Author: William GalloisPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271096160
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
Qayrawān
Author: William GalloisPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271096160
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
The Jews of Arab Lands
Author: Norman A. StillmanPublisher: Jewish Publication Society
ISBN: 9780827611559
Category : Arab countries
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Becoming the People of the Talmud
Author: Talya FishmanPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812222873
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Talya Fishman explores the impact of the textualization process in medieval Europe on the Babylonian Talmud's roles within Jewish culture.
Qayrawān
Author: William GalloisPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271096152
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
The Jewish Quarterly Review
Author: The Cultivators of Islam
Author: John Ralph WillisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Islam
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
BAR International Series
Author: The History of an Islamic School of Law
Author: Nurit TsafrirPublisher: Islamic Legal Studies Program @ Harvard Law School
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
So closely is the early development of the Hanafi school interwoven with non-legal spheres--the political, social, and theological--that its study is essential to a proper understanding of medieval Islamic history. Tsafrir offers a thorough examination of the first century and a half of the school's existence, the period during which it took shape.
Minaret, Symbol of Islam
Author: Jonathan M. BloomPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Using buildings, archaeological reports, medieval histories, geographies and early Arabic poetry, this book reinterprets the origin, development and meanings of the minaret. explaining how the tower became identified with Islam. Bloom shows how the introduction of the tower into the mosque marked a major shift in the iconography of architecture and how the tower, once a sign of political and royal power, became associated with religious architecture. Charting the spread of the minaret throughout the Islamic lands until its universal acceptance as a sign, Bloom concludes with an overview of subsequent developments once the minaret had become the symbol of Islam.
Mosque Libraries, an Historical Study
Author: Mohamed Makki SibaiPublisher: Burns & Oates
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Utilizing an extensive bibliography, Sibai (library science King Saud U.) traces the beginning of mosque libraries in presenting a coherent picture of their procedures, services, and physical make-up. He provides the reader with some insight into the extent, value, and subject matter of the book collections found in mosque libraries, and covers several important issues including the management and finance of these libraries, their procurement and lending policies, as well as other regulations pertaining to their support and maintenance. Available in the US from Publisher's Distribution Center, Box C831, Rutherford, NJ 07070. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR