{"title":"Muslim Perceptions and Receptions of the Bible","authors":"S. Schmidtke, C. Adang","doi":"10.31826/9781463240035-016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463240035-016","url":null,"abstract":"The articles brought together in this volume deal with Muslim perceptions and uses of the Bible in its wider sense, including the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament as well as the New Testament, albeit with an emphasis on the former scripture. While Muslims consider the earlier revelations to the People of the Book to have been altered to some extent by the Jews and the Christians and abrogated by the Qurʾān, God's final dispensation to humankind, the Bible is at the same time venerated in view of its divine origin, and questioning this divine origin is tantamount to unbelief. Muslim scholars approached and used the Bible for a variety of purposes and in different ways. Thus Muslim historians regularly relied on biblical materials as their primary source for the pre-Islamic period when discussing the creation as well as the history of the Israelites and the prophets preceding Muḥammad. Authors seeking to polemicize against Jews and Christians were primarily interested in the presumed biblical annunciations of Muḥammad and his religion and / or in perceived contradictions and cases of internal abrogation in the Bible. These various concerns resulted from and had an impact on the ways in which Muslim authors accessed the scriptures.","PeriodicalId":222270,"journal":{"name":"Studying the Near and Middle East at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1935–2018","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133744960","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"LAW, ETHICS, AND THE PROBLEM OF DOMESTIC LABOR IN THE ISLAMIC MARRIAGE CONTRACT","authors":"M. Katz","doi":"10.31826/9781463240035-037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463240035-037","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":222270,"journal":{"name":"Studying the Near and Middle East at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1935–2018","volume":"46 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133984121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"CASTILIAN AND ARABIC: THE DEBATES ABOUT THE NATURAL LANGUAGES OF SPAIN","authors":"Mercedes García-Arenal","doi":"10.31826/9781463240035-047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463240035-047","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":222270,"journal":{"name":"Studying the Near and Middle East at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1935–2018","volume":"66 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125756385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE SHAPING OF THE HOLY SELF: ART AND RELIGIOUS LIFE IN MANICHAEISM","authors":"A. Piras","doi":"10.31826/9781463240035-057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463240035-057","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":222270,"journal":{"name":"Studying the Near and Middle East at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1935–2018","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130197714","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ARABIA BEFORE ISLAM","authors":"D. Graf","doi":"10.31826/9781463240035-007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463240035-007","url":null,"abstract":"The most remarkable feature of the political life of Arabia before Islam was the total absence of political organization in any form. With the exception of Yemen in the south-west, no part of the Arabian peninsula had any government at any time, and the Arabs never acknowledged any authority other than the authority of the chiefs of their tribes. The authority of the tribal chiefs, however, rested, in most cases, on their character and personality, and was moral rather than political.","PeriodicalId":222270,"journal":{"name":"Studying the Near and Middle East at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1935–2018","volume":"2003 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127402668","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE SHIʿITE INTERPRETATION OF THE STATUS OF WOMEN","authors":"H. Ansari","doi":"10.31826/9781463240035-038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463240035-038","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":222270,"journal":{"name":"Studying the Near and Middle East at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1935–2018","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130489007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"RETHINKING THE CANONS OF ISLAMIC INTELLECTUAL HISTORY","authors":"Khaled El-Rouayheb","doi":"10.31826/9781463240035-021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463240035-021","url":null,"abstract":"Modern research on Islamic intellectual history has been selective in its coverage. A number of historic figures are by now relatively well-known and well-researched and their works available in numerous editions easily accessible in modern university libraries. Others, by contrast, have elicited little interest and their works are available only in rare early prints or manuscripts. Selectivity is of course unavoidable, but the criterion on which it is based is often not clear: is it for example intrinsic merit, or historical impact, or contemporary relevance? Such questions become all the more pressing in light of the fact that the “canons” of Islamic intellectual history have changed quite dramatically in the past century: Some of the figures who now loom large were not nearly so prominent a century ago, whereas others who were extremely influential until the mid-nineteenth century are now largely forgotten. My paper will discuss some examples of such dramatic shifts and will argue that unreflective acceptance of historically contingent and shifting canons has seriously limited our understanding of the nature and development of the Islamic intellectual tradition. RETHINKING THE CANONS OF ISLAMIC INTELLECTUAL HISTORY Khaled El-Rouayheb Harvard University The Eleventh Annual Victor Danner Memorial Lecture Indiana University April 15, 2013 RETHINKING THE CANONS OF ISLAMIC INTELLECTUAL HISTORY The canons of Islamic intellectual history have changed quite significantly in the past century: some of the figures who now loom large were not nearly so prominent a century ago. Two relatively straightforward examples are the philosopher Averroes (d.1198) and the Hanbali religious thinker Ibn Taymiyya (d.1328). Both have to a large extent been rediscovered since the second half of the nineteenth century. The secondary literature on them is extensive, and their extant writings are available in modern editions easily accessible in modern university libraries. They also tend to feature prominently in modern histories of Islamic philosophy and Islamic religious thought. By contrast, other scholars who were extremely influential until the mid-nineteenth century are now almost forgotten. Examples are the North African Ashʿari theologian Muḥammad b. Yūsuf al-Sanūsī (d.1490) and the Central Asian scholar Saʿd alDīn al-Taftāzānī (d.1390). The historical influence of both until the nineteenth century far overshadowed that of Ibn Taymiyya and Averroes. Sanūsī’s theological and logical works were studied for centuries throughout the Arabic-speaking Sunni world and even beyond: there are pre-modern Turkish, Berber, Fulfulde, Malay, and Javanese translations or adaptations of his works. Taftāzānī’s works on philosophy, theology, jurisprudence, rhetoric and logic were a core part of the curricula of Ottoman, Iranian and IndoMuslim colleges for half a millennium. Both have seen their influence wane in the course of the twentieth century. They have elicited little scholarly","PeriodicalId":222270,"journal":{"name":"Studying the Near and Middle East at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1935–2018","volume":"108 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115672088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"NEAR AND MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES AT THE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY: A HISTORICAL SKETCH","authors":"S. Schmidtke","doi":"10.31826/9781463240035-003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463240035-003","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":222270,"journal":{"name":"Studying the Near and Middle East at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1935–2018","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114356343","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE CONSTRUCTION OF ETHNICITY IN MEDIEVAL TURKIC EURASIA","authors":"P. Golden","doi":"10.31826/9781463240035-054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463240035-054","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":222270,"journal":{"name":"Studying the Near and Middle East at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1935–2018","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115261694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"VISUALIZATION AND MATERIAL CULTURES OF THE HEAVENS IN EURASIA AND NORTH AFRICA","authors":"S. Brentjes","doi":"10.31826/9781463240035-020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463240035-020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":222270,"journal":{"name":"Studying the Near and Middle East at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1935–2018","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132975638","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}