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In Caliphate and Kingship in a Fifteenth-Century Literary History of Muslim Leadership and Pilgrimage Jo Van Steenbergen presents a new study, edition and translation of al-Ḏahab al-Masbūk fī Ḏikr man Ḥağğa min al-Ḫulafāʾ wa-l-Mulūk , a summary history of the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca by al-Maqrīzī (766-845 AH/ca. 1365-1442 CE). Traditionally considered as a useful source for the history of the ḥağğ , al-Ḏahab al-Masbūk is re-interpreted here as a complex literary construction that was endowed with different meanings. Through detailed contextualist, narratological, semiotic and codicological analyses Van Steenbergen demonstrates how these meanings were deeply embedded in early-fifteenth century Egyptian transformations, how they changed substantially over time, and how they included particular claims about authorship and about legitimate and good Muslim rule.

Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages --- Islamic Empire --- Kings and rulers --- Arab countries --- Arab Empire --- Empire, Islamic --- Middle East --- Muslim Empire --- History --- Middle Eastern history

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Die biographischen Indizes, Bestandteil des World Biographical Information System (WBIS), als Register zu den Biographischen Archiven eingeführt, bilden ein selbständiges Rechercheinstrument für biographische Fragestellungen. Jeder Index beinhaltet biographische Kurzeinträge zu Personen einer bestimmten geographischen oder kulturellen Region. Zu jeder angeführten Person werden Namen, Lebensdaten, Beruf und ausgewertete Quellen genannt. Der Arabisch-Islamische Biographische Index enthält Kurzinformationen zu ca. 80.000 Personen von der vorislamischen Zeit bis 1918. Nicht nur Personen, die aus dieser Region stammen, sondern auch Ausländer, die hier gewirkt haben, werden verzeichnet. The biographical indexes, part of the World Biographical Information System (WBIS) and used as indexes for the biographical archives, serve as an independent biographical research tool, with each index containing short biographical entries on individuals relating to a certain biographical or cultural region, and each entry including names, biographical data, professions and evaluated sources.The Arab-Islamic Biographical Index contains summarised information on around 80,000 individuals from the pre-Islamic period until 1918. It includes not only individuals who were born in the region, but also foreigners who were active within it.

AIBI. --- REFERENCE / General. --- Arab countries --- Islamic Empire --- Arab Empire --- Empire, Islamic --- Middle East --- Muslim Empire --- Arab world --- Arabic countries --- Arabic-speaking states --- Islamic countries --- Biography --- History

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Written in the tenth century by the Persian geographer Ibn al-Faqīh al-Hamaḏānī, the Abridged Book of the Countries is a living testimony to the world view that the inhabitants of Dâr al-Islâm might have at that time. “According to‘ Abd Allāh b. ‘Amr b. al-‘Ās b. Wā’il aṣ-Sahmī, the figure of the world below is divided into five: it is like the head of the bird, the two wings, the chest, the tail. The head of the world is China; beyond China is a people called Wāq-wāq, and, beyond Wāq-wāq, peoples of which Allah alone knows the number; the right wing is India and, beyond India, the sea after which there is no one; the left wing is al-Ḫazar and, behind al-Ḫazar, two so-called peoples, one Manšak, the other Māšak, behind which Gog and Magog (Yāǧūǧ and Māǧūǧ) who are among the peoples known to God only ; the breast of the world is Mecca, Hejaz, Syria, Iraq and Egypt; the tail goes from Ḏāt al-Ḥumām to Maġrib, and the worst part of the bird is the tail. "Basing himself mainly on the Qur'an and on the historical traditions, verses, quotes and sayings he may have heard, Ibn al-Faqīh gives us a description of all the wonders of the territories known to man: the Peninsula Arabian, Egypt and the Nile, the Maġrib, Syria, the Ğazīra, the Land of the Rūm, Iraq and the Eastern Countries. Over a thousand years old, this book, strewn with stories and curiosities of all kinds, offers its reader, between history, myth and legend, the most beautiful of journeys, even if it is still.

Geography --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Geography-General --- Islamic Empire --- Arab countries --- Arab Empire --- Empire, Islamic --- Middle East --- Muslim Empire --- History --- géographie arabe --- empire islamique

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Consorts of the Caliphs is a seventh/thirteenth-century compilation of anecdotes about thirty-eight women who were, as the title suggests, consorts to those in power, most of them concubines of the early Abbasid caliphs and wives of latter-day caliphs and sultans. This slim but illuminating volume is one of the few surviving texts by Ibn al-Sa'i (d. 674 H/1276 AD). Ibn al-Sa'i was a prolific Baghdadi scholar who chronicled the academic and political elites of his city, and whose career straddled the final years of the Abbasid dynasty and the period following the cataclysmic Mongol invasion of 656 H/1258 AD.In this work, Ibn al-Sa'i is keen to forge a connection between the munificent wives of his time and the storied lovers of the so-called golden age of Baghdad. Thus, from the earlier period, we find Harun al-Rashid pining for his brother’s beautiful slave, Ghadir, and the artistry of such musical and literary celebrities as 'Arib and Fadl, who bested the male poets and singers of their day. From times closer to Ibn al-Sa'i’s own—when Abbasid authority was trying to reassert itself and Baghdad was again a major center of intellectual and religious activity—we meet women such as Banafsha, who endowed law colleges, had bridges built, and provisioned pilgrims bound for Mecca; slave women whose funeral services were led by caliphs; and noble Saljuq princesses from Afghanistan.Informed by the author’s own sources, his insider knowledge, and well-known literary materials, these singular biographical sketches, though delivered episodically, bring the belletristic culture of the Baghdad court to life, particularly in the personal narratives and poetry of culture heroines otherwise lost to history.

Abbasids --- Islamic Empire --- Queens --- Women --- History --- Anecdotes --- Caliphs --- Royalty --- Rulers --- Sovereigns --- Monarchy --- Courts and courtiers --- Empresses --- Kings and rulers --- Human females --- Wimmin --- Woman --- Womon --- Womyn --- Females --- Human beings --- Femininity --- Arab countries --- Arab Empire --- Empire, Islamic --- Middle East --- Muslim Empire

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Based on a thorough study of nearly 400 Greek and Latin inscriptions from Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and Israel, this book shows how the formula 'for salvation's sake' was fundamental to political, social and religious life in the Near East.

Salvation. --- Inscriptions, Latin --- Inscriptions, Greek --- Greek inscriptions --- Greek language --- Greek philology --- Latin inscriptions --- Latin language --- Latin philology --- Salvation --- Religion --- Middle East --- Islamic Empire. --- Arab countries --- Arab Empire --- Empire, Islamic --- Muslim Empire --- History --- Politics and government. --- Religion.