Herbert W. Mason Ordine dei libri

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Part 1. On early and mediaeval Islam -- Quran and Quran exegesis -- The Denizens of Paradise -- The Hanbali School and Sufìsm -- Mamluke painting at the time of the 'Lusignan Crusade', 1365-70: A study of the Chester Beatty Nihayat al-Su'l wa'l-Umniya... etc., Ms of 1366 -- 'The Parrot and the Merchant': Adapted from the Persian poem 'Hekayat Tuti va Bazargan' by Rumi (1207-1273) -- Part 2. On modern Islam -- Nag? b Ma? f?? and secular man -- Islam and Christianity: A study of Muhammad Abduh's view of the two religions -- Some new al-Muwaili?? materials or the unpublished ? ad? th `? sa ibn Hish? m -- Glimpses from the life of Mawj? d 'Abd al-Mawj? d -- Part 3. Reflections -- On 'citizenship' in the Near East -- Part 4. Methodology. On history and anthropology in the study of Islam -- Islam as a religion -- Islam and the impact of the French colonial system in Morocco. A study in historical anthropology -- The politics of Islamic egalitarianism -- Religious experience, sacred symbols, and social reality. An illustration from Egypt -- Islam studied as a symbol and signification system -- Notes and comments -- Index -- Backmatter

Frontmatter -- Introduction -- Contents -- PART 1. North Africa -- Introduction -- Islamic education in Tunisia (ca. 800-1574) -- Early Moroccan reactions to the French protectorate: The cultural dimension -- Cultural problems and social structure: The Campaign for Arabization in Morocco -- The realm of justice: Apocalyptic revolts in Algeria (1849-1879) -- The Libyan revolution according to Meredith O. Ansell and Ibrahim Massaud al-Arif -- Arab Algerian literature revisited -- PART 2. Mediaeval Islam -- A seventh-century (A. H.) Sunnî creed: The 'Aqïda Wâsitïya of Ibn Taymïya -- A controversy on the problem of perception: Two religious outlooks in Islam -- Psychosomatic methods of cures in the Islamic Middle Ages -- Poetic structure in Arabic: Three poems by al-Mu'tamid Ibn 'Abbad -- PART 3. Turkish Islam and other cultures -- A young Croat's encounter with an exotic Muslim culture: A Serbo-Croatian travel epic of the nineteenth century -- Muscovite-Ottoman relations in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -- Orhan Veli Kanik and the beginnings of modern Turkish poetry -- The Alexander romance in the Diwan Lughat at-Turk -- PART 4. The state of Islamic studies -- Changes of perspective in Islamic studies over the last decades -- On teaching Islam to undergraduates -- List of contributors -- Index of proper names