Medieval Islamic Civilization: An Encyclopedia by Josef W. Meri
By Josef W. Meri
Medieval Islamic Civilization examines the socio-cultural heritage of the areas the place Islam took carry among the 7th and 16th century. this crucial two-volume paintings includes over seven hundred alphabetically prepared entries, contributed and signed by means of foreign students and specialists in fields reminiscent of Arabic languages, Arabic literature, structure, paintings background, historical past, background of technology, Islamic arts, Islamic stories, center japanese reports, close to japanese reviews, politics, faith, Semitic stories, theology, and extra. This reference presents an exhaustive and vibrant portrait of Islamic civilization together with the various clinical, inventive, and non secular advancements in addition to all elements of way of life and tradition.
For an entire checklist of entries, members, and extra, stopover at www.routledge-ny.com/middleages/Islamic.
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Oxford, 1950. ABU ’L-’ALA’ AHMAD IBN ABD ALLAH, AL-MA’ARRI Abuˆ l-’Ala’ Ahmad ibn Abd Allaˆh al-Ma’arri, born in 973 CE in Ma’arrat al-Nu’maˆn in northern Syria, traveled for his education to Aleppo and Baghdad and returned to Ma’arra, where he died in 1058 CE. Ma’arri was the blind author (by dictation) of prose and poetry. He composed poems during his younger years, and these are compiled in The Spark of the Tinderbox (Saqt al-zand), a collection of poems that praised the Hamdanid King Sa’d al-Dawla, the notables of Aleppo, and a few librarians in Baghdad.
Der Diabetestraktat. Bonn, 1971. A. E. Videan, eds. and trans. The Eastern Key (Kitab al-Ifada wa-l-i’Tibar). London, 1965. Further Reading Richter-Bernburg, Lutz. Der Syrische Blitz. Saladins Sekretaer Zwischen Selbstdarstellung und Geschichtsschreibung. Beirut/Stuttgart, 1998. Toorawa, Shawkat M. ’’ Edebiyat 7 (1996): 251–65. ‘ABD AL-MALIK IBN MARWAN ‘Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan was the Umayyad caliph who ruled from 65/685 until 86/705. He inherited a fractured polity from his father, who was apparently murdered in his sleep by one of his wives.
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