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29 paź 2020 · This guide provides a select, annotated list of editions of some important primary sources for the history of Islamic Civilization that have been digitized and are available online. It focuses on sources in the Arabic language composed in the pre-Modern period (ca. 700-1500 CE/100-900 AH).
29 paź 2020 · This page is dedicated to the most important historical chronicles (ta’rīkh or tārīkh) written in Arabic between 900/300 AH and 1900/1200 AH. Most are arranged by year and are valuable sources for the political and social histories of their day.
14 maj 2020 · This chapter introduces the Qur’an’s own view of history alongside some of the ways in which modern scholars have made use of the text of the Qur’an as a source for the history of Arabia—and especially of the Ḥijāz—in the early-to-mid seventh century.
29 paź 2020 · Website featuring digitized and fully searchable texts of five of the most important classical Arabic-language dictionaries: Lisān al-‘arab (Ibn Manẓūr, d. 1312/711 AH); Maqāyis al-lugha (Ibn Fāris, d. 1004/395 AH); al-Saḥḥāḥ fī al-lugha (Jawharī, d. ca. 1009-1010/400 AH); al-Qāmūs al-Muḥīṭ (Fīrūzābādī, d. 1415/817 AH); al-‘Abāb al-zākhir (Saghā...
21 mar 2024 · Arabic Collections Online - Digital Library Arabic Collections Online (ACO) is a publicly available digital library of public domain Arabic language content. “ Qur’an Details search page allows scholars to search among 4,700 detailed entries for historically interesting Qur’an pages, spanning 110 collections from all over the world, and ...
Studies and Texts covers the world of Islam, from the time of its earliest appearance until the pre-modern period, and from its Western to its Eastern frontiers.
The Annals of the Prophets and Kings (Taʾrīkh al-rusul wa-l-mulūk) by al-Ṭabarī is one of the most important historical works about the first centuries of Muslim society in Arabic. The classic Brill edition, originally titled Annales quos scripsit Abu Djafar Mohammed Ibn Djarir At-Tabari, was supervised by M.J. de Goeje.
