The Book in the Islamic World
Title | The Book in the Islamic World PDF eBook |
Author | George N. Atiyeh |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 1995-07-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 079149540X |
The Book in the Islamic World brings together serious studies on the book as an intellectual entity and as a vehicle of cultural development. Written by a group of distinguished scholars, it examines and reflects upon this unique tool of communication not as a physical artifact but as a manifestation of the aspirations, values, and wisdom of Arabs and Muslims in general. The Islamic system of book production differed from that of the West. This volume shows the peculiarities of book making and the intellectual principles that governed a book's inner structure, mysteries, and impact on culture. Investigated and explained are the issues involved in printing; the compilation of the Koran, the most important book in Islam; attitudes toward books; the oral versus the written tradition; metaphors of the book in literature; biographical dictionaries, an important genre of Islamic books; the grammatical tradition; women's contribution to calligraphy; scientific manuscripts; the transition from scribal to print culture; publishing in the modern Arab World; and the new electronic media, a non-book vehicle of communication, and its impact on education.
Islamic Literature
Title | Islamic Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Lucy Sackett Smith |
Publisher | The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |
Pages | 138 |
Release | 2017-07-15 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 1680486152 |
Written in various languages, on multiple continents, and over many centuries, Islamic literature encompasses a rich and varied body of texts. While mention is made of key historical and religious works, this volume focuses on poetry and literary prose, whether popular or courtly in inspiration. Topics covered include dominant genres, recurring patterns in imagery, the influence of pre-Islamic Arabian literature, and the periods of development that Islamic literature passed through from the seventh century CE to the present day. This insightful and wide-ranging overview introduces readers to authors such as Yunus Emre, Rumi, ?afez, and Fuzuli of Baghdad. An invaluable resource!
Islamic Literature in Contemporary Turkey
Title | Islamic Literature in Contemporary Turkey PDF eBook |
Author | K. Cayir |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 2016-04-16 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0230605699 |
This book explores the changing understandings of Islam by focusing on the Islamist movement's production of literary fiction since the early 1980s. By focusing on Islamic literary narratives of the period, this study introduces issues of change, space, history and analytical relation that are excluded by the essentialist reading of Islamism.
Islamic Literature in Spanish and Aljamiado
Title | Islamic Literature in Spanish and Aljamiado PDF eBook |
Author | Gerard Wiegers |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 2023-12-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004624236 |
This important work is an historical study of the Islamic writings in Spanish and Aljamiado (Spanish in Arabic script) of the Muslim minorities in medieval Christian Spain, the Mudejars and Moriscos. On the basis of both Christian sources, such as archival documents and the writings of John of Segovia, and Islamic sources in Spanish and Arabic, this book focuses on the life and writings of Yça Gidelli (ca 1450), religious authority of the Mudejar community of Segovia (Castile). Of crucial importance for the history of Islamic Spanish literature, Yça's best-known work is a Spanish translation of the Qur’ān made at the request of bishop John of Segovia (d. 1458). This study follows the early history of Islamic writings in the vernacular (13th-14th centuries), continues with a description of Yça's writings and biography, and finally deals with his influence on Moriscos in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Biblical Prophets in the Qur'an and Muslim Literature
Title | Biblical Prophets in the Qur'an and Muslim Literature PDF eBook |
Author | Roberto Tottoli |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 224 |
Release | 2013-01-11 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1136123229 |
Part 1 is a comprehensive study of the Qur'anic data about each prophet, with a full portrait of every figure and dealing also with all the major scholarly literature on the subject and with the Qur'anic concept of prophetology. Part 2 is a history and study of the general Muslim literature dealing with the prophets.
Indonesian Islamic Fiction in the 21st Century: Representations of the Other in the Works of Forum Lingkar Pena
Title | Indonesian Islamic Fiction in the 21st Century: Representations of the Other in the Works of Forum Lingkar Pena PDF eBook |
Author | Muh Arif Rokhman |
Publisher | UAD PRESS |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2022-01-28 |
Genre | Young Adult Nonfiction |
ISBN | 6235635176 |
THIS BOOK examines a selection of fictional works by writers belonging to the Indonesian association of writers, Forum Lingkar Pena (Pen Circle Forum; hereafter referred to as FLP). Figures from 2010 suggest that this organisation had around 5,000 members across 93 Indonesian branches and ten overseas branches. Writers recruited and trained by FLP have produced approximately nine hundred published works. Their works are often categorised as Islamic or religious literature (sastra religi). This label-ling of FLP’s literary output as Islamic literature has arisen principally be-cause of the publicly expressed aims and beliefs of key FLP figures which include such notions as sastra dakwah (literature for religious propaga-tion). In order to contextualise the emergence of FLP in the final years of the twentieth century and to locate this organisation within wider Indo-nesian literary developments, it is necessary to take account of cultural debates that came to the fore with the profound social and political changes which accompanied the end of the New Order regime in 1998.
Islam, Literature and Society in Mongol Anatolia
Title | Islam, Literature and Society in Mongol Anatolia PDF eBook |
Author | A. C. S. Peacock |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 313 |
Release | 2019-10-17 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1108499368 |
A new understanding of the transformation of Anatolia to a Muslim society in the thirteenth-fourteenth centuries based on previously unpublished sources.