The Qur'ān

Karim Samji

• Livre relié | Anglais | Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East | n° 32
• The corpus coranicum eludes familiar categories and resists strict labels. No doubt the threads woven into the fabric are exceptionally textured, vari... Savoir plus

The Reach of Empire

• Livre relié | Anglais | Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East | n° 37
• How could an empire stretching from the Hindukush to the Atlantic be governed for about 300 years, from ca. 650 to the 950s? How far did the geographi... Savoir plus

L'Ibadisme Dans Les Sociétés de l'Islam Médiéval

• Livre relié | Français | Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East | n° 33
• The history of Ibadism is still marginalized in Islamic studies, while there has been a significant increase of the available sources from Oman and No... Savoir plus

Greater Khorasan

• Livre relié | Anglais | Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East | n° 29
• The modern sense of "Greater Khorasan" today corresponds to a territory which not only comprises the region in the east of Iran but also, beyond Irani... Savoir plus

Islamic Law in Early Modern Iran

Zahir Bhalloo

• Livre relié | Anglais | Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East | n° 48
• Historical studies on the practice of Islamic law ( sharīʿa ) tend to focus on practice in a Sunni setting during the Mamluk or Ottoman periods. This ... Savoir plus

Dämonenglaube im Islam

Tobias Nünlist

• Livre relié | Allemand | Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East | n° 28
• Der Glaube an Dämonen (ğinn) ist in islamisch geprägten Gesellschaften weit verbreitet. Da sie sowohl im Koran als auch in den Prophetenworten vielfac... Savoir plus

Le contre-discours coranique

Mehdi Azaiez

• Livre broché | Français | Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East | n° 30
• This book deals with a prominent literary element of the Koran, the "counter-discourse", the citations of opposing voices. This feature of the Koranic... Savoir plus

"The Compassionate and Benevolent" Jewish Ruling Elites in the Medieval Islamicate World

Miriam Frenkel

• Livre broché | Anglais | Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East | n° 39
• This is a monograph about the medieval Jewish community of the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria. Through deep analyses of contemporary historical... Savoir plus

Projecting a New Empire

Eugenio Garosi

• Livre broché | Anglais | Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East | n° 42
• Seventh and eighth-century papyri, inscriptions, and coins constitute the main evidence for the rise of Arabic as a hegemonic language emerging from t... Savoir plus

Essays in Islamic Philology, History, and Philosophy

• Livre relié | Anglais | Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East | n° 31
• The articles in this volume are dedicated to Professor Ahmad Mahdavi Damghani for the breadth and depth of his interests and his influence on those in... Savoir plus

Creation and Contemplation

Julien Decharneux

• Livre broché | Anglais | Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East | n° 47
• In Creation and Contemplation, Julien Decharneux explores the connections between the cosmology of the Qur'ān and various cosmological traditions of L... Savoir plus

Recht und historische Entwicklung der Scharia im Islam

Christian Müller

• Livre relié | Allemand | Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East | n° 46
• Hat die Scharia eine Geschichte? Und welche gesellschaftliche Rolle spielt das Rechtsdenken (fiqh) im Islam? Hierauf bietet dieses Buch fundierte Antw... Savoir plus

Le contre-discours coranique

Mehdi Azaiez

• Livre relié | Français | Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East | n° 30
• This book deals with a prominent literary element of the Koran, the "counter-discourse", the citations of opposing voices. This feature of the Koranic... Savoir plus