UID:
almafu_9958354029202883
Format:
1 online resource (476p.)
ISBN:
9783110313789
Series Statement:
Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East ; 31
Content:
This work treats in one volume the most important fields in Islamic studies: Persian literature and philology; Islamic history and historiography; Arabic literature and philology; and Islamic philosophy and jurisprudence. The essays are representative of the fields in which one of the most illustrious Arabists and Persianists in the world, Ahmad Mahdavi Damgani, has been an indispensible contributor for close to 65 years.
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Frontmatter --
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Acknowledgments --
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Contents --
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Introduction --
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Tabula Gratulatoria --
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Selected Bibliography of Professor Ahmad Mahdavi Damghani --
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Part I: Classical Persian Literature and Philology --
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Moving toward the Modern: The Nationalist Imagery of Malik al‑Shu‘arā Bahār --
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Old Iranian Motifs in Vīs o Rāmīn --
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Astronomical Poems from the “Four Corners” of Persia (c. 1000–1500 CE) --
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Part II: Classical Arabic Literature and Philology --
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Moving from Persian to Arabic --
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The Iconic Sībawayh --
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Naming Shuʿūbīs --
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Part III: Islamic Theology, Islamic Jurisprudence and Islamic Philosophy --
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Prioritizing Metaphysics over Epistemology: Divine Justice (‘Adl) and Human Reason (‘Aql) in al-Shaykh al-Mufīd’s Theology --
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Returning to God through His Names: Cosmology and Dhikr in a Fourteenth-Century Sufi Treatise --
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Friendship in Islamic Ethical Philosophy --
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The Poetic Syllogism: Foray into an Inductive Research Proposal --
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The Scattered and the Gathered: Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī’s Infrequently Asked Questions --
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‘Aql (Reason) in Modern Shiite Thought: The Example of Muḥammad Jawād Maghniyya (1904–79) --
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Ṭūsī Did Not “Opt Out”: Shiite Jurisprudence and the Solidification of the Stoning Punishment in the Islamic Legal Tradition --
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ʿAlī’s Contemplations on this World and the Hereafter in the Context of His Life and Times --
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Part IV: Islamic History and Historiography --
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Al-ʿAṭṭāf b. Sufyān and Abbasid Imperialism --
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An Early Arabic Conversion Story: The Case of al-Faḍl b. Sahl --
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A Translation of the Prolegomena to Żiyāʾ al-Dīn Baranī’s Tārīkh-i Fīrūzshāhī --
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Index of Names --
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Index of Geographical Places
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110313727
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.1515/9783110313789
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110313789
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