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THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE AGES
Ten years after Muḥammad’s death in 632, Arabic warriors kept together by the new creed he had established had conquered Egypt, Syria (both from the...
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Lovers of the Rose: Islamic Affect and the Politics of Commemoration in Turkish Museal Display
This chapter explores Turkish museal display as an arena for memory-cultural Islamisation, extending beyond the walls of museums. It probes museums...
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Granada and Castile in the Shared Context of the Islamic Art in the Late Medieval Mediterranean
Granada and Castile in the late Middle Ages had shared goals in arts (political and religious messages) and they must be studied in the context of...
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From Western to Islamic World: The Transformation of Nicosia’s Cultural Identity
This chapter addresses the politics of street-naming in the early years of British rule with reference to the late Ottoman period, examining...
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Art and Culture: Global Icons for the Starchitects
With cities competing at the local and global levels to attract tourists and diversify their economies, glossy buildings for art and culture have...
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A New Utopian Dimension in Arabic/Islamic Tradition: Cosmopolitan Vision of the Future in Nihad Sharif’s The Inhabitants of the Second World
This chapter examines Nihad Sharif’s The Inhabitants of the Second World (1977), arguing that his text illuminates a new cosmopolitan view of utopia,...
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Art, War, and Empire: A History
From its foundation, modern Russian identity was defined by warfare. The imperial period, indeed, began with Russia’s victory over Sweden in the...
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Islamic Legacy in Medieval Iberian Societies: Building Rules
By considering the building regulations of medieval Christian societies of the Iberian Peninsula with the ones contained in Islamic sources from...
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An Islamic Afro-Eurasian Empire: The Ottomans (1299–1923)
The Ottoman Empire, one of the world’s longest enduring empires and the largest of the pre-modern Muslim Empires, survived more than six centuries...
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Islamicate Goods in Gothic Halls: The Nachleben of Palma de Mallorca’s Islamic Past
Following the conquest of Islamic Majorca in 1229, the Christian settler-colonizers embraced a purist identity that rejected the island’s Islamic...
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Art and Science in al-Andalus and the Late Medieval Mediterranean Cultures: Almohad, Nasrid and Ayyubid Astrolabes in their Context
This chapter addresses the cross references, the travel back and forth of ideas, innovations and traditions generated at both sides of the Islamic...
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Rules and Practices of General Average in the Islamic Mediterranean on the Eve of the Emergence of the Italian Communes
This essay underlines the rules of jettison and the financial settlements arising from losses at sea. Muslim jurists did not hold a consensus as...
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Representations of North African Women and African Islamic Religion in El Saadawi’s Zeina
Negative representations of Arab women abound in literature written by men in Egypt. El Saadawi identifies Arab patriarchy and a fundamentalist...
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African Women in African Arts: Making Art for Change
This chapter about African women artists discusses the works of some women artists drawn from different regions of the continent whose trajectories...
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From the Islamic West to Cairo: Malikism, Ibn Tūmart, al-Ghazālī and al-Qāḍī ‘Iyāḍ’s Death
In this chapter, Albarrán studies how al-Qāḍı̄ ‘Iyāḍ, author of the Kitāb al-Shifā’, an Islamic world’s bestseller, became a symbol with numerous...
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Sultans in the Philippine Archipelago
The third chapter aims to identify in a general way the preaching of the Qur’ān and the Islamic missionary activity in the Philippines as well as the...
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Frankincense, Oil and Geopolitics
Founded in just 1971, the diminutive nation of Qatar located on the western coast of the Persian Gulf—covering over 11,000 square kilometers and...
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