Islamic Sensory History

Volume 2: 600–1500

Christian Lange, Adam Bursi (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

594 Seiten

2024
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-51592-5 (ISBN)

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Islamic Sensory History, Volume2: 600-1500 is composed of selected texts translated into English from their original languages. The selections are short texts, or excerpts from longer texts, chosen by the editors and contributors for their illustrative and interesting engagements with issues related to the senses and the sensory in different times, places, and social milieus throughout the history of Islamic societies. Each selection is prefaced by a short introductory essay by the translator on the text and its author, with specific attention to and commentary upon the importance or role of the senses in this text’s language, genre, and social context.

Christian Lange is Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Utrecht University. His research focuses on premodern Islamic intellectual and cultural history, particularly in the areas of Islamic eschatology, Islamic law and legal theory, Islamic mysticism, and the Muslim sensorium. Adam Bursi works at Fortress Press in Minneapolis, Minnesota. His research studies early Islam in dialogue with other late antique religions, focusing on the roles of relics, pilgrimage, and healing in the formation and performance of communal membership among early Muslims. Contributors Eyad Abuali, Tanvir Ahmed, Hanif Amin Beidokhti, Shahzad Bashir, Maroussia Bednarkiewicz, David Bennett, Hinrich Biesterfeldt, Julie Bonnéric, Adam Bursi, Fatih Han, Rotraud Hansberger, Jan Hogendijk, Domenico Ingenito, Anya King, Hannelies Koloska, Christian Lange, Danilo Marino, Richard McGregor, Pernilla Myrne, Nawal Nasrallah, Zhinia Noorian, Austin O’Malley, Franz Rosenthal (†), Everett K. Rowson, Abelhamid I. Sabra (†), George Sawa, Asghar Seyed-Gohrab, Jocelyn Sharlet, Cornelis van Lit, Geert Jan van Gelder, James Weaver, Ines Weinrich, Brannon Wheeler, Alan Williams, Cyrus Ali Zargar.

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Note on Dates, Transliteration, and Citation

Notes on Contributors

Part 1: Scriptural Foundations

1 The Senses in the Qurʾān

Hannelies Koloska

2 Ibn Isḥāq (d. ca. 151/768) on Vision in the Prophet’s Biography

Richard McGregor

3 Ibn Abī Shayba (d. 235/849) on the Senses in the Afterlife

Christian Lange

4 Ibn Abī l-Dunyā (d. 281/894) on Scrupulous Sensory Piety among Early Muslim Ascetics

Adam Bursi

5 Ibn Bābawayh (d. 381/991) on the Shiʿi Sensorium

Christian Lange

6 Ibn al-Athīr (d. 606/1210) on the Prophet’s Sense of Smell

Christian Lange

Part 2: Literary and Aesthetic Perspectives

7 Al-Jāḥiẓ (d. 255/869) on Animal and Human Sensation

Christian Lange

8 Ibn Sayyār al-Warrāq (fl. Mid-fourth/Mid-tenth Century) on Multisensory Dining and Wining

Nawal Nasrallah

9 Al-Sarī al-Raffāʾ’s (d. 362/973) Invitations to Delight

Jocelyn Sharlet

10 Abū l-Faraj al-Iṣbahānī (d. 360/971) on the Conditions and Effects of Music

George Sawa

11 ʿAlī b. Naṣr al-Kātib (fl. Late Fourth/Tenth Century) on Erotic Sensations

Pernilla Myrne

12 Ibn Jubayr (d. 614/1217) on the Illumination of the Sacred Mosque in Mecca

Julie Bonnéric

13 Abū l-Majd Tabrīzī (d. after 736/1336) on the Debate between the Ear and the Eye

Tanvir Ahmed and Shahzad Bashir

14 Al-Maqrīzī (d. 845/1442) on the History of the Call to Prayer in Egypt

Maroussia Bednarkiewicz

15 Al-Badrī (d. 894/1489) on Hashish and the Senses

Danilo Marino and Franz Rosenthal

16 Al-Suyūṭī (d. 911/1505) on the Four Princes of Perfume

Geert Jan van Gelder

Part 3: Philosophical and Scientific Perspectives

17 Al-Kindī (d. after 256/870) on the Effects of Music, Colors, and Scents

Adam Bursi and Anya King

18 The Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ (Fourth/Tenth Century) on Sense and Sensibilia

Christian Lange

19 Abū Zayd al-Balkhī (d. 322/934) on the Nature and Therapeutic Use of Odorous Substances

Hinrich Biesterfeldt and Everett K. Rowson

20 Ibn al-Jazzār (d. 369/979–80) on Smell, Perfume, and Health

Anya King

21 Ibn al-Haytham (d. ca. 432/1040) on Vision

Jan Hogendijk and Abdelhamid I. Sabra

22 Suhrawardī (d. 587/1191) on Eyesight and Vision

Hanif Amin Beidokhti

23 Ibn Rushd (d. 595/1198) on Sense Perception

Rotraud Hansberger

24 Al-Jildakī (fl. 8th/14th Century) on the Alchemy of the Senses

Christian Lange

25 Nakhshabī (d. 751/1350) on the Nose

Zhinia Noorian

Part 4: Theological Perspectives

26 Al-Naẓẓām (d. ca. 230/845) on the Physics of Sensory Perception

James Weaver

27 Al-Ashʿarī (d. 324/935–6) on Muʿtazilite Claims about the Senses and Sense Perception

David Bennett

28 Al-Qāḍī ʿAbd al-Jabbār (d. 415/1025) on the Impossibility of Seeing God

Fatih Han

29 Ibn Sīnā (d. 428/1037) on Dismissing Sense Perception and on the Eternal Sense

Cornelis van Lit

30 Al-Ghazālī (d. 505/1111) on Visionary Experiences and the Internal and External Senses

Domenico Ingenito

31 Al-Khāzin al-Baghdādī (d. 741/1340) on the Evil Eye

Christian Lange

32 Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya (d. 751/1350) on the Virtues of the Eye and the Ear

Christian Lange

Part 5: Spiritual and Mystical Perspectives

33 Al-Ghazālī (d. 505/1111) on Listening to Music

Ines Weinrich

34 The Ta‌ʾwīlāt Najmiyya (7th/13th Century) on the Body, the Soul, and the Senses

Eyad Abuali

35 ʿAṭṭār (d. 618/1221) on the Wayfarer’s Encounter with the Senses

Cyrus Ali Zargar

36 Ibn al-ʿArabī (d. 638/1240) on the Masters of Sensation

Christian Lange

37 Najm al-Dīn Rāzī Dāya (d. 654/1256) on the Sequence of Visionary Lights

Austin O’Malley

38 Rūmī (d. 627/1273) on Sensory Perception

Asghar Seyed-Gohrab and Alan Williams

39 Saʿdī (d. 691/1292) on the Senses, the Body, and Imagination

Domenico Ingenito

Part 6: Legal and Ethical Perspectives

40 Ibn Abī Zayd (d. 386/996) on Scent, Sight, Taste, and Touch during the Ḥajj

Adam Bursi

41 Al-Qudūrī (d. 428/1037) on Purity

Brannon Wheeler

42 Al-Sarakhsī (d. ca. 490/1096) on the Protocol of the Gaze

Christian Lange

43 Ibn al-ʿArabī (d. 543/1148) on Touching the Qurʾān

Christian Lange

44 Al-Nawawī (d. 676/1277) on Kissing and Handshaking

Christian Lange

45 Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya (d. 751/1350) on the Legal Status of the Senses

Christian Lange

Index of Names

Index of Terms

Erscheinungsdatum	21.08.2024
Reihe/Serie	Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East ; 182.2
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	1147 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam
ISBN-10	90-04-51592-5 / 9004515925
ISBN-13	978-90-04-51592-5 / 9789004515925
Zustand	Neuware