Islamic Theology, Philosophy and Law


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A unique collection of studies, the present volume sheds new light on central themes of Ibn Taymiyya's (661/1263-728/1328) and Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya's (691/1292-751/1350) thought and the relevance of their ideas to diverse Muslim societies. Investigating their positions in Islamic theology, philosophy and law, the contributions discuss a wide range of subjects, e.g. law and order; the divine compulsion of human beings; the eternity of eschatological punishment; the treatment of Sufi terminology; and the proper Islamic attitude towards Christianity. Notably, a section of the book is dedicated to analyzing Ibn Taymiyya's struggle for and against reason as well as his image as a philosopher in contemporary Islamic thought. Several articles present the influential legacy of both thinkers in shaping an Islamic discourse facing the challenges of modernity. This volume will be especially useful for students and scholars of Islamic studies, philosophy, sociology, theology, and history of ideas.




Siyer Araştırmaları Akademik Dergisi Sayı:10 / Temmuz-Aralık 2021


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Kıymetli Okurlarımız, Siyer Araştırmaları Dergimizin 10. sayısı ile yeniden sizlerle birlikteyiz. İcinden gecmekte olduğumuz pandeminin sebep olduğu olumsuz koşullara rağmen değerli ilim insanlarımızın ve genc araştırmacılarımızın teveccuhu ve gayretleri ile daha zengin bir muhteva ile karşınızdayız. Bu sayımızın dosya konusu olan “Hz. Peygamber’in (sas) İbadet Hayatı” ana teması ile katkı sunan Prof. Dr. Seyit Avcı’ya, Prof. Dr. Saffet Sancaklı’ya ve Dr. Havva Esma Akış’a kalbi şukranlarımızı sunuyoruz. Ayrıca, yine ozgun araştırma makaleleri ile dergimize zenginlik katan Doc. Dr. Mucahit Yuksel, Dr. Bayram Cınar, genc araştırıcılarımız Ayşegul Ergul Şimşek’e, İsmail Tanrıverdi’ye ve İbrahim Oğuzhan’a cok teşekkur ediyoruz. Dr. Oğr. Uyesi Hakan Temir’e kaya yazıtlarına dair yeni bir cevirisi, Muhammed Emin Guller ile Muhammed Karaca’ya da kaleme aldıkları kitap değerlendirmeleri sebebiyle teşekkur borcluyuz. Şubat ayının ortalarında hayatını kaybeden değerli ilim adamı merhum Prof. Dr. Bahattin Kok hakkında buyuk bir vefa ornekliği gostererek vefayat yazısı hazırlayan Prof. Dr. Seyfullah Kara’ya teşekkur ise yine bir vefa olsa gerek. Bu vesile ile dergimizin sizlere ulaşmasında mesai mefhumu tanımaksızın buyuk heyecan ve gayretlerini ortaya koyduklarını yakinen bildiğim kıymetli editor yardımcılarımız Dr. Oğr. Uyesi Hakan Temir ve Arş. Gor. Ali Tekkoyun, teknik konularda taleplerimizi geri cevirmeyen Mevlut Sami Ertem ve Muhammed Onur Ozcelik, metinleri titizlikle gozden geciren Muhammed Ali Alioğlu ile son olarak Mesher Şeker nezdinde Siyer Vakfı’nın değerli yetkililerini ve mutfağında calışan isimsiz kahramanlarını hayır ve şukranla yad ediyorum. Son olarak okurlarımıza daha kaliteli, cağın şartlarına uygun ve araştırmacıların akademik anlamda emeklerinin karşılık bulması adına yaptığımız yeniliklerden de bahsetmek isteriz. Dergicilikte beşinci yılı geride bırakmanın mutluluk ve tecrubesiyle 2021 yılında misyon ve vizyonumuz yenilendi. Yazım kurallarında ciddi bir değişiklik yapılarak oz, abstract ve girişin nitelikli olması icin maddeler eklendi ve bu sayıdan itibaren İsnad Atıf sistemine gecilmeye karar verildi. Derginin etik ilkelerini gozden gecirerek makale kabul sureleri, şartları ve hakemleme surecine dair kurallar belirtildi. Editor kurulu Dergipark’ın belirlediği şablona gore guncellenerek yayın ve danışma kurulları şeffaflık ilkesine uygun bir şekilde oluşturuldu. Dergiye gelen makalelerin hak ihlali veya şaibeye meydan vermemesi icin benzerlik politikası belirlenip iThenticate programına gecildi. Derginin acık erişim politikası ve veri depolama bilgileri ilave edildi. Daha erişilebilir bir dergicilik icin ceşitli dizin sistemlerine muracaat işlemleri ise tum hızıyla devam etmektedir. Daha sağlıklı ve huzurlu gunlerde, bir arada olma dua ve niyazıyla, O’na emanet olun. Selam, hurmet ve muhabbetle...




Sex and Desire in Muslim Cultures


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What have different ideas about sex and gender meant for people throughout the history of the Middle East and North Africa? This book traces sex and desire in Muslim cultures through a collection of chapters that span the 9th to 21st centuries. Looking at spaces and periods where sexual norms and the categories underpinning them emerge out of multiple subjectivities, the book shows how people constantly negotiate the formulation of norms, their boundaries and their subversion. It demonstrates that the cultural and political meanings of sexualities in Muslim cultures - as elsewhere – emerge from very specific social and historical contexts. The first part of the book examines how people constructed, discussed and challenged sexual norms from the Abbasid to the Ottoman period. The second part looks at literary and cinematic Arab cultural production as a site for the construction and transgression of gender norms. The third part builds on feminist historiography and social anthropology to question simplistic dichotomies and binaries. Each of the contributions shows how understanding of sexualities and the subjectivities that evolve from them are rooted in the mutually-constitutive relationships between gender and political power. In identifying the plurality of discourses on desires, the book goes beyond the dichotomy of norm and transgression to glimpse what different sexual norms have meant at different times across the Middle East.




History of Illustration


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"Written by an international team of illustration historians, practitioners, and educators, History of Illustration covers image-making and print history from around the world, spanning from the prehistoric to the contemporary. With hundreds of color image, this book to contextualize the many types of illustrations within social, cultural, and technical parameters, presenting information in a flowing chronology. This essential guide is the first comprehensive history of illustration as its own discipline. Readers will gain an ability to critically analyze images from technical, cultural, and ideological standpoints in order to arrive at an appreciation of art form of both past and present illustration"--




Sign and Design


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Sign and Design addresses the pictorial dimension of writing systems from cross-cultural and multidisciplinary perspectives. Historians, paleographers, and anthropologists engage with pictographic, ideographic, and logographic writing systems and alphabetic scripts, examining diverse examples of cross-pollination between language and art.




Calligraphy and Architecture in the Muslim World


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This major reference work covers all aspects of architectural inscriptions in the Muslim world: the artists and their patrons, what inscriptions add to architectural design, what materials were used, what their purpose was and how they infuse buildings with meaning. From Spain to China, and from the Middle Ages to our own lifetime, Islamic architecture and calligraphy are inexorably intertwined. Mosques, dervish lodges, mausolea, libraries, even baths and market places bear masterpieces of calligraphy that rival the most refined of books and scrolls.




Harem Histories


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An interdisciplinary collection of essays exploring the harem as it was imagined, represented, and experienced in Middle Eastern and North African societies, and by visitors to those societies.




The Politics of Prostitution


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The most effective way to deal with prostitution has always been hotly debated by governments and women s movements alike. Feminists want it abolished or regulated as sex work; governments have to safeguard public health and order. This book shows how women s movements in Western Europe, North America and Australia have affected politics on prostitution and trafficking of women since the 1970s, asking what made them successful in some countries but a failure in others. It also assesses whether government institutions to advance the status of women - so-called women s policy agencies - have played a key role in achieving policy outcomes favourable to movement demands. Written by an international team of experts and based on original sources, all chapters follow the same framework to ensure comparability. The final chapter offers an overall comparison identifying what makes women s movements successful and women s agencies effective, presenting the case for state feminism .




Eros and Sexuality in Islamic Art


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Dedicated to the topic of eroticism and sexuality in the visual production of the medieval and early modern Muslim world, this volume offers new insights and methodological models that extend our understanding of erotic and sexual subjects in the Islamic tradition. The essays shed light on the diverse socio-cultural milieus of erotic images, on the motivations underlying their production, and on the responses generated by their circulation.




Turkey in Transition


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This collection of essays by prominent Turkish scholars provides a comprehensive historical, political, and economic analysis of Turkey from the inception of its republic after World War I right up to the present. The essays--most never before published in English--break away from the conventional analytic approach, which holds the modernization process of 19th-century Europe as a paradigm for all developing countries. Instead, the contributors focus on Turkey's transition to capitalism to reveal other, indigenous paths to development experienced by many non-Western nations. The anthology concludes with an assessment of the past decade and examines future prospects for the nation.