This work focuses on the intellectual and educational history of Baghdad in the early ʿAbbāsid and Būyid periods (8th–10th 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 Arabic poetry and literature, the transmission of prophetic reports, Arabic historiography and astronomical-astrological teaching. Christian learning in the city is highlighted by two contributions, while two more papers focus on Jewish practices of knowledge production. The volume seeks to promote a better understanding of Baghdad’s multi-cultural circles of learning, the transmission of knowledge, and common patterns of patronage during this period. With Contributions by E. Abate, A. Borrut, Y. Dehghani Farsani, D. Janos, E. Martín Contreras, L. Ossenbach, C. Ott, H.-P. Pökel, J. Scheiner, N. K. Schmid, N. Schmidt, K. Szilágyi, J. Thomann, I. Toral-Niehoff, J. Watt, C. Wilde, M. Zakeri
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Edition
1/2020
Copyright Year
2020
ISBN-Print
978-3-95994-130-3
ISBN-Online
978-3-95994-131-0
Publisher
Gerlach Press, Berlin
Series
SLAEI - Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam
Volume
26
Language
English
Pages
676
Product Type
Edited Book
Table of contents
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Contents No access
List of Figures No access
List of Contributors No access
Foreword No access
Preface No access
1 Political Metropolis and Intellectual Center No access Pages 1 - 46
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2 Talking about Arab Origins: The Transmission of the ayyām al-ʿarab in al-Kūfa, al-Baṣra and Baghdād No access Pages 47 - 76
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3 The Language of the Arabs in Early Ninth Century Philology: An Investigation of the Term mathal in Abū ʿUbayda’s Majāz al-Qurʾān No access Pages 77 - 102
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4 ‘Earnest and Jest (al-jidd wa-l-hazl)’ as an Educational Concept? Some Considerations on Selected Works of al-Jāḥiẓ (d. 255/869) No access Pages 103 - 146
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5 Abū I-ʿAtāhiya and the Versification of Disenchantment No access Pages 147 - 182
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6 Teachers and Ḥadīth Transmitters: The Quṣṣāṣ in Ibn Ḥanbal’s Musnad No access Pages 183 - 236
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7 ‘We shall neither learn the Qurʾān nor teach it to our children’: The Covenant of ʿUmar on Learning No access Pages 237 - 266
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8 Christian Learning about Islam in the Early ʿAbbāsid Caliphate: The Muslim Sources of the Disputation of the Monk Abraham of Tiberias No access Pages 267 - 342
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9 Muḥammad b. Khalaf b. al-Marzbān (d. 309/921) and His Role in Translations from the Middle Persian No access Pages 343 - 362
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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 No access Pages 363 - 388
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11 Al-Maʾmūn’s Patronage of Astrology: Some Biographical and Institutional Considerations No access Pages 389 - 454
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12 Court Astrologers and Historical Writing in Early ʿAbbāsid Baghdād: An Appraisal No access Pages 455 - 502
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13 From Lyrics by al-Fazārī to Lectures by al-Fārābī: Teaching Astronomy in Baghdād (750–1000 C.E.) No access Pages 503 - 526
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14 ‘Until his eyes light up’: Talmud Teaching in Babylonian Geonic Yeshivot No access Pages 527 - 556
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15 Safeguarding Lord’s Word: The Work of the Masoretes in Palestine and Babylon No access Pages 557 - 574
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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 No access Pages 577 - 586
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17 Historical Writing in Baghdād: The Case of the Futūḥ al-Shām ascribed to al-Wāqidī (d. 207/822) No access Pages 587 - 600
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18 Teaching Qurʾānic Exegesis: Some Initial Insights No access Pages 601 - 614
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Index No access Pages 615 - 655
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