AL-QANTARAPub Date : 2014-12-30DOI: 10.3989/ALQANTARA.2014.020
Ulisse Cecini
{"title":"Algunas observaciónes sobre la traducción de los nombres propios en las traducciónes latinas del Corán de Marcos de Toledo y Robert de Ketton","authors":"Ulisse Cecini","doi":"10.3989/ALQANTARA.2014.020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3989/ALQANTARA.2014.020","url":null,"abstract":"This article presents Robert of Ketton’s (1143) and Mark of Toledo’s (1210) Latin translations of proper names appearing in the Qur’ān. Proper names represent a particular sub-group of words that challenges the translator in his task as a mediator between two cultures. Proper names are in fact tied to the person or the entity to which they belong and cannot, in absolute terms, be translated without losing their characteristic of being “proper.” In the article, the names are divided in different categories and the different methods are explained, that each translator uses to render the names in the translation. Final remarks try to formulate some hypotheses in order to explain the different choices of each translator in the context of their respective Qur’ān translation.","PeriodicalId":44299,"journal":{"name":"AL-QANTARA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2014-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83136065","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AL-QANTARAPub Date : 2014-12-30DOI: 10.3989/ALQANTARA.2014.015
Mercedes García-Arenal, K. Starczewska
{"title":"The Law of Abraham the Catholic: Juan Gabriel as Qur’an Translator for Martín de Figuerola and Egidio da Viterbo","authors":"Mercedes García-Arenal, K. Starczewska","doi":"10.3989/ALQANTARA.2014.015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3989/ALQANTARA.2014.015","url":null,"abstract":"The main aim of this article is to investigate the similarities between the Latin translation of the Qur’ān commissioned by the Italian cardinal Egidio da Viterbo (first version, 1518) and Quranic quotations included in a treatise entitled Lumbre de fe contra el Alcoran (Valencia, 1521) authored by a Catholic preacher, Fray Johan Martin de Figuerola, in order to corroborate the hypothesis that the texts share a common author. The person regarded as the link between them is a convert from Islam to Christianity known as Juan Gabriel from Teruel, formerly Ali Alayzar. The arguments in favour of this thesis are presented, first of all, within a historical description of the circumstances and coincidences of the people involved in the production of the two translation projects; secondly, textual evidence is put forward in which correspondences, similarities and differences are highlighted and discussed. We also consider the similarities to the quotations in Juan Andres’s Confusion o confutacion del Alcoran , drawing attention to a circle of other Christian polemicists around Martin Garcia who were all working in various ways with the Arabic Qur’ān.","PeriodicalId":44299,"journal":{"name":"AL-QANTARA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2014-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86818862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AL-QANTARAPub Date : 2014-06-30DOI: 10.3989/ALQANTARA.2014.007
Giuseppe Mandalà
{"title":"Martirio político y censura religiosa en la Sicilia islámica: un caso de la época de Ibrāhīm II (261-289/875-902)","authors":"Giuseppe Mandalà","doi":"10.3989/ALQANTARA.2014.007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3989/ALQANTARA.2014.007","url":null,"abstract":"At the end of Sicily’s Islamic period, the Mālikī juridical school was firmly rooted and documented in the island; but like many aspects of the cultural life of the island during \u0000the Islamic Age, the historical process that led to this situation is yet to be clarified. The present study aims to contribute by providing a historical context for a passage of the Kitāb al-miḥan, a book of Islamic martyrology written by Abūl-‘Arab Muḥammad al-Tamīmī (d. 333/945), which until now has been overlooked by every study – both old and new – on Islamic Sicily. The works relates how a judge living and working in Sicily, Aḥmad b. Muḥammad al-Ṭā’ī, known as Ibn al-Majjānī, was imprisoned and tortured at the behest of Ibrāhīm II (261-289/875-902), the Aghlabid sovereign who has been of most interest to historians. Other than establishing a plausible date for the event (275/888-889), the article analyses the historical role of places and people, placing the ‘martyrdom’ of Ibn al-Majjānī in the context of the political repression exerted by Ibrāhīm II following the episode of Ibn Ṭālib (d. 275/888-889) and the subsequent religious censorship imposed by the Aghlabid at the expense of the Mālikī elites in Ifrīqiya and, perhaps also, in the nearby wilāya of Sicily.","PeriodicalId":44299,"journal":{"name":"AL-QANTARA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2014-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72468348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AL-QANTARAPub Date : 2014-06-30DOI: 10.3989/ALQANTARA.2014.006
Samir Kaddouri
{"title":"Dissimulation des opinions politiques sous contrôle: Le cas d’Ibn Ḥazm à Séville","authors":"Samir Kaddouri","doi":"10.3989/ALQANTARA.2014.006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3989/ALQANTARA.2014.006","url":null,"abstract":"This article tackles a difficult problem involving the biography of Ibn Ḥazm, namely the classical Arab historians have alluded to the fact that al-Mu‛taḍid, king of Seville, had persecuted Ibn Ḥazm and decreed that his books must be burnt. The same historians give no explicit nor accurate details on the political circumstances that led to this tragedy. We have studied and reconstructed the historical context of the events while taking greater advantage of some new facts discovered from our recent study on the textual history of Kitāb al-Faṣl.","PeriodicalId":44299,"journal":{"name":"AL-QANTARA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2014-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76349674","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AL-QANTARAPub Date : 2014-06-30DOI: 10.3989/ALQANTARA.2014.001
C. Benchekroun
{"title":"Rāšid et les Idrissides: l’histoire “originelle” du Maroc entre marginalisation et glorification","authors":"C. Benchekroun","doi":"10.3989/ALQANTARA.2014.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3989/ALQANTARA.2014.001","url":null,"abstract":"The dynasty of Idrisids is considered as the first of Morocco’s Islamic history. Nevertheless only the two figures of Idrīs I and Idrīs II are known by the general public and take up the specialists’ attentions. The character of Rāsid is completely left apart by the researchers. And yet he is the one who led future Idrīs I from Mecca to Volubilis, the one who succeeded him as head of the state and who had governed the country for twelve years (three times longer than Idrīs), and finally the one who minted coins with his name. I recently deal with this question in another article: the coins are from Volubilis, but also from the capital of the Rustumides, Tāhirt, that Rāsid certainly conquered. Moreover, he could have founded Fez for the first coins are minted in the city during his regency. All of this leads us to believe that this mysterious figure has played an important role and deserves a bigger place in the history books than he has today.","PeriodicalId":44299,"journal":{"name":"AL-QANTARA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2014-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89629993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AL-QANTARAPub Date : 2014-06-30DOI: 10.3989/ALQANTARA.2014.V35.I1.318
Maribel Fierro
{"title":"Introducción.El control del conocimiento en las sociedades islámicas","authors":"Maribel Fierro","doi":"10.3989/ALQANTARA.2014.V35.I1.318","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3989/ALQANTARA.2014.V35.I1.318","url":null,"abstract":"These are the famous verses with which the Cordoban Ibn Hazm (d. 456/1064) reacted to the burning of his books. Samir Kaddouri proposes the dates 455-6/1063-4 as those when this burning could have taken place in Seville and argues that the ruling Taifa king, al-Mu,tadid, allowed it to happen most especially because Ibn Hazm had been as outspoken as usual in attacking the fiction of the false Umayyad caliph Hisham II devised by the Abbadid king to legitimize his rule. As in so AL-QANTARA XXXV 1, enero-junio 2014 pp. 127-134 ISSN 0211-3589 doi: 10.3989/alqantara.2014.005","PeriodicalId":44299,"journal":{"name":"AL-QANTARA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2014-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88661250","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AL-QANTARAPub Date : 2014-06-30DOI: 10.3989/ALQANTARA.2014.011
Daphna Ephrat
{"title":"Purificando el sufismo: observaciones sobre la marginación y exclusión de elementos indeseables y rechazados en el Período medio temprano (finales s. IV/X-mediados s. VII/XIII)","authors":"Daphna Ephrat","doi":"10.3989/ALQANTARA.2014.011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3989/ALQANTARA.2014.011","url":null,"abstract":"This article offers observations on the process of differentiation and purification within premodern Sufism during a seminal period in the institutionalization of the Sufi ṭarīqa as a Path to God and as a community of followers. Drawing on manuals and narratives by prominent articulators and representatives of the emerging mainstream Sufi tradition, the article highlights the discursive and actual mechanisms they employed to delineate the borderlines of affiliation with the communities of the genuine Sufis, disentangle the solid-core from lay affiliates, and exclude undesirable elements wrongly associated with Sufism. The construction of higher barriers between mainstream Sufism and its margins is closely tied to the spread of popular forms of Sufism and a new kind of antinomianism that gained popularity in the public sphere, beginning in the late sixth/twelfth century. The final part of the article considers the involvement of the political rulers of the time in the inner dynamics of Sufism. My main conclusion is that by patronizing mainstream Sufis and supporting arbiters of true religion in the public sphere, the ruling elite of military lords in the Arab Near East played a significant role in marginalizing the undesirable and rejected elements and in strengthening the mainstream Sunni camp against its rivals.","PeriodicalId":44299,"journal":{"name":"AL-QANTARA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2014-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79688932","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AL-QANTARAPub Date : 2014-06-30DOI: 10.3989/ALQANTARA.2014.008
Monica Balda-Tillier
{"title":"La pasión prohibida: el libro sobre el martirio por amor de Mugulṭāy y su censura","authors":"Monica Balda-Tillier","doi":"10.3989/ALQANTARA.2014.008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3989/ALQANTARA.2014.008","url":null,"abstract":"Al-Wāḍiḥ al-mubīn fī ḏhikr man ustushhida min al-muḥibbīn by Mughulṭāy (d. 762/1361) is the only love treatise whose reading was ever prohibited in the entire history of the genre. The reasons alleged in ancient sources are insufficient or not explicit enough on the reasons why Mughulṭāy’s book was burned in the public square and withdrawn from the book market in 14ᵗʰ-century Cairo. This article consists of an attempt to understand the reasons behind this prohibition.","PeriodicalId":44299,"journal":{"name":"AL-QANTARA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2014-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80021947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AL-QANTARAPub Date : 2014-06-30DOI: 10.3989/ALQANTARA.2014.009
C. Melchert
{"title":"The Destruction of Books by Traditionists","authors":"C. Melchert","doi":"10.3989/ALQANTARA.2014.009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3989/ALQANTARA.2014.009","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is a survey of the destruction of books particularly by traditionists (collectors, transmitters, and critics of hadith) and particularly in the ninth century CE and before, offered as an addendum to Omar Ali de Unzaga’s forthcoming study of book burning in Islam. The destruction of books from distrust of written transmission has been adequately brought out by Michael Cook. What I chiefly add to previous scholarly accounts are some additional examples, a brief consideration of destroying books for the sake of orthodoxy, and a better account of pious reasons for destroying books, which had much to do with distrust not of writing hadith but of teaching it as a temptation to pride and a distraction from weightier things.","PeriodicalId":44299,"journal":{"name":"AL-QANTARA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2014-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89122474","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AL-QANTARAPub Date : 2014-06-30DOI: 10.3989/ALQANTARA.2014.010
Michael Lecker
{"title":"Notas sobre censura y auto-censura en la biografía del Profeta Muḥammad","authors":"Michael Lecker","doi":"10.3989/ALQANTARA.2014.010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3989/ALQANTARA.2014.010","url":null,"abstract":"The study of the medieval literary output about Muḥammad’s life should go hand in hand with the study of his history, for which we have rich evidence in a variety of sources. Ibn Isḥāq’s biography of Muḥammad and its epitome by Ibn Hishām were products of their time. A case of self-censorship applied by one of Ibn Isḥāq’s informants and two cases of censorship applied by Ibn Hishām, who omitted many of his predecessor’s materials, contribute to a better understanding of the social and political context of the biography.","PeriodicalId":44299,"journal":{"name":"AL-QANTARA","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2014-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73094575","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}