch John bar ʿAbdun.
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Kristof D'hulster deposited Licit Magic – GlobalLit Working Papers 12. “The World’s Richest yet Most Unfortunate Language” – Four Texts by Abdurrauf Fitrat on Uzbek Language & Literature in the group Islamicate Studies on Humanities Commons 10 months, 2 weeks ago
This working paper presents in full translation four texts of the Uzbek early 20th-century jadid reformist Abdurrauf Fitrat. Identifying educational reform as the main key to progress, he advocated for the emancipation and nationalisation of the Chaghatay/Uzbek language as a tool to educate the masses rather than to serve the interests of a…[Read more]
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Aqil Visram started the topic Open Library Courses in Islamic Studies in the discussion Islamicate Studies on Humanities Commons 10 months, 3 weeks ago
Dear members of the Islamicate Studies group,
Recently, the Marvel Cinematic Universe launched its inaugural Muslim superhero series, Ms. Marvel, starring Iman Vellani. According to Forbes, Ms. Marvel “is the highest scoring Disney Plus Marvel series ever.” I was very excited by this as I’m an undergraduate student at the University of Toronto…[Read more]
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Alexandre Roberts deposited Byzantine-Islamic Scientific Culture in the Astronomical Diagrams of Chioniades on John of Damascus in the group Islamicate Studies on Humanities Commons 11 months ago
Scientific diagrams could and did appear in unexpected places. This essay discusses such an example: the diagrams that the thirteenth- to fourteenth-century scholar George-Gregory Chioniades added to a manuscript of John of Damascus’s Fountain of Knowledge as part of his commentary on the text. I argue that the diagrams were a very important, if…[Read more]
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Kristof D'hulster deposited Licit Magic – GlobalLit Working Papers 11. Sitting in on an Ottoman Madrasa Course in Rhetoric. Gürānī’s Interlinear Translation-cum-Commentary of the Preface of al-Qazwīni’s Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ in the group Islamicate Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year ago
This working paper presents a 16th- or 17th-century Ottoman translation-cum-commentary of the preface and introduction of one of the classics of Islamicate rhetoric, al-Qazwīnī’s Talkhīṣ al-Miftāḥ (The Key’s Digest), a 14th-century work on rhetoric based on al-Sakkākī’s 13th-century seminal Miftāḥ al-ʿUlūm (The Key of Sciences). This part…[Read more]
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Nick Posegay deposited Searching for the Last Genizah Fragment in Late Ottoman Cairo: A Material Survey of Egyptian Jewish Literary Culture in the group Islamicate Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year ago
The Cairo Genizah is well known as a repository for hundreds of thousands of manuscripts that the Jewish residents of Fustat (Old Cairo) produced and consumed in the premodern period. Foreign “collectors” acquired most of these manuscripts for European libraries in the second half of the nineteenth century, with the majority arriving at the Cam…[Read more]
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Kristof D'hulster deposited Licit Magic – GlobalLit Working Papers 9. Sugary Gratitude, Strolling Cypresses, Clouds Pouring Grass. Ḥalīmī on Paranomasia, Simile, and Metonymy in the group Islamicate Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 2 months ago
The translation of a short treatise on paranomasia, simile, and metonymy, by the foremost Persian-Turkish lexicographer of the 15th century, Lütfu’llāh el–Ḥalīmī. The text combines a rather dense and elliptic prose style with a remarkably lucid and clear-cut typology of seven types of tajnīs, seven types of tashbīh, and nine types of majāz, ofte…[Read more]
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Behnam M. Fomeshi deposited Roger Sedarat. Emerson in Iran: The American Appropriation of Persian Poetry in the group Islamicate Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 4 months ago
Through the case of Emerson’s appropriation of Persian poetry this volume provides a thought-provoking example of how the literary founding father of a nation is cosmopolitan and receptive of foreign cultures in what might seem a purely “nationalistic” agenda. It will appeal to those in the field of Persian literature, comparative liter…[Read more]
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Kristof D'hulster deposited Licit Magic – GlobalLit Working Papers 8. Rūmī’s Drivel, Sayyids’ Chicanery, Poets’ Doggerel. Three Azerbaijani Texts by Ākhūnd-Zāde in the group Islamicate Studies on Humanities Commons 1 year, 5 months ago
In celebration of the tenth anniversary of the second centennial of Ākhūndzade’s birth, three Azerbaijani texts in translation by the Molière of Azerbaijan. The texts—one poem, one letter, and one prose text—reflect Ākhūndzāde’s sharp, sometimes vitriolic, take on Rūmī ’s teaching (a dangerous, incomprehensible word jumble), most poetry and po…[Read more]
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