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Islamic civilization --- Islamic learning and scholarship --- Arabic literature --- Civilisation islamique --- Littérature islamique arabe --- Islam et littérature --- Islam et civilisation --- History and criticism --- Étude et enseignement --- Festschrift - Libri Amicorum --- Islamic civilization. --- Islamic learning and scholarship. --- Arabic literature. --- Islam --- Kultur --- Literatur --- Geistesleben --- History and criticism. --- Islam. --- Kultur. --- Literatur. --- Geistesleben. --- Littérature islamique arabe. --- Islam et littérature. --- Islam et civilisation. --- Étude et enseignement.

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Insights into power, spectacle, and performance in the courts of Middle Eastern rulersIn recent decades, scholars have produced much new research on courtly life in medieval Europe, but studies on imperial and royal courts across the Middle East have received much less attention, particularly for courts before 1500AD. In the Presence of Power, however, sheds new light on courtly life across the region. This insightful, exploratory collection of essays uncovers surprising commonalities across a broad swath of cultures. The pre-modern period in this volume includes roughly seven centuries, opening with the first dynasty of Islam, the Umayyads, whose reign marked an important watershed for Late Antique culture, and closing with the rule of the so-called “gunpowder” empires of the Ottomans and Safavids over much of the Near East in the sixteenth century. In between, this volume locates similarities across the Western Medieval, Byzantine and Islamicate courtly cultures, spanning a vast history and geography to demonstrate the important cross-pollinations that occurred between their literary and cultural legacies. This study does not presume the presence of one shared courtly institution across time and space, but rather seeks to understand the different ways in which contemporaries experienced and spoke about these places of power and performance. Adopting a very broad view of performances, In the Presence of Power includes exuberant expressions of love in Arabic stories, shadow plays in Mamluk Cairo, Byzantine storytelling, religious food traditions in Christian Cyprus, advice, and political and ethnographic performances of power.

Oral tradition --- Rites and ceremonies --- Performing arts --- Show business --- Arts --- Performance art --- Ceremonies --- Cult --- Cultus --- Ecclesiastical rites and ceremonies --- Religious ceremonies --- Religious rites --- Rites of passage --- Traditions --- Ritualism --- Manners and customs --- Mysteries, Religious --- Ritual --- Tradition, Oral --- Oral communication --- Folklore --- Oral history --- Islamic Empire --- Arab countries --- Arab Empire --- Empire, Islamic --- Middle East --- Muslim Empire --- Court and courtiers. --- History

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Insights into power, spectacle, and performance in the courts of Middle Eastern rulersIn recent decades, scholars have produced much new research on courtly life in medieval Europe, but studies on imperial and royal courts across the Middle East have received much less attention, particularly for courts before 1500AD. In the Presence of Power, however, sheds new light on courtly life across the region. This insightful, exploratory collection of essays uncovers surprising commonalities across a broad swath of cultures. The pre-modern period in this volume includes roughly seven centuries, opening with the first dynasty of Islam, the Umayyads, whose reign marked an important watershed for Late Antique culture, and closing with the rule of the so-called “gunpowder” empires of the Ottomans and Safavids over much of the Near East in the sixteenth century. In between, this volume locates similarities across the Western Medieval, Byzantine and Islamicate courtly cultures, spanning a vast history and geography to demonstrate the important cross-pollinations that occurred between their literary and cultural legacies. This study does not presume the presence of one shared courtly institution across time and space, but rather seeks to understand the different ways in which contemporaries experienced and spoke about these places of power and performance. Adopting a very broad view of performances, In the Presence of Power includes exuberant expressions of love in Arabic stories, shadow plays in Mamluk Cairo, Byzantine storytelling, religious food traditions in Christian Cyprus, advice, and political and ethnographic performances of power.

Oral tradition --- Rites and ceremonies --- Performing arts --- Islamic Empire --- Court and courtiers.

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"Why is laughter contagious? Why do mountains exist? Why do we long for the past ever if it is scarred by suffering? Spanning a vast array of subjects that range from the philosophical to the theological, from the philological to the scientific, "The Philosipher Respons" is the record of a set of questions put by the litterateur Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī to the philosopher and historian Abū ʻAlī Miskawayh. Both figures were foremost contributors to the remarkable flowering of cultural and intellectual life that took place in the Islamic world during the reign of the Buyid dynasty in the fourth/tenth centuries.

Authors, Arab --- Philosophers --- Islamic philosophy --- Arab authors --- Scholars --- Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, --- Ibn Miskawayh, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, --- Abū ʻAlī Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad Miskawayh, --- Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, Abū, --- Ibn Maskowaih, --- Khāzin al-Rāzī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, --- Maskūyah, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, --- Miskavayh Rāzī, Abū ʻAlī, --- Miskavīyah, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, --- Miskavīyah Rāzī, Abū ʻAlī, --- Miskawaih, Ibn, --- Miskawayh, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, --- Miskawayh Rāzī, Abū ʻAlī, --- Moskuyeh, --- Muskūyah, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad, --- Rāzī, Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Khāzin, --- أحمد بن محمد بن مسكويه --- إبن مسكوية، احمد بن محمد، --- ابن مسكوية، أحمد بن محمد --- ابن مسكويه، أحمد بن محمد، --- ابن مسكويه، احمد بن محمد --- ابن مسكويه، احمد بن محمد، --- ابن مسکويه، احمد بن محمد --- ابن مشكويه، أحمد بن محمد --- Miskawayh, Abu Ali, --- Abū Ḥaiyān al-Tauḥīdī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, --- Abū Ḥayyān Tawḥīdī, --- Abuhayyan Towhidi, --- ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad Abū Haiyān al-Tauḥīdī, --- ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad Abū Ḥayyān al-Tawḥīdī, --- ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad al-Tauḥīdī, --- Tauḥīdī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, --- أبو حيان التوحيدي، علي بن محمد --- أبو حيان التوحيدي، علي بن محمد، --- أبو حيان التوحيدي، علي محمد --- ابو حيان التوحيدي، علي بن محمد، --- ابو حيان الطوحيدي، علي بن محمد، --- علي بن محمد أبو حيان التوحيدي --- Abuhayyan Tuhidi, --- Tuhidi, Abuhayyan, --- Tawhidi, Abu Hayyan, --- Iran. --- Islamic philosophy.