Brill Classics in Islam

Series · 6 books · 1883-2014

By Ignaz Goldziher, Franz Rosenthal, S.D. Goitein, and more

Books in series

Mekka, in de tweede helft van de negentiende eeuw; Schetsen uit het dagelijks leven

1997

Mekka, in de tweede helft van de negentiende eeuw : schetsen uit het dagelijks leven

Knowledge Triumphant

The Concept of Knowledge in Medieval Islam

2006

In Knowledge Triumphant, Franz Rosenthal observes that the Islamic civilization is one that is essentially characterized by knowledge ('ilm), for ''ilm is one of those concepts that have dominated Islam and given Muslim civilization its distinctive shape and complexion.

The Ẓāhirīs

Their Doctrine and Their History. A Contribution to the History of Islamic Theology

1883

Ignaz Goldziher wrote his book Die Zahiriten in 1883. The English translation of this standard work on Islamic jurisprudence appeared in 1971. The book has been in print ever since. This new edition in the Brill Classics in Islam series shows that The hir's has not lost any of its actuality. The individual that adheres to the principles of madhhab al- hir, the Islamic legal school, is called hir?. Goldziher gives an extensive presentation of the hir?te school, its doctrine and the position of its representatives within orthodox Islam. hirism accepts only the facts clearly revealed by sensible, rational and linguistic intuitions, controlled and corroborated by Qur nic revelation. This history of Islamic theology sheds light on the hir?te legal interpretation vis-a-vis other legal schools and gives an interesting insight in questions like are all prescriptions and prohibitions in Islamic law commanded or forbidden? "

Studies in Islamic History and Institutions

1997

Goitein s selection of studies dealing with Islamic history, religion, and institutions offers a wide-ranging, sensitive, and highly original introduction to a civilization by one who lived all his life studying and observing Islam. Eschewing simplistic notions, Goitein poses fundamental questions vis- -vis Muslim religious thought and practice, the evolution of the Islamic state in the early Middle Ages, the characteristic facets of the civilization, and the periodization of its history. Although all but one of the essays deal with the first seven centuries of Islamic history, Goitein frequently draws important connections between the past and the present. A professional educator as well as researcher and scholar, Goitein with a clarity and orderliness makes his subtly reasoned conclusions accessible to students and scholars alike. He provides the reader with an opportunity to acquaint himself not only with the results of research, but also with the methods by which they were obtained. With a new foreword by Norman A. Stillman. Contents: Preliminary Material I. The Four Faces Of Islam II. The Intermediate Civilization/The Hellenic Heritage In Islam III. Prayer In Islam IV. Ramadan, The Muslim Month Of Fasting, Its Early Development And Religious Meaning V. The Origin And Nature Of The Muslim Friday Worship VI. The Birth-Hour Of Muslim Law VII. The Sanctity Of Jerusalem And Palestine In Early Islam VIII. A Turning-Point In The History Of The Muslim State IX. The Origin Of The Vizierate And Its True Character Appendix X. Attitudes Towards Government In Islam And Judaism XI. The Rise Of The Middle-Eastern Bourgeoisie In Early Islamic Times XII. The Mentality Of The Middle Class In Medieval Islam XIII. The Working People Of The Mediterranean Area During The High Middle Ages XIV. The Documents Of The Cairo Geniza As A Source For Islamic History Appendix XV. The Unity Of The Mediterranean World In The "Middle" Middle Ages XVI. Medieval Tunisia The Hub Of The Mediterranean XVII. Letters And Documents On The India Trade In Medieval Times XVIII. The Beginnings of the Kārim Merchants and the Nature of their Organization XIX. The Present Day Arabic Proverb As A Testimony To The Social History Of The Middle East Index And Glossary Brill Classics In Islam

Erken İslam'da Mizah

1976

Erken İslam'da Mizah, esas olarak Hicri II./Miladi VIII. yy.'da yaşadığı sanılan ünlü bir Arap mizahçısı Eş'eb hakkında bir monografi denemesidir. Franz Rosenthal, bu kitabında İslam mizahına ait çalışmaların 1950'lere dek olan gelişimini incelediği bir bölümle, Eş'eb'e mal edilen 161 hikayeyi içeren bir metin çevirisini eklemiştir. Rosenthal, bu metinlerden hareketle Eş'eb döneminin Medinesi'nin ve daha genel olarak Arap dünyasının sosyal-kültürel bir tasvirini de yapmaya çalışmıştır. Kitap, İslam dünyasında gülme konusundaki kuramların kısaca incelendiği bir bölümle sona eriyor. Kendi alanında yazılmış sınırlı yapıtlardan biri.

Man Versus Society in Medieval Islam

2014

"Man versus Society in Medieval Islam" brings together all the monographs and articles by Franz Rosenthal (1914-2003) in which he investigates the tensions and conflicts that existed between individuals and society as the focus of his study of Muslim social history.

Authors

Ignaz Goldziher

Author · 4 books

Ignác Goldziher was a Hungarian orientalist and scholar of Islam. Along with the German Theodore Nöldeke and the Dutch Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, he is considered the founder of modern Islamic studies in Europe. He represented the Hungarian government and the Academy of Sciences at numerous international congresses, and in 1889 he received the large gold medal at the Stockholm Oriental Congress. His eminence in the sphere of scholarship was due primarily to his careful investigation of pre-Islamic and Islamic law, tradition, religion and poetry, in connection with which he published a large number of treatises, review articles and essays contributed to the collections of the Hungarian Academy. Most of his scholarly works are still considered relevant. And in addition to his scholarly works, Goldziher kept a relatively personal record of his reflections, travel records and daily records. This journal was later published in German as Tagebuch. In his numerous books and articles, he sought to find the origins of Islamic doctrines and rituals in the practices of other cultures. In doing so, he posited that Islam continuously developed as a civilization, importing and exporting ideas.

Franz Rosenthal

Author · 7 books

Rosenthal was born in Berlin, Germany into a Jewish family, on August 31, 1914, and was the second son of Kurt W. Rosenthal, a flour merchant, and Elsa Rosenthal (née Kirschstein). He entered the University of Berlin in 1932, where he studied classics and oriental languages and civilizations. His teachers were Carl Becker (1876–1933), Richard Walzer (1900–75), and Hans Heinrich Schaeder (1896–1957). He received his Ph.D. in 1935 with a dissertation, supervised by Schaeder, on Palmyrenian inscriptions (Die Sprache der Palmyränischen Inschriften). After teaching for a year in Florence, Italy, he became instructor at the Lehranstalt (formerly Hochschule) für die Wissenschaft des Judentums, a rabbinical seminary in Berlin. In 1938, he completed his history of Aramaic studies, which was awarded the Lidzbarski Medal and Prize from the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft. The prize money was withheld from him because he was Jewish, yet on Schaeder's initiative, he was given a prize medal in gold to compensate him for the loss. Shortly after the infamous Kristallnacht, Rosenthal left Germany in December 1938 and went to Sweden, where he was invited through the offices of the Swedish historian of religions H.S. Nyberg (1889–1974). From there he went to England, where he arrived in April 1939, and eventually came to the United States in 1940, having received an invitation to join the faculty of the Hebrew Union College (HUC) in Cincinnati, Ohio. He became a US citizen in 1943 and during the war worked on translations from Arabic for the Office of Strategic Services in Washington, D.C. Following the war, he returned to academia, first at HUC and then in 1948 moved to the University of Pennsylvania. In 1956, he was appointed the Louis M. Rabinowitz Professor of Semitic Languages at Yale. He became a Sterling Professor in 1967 and emeritus in 1985. Professor Rosenthal was a prolific and highly accomplished scholar who contributed much to the development of source-critical studies in Arabic in the US. His publications range from a monograph on Humor in Early Islam to a three-volume annotated translation of the Muqaddimah of Ibn Khaldun to a Grammar of Biblical Aramaic. For his translation of the Muqaddimah, he traveled to Istanbul and studied the manuscript there, among them Ibn Khaldun's autograph copy. His 1952 History of Muslim Historiography was the first study of this enormous subject. He wrote extensively on Islamic civilization, including The Muslim Concept of Freedom, The Classical Heritage in Islam, The Herb: Hashish versus Medieval Muslim Society, Gambling in Islam, On Suicide in Islam and Sweeter Than Hope: Complaint and Hope in Medieval Islam, as well as three volumes of collected essays and two volumes of translations from the history of the medieval Persian historian al-Tabari, Knowledge Triumphant: The Concept of Knowledge in Medieval Islam (Leiden: EJ. Brill, 1970). Rosenthal continued to publish in German and in English. His books have been translated into Arabic, Russian, and Turkish.

S.D. Goitein

Author · 3 books

Shelomo Dov Goitein, who was associated with the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University at the time of his death in 1985, was honored with the Haskins Medal of the Medieval Society and the National Jewish Book Award for A Mediterranean Society. Teacher, administrator, and prolific writer, he was a preeminent scholar in the areas of Jewish-Arab relations and Islamic culture.

Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje

Author · 3 books

Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje was a Dutch scholar of Oriental cultures and languages and advisor on native affairs to the colonial government of the Dutch East Indies (present-day Indonesia).