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From the Prophet Mohammad's family tree to the present, ideas about kinship and descent have shaped communal and national identities in Muslim societies. So an understanding of genealogy is therefore vital to our understanding of Muslim societies, particularly with regard to the generation, preservation and manipulation of genealogical knowledge. These case studies link genealogical knowledge to particular circumstances in which it was created, circulated and promoted. They stress the malleability of kinship and memory, and the interests this malleability serves.

Genealogy --- Kinship --- Muslims --- Religious aspects --- Islam. --- Intellectual life. --- Islamic countries --- Civilization. --- Islamic learning and scholarship --- Muslim countries

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The contributions in this volume offer the first comprehensive effort to describe and analyse the collection, classification, presentation and methodology of information in the knowledge society of medieval Islam in the disciplines of religious and legal learning, as well as the rational sciences of Hellenistic origin - philosophy, mathematical and medical sciences.The volume begins with a general discussion of the concept of encyclopædia. Successive chapters explore the bases of authority in the institutions of religion and law; biographical literature and handbooks of law; compendia of scientific and philosophical learning based on Iranian and Greek sources; and the more specialised expositions of mathematics and philosophy. The special character of Muslim institutions, their teaching traditions and syllabi is also put into perspective. This is a reference work for the principal genres of 'enyclopædic' outlines and manuals - biography, legal handbooks, historiography of knowledge transmission, cosmography, and the philosophical sciences - and a major contribution to the literary and intellectual history.

Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Arabic --- Islamic learning and scholarship --- Encyclopédies et dictionnaires arabes --- Musulmans --- History and criticism. --- History. --- Histoire et critique --- Savoir et érudition --- Histoire --- History and criticism --- History --- Encyclopédies et dictionnaires arabes --- Savoir et érudition --- Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Arabic - History and criticism --- Islamic learning and scholarship - History --- Learning and scholarship --- Muslim learning and scholarship --- Muslims --- Arabic encyclopedias and dictionaries --- Intellectual life

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The Piety of Learning testifies to the strong links between religious and secular scholarship in Islam, and reaffirms the role of philology for understanding Muslim societies both past and present. Senior scholars discuss Islamic teaching philosophies since the 18th century in Nigeria, Egypt, the Ottoman Empire, Central Asia, Russia, and Germany. Particular attention is paid to the power of Islamic poetry and to networks and practices of the Tijāniyya, Rifā‘iyya, Khalwatiyya, Naqshbandiyya, and Shādhiliyya Sufi brotherhoods. The final section highlights some unusual European encounters with Islam, and features a German Pietist who traveled through the Ottoman Empire, a Habsburg officer who converted to Islam in Bosnia, a Dutch colonial Islamologist who befriended a Salafi from Jeddah, and a Soviet historian who preserved Islamic manuscripts. Contributors are: Razaq ‘Deremi Abubakre; Bekim Agai; Rainer Brunner; Alfrid K. Bustanov; Thomas Eich; Ralf Elger; Ulrike Freitag; Michael Kemper; Markus Koller; Anke von Kügelgen; Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen; Armina Omerika; Amidu Olalekan Sanni; Yaşar Sarikaya; Rüdiger Seesemann; Shamil Sh. Shikhaliev; Diliara M. Usmanova.

Islamic learning and scholarship. --- Islamic civilization. --- Islamic learning and scholarship --- Learning and scholarship --- Muslim learning and scholarship --- Muslims --- Muslim civilization --- Civilization, Islamic --- Civilization --- Civilization, Arab --- Intellectual life --- Africa. --- Middle East. --- Asia, Western --- Eastern Mediterranean --- Eastern Mediterranean Region --- Fertile Crescent --- Levant --- Middle East --- Mideast --- Near East --- South West --- Southwest Asia --- West Asia --- Western Asia --- Asia --- Eastern Hemisphere

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In Knowledge Triumphant , Franz Rosenthal observes that the Islamic civilization is one that is essentially characterized by knowledge ( 'ilm ), for 'ilm is one of those concepts that have dominated Islam and given Muslim civilization its distinctive shape and complexion.' There is no branch of Muslim intellectual and daily life that remained untouched by the all-pervasive attitude towards 'knowledge' as something of supreme value for Muslim being. With a new foreword by Dimitri Gutas.

Knowledge, Theory of (Islam) --- Learning and scholarship --- Islamic learning and scholarship. --- Muslim learning and scholarship --- Muslims --- Medieval learning and scholarship --- Education, Medieval --- Islamic epistemology --- Islamic philosophy --- History --- Intellectual life --- Connaissance, Théorie de la --- Savoir et érudition --- Philosophie islamique --- Philosophie arabe --- Islam --- Pays islamiques --- Histoire --- 622-1258 --- Moyen-Age

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"By 2013, many people worldwide had heard about Timbuktu as a center of learning where thousands of Arabic manuscripts are preserved, some of which were destroyed by fanatics during the French counteroffensive to halt the expansion of Islamists in Mali. But few people know that Timbuktu was only one of many centers of Islamic learning in precolonial West Africa. This book analyses the rise and transformation of Arabo-Islamic erudition in West Africa from the beginning of the spread of Islam through the colonial period to the twenty-first century. It highlights the contribution of Muslim scholars in the production and transmission of knowledge and in shaping state and society in West Africa. It argues that no study of the history of education or knowledge production in West Africa will be complete unless it pays attention to this intellectual tradition. The book further shows how European colonialism obstructs historiography so that we know so little about it. Finally, the book analyze the transformation of West African educational system, in the twentieth and twenty first century and shows that far from declining, the Islamic tradition of West Africa has gained vitality in the postcolonial period."--

Islamic learning and scholarship --- Education --- History. --- Political aspects --- Africa, West --- Intellectual life. --- Civilization --- Islamic influences. --- Children --- Education, Primitive --- Education of children --- Human resource development --- Instruction --- Pedagogy --- Schooling --- Students --- Youth --- Learning and scholarship --- Mental discipline --- Schools --- Teaching --- Training --- Muslim learning and scholarship --- Muslims --- Intellectual life --- Africa, Western --- West Africa --- Western Africa