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Coherence of the Incoherence: Between Al-Ghazali and Ibn Rushd on Nature and the Cosmos [Hardback]
Edward Moad (Author)
£99.00ISBN: 9781463244972
Published by : Gorgias Press
Series: Islamic History and Thought
Volume: 33
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Coherence of the Incoherence: Between Al-Ghazali and Ibn Rushd on Nature and the Cosmos is the first of a two-part critical examination of the seminal debate carried out in the pages of Ghazali’s Incoherence of the Philosophers and Ibn Ru... .... Learn More -
The Martyrdom of Mar Grigor Piran-Gušnasp and The Martyrdom of Mar Yazd-panah [Paperback]
Florence Jullien (Editor)
£61.00ISBN: 9781463244873
Published by : Gorgias Press
Series: Persian Martyr Acts in Syriac: Text and Translation
Volume: 8
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In the mid-6th century, Grigor, the general of the Sasanian king’s armies and a converted from Zoroastrianism to Christianity, was put to death. This event brings about the conversion of several Zoroastrian notables such as Yazd-panāh, a judge who... .... Learn More -
Langage et théologie chez Abū Bakr Ibn al-ʿArabī (543/1148): Les informations subtiles de la somme de théorie légale (Nukat al-Maḥṣūl fī ʿilm al-uṣūl) [Hardback]
Ilyass Amharar (Author)
£96.00ISBN: 9781463243845
Published by : Gorgias Press
Series: Islamic History and Thought
Volume: 31
The Qāḍī Abū Bakr Ibn al-ʿArabī was an Ašʿarite theologian, a Maliki jurist and an Andalusian traditionalist of the fifth-sixth / eleventh-twelfth century. His influence in the Muslim West is undeniable: he is one of the most important figures in ... .... Learn More -
Shiʿite Rulers, Sunni Rivals, and Christians in Between: Muslim-Christian Relations in Fāṭimid Palestine and Egypt [Hardback]
Steven Gertz (Author)
£85.00ISBN: 9781463244736
Published by : Gorgias Press
Series: Islamic History and Thought
Volume: 32
The study of sectarianism in Islam and the study of Muslim-Christian relations are both sub-specialities attracting growing numbers of scholars in Islamic studies. Rarely, though, are these two fields put into direct conversation with each other. ... .... Learn More -
Rule of Law, ‘Natural Law’, and Social Contract in the Early ‘Abbasid Caliphate: Al-Tabari and the jariri methodology [Hardback]
Ulrika Martensson (Author)
£116.00ISBN: 9781463206499
Published by : Gorgias Press
Series: Islamic History and Thought
The book analyses all extant works by Ibn Jarir al-Tabari (d. 224/839–310/923), referring to their individual methodologies; their legacy as al- madhhab al-jariri; and their scholarly and socio- political context. Through the study of al- Tabari’s... .... Learn More -
Islam Before Modernity: Aḥmad al-Dardīr and the Preservation of Traditional Knowledge [Hardback]
Walead Mosaad (Author)
£99.00ISBN: 9781463243807
Published by : Gorgias Press
Series: The Modern Muslim World
Volume: 14
This book examines the role of tradition and discursive knowledge transmission on the formation of the ‘ulamā’, the learned scholarly class in Islam, and their approach to the articulation of the Islamic disciplines. This book argues that a useful... .... Learn More -
Baghdad during the time of ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī: - [Hardback]
Pascal Held (Author)
£85.00ISBN: 9781463244385
Published by : Gorgias Press
Series: Islamic History and Thought
Volume: 29
A study of the life and background of ʿAbd al-Qādir al-Jīlānī, putative founder of the Qādiriyya order, investigating the sources for his life and attributed works. The book seeks to elucidate the ideas of al-Jīlānī, and to formulate a picture of ... .... Learn More -
The Law Code of Īshōʿyahb I, Patriarch of the Church of the East [Paperback]
Amir Harrak (Editor)
£29.00ISBN: 9781463244347
Published by : Gorgias Press
Series: Texts from Christian Late Antiquity
Volume: 75
During the 6th century AD, Īshōʿyahb I, Patriarch of the Church of the East, produced a code of law dealing with questions raised by Bishop Jacob of Darai in the Gulf. Perennial Church issues include priestly conducts, ecclesiastical rankings, and... .... Learn More -
Medieval Encounters: Arabic-speaking Christians and Islam [Paperback]
Ayman Ibrahim (Editor)
£46.00ISBN: 9781463244477
Published by : Gorgias Press
Series: Gorgias Handbooks
Volume: 55
A sourcebook of major Arabic Christian theologians and texts from the 9th-11th centuries. Christian authors who spoke and wrote Arabic had no choice but to engage with Islam and the complex realities of life—initially as a majority, later as a min... .... Learn More -
Entangled Confessionalizations?: Dialogic Perspectives on the Politics of Piety and Community Building in the Ottoman Empire, 15th-18th Centuries [Hardback]
Tijana Krstić (Editor); Derin Terzioğlu (Editor)
£153.00ISBN: 9781463243579
Published by : Gorgias Press
Series: The Modern Muslim World
Volume: 15
This volume explores the emergence of discourses of orthodoxy and orthopraxy in the Ottoman Empire between the 15th and 18th centuries, through empirical studies on confessional dynamics in early modern Muslim, Christian and Jewish sources. .... Learn More
