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1 online resource (xx, 655 pages) : illustrations |
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Studies in late antiquity and early Islam ; 26 |
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Studies in late antiquity and early Islam ; 26.
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| Contents |
1. Baghdād: political metropolis and intellectual center / Jens Scheiner & Damien Janos -- 2. Talking about Arab origins: the transmission of the Ayyām al-ʻarab in al-Kūfa, al-Baṣra and Baghdād / Isabel Toral-Niehoff -- 3. The language of the Arabs in early ninth century philology: an investigation of the term mathal in Abū ʻUbayda's Majāz al-Qurʼān / Nora Schmidt -- 4. 'Earnest and jest (al-jidd wa-l-hazl)' as an educational concept? Some considerations on selected works of al-Jāḥiẓ (d. 255/869) / Hans-Peter Pökel -- 5. Abū I-ʻAtāhiya and the versification of disenchantment / Nora K. Schmid -- 6. Teachers and Ḥadīth transmitters: The Quṣṣāṣ in Ibn Ḥanbal's Musnad / Jens Scheiner -- 7. 'We shall neither learn the Qurʼān nor teach it to our children': the Covenant of ʻUmar on learning / Clare Wilde -- 8. Christian learning about Islam in the early ʻAbbāsid Caliphate: the Muslim sources of the Disputation of the monk Abraham of Tiberias / Krisztina Szilágyi -- 9. Muḥammad b. Khalaf b. al-Marzbān (d. 309/921) and his role in translations from the middle Persian / Mohsen Zakeri -- 10. Why did Ḥunayn, the master translator into Arabic, make translations into Syriac? On the purpose of the Syriac translations of Ḥunayn and his circle / John Watt -- 11. Al-Maʼmūn's patronage of astrology: some biographical and institutional considerations / Damien Janos -- 12. Court astrologers and historical writing in early ʻAbbāsid Baghdād: an appraisal / Antoine Borrut -- 13. From lyrics by al-Fazārī to lectures by al-Fārābī: teaching astronomy in Baghdād (750-1000 C.E.) / Johannes Thomann -- 14. 'Until his eyes light up': Talmud teaching in Babylonian Geonic Yeshivot / Elisabetta Abate -- 15. Safeguarding Lord's word: the work of the Masoretes in Palestine and Babylon / Elvira Martín Contreras -- Sketches for Further Research. 16. 'Baghdād for lovers lies not far away': Baghdād and other imaginary places in a 7th/13th cent. manuscript of the Hundred and one nights / Claudia Ott ; 17. Historical writing in Baghdād: the case of the Futūḥ al-Shām ascribed to al-Wāqidī (d. 207/822) / Yoones Dehghani Farsani ; 18. Teaching Qurʼānic exegesis: some initial insights / Luise Ossenbach |
| Summary |
This work focuses on the intellectual and educational history of Baghdad in the early 'Abbāsid and Būyid periods (8th-19th centuries). It covers a wide range of disciplines taught in the metropolis before the institutionalization of the madrasa system. Among these fields of knowledge are Arabic poetry and literature, the transmission of prophetic reports, Arabic historiography and astronomical-astrological teaching. Christian learning in the city is highlighted by two contributions, while two more papers focus on Jewish practices of knowledge production. The volume seeks to promote a better understanding of Baghdad's multi-cultural circles of learning, the transmission of knowledge, and common patterns of patronage during this period -- Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
"First published in 2014 by Darwin Press Inc., Princeton NJ" -- title page verso |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Education -- Iraq -- Baghdad -- History -- To 1500
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Abbasids -- History
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Abbasids
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Education
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Intellectual life
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Baghdad (Iraq) -- Intellectual life -- To 1500
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Iraq -- History -- 634-1534. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85067943
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| Subject |
Iraq
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Iraq -- Baghdad
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Scheiner, Jens J., 1976- editor.
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Janos, Damien, editor.
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| ISBN |
9783959941310 |
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3959941315 |
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