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Lives of the prophets
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ISBN: 9004377220 9789004377226 9789004377219 9004377212 Year: 2018 Publisher: Leiden Boston

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In Lives of the Prophets: The Illustrations to Hafiz-i Abru’s “Assembly of Chronicles” Mohamad Reza Ghiasian analyses two extant copies of the Majmaʿ al-tawarikh produced for the Timurid ruler Shahrukh (r. 1405–1447). The first manuscript is kept in Topkapı Palace and the second is widely dispersed. Codicological analysis of these manuscripts not only allows a better understanding of Hafiz-i Abru’s contributions to rewriting earlier history, but has served to identify the existence of a previously unrecognised copy of the Jamiʿ al-tawarikh produced at Rashid al-Din’s scriptorium. Through a meticulous close reading of both text and image, Mohamad Reza Ghiasian convincingly proves that numerous paintings of the dispersed manuscript were painted over the text before its dispersal in the early twentieth century.


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Damascus diary : an inside account of Hafez Al-Assad's peace diplomacy, 1990-2000
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ISBN: 162637080X 1588268632 Year: 2013 Publisher: Boulder, Colorado : Lynne Rienner Publishers,

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Bouthaina Shaaban worked closely with Syria's president Hafez al-Assad from 1990 until the time of his death, serving as both official interpreter and adviser. Her new book, part memoir and part historical account, takes the reader behind the closed doors of the Syrian Presidential Palace to provide uniquely Syrian perceptions of the failed Arab-Israel peace talks. Sharing firsthand stories of relationships (her own and Assad's) with members of the Bush and Clinton administrations, and drawing on previously unavailable minutes and other documents from the Syrian presidential archives, Shaaban takes us from the early Syrian-US engagement in 1990-1991 to the three Assad-Clinton summits in 1994-2000. In the process, she includes intriguing revelations about the Rabin Deposit, the April Understanding on Lebanon, and the 1998 Track II effort with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Bouthaina Shaaban offers the first account of these negotiations to come from a Syrian insider—an essential contribution to our understanding of the enduring conflict in the Middle East.


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Hafiz and his contemporaries : poetry, performance and patronage in fourteenth century Iran
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ISBN: 1838600620 1786735881 1786725886 9781838600624 9781786735881 9781786725882 9781848851443 Year: 2019 Publisher: London, UK ; [London, England] : I.B. Tauris, Bloomsbury Publishing,

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"Despite his towering presence in premodern Persian letters, Shams al-Din Muhammad Hafiz of Shiraz (d. 1390) remains an elusive and opaque character for many. In order to look behind the hyperbole that surrounds Hafiz's poetry and penetrate the quasi-hagiographical film that obscures the poet himself, this book attempts a contextualisation of Hafiz that is at once socio-political, historical, and literary. Here, Hafiz's ghazals (short, monorhyme, broadly amorous lyric poems) are read comparatively against similar texts composed by his less-studied rivals in the hyper competitive, imitative, and profoundly intertextual environment of fourteenth-century Shiraz. By bringing Hafiz's lyric poetry into productive, detailed dialogue with that of the counterhegemonic satirist, 'Ubayd Zakani (d. 1371), and the marginalised Jahan-Malik Khatun (d. after 1391; the most prolific female poet of premodern Iran), our received understanding of this most iconic of stages in the development of the Persian ghazal is disrupted, and new avenues for literary exploration open up. Looking beyond the particular milieu of Shiraz, this study re-assesses Hafiz's place in the Persian poetic canon through reading his poems alongside those produced by professional poets in other major centres of Persian literary activity who enjoyed comparable fame in the fourteenth century. Recognising the aesthetic achievements of his contemporaries does not diminish the splendour of Hafiz's, rather it forces us to accept that Hafiz was but one member of a band of poets who jostled for the limelight in competing, often intersecting, patronage and reception networks that facilitated intense cultural exchange between the cities of post-Mongol Iran and Iraq. Hafiz's ghazals, characterised as they are by conscious and deliberate hybridity, ambiguity, and polysemy, are products of a creative mind bent on experimenting with genre. While in no way seeking to deny the mystical stratum of the Persian ghazal in its fourteenth-century manifestation, this study emphasises the courtly and profane dimensions of the form, and regards Hafiz through a sober lens with keen attention to his dynamic role at the heart of a vibrant poetic community that was at once both fiercely local and boldly cosmopolitan."--Bloomsbury Publishing.


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Goethe's Faust and the Divan of Ḥāfiẓ : Body and Soul in Pursuit of Knowledge and Beauty
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ISBN: 3110661578 311066156X 3110661640 Year: 2019 Publisher: Berlin/Boston De Gruyter

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This book explores the poetic articulations of a shift from a transcendent to an immanent worldview, as reflected in the manner of evaluation of body and soul in Goethe's Faust and Ḥāfiẓ' Divan. Focusing on two lifeworks that illustrate their authors' respective intellectual histories, this cross-genre study goes beyond the textual confines of the two poets' Divans to compare important building blocks of their intellectual worlds. This book explores the poetic articulations of a shift from a transcendent to an immanent worldview, as reflected in the manner of evaluation of body and soul in Goethe's Faust and Ḥāfiẓ' Divan. Focusing on two lifeworks that illustrate their authors' respective intellectual histories, this cross-genre study goes beyond the textual confines of the two poets' Divans to compare their intellectual worlds.

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Literary studies: general --- Literary studies: from c 1900 --- -Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers --- Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500 --- Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge --- German Orientalism. --- Goethe. --- Neoplatonism. --- Sufi Literature. --- Ḥāfiẓ. --- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, --- Ḥāfiẓ, --- Knowledge and learning. --- Abdurakhim Khafiz Khorezmi, --- Hafez, --- Hâfez, --- Hafis, --- Ḥāfiẓ al-Shīrāzī, --- Ḥafīẓ Jaunpūrī, --- Ḥāfiẓ Shīrāzī, --- Hafizê Şîrazî, --- Hafizi Shirazi, --- Ḧafizî Şîrazî, --- Hârezmli Hâfız, --- Ḣofiz Khorazmiĭ, --- Ḣofiz Sheroziĭ, --- Ḣofizi Sherozī, --- Khafiz, --- Khafiz Khorezmi, --- Khorazmiĭ, Abdulraḣim, --- Khorazmiĭ, Ḣofiz, --- Khorazmiĭ, Raḣim, --- Khorezmi, Khafiz, --- Lisānu-l-Ghaib, --- Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad Shīrāzī, --- Shams-ud-Din Mohammed, --- Shamsoddin Mohammad Hafez-e Shirazi, --- Shamsu-d-Dīn Muḥammad-i-Ḥāfiẓ-i-Shīrāzī, --- Shamsuddin Muḣammad Ḣofiz Sheroziĭ, --- Sheroziĭ, Ḣofiz, --- Shirazi, Khafiz, --- Tarjumānu-l-Asrār, --- Ḣofiz, --- Hâfez --- Ḥāfiẓ, Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad, --- حافظ، شمس الدين محمد, --- الشيرازي، حافظ, --- ‏حافظ شيرازى, --- ‏حافظ, --- Muhammad Schams ad-Din Hafis, --- Hafis, Muhammad Schams ad-Din, --- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang --- Goethe --- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von --- Von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang --- von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang --- Hete, Johann Vol'fhanh --- Gete, Iogann Vol'fgang --- ゲーテ --- ゲエテ --- Gete, Volʹfgang --- Ko-tê --- Gede --- Gete, Jogann --- Gette --- Gʹote, Ĭokhan Volʹfgang --- Jūtah, Yūhān Fūlfjānj --- Goethe, J. W. --- Jītī --- Gete, V. --- Koetʻe --- Goetʻe --- Getė, --- Gkaite --- Gitah, Y. Ṿ. --- Goethe, Jan Wolfgan, --- Gëte, Iogann Volʹfgang --- Göte --- Gyoete --- Goethe, W. v. --- Fon-Geteh, Ṿ. --- Geteh, Yohan Ṿolfgang Fon --- -Giteh, Yohan Ṿolfgang Fon --- -Gete, Johan Volfgang --- Hete, Ĭ. V. --- Kēōtʻē, Volfkank --- Katē --- Katē, Yōkān̲ Vulpkēṅk Vān̲ --- Гете, Иоганн Вольфганг --- Qöte, Y. V. --- Qöte, Yohan Volfqanq --- גטה --- גטה, יוהאן וולפגנג פון, --- גטה, י.ו --- גיתה --- גיתה, יוהאן וולפאנג פון --- גיתה, יוהאן וולפגנג פון, --- גיתה, יוהן וולפגאנג וון, --- גיתה, יוהן וולפגנג פון, --- גיתה, יוהן וולפגנג, --- געטהע --- געטהע, יאהאן וואלפגאנג --- געטהע, יאהאן וואלפגאנג פון, --- געטהע, יאהאן װאלפגאנג, --- געטהע, י. וו --- געטהע, י. וו. פאן --- געטהע, י. װ., --- געטהע, י.װ --- געטע, װ.פ --- גתה, וו --- גתה, יוהן וולפגאנג ון, --- גתה, יוהן וולפגנג --- י. וו. געטהע --- جوته --- گوته، يوهان ولفگانگ ون --- 歌德,


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Gender and Muslim construction of exegetical authority
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ISBN: 9789004269354 9004269355 9789004294448 9004294449 Year: 2015 Volume: 117 Publisher: Leiden Boston

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A number of classical Sunnī Quran commentaries quote several different types of exegetical materials attributed to a few female figures from the first century A.H/seventh century C.E.—āthār, ḥadīths, legal opinions and variant readings, as well as lines of poetry. In Gender and Muslim Constructions of Exegetical Authority , Aisha Geissinger provides a comprehensive introduction to such quotations, and offers an analysis of their place and significance within the pre-modern genre of Quran commentary, demonstrating that key hermeneutical concepts in classical quranic exegesis ( tafsīr ) are gendered. Bringing together materials which have not previously been examined in detail and utilising gender as a lens through which to study them, this work provides a new approach to the study of pre-modern tafsīr .

The Development of Early Sunnite ḥadīth Criticism
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ISBN: 9004118055 9004453245 9789004118058 9789004453241 Year: 2001 Volume: 38 Publisher: Leiden Boston

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ḥadīth are the documents recording the words and actions of the Prophet Muḥammad. Originally an enormous and amorphous corpus, Muslim scholars of the third/ninth century separated the ḥadīth they regarded as true from those they held to be forgeries, producing collection of ḥadīth which still command the respect of Muslims today. Ibn Abī ḥātim al-Rāzī (240/854-327/938) was one of the most prominent exponents and practitioners of ḥadīth criticism. He left a copious written legacy, including his famous Taqdima , a biographical dictionary of the early ḥadīth critics. The Taqdima reveals Ibn Abī ḥātims's vision of the critic and gives insight into the mechanism of ḥadīth criticism. It also provides a platform for the examination of the basic intellectual orientation of the ḥadīth critics and their conflicts with their opponents.


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Ottoman rule of law and the modern political trial
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ISBN: 0815654553 9780815654551 9780815635970 0815636016 9780815636014 Year: 2018 Publisher: Syracuse, New York

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"'Ottoman Rule of Law and the Modern Political Trial' employs a socio-legal approach to analyze the famous yet understudied 'Yildiz Trial,' surrounding the 1876 death of Sultan Abdülaziz, and this trial's representations in contemporary public discourses and subsequent historiography"--


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The wisdom of Syria's waiting game
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ISBN: 1849042861 1849045003 9781849045001 9781849042864 Year: 2013 Publisher: London

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A timely and insightful look at how Bashar Assad shifted the Syrian regime's focus from national security to mere survival.

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Assad, Hafez, --- Assad, Bashar, --- Syria --- Foreign relations --- Politics and government --- Asad, Bashshār, --- Assad, Bachar, --- Al-Assad, Bachar, --- Al-Assad, Bashar, --- أسد، بشّار، --- Assad, Hafiz, --- Asad, Ḥāfiẓ, --- al-Asad, Ḥafiz, --- al-Assad, Hafez, --- al-Assad, Hafiz, --- אסד, חאפז, --- אסד, חאפט׳ --- أسد، حافظ، --- اسد، حافظ --- اسد، حافظ، --- حافظ الأسد --- Sirii︠a︡ --- Iqlīm al-Sūrī (United Arab Republic) --- Iqlīm al-Shamālī (United Arab Republic) --- Syrian Region (United Arab Republic) --- سوريا --- Sūriyā --- Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah al-Sūrīyah --- Syrian Arab Republic --- République arabe syrienne --- Sowria --- Syrie --- R.A.S. --- RAS --- Ittiḥād al-Duwal al-Sūrīyah --- Fédération des États de Syrie --- Syrische Arabische Republik --- SAR --- Suryah --- Arabska Republika Syryjska --- Syrien --- Jumhuriya al-Arabya as-Suriya --- Repubblica Araba Siriana --- جمهورية العربية السورية --- Jumhūriyyah al-ʻArabiyyah as-Sūriyyah --- Сірыя --- Siryi︠a︡ --- Сірыйская Арабская Рэспубліка --- Siryĭskai︠a︡ Arabskai︠a︡ Rėspublika --- Сирийската арабска република --- Siriĭskata arabska republika --- Συρία --- Αραβική Δημοκρατία της Συρίας --- Aravikē Dēmokratia tēs Syrias --- 시리아 --- Siria --- סוריה --- רפובליקה הערבית הסורית --- Republiḳah ha-ʻArvit ha-Surit --- シリア --- Shiria --- Сирия --- Сирийская Арабская Республика --- Siriĭskai︠a︡ Arabskai︠a︡ Respublika --- Сирія --- Syrii︠a︡ --- Сирійська Арабська республіка --- Syriĭsʹka Arabsʹka respublika --- 敘利亞 --- Xuliya --- United Arab Republic --- Internal politics --- International relations. Foreign policy --- anno 1990-1999 --- anno 2000-2009 --- anno 2010-2019

Syria's peasantry, the descendants of its lesser rural notables, and their politics
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ISBN: 1283590921 9786613903372 140084584X 9781400845842 0691002541 9780691002545 9781283590921 661390337X Year: 1999 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press

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In this book, the distinguished scholar Hanna Batatu presents a comprehensive analysis of the recent social, economic, and political evolution of Syria's peasantry, the segment of society from which the current holders of political power stem. Batatu focuses mainly on the twentieth century and, in particular, on the Ba`th movement, the structures of power after the military coup d'état of 1963, and the era of îvfiz al-Asad, Syria's first ruler of peasant extraction. Without seeking to prove any single theory about Syrian life, he offers a uniquely rich and detailed account of how power was transferred from one demographic group to another and how that power is maintained today. Batatu begins by examining social differences among Syria's peasants and the evolution of their mode of life and economic circumstances. He then scrutinizes the peasants' forms of consciousness, organization, and behavior in Ottoman and Mandate times and prior to the Ba`thists' rise to power. He explores the rural aspects of Ba`thism and shows that it was not a single force but a plurality of interrelated groups--prominent among them the descendants of the lesser rural notables--with different social goals and mental horizons. The book also provides a perceptive account of President Asad, his personality and conduct, and the characteristics and power structures of his regime. Batatu draws throughout on a wide range of socioeconomic and biographical information and on personal interviews with Syrian peasants and political leaders, offering invaluable insights into the complexities of a country and a regime that have long been poorly understood by outsiders.

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Peasants --- Peasantry --- Agricultural laborers --- Rural population --- Marks (Medieval land tenure) --- Villeinage --- Political activity --- History --- Assad, Hafez, --- Ḥizb al-Baʻth al-ʻArabī al-Ishtirākī (Syria) --- Ḥizb al-ʻArabī al-Ishtirākī --- Arab Renaissance (Baʻth) Socialist Party --- Arab Socialist Baath Party --- Arab Socialist Renaissance Party --- Ḥizb al-Baʻth --- Syrian Baath Party --- Baath Party (Syria) --- Baʻth Party (Syria) --- Bāsutō --- Arabu Fukkō Shakaitō --- Baʻat' (Political party : Syria) --- Ḥizb al-Baʻth al-ʻArabī al-Ishtirākī --- Parti Baass arabe socialiste (Syria) --- Parti arabe socialiste (Syria) --- Baass (Syria) --- Parti Baass (Syria) --- בעת׳ --- حرب البعث العربي الاشتراكي (Syria) --- حزب البعث العربي الإشتراكي (سوريا) --- حزب البعث العربي الإشتراكي (سورية) --- حزب البعث العربي الاشتراكي --- حزب البعث العربي الاشتراكي (سير) --- حزب البعث العربي الاشتراكي (Syria) --- Syria --- Sirii︠a︡ --- Iqlīm al-Sūrī (United Arab Republic) --- Iqlīm al-Shamālī (United Arab Republic) --- Syrian Region (United Arab Republic) --- سوريا --- Sūriyā --- Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah al-Sūrīyah --- Syrian Arab Republic --- République arabe syrienne --- Sowria --- Syrie --- R.A.S. --- RAS --- Ittiḥād al-Duwal al-Sūrīyah --- Fédération des États de Syrie --- Syrische Arabische Republik --- SAR --- Suryah --- Arabska Republika Syryjska --- Syrien --- Jumhuriya al-Arabya as-Suriya --- Repubblica Araba Siriana --- جمهورية العربية السورية --- Jumhūriyyah al-ʻArabiyyah as-Sūriyyah --- Сірыя --- Siryi︠a︡ --- Сірыйская Арабская Рэспубліка --- Siryĭskai︠a︡ Arabskai︠a︡ Rėspublika --- Сирийската арабска република --- Siriĭskata arabska republika --- Συρία --- Αραβική Δημοκρατία της Συρίας --- Aravikē Dēmokratia tēs Syrias --- 시리아 --- Siria --- סוריה --- רפובליקה הערבית הסורית --- Republiḳah ha-ʻArvit ha-Surit --- シリア --- Shiria --- Сирия --- Сирийская Арабская Республика --- Siriĭskai︠a︡ Arabskai︠a︡ Respublika --- Сирія --- Syrii︠a︡ --- Сирійська Арабська республіка --- Syriĭsʹka Arabsʹka respublika --- 敘利亞 --- Xuliya --- United Arab Republic --- Politics and government --- Assad, Hafiz, --- Asad, Ḥāfiẓ, --- al-Asad, Ḥafiz, --- al-Assad, Hafez, --- al-Assad, Hafiz, --- אסד, חאפז, --- אסד, חאפט׳ --- أسد، حافظ، --- اسد، حافظ --- اسد، حافظ، --- حافظ الأسد --- Social stratification --- Political sociology --- anno 1960-1969 --- anno 1970-1979 --- anno 1980-1989 --- anno 1990-1999 --- Hizb al-Bath al-Arabi al-Ishtiraki (Syria)

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