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The place to go : contexts of learning in Baghdad, 750-1000 C.E. /

This work focuses on the intellectual and educational history of Baghdad in the early 'Abbāsid and Būyid periods (8th-19th centuries). It covers a wide range of disciplines taught in the metropolis before the institutionalization of the madrasa system. Among these fields of knowledge are Arab...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Scheiner, Jens J., 1976- (Editor ), Janos, Damien (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : Gerlach Press, 2021.
Colección:Studies in late antiquity and early Islam ; 26.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Baghdād: political metropolis and intellectual center / Jens Scheiner & Damien Janos
  • 2. Talking about Arab origins: the transmission of the Ayyām al-ʻarab in al-Kūfa, al-Baṣra and Baghdād / Isabel Toral-Niehoff
  • 3. The language of the Arabs in early ninth century philology: an investigation of the term mathal in Abū ʻUbayda's Majāz al-Qurʼān / Nora Schmidt
  • 4. 'Earnest and jest (al-jidd wa-l-hazl)' as an educational concept? Some considerations on selected works of al-Jāḥiẓ (d. 255/869) / Hans-Peter Pökel
  • 5. Abū I-ʻAtāhiya and the versification of disenchantment / Nora K. Schmid
  • 6. Teachers and Ḥadīth transmitters: The Quṣṣāṣ in Ibn Ḥanbal's Musnad / Jens Scheiner
  • 7. 'We shall neither learn the Qurʼān nor teach it to our children': the Covenant of ʻUmar on learning / Clare Wilde
  • 8. Christian learning about Islam in the early ʻAbbāsid Caliphate: the Muslim sources of the Disputation of the monk Abraham of Tiberias / Krisztina Szilágyi
  • 9. Muḥammad b. Khalaf b. al-Marzbān (d. 309/921) and his role in translations from the middle Persian / Mohsen Zakeri
  • 10. Why did Ḥunayn, the master translator into Arabic, make translations into Syriac? On the purpose of the Syriac translations of Ḥunayn and his circle / John Watt
  • 11. Al-Maʼmūn's patronage of astrology: some biographical and institutional considerations / Damien Janos
  • 12. Court astrologers and historical writing in early ʻAbbāsid Baghdād: an appraisal / Antoine Borrut
  • 13. From lyrics by al-Fazārī to lectures by al-Fārābī: teaching astronomy in Baghdād (750-1000 C.E.) / Johannes Thomann
  • 14. 'Until his eyes light up': Talmud teaching in Babylonian Geonic Yeshivot / Elisabetta Abate
  • 15. Safeguarding Lord's word: the work of the Masoretes in Palestine and Babylon / Elvira Martín Contreras
  • Sketches for Further Research. 16. 'Baghdād for lovers lies not far away': Baghdād and other imaginary places in a 7th/13th cent. manuscript of the Hundred and one nights / Claudia Ott ; 17. Historical writing in Baghdād: the case of the Futūḥ al-Shām ascribed to al-Wāqidī (d. 207/822) / Yoones Dehghani Farsani ; 18. Teaching Qurʼānic exegesis: some initial insights / Luise Ossenbach.