Julia Bray
Biographic Data
| ID | 5443333 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Julia Bray |
| GIVEN NAMES | Julia |
| FAMILY NAME | Bray |
| SIGNATURE | BRAY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université Paris 8 |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2472-1614 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Weaving Words: Ways of Picturing al-Tanūḫī’s Stories
Bilal Orfali and Enass Khansa have chosen twenty-one pieces from al-Tanūḫī’s Nišwār al-muḥāḍara and al-Faraǧ baʿd al-šidda as part of a new Library of Arabic Literature series for young readers, with pictures by Jana Traboulsi which are in marked contrast to Orientalist 1001 Nights illustrations. The editors’ aim is to recast the stories’ literary aesthetics visually and develop the readers’ imagination by inviting them to think about how the sto…
Codes of Emotion in Ninth- and Tenth-Century Baghdad: Slave Concubines in Literature and Life-Writing
Much Arabic writing in ninth- and tenth-century Iraq, the cultural hub of the Islamic empire, centres on the emotions. It is tempting to take it as evidence, either direct and documentary or passive, for lived emotions, and to forget that it is shaped by imagination and argument, the more so as the culture makes no distinction between literary narratives and life writing. This article contextualizes, translates or summarizes three stories about j…
Reading “the exotic” and Organising the Production of Knowledge: Al-Tanūkhī on Indians and Their Elephants
Al-Muḥassin ibn ʿAlī al-Tanūkhī (327–384/939–994) included a number of items about Indian elephants and Indians in his compilations of stories and anecdotes Nishwār al-muḥāḍara (“The table-talk of a Mesopotamian judge”) and al-Faraj baʿda al-shidda (“Deliverance follows adversity”), both of which approach the organisation of knowledge in novel ways and on a new scale. This paper lists the items, summarises their contents, and explains al-Tanūkhī’…
Toward an Abbasid History of Emotions: The Case of Slavery
The idea that there can be histories of everything or anything has not yet taken root in the field of Islamic history, which is still dominated by political history. There has been a revival of women's history, and gender studies is flourishing, but these developments have brought about only one radical rethinking of mainstream narratives: Nadia Maria El Cheikh's Women, Islam, and Abbasid Identity , which argues that Abbasid society's constructio…
Jabala
The name Jabala may have been borne by three chieftains of Jafna at indeterminate dates.
The Family in the Medieval Islamic World
Family is underresearched in the study of the medieval Islamic world. Among historians, it is an uncontroversial topic, except for ideologically driven arguments about the cultural influence of Christian women in Muslim households in Islamic Spain. The Muslim conquests must, however, have brought numerous different models of family and kinship into contact or conflict throughout the conquered territories; nevertheless, conceptualizations of famil…
Ibn al-Mutazz and Politics: The Question of the Fuūl Qiār
Scholarship has come full circle in positing a close relationship between the Abbasid prince Ibn al-Mutazz’s writings and his life, especially his political ambitions (he died, in 296/908, in a failed attempt to gain the caliphate). How do his aphorisms, Fuūl Qiār, fit into the picture? Their textual history is complicated. Almost all are appropriated from earlier sources, notably al-Rayānī’s Jawāhir al-kilam. After Ibn al-Mutazz’s death, it seem…
Literary Approaches to Medieval and Early Modern Arabic Biography
Arabic biographical writing is much used as a historical source, and scholars agree that its textuality must be taken into account in evaluating its content. There is less agreement, though, on the importance of thoroughly understanding the range of processes of literary composition used by biographers. This article approaches three sets of biographies from a purely literary viewpoint: two medieval sketches of women, a Sufi and a songstress respe…
Organizing Knowledge: Encyclopaedic Activities in the Pre-Eighteenth Century Islamic World . Gerhard Endress
Writing and Representation in Medieval Islam: Muslim Horizons
Abbasid Belles Lettres
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Toward an Abbasid History of Emotions: The Case of Slavery
The idea that there can be histories of everything or anything has not yet taken root in the field of Islamic history, which is still dominated by political history. There has been a revival of women's history, and gender studies is flourishing, but these developments have brought about only one radical rethinking of mainstream narratives: Nadia Maria El Cheikh's Women, Islam, and Abbasid Identity , which argues that Abbasid society's constructio…
Literary Approaches to Medieval and Early Modern Arabic Biography
Arabic biographical writing is much used as a historical source, and scholars agree that its textuality must be taken into account in evaluating its content. There is less agreement, though, on the importance of thoroughly understanding the range of processes of literary composition used by biographers. This article approaches three sets of biographies from a purely literary viewpoint: two medieval sketches of women, a Sufi and a songstress respe…
Abbasid Belles Lettres
Book summary page views Book summary page views help Close Book summary page views help Book summary views reflect the number of visits to the book and chapter landing pages. Total views: 0 * Loading metrics...
Writing and Representation in Medieval Islam: Muslim Horizons
Organizing Knowledge: Encyclopaedic Activities in the Pre-Eighteenth Century Islamic World . Gerhard Endress
Ibn al-Mutazz and Politics: The Question of the Fuūl Qiār
Scholarship has come full circle in positing a close relationship between the Abbasid prince Ibn al-Mutazz’s writings and his life, especially his political ambitions (he died, in 296/908, in a failed attempt to gain the caliphate). How do his aphorisms, Fuūl Qiār, fit into the picture? Their textual history is complicated. Almost all are appropriated from earlier sources, notably al-Rayānī’s Jawāhir al-kilam. After Ibn al-Mutazz’s death, it seem…
Literary Approaches to Medieval and Early Modern Arabic Biography
Arabic biographical writing is much used as a historical source, and scholars agree that its textuality must be taken into account in evaluating its content. There is less agreement, though, on the importance of thoroughly understanding the range of processes of literary composition used by biographers. This article approaches three sets of biographies from a purely literary viewpoint: two medieval sketches of women, a Sufi and a songstress respe…
The Family in the Medieval Islamic World
Family is underresearched in the study of the medieval Islamic world. Among historians, it is an uncontroversial topic, except for ideologically driven arguments about the cultural influence of Christian women in Muslim households in Islamic Spain. The Muslim conquests must, however, have brought numerous different models of family and kinship into contact or conflict throughout the conquered territories; nevertheless, conceptualizations of famil…
Jabala
The name Jabala may have been borne by three chieftains of Jafna at indeterminate dates.
Reading “the exotic” and Organising the Production of Knowledge: Al-Tanūkhī on Indians and Their Elephants
Al-Muḥassin ibn ʿAlī al-Tanūkhī (327–384/939–994) included a number of items about Indian elephants and Indians in his compilations of stories and anecdotes Nishwār al-muḥāḍara (“The table-talk of a Mesopotamian judge”) and al-Faraj baʿda al-shidda (“Deliverance follows adversity”), both of which approach the organisation of knowledge in novel ways and on a new scale. This paper lists the items, summarises their contents, and explains al-Tanūkhī’…
Toward an Abbasid History of Emotions: The Case of Slavery
The idea that there can be histories of everything or anything has not yet taken root in the field of Islamic history, which is still dominated by political history. There has been a revival of women's history, and gender studies is flourishing, but these developments have brought about only one radical rethinking of mainstream narratives: Nadia Maria El Cheikh's Women, Islam, and Abbasid Identity , which argues that Abbasid society's constructio…
Codes of Emotion in Ninth- and Tenth-Century Baghdad: Slave Concubines in Literature and Life-Writing
Much Arabic writing in ninth- and tenth-century Iraq, the cultural hub of the Islamic empire, centres on the emotions. It is tempting to take it as evidence, either direct and documentary or passive, for lived emotions, and to forget that it is shaped by imagination and argument, the more so as the culture makes no distinction between literary narratives and life writing. This article contextualizes, translates or summarizes three stories about j…
Weaving Words: Ways of Picturing al-Tanūḫī’s Stories
Bilal Orfali and Enass Khansa have chosen twenty-one pieces from al-Tanūḫī’s Nišwār al-muḥāḍara and al-Faraǧ baʿd al-šidda as part of a new Library of Arabic Literature series for young readers, with pictures by Jana Traboulsi which are in marked contrast to Orientalist 1001 Nights illustrations. The editors’ aim is to recast the stories’ literary aesthetics visually and develop the readers’ imagination by inviting them to think about how the sto…
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