Arabic and Persian Seals and Amulets in the British Museum

Arabic and Persian Seals and Amulets in the British Museum

Porter, Venetia

This catalogue is the first on the outstanding collection of Arabic and Persian seals and amulets in the British Museum, by a specialist in the field. The first part focuses on the 638 Arabic, Persian and Indian seals covering material from the 8th to the 20th century. The introduction covers seal practice in different periods and levels of society; the role of the seal and the "alama" or motto, the use of figural representation on the seals, seal engravers, the forgery of seals and the importance of the stones used are described. The features of the seals themselves, in particular the palaeography and dating of early Islamic seals, some grammatical features of the inscriptions, and the range of designs present on the seals are analysed. The types and form of Islamic names, the range of phrases that commonly appear and the characteristics of later seals are also discussed. The second part focuses on 170 amulets in the collection preceded by an introduction to the subject. Research into the engraving techniques is presented with analysis of the stones used. This publication will be a standard work of reference for years to come.

Contributor

• Hoyland, Robert  ( Contributor )
  
• Morton, Alexander  ( Contributor )
  
• Bhandare, Shailendra  ( Contributor )
  
• Ambers, Janet  ( Contributor )
  
• Humphrey, Sylvia  ( Contributor )
  
• Meeks, Nigel  ( Contributor )
  
• Sax, Margaret  ( Contributor )
  
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Date published

• 2011

Institution

• British Museum

Series name

• British Museum Research Publications

Editor

• Porter, Venetia
  

Publisher

• British Museum

Place of publication

• London

ISBN

• 9780861591602

Licence

• CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike

 

Open Access Book: نهج البلاغة = Nahj al-balāghah : the wisdom and eloquence of ʻAlī

Nahj al-balāghah : the wisdom and eloquence of ʻAlī : a parallel English-Arabic text / compiled by al-Sharīf al-Raḍī (d. 406/1015)., et al. 

نهج البلاغة : من كلام امير المؤمنين علي بن أبي طالب صلوات الله عليه. 

Translated by Tahera Qutbuddin.

Published: Brill, Leiden, 2024

ISBN: 9789004682603, 9004682600

Fallacies in the Arabic, Byzantine, Hebrew and Latin Traditions

Fallacies in the Arabic, Byzantine, Hebrew and Latin Traditions 

Editors Leone Gazziero, Laurent Cesalli, Charles H. Manekin, Shahid Rahman, Tony Street, and Michele Trizio 

Book series: Ad argumenta, 4

Place: publisher, year: Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols Publishers, 2023

Pages: 272 p.

pISBN: 978-2-503-60819-8

eISBN: 978-2-503-60820-4

doi: 10.1484/M.ADARG-EB.5.135309

Download: PDF(2.37MB)

Fallacy studies are a well established and fast expanding field of argumentation theory. Without notable exception, however, the evergrowing literature on argumentative failure suffers from a conspicuous lack of interest in medieval fallacy theory - arguably the most creative stage in the whole history of argumentation theories. The standard story is that after Aristotle got off to a tentative start, the study of fallacies lay dormant until people at Port Royal and John Locke revived it in spectacular fashion. The volume will show that this picture is both inaccurate and misleading. By working its way from the inside out within each medieval world, Fallacies in the Arabic, Byzantine, Hebrew and Latin Traditions will provide ample and unambiguous record of the exegetical proficiency, technical expertise and argumentative savoir-faire typically displayed by medieval authors on issues about flawed arguments which are all too often our own.

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Table of Contents

Front Matter ("Table of Contents"), p. 1 https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ADARG-EB.5.141435

Fallacies in the Arabic, Byzantine, Hebrew and Latin Traditions. Introduction, p. 7 Laurent Cesalli, Leone Gazziero, Charles H. Manekin, Shahid Rahman, Tony Street, Michele Trizio https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ADARG-EB.5.137514

Are the Fallacies Topoi?, p. 25 Sten Ebbesen https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ADARG-EB.5.137515

The Fallacia Consequentis between Term Logic and Sentence Logic in its Medieval Reception, p. 45 Costantino Marmo https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ADARG-EB.5.137516

“Qui imperitus est vestrum, primus calculum omittat”. Aristotelis Sophistici Elenchi 1 in the Boethian Tradition, p. 75 Leone Gazziero https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ADARG-EB.5.137517

Theology, Fallacious Reasoning and Heresy on the Borders of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: Some Remarks on the Fallaciae in theologia and Amalricians, p. 119 Irene Caiazzo https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ADARG-EB.5.137518

Byzantine Treatments of Fallacy: The Reception of Aristotle’s Account, p. 131 Melpomeni Vogiatzi https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ADARG-EB.5.137519

Outside the Logic of Necessity: Deontic Puzzles and ‘Breaking’ Compound Causal Properties in Islamic Legal Theory and Dialectic, p. 153 Shahid Rahman, Walter Edward Young https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ADARG-EB.5.137520

A Forgotten Mereological Paradox, p. 187 Hassan Rezakhany https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ADARG-EB.5.137521

Fallacies and Biblical Exegesis – The Case of Joseph ibn Kaspi, p. 209 Charles H. Manekin https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ADARG-EB.5.137522

Fallacies in Rabbinical Thought, in Medieval Jewish Philosophy, and in the Treatise on Talmudic Methodology by Abraham Elijah Cohen, p. 231 Aviram Ravitsky https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ADARG-EB.5.137523

Are Zeno’s Paradoxes of Motion Fallacies? Evidence from the Hebrew Aristotelian Logical Tradition, p. 249 Yehuda Halper https://doi.org/10.1484/M.ADARG-EB.5.137524

 

Nakba Day Anniversary, 2024: Archives, Libraries, Memory and Narrative

Please take a look at the post published published by Global Studies at Columbia University Libraries on today's anniversary of Nakba :

https://blogs.cul.columbia.edu/global-studies/2024/05/14/nakba-day-anniversary-2024-archives-libraries-memory-and-narrative/

The post reminds us of the ongoing horrific loss of Palestinian lives but focuses on systemic attacks on Palestinian libraries, museums, archives, cultural and heritage institutions.  

Short bibliographies of selected resources are available in each of these four sections: 

• 1948 Nakba: Refugees, Destroyed Villages and Erasure of Historic Palestine (focus on maps and atlases including visual maps, land surveys and local histories);
• Destruction and Pillage of Palestinian Cultural Heritage, archives and libraries since 1948;
• Oral Histories;
• Literary and Cinema related select resources

Newly Open Access Journal: Getty Research Journal

Getty Research Journal

The Getty Research Journal is an open-access publication presenting peer-reviewed articles on the visual arts of all cultures, regions, and time periods.

The journal is published through Getty’s Quire software and freely available in web, PDF, and e-book formats. Topics often relate to Getty collections, initiatives, and broad research interests, although this is not a requirement for consideration. The journal welcomes a diversity of perspectives and methodological approaches, and seeks to include work that expands narratives on global culture. We encourage topics and cultural perspectives that remain marginalized in art history and related fields, as well as work by scholars of underrepresented backgrounds.

Previously available via subscription, the Getty Research Journal converted to a diamond open-access publication with the spring 2024 (no. 19) issue. Past issues (nos. 1–18) are available via subscription from Project MUSE while an evaluation is underway to determine the feasibility of making them freely available.

Getty Research Journal, No. 19

2024

Table of Contents

• Editor’s Note
  Doris Chon
• Northern Africa or Central Iran? An Investigation into the Production Place of a Fragmentary Kufic Qur'an at the J. Paul Getty Museum
  Mahdi Sahragard
• Cuttings from an Illustrated Twelfth-Century French Manuscript Bible in Los Angeles and Berlin
  Beatrice Alai and Peter Kidd
• Jane Dieulafoy in Varamin: The Emamzadeh Yahya through a Nineteenth-Century Lens
  Keelan Overton
• Baghdad Kept on Working: Painting and Propaganda during the British Occupation of Iraq, 1941–45
  Anneka Lenssen
• Overthrowing Reality: Photo-Poems in 1980s German Democratic Republic Samizdat
  Anna Horakova and Isotta Poggi
• The Perpetual Unfolding of Photographic History: A Previously Unknown Panorama of Salvador, Bahia, by Rodolpho Lindemann
  Julieta Pestarino

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Past issues by subscription at Muse: Past Issues

 

Arabic Documents from Medieval Nubia

Arabic Documents from Medieval Nubia

Geoffrey Khan 

his volume presents an edition of a corpus of Arabic documents datable to the 11th and 12th centuries AD that were discovered by the Egypt Exploration Society at the site of the Nubian fortress Qaṣr Ibrīm (situated in the south of modern Egypt). The edition of the documents is accompanied by English translations and a detailed analysis of their contents and historical background.

The documents throw new light on relations between Egypt and Nubia in the High Middle Ages, especially in the Fatimid period. They are of particular importance since previous historical studies from the perspective of Arabic sources have been almost entirely based on historiographical sources, often written a long time after the events described and distorted by tendentious points of view.

Contents

1. Introduction

(pp. 1–14)

• Geoffrey Khan

2. The Arabic Documents from Qaṣr Ibrīm

(pp. 15–48)

• Geoffrey Khan

3. The Correspondence with Eparchs

(pp. 49–128)

• Geoffrey Khan

4. Other Correspondence and Accounts

(pp. 129–144)

• Geoffrey Khan

5. Legal Documents

(pp. 145–184)

• Geoffrey Khan

6. Coinage

(pp. 185–192)

• Geoffrey Khan

7. Taxes

(pp. 193–194)

• Geoffrey Khan

8. Lists of Commodities

(pp. 195–204)

• Geoffrey Khan

9. Titles of Officials

(pp. 205–234)

• Geoffrey Khan

10. Slaves and Servants

(pp. 235–252)

• Geoffrey Khan

11. The Socio-Economic Situation Reflected by the Documents

(pp. 253–262)

• Geoffrey Khan

12. Script and Layout

(pp. 263–276)

• Geoffrey Khan

13. Language

(pp. 277–284)

• Geoffrey Khan

14. Maps

(pp. 285–286)

• Geoffrey Khan

Contributors

Geoffrey Khan

(author)

Book Series

• Semitic Languages and Cultures vol. 24
• ISSN Print: 2632-6906
• ISSN Digital: 2632-6914

DOI

https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0391

License

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

Copyright

Geoffrey Khan

Published On

2024-05-06

ISBN

Paperback978-1-80511-230-3

Hardback978-1-80511-231-0

PDF978-1-80511-232-7

Language

• English

Print Length

854 pages (xiv+840)

Dimensions

 

OPEN ISLAMICATE TEXTS INITIATIVE

"Funded through two grants from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Phase One of the Open Islamicate Texts Initiative Arabic-script OCR Catalyst Project (OpenITI AOCP) is the first undertaking of its kind to tackle the technical and organizational barriers that historically have stymied the development of Arabic-script OCR and digital text production for Islamicate Studies.

OpenITI AOCP is led by an interdisciplinary team of humanities, computer science, and digital humanities co-principal investigators from Roshan Institute for Persian Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, Northeastern University’s NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks, the Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations in London, and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities at the University of Maryland, College Park. We are proud to partner with the SHARIAsource project of the Program in Islamic Law at Harvard Law School and the eScripta project of Université Paris Sciences et Lettres for the technical development portion of the project.

The primary technical goal of the first phase of OpenITI AOCP is to achieve ≥97% character accuracy rates (CARs) for OCR on the most used Persian and Arabic print typefaces. 

The second major deliverable of OpenITI AOCP is an open-source and user-friendly digital text production pipeline for Persian and Arabic texts."