During the past century of oriental studies, the question of when and where Muslim traditions (ḥadīth, pl. aḥādīth) came to be propped up with validating lines of transmission (isnād, pl. asānīd) has attracted a considerable amount of scholarly attention, for its bearing on the key issue of the historicity of ḥadīth. In this essay, I review the existing theories about the origin of the isnād, which alternate between the lifetime of the Prophet’s Companions and the end of the second century AH/c. 816 CE. Based on a hitherto largely overlooked tradition and two general methodological premises, I associate the inception of corroborative attribution to past authorities in legal and theological ḥadīth with the aftermath of al-Mukhtār b. Abī ʿUba...
International audienceWriting history in the Islamic world involves both a literary aspect and a mat...
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The main source on Ibn Masarra’s thought before 1972 was Ibn Ḥazm, who briefly described some key el...
Sīmiyā' is an Arabic word that uses to be translated as 'white magic' or 'natural magic'. In fact, t...
The Kitāb aḫbār al-Nūba, written in the last quarter of the tenth century, and the History of church...
The article discusses an autobiographical passage in the life of al-Ṭurṭūshī (ca. 451/1059-520/1126,...
Ce numéro de la revue Oriente Moderno est consacré au rôle des « descendants du Prophète » dans l’hi...
Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr (368/978-463/1071), one of the most outstanding Andalusi legal scholars of the 5th/...
International audienceWriting history in the Islamic world involves both a literary aspect and a mat...
In both his Iǧāza and Fihrist, Ibn al-ʿArabī referred to Risāla ilà aṣḥāb al-Šay...
Maslahat-ı Mürsele’ye (Public Interest) et-Tūfī- Merkezli Bir Bakış Bu araştırma, İslam Hukuku’ndaki...
An alchemical Arabic treatise alternatively entitled Miftāḥ al-ḥikma, Miftāḥ jannāt al-khuld, Sirr a...
The article examines some aspects of the theoretical legacy of Abū ‘l-Ḥasan al-Māwardī, a medieval I...
In the Islamic period, Apollonius of Tyana (c. 15-100 CE) was well known both as “Lord of the Talism...
traduction anglaise Travis BruceGoverning Empire is a study, accompanied by a re-edition and a Frenc...
Among the great diversity of source material and multiple historio- and biographical works covering ...
This paper presents a unique manuscript copy of a fifth/eleventh-century Maghribī commentary on al-B...
The main source on Ibn Masarra’s thought before 1972 was Ibn Ḥazm, who briefly described some key el...
Sīmiyā' is an Arabic word that uses to be translated as 'white magic' or 'natural magic'. In fact, t...
The Kitāb aḫbār al-Nūba, written in the last quarter of the tenth century, and the History of church...
The article discusses an autobiographical passage in the life of al-Ṭurṭūshī (ca. 451/1059-520/1126,...
Ce numéro de la revue Oriente Moderno est consacré au rôle des « descendants du Prophète » dans l’hi...
Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr (368/978-463/1071), one of the most outstanding Andalusi legal scholars of the 5th/...
International audienceWriting history in the Islamic world involves both a literary aspect and a mat...
In both his Iǧāza and Fihrist, Ibn al-ʿArabī referred to Risāla ilà aṣḥāb al-Šay...
Maslahat-ı Mürsele’ye (Public Interest) et-Tūfī- Merkezli Bir Bakış Bu araştırma, İslam Hukuku’ndaki...