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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).
24 sty 2012 · Islamic history and culture can be traced through the written records: Pre-Islamic, early Islamic, Umayyad, the first and second Abbasid, the Hispano-Arabic, the Persian and the modern periods. The various influences of these different periods can be readily perceived, as can traces of the Greek, the Indian, and the Pre-Islamic Persian cultures.
In striking contrast to the West, Islam developed the diary very early in its history, earlier than has heretofore been known. And there is reason to believe that it antedates and is related to, three genres of historiographical literature: the annalistic, the biographical, and the combination of both in two separate sections under the same year.
17 lis 2023 · It re-examines what we mean by ‘Islamic’ when we speak about the discipline of ‘Islamic history’, the standard term for the history of the lands where Muslims were politically and, in some senses, culturally dominant, especially during the Middle Ages.
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...
9 paź 2024 · The manuscripts are chiefly in Arabic but also include Persian, Ottoman Turkish, and other languages of the Islamic world. They date from the early centuries of Islam through the fall of the Ottoman Empire.
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.
