Al Schacht's Books

My Own Particular Screwball

An Informal Autobiography

By: Al Schacht

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An informal autobiography of the old-time professional baseball pitcher and entertainer, Al Schacht. The Bronx-born Schacht pitched for a decade in the minors with the New York Giants, then the old Washington Senators in 1919, 1920 and 1921. One of the first Jewish players in the professional game, he appeared on the same staff as Walter Johnson, but was best known for his comic performances which gained him the title “The Clown Prince of Baseball”. Originally published in 1955, these memoirs feature tales of Babe Ruth, whom Schacht struck out, Lou Gehrig, Casey Stengel, Walter Johnson, Jim Thorpe, et al. and will appear to sportsfans the world over.

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1787208400

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Legal Pluralism in the Arab World

By: Badouin Dupret,Maurits Berger,Laila Al-Zwaini

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Legal Pluralism in the Arab World

By: Badouin Dupret,Maurits Berger,Laila Al-Zwaini

Legal pluralism denotes both the multiple social fields which produce partilly interacting norms and the state's recognition of the many sources of law which constitute its legislation. It advocates a break from traditional legal theory in favour of describing the law from a more sociological and anthropological perspective. The theory of legal pluralism proves a useful tool, offering a challenging avenue for the examination of socio-legal activities. Too often, however, the literature on legal pluralism has failed to place sufficient emphasis on its fundamental theoretical questions. The result of a seminar held in Cairo in December 1996 with contributions by sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists, legal theoreticians, and practising lawyers, Legal Pluralism in the Arab World represents the first comprehensive examination of this phenomenon. This collection of essays attempts to define the notion of legal pluralism from a sociological, anthropological, and theoretical perspective and highlights its connection with particular Arab societies and countries. The work's unique features include * a preface by John Griffiths, one of the most significant voices in the formulation of the theory of legal pluralism; * a broad range of case studies, demonstrating the diversity in formulations of the theory; and * a wide variety of approaches to the subject matter. Legal Pluralism in the Arab World is the only work in existence which addresses the concept of legal pluralism in this particular part of the world in such a systematic manner. These essays significantly enrich the current canon on legal pluralism and offer the reader a unique example of its richness and usefulness.

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9004416625

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A Bibliography of Islamic Law, 1980-1993

By: Laila Al-Zwaini,Ruud Peters

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A Bibliography of Islamic Law, 1980-1993

By: Laila Al-Zwaini,Ruud Peters

This bibliography offers a new and indispensable tool for both researchers and practitioners in the field of Islamic law. It supplements the bibliographies published by Joseph Schacht (1964) and John Makdisi (1987) and includes some 1,600 Western-language publications which have appeared between 1980 and 1993. It contains a general and a regional section. With regard to the latter, the main focus is on the Middle East (including Afghanistan and North Africa), although publications in South and Southeast Asia have also been included. In order to facilitate its use, an authors' index and a subject index have been added.

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9004492666

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The History of al-Ṭabarī Vol. 39

Biographies of the Prophet's Companions and Their Successors: al-Ṭabarī's Supplement to His History

By: Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Jarīr al-Ṭabarī

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The History of al-Ṭabarī Vol. 39

Biographies of the Prophet's Companions and Their Successors: al-Ṭabarī's Supplement to His History

By: Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Jarīr al-Ṭabarī

This is biographical material that al-T'abari appended to his History, bringing together biographies of Companions and successors of the Prophet. Many chapters are devoted to women who played a role in the transmission of knowledge.

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Ṭāhā Ḥusain's Education

From the Azhar to the Sorbonne

By: ʻAbd al-Rashīd al-Ṣādiq Maḥmūdī

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Ṭāhā Ḥusain's Education

From the Azhar to the Sorbonne

By: ʻAbd al-Rashīd al-Ṣādiq Maḥmūdī

This is a study of the life and work of Taha Husein, rightly regarded as the father of modern Arabic literature, and whose work is widely used as introductory texts for students of the language.

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Raising Capital on Ṣukūk Markets

Structural, Legal and Regulatory Issues

By: Salim Al-Ali

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Raising Capital on Ṣukūk Markets

Structural, Legal and Regulatory Issues

By: Salim Al-Ali

Ṣukūk markets have grown significantly worldwide since their emergence— in Islamic jurisdictions as well as conventional jurisdictions including the US, the UK, Germany, China, France and Singapore. The practices of ṣukūk markets, however, have come under close scrutiny. The legal and regulatory risks arising from the existing general legal environment and their impact on those investing and trading in ṣukūk markets has not received adequate attention. The topic of ṣukūk has been subject to extensive research and academic discussion from different perspectives, but the existing literature has not adequately addressed the issues associated with these markets. This book examines the contemporary issues encountered in the foundation and operation of ṣukūk markets by providing an in-depth discussion of the issues facing ṣukūk markets from legal and regulatory perspectives and focusing attention on how soundness can be ensured in the wider context. These issues go to the heart of what the ṣukūk market is really about, as recent debate has recognised in ṣukūk the replication of conventional bonds in ways that are considered unsatisfactory from an Islamic law point of view.

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The Governmental System Of The Prophet MUHAMMAD - A Ccomparative study in constitutional law

حكومة الرسول (ص) [انكليزي] ترجمة

By: Dr.Hashim Y.Al-Mallah

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The Governmental System Of The Prophet MUHAMMAD - A Ccomparative study in constitutional law

حكومة الرسول (ص) [انكليزي] ترجمة

By: Dr.Hashim Y.Al-Mallah

كتاب يتناول بالبحث والدراسة نظام الحكم في عهد الرسول صلى الله عليه وسلم الذي استمد منه نظام الخلافة شرعيته ، فبين أهم صفات هذا الحكم ومواصفاته ومعالمه الخ وجوانب الشبه بينه وبين نظام الخلافة مترجما باللغة الانكليزية

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Gophers Illustrated

The Incredible Complete History of Minnesota Football

By: Al Pāpas

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Gophers Illustrated

The Incredible Complete History of Minnesota Football

By: Al Pāpas

Earlier versions of some of the content of this book were published as Gopher Sketchbook by Nodin Press in 1990"--T.p. verso.

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The Mecca Uprising

An Insider's Account of Salafism and Insurrection in Saudi Arabia

By: Nasir al-Huzaimi

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The Mecca Uprising

An Insider's Account of Salafism and Insurrection in Saudi Arabia

By: Nasir al-Huzaimi

On 20th November 1979, the Salafi Group, led by a charismatic figure named Juhaiman al-Utaibi, seized control of the Sacred Mosque in Mecca, the holiest site in the Muslim World. The Salafi Group was not trying to establish an Islamic state. Instead, its members believed they were players in a prophetic script about the End of Time. After a two-week siege, the Saudi government recaptured the mosque, threw the survivors into prison, and had them publicly executed. The Mecca Uprising offers an insider's account of the religious subculture that incubated the Mecca Uprising, written by a former member of the Salafi Group, Nasir al-Huzaimi. Huzaimi did not participate in the uprising, but he was arrested in a government sweep of Salafi Group members and spent six years in prison. In 2011, he published his memoir, Days with Juhaiman, offering the most detailed picture we have of the Salafi Group and Juhaiman. The Mecca Uprising had profound effects on Saudi Arabia and the Muslim world[DC1] [YG2] . The Saudi government headed off opposition from religious activists and made efforts to buttress the ruling family's legitimacy as the guardians of Islam. Huzaimi's memoir sheds light on the background of this religious and political landscape, and is the most detailed account we have of the Salafi Group and Juhaiman. The English edition is complete with an introduction and annotations prepared by expert David Commins to help readers understand the relevance of the Meccan Uprising [DC3] and how it fits into the history of the Islamic World. [DC1]lower case? Muslim world [YG2]changed to author's suggestion [DC3]Mecca Uprising

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Al-Kindi's Metaphysics

A Translation of Ya'qub ibn Ishaq al-kindi's Treatise "On First Philosophy"

By: al-Kind?,Kind?,Ya'qub ibn Ishak al-Kindi,Ab? Y?suf Ya?q?b b. Is??q Kind?,Al-kindi. D. CA. 873,Ja'kûb Ibn-Ishâk al Kind?,Ya?q?b Ibn Is??q forme avant 2007 Kind?,Ya?q?b b. Is??q al- Kind?,m. ca 873 Kindi,Ya?q?b Ibn-Is??q al- Kind?

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Al-Kindi's Metaphysics

A Translation of Ya'qub ibn Ishaq al-kindi's Treatise "On First Philosophy"

A translation and commentary on al-Kindi's "On First Philosophy," a seminal work of early Islamic thought.

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0873950925

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The Hanbali School of Law and Ibn Taymiyyah

Conflict or Conciliation

By: Abdul Hakim I Al-Matroudi

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The Hanbali School of Law and Ibn Taymiyyah

Conflict or Conciliation

By: Abdul Hakim I Al-Matroudi

The Hanbali School of Law and Ibn Taymiyyah provides a valuable account of the development of Hanbalite jurisprudence, placing the theoretical and conceptual parameters of this tradition within the grasp of the interested reader. Studying the vibrant yet controversial interaction between Ibn Taymiyyah and the Hanbali School of law, this book assesses to what extent this relationship was a conflict or reconciliation. The author takes a detailed exploration of the following issues: the strength of contributions made to this School by earlier paragons associated with Ahmad Ibn Hanbal the contextual constructs which shaped the tradition’s development the methodology and literature synonyms within the classical School the manner by which Ibn Taymiyyah engaged with the Hanbali tradition the impact of his thought upon the later expression of the School’s legal doctrines and its theoretical principles the contribution made by this School in general to the synthesis of Islamic law. Giving background material to the Hanbali School of law, this book is a vital reference work for those with interests in Islamic law, the history of the Hanbalite tradition and its principle luminaries.

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1134295014

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The History of al-Ṭabarī Vol. 8

The Victory of Islam: Muhammad at Medina A.D. 626-630/A.H. 5-8

By: Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Jarīr al-Ṭabarī

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The History of al-Ṭabarī Vol. 8

The Victory of Islam: Muhammad at Medina A.D. 626-630/A.H. 5-8

By: Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Jarīr al-Ṭabarī

Volume VIII of al-Tabari's great 40-volume history of the Arabs covers the history of the Muslim community and the biography of Muh'ammad in the middle Medinan years. During this period, Meccan resistance to Islam collapsed, Muh'ammad returned triumphantly to his native city, and the Muslim community weathered controversy in Muhammad's private life.

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0791431509

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Saudi Arabia

A Case Study in Development

By: Fouad Al-Farsy

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Saudi Arabia

A Case Study in Development

By: Fouad Al-Farsy

Saudi Arabia (1986) is a major study of the political and administrative development of Saudi Arabia following its establishment as a leading world exporter of oil. It looks at the status of oil in the development of the state, as well as the political systems of government in the Kingdom.

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100096664X

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Secularism in the Arab World

Contexts, Ideas and Consequences

By: Aziz al-Azmeh

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Secularism in the Arab World

Contexts, Ideas and Consequences

By: Aziz al-Azmeh

This book is a translation of Aziz al-Azmeh's seminal work Al-'Ilmaniya min mandhur mukhtalif that was first published in Beirut in 1992. Both celebrated and criticised for its reflections on Arab secularisation and secularism in the modern history of the Arab World, it is the only study to date to approach its subject as a set of historical changes which affected the regulation of the social, political and cultural order, and which permeated the concrete workings of society, rather than as an ideological discussion framed from the outset by the assumed opposition between Islam and secularism. The author takes a comprehensive analytical perspective to show that an almost imperceptible yet real, multi-faceted and objective secularising process has been underway in the Arab world since the 1850s. The early onset was the result of adapting to systemic novelties introduced at the time and a reaction to the perceived European advance and local retardation. The need for meaningful reform, and the actions taken in order to put in place a new organisation of state and society based on modern organisational and educational criteria, rather than older, religious traditions, stemmed from the perceived weakness of Arab polities and from an internal drive to overcome this situation. The book follows these themes into the close of the 20th century, marked with the rise of Islamism. A preface to the English translation takes a retrospective look at the theme from the vantage point of social, political and intellectual issues of relevance today.

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Edinburgh University Press

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147444749X

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The Epistle on Legal Theory

A Translation of Al-Shafi'i's Risalah

By: Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i

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The Epistle on Legal Theory

A Translation of Al-Shafi'i's Risalah

By: Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i

The Epistle on Legal Theory is the oldest surviving Arabic work on Islamic legal theory and the foundational document of Islamic jurisprudence. Its author, Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i (d. 204/820), was the eponym of the Shafi'i school of legal thought, one of the four rites in Sunni Islam. This fascinating work offers the first systematic treatment in Arabic of key issues in Islamic legal thought. These include a survey of the importance of Arabic as the language of revelation, principles of textual interpretation to be applied to the Qur'an and prophetic Traditions, techniques for harmonizing apparently contradictory precedents, legal epistemology, rules of inference, and discussions of when legal interpretation is required. The author illustrates his theoretical claims with numerous examples drawn from nearly all areas of Islamic law, including ritual law, commercial law, tort law, and criminal law. The text thus provides an important window into both Islamic law and legal thought in particular and early Islamic intellectual history in general . This new translation by a leading scholar of al-Shafi'i and his thought makes available in lucid, modern English one of the earliest complete works on Islamic law—one that is centrally important for the formation of Islamic legal thought and the Islamic legal tradition. An English-only edition.

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1479809020

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The Life of Ibn Ḥanbal

By: Abū al-Faraj ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAlī Ibn al-Jawzī

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The Life of Ibn Ḥanbal

By: Abū al-Faraj ʻAbd al-Raḥmān ibn ʻAlī Ibn al-Jawzī

Ahmad ibn Hanbal (d. 241 H/855 AD), renowned for his profound knowledge of hadiths—the reports of the Prophet’s sayings and deeds—is a major figure in the history of Islam. He was famous for living according to his own strict interpretation of the Prophetic model and for denying himself the most basic comforts, even though his family was prominent and his city, Baghdad, was then one of the wealthiest in the world. Ibn Hanbal’s piety and austerity made him a folk hero, especially after he resisted the attempts of two caliphs to force him to accept rationalist doctrine. His subsequent imprisonment and flogging is one of the most dramatic episodes of medieval Islamic history, and his principled resistance influenced the course of Islamic law, the rise of Sunnism, and the legislative authority of the caliphate. [This book] is a translation of the biography of Ibn Hanbal by the Baghdad preacher, scholar, and storyteller Ibn al-Jawzi (d. 597 H/1200 AD), newly abridged for a paperback readership by translator Michael Cooperson. Set against the background of fierce debates over the role of reason and the basis of legitimate government, it tells the formidable life tale of one of the most influential Muslims in history."--

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1479805300

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The Islamic Law of Nations

Shaybani's Siyar

By: Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan Shaybānī

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The Islamic Law of Nations

Shaybani's Siyar

By: Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan Shaybānī

From its origins Islam has been an expansionist religion, understanding itself as a matter of faith to be in a permanent state of war with the non-Muslim world. After the initial consolidation of the Islamic caliphate, however, it soon became apparent that constant military hostilities could not be sustained and that other forms of relationship with non-Muslim nations would be necessary. To reconcile the imperatives of faith with the limits of military power, Islamic scholars developed elaborate legal doctrines. In the second century of the Muslim era (eighth century C.E.), hundreds of years before the codification of international law in Europe by Grotius and others, Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Shaybani, an eminent jurist of the Hanafite school in present-day Iraq, wrote the first major Islamic treatise on the law of nations, Kitab al-Siyar al-Kabir. Translated with an extensive commentary by Majid Khadduri, Shaybani's Siyar describes in detail conditions for war (jihad) and for peace, principles for the conduct of military action and of diplomacy, and rules for the treatment of non-Muslims in Muslim lands. A foundational text of the leading school of law in Sunni Islam, it provides essential insights into relations between Islamic nations and the larger world from their earliest days up to the present.

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0801869757

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The History of The Quranic Text: from Revelation to Compilation

A Comparative Study with the Old and New Testaments

By: Muhammad Mustafa Al-Azami

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The History of The Quranic Text: from Revelation to Compilation

A Comparative Study with the Old and New Testaments

By: Muhammad Mustafa Al-Azami

This expansive book provides unique insights into the holy text’s immaculate preservation, as well as exploring many of the accusations leveled against it. The reception of divine revelations, Prophet Muhammad's role in disseminating and compiling these verses, and the setting of the text’s final external shape are scientifically examined alongside such topics as the origins of Arabic, the so-called Mushaf of Ibn Masud, and the strict methodology employed in assembling textual fragments. By way of comparison, the author investigates the histories of the Old and New Testaments, relying entirely on Judeo-Christian sources, and uncovers a startling range of alterations in the biblical Scriptures. Using this as a springboard, he illustrates convincingly that Western research into Islam’s Holy Book is motivated by more than mere curiosity, and has no scientific bearing on the Quran's integrity. This monumental effort, a scholarly work composed in an impassioned tone, provides a welcome foundation for sincere study at a time when assailing the Quran has become all too common.

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Turath Publishing

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1906949654

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The History of al-Ṭabarī Vol. 21

The Victory of the Marwānids A.D. 685-693/A.H. 66-73

By: Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Jarīr al-Ṭabarī

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The History of al-Ṭabarī Vol. 21

The Victory of the Marwānids A.D. 685-693/A.H. 66-73

By: Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Jarīr al-Ṭabarī

Volume XXI of The History of al-Ṭabarī (from the second part of 66/685 to 73/693) covers the resolution of "the Second Civil War." This conflict, which has broken out in 64/683 after the death of the Umayyad caliph Yazīd I, involved the rival claims of the Umayyads (centered in Syria) and the Zubayrids (centered in the Hijaz), each of whom claimed the caliphal title, Commander of the Faithful. Both parties contented for control of Iraq, which was also the setting for al-Mukhtār's Shīʿite uprising in al-Kūfah during 66/685 and 67/686. Khārijite groups were active in south-western Iran and central Arabia, even threatening the heavily settled lands of Iraq. By the end of 73/692, the Umayyad regime in Damascus, led by Abd-al-Malik, had extinguished the rival caliphate of Ibn al-Zubayr and had reestablished a single, more or less universally acknowledged political authority for the Islamic community. Al-Ṭabarī's account of these years is drawn from such earlier historians as Abu Mikhnaf, al-Madāʾinī , and al-Waqidi and includes eyewitness accounts, quotations from poems, and texts of sermons. Notable episodes include al-Mukhtār's slaying of those who had been involved in the death of al-Husayn at Karbala, the death of al-Mukhtār at the hands of Muṣʿab ibn al-Zubayr, the revolt of Amr ibn Saʿīd in Damascus, the death of Muṣʿab at the Battle of Dayr al-Jathaliq, and al-Hajjaj's siege and conquest of Mecca on behalf of Abd-al-Malik. There are excursuses on the chair that al-Mukhtār venerated as a relic of Ali, the biography of the colorful brigand ʿUbayd Allāh b. al-Ḥurr, and the development of the secretarial office in Islam. The translation has been fully annotated. Parallels in the works of Ibn Sa'd, al-Baladhuri, and the Kitabal-Aghani have been indicated in the notes where these accounts supplement or diverge from that of al-Ṭabarī.

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0791402215

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A Concise History of the Middle East

By: Ibrahim Al-Marashi,Arthur Goldschmidt Jr.

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A Concise History of the Middle East

By: Ibrahim Al-Marashi,Arthur Goldschmidt Jr.

A Concise History of the Middle East provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of this region. Spanning from the pre-Islamic era to the present, it explores the evolution of Middle Eastern institutions and culture, the influence of European colonialism and Western imperialism, regional modernization efforts, the struggle of various peoples for political independence, the Arab–Israeli conflict, the reassertion of Islamist values and power, the issues surrounding the Palestinian Question, and the Middle East following 9/11, the 2011 Arab uprisings, and the regional crisis that erupted after 7 October 2023. The thirteenth edition has been fully revised to reflect the most recent events in, and concerns of, the region, including its future in the face of climate change and challenges in Iraq, and developments in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. In addition, the important role of Middle Eastern women in the history of the region is woven into the narrative. New parts and part timelines will help students grasp and contextualize the long and complicated history of the region. With updated biographical sketches and a new concluding chapter, this book remains the quintessential text for students of Middle East history.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040108806

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Islamic Law (RLE Politics of Islam)

Social and Historical Contexts

By: Aziz Al-Azmeh

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Islamic Law (RLE Politics of Islam)

Social and Historical Contexts

By: Aziz Al-Azmeh

This book underlines the mutability of Islamic law and attempts to relate its substantive and institutional varieties and transformations to social, political, economic and other historical circumstances. The studies in the book range from discussion of the received wisdom in Islamic law to studies of legal institutions and the theoretical means employed by Islamic law for the accommodation of changing historical circumstances. First published in 1988.

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1134609981

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Social and Gender Inequality in Oman

The Power of Religious and Political Tradition

By: Khalid M. Al-Azri

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Social and Gender Inequality in Oman

The Power of Religious and Political Tradition

By: Khalid M. Al-Azri

Looking at the social, political and legal changes in Oman since 1970, this book challenges the Islamic and tribal traditional cultural norms relating to marriage, divorce and women’s rights which guide social and legal practice in the modern Omani state. The book argues that despite the establishment of legal instruments guaranteeing equality for all citizens, the fact that the state depends upon Islamic and tribal elites for its legitimacy invalidates these guarantees in practice. Two particular features of the legal and cultural regulation of marriage and marital rights are focused on - the perceived requirement for kafa’aor equality in marriage between so called high and low socio-economic status peoples is examined, and the institution of talaq, which grants greater rights to men than to women in appeals for divorce. This book addresses highly complex subjects with great rigor, in terms of empirical research and engagement with theory, sociological and political as well as theological and legal. It is an interesting investigation of the divisions of authority between the state, Islam and tribal norms, highlighting barriers to reform in both Oman and wider Islamic society, and advocating the removal of such obstacles.

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The Arabs and Islam in Late Antiquity

A Critique of Approaches to Arabic Sources

By: Aziz Al-Azmeh

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The Arabs and Islam in Late Antiquity

A Critique of Approaches to Arabic Sources

By: Aziz Al-Azmeh

This study is a critique of Arabic textual sources for the history of the Arabs in late antique times, during the centuries immediately preceding Muhammad and up to and including the Umayyad period. Its purpose is to consider the value and relevance of these sources for the reconstruction of the social, political, cultural and religious history of the Arabs as they were still pagans, and to reconstruct the emergence of Muhammadan and immediately post-Muhammadan religion and polity. For this religion (including the composition and canonisation of the Qur'an), the label Paleo-Islam has been coined, in order to lend historical specificity to this particular period, distinguishing it from what came before and what was to come later, all the while indicating continuities that do not, in themselves, belie the specificity attributed to this period of very rapid change. This is argued further in Aziz Al-Azmeh's The Emergence of Islam in Late Antiquity: Allah and His People (Cambridge University Press, 2014), to which this book is both a companion and a technical preface. Al-Azmeh illustrates his arguments through examination of orality and literacy, transmission, ancient Arabic poetry, the corpus of Arab heroic lore (ayyam), the early narrative, the Qur'an, and other literary sources. The work includes a very extensive bibliography of the works cited. This is the first book in the Gerlach Press series Theories and Paradigms of Islamic Studies.

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3940924911

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The Rise of Historical Writing Among the Arabs

By: Abd Al-Aziz Duri

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The Rise of Historical Writing Among the Arabs

By: Abd Al-Aziz Duri

This is the first translation of a classic work (Bahth fi nnsh' at 'ilm al ta' rikh 'inda l-'Arab) by the eminent Arab historian A. A. Duri. Published in Beirut in 1960, Duri's book was the first comprehensive effort to trace the origins and early development of Arab historical writing, and to resolve some extremely complex and still debated questions about the reliability of the Arabic historical sources. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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1400853885

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Religious Minorities, Islam and the Law

International Human Rights and Islamic Law in Indonesia

By: Al Khanif

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Religious Minorities, Islam and the Law

International Human Rights and Islamic Law in Indonesia

By: Al Khanif

This book examines the legal conundrum of reconciling international human rights law in a Muslim majority country and identifies a trajectory for negotiating the protection of religious minorities within Islam. The work explores the history of religious minorities within Islam in Indonesia, which contains the world’s largest Muslim population, as well as the present-day ways by which the government may address issues through reconciling international human rights law and Islamic law. Given the context of multiple sets of religious norms in Indonesia, this is a complicated endeavour. In addition to amending and enacting human rights norms, the government is also negotiating with the long history of Islamisation in Indonesia. Particularly relevant is the practice of customary law, which puts the rights of community over individualism. This practice directly affects the rights of religious minorities within Islam. Readers, especially those conducting research, will also be provided with information and references which are relevant to the field of human rights, especially in relation to religious minorities and international law. The book will be a valuable resource for academics and researchers in the fields of International Human Rights Law, Law and Religion, and Islamic Studies.

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Routledge

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1000168565

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COMPUTER SCIENCE and ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY (CSET2015), MEDICAL SCIENCE and BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING (MSBE2015) - PROCEEDINGS of the 2015 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on CSET and MSBE

By: Qingjun E. T. Al LIU

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COMPUTER SCIENCE and ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY (CSET2015), MEDICAL SCIENCE and BIOLOGICAL ENGINEERING (MSBE2015) - PROCEEDINGS of the 2015 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on CSET and MSBE

By: Qingjun E. T. Al LIU

This book brings together 106 papers presented at the Joint Conferences of 2015 International Conference on Computer Science and Engineering Technology (CSET2015) and 2015 International Conference on Medical Science and Biological Engineering (MSBE2015), which were held in Hong Kong on 30-31 May 2015.The joint conferences covered a wide range of research topics in new emerging technologies, ranging from computing to biomedical engineering. During the conferences, industry professionals, scholars and government agencies around the world gathered to share their latest research results and discuss the practical challenges they encountered. Their research articles were reviewed and selected by a panel of experts before being compiled into this proceedings. Combining research findings and industry applications, this proceedings should be a useful reference for researchers and engineers working in computing and biomedical science.

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World Scientific

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981465101X

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Administrative Development

By: Muhammad A. Al-Buraey

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Administrative Development

By: Muhammad A. Al-Buraey

First published in 1986. The main purpose of this work is to present a developmental perspective different from the prevailing Western one. The author hopes that this point of view will contribute towards the goal of developing a general theory of world development of human societies that presently does not exist. Though the focus of this study is on Islamic views of administrative development, other aspects of development - such as the political and socio-economic - are also discussed.

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1317848837

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The Epistle on Legal Theory

By: al-Shafii

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The Epistle on Legal Theory

By: al-Shafii

The Epistle on Legal Theory is the oldest surviving Arabic work on Islamic legal theory and the foundational document of Islamic jurisprudence. Its author, Muhammad ibn Idris al-Shafi'i (d. 204 H/820 AD), was the eponym of the Shafi'i school of legal thought, one of the four rites in Sunni Islam. This fascinating work offers the first systematic treatment in Arabic of key issues in Islamic legal thought. These include a survey of the importance of Arabic as the language of revelation, principles of textual interpretation to be applied to the Qur’an and prophetic Traditions, techniques for harmonizing apparently contradictory precedents, legal epistemology, rules of inference, and discussions of when legal interpretation is required. The author illustrates his theoretical claims with numerous examples drawn from nearly all areas of Islamic law, including ritual law, commercial law, tort law, and criminal law. The text thus provides an important window into both Islamic law and legal thought in particular and early Islamic intellectual history in general . The Arabic text has been established on the basis of the two most important critical editions and includes variants in the notes, while the English text is a new translation by a leading scholar of Shafi'i and his thought. The Epistle on Legal Theory represents one of the earliest complete works on Islamic law, one that is centrally important for the formation of Islamic legal thought and the Islamic legal tradition.

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NYU Press

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0814769985

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The History of al-Ṭabarī Vol. 19

The Caliphate of Yazīd b. Muʿāwiyah A.D. 680-683/A.H. 60-64

By: Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Jarīr al-Ṭabarī

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The History of al-Ṭabarī Vol. 19

The Caliphate of Yazīd b. Muʿāwiyah A.D. 680-683/A.H. 60-64

By: Abū Jaʿfar Muḥammad ibn Jarīr al-Ṭabarī

This volume deals with the caliphate of Yazīd. Yazīd was not accepted as a legitimate caliph by many of the leading Muslims of the time, and, therefore, al-Ṭabarī has concentrated his account of Yazīd's caliphate almost entirely on the opposition to him. This opposition had its leadership in two of the leading Islamic figures of the time, al-Ḥusayn, the son of the caliph ʿAlī, and Ibn al-Zubayr, a leading Muslim who felt that he had had some claims to the caliphate himself. The first revolt was led by al-Ḥusayn. This revolt, although ineffectual in military terms, is very important for the history of Islam, as al-Ḥusayn came to be regarded by Shi'ite Muslims as the martyred imam; his martyrdom is still commemorated every year by them. In his account al-Ṭabarī has preserved for us some of the earliest historical writing on the subject. The amount of space he devotes to this event shows the importance it had already assumed by his own time. The second revolt, that of Ibn al-Zubayr, was much more serious in immediate terms. The revolt or civil war can be divided into two stages. This volume covers the first stage, ending with the timely death of Yazīd, which saved Ibn al-Zubayr from defeat.

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0791400409

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9780791400401

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