Baghdad and Isfahan: A Dialogue of Two Cities in an Age of Science CA. 750-1750, Elaheh Kheirandish
Автор: Ali Humayun Akhtar Название: Philosophers, Sufis, and Caliphs: Politics and Authority from Cordoba to Cairo and Baghdad ISBN: 1316633098 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781316633090 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 33790.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: This book investigates the relationship between government and religion in Middle Eastern history. By tracing how political debates about leadership impacted the theological scholars and their own conception of communal guidance, it offers a new picture of premodern political authority and the connections between Western and Islamic civilizations.
Renowned as great centres of learning, the cities of Baghdad and Isfahan were at the heart of the Islamic civilization as rich capital cities and centres of intellectual thought. Their distinct cultural voices inspired a unique historical dialogue, which finds new expression in Baghdad and Isfahan, the story of how knowledge was transmitted and transformed within Islamic lands, and then spread across Europe. Capturing the history of Baghdad and Isfahan from 750 to 1750, Elaheh Kheirandish draws on the voices of court astronomers, mathematicians, scientists, mystics, jurists, statesmen and Arabic and Persian translators and scholars to document the extensive and lasting contribution of sciences from Islamic lands to the history of science. Kheirandish bases her narrative on a unique medieval manuscript and other historical sources and the result is more than a thousand-year 'tale of two cities' - it is a city by city, and century by century, look at what it took to change the world. In a feat of travelogue and time travel, this unique book creates parallel stories with modern and historical characters, crossing cities worldwide, and capturing changes through time. Interweaving multiple narratives, histories, and futures, she charts the possible paths - formalized and serendipitous, lost and recovered - by which knowledge itself is translated and transmitted across time and cultures.
Автор: Babayan Kathryn Название: The City as Anthology: Eroticism and Urbanity in Early Modern Isfahan ISBN: 1503613380 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781503613386 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 100320.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Household anthologies of seventeenth-century Isfahan collected everyday texts and objects, from portraits, letters, and poems to marriage contracts and talismans. With these family collections, Kathryn Babayan tells a new history of the city at the transformative moment it became a cosmopolitan center of imperial rule. Bringing into view people's lives from a city with no extant state or civic archives, Babayan reimagines the archive of anthologies to recover how residents shaped their communities and crafted their urban, religious, and sexual selves.
Babayan highlights eight residents—from king to widow, painter to religious scholar, poet to bureaucrat—who anthologized their city, writing their engagements with friends and family, divulging the many dimensions of the social, cultural, and religious spheres of life in Isfahan. Through them, we see the gestures, manners, and sensibilities of a shared culture that configured their relations and negotiated the lines between friendship and eroticism. These entangled acts of seeing and reading, desiring and writing converge to fashion the refined urban self through the sensual and the sexual—and give us a new and enticing view of the city of Isfahan.
Автор: Matthee, Rudi Название: Persia in crisis ISBN: 1838607072 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781838607074 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 35890.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
I.B.Tauris in association with the Iran Heritage Foundation
The decline and fall of Safavid Iran is traditionally seen as the natural outcome of the unrelieved political stagnation and moral degeneration which characterised late Safavid Iran. "Persia in Crisis" challenges this view. In this ground-breaking new book, Rudi Matthee revisits traditional sources and introduces new ones to take a fresh look at Safavid Iran in the century preceding the fall of Isfahan in 1722, which brought down the dynasty and ushered in a long period of turbulence in Iranian history. Inherently vulnerable because of the country's physical environment, its tribal makeup and a small economic base, the Safavid state was fatally weakened over the course of the seventeenth century. Matthee views Safavid Iran as a network of precarious alliances subject to perpetual negotiation and the society they ruled as an uneasy balance between conflicting forces. In the later seventeenth century this delicate balance shifted from cohesion to fragmentation. An increasingly detached, palace-bound shah; a weakening link between the capital and the outlying provinces; the regime's neglect of the military and its shortsighted monetary policies combined to exacerbate rather than redress existing problems, leaving the country with a ruler too feeble to hold factionalism and corruption in check and a military unable to defend its borders against outside attack by Ottomans and Afghans. The scene was set for the Crisis of 1722. This book makes a major contribution to our understanding of Iranian history and the period that led to two hundred years of decline and eclipse for Iran.
Автор: Melis Taner Название: Caught in a Whirlwind: A Cultural History of Ottoman Baghdad as Reflected in Its Illustrated Manuscripts ISBN: 9004412697 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789004412699 Издательство: Brill Цена: 184630.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии. Описание: Caught in a Whirlwind: A Cultural History of Ottoman Baghdad as Reflected in its Illustrated Manuscripts focuses on a period of great artistic vitality in the region of Baghdad, a frontier area that was caught between the rival Ottoman and the Safavid empires. In the period following the peace treaty of 1590, a corpus of more than thirty illustrated manuscripts and several single page paintings were produced. In this book Melis Taner presents a contextual study of the vibrant late sixteenth-century and early seventeenth-century Baghdad art market, opening up further avenues of research on art production in provinces and border regions.
Автор: Levy Название: A Baghdad Chronicle ISBN: 1107600545 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107600546 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 33790.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The aim of this 1929 study was to present an account of Baghdad under the Abbasid Caliphate which included not only the record of conflict and political history of the city, but as much as possible of its social history, with descriptions of the manners and customs of its people.
Автор: Ibn Al-Saaai Alai Ibn Anjab, Ibn Al-Sai Ali Ibn An Название: Consorts of the Caliphs: Women and the Court of Baghdad ISBN: 1479850985 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781479850983 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 35110.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Consorts of the Caliphs is a seventh/thirteenth-century compilation of anecdotes about thirty-eight women who were, as the title suggests, consorts to those in power, most of them concubines of the early Abbasid caliphs and wives of latter-day caliphs and sultans. This slim but illuminating volume is one of the few surviving texts by Ibn al-Sa'i (d. 674/1276). Ibn al-Sa'i was a prolific Baghdadi scholar who chronicled the academic and political elites of his city, and whose career straddled the final years of the Abbasid dynasty and the period following the cataclysmic Mongol invasion of 656/1258. In this work, Ibn al-Sa'i is keen to forge a connection between the munificent wives of his time and the storied lovers of the so-called golden age of Baghdad. Thus, from the earlier period, we find Harun al-Rashid pining for his brother’s beautiful slave, Ghadir, and the artistry of such musical and literary celebrities as 'Arib and Fadl, who bested the male poets and singers of their day. From times closer to Ibn al-Sa'i’s own—when Abbasid authority was trying to reassert itself and Baghdad was again a major center of intellectual and religious activity—we meet women such as Banafsha, who endowed law colleges, had bridges built, and provisioned pilgrims bound for Mecca; slave women whose funeral services were led by caliphs; and noble Saljuq princesses from Afghanistan. Informed by the author’s own sources, his insider knowledge, and well-known literary materials, these singular biographical sketches, though delivered episodically, bring the belletristic culture of the Baghdad court to life, particularly in the personal narratives and poetry of culture heroines otherwise lost to history. A bilingual Arabic-English edition.
Автор: Al-attar, Iman Название: Baghdad: an urban history through the lens of literature ISBN: 0367670445 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367670443 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 23470.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: The book focuses on three key themes, spatial, nostalgic and reflective, to offer a new approach to the study of Baghdad`s history, with a view to establishing and informing further strategies for future urban developments.
Автор: Le Strange Guy Название: Baghdad: During the Abbasid Caliphate ISBN: 1616405325 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781616405328 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 24510.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Conroy Usa, Capt. Jason Martz, Ron Название: Heavy metal ISBN: 1574888560 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781574888560 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 36740.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: During the Iraq War, coauthor Capt. Jason Conroy commanded Charlie Company, which was part of Task Force 1-64, 2d Brigade Combat Team, part of the U.S. Army`s 3d Infantry Division. A tank unit equipped with mammoth M1A1 Abrams tanks, Conroy`s company was literally at the tip of the U.S. Army`s spear and one of the first elements into Baghdad.
Автор: Keiko Kiyotaki Название: Ottoman Land Reform in the Province of Baghdad ISBN: 9004366598 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789004366596 Издательство: Brill Цена: 152750.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: In Ottoman Land Reform in the Province of Baghdad, Keiko Kiyotaki traces the Ottoman reforms of tax farming and land tenure and establishes that their effects were the key ingredients of agricultural progress. These modernizing reforms are shown to be effective because they were compatible with local customs and tribal traditions, which the Ottoman governors worked to preserve. Ottoman rule in Iraq has previously been considered oppressive and blamed with failure to develop the country. Since the British mandate government’s land and tax policies were little examined, the Ottoman legacy has been left unidentified. This book proves that Ottoman land reforms led to increases in agricultural production and tax revenue, while the hasty reforms enacted by the mandate government ignoring indigenous customs caused new agricultural and land problems.
Автор: Rejwan Nissim Название: The Last Jews in Baghdad: Remembering a Lost Homeland ISBN: 0292726880 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780292726888 Издательство: Marston Book Services Цена: 26390.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: In this beautifully written memoir, Nissim Rejwan recalls the lost Jewish community of Baghdad, in which he was a child and young man from the 1920s through 1951.
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