Studying the Near and Middle East at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1935-2018 / / ed. by Sabine Schmidtke.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• MitwirkendeR: Ansari, Hassan,; Blois, François De,; Bowersock, G. W.,; Brentjes, Sonja,; Brunner, Rainer,; Debie, Muriel,; El-Rouayheb, Khaled,; Emon, Anver M.,; Fassin, Didier,; Feldman, Ilana,; Fetvaci, Emine,; Fierro, Maribel,; Fowden, Garth,; Gannagé, Emma,; García-Arenal, Mercedes,; Gershoni, Israel,; Golden, Peter B.,; Gonzalez, Valerie,; Graf, David F.,; Graves, Margaret S.,; Griffel, Frank,; Günther, Sebastian,; Hamzic, Vanja,; Hanley, Will,; Hathaway, Jane,; Haykel, Bernard,; Hegghammer, Thomas,; Herman, Geoffrey,; Johansen, Baber,; Katz, Marion,; Khan, Geoffrey A.,; Kiraz, George A.,; Krawietz, Birgit,; Matthee, Rudi,; Michalopoulos, Stelios,; Moreen, Vera B.,; Nabavi, Negin,; O'Banion, Patrick J.,; Orfali, Bilal,; Piras, Andrea,; Pomerantz, Maurice A.,; Rochberg, Francesca,; Rottenberg, Catherine,; Sabra, Adam,; Salomon, Noah,; Scardino, Carlo,; Schmid, Konrad,; Schmidtke, Sabine,; Schorch, Stefan,; Scott, Joan Wallach,; Sela, Ron,; Sheffield, Daniel J.,; Singer, Amy,; Stewart, Devin J.,; Szombathy, Zoltan,; Tamer, Georges,; Thomas, Kelly Devine,; Tor, D. G.,; Tottoli, Roberto,; Traboulsi, Samer,; Trüper, Henning,; Woerther, Frédérique,; Yanikdag, Yücel,
• HerausgeberIn: Schmidtke, Sabine,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (680 p.)

The history of Near and Middle Eastern Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study dates back to 1935, and it is the one area of scholarship that has been continuously represented at the Institute ever since. The volume opens with a historical sketch of the study of the Near and Middle East at the Institute. The second part of the volume consists of essays and short studies by IAS scholars, past and present, covering fields such as the ancient Near East and early Islamic history, the Bible and the Qurʾān, Islamic intellectual history within and beyond denominational history, Arabic and other Semitic languages and literatures, Islamic religious and legal practices, law and society, the Islamic West, the Ottoman world, Iranian studies, the modern Middle East, and Islam in the West.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- NEAR AND MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES AT THE INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY: A HISTORICAL SKETCH -- IAS SCHOLARS IN NEAR AND MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES, PAST AND PRESENT: A DIRECTORY -- FRUITS OF SCHOLARSHIP -- THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EARLY ISLAMIC HISTORY -- "THERE WE SAT DOWN": MAPPING SETTLEMENT PATTERNS IN SASANIAN BABYLONIA -- THE NEAR EASTERN HERITAGE IN GRECO-ROMAN ASTRONOMY -- ARABIA BEFORE ISLAM -- THE RISE AND FALL OF A JEWISH KINGDOM IN ARABIA -- ENTANGLEMENTS OF CLASSICS AND ORIENTALISM IN THE HISTORY OF PHILOLOGY, AND OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, CIRCA 1900 -- FOR A DIFFERENT HISTORY OF THE SEVENTH CENTURY CE: SYRIAC SOURCES AND SASANIAN AND ARAB-MUSLIM OCCUPATION OF THE MIDDLE EAST -- TRADE AND GEOGRAPHY IN THE ORIGINS AND SPREAD OF ISLAM -- NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE CONTINUATION OF ANCIENT SCIENCE AMONG THE ARABS -- THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK: THE RESTORATION OF CALIPHAL POLITICAL POWER IN THE MEDIEVAL ISLAMIC WORLD -- THE BIBLE AND THE QURʾAN -- WHO WROTE THE TORAH? TEXTUAL, HISTORICAL, SOCIOLOGICAL, AND IDEOLOGICAL CORNERSTONES OF THE FORMATION OF THE PENTATEUCH -- IS A QIBLA A QIBLA? SAMARITAN TRADITIONS ABOUT MOUNT GARIZIM IN CONTACT AND CONTENTION -- MUSLIM PERCEPTIONS AND RECEPTIONS OF THE BIBLE -- EDITING THE QURʾAN IN SIXTEENTH- AND SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY EUROPE -- THE CONCEPT OF TIME IN THE QURʾAN -- THE VOICE OF GOD -- ISLAMIC INTELLECTUAL HISTORY WITHIN AND BEYOND DENOMINATIONAL BORDERS -- VISUALIZATION AND MATERIAL CULTURES OF THE HEAVENS IN EURASIA AND NORTH AFRICA -- RETHINKING THE CANONS OF ISLAMIC INTELLECTUAL HISTORY -- THE PEOPLE OF JUSTICE AND MONOTHEISM: MONOTHEISM IN ISLAM AND JUDAISM -- THE NECESSITY OF A HISTORICAL APPROACH TO ISLAMIC THEOLOGY: TRACING MODERN ISLAMIC THOUGHT TO THE MIDDLE AGES -- ABRAHAM AND ARISTOTLE IN DIALOGUE -- WHAT MAKES AN ORATOR TRUSTWORTHY? SOME NOTES ON THE TRANSMISSION OF ARISTOTLE'S RHETORIC IN THE ARABIC WORLD AND ITS INTERPRETATION BY AL-ARABI -- ARISTOTLE AND AVICENNA ON THE HABITABILITY OF THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE -- PHYSICAL THEORY AND MEDICAL PRACTICE IN THE POST-AVICENNA ERA: YAʿQUB B. ISHAQ AL-ISRAʾILI ON PROPERTIES (EXPLORATORY NOTES) -- WAS FAKHR AL-DIN AL-RAZI AN AVERROIST AFTER ALL? ON THE DOUBLE-TRUTH THEORY IN MEDIEVAL LATIN AND ISLAMIC THOUGHT -- THE CHALLENGES OF DRUZE STUDIES -- ARABIC AND OTHER SEMITIC LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES -- CHASING AFTER A TRICKSTER: THE MAQAMAT BETWEEN PHILOLOGY AND WORLD LITERATURE -- EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES IN LITERATURE IN TENTH-CENTURY ISLAMIC COURTS -- "A GLIMPSE OF THE MYSTERY OF MYSTERIES": IBN TUFAYL ON LEARNING AND SPIRITUALITY WITHOUT PROPHETS AND SCRIPTURES -- ARAMAIC AND ENDANGERED LANGUAGES -- DOTS IN THE WRITING SYSTEMS OF THE MIDDLE EAST -- UNLOCKING MIDDLE EASTERN NAMES -- ISLAMIC RELIGIOUS AND LEGAL PRACTICES, LAW AND SOCIETY -- JURISTS ON LITERATURE AND MEN OF LETTERS ON LAW: THE INTERFACES OF ISLAMIC LAW AND MEDIEVAL ARABIC LITERATURE -- LAW, ETHICS, AND THE PROBLEM OF DOMESTIC LABOR IN THE ISLAMIC MARRIAGE CONTRACT -- THE SHIʿITE INTERPRETATION OF THE STATUS OF WOMEN -- ISLAMIC LAW AND PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW: THE CASE OF INTERNATIONAL CHILD ABDUCTION -- A RENAISSANCE INTERRUPTED? DEBATING PERSONHOOD THROUGH A SEXUAL ACT IN THE TWELFTH-CENTURY CHRISTIANATE AND ISLAMICATE WORLDS -- SAY SOMETHING NICE: SUPPLICATIONS ON MEDIEVAL OBJECTS, AND WHY THEY MATTER -- TEN THESES ON WORKING WITH DEMONS (JINN) IN ISLAMIC STUDIES -- THE INVISIBILITY OF PATERNAL FILIATION: THE POWER OF INSTITUTIONS VERSUS SCIENTIFIC PROOF IN ROMAN AND MUSLIM LAW -- JOSEPH SCHACHT AND GERMAN ORIENTALISM IN THE 1920s AND 1930s -- THE ISLAMIC WEST AND BEYOND -- THE OTHER EDGE: THE MAGHRIB IN THE MASHRIQ -- IDENTIFYING "THE MUFTI OF ORAN": A DETECTIVE STORY -- CASTILIAN AND ARABIC: THE DEBATES ABOUT THE NATURAL LANGUAGES OF SPAIN -- PEACE AND QUIET IN CASTILE: BAPTIZED MUSLIMS, FEUDAL LORDS, AND THE ROYAL EXPULSION -- THE HERMENEUTICS OF ISLAMIC ORNAMENT: THE EXAMPLE OF THE ALHAMBRA -- THE OTTOMAN WORLD AND BEYOND -- EDIRNE/ADRIANOPLE: THE BEST CITY IN GREECE -- THE CHIEF EUNUCH OF THE OTTOMAN IMPERIAL HAREM -- PERSIAN AESTHETICS IN OTTOMAN ALBUMS -- SYPHILIS AS MEASURE OF CIVILIZATION AND PROGRESS? OTTOMAN-TURKISH RESPONSES TO EUROPEAN MEDICAL DISCOURSES ON THE GENERAL PARESIS OF THE INSANE -- THE CONSTRUCTION OF ETHNICITY IN MEDIEVAL TURKIC EURASIA -- TAMERLANE'S (FICTITIOUS) PILGRIMAGE TO THE TOMBS OF THE PROPHETS -- BUILDING A FAMILY SHRINE IN OTTOMAN CAIRO -- IRANIAN AND PERSIANATE STUDIES -- THE SHAPING OF THE HOLY SELF: ART AND RELIGIOUS LIFE IN MANICHAEISM -- PATRICIA CRONE'S CONTRIBUTION TO IRANIAN STUDIES -- LORD OF THE PLANETARY COURT: REVISITING A "NATIVIST PROPHET" OF EARLY MODERN IRAN -- NADIR SHAH IN IRANIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY: WARLORD OR NATIONAL HERO? -- THE BIRTH OF NEWSPAPER CULTURE IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY IRAN -- A BRIEF HISTORY OF JUDEO-PERSIAN LITERATURE -- THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST AND ISLAM IN THE WEST -- LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC LEGACIES IN MODERN EGYPT: THE ROLE OF THE INTELLECTUALS, 1900-1950 -- ISIS AND AL-QAEDA-WHAT ARE THEY THINKING? UNDERSTANDING THE ADVERSARY -- JIHADI WEEPING -- FOR LOVE OF THE PROPHET: A REPLY -- LIVING IN A HUMANITARIAN WORLD: PALESTINIAN REFUGEES AND THE CHALLENGE OF LONG-TERM DISPLACEMENT -- THE MULTIPLE FIGURES OF THE WITNESS IN PALESTINE -- HAGAR: JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION FOR EQUALITY, CREATING A COMMON FUTURE IN ISRAEL -- LA NOUVELLE LAÏCITÉ AND ITS CRITICS: PREFACE TO THE FRENCH TRANSLATION OF THE POLITICS OF THE VEIL