Power, Patronage, and Memory in Early Islam

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
World History ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
The West ◽  
Indus Valley ◽  
Fresh Material ◽  
State Apparatus ◽  
Early Islam ◽  
The World ◽  
Material Evidence ◽  
New Religion

The Umayyads, the first Islamic dynasty, ruled over the largest empire that the world had seen, stretching from Spain in the west to the Indus Valley and Central Asia in the east. They played a crucial rule in the articulation of the new religion of Islam during the seventh and eighth centuries, shaping its public face, artistic expressions, and the state apparatus that sustained it. The present volume brings together a collection of essays that bring new light to this crucial period of world history, with a focus on the ways in which Umayyad elites fashioned and projected their image and how these articulations, in turn, mirrored their times. These themes are approached through a wide variety of sources, from texts through art and archaeology to architecture, with new considerations of old questions and fresh material evidence that make the intersections and resonances between different fields of historical study come alive.

The Mongol Empire and the Unification of Eurasia

2021 ◽  
pp. 507-532
Author(s):  
Nikolay P. Kradin
Keyword(s):  
British Empire ◽  
World History ◽  
Global Communication ◽  
Bubonic Plague ◽  
The West ◽  
Old World ◽  
Technological Growth ◽  
The World ◽  
Age Of Discovery ◽  
Mongol Empire

The Mongolian polity was the greatest pre-industrial empire, and second in the world history after the British Empire. It was established by the out-of-nowhere people of pastoral nomads. Nevertheless, the Mongolian Empire has played a great role in the world. Its founder, Genghis Khan, was even named the man of the second millennium. After termination of the murderous conquests, the Mongols became the trigger for building the global communication system in which gas stimulated the technological, cultural, and ideological exchanges between the civilizations of the Old World and contributed indirectly to the bubonic plague. The medieval Mongolian globalization laid the groundwork for subsequent technological growth, the age of discovery, and the rise of the West.

Editing the first Journal of World History: global history from inside the kitchen

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-178
Author(s):  
Gabriela Goldin Marcovich ◽  
Rahul Markovits
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
World History ◽  
Global History ◽  
The South ◽  
The West ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Relational History

AbstractThis article offers the first study of the Cahiers d’Histoire Mondiale, the Journal of World History published under the auspices of UNESCO from 1953 to 1972 as a by-product of the ‘History of mankind’ project. Drawing on material in the UNESCO archives, it delves into what Lucien Febvre, the first editor of the Cahiers, called his ‘kitchen’, in order to understand world history as a practice. Data on author origin and article subject matter point to the journal’s mitigated success in overcoming Eurocentrism. The article ultimately contends that the Cahiers was at once a laboratory that experimented with new forms of relational history, and a forum where the very nature of world history was discussed by scholars from around the world (mainly from the West, but also from the East and the South). It suggests that today’s epistemological discussion on global history might benefit from the reflection offered by this now largely forgotten experiment.

Harappan Outposts on the Makran Coast

Antiquity ◽  
1962 ◽  
Vol 36 (142) ◽  
pp. 86-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
George F. Dales
Keyword(s):  
Persian Gulf ◽  
The West ◽  
Indus Valley ◽  
Harappan Civilization ◽  
The World ◽  
The Persian Gulf ◽  
Coast Site

The widespread remains of the Indus Valley or Harappan civilization—contemporaneous in part with the great civilizations of Mesopotamia and Egypt—present at first glance a picture of sterile isolationism. Yet none of the great civilizations of the world originated or thrived in a cultural and economic vacuum. There are, in fact, certain material indications of contact between the Harappans and their western contemporaries? Also, there is a strong Mesopotamian seafaring tradition attested to in cuneiform economic documents and mythological literature. The discovery of Indus type stamp seals in southern Mesopotamia and the Persian Gulf area suggested that at least part of the Mesopotamian seafaring activities were directed toward the east. The identification, some thirty years ago, of the Makran Coast site of Sutkagen-dor as a Harappan settlement added further weight to the probability of sea contacts between the Indus and the West.

N.I. KAREEV ON THE GENERAL HUMANITARIAN CHARACTER OF F. SCHELLING'S PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY

2020 ◽  
pp. 20-26
Author(s):  
N.A. Soboleva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
World History ◽  
Philosophy Of History ◽  
The West ◽  
Positive Potential ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
The World ◽  
Cultural Dialogue ◽  
New Education

It is shown that the representative of the Russian positivist philosophy of history N.I. Kareev left behind a huge array of historiosophical reviews that are important for permanent understanding of the essence of world history. It is concluded that N.I. Kareev, as a thinker who stands on the platform of multi-factor analysis, was able to see the positive potential of various concepts of world history. In particular, in the metaphysical legacy of F. Schelling, N.I. Kareev found ideas that could unite seemingly dissimilar interpretations of world history. As such, N.I. Kareev highlights two ideas of the German thinker. The first idea: the merging of cultures that are opposite in their foundations can give rise to a new education and encourage a cultural dialogue. The second one: the world history is the duality and interdependence of the cultures of the West and the East.

Ancient Egypt and the Near East in World History

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 11-28
Author(s):  
Marc Van De Mieroop
Keyword(s):  
Human Activities ◽  
Near East ◽  
World History ◽  
Ancient Egypt ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Global History ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Final Question ◽  
Material Evidence

Abstract Ancient Egypt and the Near East are central to many histories that aim to look at the world in its entirety, mostly because they are the earliest cultures that are well-documented both with textual and material evidence. This article surveys how these studies use that evidence in the various ways the discipline of world or global history is practiced. Those include chronological narratives of human activities from prehistory up to today, investigations that consider the worlds in which the peoples of ancient Egypt and the Near East lived, and comparative studies that seek to explain how certain features of human society and culture came about. The final question it addresses is whether the people of ancient Egypt and the Near East had any interest in a global history themselves.

scholarly journals Superstitions as Cultural Identity Markers in Esther David’s The Man with Enormous Wings and My Father’s Zoo

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (11) ◽  
pp. 12
Author(s):  
Suresh Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Crucial Role ◽  
The West ◽  
Human Settlements ◽  
Indus Valley ◽  
The World ◽  
Identity Markers

Superstitions play a crucial role in driving the lives of people all over the world. Every culture does have a particular set of superstitions. Since literature is the reflection of society, writers keep attempting to portray the mindsets of people through fictional as well as non-fictional texts. Popular superstitions in the West like regarding the number thirteen, black cats, and breaking of the mirror as unlucky are some, which prevail. In India too, we have similar superstitions such as putting a spot of soot on a baby’s forehead commonly. Shreds of evidence of superstitious practices can be found even in the earliest human settlements in the later Paleolithic and Neolithic periods. The presence of many things of daily-needs in the graves of those periods confirms the superstitious practices rampant in that society. Even in the highly developed civilization of Indus valley, amulets were used possibly to prevent evil forces. Traces of Superstitions can also be found during the adventurous and courageous Aryan period. Superstition not only controls the minds of the illiterate people but also of the literate ones equally.

scholarly journals “Ḥudūd al-cĀlam” about cities and settlements of Maverannahr in the early Islamic period

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 300-308
Author(s):  
D. Abdulloev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
The West ◽  
Islamic Period ◽  
Present Information ◽  
Early Islam ◽  
The World ◽  
Rivers And Lakes ◽  
Complete Translation ◽  
Early Islamic Period ◽  
Early Islamic

This article concerns towns and settlements of Mavarannahr of the early Islam period after the information from an anonym geographic work with the Arab title “Ḥudūd al-‘ālam min al-Mashriq ilá l-Maghrib” (“The limits of the World from the east to the west”) written in the year 372 of Hijrah (AD 982). This writing has attracted the attention of many historians and orientalists both in Russia and abroad. Nevertheless, there is no complete translation of this book, and so we first present information in Russian from this source about cities and settlements of Central Asia of the early Islamic period. In addition, we have succeeded, on the basis of archaeological evidence, to localize a number of cities and settlements mentioned in this source. Original and modern names of some rivers and lakes have been identified as well.

The Muslim Discovery of Europe

1957 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 409-416 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
World History ◽  
European History ◽  
The West ◽  
Stages Of Growth ◽  
The World ◽  
West European

I suppose that most textbooks of European history or of world history—which in European textbooks is much the same thing—contain a chapter called ‘The Age of the Discoveries’, or something of the kind, which deals with the period from the fifteenth century onwards when Western Europe set about discovering the rest of the world. My subject to-day is another and earlier discovery, in which the West European was not the explorer going forth to discover the barbarian, but the barbarian discovered by the explorer—the Muslim explorer. My purpose is to outline, very briefly, the sources, nature, and stages of growth of Muslim knowledge concerning Western Europe, first in the obscure centuries before the Crusades, then during that great offensive of Western Christendom against Islam, of which the expeditions to Palestine were the easternmost expression.

World-system analysis VS schema of the world history by K. Jaspers in proving global historic role of the West

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (12_1) ◽  
pp. 59-71
Author(s):  
Sultana Ktsoeva ◽  
Alina Khadikova ◽  
Zalina Plieva ◽  
Irina Lokhova
Keyword(s):  
System Analysis ◽  
World History ◽  
World System ◽  
The West ◽  
The World
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