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Issues of Society and Its Formation in the System of Social Thought in Central Asia S
NOVATEUR PUBLICATIONS JournalNX- A Multidisciplinary Peer Reviewed Journal ISSN No: 2581 - 4230 VOLUME 6, ISSUE 7, July -2020 ISSUES OF SOCIETY AND ITS FORMATION IN THE SYSTEM OF SOCIAL THOUGHT IN CENTRAL ASIA S. K. KARIMOV Professor of Samarkand State University, Doctor of Philosophy ABSTRACT: tendency to live as a community constitutes the Our great thinkers have tried to content of human life. Pharoah put it this way: understand the essence of a society that is ò%•≤π ®µ≠°Æ •©Æß ©≥ ≥¥≤µ£¥µ≤•§ ©Æ ≥µ£® ° ° constantly changing and evolving, to that he needs a lot of things to live and achieve understand the place and role of man in a high level of maturity, he cannot achieve such society. In different historical periods, the things alone, he needs a community of people essence of society has been explained to have them. ... For this reason it is only through mythological, religious teachings. through the union of many that are necessary The scientific and philosophical knowledge for survival, that bring people together, and of the nature of society, the creation of a that help one another, that man can attain the holistic scientific picture of society has been maturity he naturally strives for. The activities a great achievement of the spiritual of such community members as a whole development of mankind. In this sense, provide each of them with the things they need society is a part of nature, a concept that to survive and mature. Therefore, human represents a separate form of being; a beings multiplied and settled in the inhabited special form of association of people, a set part of the earth, and as a result, a human of many relationships that apply between £Ø≠Æ©¥π ∑°≥ ¶Ø≤≠•§ä ó #©¥ ض .Ø¢¨• 0•Ø∞¨•á people. -
Policy Notes March 2021
THE WASHINGTON INSTITUTE FOR NEAR EAST POLICY MARCH 2021 POLICY NOTES NO. 100 In the Service of Ideology: Iran’s Religious and Socioeconomic Activities in Syria Oula A. Alrifai “Syria is the 35th province and a strategic province for Iran...If the enemy attacks and aims to capture both Syria and Khuzestan our priority would be Syria. Because if we hold on to Syria, we would be able to retake Khuzestan; yet if Syria were lost, we would not be able to keep even Tehran.” — Mehdi Taeb, commander, Basij Resistance Force, 2013* Taeb, 2013 ran’s policy toward Syria is aimed at providing strategic depth for the Pictured are the Sayyeda Tehran regime. Since its inception in 1979, the regime has coopted local Zainab shrine in Damascus, Syrian Shia religious infrastructure while also building its own. Through youth scouts, and a pro-Iran I proxy actors from Lebanon and Iraq based mainly around the shrine of gathering, at which the banner Sayyeda Zainab on the outskirts of Damascus, the Iranian regime has reads, “Sayyed Commander Khamenei: You are the leader of the Arab world.” *Quoted in Ashfon Ostovar, Vanguard of the Imam: Religion, Politics, and Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (2016). Khuzestan, in southwestern Iran, is the site of a decades-long separatist movement. OULA A. ALRIFAI IRAN’S RELIGIOUS AND SOCIOECONOMIC ACTIVITIES IN SYRIA consolidated control over levers in various localities. against fellow Baathists in Damascus on November Beyond religious proselytization, these networks 13, 1970. At the time, Iran’s Shia clerics were in exile have provided education, healthcare, and social as Muhammad Reza Shah Pahlavi was still in control services, among other things. -
History of Islam
Istanbul 1437 / 2016 © Erkam Publications 2016 / 1437 H HISTORY OF ISLAM Original Title : İslam Tarihi (Ders Kitabı) Author : Commission Auteur du Volume « Histoire de l’Afrique » : Dr. Said ZONGO Coordinator : Yrd. Doç. Dr. Faruk KANGER Academic Consultant : Lokman HELVACI Translator : Fulden ELİF AYDIN Melda DOĞAN Corrector : Mohamed ROUSSEL Editor : İsmail ERİŞ Graphics : Rasim ŞAKİROĞLU Mithat ŞENTÜRK ISBN : 978-9944-83-747-7 Addresse : İkitelli Organize Sanayi Bölgesi Mahallesi Atatürk Bulvarı Haseyad 1. Kısım No: 60/3-C Başakşehir / Istanbul - Turkey Tel : (90-212) 671-0700 (pbx) Fax : (90-212) 671-0748 E-mail : [email protected] Web : www.islamicpublishing.org Printed by : Erkam Printhouse Language : English ERKAM PUBLICATIONS TEXTBOOK HISTORY OF ISLAM 10th GRADE ERKAM PUBLICATIONS Table of Contents TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER I THE ERA OF FOUR RIGHTLY GUIDED CALIPHS (632–661) / 8 A. THE ELECTION OF THE FIRST CALIPH .............................................................................................. 11 B. THE PERIOD OF ABU BAKR (May Allah be Pleased with him) (632–634) ....................................... 11 C. THE PERIOD OF UMAR (May Allah be Pleased with him) (634–644) ............................................... 16 D. THE PERIOD OF UTHMAN (May Allah be Pleased with him) (644–656) ........................................ 21 E. THE PERIOD OF ALI (May Allah be pleased with him) (656-661) ...................................................... 26 EVALUATION QUESTIONS ......................................................................................................................... -
The Socioeconomics of State Formation in Medieval Afghanistan
The Socioeconomics of State Formation in Medieval Afghanistan George Fiske Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 2012 © 2012 George Fiske All rights reserved ABSTRACT The Socioeconomics of State Formation in Medieval Afghanistan George Fiske This study examines the socioeconomics of state formation in medieval Afghanistan in historical and historiographic terms. It outlines the thousand year history of Ghaznavid historiography by treating primary and secondary sources as a continuum of perspectives, demonstrating the persistent problems of dynastic and political thinking across periods and cultures. It conceptualizes the geography of Ghaznavid origins by framing their rise within specific landscapes and histories of state formation, favoring time over space as much as possible and reintegrating their experience with the general histories of Iran, Central Asia, and India. Once the grand narrative is illustrated, the scope narrows to the dual process of monetization and urbanization in Samanid territory in order to approach Ghaznavid obstacles to state formation. The socioeconomic narrative then shifts to political and military specifics to demythologize the rise of the Ghaznavids in terms of the framing contexts described in the previous chapters. Finally, the study specifies the exact combination of culture and history which the Ghaznavids exemplified to show their particular and universal character and suggest future paths for research. The Socioeconomics of State Formation in Medieval Afghanistan I. General Introduction II. Perspectives on the Ghaznavid Age History of the literature Entrance into western European discourse Reevaluations of the last century Historiographic rethinking Synopsis III. -
THE REIGN of AL-IHAKIM Bl AMR ALLAH ‘(386/996 - 41\ / \ Q 2 \ % "A POLITICAL STUDY"
THE REIGN OF AL-IHAKIM Bl AMR ALLAH ‘(386/996 - 41\ / \ Q 2 \ % "A POLITICAL STUDY" by SADEK ISMAIL ASSAAD Thesis submitted for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the University of London May 1971 ProQuest Number: 10672922 All rights reserved INFORMATION TO ALL USERS The quality of this reproduction is dependent upon the quality of the copy submitted. In the unlikely event that the author did not send a com plete manuscript and there are missing pages, these will be noted. Also, if material had to be removed, a note will indicate the deletion. uest ProQuest 10672922 Published by ProQuest LLC(2017). Copyright of the Dissertation is held by the Author. All rights reserved. This work is protected against unauthorized copying under Title 17, United States C ode Microform Edition © ProQuest LLC. ProQuest LLC. 789 East Eisenhower Parkway P.O. Box 1346 Ann Arbor, Ml 48106- 1346 ABSTRACT The present thesis is a political study of the reign of al-Hakim Bi Amr Allah the sixth Fatimid Imam-Caliph who ruled between 386-411/ 996-1021. It consists of a note on the sources and seven chapters. The first chapter is a biographical review of al-Hakim's person. It introduces a history of his birth, childhood, succession to the Caliphate, his education and private life and it examines the contradiction in the sources concerning his character. Chapter II discusses the problems which al-Hakim inherited from the previous rule and examines their impact on the political life of his State. Chapter III introduces the administration of the internal affairs of the State. -
Hussain Ali Tahtooh
3=;;5?3819 ?591A8=<@ 25AC55< A75 1?12 C=?94 1<4 8<481 !)?4 1<4 *A7%.A7 1<4 '&A7 35<AB?85@" 7VTTDLP 1NL ADKUQQK 1 AKHTLT @VEOLUUHG IQS UKH 4HJSHH QI >K4 DU UKH BPLWHSTLUZ QI @U$ 1PGSHXT '.-, 6VNN OHUDGDUD IQS UKLT LUHO LT DWDLNDENH LP ?HTHDSFK0@U1PGSHXT/6VNNAHYU DU/ KUUR/%%SHTHDSFK#SHRQTLUQSZ$TU#DPGSHXT$DF$VM% >NHDTH VTH UKLT LGHPULILHS UQ FLUH QS NLPM UQ UKLT LUHO/ KUUR/%%KGN$KDPGNH$PHU%'&&()%(.++ AKLT LUHO LT RSQUHFUHG EZ QSLJLPDN FQRZSLJKU COMMII' hAl1 J1:IATroNH 1IITWEJN THE ARAB WORLD AND INDIA (.IRI) AN]) 4Th / 9111 AND 10TH CENTURIES) By ' Hussahi All. Tahtooh fl.I., Baghdad M.A., Mosul A llIofll!3 nulitnitted fo! the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy In the lJiilveislty of St. Andrews. • AiiIro'n December 1986. AI3STRACT 1:1,13 t)IeIlent woik Is mainly concerned with the commercial relations I)etweon the Arab world and India In the 3rd and 4th / 9th and 10th centurIes. The thesis consists of an Introduction and five chapters. The lntwdiictloit contains a brief survey of the historical background to the A,iih-Iiidkin trade links In the period prior to the period of the research. lt also Includes the reasons for choosing the subject, and the t1I[ficiiltles with which the research was faced. The intro(1(I(II Iin niso conta his the methods of the research and a study of the ma lit S ( 3LIt (iCS (1iipter One deals with the Arab provinces, the main kingdoms of India, Iho political situation in the Arab world and India, and its effecis iiii the Enhliject. -
Arab Nationalism in Interwar Period Iraq: a Descriptive Analysis of Sami Shawkat’S Al-Futuwwah Youth Movement Saman Nasser
James Madison University JMU Scholarly Commons Masters Theses The Graduate School Fall 2018 Arab nationalism in interwar period Iraq: A descriptive analysis of Sami Shawkat’s al-Futuwwah youth movement Saman Nasser Follow this and additional works at: https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/master201019 Part of the Intellectual History Commons, Islamic World and Near East History Commons, and the Military History Commons Recommended Citation Nasser, Saman, "Arab nationalism in interwar period Iraq: A descriptive analysis of Sami Shawkat’s al-Futuwwah youth movement" (2018). Masters Theses. 587. https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/master201019/587 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the The Graduate School at JMU Scholarly Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Masters Theses by an authorized administrator of JMU Scholarly Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Arab Nationalism in Interwar Period Iraq: A Descriptive Analysis of Sami Shawkat’s al- Futuwwah Youth Movement Saman Nasser A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements For the degree of Master of Arts Department of History December 2018 FACULTY COMMITTEE: Committee Chair: Dr. Shah Mahmoud Hanifi Committee Members/Readers: Dr. Timothy J. Fitzgerald Dr. Steven W. Guerrier Dedication To my beloved parents: Rafid Nasser and Samhar Abed. You are my Watan. ii Acknowledgements My sincere personal and intellectual gratitude goes to my thesis director, Professor Shah Mahmoud Hanifi. Professor Hanifi’s ‘bird-eye’ instructions, care, encouragement, patience and timely football analogies (to clarify critical points) made the production of the thesis possible. -
Sona Grigoryan Supervisor: Aziz Al-Azmeh
Doctoral Dissertation POETICS OF AMBIVALENCE IN AL-MA‘ARRĪ’S LUZŪMĪYĀT AND THE QUESTION OF FREETHINKING by Sona Grigoryan Supervisor: Aziz Al-Azmeh Submitted to the Medieval Studies Department, Central European University, Budapest In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Medieval Studies CEU eTD Collection Budapest 2018 TABLE OF CONTENT Acknowledgements .................................................................................................................................. iv List of Abbreviations................................................................................................................................. v Some Matters of Usage ............................................................................................................................ vi INTRODUCTION ...................................................................................................................................... 1 1. Al-Ma‘arrī-an Intriguing Figure ........................................................................................................ 1 2. The Aim and Focus of the Thesis ....................................................................................................... 4 3. Working Material ............................................................................................................................ 13 CHAPTER 1. AL-MA‘ARRĪ AND HIS CONTEXT ............................................................................... 15 1.1. Historical Setting -
A History of Inner Asia
This page intentionally left blank A HISTORY OF INNER ASIA Geographically and historically Inner Asia is a confusing area which is much in need of interpretation.Svat Soucek’s book offers a short and accessible introduction to the history of the region.The narrative, which begins with the arrival of Islam, proceeds chrono- logically, charting the rise and fall of the changing dynasties, the Russian conquest of Central Asia and the fall of the Soviet Union. Dynastic tables and maps augment and elucidate the text.The con- temporary focus rests on the seven countries which make up the core of present-day Eurasia, that is Uzbekistan, Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Sinkiang, and Mongolia. Since 1991, there has been renewed interest in these countries which has prompted considerable political, cultural, economic, and religious debate.While a vast and divergent literature has evolved in consequence, no short survey of the region has been attempted. Soucek’s history of Inner Asia promises to fill this gap and to become an indispensable source of information for anyone study- ing or visiting the area. is a bibliographer at Princeton University Library. He has worked as Central Asia bibliographer at Columbia University, New York Public Library, and at the University of Michigan, and has published numerous related articles in The Journal of Turkish Studies, The Encyclopedia of Islam, and The Dictionary of the Middle Ages. A HISTORY OF INNER ASIA Princeton University Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, São Paulo Cambridge University Press The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge , United Kingdom Published in the United States by Cambridge University Press, New York www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9780521651691 © Cambridge University Press 2000 This book is in copyright. -
UNIVERSITY of CALIFORNIA, IRVINE Narrative and Iranian
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE Narrative and Iranian Identity in the New Persian Renaissance and the Later Perso-Islamicate World DISSERTATION submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in History by Conrad Justin Harter Dissertation Committee: Professor Touraj Daryaee, Chair Professor Mark Andrew LeVine Professor Emeritus James Buchanan Given 2016 © 2016 Conrad Justin Harter DEDICATION To my friends and family, and most importantly, my wife Pamela ii TABLE OF CONTENTS Page LIST OF FIGURES iv ACKNOWLEDGMENTS v CURRICULUM VITAE vi ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION vii CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION 1 CHAPTER 2: Persian Histories in the 9th-12th Centuries CE 47 CHAPTER 3: Universal History, Geography, and Literature 100 CHAPTER 4: Ideological Aims and Regime Legitimation 145 CHAPTER 5: Use of Shahnama Throughout Time and Space 192 BIBLIOGRAPHY 240 iii LIST OF FIGURES Page Figure 1 Map of Central Asia 5 iv ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I would like to express my gratitude to all of the people who have made this possible, to those who have provided guidance both academic and personal, and to all those who have mentored me thus far in so many different ways. I would like to thank my advisor and dissertation chair, Professor Touraj Daryaee, for providing me with not only a place to study the Shahnama and Persianate culture and history at UC Irvine, but also with invaluable guidance while I was there. I would like to thank my other committee members, Professor Mark LeVine and Professor Emeritus James Given, for willing to sit on my committee and to read an entire dissertation focused on the history and literature of medieval Iran and Central Asia, even though their own interests and decades of academic research lay elsewhere. -
HISTORY of the MIDDLE EAST a Research Project of Fairleigh Dickinson University By
HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST a Research Project of Fairleigh Dickinson University by Amanuel Ajawin Amer Al-Hajri Waleed Al-Saiyani Hamad Al-Zaabi Baya Bensmail Clotilde Ferry Feridun Kul Gabriela Garcia Zina Ibrahem Lorena Giminez Jose Manuel Mendoza-Nasser Abdelghani Merabet Alice Mungwa Isabelle Rakotoarivelo Seddiq Rasuli Antonio Nico Sabas Coumba Santana Ashley Toth Fabrizio Trezza Sharif Ahmad Waheedi Mohammad Fahim Yarzai Mohammad Younus Zaidullah Zaid Editor: Ahmad Kamal Published by: Fairleigh Dickinson University 1000 River Road Teaneck, NJ 07666 USA January 2012 ISBN: 978-1-4507-9087-1 The opinions expressed in this book are those of the authors alone, and should not be taken as necessarily reflecting the views of Fairleigh Dickinson University, or of any other institution or entity. © All rights reserved by the authors No part of the material in this book may be reproduced without due attribution to its specific author. THE AUTHORS Amanuel Ajawin, a Diplomat from Sudan Amer Al-Hajri, a Diplomat from Oman Waleed Al-Saiyani, a Graduate Student from Yemen Hamad Al-Zaabi, a Diplomat from the UAE Baya Bensmail, a Diplomat from Algeria Clotilde Ferry, a Graduate Student from Monaco Ahmad Kamal, a Senior Fellow at the United Nations Feridun Kul, a Graduate Student from Afghanistan Gabriela Garcia, a Diplomat from Ecuador Lorena Giminez, a Diplomat from Venezuela Zina Ibrahem, a Civil Servant from Iraq Jose Manuel Mendoza, a Graduate Student from Honduras Abdelghani Merabet, a Graduate Student from Algeria Alice Mungwa, a Graduate Student -
GREEK MANUSCRIPTS in the EARLY ABBASID EMPIRE: Fiction
345 GREEK MANUSCRIPTS IN THE EARLY ABBASID EMPIRE 346 same institution were attached astronomical observatories (…), one in Baghdâd, another one in Damascus”. In the same article the author adds, that “it appears in fact that the library so constituted, and often called Khizânat al-Ìikma, already existed in the time of al-Rashîd and the Barmakids who had begun to have Greek works translated. Al-Ma'mûn may only have given a new impetus to this movement which was later to exert a considerable influence on the development of Islamic thought and culture”.2) The Cambridge History of Islam does not speak of an ear- lier existence of the Bayt- or Khizânat al-Îikma. It speaks of the “Bayt al-Îikma of the Caliph al-Ma'mûn with its many Greek manuscripts” and of 833 as the year in which this insti- tution of learning had been founded by him. It relates that Al- Ma'mûn had sent the Christian scholar Îunayn ibn IsÌâq “to accompany the mission to Byzantium in search of good man- uscripts” and consequently had “gathered around him an excellent team of translators”. Again, in another passage, the Bayt al-Îikma is called “the central institute for translations GREEK MANUSCRIPTS set up by the Abbasid Caliph Al-Ma'mûn”.3) IN THE EARLY ABBASID EMPIRE: In assessing its accessibility to readers, several authors Fiction and Facts about their Origin, described the “House of Wisdom” as a public library or even Translation and Destruction as “the first public library in Islam”4) or rather as one of the academies “open to all those who were qualified to benefit The Abbasid Caliph Al-Ma'mûn (who reigned in Baghdad from them”5) According to Heffening and Pearson6) “the first from 813-833) emerges from ancient sources and modern public libraries [in Islam] formed a fundamental part of the studies as the key-figure in the translation process from Greek first academies known as bayt al-Ìikma”.