Culture and Civilization in the Middle East
About the Book Series
This series studies the Middle East through the twin foci of its diverse cultures and civilizations. Comprising original monographs as well as scholarly surveys, it covers topics in the fields of Middle Eastern literature, archaeology, law, history, philosophy, science, folklore, art, architecture and language. While there is a plurality of views, the series presents serious scholarship in a lucid and stimulating fashion.
Classical Mathematics from Al-Khwarizmi to Descartes
1st Edition
By Roshdi Rashed
December 12, 2019
This book follows the development of classical mathematics and the relation between work done in the Arab and Islamic worlds and that undertaken by the likes of Descartes and Fermat.‘Early modern,’ mathematics is a term widely used to refer to the mathematics which developed in the West during the ...
Ethics in Islam: Friendship in the Political Thought of Al-Tawhidi and his Contemporaries
1st Edition
By Nuha Al-Shaar
December 12, 2019
Offering a new reading of Islamic ethical and political thought in the Būyid period (334-440/946-1048), this book focuses particularly on the philosopher Abū Hayyān al-Tawhīdī who lived in Baghdad and what is now western Iran. Ethics in Islam provides the first major treatment of al-Tawhīdī's ...
Founding Figures and Commentators in Arabic Mathematics: A History of Arabic Sciences and Mathematics Volume 1
1st Edition
By Roshdi Rashed, Nader El-Bizri
December 12, 2019
In this unique insight into the history and philosophy of mathematics and science in the mediaeval Arab world, the eminent scholar Roshdi Rashed illuminates the various historical, textual and epistemic threads that underpinned the history of Arabic mathematical and scientific knowledge up to the ...
Ibn al-Haytham's Geometrical Methods and the Philosophy of Mathematics: A History of Arabic Sciences and Mathematics Volume 5
1st Edition
Edited
By Roshdi Rashed
December 12, 2019
This fifth volume of A History of Arabic Sciences and Mathematics is complemented by four preceding volumes which focused on the main chapters of classical mathematics: infinitesimal geometry, theory of conics and its applications, spherical geometry, mathematical astronomy, etc.This book includes ...
Legal Authority in Premodern Islam: Yahya B Sharaf Al-Nawawi in the Shafi'i School of Law
1st Edition
By Fachrizal A. Halim
December 12, 2019
Offering a detailed analysis of the structure of authority in Islamic law, this book focuses on the figure of Yahyā b. Sharaf al-Nawawī, who is regarded as the chief contributor to the legal tradition known as the Shāfi'ī madhhab in traditional Muslim sources, named after Muhammad b. Idrīs ...
Literature and the Islamic Court: Cultural life under al-Sahib Ibn 'Abbad
1st Edition
By Erez Naaman
December 12, 2019
Courts were the most important frameworks for the production, performance, and evaluation of literature in medieval Islamic civilization. Patrons vying for prestige attracted to their courts literary people who sought their financial support. The most successful courts assembled outstanding ...
Moral Rationalism and Shari'a: Independent rationality in modern Shi'i usul al-Fiqh
1st Edition
By Ali-Reza Bhojani
December 12, 2019
Moral Rationalism and Sharī'a is the first attempt at outlining the scope for a theological reading of Sharī'a, based on a critical examination of why 'Adliyya theological ethics have not significantly impacted Shī'ī readings of Sharī'a. Within Shī'ī works of Sharī 'a legal theory (usūl al-fiqh) ...
New Horizons in Qur'anic Linguistics: A Syntactic, Semantic and Stylistic Analysis
1st Edition
By Hussein Abdul-Raof
December 12, 2019
New Horizons in Qur'anic Linguistics provides a panoramic insight into the Qur'anic landscape fenced by innate syntactic, semantic and stylistic landmarks where context and meaning have closed ranks to impact morphological form in order to achieve variegated illocutionary forces. It provides a ...
Orthodoxy and Islam: Theology and Muslim�Christian Relations in Modern Greece and Turkey
1st Edition
By Archimandrite Nikodemos Anagnostopoulos
December 12, 2019
Church History reveals that Christianity has its roots in Palestine during the first century and was spread throughout the Mediterranean countries by the Apostles. However, despite sharing the same ancestry, Muslims and Christians have been living in a challenging symbiotic co-existence for more ...
Religious Scholars and the Umayyads: Piety-Minded Supporters of the Marwanid Caliphate
1st Edition
By Steven Judd
December 12, 2019
Religious Scholars and the Umayyads analyzes legal and theological developments during the Marwānid period (64/684--132/750), focusing on religious scholars who supported the Umayyads. Their scholarly network extended across several generations and significantly influenced the development of the ...
Shi'i Theology in Iran: The Challenge of Religious Experience
1st Edition
By Ori Goldberg
December 12, 2019
Taking a theologically oriented method for engaging with historical and cultural phenomena, this book explores the challenge, offered by revolutionary Shi’i theology in Iran, to Western conventions on theology, revolution and religion’s role in the creation of identity.Offering a stringent critique...
Skepticism in Classical Islam: Moments of Confusion
1st Edition
By Paul L. Heck
December 12, 2019
The first major treatment of skepticism in Islam, this book explores the critical role of skeptical thinking in the development of theology in Islam. It examines the way key thinkers in classical Islam faced perplexing questions about the nature of God and his relation to the world, all the while ...