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This work focuses on the intellectual and educational history of Baghdad in the early ‘Abbasid and Buyid 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
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
Price: £160.00
Pages: 675
Publisher: Gerlach Press
Imprint: Gerlach Press
Series: Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam
Publication Date:
15 January 2021
ISBN: 9783959941303
Format: Hardcover
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List of Figures
List of Contributors
Foreword
Preface
1 Baghdād: Political Metropolis and Intellectual Center
Jens Scheiner & Damien Janos
2 Talking about Arab Origins: The Transmission of the ayyām al-,arab in al-Kūfa, al-Baṣra and Baghdād
Isabel Toral-Niehoff
3 The Language of the Arabs in Early Ninth Century Philology: An Investigation of the Term mathal in Abū ,Ubayda’s Majāz al-Qur-ān
Nora Schmidt
4 ‘Earnest and Jest (al-jidd wa-l-hazl)’ as an Educational Concept? Some Considerations on Selected Works of al-Jāḥiẓ (d. 255/869)
Hans-Peter Pökel
5 Abū l-,Atāhiya and the Versification of Disenchantment
Nora K. Schmid
6 Teachers and Ḥadīth Transmitters: The Quṣṣāṣ in Ibn Ḥanbal’s Musnad
Jens Scheiner
7 ‘We shall neither learn the Qur-ān nor teach it to our children’: The Covenant of ,Umar on Learning
Clare Wilde
8 Christian Learning about Islam in the Early ,Abbāsid Caliphate: The Muslim Sources of the Disputation of the Monk Abraham of Tiberias
Krisztina Szilágyi
9 Muḥammad b. Khalaf b. al-Marzbān (d. 309/921) and His Role in Translations from the Middle Persian
Mohsen Zakeri
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
John Watt
11 Al-Ma-mūn’s Patronage of Astrology: Some Biographical and Institutional Considerations
Damien Janos
12 Court Astrologers and Historical Writing in Early ,Abbāsid Baghdād: An Appraisal
Antoine Borrut
13 From Lyrics by al-Fazārī to Lectures by al-Fārābī: Teaching Astronomy in Baghdād (750–1000 C.E.)
Johannes Thomann
14 ‘Until his eyes light up’: Talmud Teaching in Babylonian Geonic Yeshivot
Elisabetta Abate
15 Safeguarding Lord’s Word: The Work of the Masoretes in Palestine and Babylon
Elvira Martín Contreras
Sketches for Further Research
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
Claudia Ott
17 Historical Writing in Baghdād: The Case of the Futūḥ al- Shām ascribed to al-Wāqidī (d. 207/822)
Yoones Dehghani Farsani
18 Teaching Qur-ānic Exegesis: Some Initial Insights
Luise Ossenbach
Index