Essam Ayyad
Biographic Data
| ID | 914922 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Essam Ayyad |
| GIVEN NAMES | Essam |
| FAMILY NAME | Ayyad |
| SIGNATURE | AYYAD E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Qatar University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1661-036X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
What Made a Place Holy in Early Islam? An Inquiry into Meaning and Doctrinal Modalities
Compared to other religious systems rooted in Late Antiquity, Islam placed greater emphasis on the transcendent, assigning less value to physical forms per se. This article seeks to explore conceptions relating to what made a place 'holy' in early Islamic places of worship, delving into understanding the significance of sacred spaces in Islam, and dissecting the procedures and beliefs instrumental in the consecration of such locations. The primar…
An Appraisal of Schoolmasters’ Status in Pre-Modern Muslim Societies
Medieval Muslim sources convey two extremely opposing pictures of schoolmasters. Alongside the official, aspirational image of the virtuous providers of knowledge, another subversive stream of literature lampoons them as despicable charlatans (although the main subject they taught was the Qur’ān). This provocative enigma raises many questions and calls for in-depth investigation to clarify its reasons, implications, manifestations, and repercussi…
Re-Evaluating Early Memorization of the Qurʾān in Medieval Muslim Cultures
In medieval Islam, traditional primary educational practices laid special emphasis on learning the Qurʾān by heart. Ideally, a pupil was primed to memorize the entirety of the Holy Book-a feat known as khatma or ḥadhqa. The successful learner would earn the prestigious sobriquet of "ḥāfiẓ", for which he/she was to be proudly known for the rest of his/her life. Muslim youngsters continue up to present times to memorize the Qurʾān, in conceivably m…
How were young Muslim minds shaped? A critical study of the kuttāb in Medieval Islam
In medieval Islamic times and afterwards, the kuttāb was a modest institution for elementary education, with most emphasis being placed on learning the Qurʾān by heart―hence a ‘Qurʾānic school’ in English. Thus far, the topic of the kuttāb has been addressed by only a few modern works, leaving inadequately researched a number of critical related issues. This article is an attempt to give insights into the intellectual development of Muslim pedago…
An Historiographical Analysis of the Arabic Accounts of Early Mosques: With Special Reference to Those at Madina, Baṣra and Kūfa
Investigating the first/seventh-century mosques is essential for an understanding of the history and development of the mosque type and, more generally, the evolution of the Muslim community. This is difficult, however, owing to the problematic nature, sometimes total absence, of archaeological evidence: some of these earliest mosques were made of ephemeral materials, and most repeatedly altered or utterly superseded by more spacious ones to acco…
Envisioning Islamic Art and Architecture: Essays in Honor of Renata Holod Edited by David J. Roxburgh
As indicated by its title, this festschrift is a tribute to Renata Holod by eleven of her loyal former PhD students. Holod is currently a professor and curator in the Near East Section at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. She was offered a teaching position at the University of Pennsylvania in 1972, the year that she completed her PhD in Harvard. The book begins with a thoughtful preface by the editor, David J…
The Holy City of Madina: Sacred Space in Early Islamic Arabia By Harry Munt
This is the first monograph to present Madina in modern Saudi Arabia as a model of sacred space and a holy city in western Arabia in early Islam. Based on Munt’s doctoral thesis, ‘The Sacred History of Early Islamic Medina: the Prophet, Caliphs, Scholars and the Town’s Ḥaram’, it is an earnest attempt to put within historical framework the conversion of Yathrib, the pre-Islamic name for Madina, into Madīnat rasūl Allāh. The study’s main objective…
The 'House of the Prophet' or the 'Mosque of the Prophet
Journal Article The ‘House of the Prophet’ or the ‘Mosque of the Prophet’? Get access Essam S. Ayyad Essam S. Ayyad Suez Canal University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Islamic Studies, Volume 24, Issue 3, September 2013, Pages 273–334, https://doi.org/10.1093/jis/ett053 Published: 16 October 2013
Re-Evaluating Early Memorization of the Qurʾān in Medieval Muslim Cultures
In medieval Islam, traditional primary educational practices laid special emphasis on learning the Qurʾān by heart. Ideally, a pupil was primed to memorize the entirety of the Holy Book-a feat known as khatma or ḥadhqa. The successful learner would earn the prestigious sobriquet of "ḥāfiẓ", for which he/she was to be proudly known for the rest of his/her life. Muslim youngsters continue up to present times to memorize the Qurʾān, in conceivably m…
How were young Muslim minds shaped? A critical study of the kuttāb in Medieval Islam
In medieval Islamic times and afterwards, the kuttāb was a modest institution for elementary education, with most emphasis being placed on learning the Qurʾān by heart―hence a ‘Qurʾānic school’ in English. Thus far, the topic of the kuttāb has been addressed by only a few modern works, leaving inadequately researched a number of critical related issues. This article is an attempt to give insights into the intellectual development of Muslim pedago…
The 'House of the Prophet' or the 'Mosque of the Prophet
Journal Article The ‘House of the Prophet’ or the ‘Mosque of the Prophet’? Get access Essam S. Ayyad Essam S. Ayyad Suez Canal University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Islamic Studies, Volume 24, Issue 3, September 2013, Pages 273–334, https://doi.org/10.1093/jis/ett053 Published: 16 October 2013
The 'House of the Prophet' or the 'Mosque of the Prophet
Journal Article The ‘House of the Prophet’ or the ‘Mosque of the Prophet’? Get access Essam S. Ayyad Essam S. Ayyad Suez Canal University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Islamic Studies, Volume 24, Issue 3, September 2013, Pages 273–334, https://doi.org/10.1093/jis/ett053 Published: 16 October 2013
The Holy City of Madina: Sacred Space in Early Islamic Arabia By Harry Munt
This is the first monograph to present Madina in modern Saudi Arabia as a model of sacred space and a holy city in western Arabia in early Islam. Based on Munt’s doctoral thesis, ‘The Sacred History of Early Islamic Medina: the Prophet, Caliphs, Scholars and the Town’s Ḥaram’, it is an earnest attempt to put within historical framework the conversion of Yathrib, the pre-Islamic name for Madina, into Madīnat rasūl Allāh. The study’s main objective…
Envisioning Islamic Art and Architecture: Essays in Honor of Renata Holod Edited by David J. Roxburgh
As indicated by its title, this festschrift is a tribute to Renata Holod by eleven of her loyal former PhD students. Holod is currently a professor and curator in the Near East Section at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. She was offered a teaching position at the University of Pennsylvania in 1972, the year that she completed her PhD in Harvard. The book begins with a thoughtful preface by the editor, David J…
An Historiographical Analysis of the Arabic Accounts of Early Mosques: With Special Reference to Those at Madina, Baṣra and Kūfa
Investigating the first/seventh-century mosques is essential for an understanding of the history and development of the mosque type and, more generally, the evolution of the Muslim community. This is difficult, however, owing to the problematic nature, sometimes total absence, of archaeological evidence: some of these earliest mosques were made of ephemeral materials, and most repeatedly altered or utterly superseded by more spacious ones to acco…
How were young Muslim minds shaped? A critical study of the kuttāb in Medieval Islam
In medieval Islamic times and afterwards, the kuttāb was a modest institution for elementary education, with most emphasis being placed on learning the Qurʾān by heart―hence a ‘Qurʾānic school’ in English. Thus far, the topic of the kuttāb has been addressed by only a few modern works, leaving inadequately researched a number of critical related issues. This article is an attempt to give insights into the intellectual development of Muslim pedago…
Re-Evaluating Early Memorization of the Qurʾān in Medieval Muslim Cultures
In medieval Islam, traditional primary educational practices laid special emphasis on learning the Qurʾān by heart. Ideally, a pupil was primed to memorize the entirety of the Holy Book-a feat known as khatma or ḥadhqa. The successful learner would earn the prestigious sobriquet of "ḥāfiẓ", for which he/she was to be proudly known for the rest of his/her life. Muslim youngsters continue up to present times to memorize the Qurʾān, in conceivably m…
An Appraisal of Schoolmasters’ Status in Pre-Modern Muslim Societies
Medieval Muslim sources convey two extremely opposing pictures of schoolmasters. Alongside the official, aspirational image of the virtuous providers of knowledge, another subversive stream of literature lampoons them as despicable charlatans (although the main subject they taught was the Qur’ān). This provocative enigma raises many questions and calls for in-depth investigation to clarify its reasons, implications, manifestations, and repercussi…
What Made a Place Holy in Early Islam? An Inquiry into Meaning and Doctrinal Modalities
Compared to other religious systems rooted in Late Antiquity, Islam placed greater emphasis on the transcendent, assigning less value to physical forms per se. This article seeks to explore conceptions relating to what made a place 'holy' in early Islamic places of worship, delving into understanding the significance of sacred spaces in Islam, and dissecting the procedures and beliefs instrumental in the consecration of such locations. The primar…
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