Reuben Levy
Biographic Data
| ID | 3634067 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Reuben Levy |
| GIVEN NAMES | Reuben |
| FAMILY NAME | Levy |
| SIGNATURE | LEVY R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lecturer on Persian In the University of Cambridge, England |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1924 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Epic of the Kings, Shāh-nāma by Ferdowsi
The Social Structure of Islam
The Tales of Marzuban
Avicenna—his Life and Times
WILL you allow me to preface what I have to say this evening by acknow- ledging the honour you do me by your invitation to address your Society, and then by warning you that there is very little which is medical about me except what I have acquired by marriage? What I have to say lays no claim to original research, though a knowledge of Arabic has been of help. For scientific literature that language was the lingua franca of the learned world fro…
The Social Structure of Islam
The Social Structure of Islam
A. K. S. Lambton: Persian Grammar24275 pp. C. U. P., 1953. 35 s
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Qabus-nama
Persia viewed through its Proverbs and Apologues
Parodies of oriental speech and writing often consist merely of truisms, half-truths, and platitudes strung together in a fashion which appears to western ideas to reflect, with only a little conscious distortion, the working of the eastern mind. The grain of truth among the chaff is the fact that there undoubtedly exists a large body of proverbial wisdom that has for centuries been current amongst the peoples inhabiting the lands stretching betw…
Nihayah al-Rutbah fi Talab al-Hisbah
The Letters of Rashīd al-Dīn Faḍl-Allāh
To examine a piece of literature bearing a great name and find that it has been wrongly ascribed may be profitable if the work is interesting. Unfortunately, the collection of letters described in Professor Browne's Literary History of Persia (vol. iii, pp. 80 ff.) and the Catalogue of Oriental MSS. belonging to E. G. Browne (pp. 146 f.) would only have had interest and significance if they had indeed been a transcript of the vizier Rashīd al-Dīn…
The Bektashi Order of Dervishes
Notes on Costume from Arabic Sources
Dozy's Dictionnaire des Noms des Vêtements long ago settled the meanings of the great majority of the terms used for clothes and clothing in Arabic. Texts not available at the time of its compilation have come to hand in the meanwhile, and, further, something still remains to be said on the social and historical aspects of the subject
A Social History of Baghdad
The account of the Isma'ili doctrines in the Jami' al-Tawarikh of Rashid al-Din Fadlallah
Although references to the subject of Ismā'īlī doctrine have been frequent enough in the text-books and learned journals, the earliest source quoted in nearly all of them is the Ta'rīkh-i Jahān-Gushā of Juwaynī. By a comparison of that work with the corresponding section of the Jāmi' al-Tawārīkh of Rashīd al-Dīn it is evident that the latter is the source from which Juwaynī drew most of his materials, and that for his compilation he used such sec…
A Prose Version of the Yūsuf and Zulaikha Legend, ascribed to Pīr-i Anṣār of Harāt
In Ethe's Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, there is an entry (No. 1778) describing a prose work entitled Anīsu 'l-Murīdīn wa Shamsu 'l-Majālis , which is ascribed in the introduction and colophon to Shaykh 'Abdullāh Anṣārī of Harāt. Ethé, obviously assuming the genuineness of this ascription, states in Geiger und Kuhn's Grundriss (vol. ii, p. 282) that the work is the oldest prose version of the Yūsuf and Zulaikha…
A Baghdad Chronicle
The Nizamiya Madrasa at Baghdad
MR. GUY LE STRANGE, in his Baghdad under the Abbasid Caliphs —which is likely to remain for long the standard work on Baghdad's topography—in discussing the site of the Niẓámíya madrasa , puts it in the southern part of the city, between the Bábu 'l-Azaj quarter and the Bábu 'l-Baṣalíya, now known as the Bábu 'l-Sharqí. The argument for this site rests chiefly—though there are other references which seem to support it—on an ambiguous passage in Y…
The Last Words of a Humanist
Bagdad, Old and New
Essay| May 01 1927 Bagdad, Old and New Reuben Levy Reuben Levy Lecturer on Persian In the University of Cambridge, England Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Current History (1927) 26 (2): 233–240. https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.1927.26.2.233 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon…
The Glory of God
A Note on the Marsh Arabs of Lower Iraq
SOME FOUR YEARS AGO, while serving in the Revenue Department of the Iraq Government, I had occasion to spend six months in the marsh lands south of ancient Babylon. In the great series of swamps and shallow lakes (the best known being the Hammar Lake) that have for centuries covered many hundred square miles of once fertile land, are harboured a number of tribes who are for the sake of convenience called Marsh Arabs by us, though the Bedawin Arab…
Persian Literature. An Introduction
The Social Structure of Islam
The account of the Isma'ili doctrines in the Jami' al-Tawarikh of Rashid al-Din Fadlallah
Although references to the subject of Ismā'īlī doctrine have been frequent enough in the text-books and learned journals, the earliest source quoted in nearly all of them is the Ta'rīkh-i Jahān-Gushā of Juwaynī. By a comparison of that work with the corresponding section of the Jāmi' al-Tawārīkh of Rashīd al-Dīn it is evident that the latter is the source from which Juwaynī drew most of his materials, and that for his compilation he used such sec…
The Letters of Rashīd al-Dīn Faḍl-Allāh
To examine a piece of literature bearing a great name and find that it has been wrongly ascribed may be profitable if the work is interesting. Unfortunately, the collection of letters described in Professor Browne's Literary History of Persia (vol. iii, pp. 80 ff.) and the Catalogue of Oriental MSS. belonging to E. G. Browne (pp. 146 f.) would only have had interest and significance if they had indeed been a transcript of the vizier Rashīd al-Dīn…
A Note on the Marsh Arabs of Lower Iraq
SOME FOUR YEARS AGO, while serving in the Revenue Department of the Iraq Government, I had occasion to spend six months in the marsh lands south of ancient Babylon. In the great series of swamps and shallow lakes (the best known being the Hammar Lake) that have for centuries covered many hundred square miles of once fertile land, are harboured a number of tribes who are for the sake of convenience called Marsh Arabs by us, though the Bedawin Arab…
Persian Literature. An Introduction
Bagdad, Old and New
Essay| May 01 1927 Bagdad, Old and New Reuben Levy Reuben Levy Lecturer on Persian In the University of Cambridge, England Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Current History (1927) 26 (2): 233–240. https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.1927.26.2.233 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon…
The Glory of God
The Nizamiya Madrasa at Baghdad
MR. GUY LE STRANGE, in his Baghdad under the Abbasid Caliphs —which is likely to remain for long the standard work on Baghdad's topography—in discussing the site of the Niẓámíya madrasa , puts it in the southern part of the city, between the Bábu 'l-Azaj quarter and the Bábu 'l-Baṣalíya, now known as the Bábu 'l-Sharqí. The argument for this site rests chiefly—though there are other references which seem to support it—on an ambiguous passage in Y…
The Last Words of a Humanist
A Prose Version of the Yūsuf and Zulaikha Legend, ascribed to Pīr-i Anṣār of Harāt
In Ethe's Catalogue of the Persian Manuscripts in the India Office Library, there is an entry (No. 1778) describing a prose work entitled Anīsu 'l-Murīdīn wa Shamsu 'l-Majālis , which is ascribed in the introduction and colophon to Shaykh 'Abdullāh Anṣārī of Harāt. Ethé, obviously assuming the genuineness of this ascription, states in Geiger und Kuhn's Grundriss (vol. ii, p. 282) that the work is the oldest prose version of the Yūsuf and Zulaikha…
A Baghdad Chronicle
The account of the Isma'ili doctrines in the Jami' al-Tawarikh of Rashid al-Din Fadlallah
Although references to the subject of Ismā'īlī doctrine have been frequent enough in the text-books and learned journals, the earliest source quoted in nearly all of them is the Ta'rīkh-i Jahān-Gushā of Juwaynī. By a comparison of that work with the corresponding section of the Jāmi' al-Tawārīkh of Rashīd al-Dīn it is evident that the latter is the source from which Juwaynī drew most of his materials, and that for his compilation he used such sec…
A Social History of Baghdad
Notes on Costume from Arabic Sources
Dozy's Dictionnaire des Noms des Vêtements long ago settled the meanings of the great majority of the terms used for clothes and clothing in Arabic. Texts not available at the time of its compilation have come to hand in the meanwhile, and, further, something still remains to be said on the social and historical aspects of the subject
The Bektashi Order of Dervishes
The Letters of Rashīd al-Dīn Faḍl-Allāh
To examine a piece of literature bearing a great name and find that it has been wrongly ascribed may be profitable if the work is interesting. Unfortunately, the collection of letters described in Professor Browne's Literary History of Persia (vol. iii, pp. 80 ff.) and the Catalogue of Oriental MSS. belonging to E. G. Browne (pp. 146 f.) would only have had interest and significance if they had indeed been a transcript of the vizier Rashīd al-Dīn…
Nihayah al-Rutbah fi Talab al-Hisbah
Qabus-nama
Persia viewed through its Proverbs and Apologues
Parodies of oriental speech and writing often consist merely of truisms, half-truths, and platitudes strung together in a fashion which appears to western ideas to reflect, with only a little conscious distortion, the working of the eastern mind. The grain of truth among the chaff is the fact that there undoubtedly exists a large body of proverbial wisdom that has for centuries been current amongst the peoples inhabiting the lands stretching betw…
A. K. S. Lambton: Persian Grammar24275 pp. C. U. P., 1953. 35 s
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Avicenna—his Life and Times
WILL you allow me to preface what I have to say this evening by acknow- ledging the honour you do me by your invitation to address your Society, and then by warning you that there is very little which is medical about me except what I have acquired by marriage? What I have to say lays no claim to original research, though a knowledge of Arabic has been of help. For scientific literature that language was the lingua franca of the learned world fro…
The Social Structure of Islam
The Social Structure of Islam
The Tales of Marzuban
The Social Structure of Islam
The Epic of the Kings, Shāh-nāma by Ferdowsi
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