History of Islam

Review of INTRODUCING ISLAM by William Shepard (Routledge, 2009) and AN INTRODUCTION TO ISLAM by David Waines (Cambridge University Press, 2003)

by Amir Dastmalchian

published in JOURNAL OF SHI‘A ISLAMIC STUDIES
2011, vol. 4, issue 2, pages 234-239

Review of INTRODUCING ISLAM by William Shepard (Routledge, 2009) and AN INTRODUCTION TO ISLAM by David Waines (Cambridge University Press, 2003)

by Amir Dastmalchian

published in JOURNAL OF SHI‘A ISLAMIC STUDIES
2011, vol. 4, issue 2, pages 234-239

Review of James HOWARD-JOHNSTON, Witnesses to a World Crisis: Historians and Histories of the Middle East in the Seventh Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010)

by Diego Sarrio Cucarella

Collectanea Christiana Orientalia 8 (2011), 360–365

‘Confrontation, interaction, and the formation of the early Islamic oikoumene. Review article’, Revue des études byzantines 63 (2005) 166-81

by Arietta Papaconstantinou

El reino nazarí de Granada entre los manuales de mercaderías y los tratados de aritmética italianos bajomedievales

by Raúl González Arévalo

Revista del Centro de Estudios Históricos de Granada y su Reino, 19 (2007), pp. 141-168

Traduttore, traditore. À propos d'une correspondance arabe-latine entre l'Empire almohade et la cité de Pise (début XIIIe siècle)

by Pascal Buresi

in D. Aigle, P. Buresi (eds.), Les relations diplomatiques entre le monde musulman et l'Occident latin (XIIe-XVIe siècle), ns Oriente Moderno, 88/2, 2008, p. 297-309

Les plaintes de l'archevêque: chronique des premiers échanges épistolaires entre Pise et le gouverneur almohade de Tunis (1182)

by Pascal Buresi

in N. Martinez (ed.) M.J. Viguera and P. Buresi (dir.), Documentos y manuscritos árabes del Occidente musulmán medieval, Madrid, CSIC (col. DVCTVS, 2), 2010, pp. 87-120

Von der aramäischen Lesekultur zur arabischen Schreibkultur

by Robert Kerr

La chancellerie almohade

by Pascal Buresi

Co-authored with Hicham El Aallaoui,published in P. Cressier, M. Fierro and L. Molina (eds.), Los Almohades: problemas y perspectivas, t. 2, Madrid, CSIC (Collection Estudios árabes e islámicos, Monografías), 2006, p. 477-503.

D'une Péninsule à L'autre: Cordoue,'Uṯmān (644-656) et les Arabes à l'époque almohade (XIIe-XIIIe siècle)

by Pascal Buresi

al-Qanṭara, XXXI/1, Madrid, 2010:7-29

In Islam, most political and religious reform movements invoke a return to the Tradition supposedly initiated by... more In Islam, most political and religious reform movements invoke a return to the Tradition supposedly initiated by Muḥammad in the Seventh Century. The Almohads are no exception to the rule, but they go further still: the Muslim West frees itself from the Eastern model of Islam. Legitimising his autoreferential sovereign power, ʿAbd al-Mu’min, the first Caliph of the Almohad Berber dynasty, deploys all the resources available to him: material, ideological and symbolic, regardless of mutual contradictions. Remaining faithful to the Omeyyad Caliphate tradition, he transfers the administrative capital of al-Andalus from Seville to Cordoba; he ascribes to the “unruly” Arab tribes their original mission: propagating Islam; and, most importantly, he invents a religious relic, a copy of the Qur’ān, attributed to ʿUṯmān b. ʿAffān, the third “well guided” Caliph of Islam and “writer” of the definitive Revelation text, a relic to which he reserves a genuine cult, crucial to the ideology of power which he is instigating. Henceforth, in an eschatological context, the entire Muslim West, centered on the Almohad dynasty, becomes the new cradle of the Divine Word.

La réaction idéologique almoravide et almohade à l'expansion occidentale dans la péninsule Ibérique (fin XIe-mi XIIIe siècles)

by Pascal Buresi

in L’expansion occidentale (xie-xve siècles). Formes et conséquences, Paris, Publications de la Sorbonne (Série Histoire Ancienne et Médiévale, 73), 2003:229‑241

« L’Empire almohade. Le Maghreb et al-Andalus (1130-1269) »

by Pascal Buresi

in F. Hurlet (ed.), Les Empires. Antiquité et Moyen Âge. Analyse comparée, Rennes, PUR, 2008:221‑237

Une relique almohade : l'utilisation du coran de la Grande mosquée de Cordoue (attribué à ʿUṯmān b. ʿAffān [644-656])

by Pascal Buresi

in Lieux de cultes : aires votives, temples, églises, mosquées, Paris, CNRS Éditions (collection Études d’Antiquités africaines), 2008:273-280

Les relations commerciales entre pays d'Islam et royaumes chrétiens dans la péninsule Ibérique (XIe siècle-milieu du XIIIe)

by Pascal Buresi

in Cahiers d’Histoire critique, 78, 2000:99‑110.

Document Analysis of “A History of Medieval Islam” by J.J. Saunders

by Nassef Manabilang Adiong

Draft only, GRIN Publishing GmbH (München, Germany), November 2008

One-Click download at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1693214

One can crucially think and intellectually assume that the civilization of the Arabs brought a medieval golden age... more One can crucially think and intellectually assume that the civilization of the Arabs brought a medieval golden age that unified the whole West and South Asia, Northern Africa, and Southeastern Europe; stretching from Mesopotamia (Iraq), Persia (Iran), Asia Minor (Turkey), Egypt, the Arabian Peninsula, and India to the backdoors of the European continent (Spain); whereby, a product of the propagation of one powerful ideology, which is Islam.