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... in the early medieval period. The essay thus uncovers a history of falsity and warring falsities and then correlates the tendencies of figuration that seemed to prove inseparable from the poetic conquest of political reality in Sanskrit. It traces tropes of sadism and sexual abuse and uncovers the threads...

...Firoozeh Papan-Matin `Ayn al-Qudat (AD 1096/98–1131) was a significant scholar of Islamic mysticism whose teachings inspired others and especially the early Chishti mystics of India. This article discusses the importance of `Ayn al-Qudat through an analysis of his work and his reception by medieval...

... of the Atlantic model (slavery, slave trading, and the black diaspora), the Atlantic trade (commodities, including slaves out of West Africa), and Orientalism (Islam and Eastern visions of slavery). Part 2 develops a case study of a medieval Saharan commercial center, Awdaghust, to explore how these influences...

...Hassan S. Khalilieh Abstract This essay demonstrates how maritime qirad , as conducted in the Muslim world prior to the emergence of the Italian communes, influenced the lex mercatoria maritima . It contends that the medieval Latin accomendatio ( commenda ) likely owes its inception to the qirad...

... The Case of the Animals versus Man from tenth-century Iraq. The same human-animal divide is shown to be maintained variously among European philosophers. McGregor argues that both modern and medieval formulations are organized around a series of assumptions about language, the self, and the religious other...

... the medieval literary motif of “stopping before the ruins” ( wuquf 'ala al-atlal ), to remember former people and places. Hilary Kilpatrick's pioneering work has revealed how the motif can be reappropriated to probe “deeper layers of consciousness,” and is “connected with the role of memory in literature today...

... of communal only difference. harmony. Implied in this argument is the assumption Indeed, the very format of medieval Indian that communal consciousness in India is a post-medieval historiography aroused religious/communal phenomenon. A viable evidence cited in support is the consciousness...

... . (London). Chakravarti , Uma , forthcoming. “Slavery and Bondage in Ancient India”. Colebrooke , H.T. , ( 1804 ). Remarks on the Husbandry and Internal Commerce of Bengal (Calcutta). Duby , Georges , ( 1968 ). Rural Economy and Country Life in the Medieval West . Tr. Cynthia Postan...

... historiography References Ali Daud . “Violence, Gastronomy, and the Meaning of War in Medieval South India.” Medieval History Journal 3 , no. 2 ( 2000 ): 261 – 89 . Benjamin Walter . “Theses on the Philosophy of History.” In Illuminations: Essays and Reflections , edited...

... or economics. policy? What were the consequences of this policy for These concepts of economy and economics gradu- the economy as a whole? Is Islam an economic system? ally separated from religion and theology. During the Is it a religion, a matter of personal faith and belief? precapitalist Medieval...

... formation from medieval to modern times, which scholars have been revisiting to understand globalization today. Jeremy Kingsley argues that the term lex mercatoria , which “has a mythical legal status,” is thought to have originated with Venetian merchants of the medieval age, whose worlds were global well...

... and the Subordinate Factories . London : Smith, Taylor , 1854 . Anidjar Gil . Blood: A Critique of Christianity . New York : Columbia University Press , 2014 . Anooshahr Ali . The Ghazi Sultans and the Frontiers of Islam: A Comparative Study of the Late Medieval and Early Modern...

... of Catholic practice as well as linking the dress to the surrounding medieval images, as can be seen in the photograph ( fig. 1 ). The dress is accompanied by a crown/halo that also finds echoes from other images in the gallery. In his section on hermeneutical engagement, Ahmed proposes that we conceptualize...

...         medieval God is replaced by the modern instances that regulate our contemporary world. contemporary our regulate that instances modern by the replaced is God medieval ample, the and nation (orthe city negation).their model in which the I propose a secularized forothers, modelex...

... to the growing Mus- well as lust, for Ala al-Din Khalji’s desire for Chittaur lim dominance of the medieval Indian political arena. converges with his lust for its legendary Queen Pad- He claims that the Muslim impact in medieval India mini, wife of King Ratnasena. It is not mere political generated two...

... .” In The Cambridge Companion to World Literature , edited by Etherington Ben and Zimbler Jarad , 133 – 48 . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2018 . Meisami Julie Scott . Medieval Persian Court Poetry . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 1987 . Menon Minakshi...

...) was developed and systematized by the Jurists In this article we shall try to focus on the political ex- (Fuqaha) when the community had moved to an agrarian ploitation of Islamic religion in Pakistan and its effects on ‘feudal’ socio-economic formation of the medieval times. morality, society, economy...

... . Advice for the Sultan: Prophetic Voices and Secular Politics in Medieval Islam . London : Hurst , 2014 . Faisal Devji • Made in India: History without the State • Kitabkhana 345 MADE IN INDIA like Aurangzeb remained...

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...- doms, which are followed by the heavenly kingdom. III. Medieval (and later) commentary on this passage In 1064 Bishop Gunther of Bamberg led a group of equated the kingdoms with the reigns of Babylonians, more than seven thousand pilgrims (by some accounts...