Pub Date : 2018-12-31DOI: 10.31826/9781463240035-049
Valerie Gonzalez
Ornament is the least understood, most elusive, and perhaps the most complex of all traditional art forms in Islam. Yet, ubiquitous on all artistic media, it is one of the fundamental elements of Islamic visual expression throughout its history. In this sense, ornament constitutes a no less ipseitic feature of visuality and force of intervisuality in the cosmopolitan world of Islam than does the art of calligraphy in Arabic script, with which it forms an inseparable duo. Although much scholarly effort has been deployed to unravel this duo’s meaning, the hermeneutics of Islamic ornament remains characteristically flawed. The reason lies in the maintenance of an outdated epistemology by the academic mainstream and, in the process, the marginalization of the rare methodologically advanced studies available. Through the case study of the Alhambra’s palaces in Granada, thirteenth–fifteenth centuries, alAndalus (Islamic Spain), these few pages deconstruct some misinterpretations and provide a few clues to look afresh at the hermeneutics of Islamic ornament.
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Pub Date : 2018-12-31DOI: 10.31826/9781463240035-031
Bilal Orfali
{"title":"EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES IN LITERATURE IN TENTH-CENTURY ISLAMIC COURTS","authors":"Bilal Orfali","doi":"10.31826/9781463240035-031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463240035-031","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":222270,"journal":{"name":"Studying the Near and Middle East at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1935–2018","volume":"605 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123252533","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-12-31DOI: 10.31826/9781463240035-032
S. Günther
{"title":"“A GLIMPSE OF THE MYSTERY OF MYSTERIES”: IBN TUFAYL ON LEARNING AND SPIRITUALITY WITHOUT PROPHETS AND SCRIPTURES","authors":"S. Günther","doi":"10.31826/9781463240035-032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463240035-032","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":222270,"journal":{"name":"Studying the Near and Middle East at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1935–2018","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122807335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-12-31DOI: 10.31826/9781463240035-066
Noah Salomon
{"title":"FOR LOVE OF THE PROPHET: A REPLY","authors":"Noah Salomon","doi":"10.31826/9781463240035-066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463240035-066","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":222270,"journal":{"name":"Studying the Near and Middle East at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1935–2018","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126700738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-12-31DOI: 10.31826/9781463240035-026
F. Blois
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Pub Date : 2018-12-31DOI: 10.31826/9781463240035-008
G. Bowersock
I these turbulent times in the Middle East, I have found myself working on the rise and fall of a late antique Jewish kingdom along the Red Sea in the Arabian peninsula. Friends and colleagues alike have reacted with amazement and disbelief when I have told them about the history I have been looking at. In the southwestern part of Arabia, known in antiquity as Himyar and corresponding today approximately with Yemen, the local population converted to Judaism at some point in the late fourth century, and by about 425 a Jewish kingdom had already taken shape. For just over a century after that, its kings ruled, with one brief interruption, over a religious state that was explicitly dedicated to the observance of Judaism and the persecution of its Christian populat ion. The record survived over many centuries in Arabic historical writings, as well as in Greek and Syriac accounts of martyred Christians, but incredulous scholars had long been inclined to see little more than a local monotheism overlaid with language and features borrowed from Jews who had settled in the area. It is only within recent decades that enough inscribed stones have turned up to prove definitively the veracity of these surprising accounts. We can now say that an entire nation of ethnic Arabs in southwestern Arabia had converted to Judaism and imposed it as the state religion. This bizarre but militant kingdom in Himyar was eventually overthrown by an invasion of forces from Christian Ethiopia, across the Red Sea. They set sail from East Africa, where they were joined by reinforcements from the Christian emperor in Constantinople. In the territory of Himyar, they engaged and destroyed the armies of the Jewish king and finally brought an end to what was arguably the most improbable, yet portentous, upheaval in the history of pre-Islamic Arabia. Few scholars, apart from specialists in ancient South Arabia or early Christian Ethiopia, have been aware of these events. A vigorous team led by Christian Julien Robin in Paris has pioneered research on the Jewish kingdom in Himyar, and one of the Institute’s former Members, Andrei Korotayev, a Russian scholar who has worked in Yemen and was at the Institute in 2003–04, has also contributed to recovering this lost chapter of late antique Middle Eastern history.
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Pub Date : 2018-12-31DOI: 10.31826/9781463240035-017
R. Tottoli
{"title":"EDITING THE QURʾAN IN SIXTEENTH- AND SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY EUROPE","authors":"R. Tottoli","doi":"10.31826/9781463240035-017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463240035-017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":222270,"journal":{"name":"Studying the Near and Middle East at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1935–2018","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127545121","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-12-31DOI: 10.31826/9781463240035-035
W. Hanley
{"title":"UNLOCKING MIDDLE EASTERN NAMES","authors":"W. Hanley","doi":"10.31826/9781463240035-035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463240035-035","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":222270,"journal":{"name":"Studying the Near and Middle East at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1935–2018","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130850680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-12-31DOI: 10.31826/9781463240035-012
C. Scardino
{"title":"NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE CONTINUATION OF ANCIENT SCIENCE AMONG THE ARABS","authors":"C. Scardino","doi":"10.31826/9781463240035-012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463240035-012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":222270,"journal":{"name":"Studying the Near and Middle East at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1935–2018","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130506592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2018-12-31DOI: 10.31826/9781463240035-034
G. Kiraz
{"title":"DOTS IN THE WRITING SYSTEMS OF THE MIDDLE EAST","authors":"G. Kiraz","doi":"10.31826/9781463240035-034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463240035-034","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":222270,"journal":{"name":"Studying the Near and Middle East at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1935–2018","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125354875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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