Arabian religion, polytheistic beliefs and practices that existed in Arabia before the rise of Islam in the 7th century, a period often referred to as the Jahiliyyah (‘Age of Ignorance’). Knowledge of these beliefs and practices rests mainly on archaeo
In the Islamic period, solo and ensemble forms of dance were an integral part of the intense musical activity in the palaces of the caliphs and in wealthy houses. Dance also was prominent in the dhikr ceremony of certain mystical fraternities; forms ranged from obsessional physical movements to...
ART historyHISTORY of IslamThis article is devoted to the history of Islamic culture and art, it provides information about the history of the origin, values and development of culture.Djurayev, Khusen KhairullaevichGerman International Journal of Modern Science / Deutsche Internationa...
Culture and Arts. The journal at the same time focuses on the academic and intellectual research in the field of Islamic history and all other aspects of Islamic thought & civilization. The Islamic Quarterly has a world-wide distribution mostly to universities, libraries and academic institutions. ...
In Muslim West Africa during the jihad period, redeemed slaves, although free, held a low social status in their former owner’s society. Claude Meillassoux makes an important distinction between manumission and enfranchisement. According to Meillassoux “enfranchisement” meant that a freed slave wou...
DPF fighters show little sign they are about to capitulate; rather than being “hours” away from total victory, as the LNA claimed on June 11, an extended period of urban warfare punctuated by deadly suicide attacks seems more likely. There is also a danger that the lightly-disciplined LNA...
aThis course examines the history of the Islamic world from the rise of Islam through the early modern period, with a focus on the emergence and evolution of Muslim institutions, the major Islamic polities and their geo-political situations, and the economies of resident populations. Through class...
CHAPTER 2 The Intertwining of History and Heritage in Islamic Contexts Shahzad Bashir Abstract This chapter argues that Islamic history should be imagined as an ever-expanding web of overlapping and competing discourses about the past. Islam's transhistorical presence is an illusion that is borne of...
History of Arabic Literature(1983–2006) areJulia Ashtianyet al. (eds.),ʿAbbasid Belles-Lettres(1990);Maria Rosa Menocal,Raymond P. Scheindlin, andMichael Sells(eds.),The Literature of Al-Andalus(2000); andRoger AllenandD.S. Richards(eds.),Arabic Literature in the Post-Classical Period(...
period was gathering a sort ofaestheticmomentum, but that effort seems to have been curtailed by the Mongol invasion. Chronologically, almost all surviving documentation and examples of those arts date from the latter part of the period, after 1150. It is unclear whether this apparent date is ...