scholarly journals Corisande Fenwick, Early Islamic North Africa. A new perspective, Londres, Bloomsbury Academic Publishing - Debates in Archaeology, 2021, 224 págs.

Medievalismo ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 447-449
Author(s):  
Ana MATEOS-OROZCO
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Liese Nef

Early Islamic North Africa. A New Perspective, by Corisande Fenwick. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020. 202pp., $90. ISBN-13: 9781350075184.


2016 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 134-137
Author(s):  
Rose Aslan

In The Holy City of Medina: Sacred Space in Early Islamic Arabia, HarryMunt offers a much-needed look at the history of Madinah through scholars’writing about its significance and the construction of its sanctity. By examiningthe city’s history through a spatial lens, Munt presents a new perspective on134 The American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 33:3the history of a city that has been written about for more than a millennium.While Madinah has served as a catalyst of religious formation, identity, andpractice, until now it has not been studied as a sanctified city (ḥaram) in andof itself.As the city that welcomed Makkah’s Muslim refugees, Madinah has arich and complicated history. In addition, it is a sacred city. While modernMuslims primarily view it as sacred because of the presence of the Prophet’sgrave, the author returns to early Islamic sources to understand how earlyMuslim scholars between the seventh to the ninth centuries viewed the cityand how it became sanctified. He argues against the modern normative Islamicviewpoint that the city was immediately viewed as sacred and posits that ittook several centuries for the normative viewpoint to consolidate into a popularnarrative ...


Author(s):  
Asma Hilali

Purpose: This paper addresses methodological issues related to the concept of ‘Qur’ānic variants and readings’ (qirā’a pl. qirā’āt and ḥarf pl. aḥruf, respectively). I investigate the way they have been depicted in early Islamic narratives, developed in the field of medieval Islamic Qur’ānic sciences (ʿulūm al-Qur’ān), and discussed in Western Qur’ānic studies scholarship in the last two decades. Methodology: The paper proceeds chronologically by discussing variants in the three aforementioned fields: early narratives, classical Islamic Qur’ānic sciences (ʿulūm al-Qur’ān), and modern Western scholarship. Findings: The paper shows the necessity of generating a new approach to studying the history of the Qur’ān and its main concepts. The epistemological tools used in Western Qur’ānic studies on the history of the text of the Qur’ān need to be renewed. Originality: The paper addresses epistemological issues related to Western Qur’ānic studies. It seeks to assess the progress in the field and offers a new perspective on the study of specific topics: Qur’ānic variants and readings.


1998 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan E. Brockopp

Recent scholarship on the manuscript libraries of North Africa has substantially increased the amount of literature available for analysis of the formative period in Islamic law, particularly for the nascent Malikite school. Students of Islamic law are now in a position, for instance, to begin a re-assessment of the 9th century, the vital transition period between the ancient schools of the 7th and 8th centuries, and the establishment of the classical schools in the 10th and 11th centuries.1 Not only will these new texts make the process of establishment of the classical schools clearer, they will also provide a much stronger basis for the study of earlier centuries, throwing into question the canonical status that has been granted to early legal texts by Western and traditional Muslim scholars alike.


Antiquity ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 79 (303) ◽  
pp. 130-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian Henderson ◽  
Keith Challis ◽  
Sarah O’Hara ◽  
Sean McLoughlin ◽  
Adam Gardner ◽  
...  

The city of al-Raqqa in north central Syria rivalled early Baghdad in scale, and was briefly during the ‘Abbasid caliphate the imperial capital of an empire stretching from North Africa to Central Asia. Now largely levelled the multifaceted Islamic cityscape is revealed by aerial and satellite imagery. It is at this site that the evidence of innovative Islamic industries has been revealed by excavations undertaken by the Raqqa Ancient Industry project since 1994. Here they discuss the production models for glass and ceramics in their socio-economic contexts.


Author(s):  
Sarah Stroumsa

Al-Andalus, the Iberian territory ruled by Islam from the eighth to the fifteenth centuries, was home to a flourishing philosophical culture among Muslims and the Jews who lived in their midst. Andalusians spoke proudly of the region's excellence, and indeed it engendered celebrated thinkers such as Maimonides and Averroes. This book offers an integrative new approach to Jewish and Muslim philosophy in al-Andalus, where the cultural commonality of the Islamicate world allowed scholars from diverse religious backgrounds to engage in the same philosophical pursuits. The book traces the development of philosophy in Muslim Iberia from its introduction to the region to the diverse forms it took over time, from Aristotelianism and Neoplatonism to rational theology and mystical philosophy. It sheds light on the way the politics of the day, including the struggles with the Christians to the north of the peninsula and the Fāṭimids in North Africa, influenced philosophy in al-Andalus yet affected its development among the two religious communities in different ways. While acknowledging the dissimilar social status of Muslims and members of the religious minorities, the book highlights the common ground that united philosophers, providing new perspective on the development of philosophy in Islamic Spain.


Der Islam ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 92 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Leder

AbstractArabic literature is exceptionally rich in references to the Bedouin component of society. The main terms used by Arabic authors to refer to the Bedouin and their ways of life reveal the significant approach to nomadism in the Near East and Arabic North Africa and expose specific concepts which changed over time. Arabic terminology, in our reading, does not support a sharp and categorical dichotomy between sedentary and Bedouin ways of life, although distinctions based on socially mediated normative contexts appear marked, and Bedouin may thus appear simply as a social category, so that their actual way of life may fade into insignificance. What we suggest is to explore the extent to which the category “Bedouin” is applied in different cultural and conceptual contexts. Various historical attitudes may be distinguished approximately, not only on the basis of the terms applied, but also in light of the semantic features determining their application. Whereas in the early Islamic period, Bedouin tribal groups (


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Corisande Fenwick ◽  
John Carman ◽  
Vicki Cummings ◽  
John Carman ◽  
Timothy Insoll ◽  
...  
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2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 8-24
Author(s):  
Pälvi Rantala ◽  
Leena-Maija Rossi

Vuonna 2015 Eurooppaan pyrki Lähi-idästä ja Pohjois-Afrikasta historiallisen suuri joukko turvapaikanhakijoita, pakolaisia ja siirtolaisia. Osa heistä päätyi suuntaamaan Suomeen Pohjois-Ruotsin ja Venäjän rajojen yli. Lapin sodan aikaan, vuonna 1944, pakolaisvirta kulki toiseen suuntaan: Suomesta Ruotsiin. Artikkeli tarkastelee taideteosta, jossa rinnastetaan nämä kaksi aikatasoa ja tapahtumakulkua.Minna Rainion ja Mark Robertsin lyhytelokuva They Came in Crowded Boats and Trains (2017 Suomi) kuvaa ”pohjoista” osin uudesta näkökulmasta. Elokuvan päähenkilöt, reaalielämässään itse turvapaikanhakijoita, ovat lukuisten mediaesitysten kehyksessä tunnistettavasti ”eteläisiä” hahmoja pohjoisessa maisemassa. Teoksen kertojaääni taas lukee otteita pohjoissuomalaisten pakolaisten kirjeistä ja päiväkirjoista seitsemänkymmenen vuoden takaa.Teoksessa menneisyyden ja nykyisyyden tapahtumat asettuvat ajan ja paikan ylittävään dialogiin. Kysymme artikkelissa, millainen kulttuurinen muisti ja kuvasto on rakentunut evakkouden ympärille ja miten Rainion ja Robertsin teos asettuu suhteessa siihen. Onko kahden aikakauden pakolaiskuvien välillä löydettävissä samanlaisuutta tai eroja? Analysoimme teoksessa rakentuvia suhteita ja asetelmia, kuten eri ajassa matkaavien pakolaisten eroja, erilaisuutta ja vertaisuutta, mutta myös elokuvassa rakentuvaa tietoisuutta suhteessa pakolaisuutta määrittäviin valtarakenteisiin ja historiallisiin rinnastuksiin.Escape from the North and to the North: Two Temporal Levels of Exile in the short film They Came in Crowded Boats and TrainsIn 2015 a historically vast number of refugees, asylum seekers and immigrants strived towards Europe from the Middle East and North Africa. Some of them ended up arriving in Finland, crossing the borders from either Northern Sweden or Russia. During the Lapland War, in 1944, the stream of refugees went to the opposite direction: from Finland to Sweden. In our article, we discuss a work of art, which draws a parallel between these two temporal levels and historical events. Minna Rainio and Mark Roberts’s short film They Came in Crowded Boats and Trains (2017 Finland) describes “the North” partly from a new perspective. The protagonists of the film, asylum seekers in their personal life, are in the framework of countless media representations recognizable as “southern” figures in a northern landscape. The voiceover in the film, however, reads excerpts from letters and diaries of northern Finnish refugees or evacuees from 70 years ago.In the film the events of past and present are situated in a dialogue, which transgresses both time and place. In the article we ask what kind of cultural memory and imagery has been constructed around being evacuated in 1944, and how Rainio and Roberts’ film situates itself in connection with this memory and imagery. How are the refugees represented in the film, and what kinds of similarities and differences are there to be found between the refugee representations of the two different eras? What kinds of associations, insights, and maybe even objections or criticisms the film evokes? Our article analyzes relations constructed in the narration: differences and similarities represented between refugees traveling in different times, but also the consciousness built in the film in relation to existing power structures and historical parallels defining what it means to be a refugee.


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