Adam Sabra
Biographic Data
| ID | 5403114 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Adam Sabra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Adam |
| FAMILY NAME | Sabra |
| SIGNATURE | SABRA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Literary Spectacles of Sultanship: Historiography, the Chancery, and Social Practice in Late Medieval Egypt
Literary Spectacles of Sultanship: Historiography, the Chancery, and Social Practice in Late Medieval Egypt. Gowaart Van Den Bossche. Islam – Thought, Culture, and Society 10. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023. xi + 232 pp. $130.99. - Volume 78 Issue 3
Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj, written by Michael Christopher Low
Mathieu Tillier (2017), L’invention du cadi: La Justice des musulmans, des juifs et des chrétiens aux premiers siècles de l’Islam
ʿUthman ibn Ibrahim al-Nabulusi. The Sword of Ambi- tion: Bureaucratic Rivalry in Medieval Egypt. Edited and translated by Luke Yarbrough
ʿUthmān ibn Ibrāhīm al-Nābulusī. The Sword of Ambi- tion: Bureaucratic Rivalry in Medieval Egypt. Edited and translated by Luke Yarbrough. Library of Arabic Literature. New York: New York University Press, 2016. Pp. xliv + 261. $40
The Popularisation of Sufism in Ayyubid and Mamluk Egypt, 1173–1325 By Nathan Hofer
Both Western and Muslim scholars of Islam have often portrayed Sufism as popular religion. This category, as Nathan Hofer rightly notes, is notoriously difficult to define and has often been imbued with a Romantic sense of legitimacy as the ‘authentic’ religious expression of the people. More recently, social historians of the Middle East and Islamic world have studied Sufism as a way of reconstructing the religious ideas and practices of the vas…
Guy Burak. The Second Formation of Islamic Law: The Ḥanafī School in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
As the title of this ambitious and well-researched volume indicates, the author identifies the development of a state school of Islamic law in the sixteenth century as an important event that marked a second period of formation of Islamic law. The first period extended from the composition of the first law books and canonical works of prophetic traditions until roughly the year 1000, when the four Sunni schools of law achieved dominance within th…
The Written Word in the Medieval Arab Lands: A Social and Cultural History of Reading Practices By Konrad Hirschler
This fascinating and original book examines the spread of the culture of reading and writing in the Arabic-speaking Mashriq, especially Egypt and Syria, in the thirteenth through fifteenth centuries. It is one of a series of recent studies that refute the idea that the ‘Middle Period’ (roughly 1200–1500) was one of cultural stagnation and decline. Instead, Hirschler argues that this period saw an expansion of literacy to include many members of t…
Nimrod Luz. The Mamluk City in the Middle East: History, Culture, and the Urban Landscape
The work under review is a history of three cities in the Syrian provinces of the Mamluk Empire in the period 1250–1516. The cities in question are Jerusalem, Safad, and Tripoli, thus including a significant religious center, a regional center, and a major port city which was liberated from Crusader rule. Nimrod Luz justifies his choice of smaller urban centers by pointing out the overwhelming emphasis in modern urban histories on the major citie…
A. I. Sabra 1924-2013
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Food and Foodways of Medieval Cairenes: Aspects of Life in an Islamic Metropolis of the Eastern Mediterranean. Islamic History and Civilization, volume 88 * By Paulina B. Lewicka
The publication of this work brings the culinary culture of medieval Cairo, and Egypt in general, into dialogue with food studies. Considerable work has been done in recent years on the culture of food, drink, and their consumption in pre-modern societies. Although there is a large secondary literature on Middle Eastern cuisines in a variety of times and places, this book is by far the most sophisticated contribution to the field by a Middle East…
Histories of the Middle East: Studies in Middle Eastern Society, Economy and Law in Honor of A.L. Udovitch
For four decades Abraham L. Udovitch has been a leading scholar of the medieval Islamic world, its economic institutions, social structures, and legal theory and practice. In pursuing his quest to understand and explain the complex phenomena that these broad rubrics entail, he has published widely, collaborated internationally with other leading scholars of the Middle East and medieval history, and most saliently for the purposes of this volume, …
From Artisan To Courtier: Sufism And Social Mobility In Fifteenth-Century Egypt
Social historians of the Medieval Middle East are always searching for new sources. Increasingly, they are making use of chronicles, documents, and archeology to write the social history of the region at a time when archival collections are largely lacking. This chapter attempts to draw attention to another genre of writing that can be of considerable value to social historians-hagiography. For some time now, historians of medieval Europe have be…
Hisba, Arts and Craft in Islam By Ahmad GHABIN
As one can tell from the extensive bibliography that accompanies this study, a lot has been written about the concept of ḥisba, and the post of muḥtasib. The concept itself is difficult to translate or even to define. Usually, the term muḥtasib is translated as ‘market inspector’ or ‘censor’, and indeed the inspection of markets was one of the most important responsibilities of this official. At the same time, however, the concept was much broade…
Histories of the Middle East: Studies in Middle Eastern society, economy and law in honor of A.L. Udovitch
Poverty and Charity in the Jewish Community of Medieval Egypt
Ibn Hazm’s Literalism: A Critique of Islamic Legal Theory (I)
La insistencia de Ibn Hazm en la interpretación literal del Corán y la Sunna ha llevado frecuentemente a los investigadores modernos a concluir que él es un pensador conservador o dogmático. En realidad, no es ninguna de las dos cosas. El zahirismo de Ibn Hazm enfatiza el alcance limitado de la ley religiosa islámica, e intenta reducir las pretensiones de los juristas musulmanes de hablar en nombre de la ley de Dios. Esta metodología le lleva a a…
Ibn Ḥazm’s Literalism: A Critique of Islamic Legal Theory (II)
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The Mamluks in Egyptian and Syrian Politics and Society . Michael Winter , Amalia Levanoni
Commerce, Culture, and Community in a Red Sea Port in the Thirteenth Century: The Arabic Documents from Quseir . Li Guo
Poverty and Charity in Medieval Islam: Mamluk Egypt, 1250-1517
Introduction 2. Poverty: ideas and realities 3. Begging and almsgiving 4. Waqf 5. Standards of living 6. Food shortages and famines 7. Conclusion Bibliography Index
Islamic Law and the State: The Constitutional Jurisprudence of Shihab al-Din al-Qarafi
This book deals with an Ayyubid-Mamluk Egyptian jurist's attempt to come to terms with the potential conflict between power, represented in the state, and authority, represented in the schools of law, particularly where one school enjoys a privileged status with the state. It deals with the history of the relationship between the schools of law, particularly in Mamluk Egypt, in the context of the running history of Islamic law from the formative …
Christofer S. Taylor, In the Vicinity of the Righteous: Ziyara and the Veneration of Muslim Saints in Late Medieval Egypt
Religion, Learning, and Science in the c Abbasid Period . M. J. L. Young, J. D. Latham, R. B. Serjeant
Poverty and Charity in Medieval Islam: Mamluk Egypt, 1250-1517
Introduction 2. Poverty: ideas and realities 3. Begging and almsgiving 4. Waqf 5. Standards of living 6. Food shortages and famines 7. Conclusion Bibliography Index
Religion, Learning, and Science in the c Abbasid Period . M. J. L. Young, J. D. Latham, R. B. Serjeant
Christofer S. Taylor, In the Vicinity of the Righteous: Ziyara and the Veneration of Muslim Saints in Late Medieval Egypt
Islamic Law and the State: The Constitutional Jurisprudence of Shihab al-Din al-Qarafi
This book deals with an Ayyubid-Mamluk Egyptian jurist's attempt to come to terms with the potential conflict between power, represented in the state, and authority, represented in the schools of law, particularly where one school enjoys a privileged status with the state. It deals with the history of the relationship between the schools of law, particularly in Mamluk Egypt, in the context of the running history of Islamic law from the formative …
Poverty and Charity in Medieval Islam: Mamluk Egypt, 1250-1517
Introduction 2. Poverty: ideas and realities 3. Begging and almsgiving 4. Waqf 5. Standards of living 6. Food shortages and famines 7. Conclusion Bibliography Index
The Mamluks in Egyptian and Syrian Politics and Society . Michael Winter , Amalia Levanoni
Commerce, Culture, and Community in a Red Sea Port in the Thirteenth Century: The Arabic Documents from Quseir . Li Guo
Ibn Hazm’s Literalism: A Critique of Islamic Legal Theory (I)
La insistencia de Ibn Hazm en la interpretación literal del Corán y la Sunna ha llevado frecuentemente a los investigadores modernos a concluir que él es un pensador conservador o dogmático. En realidad, no es ninguna de las dos cosas. El zahirismo de Ibn Hazm enfatiza el alcance limitado de la ley religiosa islámica, e intenta reducir las pretensiones de los juristas musulmanes de hablar en nombre de la ley de Dios. Esta metodología le lleva a a…
Ibn Ḥazm’s Literalism: A Critique of Islamic Legal Theory (II)
No disponible
Poverty and Charity in the Jewish Community of Medieval Egypt
Histories of the Middle East: Studies in Middle Eastern society, economy and law in honor of A.L. Udovitch
Histories of the Middle East: Studies in Middle Eastern Society, Economy and Law in Honor of A.L. Udovitch
For four decades Abraham L. Udovitch has been a leading scholar of the medieval Islamic world, its economic institutions, social structures, and legal theory and practice. In pursuing his quest to understand and explain the complex phenomena that these broad rubrics entail, he has published widely, collaborated internationally with other leading scholars of the Middle East and medieval history, and most saliently for the purposes of this volume, …
From Artisan To Courtier: Sufism And Social Mobility In Fifteenth-Century Egypt
Social historians of the Medieval Middle East are always searching for new sources. Increasingly, they are making use of chronicles, documents, and archeology to write the social history of the region at a time when archival collections are largely lacking. This chapter attempts to draw attention to another genre of writing that can be of considerable value to social historians-hagiography. For some time now, historians of medieval Europe have be…
Hisba, Arts and Craft in Islam By Ahmad GHABIN
As one can tell from the extensive bibliography that accompanies this study, a lot has been written about the concept of ḥisba, and the post of muḥtasib. The concept itself is difficult to translate or even to define. Usually, the term muḥtasib is translated as ‘market inspector’ or ‘censor’, and indeed the inspection of markets was one of the most important responsibilities of this official. At the same time, however, the concept was much broade…
A. I. Sabra 1924-2013
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Food and Foodways of Medieval Cairenes: Aspects of Life in an Islamic Metropolis of the Eastern Mediterranean. Islamic History and Civilization, volume 88 * By Paulina B. Lewicka
The publication of this work brings the culinary culture of medieval Cairo, and Egypt in general, into dialogue with food studies. Considerable work has been done in recent years on the culture of food, drink, and their consumption in pre-modern societies. Although there is a large secondary literature on Middle Eastern cuisines in a variety of times and places, this book is by far the most sophisticated contribution to the field by a Middle East…
The Written Word in the Medieval Arab Lands: A Social and Cultural History of Reading Practices By Konrad Hirschler
This fascinating and original book examines the spread of the culture of reading and writing in the Arabic-speaking Mashriq, especially Egypt and Syria, in the thirteenth through fifteenth centuries. It is one of a series of recent studies that refute the idea that the ‘Middle Period’ (roughly 1200–1500) was one of cultural stagnation and decline. Instead, Hirschler argues that this period saw an expansion of literacy to include many members of t…
Nimrod Luz. The Mamluk City in the Middle East: History, Culture, and the Urban Landscape
The work under review is a history of three cities in the Syrian provinces of the Mamluk Empire in the period 1250–1516. The cities in question are Jerusalem, Safad, and Tripoli, thus including a significant religious center, a regional center, and a major port city which was liberated from Crusader rule. Nimrod Luz justifies his choice of smaller urban centers by pointing out the overwhelming emphasis in modern urban histories on the major citie…
Guy Burak. The Second Formation of Islamic Law: The Ḥanafī School in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
As the title of this ambitious and well-researched volume indicates, the author identifies the development of a state school of Islamic law in the sixteenth century as an important event that marked a second period of formation of Islamic law. The first period extended from the composition of the first law books and canonical works of prophetic traditions until roughly the year 1000, when the four Sunni schools of law achieved dominance within th…
The Popularisation of Sufism in Ayyubid and Mamluk Egypt, 1173–1325 By Nathan Hofer
Both Western and Muslim scholars of Islam have often portrayed Sufism as popular religion. This category, as Nathan Hofer rightly notes, is notoriously difficult to define and has often been imbued with a Romantic sense of legitimacy as the ‘authentic’ religious expression of the people. More recently, social historians of the Middle East and Islamic world have studied Sufism as a way of reconstructing the religious ideas and practices of the vas…
ʿUthman ibn Ibrahim al-Nabulusi. The Sword of Ambi- tion: Bureaucratic Rivalry in Medieval Egypt. Edited and translated by Luke Yarbrough
ʿUthmān ibn Ibrāhīm al-Nābulusī. The Sword of Ambi- tion: Bureaucratic Rivalry in Medieval Egypt. Edited and translated by Luke Yarbrough. Library of Arabic Literature. New York: New York University Press, 2016. Pp. xliv + 261. $40
Mathieu Tillier (2017), L’invention du cadi: La Justice des musulmans, des juifs et des chrétiens aux premiers siècles de l’Islam
Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj, written by Michael Christopher Low
Literary Spectacles of Sultanship: Historiography, the Chancery, and Social Practice in Late Medieval Egypt
Literary Spectacles of Sultanship: Historiography, the Chancery, and Social Practice in Late Medieval Egypt. Gowaart Van Den Bossche. Islam – Thought, Culture, and Society 10. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2023. xi + 232 pp. $130.99. - Volume 78 Issue 3
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