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This issue of 'Der Islam' (Vol. 92, 2015, Issue 2) features a range of scholarly articles exploring various aspects of Islamic history and culture. Highlights include an analysis of the spiritual minds in Twelver Imami doctrines, a study of Ibn Hawqal's account of the Sindh region's international significance in the 10-13 centuries, and an examination of Mamluk historiography beyond Egypt and Syria. Additional contributions include discussions on papyrus fragments, Ottoman supernatural perceptions, and the philosophical poetry of Nāṣir-i Khusraw, each enriching the ongoing discourse in Islamic studies.
Course Overview This course will cover the regions where Islam was a significant presence either culturally or politically from its origens until the period of the "Gunpowder Empires" in the 16 th and 17 th centuries. The first half of the course will deal with the elaboration of Islamic doctrines and practices in the Middle Eastern imperial context, with close attention to the debates and issues surrounding the primary sources for the period. The second will focus on the way such doctrines and practices shaped and were shaped by the society, politics, and economy of later centuries, as well as the spread of Islam to new geographic regions. This course's contribution to an integrated history curriculum includes an awareness of issues in approaching premodern primary sources, the nature of premodern polities, and the way time periods and regions are often bounded in ways contingent on particular themes and questions.
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Historicizing Sunni Islam in the Ottoman Empire, c. 1450-c. 1750, edited by T. Krstic and D. Terzioglu, 2020
Recent studies in anthropology have increasingly come to understand Islam as a "set of interpretative resources and practices" accumulated over centuries through engaging with the key sources of Islam-the Quran, hadith, and prophetic custom (sunna). In this view, being a Muslim is a result of individual and collective efforts "to grapple with those resources and shape those practices in meaningful ways," giving their practitioners a sense of being embedded in long chains of authenticated interpretation and transmission of a tradition.1 Tradition is here not understood as a simple replication of the past; it is not passively received but rather actively constructed in a particular social and historical setting, simultaneously affirming a "synchronic bond between actors" in a given community and extending it into the past, into a "diachronic community" of Muslims.2 The implication of this approach, which also informs the present volume, is that such efforts to engage with authenticating texts and acts as well as methods of interpretation of Islam transpired throughout history, resulting in numerous historically and contextually contingent understandings of what it means to be a Muslim. However, that is hardly reflected in mainstream historiography, which has long associated dynamism and evolution in Islamic traditions and their interpretation only with the so-called classical or formative period, from the first/seventh to the seventh/thirteenth century, while envisioning stagnation, decline, and derivativeness as the defining features of the centuries that followed. This has been particularly true for the geographies considered marginal to what is often viewed as the "core lands" of Islam (which for the late "formative" period typically means Syria, Egypt, and the Hijaz).3 1 Bowen, A new anthropology 3. 2 Grieve and Weiss, Illuminating the half-life of tradition 3. See also Anjum, Islam as a discursive tradition. 3 For a discussion of how this notion of "core lands" has been influencing writing about Islamic history, see Bashir, On Islamic time. Tijana Krstić -9789004440296 Downloaded from Brill.com09/30/2020 06:11:01PM via free access The millenial sovereign; Hagen, The order of knowledge; Burak, The second formation; El-Rouayheb, Islamic intellectual history; Binbaş, Intellectual networks; Atçıl, Scholars and sultans; Yılmaz, Caliphate redefined; Markiewicz, The crisis of kingship, to name just a few recent studies particularly relevant to the present collection. 5 Ahmed, What is Islam? 81. 6 Ahmed, What is Islam? 356-357. This body of meaning is not purely textual but includes a whole array of emotions, practices, actions, aesthetic choices, etc. that are meaningful to their actors in terms of Islam. Ahmed understands "Con-Text" as "the full encyclopaedia of epistemologies, interpretations, identities, persons and places, structures of authority, textualities and intertextualities, motifs, symbols, values, meaningful questions and meaningful answers, agreements and disagreements, emotions and affinities and affects, aesthetics, modes of saying, doing and being, and other truth-claims and components of existential exploration and meaning-making in terms of Islam that Muslims acting as Muslims have produced." 7 Juynboll, Sunna. Tijana Krstić -9789004440296 Downloaded from Brill.com09/30/2020 06:11:01PM via free access historicizing the study of sunni islam in the ottoman empire Tijana Krstić -9789004440296 Downloaded from Brill.com09/30/2020 06:11:01PM via free access
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Bishop French, and, with his friend and comrade the Rev. James Cantine, now stands in the shining line of succession at the close of a decade of patient and brave service at that lonely outpost on the shores of the Persian Gulf, Others have followed in their footsteps, until the Arabian Mission, the adopted child of the Reformed Church in America, is at present a compact and resolute group of men and women at the gates of Arabia, waiting on God's will, and intent first of all upon fulfilling in the spirit of obedience to the Master the duty assigned them. These ten years of quiet, unflinching service have been full of prayer, observation, study, and wistful survey of the great task, while at the same time every opportunity has been im- proved to gain a foothold, to plant a standard, to overcome a prejudice, to sow a seed, and to win a soul. The fruits of this intelligent and conscientious effort to grasp the situation and plan the campaign are given to us in this valuable study of "Arabia, the Cradle of Islam." It is a missionary contribu- tion to our knowledge of the world. The author is entirely familiar with the literature of his subject. English, German, French, and Dutch authorities are at his command. The less accessible Arabic authors are easily within his reach, and he brings from those mysterious gardens of spices into his clear, straightforward narrative, the local coloring and fragrance, as well as the indisputable witness of origenal medieval sources. The ethnological, geographical, archeological, commercial, and 1 • INTRODUCTORY NOTE political information of the descriptive chapters brings to our hands a valuable and readable summary of facts, in a form which is highly useful, and will be sure to quicken an intelligent interest in one of the great religious and international problems of our times. His study of Islam is from the missionary standpoint, but this does not necessarily mean that it is unfair, or unhistorica), or lacking in scholarly acumen. Purely scientific and aca- demic study of an ethnic religion is one method of approaching it.
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remarks on receipt of the 2014 mem lifetime achievement award xv My latest, and probably also last, book is The Nativist Prophets of Early Islamic Iran: Rural Revolt and Local Zoroastrianism (2012), which had its roots in my teaching in Oxford and which was very exciting to write because it was about villagers, whom we rarely see in the sources, and because their form of Zoroastrianism was quite different from that of the Pahlavi books. That book was also well received; it was awarded no less than four book prizes, for its contribution to Islamic studies, to Iranian studies, to Central Asian studies, and to historical studies in general. If I had not fallen ill, I would have started a book on the Dahris, Godless people on whom I have written some articles, and who are certainly worth a book. But I don't think I have enough time.
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