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.

scholarly journals The Infancy and Development of Hadith in Central Asia

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 4537-4541
Keyword(s):  
Central Asia ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
13Th Century ◽  
Islamic Period ◽  
Late Middle Ages ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
Arab Muslim ◽  
Asian Cities ◽  
Early Islamic Period ◽  
Early Islamic

This article discusses process of beginnings and development of the Hadith study in Central Asia in the Early Islamic period. The first transmitters of hadith in Mawarannahr were the Arabs who participated in the wars of invasion. Among the first narrators of hadith (isnad) in Central Asia, were eyewitnesses the Prophet's life, called as’habs or companions of the Prophet. The second link in the chain of narrators of hadith was represented by at-tabi'in, i.e. followers of the Prophet's companions, who communicated hadith from the words of as’hab. In Mawarannahr, the followers were represented mostly by the ‘Arabs that settled in Marw and settlements in its environs in the second half of the 7th century. The next link in the chain of narrators of hadith is the tubba' at-tabi'in, the apprentice of a follower of the companions of Muhammad the Prophet, many of whom lived in Marw and its environs in the 8th century. Though at the beginning of the 8th century it was mainly the ‘Arabs and their Iranian mawali (pl. of mawla) who narrated hadith, by the mid-8th century this science had already been adopted by representatives of the Central Asian peoples. In subsequent centuries, the study of hadith was widespread in Central Asia and it became one of the leading centers of development of ‘Arab-Muslim scholarship and culture. Besides Marw and the other towns of Khurasan, the most important centers of hadith study in the region were Samarqand, Bukhara, Termiz, Nasaf, Kesh, Khwarizm, and Shash. The development of the science of hadith criticism gave impulse to another branch of science—the historical-biographical one. In the 9th century the first collections containing biographies of famous narrators of hadith were compiled. This practice fasted until the late Middle Ages. Written sources give us the biographies of 3,000 transmitters of hadith that lived in different Central Asian cities before the beginning of the 13th century.

scholarly journals "Qad kunna lā naʿbudu 'llāha wa-lā naʿrifuhu". On the Problem of the Pre-Islamic Lord of the Kaʿba

1970 ◽  
pp. 49-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pavel Pavlovitch
Keyword(s):  
Islamic Period ◽  
The World ◽  
Early Islamic Period ◽  
Early Islamic

This article deals with the problem of the pre-Islamic Lord of the Kaʿba. An attempt is made to critically review the accepted theory that Allah had been the main deity of this shrine long before Islam was revealed to the Prophet Muhammad. The evidence of scripture and our other sources suggests that the heathen Arabs may have been not particularly familiar with the notion of Allah as the greatest deity reigning over a swarm of lesser idols. Deities other than Allah were apparently greatly revered in the Kaʿba, and their role as lords of the sanctuary cannot be easily discarded. As for the concept of Allah as the main deity in the Kaʿba, the evidence seems to stem from the early Islamic period, when the monotheistic notion of God prevailed and brought with it a new understanding of history as a sequence of monotheistic prophecies beginning with the very creation of the world. This concept appears to be mainly responsible for the emergence of the belief that Allah was present in people’s faith from the days of Adam until the final reincarnation of His religion in Muhammad’s daʿwa.

scholarly journals Medieval Islamic Stucco Décor vs. Soviet Architecture of Uzbekistan

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guzel Zagirova
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Central Asia ◽  
Islamic Period ◽  
Central Asian ◽  
Ornamental Art ◽  
Early Islamic Period ◽  
Early Islamic ◽  
National Style

This is a review of what is termed ‘twentieth-century Central Asian national style’. It aims to answer the question of how the twentieth century treated the heritage of early Islamic ornamental art. My research uses the example of carved stucco architectural décor in Uzbekistan. This technique was traditional in both the early Islamic period and the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Uzbekistan was chosen because it possesses the most representative examples of architecture, illustrating common processes for all of Central Asia. I raise the questions of adoptions and rejections in stylisation, review the stages of reinterpretation and reconsideration, and finally propose my own periodisation.

Classes of Ladies of Cloistered Spaces

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marilyn Booth
Keyword(s):  
Book History ◽  
Women's History ◽  
Arabic Language ◽  
Islamic History ◽  
Islamic Period ◽  
Feminist History ◽  
The World ◽  
Columbian Exposition ◽  
Early Islamic Period ◽  
Early Islamic

This book history scrutinizes the production, advertising, contents, compilation and circulation – locally and globally – of an Arabic-language volume of biographies of world women, al-Durr al-manthur fi tabaqat rabbat al-khudur. The analysis of this volume of over 500 folio-size pages views it as an early work of Arab feminist history within the prolific career of Zaynab Fawwaz (c1850-1914), a Lebanese immigrant to Egypt and early feminist writer there. The study considers how Fawwaz drew on the venerable tradition of biography writing in Arabic but also turned to contemporary sources (magazines, an encyclopedia, world histories); how she centred Arab subjects and Islamic history but included women from across the world and from ancient eras right up to the fin-de-siècle; how she incorporated a quiet celebration of Shi‘i women (of which she was one), especially from the early Islamic period; how the work suggests a collective and cooperative female intellectual presence in the 1890s Arab capitals, and also responds to works on women’s history by her male contemporaries; and how Fawwaz’s writing became implicated in the project for a Women’s Library at the 1893 Columbian Exposition in Chicago.

The Western Marmarica Coastal Survey 2009: preliminary report

2009 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 179-187 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Hulin ◽  
Jane Timby ◽  
Giuseppina Mutri
Keyword(s):  
Coastal Area ◽  
Preliminary Report ◽  
Rock Art ◽  
Roman Period ◽  
The West ◽  
Islamic Period ◽  
Late Roman Period ◽  
Early Islamic Period ◽  
Early Islamic ◽  
Late Roman

AbstractThe 2009 season of the Western Marmarica Coastal Survey continued to document the settlement profile of the coastal area east of Tobruk, focussing upon the area around Marsa Lukk. Rock art was documented in the Wadi el-'Ayn and a number of Early-Mid Holocene sites were located there and to the west of Marsa Lukk. The survey continued to locate kiln sites of the Mid-Late Roman period. Two fortified sites were documented, spanning the Late Roman to Early Islamic period.

“Halting Between Two Opinions”: Conversion and Apostasy in Early Islam

2013 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 342-370 ◽  
Author(s):  
Uriel Simonsohn
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Church Leaders ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Present Discussion ◽  
Islamic Period ◽  
Legal Problems ◽  
Early Islam ◽  
Early Islamic Period ◽  
Early Islamic

Abstract The phenomenon of individuals converting to Islam and later returning to their former religions is well attested in both narrative and documentary records from the early Islamic period. Such shifts in religious commitments posed social and legal problems for the communities to which their former members sought reentry. Specifically, legal authorities were faced with the challenge of assessing the trustworthiness of returning apostates, whether their return was wholehearted and sincere or, rather, opportunistic and deceitful. The present discussion offers the historical context and a comparative analysis of some of the legal mechanisms by which the Jewish geʾonim of Babylonia and Eastern Christian church leaders attempted to overcome this challenge.

Manuscript sources for some motifs in early Islamic glass painting

1986 ◽  
Vol 118 (2) ◽  
pp. 214-227
Author(s):  
Marian Wenzel
Keyword(s):  
Islamic Period ◽  
Early Islam ◽  
Scant Attention ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Early Islamic Period ◽  
Early Islamic ◽  
Islamic Glass

The study of decorated glassware from the early Islamic period hinges very largely on the classification and dating of fragments, since few complete vessels have survived. Perhaps for this reason the subject, though full of interest for the glass historian, has received rather scant attention in the literature. The purpose of this article is to suggest that surviving examples of painted lustre glass from this period enable us to identify several ways in which manuscript models were used by glass craftsmen in the sphere of early Islam.

Scribal Repertoires in Egypt from the New Kingdom to the Early Islamic Period

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Historical Sociolinguistics ◽  
Islamic Period ◽  
The People ◽  
Modern Egypt ◽  
Early Islamic Period ◽  
Early Islamic ◽  
Point Of Departure

This volume deals with the possibility of glimpsing pre-modern and early modern Egyptian scribes, the people who actually produced ancient documents, through the ways in which they organized and wrote those documents. Breaking with the traditional conception of variation in scribal texts as ‘free’ or indicative of ‘corruption’, this volume reconceptualizes scribal variation in pre-modern Egypt from the point of view of contemporary historical sociolinguistics, seeing scribes as agents embedded in particular geographical, temporal, and sociocultural environments. This volume comprises a set of studies of scribal variation, beginning from the well-established domain of scribal variation in pre-modern English as a methodological point of departure, and proceeding to studies of scribal variation spanning thousands of years, from Pharaonic to Late Antique and Islamic Egypt. This volume introduces to Egyptology concepts such as scribal communities, networks, and repertoires, and applies them to a variety of phenomena, including features of lexicon, grammar, orthography, palaeography, layout, and format.

Maritime trade in early Islamic-period glass: New evidence from the Maʻagan Mikhael B shipwreck

2021 ◽  
Vol 37 ◽  
pp. 102903
Author(s):  
Eyal Natan ◽  
Yael Gorin-Rosen ◽  
Agnese Benzonelli ◽  
Deborah Cvikel
Keyword(s):  
Maritime Trade ◽  
Islamic Period ◽  
Early Islamic Period ◽  
New Evidence ◽  
Early Islamic
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