Text & context in Islamic societies
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Text & context in Islamic societies
Ithaca Press : Garnet Publishing, 2004
1st ed
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Text and context in Islamic societies
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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"The Giorgio Levi Della Vida Conference...This book is a collection of papers from the sixteenth conference which honored André Raymond and Josef van Ess."--book jacket
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Giorgio Levi Della Vida Conference celebrates outstanding scholars whose work has significantly advanced the study of Islamic civilization. This book is a collection of papers from the sixteenth conference which honored Andre Raymond and Josef van Ess. The theme of text and context is fully explored, using examples such as hadith and tar'ikh, the Arab or the Islamic city, medieval Islamic scientific instruments and modern media. The collection begins with an introduction to the various ways of looking at text, from hermeneutics to philology, historiography and social anthropology, and a survey of the methodologies of modern Islamic studies. The importance of the text in Islamic culture is explored in close analysis of hadith; a survey of Arab historians; an account of the texts that can provide context for the historian of the Arab city; an examination of the current contest over the conservation of Fatimid Cairo. The collection concludes with a look at how mass education and mass communication are changing the approach to traditional texts in Islamic societies. Contributors include R. Stephen Humphreys, David A. King, Paula Sanders and Dale F. Eickelman.
Table of Contents
- Text and Context: A Few Casual Remarks on the Topic - Josef van Ess
- Texts and Contexts: Heroes of the Plague - Josef van Ess
- Reflections on Research in the History of the Arab City during the Ottoman Period (Sixteenth-Eighteenth Centuries) or Jean Sauvaget Revisited - Andre Raymond
- Borrowed Lives: The Reproduction of Texts in Islamic Cultures - R. Stephen Humphreys
- From Inscriptions to Context: Some Islamic Astronomical Instruments and their Secrets - David A. King
- The Contest over Context: Fatimid Cairo in the Twentieth Century - Paula Sanders
- Compromised Contexts: Changing Ideas of Texts in the Islamic Tradition - Dale F. Eickelman
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