1st Edition

Muslim Studies Volume 1

By Ignaz Goldziher Copyright 2005
340 Pages
by Routledge

340 Pages
by Routledge

347 Pages
by Routledge

This is the first volume of Goldziher's Muslim Studies, which ranks highly among the classics of the scholarly literature on Islam. Indeed, the two volumes, originally published in German in 1889-1890, can justly be counted among those that laid the foundations of the modern study of Islam as a religion and a civilization.The first study deals with the reaction of Islam to the ideals of Arab... Read more
1: Introductory: Muruwwa and Din; 2: The Arab Tribes and Islam; 3: Arab and Ajam; 4: The Shu‘?biyya; 5: The Shu‘?biyya and its Manifestation in Scholarship; Excursuses and Annotations; 1: What is Meant by ‘Al-Jähiliyya’; 2: On the Veneration of the Dead in Paganism and Islam; 3: Pagan and Muslim Linguistic Usage; 4: The Use of the Kunya as a Means of Paying Respect; 5: Black and White People; 6: Traditions About the Turks; 7: Arabicized Persians as Arabic Poets

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