The Book in the Islamic World

The Book in the Islamic World
Author: George N. Atiyeh
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 1995-07-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 079149540X

The Book in the Islamic World brings together serious studies on the book as an intellectual entity and as a vehicle of cultural development. Written by a group of distinguished scholars, it examines and reflects upon this unique tool of communication not as a physical artifact but as a manifestation of the aspirations, values, and wisdom of Arabs and Muslims in general. The Islamic system of book production differed from that of the West. This volume shows the peculiarities of book making and the intellectual principles that governed a book's inner structure, mysteries, and impact on culture. Investigated and explained are the issues involved in printing; the compilation of the Koran, the most important book in Islam; attitudes toward books; the oral versus the written tradition; metaphors of the book in literature; biographical dictionaries, an important genre of Islamic books; the grammatical tradition; women's contribution to calligraphy; scientific manuscripts; the transition from scribal to print culture; publishing in the modern Arab World; and the new electronic media, a non-book vehicle of communication, and its impact on education.

Rediscovering the Islamic Classics

Rediscovering the Islamic Classics
Author: Ahmed El Shamsy
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2020-02-11
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN: 0691174563

The people who selected, edited, and published the new print books on and about Islam exerted a huge influence on the resulting literary tradition. These unheralded editors determined, essentially, what came to be understood by the early twentieth century as the classical written "canon" of Islamic thought. Collectively, this relatively small group of editors who brought Islamic literature into print crucially shaped how Muslim intellectuals, the Muslim public, and various Islamist movements understood the Islamic intellectual tradition. In this book Ahmed El Shamsy recounts this sea change, focusing on the Islamic literary culture of Cairo, a hot spot of the infant publishing industry, from the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As El Shamsy argues, the aforementioned editors included some of the greatest minds in the Muslim world and shared an ambitious intellectual agenda of revival, reform, and identity formation. .

Islam Translated

Islam Translated
Author: Ronit Ricci
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2011-05-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0226710904

The spread of Islam eastward into South and Southeast Asia was one of the most significant cultural shifts in world history. As it expanded into these regions, Islam was received by cultures vastly different from those in the Middle East, incorporating them into a diverse global community that stretched from India to the Philippines. In Islam Translated, Ronit Ricci uses the Book of One Thousand Questions—from its Arabic original to its adaptations into the Javanese, Malay, and Tamil languages between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries—as a means to consider connections that linked Muslims across divides of distance and culture. Examining the circulation of this Islamic text and its varied literary forms, Ricci explores how processes of literary translation and religious conversion were historically interconnected forms of globalization, mutually dependent, and creatively reformulated within societies making the transition to Islam.

Divine Love

Divine Love
Author: William C Chittick
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-07-16
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0300195109

The very heart of the Islamic tradition is love; no other word adequately captures the quest for transformation that lies at this tradition's center. So argues esteemed professor of medieval Islam William C. Chittick in this survey of the extensive Arabic and Persian literature on topics ranging from the Qur'an up through the twelfth century. Bringing to light extensive foundational Persian sources never before presented, Chittick draws on more than a thousand pages of newly translated material to depict the rich prose literature at the center of Islamic thought.

Islamic Literature

Islamic Literature
Author: Lucy Sackett Smith
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2017-07-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1680486152

Written in various languages, on multiple continents, and over many centuries, Islamic literature encompasses a rich and varied body of texts. While mention is made of key historical and religious works, this volume focuses on poetry and literary prose, whether popular or courtly in inspiration. Topics covered include dominant genres, recurring patterns in imagery, the influence of pre-Islamic Arabian literature, and the periods of development that Islamic literature passed through from the seventh century CE to the present day. This insightful and wide-ranging overview introduces readers to authors such as Yunus Emre, Rumi, ?afez, and Fuzuli of Baghdad. An invaluable resource!

Islamic Literature in Contemporary Turkey

Islamic Literature in Contemporary Turkey
Author: K. Cayir
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2016-04-16
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0230605699

This book explores the changing understandings of Islam by focusing on the Islamist movement's production of literary fiction since the early 1980s. By focusing on Islamic literary narratives of the period, this study introduces issues of change, space, history and analytical relation that are excluded by the essentialist reading of Islamism.

Islamic Literature in Spanish and Aljamiado

Islamic Literature in Spanish and Aljamiado
Author: Gerard Wiegers
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2023-12-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004624236

This important work is an historical study of the Islamic writings in Spanish and Aljamiado (Spanish in Arabic script) of the Muslim minorities in medieval Christian Spain, the Mudejars and Moriscos. On the basis of both Christian sources, such as archival documents and the writings of John of Segovia, and Islamic sources in Spanish and Arabic, this book focuses on the life and writings of Yça Gidelli (ca 1450), religious authority of the Mudejar community of Segovia (Castile). Of crucial importance for the history of Islamic Spanish literature, Yça's best-known work is a Spanish translation of the Qur’ān made at the request of bishop John of Segovia (d. 1458). This study follows the early history of Islamic writings in the vernacular (13th-14th centuries), continues with a description of Yça's writings and biography, and finally deals with his influence on Moriscos in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Biblical Prophets in the Qur'an and Muslim Literature

Biblical Prophets in the Qur'an and Muslim Literature
Author: Roberto Tottoli
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2013-01-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1136123229

Part 1 is a comprehensive study of the Qur'anic data about each prophet, with a full portrait of every figure and dealing also with all the major scholarly literature on the subject and with the Qur'anic concept of prophetology. Part 2 is a history and study of the general Muslim literature dealing with the prophets.

Anthology of Islamic Literature

Anthology of Islamic Literature
Author: Various
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 401
Release: 1975-10-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0452008794

Covering over thirteen centuries of Islamic writing, this quintessential anthology contains the most important and seminal works of the Islamic world. Told from all types of storytellers from different classes and cultures, these stories encompass the people and spirit of the fasting growing religion in the modern world.

Indonesian Islamic Fiction in the 21st Century: Representations of the Other in the Works of Forum Lingkar Pena

Indonesian Islamic Fiction in the 21st Century: Representations of the Other in the Works of Forum Lingkar Pena
Author: Muh Arif Rokhman
Publisher: UAD PRESS
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2022-01-28
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 6235635176

THIS BOOK examines a selection of fictional works by writers belonging to the Indonesian association of writers, Forum Lingkar Pena (Pen Circle Forum; hereafter referred to as FLP). Figures from 2010 suggest that this organisation had around 5,000 members across 93 Indonesian branches and ten overseas branches. Writers recruited and trained by FLP have produced approximately nine hundred published works. Their works are often categorised as Islamic or religious literature (sastra religi). This label-ling of FLP’s literary output as Islamic literature has arisen principally be-cause of the publicly expressed aims and beliefs of key FLP figures which include such notions as sastra dakwah (literature for religious propaga-tion). In order to contextualise the emergence of FLP in the final years of the twentieth century and to locate this organisation within wider Indo-nesian literary developments, it is necessary to take account of cultural debates that came to the fore with the profound social and political changes which accompanied the end of the New Order regime in 1998.