Studying the Near and Middle East at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1935–2018

Published by Gorgias Press 2018

Studying the Near and Middle East at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1935–2018

Edited by: Sabine Schmidtke

https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463240035

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The history of Near and Middle Eastern Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study dates back to 1935, and it is the one area of scholarship that has been continuously represented at the Institute ever since. The volume opens with a historical sketch of the study of the Near and Middle East at the Institute. The second part of the volume consists of essays and short studies by IAS scholars, past and present, covering fields such as the ancient Near East and early Islamic history, the Bible and the Qurʾān, Islamic intellectual history within and beyond denominational history, Arabic and other Semitic languages and literatures, Islamic religious and legal practices, law and society, the Islamic West, the Ottoman world, Iranian studies, the modern Middle East, and Islam in the West.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
TABLE OF CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
LIST OF FIGURES Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
NEAR AND MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES AT THE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY: A HISTORICAL SKETCH Sabine Schmidtke Publicly Available Download PDF	xxxi
IAS SCHOLARS IN NEAR AND MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES, PAST AND PRESENT: A DIRECTORY Publicly Available Download PDF	xcix
FRUITS OF SCHOLARSHIP
THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EARLY ISLAMIC HISTORY
“THERE WE SAT DOWN”: MAPPING SETTLEMENT PATTERNS IN SASANIAN BABYLONIA Geoffrey Herman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
THE NEAR EASTERN HERITAGE IN GRECO-ROMAN ASTRONOMY Francesca Rochberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
ARABIA BEFORE ISLAM David F. Graf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
THE RISE AND FALL OF A JEWISH KINGDOM IN ARABIA G. W. Bowersock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
ENTANGLEMENTS OF CLASSICS AND ORIENTALISM IN THE HISTORY OF PHILOLOGY, AND OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, CIRCA 1900 Henning Trüper Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
FOR A DIFFERENT HISTORY OF THE SEVENTH CENTURY CE: SYRIAC SOURCES AND SASANIAN AND ARAB-MUSLIM OCCUPATION OF THE MIDDLE EAST Muriel Debie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	45
TRADE AND GEOGRAPHY IN THE ORIGINS AND SPREAD OF ISLAM Stelios Michalopoulos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	48
NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE CONTINUATION OF ANCIENT SCIENCE AMONG THE ARABS Carlo Scardino Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	66
THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK: THE RESTORATION OF CALIPHAL POLITICAL POWER IN THE MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC WORLD D. G. Tor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
THE BIBLE AND THE QURʾAN
WHO WROTE THE TORAH? TEXTUAL, HISTORICAL, SOCIOLOGICAL, AND IDEOLOGICAL CORNERSTONES OF THE FORMATION OF THE PENTATEUCH Konrad Schmid Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	81
IS A QIBLA A QIBLA? SAMARITAN TRADITIONS ABOUT MOUNT GARIZIM IN CONTACT AND CONTENTION Stefan Schorch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
MUSLIM PERCEPTIONS AND RECEPTIONS OF THE BIBLE Sabine Schmidtke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
EDITING THE QURʾAN IN SIXTEENTH- AND SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY EUROPE Roberto Tottoli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	115
THE CONCEPT OF TIME IN THE QURʾAN Georges Tamer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	118
THE VOICE OF GOD G. W. Bowersock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	125
ISLAMIC INTELLECTUAL HISTORY WITHIN AND BEYOND DENOMINATIONAL BORDERS
VISUALIZATION AND MATERIAL CULTURES OF THE HEAVENS IN EURASIA AND NORTH AFRICA Sonja Brentjes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
RETHINKING THE CANONS OF ISLAMIC INTELLECTUAL HISTORY Khaled El-Rouayheb Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	154
THE PEOPLE OF JUSTICE AND MONOTHEISM: MONOTHEISM IN ISLAM AND JUDAISM Sabine Schmidtke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	164
THE NECESSITY OF A HISTORICAL APPROACH TO ISLAMIC THEOLOGY: TRACING MODERN ISLAMIC THOUGHT TO THE MIDDLE AGES Kelly Devine Thomas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	170
ABRAHAM AND ARISTOTLE IN DIALOGUE Garth Fowden Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
WHAT MAKES AN ORATOR TRUSTWORTHY? SOME NOTES ON THE TRANSMISSION OF ARISTOTLE’S RHETORIC IN THE ARABIC WORLD AND ITS INTERPRETATION BY AL-ARABI Frédérique Woerther Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
ARISTOTLE AND AVICENNA ON THE HABITABILITY OF THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE François De Blois Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	188
PHYSICAL THEORY AND MEDICAL PRACTICE IN THE POST-AVICENNA ERA: YAʿQUB B. ISHAQ AL-ISRAʾILI ON PROPERTIES (EXPLORATORY NOTES) Emma Gannagé Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	194
WAS FAKHR AL-DIN AL-RAZI AN AVERROIST AFTER ALL? ON THE DOUBLE-TRUTH THEORY IN MEDIEVAL LATIN AND ISLAMIC THOUGHT Frank Griffel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
THE CHALLENGES OF DRUZE STUDIES Samer Traboulsi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	217
ARABIC AND OTHER SEMITIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
CHASING AFTER A TRICKSTER: THE MAQAMAT BETWEEN PHILOLOGY AND WORLD LITERATURE Maurice A. Pomerantz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	228
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES IN LITERATURE IN TENTH-CENTURY ISLAMIC COURTS Bilal Orfali Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
“A GLIMPSE OF THE MYSTERY OF MYSTERIES”: IBN TUFAYL ON LEARNING AND SPIRITUALITY WITHOUT PROPHETS AND SCRIPTURES Sebastian Günther Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
ARAMAIC AND ENDANGERED LANGUAGES Geoffrey A. Khan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	262
DOTS IN THE WRITING SYSTEMS OF THE MIDDLE EAST George A. Kiraz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
UNLOCKING MIDDLE EASTERN NAMES Will Hanley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	276
ISLAMIC RELIGIOUS AND LEGAL PRACTICES, LAW AND SOCIETY
JURISTS ON LITERATURE AND MEN OF LETTERS ON LAW: THE INTERFACES OF ISLAMIC LAW AND MEDIEVAL ARABIC LITERATURE Zoltan Szombathy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285
LAW, ETHICS, AND THE PROBLEM OF DOMESTIC LABOR IN THE ISLAMIC MARRIAGE CONTRACT Marion Katz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	294
THE SHIʿITE INTERPRETATION OF THE STATUS OF WOMEN Hassan Ansari Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	300
ISLAMIC LAW AND PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW: THE CASE OF INTERNATIONAL CHILD ABDUCTION Anver M. Emon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	304
A RENAISSANCE INTERRUPTED? DEBATING PERSONHOOD THROUGH A SEXUAL ACT IN THE TWELFTH-CENTURY CHRISTIANATE AND ISLAMICATE WORLDS Vanja Hamzic Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	308
SAY SOMETHING NICE: SUPPLICATIONS ON MEDIEVAL OBJECTS, AND WHY THEY MATTER Margaret S. Graves Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	322
TEN THESES ON WORKING WITH DEMONS (JINN) IN ISLAMIC STUDIES Birgit Krawietz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	331
THE INVISIBILITY OF PATERNAL FILIATION: THE POWER OF INSTITUTIONS VERSUS SCIENTIFIC PROOF IN ROMAN AND MUSLIM LAW Baber Johansen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	337
JOSEPH SCHACHT AND GERMAN ORIENTALISM IN THE 1920s AND 1930s Rainer Brunner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	344
THE ISLAMIC WEST AND BEYOND
THE OTHER EDGE: THE MAGHRIB IN THE MASHRIQ Maribel Fierro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	353
IDENTIFYING “THE MUFTI OF ORAN”: A DETECTIVE STORY Devin J. Stewart Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	359
CASTILIAN AND ARABIC: THE DEBATES ABOUT THE NATURAL LANGUAGES OF SPAIN Mercedes García-Arenal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	363
PEACE AND QUIET IN CASTILE: BAPTIZED MUSLIMS, FEUDAL LORDS, AND THE ROYAL EXPULSION Patrick J. O’Banion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	371
THE HERMENEUTICS OF ISLAMIC ORNAMENT: THE EXAMPLE OF THE ALHAMBRA Valerie Gonzalez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	375
THE OTTOMAN WORLD AND BEYOND
EDIRNE/ADRIANOPLE: THE BEST CITY IN GREECE Amy Singer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	390
THE CHIEF EUNUCH OF THE OTTOMAN IMPERIAL HAREM Jane Hathaway Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	399
PERSIAN AESTHETICS IN OTTOMAN ALBUMS Emine Fetvaci Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	402
SYPHILIS AS MEASURE OF CIVILIZATION AND PROGRESS? OTTOMAN-TURKISH RESPONSES TO EUROPEAN MEDICAL DISCOURSES ON THE GENERAL PARESIS OF THE INSANE Yücel Yanikdag Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	413
THE CONSTRUCTION OF ETHNICITY IN MEDIEVAL TURKIC EURASIA Peter B. Golden Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	420
TAMERLANE’S (FICTITIOUS) PILGRIMAGE TO THE TOMBS OF THE PROPHETS Ron Sela Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	429
BUILDING A FAMILY SHRINE IN OTTOMAN CAIRO Adam Sabra Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	436
IRANIAN AND PERSIANATE STUDIES
THE SHAPING OF THE HOLY SELF: ART AND RELIGIOUS LIFE IN MANICHAEISM Andrea Piras Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	443
PATRICIA CRONE’S CONTRIBUTION TO IRANIAN STUDIES Hassan Ansari Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	450
LORD OF THE PLANETARY COURT: REVISITING A “NATIVIST PROPHET” OF EARLY MODERN IRAN Daniel J. Sheffield Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	455
NADIR SHAH IN IRANIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY: WARLORD OR NATIONAL HERO? Rudi Matthee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	467
THE BIRTH OF NEWSPAPER CULTURE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY IRAN Negin Nabavi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	475
A BRIEF HISTORY OF JUDEO-PERSIAN LITERATURE Vera B. Moreen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	479
THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST AND ISLAM IN THE WEST
LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC LEGACIES IN MODERN EGYPT: THE ROLE OF THE INTELLECTUALS, 1900–1950 Israel Gershoni Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	485
ISIS AND AL-QAEDA-WHAT ARE THEY THINKING? UNDERSTANDING THE ADVERSARY Bernard Haykel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	495
JIHADI WEEPING Thomas Hegghammer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	505
FOR LOVE OF THE PROPHET: A REPLY Noah Salomon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	515
LIVING IN A HUMANITARIAN WORLD: PALESTINIAN REFUGEES AND THE CHALLENGE OF LONG-TERM DISPLACEMENT Ilana Feldman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	522
THE MULTIPLE FIGURES OF THE WITNESS IN PALESTINE Didier Fassin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	528
HAGAR: JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION FOR EQUALITY, CREATING A COMMON FUTURE IN ISRAEL Catherine Rottenberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	543
LA NOUVELLE LAÏCITÉ AND ITS CRITICS: PREFACE TO THE FRENCH TRANSLATION OF THE POLITICS OF THE VEIL Joan Wallach Scott Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	546

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Language: English
Publisher: Gorgias Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 680
Keywords: Middle East; General

eBook

Published: April 27, 2018
ISBN: 9781463240035