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Published 2021
Tyconius' Book of Rules : An Ancient Invitation to Ecclesial Hermeneutics /

: "In Tyconius' Book of Rules Matthew R. Lynskey explores the church-centric interpretation of ancient biblical exegete Tyconius in his hermeneutical treatise Liber regularum. Influential within his Donatist tradition and the broader context of early North African Christianity, Tyconius wrote one of the earliest works on exegetical theory and praxis in Latin Christianity. By investigating five key concepts undergirding Tyconius's theology of church, Lynskey demonstrates how Tyconius' ecclesiology shaped his hermeneutical enterprise. Through careful readings and close analysis of Liber regularum, this study seeks to describe Tyconius' exegesis on its own terms, reflecting on notable historical, theological, formational, and missiological implications of his ecclesial exegesis as it concerns the ancient and contemporary church"--
: 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004456532
9789004454835

Published 1996
Dreams, Sufism and Sainthood, The Visionary Career of Muhammad al-Zawâwî.

: Based on Muhammad al-Zawâwî's extraordinary diary of 109 dream conversations with the Prophet Muhammad, this study provides a rare, intimate view of 15th-century North African Muslim life. The study reconstructs Zawâwî's lifestory over a critical ten-year period and examines his career as a sufi in the historical context of North Africa and Mamluk Cairo. Psychological aspects of Zawâwî's religious experience are thoroughly explored. The concluding chapter provides an introduction to the role of dreams and visions in medieval Islam. Particular attention is paid to the way Zawâwî and his successors used their visions to legitimate claims to being awliya' , or living saints.
: 1 online resource. : 9789004378926

Published 2015
La langue berbère au Maghreb médiéval : textes, contextes, analyses /

: La langue berbère au Maghreb médiéval constitue un nouvel apport aux études historiques et linguistiques dans la mesure où de nombreux matériaux sur la langue berbère font l'objet d'une monographie spécifique. Plusieurs faits de langue sont reliés par une trame précise et ils sont réunis afin de mettre en relief les indices textuels puisés dans diverses sources écrites en arabe et en berbère. Dans les quatre parties du livre, il est tour à tour question des apports de la documentation narrative, de la littérature hagiographique et des textes ibadites ainsi que de l'importance des contacts entre le berbère et les langues africaines à travers la littérature narrative et l'épigraphie islamique. Ce livre a été conçu comme un essai documentaire mais également afin d'attirer l'attention des chercheurs sur la présence relativement bien documentée de la langue berbère dans les textes produits en milieu arabo-musulman du Moyen Âge à l'époque moderne. La langue berbère au Maghreb médiéval is a new contribution to the historical and linguistic studies in that many materials on the Berber language are the subject of a specific monograph. Several facts of language are connected by an accurate frame and are gathered to highlight textual clues collected from various sources written in Arabic and Berber. The four parts of the book treat contributions of narrative documentation, hagiographical literature and Ibadi texts and the importance of contacts between Berber and African languages through the narrative literature and Islamic epigraphy. This book was conceived as a documentary essay, but also to attract the attention of researchers on the relatively well-documented presence of the Berber language in the texts produced in Arab-Muslim environment from the Middle Ages to Modern era.
: 1 online resource (xvi, 479 pages) : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004302358 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2018
The Aghlabids and their neighbours : art and material culture in 9th-century North Africa /

: The first dynasty to mint gold dinars outside of the Abbasid heartlands, the Aghlabid (r. 800-909) reign in North Africa has largely been neglected in the scholarship of recent decades, despite the canonical status of its monuments and artworks in early Islamic art history. The Aghlabids and their Neighbors focuses new attention on this key dynasty. The essays in this volume, produced by an international group of specialists in history, art and architectural history, archaeology, and numismatics, illuminate the Aghlabid dynasty's interactions with neighbors in the western Mediterranean and its rivals and allies elsewhere, providing a state of the question on early medieval North Africa and revealing the centrality of the dynasty and the region to global economic and political networks.
: 1 online resource (xxxviii, 688 pages) : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004356047 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 1966
Orientalische geschichte von Kyros bis Mohammed /

: 1 online resource (368 pages) : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004293830 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2021
Mediterranean Captivity through Arab Eyes, 1517-1798 /

: The post-Lepanto Mediterranean was the scene of "small wars," to use Fernand Braudel's phrase, which resulted in acts of piracy and captivity. Thousands upon thousands of Europeans, Arabs, and Turks were seized into bagnios stretching from Cadiz to Valletta and from Salé to Tripoli. After returning to their homelands, dozens from England and France, Germany and Spain, Malta and Italy wrote about their captivities. Their accounts were printed, distributed, translated, and plagiarized, making captivity a key subject in Europe's Mediterranean history. While Europeans wrote extensively about their ordeals, the Arabs wrote little because their religious culture militated against such writings, which would be construed as expressing disaffection with the will of God. Nor were there detailed records and registers of captives - their names, places of origin, and ransom prices - similar to what was kept in the European archives. Contrary, however, to what some historians have claimed, there was a distinct Arabic narrative of captivity that survives in anecdotes, recollections, reports, miracles, letters, fatawa, exempla and short biographies in both verse and prose. Cumulatively, these sources constitute the Arabic qiṣṣas al-asrā, or stories of the captives, in the native language and idiom of the men and women of the early modern Mediterranean.
: 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004440258
9789004440241

Published 2013
Governing the empire : provincial administration in the Almohad Caliphate (1224-1269) : critical edition, translation, and study of Manuscript 4752 of the Hasaniyya Library in Raba...

: In this book, Pascal Buresi and Hicham El Aallaoui edit, translate, and study an Arabic manuscript of the Royal Library of Rabat, containing 77 appointments of provincial officials. The Almohad Caliphs were the first Berbers to unite the whole Maghrib and the Iberian Peninsula under an imperial ideology elaborated at the end of the 12th C.E. by the most famous scholars, such as Averroes. This peripheral Islamic dynasty produced a pragmatic documentation that provides exceptional information about the administrative, political, ideological, and religious organisation of the largest medieval European-African Empire. Buresi and El Aallaoui convincingly stress the importance of the literature of the Chancellery in renewing the history of power and authority in medieval Islamic lands.
: 1 online resource (xxii, 538 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789004239715 : 1877-9808 ; : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2015
Saladin, the Almohads and the Banū Ghāniya : the contest for North Africa (12th and 13th centuries) /

: In Saladin, the Almohads and the Banū Ghāniya , Amar Baadj gives us the first comprehensive, modern study of a fascinating but little-known episode in the history of the medieval Mediterranean. This is the story of the long struggle between the Almohad caliphs of the Maghrib, the Banū Ghāniya of Majorca, and the Ayyubids for dominance of North Africa. The author makes use of important textual sources that have been ignored as well as new archaeological evidence to challenge some of the basic assumptions about the events in question. He also successfully places these events in their wider temporal and geographical context for the first time.
: Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Toronto, 2012. : 1 online resource (x, 250 pages) : illustrations, maps. : Includes bibliographical references (p. 218-229) and index. : 9789004298576 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2015
Fish-salting in the northwest Maghreb in antiquity : a gazetteer of sites and resources /

: This volume is a detailed gazetteer of fish-salting production in the northwest Maghreb in antiquity. It consists of a catalogue of fish-salting sites in addition to catalogues of other related resources that are necessary for the production and trans-shipment of the industry's products: salt and amphorae kilns.
: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white). : Specialized. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9781784912420 (PDF ebook) :

Published 2018
Estudios sobre el África romana : culturas e imaginarios en transformación /

: These collected papers are for those who have their gaze fixed on the fascinating mosaic of cultures that was the North-African world from the moment Rome appeared in the region. Most articles are dedicated to the world of images, but other subjects include Historiography, Archaeology of Architecture, and Libyan-Berber ethnicities.
: Previously issued in print: 2018. : 1 online resource (xvi, 352 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). : Specialized. : 9781784919085 (ebook) :

Published 2019
Rus Africum IV : la fattoria Bizantina di Aïn Wassel, Africa Proconsularis (Alto Tell, Tunisia) : lo scavo stratigrafico e i materiali /

: Aïn Wassel is the only rural site of Africa Proconsularis which has been excavated using the stratigraphic method and the detailed results are published in this volume thanks to an archaeological field survey of the surrounding rural region.
: 1 online resource (xiv, 438 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour). : Specialized. : Includes bibliographical references. : 9781789691160 (ebook) :

Published 2022
Du capsien chasseur au capsien pasteur : pour un modèle régional de néolithisation /

: Studies on the Capsian culture have been considerably enriched in recent years, but have not yet been properly synthesised to establish the current state of research. This volume draws on recent fieldwork to put forward a model for neolithisation in the Eastern Maghreb.
: Also issued in print: 2022. : 1 online resource (viii, 89 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (colour). : Specialized. : Includes bibliographical references. : 9781803271859 (PDF ebook) : : Open access.

Published 2008
Inscribing devotion and death : archaeological evidence for Jewish populations of North Africa /

: Reliance on essentialist or syncretistic models of cultural dynamics has limited past evaluations of ancient Jewish populations. This reexamination of evidence for Jews of North Africa offers an alternative approach. Drawing from methods developed in cultural studies and historical linguistics, this book replaces traditional categories used to examine evidence for early Jewish populations and demonstrates how direct comparison of Jewish material evidence with that of its neighbors allows for a reassessment of what the category of "Jewish" might have meant in different North African locations and periods and, by extension, elsewhere in the Mediterranean. The result is a transformed analysis of Jewish cultural identity that both emphasizes its indebtedness to larger regional contexts and allows for a more informed and complex understanding of Jewish cultural distinctiveness.
: 1 online resource (xviii, 342 pages) : illustrations, maps. : Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-334) and index. : 9789047423843 : 0927-7633 ; : Available to subscribing member institutions only.