Studying the Near and Middle East at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1935–2018

Sabine Schmidtke

• Publisher: Gorgias Press
• Year: 2018
• eBook ISBN: 9781463240035
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Middle Eastern History
• Index: History

Table of contents

• 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