Al-Masaq-Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean最新文献

{"title":"The Unratified Treaty between the Mamlūks and the Franks of Acre in 1268*","authors":"Rabei G. Khamisy","doi":"10.1080/09503110.2014.915104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2014.915104","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In 1268, after negotiations with Baybars, King Hugh III rejected several of the sultan's terms and did not take the oath to confirm a truce. Baybars' biographer underplayed the refusal, claiming that Hugh's fear of Charles of Anjou prevented him from making a truce. Based on historical and archaeological evidence, this study draws the borders with the Mamlūks and the inner borders between the Frankish regions in 1268, 1272 and 1283, proving that the Frankish areas in 1268 were reduced to almost half of those that obtained in 1272 and 1283. Thus, this study assumes that Hugh could not have take the oath on terms that, inter alia, reduced the Frankish area to an unacceptable size. The Franks seem to have controlled more territory than they were given in the proposed 1268 treaty and it seems that Baybars' lack of interest in an attack on Acre encouraged the king to reject the truce.","PeriodicalId":42974,"journal":{"name":"Al-Masaq-Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean","volume":"41 1","pages":"147 - 167"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2014-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89577946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Symbols of Authority in Medieval Islam: History, Religion and Muslim Legitimacy in the Delhi Sultanate","authors":"Nile Green","doi":"10.1080/09503110.2014.916136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2014.916136","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42974,"journal":{"name":"Al-Masaq-Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean","volume":"15 1","pages":"237 - 239"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2014-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78378294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Prophet's Ascension: Cross-Cultural Encounters with the Islamic Miʿrāj Tales","authors":"Eliza Tasbihi","doi":"10.1080/09503110.2014.916134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2014.916134","url":null,"abstract":"egies of the Byzantines. Finally, chapter eight presents relations between the Latin Orient and the Latin kingdoms of Antioch, Cyprus, Jerusalem, Tripoli and other territories. To sum up, although this reviewer is not fully convinced by all of the arguments put forward in this book, Van Tricht offers a distinctive interpretation of the Latin Empire of Constantinople and of the other Latin kingdoms. He presents the conquest and what followed as a renovatio of the Byzantine Empire and in the process offers an original study developed from a combination of Greek and Latin sources and a vast secondary bibliography. Overall, this is a useful study of thirteenth-century Byzantium.","PeriodicalId":42974,"journal":{"name":"Al-Masaq-Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean","volume":"7 1","pages":"234 - 236"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2014-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88476711","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Vehicles of Transmission, Translation, and Transformation in Medieval Textual Culture","authors":"S. England","doi":"10.1080/09503110.2014.915119","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2014.915119","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42974,"journal":{"name":"Al-Masaq-Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean","volume":"65 1","pages":"224 - 226"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2014-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82116769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Transmission and Dynamics of the Textual Sources of Islam: Essays in Honour of Harald Motzki","authors":"A. Belhaj","doi":"10.1080/09503110.2014.915113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2014.915113","url":null,"abstract":"distracting from the discussion at hand, which is to demonstrate how the male-centred framing of the story has not, in her estimation, diminished Nazhūn’s place in the satiric anecdote. Hammond’s careful argument could be readily used in either an undergraduate or graduate classroom to discuss how one might think about these frames and their contents as gendered structures; rather than closing off further argument, Hammond lays the groundwork for additional discussion with further data. If Chapter 4 engages a difficult logical problem, Chapter 5, “He Desires Her?”, suggests strongly that the use of a woman’s voice in particular genres of poetry need not be interpreted in only one way. Looking at muwashshah ̇ a, “an Arabic and Hebrew genre which developed in Andalusia before the tenth century” (p. 25), she describes how this genre typically portrays women’s voices (and sexual expression) in the closing sections, and notes that this has largely been understood as men constructing women’s voices. She argues that women were also involved in the courtly musical lyrical traditions from which this genre grew, and we ought not assume automatically that all the anonymous verse was male-authored (p. 153). Hammond describes several women known to have been involved with the genre, and discusses how the verses that have been attributed to them do not manifest a unique “écriture féminine”, but a gender ambiguity that can help us to foreground and rethink our own biases when seeking something uniquely feminine in such highly stylized genres (p. 157). Although the frequent use of Arabic technical terms for genres and poetic terminology will make this text at times difficult for a non-specialist, the best recommendation might be that this reader was disappointed to reach the end. The only error spotted was a minor problem with the regnal dates for Muʿawı̄ya given on page 116. Sadly, the publisher has no plans for a paperback edition, pricing this out of range for use as a classroom text. The British Academy’s website notes that the publication series is yet another mark of the excellence of the scholars who receive its fellowships; this monograph demonstrates well the truth of that statement.","PeriodicalId":42974,"journal":{"name":"Al-Masaq-Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean","volume":"28 1","pages":"217 - 219"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2014-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73799506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Kausalität in der Muʿtazilitischen Kosmologie: Das Kitāb al-Muʾaththirāt wa-miftāḥ al-muškilāt des Zayditen al-Ḥasan ar-Raṣṣāṣ (st. 584/1188)","authors":"Abdessamad Belhaj","doi":"10.1080/09503110.2014.915114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2014.915114","url":null,"abstract":"(the common link), who is considered to be the narrator who transmitted a specific H ̇ adı̄th (p. 10). This method yields interesting results provided that the analysed H ̇ adı̄th has a number of different variants. Isnād-cum-matn does not aim at proving the authenticity of a H ̇ adı̄th. Rather, it seeks to establish the probable circulation of a H ̇ adı̄th in the era of Muh ̇ ammad’s Companions and their successors. In Qurʾānic studies, the chapters in this volume employ philology to explore the origins of the Qurʾān and its interpretation. Finally, contributions on modern Salafı̄sm use various approaches derived from media studies and sociology to unravel its discourses and their significance(s). With regard to our knowledge of early traditions, each study based on isnād-cummatnmoves forward the analysis of H ̇ adı̄th corpora. Less ambitious are the studies in the Qurʾānic field. They introduce exegetical figures or views that are known through the contributors’ previous work. As for the studies of Islamic movements, the authors provided insights into the localisation of radical Salafı̄sm and especially its presence on the Internet. The scholarly quality of the edition is above reproach. However, several transliteration mistakes were not corrected. For example, al-māghāzı̄ should be almaghāzı̄ (p. 49), al-dawā should be al-dawāt (p. 292) and Rumh should be Rumh ̇ (p. 449). More importantly, the absence of fiqh studies is a shortcoming of the book. H. Motzki’s contribution is more relevant to early fiqh than to modern Salafı̄sm and Qurʾānic studies. Therefore, it would have been opportune to call in scholars of early Islamic jurisprudence as well. All in all, however, the book depicts effectively the development of a number of Muslim traditions (especially H ̇ adı̄th and Qurʾān studies) from their genesis to their use in present-day Internet polemics. It is a scholarly and enjoyable work to be read.","PeriodicalId":42974,"journal":{"name":"Al-Masaq-Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean","volume":"29 1","pages":"219 - 221"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2014-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81468225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Word in Arabic","authors":"J. Druel","doi":"10.1080/09503110.2014.915118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2014.915118","url":null,"abstract":"been reframed to address more cogently a connected series of important issues, including the impact that an era of economic austerity, and concerns over canonical purity had in catalysing the Mutʿazilite inquisition, which in turn, atrophied secular pluralism in ʿAbbāsid culture. The book contains too many spelling errors (most notably on pp. 1, 81, 137, and 271) and displays an inappropriate – to this reviewer at any rate – image on the jacket cover of a painting by Pierre-Louis Bouchard, the nineteenth-century Paris-based Orientalist artist. The said image depicts a man with a turban reclining on a divan while being entertained by cavorting female slaves. Did Caswell’s serious and largely effective effort at critical scholarship merit such a cover, I wonder?","PeriodicalId":42974,"journal":{"name":"Al-Masaq-Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean","volume":"39 1","pages":"223 - 224"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2014-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82388915","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Development of Islamic Law and Society in the Maghrib: Qāḍīs, Muftīs and Family Law","authors":"Sarah C. Davis-Secord","doi":"10.1080/09503110.2014.878432","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2014.878432","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":42974,"journal":{"name":"Al-Masaq-Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean","volume":"49 1","pages":"93 - 94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2014-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78839417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cosmopolitan Trade Centre or Bone of Contention? Alexandria and the Crusades, 487–857/1095–1453","authors":"Niall Christie","doi":"10.1080/09503110.2014.877196","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2014.877196","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article examines the position of Alexandria during the crusading period (487–857/1095–1453), seeking to open up the question indicated in the title for discussion. Did Alexandria's importance as a trade centre have an impact on whether or not it became the target of military attacks by the Franks? What other forms of contention was it a focus for during the period? While not claiming to provide conclusive answers, we seek at least to provide a starting point for discussion of this complex issue.","PeriodicalId":42974,"journal":{"name":"Al-Masaq-Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean","volume":"40 1","pages":"49 - 61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2014-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79823324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From “Islam and the Medieval Mediterranean” to “Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean”","authors":"J. Steenbergen","doi":"10.1080/09503110.2014.892316","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/09503110.2014.892316","url":null,"abstract":"The journal Al-Masāq was conceived in 1988 by its founding editor, Dionisius Agius, as a welcome source of inspiration for and response to changing historiographical perceptions and reconstructions of the Mediterranean space in the medieval period. At that time, there was a clear and particular need for a journal with the subtitle “Islam and theMedieval Mediterranean”. In the often unconscious periphery of the Cultural Turn in the social sciences, there was an increasing interest in research organised around transcultural and interdisciplinary medieval Mediterranean questions that explicitly integrated in their scope Islam as a complex and multi-layered socio-cultural phenomenon. After all, conceptualisations of the Mediterranean had long been plagued by binary constructions that tended to ‘other’ its Islamic side, to consider it an intruder, outsider or opponent in Mediterranean places and spaces, conceived as rooted in antiquity and only re-integrated in an emerging Europe from the later Middle Ages onwards. Arguably, this goes back to Henri Pirenne’s development in the 1920s and 1930s of the much debated thesis – famously formulated in his Mahomet et Charlemagne as “sans Mahomet, Charlemagne est inconcevable” – that medieval Europe emerged only when the Arab-Muslim empire conquered the Mediterranean space and disrupted any further continuities between Mediterranean (late) antiquity and the Latin West. On the socio-economic side of things, this particular but influential construction of Mediterranean – and European – history was to a large extent made obsolete by the longue durée structuralism – and its many offshoots – of Fernand Braudel’s La Méditerranée et le monde méditerranéen à l’époque de Philippe II. A similar historical consciousness of socio-cultural medieval Mediterranean complexities and of the dynamics of cultural constructions and reproductions (whether of longue or courte durée) of a variety of Mediterranean frontiers – as in the Pirenne-thesis – was slower to catch up. Incorporating Islam into this latter problematisation was therefore an important step forward, and a journal for “Islam and the Medieval Mediterranean” served as a timely vehicle to offer some modest assistance in this respect (and the subsequent","PeriodicalId":42974,"journal":{"name":"Al-Masaq-Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean","volume":"11 1","pages":"1 - 2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2014-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75213006","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}