Pub Date : 2014-01-02DOI: 10.1080/09503110.2014.878435
J. Druel
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Pub Date : 2014-01-02DOI: 10.1080/09503110.2014.878459
Nicholas Morton
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Pub Date : 2014-01-02DOI: 10.1080/09503110.2014.878442
Eliza Tasbihi
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Pub Date : 2014-01-02DOI: 10.1080/09503110.2014.878445
W. M. Malczycki
limited to names of people and places mentioned in the book, which is something of a weakness. As stated at the beginning of this review, An Introduction to Islamic Archaeology is a timely and very accomplished book. It is not without its problems, however. Some chapters lack synthesis, particularly in the concluding paragraphs, the focus is decidedly on the medieval rather than the modern period, and I would argue that it will better serve archaeologists who know little of Islam than students of Islamic Studies who do not know much about archaeology. Despite these relatively minor quibbles, I have no hesitation in recommending this book to scholars and students at all levels, but particularly to those wishing for an affordable, concise and accessibly survey of Islamic archaeology and its development over time and space.
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Pub Date : 2014-01-02DOI: 10.1080/09503110.2014.877194
Miriam Frenkel
Abstract The article presents an overview description of medieval Alexandria, based on the integration of archaeological finds, Muslim historiography, and medieval travelogues, with Geniza documents. It begins with a short outline of Alexandria's geographical location, then provides a depiction of its environs and its infrastructure, especially emphasising the water system and the port. The description then moves from the city's outer circle to its inner areas and discusses the various quarters and neighbourhoods, the commercial centres, and the industrial zones, finally focusing on the buildings, both public and private. It concludes with a short discussion of the way in which Alexandria was viewed by local Muslims and by European visitors. On the basis of this overall description, it is suggested that we should perceive medieval Alexandria in terms of a gateway city that underwent significant reorientation but succeeded in retaining its special status as such.
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Pub Date : 2014-01-02DOI: 10.1080/09503110.2014.878433
J. Druel
In this book, the author presents a diachronic study of a few Arabic prepositions and subordinators. It is based on a corpus including the Qur'ān, the pre-modern text of One Thousand and One Nights...
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Pub Date : 2014-01-02DOI: 10.1080/09503110.2014.878441
Danaë Simmermacher
records and inventories of church and monastic treasures, the origin of which is determined by terms such as “Saracen”, “Egyptian”, “Persian”, “Antiochene”, “Franc”, “Venetian”, “Slavic”, “Serbian” or “Russian”, or by non-Greek technical terms such as sarout/saroutin for metal icons or kazaca for the Italian casacca. J. Pahlitzsch (“Documents on Intercultural Communication in Mamluk Jerusalem: The Georgians under Sultan al-Nās ̇ ir H ̇ asan 759 (1358)”, pp. 372–94), edits, translates and annotates two Arabic administrative documents (from the archives of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem) that were issued in March and October 1358 in favour of the Georgians in Jerusalem and their monastery of the Holy Cross. P. Schreiner (“Das vergessene Zypern: Das byzantinische Reich und Zypern unter den Lusignan”, pp. 395–406) deals with the relationship of Byzantium (later Nicaea) to the Kingdom of Cyprus and its essentially Greek population. B.Z. Kedar’s “Religion in Catholic-Muslim Correspondence and Treaties” (pp. 407–21) analyses subtly the style of the diplomatic correspondence between Catholic and Islamic states (from the tenth to the thirteenth century) through a study of the variation in religious terminology, especially in the Intitulationes and Inscriptiones. The volume concludes with an article by M. Balivet (“Élites byzantines, latines et musulmanes: Quelques exemples de diplomatie personnalisée (Xe-XVe siècles)”, pp. 423–37), which outlines a number of educated Byzantine, Latin, Arab and Turkish authors, from Nikolaos Mystikos to Nicholas of Cusa and George of Trebizond, whose writings demonstrate civil or even friendly relations between representatives of the different religions. The editors and chapter authors are to be thanked for producing this versatile and informative volume, which will serve as an important contribution to the medieval and cultural history of the Eastern Mediterranean.
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Pub Date : 2014-01-02DOI: 10.1080/09503110.2014.878434
J. Druel
Views of the Arab Grammarians on the Classification and Syntactic Function of Prepositions”, Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam 10 (1987): 342–67) are not mentioned, nor is Jacques Grand’Henry’s chapter (“Some Particles in Middle and Dialectal Arabic”, in Proceedings of the Third International Conference of AIDA held in Malta 29 March–2 April 1998, ed. Manwel Mifsud [Hal Lija: Association internationale de dialectologie arabe, 2000]) on particles in Middle and dialectal Arabic. The author could also have mentioned ʿUmar S. ʿAbd al-Galı̄l’s study (H ̇ urūf al-jarr fı̄ l-ʿarabiyya: Dirāsa nah ̇ wiyya fı̄ d ̇ awʾ ʿilm al-lugha al-sāmiyya al-muqāran [Cairo: Dār al-Thaqāfa al-ʿArabiyya, 2000]) in which he compared Arabic prepositions (li-, ʿalā, bi-, and ka-) with those in other Semitic languages. Lastly, although it deals with Arabic prepositions and complex prepositional phrases only in the strictly pedagogical context of Arabic as a foreign language, Ah ̇ mad T. H ̇ asanayn and Narimān N. al-Warrāqı̄’s book (English translation: The Connectors in Modern Standard Arabic [Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 1994]) on connectors would have deserved more attention than a single reference outside the literature review (p. 307). Not only do H ̇ assanayn and al-Warrāqı̄ deal with many “simple” and “complex” prepositions not studied by the author, but they also introduce pseudo-verbal prepositional groups. To be sure, the author should not be expected to carry out a systematic diachronic study of the grammaticalisation of all these prepositional groups, but more could have been done to provide a balanced view of the linguistic situation and on the range of research that remains to be done. The diachronic approach that is made possible by corpus-based research has just begun to bear fruit in Arabic studies, not only in the field of syntax but also in lexicography. The present book demonstrates the interest and validity of this approach.
阿拉伯语法学家对介词的分类和句法功能的看法”，耶路撒冷阿拉伯语和伊斯兰教研究10(1987):342-67)，也没有提到雅克·大亨利的章节(“中间和方言阿拉伯语中的一些粒子”，1998年3月29日至4月2日在马耳他举行的第三届AIDA国际会议论文集，Manwel Mifsud编辑[Hal Lija:国际阿拉伯方言协会，2000])关于中间和方言阿拉伯语中的粒子。作者还可以提到al- Umar S. - al- Abd al- galyi ' l的研究(H ' urūf al-jarr fyi ' l- al- arabiyya: Dirāsa nah ' wiyya fyi ' d ' o aw al- ilm al-lugha al-sāmiyya al-muqāran[开罗:Dār al-Thaqāfa al- al- al- al- arabiyya, 2000])，其中他将阿拉伯语的介词(li-、al- al-、bi-和ka-)与其他闪米特语中的介词进行了比较。最后，虽然它只在阿拉伯语作为外语的严格教学背景下处理阿拉伯介词和复杂的介词短语，但Ah / mad T. H / asanayn和Narimān N. al-Warrāqı’s关于连接器的书(英文翻译:现代标准阿拉伯语中的连接器[开罗:开罗美国大学出版社，1994])应该比文献综述之外的单一参考文献(第307页)得到更多的关注。《H o assanayn》和《al-Warrāqı》不仅处理了许多作者没有研究过的“简单”和“复杂”介词，而且还引入了假动词介词群。可以肯定的是，作者不应该对所有这些介词组的语法化进行系统的历时性研究，但可以做更多的工作，以提供一个平衡的语言情况的观点，以及有待完成的研究范围。基于语料库的研究使历时方法成为可能，它不仅在句法领域，而且在词典编纂领域刚刚开始在阿拉伯语研究中取得成果。本书演示了这种方法的趣味性和有效性。
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Pub Date : 2014-01-02DOI: 10.1080/09503110.2014.877193
Niall Christie
Channel for goods between Europe and the East, target of crusading expeditions, home to merchants and scholars, place of exile for disgraced Mamlūk emirs – Alexandria was all of these things and more. Yet one theme that comes to the fore in all of these roles is the cosmopolitanism of the city; Alexandria was one of the most ethnically, religiously and socially diverse urban centres of the Mediterranean region. In this issue of Al-Masāq, the contributors explore the multifaceted nature of Alexandria through a number of studies that highlight the diversity of the city and the important role that it played in the religious, cultural, and economic matrix of the eastern Mediterranean. This issue had its genesis in a symposium entitled Cosmopolitan Alexandria, which was organised by Deborah A. Starr at Cornell University in October 2002. The conference saw participants from a wide range of disciplines examining an equally wide range of topics related to the city, and covering periods ancient, medieval and modern. The proceedings of the conference were not published, and other projects intervened, but in 2011 I approached Paul Walker and Miriam Frenkel about the possibility of revisiting the subject at the 21st Colloquium on the History of Egypt and Syria in the Fāt ̇ imid, Ayyūbid and Mamlūk Eras (CHESFAME) at the University of Ghent, Belgium, in May 2012. Paul was, unfortunately, unable to participate, but Yehoshua Frenkel and Georg Christ agreed to make up the numbers, and Jo Van Steenbergen, in his capacity as its organiser, graciously agreed to allow us to present the panel at CHESFAME as planned. He then suggested that I guest-edit an issue of Al-Masāq based on our presentations, and what you have in your hands is the result; it includes both the articles on which our CHESFAME papers were based and Paul Walker’s contribution. To set the scene, Miriam Frenkel’s “Medieval Alexandria – Life in a Port City” gives us a description of the physical and social fabric of the city that draws on archaeological remains, Muslim sources, works by European and Frankish travellers, and Geniza material to demonstrate Alexandria’s importance as a gateway city between East and West, albeit one that went through a gradual change in orientation in the sixth/twelfth century. In “Fāt ̇ imid Alexandria as an Entrepôt in the East–West Exchange of Islamic Scholarship”, Paul Walker then provides an example of how the city’s status as a point of exchange between East and West, in this case of ideas, enabled it to become a centre of Sunni learning in the Fāt ̇ imid period, despite the Shi‘ite beliefs of the rulers. My contribution to this issue, “Cosmopolitan Trade Centre or Bone of Contention? Alexandria and the Crusades, 487– 857/1095–1453”, seeks to open up for enquiry the question of the extent to which
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Pub Date : 2014-01-02DOI: 10.1080/09503110.2014.877198
Y. Frenkel
Abstract While modern scholars, medieval European and anachronistic Arab sources paint a portrait of Mamlūk Alexandria as a bustling and thriving international port, contemporary Arabic writings of the second half of the ninth/fifteenth and the first quarter of the tenth/sixteenth centuries present quite a different image. This article analyses Arabic chronicles to demonstrate that, from the Cairene perspective, Alexandria was a frontier city that was utilised as a jail for banished political prisoners. In contrast to other parts of their realm, investment in Alexandria by the Mamlūk regime was largely limited to fortifying it against seaborne threats; the sultans did little to embellish the city for civilian or religious purposes. Thus, the city was marginalised, politically and socially, even while still maintaining its role as a gateway to Egypt.
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