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The 101 Nights - new book of Arabic tales discovered

A historian in Germany has come across a new collection of medieval Arabic stories - a kind of precursor to the famous book known as One Thousand and One Nights. Claudia Ott, a professor at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, discovered The Book with the Story of the 101 Nights in a 13th century Andalusia manuscript. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgWXBb00IInDYXRd62Akj8pr7MLiWPJjALL85UK8drOAN3_VSrUmYYlshyphenhyphenWtIbmJ-BN5nXphPt13S_O7bQYerp3_NLC8b6hlRmL64FrAMy4qGMMvFcnicvuyES2Gwxx3szfDkg2F4BXxw/s1600/101nights.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgWXBb00IInDYXRd62Akj8pr7MLiWPJjALL85UK8drOAN3_VSrUmYYlshyphenhyphenWtIbmJ-BN5nXphPt13S_O7bQYerp3_NLC8b6hlRmL64FrAMy4qGMMvFcnicvuyES2Gwxx3szfDkg2F4BXxw/s400/101nights.jpg" width="400" /></a></div> The 101 Nights contains 17 stories, two of which can also be found in the 1001 Nights, with most set in India. Ott adds, “It is certainly not by chance that this backdrop has something Oriental about it when seen from an Arabic perspective. It is an image of an Orient that is far away, unfamiliar and exotic — for this reason, particularly attractive." Ott first saw the manuscript on display at a museum in Berlin, and when she had the chance to look at, soon discovered its importance. She has translated the work into German. <a href="http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/arabian-nights-has-smaller-sibling" target="_blank">You can read more about this discovery from the Egypt Independent</a>

The 101 Nights - new book of Arabic tales discovered

A historian in Germany has come across a new collection of medieval Arabic stories - a kind of precursor to the famous book known as One Tho...

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The secret race to save Timbuktu’s manuscripts

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9juqazGwHU6hbd0Q0Y1cMJ0S6UavWRmAfhRxjLhQ2B-9nMRodf9SKd2S-b5XgB_hs7XxgRVUFhRttVFGqfen9KaL0PvFuFImcQtaRqKEG5QC7C6OMveTRW36jZ7KoRimd3hryO_fxnno/s1600/AD200810803589773AR.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9juqazGwHU6hbd0Q0Y1cMJ0S6UavWRmAfhRxjLhQ2B-9nMRodf9SKd2S-b5XgB_hs7XxgRVUFhRttVFGqfen9KaL0PvFuFImcQtaRqKEG5QC7C6OMveTRW36jZ7KoRimd3hryO_fxnno/s320/AD200810803589773AR.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div>By Geoffrey York The Globe and Mail As rebels searched the bags of the truck passengers at a checkpoint near Timbuktu, one man was trying to hide his nervousness. Mohamed Diagayete, an owlish scholar with an eager smile, was silently praying that the rebels would not discover his laptop computer. Buried in his laptop bag was an external hard drive with a cache of thousands of valuable images and documents from Timbuktu’s greatest cultural treasure: its ancient scholarly manuscripts.  Radical Islamist rebels in northern Mali have repeatedly attacked the fabled city’s heritage, taking pickaxes to the tombs of local saints and smashing down a door in a 15th century mosque. They demolished several more mausoleums this week and vowed to destroy the rest, despite strong protests from UNESCO, the United Nations cultural agency.  With the tombs demolished, Timbuktu’s most priceless remaining legacy is its vast libraries of crumbling Arabic and African manuscripts, written in ornate calligraphy over the past eight centuries, proof of a historic African intellectual tradition. Some experts consider them as significant as the Dead Sea Scrolls – and an implicit rebuke to the harsh narrow views of the Islamist radicals. <a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/the-secret-race-to-save-timbuktus-manuscripts/article6763747/" target="_blank">Click here to read this article from The Globe and Mail</a> See also: <a href="http://ts-den.aluka.org/fsi/img/misc/timbuktu/Timbuktu_Community_Focus.pdf" target="_blank">The Manuscripts of Timbuktu</a>

The secret race to save Timbuktu’s manuscripts

By Geoffrey York The Globe and Mail As rebels searched the bags of the truck passengers at a checkpoint near Timbuktu, one man was trying to...

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Baghdad at 1,250: a far cry from past glories

Baghdad was once the capital of an empire and the centre of the Islamic world, but at 1,250 years old, the Iraqi city is a far cry from its past glories after being ravaged by years of war and sanctions. Construction of the city on the bank of the Tigris River began in July 762 AD under Abbasid Caliph Abu Jaafar al-Mansur, and it has since played a pivotal role in Arab and Islamic civilisations. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLOrzH9FwJ3CYWds9mjtqrRfkLzNujNRU43ztBW0Y7zlqNtYKuO5-9GH0urP44cg7TCliYeuLLHlSLGawjEp-px3CZ-ClLcdfxU8CSTX-SEWG8vtNh0Be9ej-B_VdSsDk8Jg0XrUxaERs/s1600/Baghdad_150_to_300_AH.gif" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLOrzH9FwJ3CYWds9mjtqrRfkLzNujNRU43ztBW0Y7zlqNtYKuO5-9GH0urP44cg7TCliYeuLLHlSLGawjEp-px3CZ-ClLcdfxU8CSTX-SEWG8vtNh0Be9ej-B_VdSsDk8Jg0XrUxaERs/s400/Baghdad_150_to_300_AH.gif" width="400" /></a></div> "Baghdad represented the economic centre of the Abbasid Empire, and it was used as a starting point for controlling other neighbouring regions to enhance Islamic power," said Issam al-Faili, a professor of political history at Mustansiriyah University. "Baghdad witnessed a renaissance of thought through translation, which was usually mastered by Jews and the Christians, and became a destination for intellectuals, poets and scholars from all parts of the world, and a centre for craftsmen and a city of construction," Faili said. "Baghdad today, after it was the capital of the world, has become one of the most miserable cities," he said. <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/baghdad-1-250-far-cry-past-glories-105957243.html" target="_blank">Click here to read this article from Yahoo News</a>

Baghdad at 1,250: a far cry from past glories

Baghdad was once the capital of an empire and the centre of the Islamic world, but at 1,250 years old, the Iraqi city is a far cry from its ...

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Early Islamic site discovered in Jordan

Recent conservation work at Qusayr ’Amra, a UNESCO World Heritage Site 85 kilometers east of Amman, has revealed the name of the Umayyad prince who commissioned the construction of the building. The conservation work is being conducted by the Department of Antiquities of Jordan, the Istituto Superiore per la Conservazione ed il Restauro in Rome, and World Monuments Fund. The site is a small building dating to the Umayyad period and is known for its mural paintings. Gazelle and wild donkey hunts, dances, musicians, court scenes and allegories, and zodiac symbols are all painted on interior surfaces. The inscription, which previously could not be read due to accumulated dirt and previous unsuccessful cleaning attempts, is an invocation to Allah beginning with the formula “Allahumma aslih al-Walid ibn Yazîd” (“Oh God! Make al-Walîd ibn Yazîd virtuous”). This inscription was painted in white above a window in old Kufic alphabet without any diacritical dots. Sections of the three-line inscription are still being translated. <a href="http://www.medievalists.net/2012/07/10/early-islamic-site-discovered-in-jordan/" target="_blank">Click here to read this article from Medievalists.net</a>

Early Islamic site discovered in Jordan

Recent conservation work at Qusayr ’Amra, a UNESCO World Heritage Site 85 kilometers east of Amman, has revealed the name of the Umayyad pri...

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Islamist fighters in Timbuktu continue destruction of city’s mausoleums, heritage

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpUGoHUguhuAsBimI6gGsec_zEY-u-73FBNinaqjk8Sc58eEG_NCwn-c9pxqvfEG-_DHJuUhTtHw9vqZaQoSe0ELPZOqM2GoGsE4YO2dygXrW06w05pZ1HY2QQLYIMKGYafy3OLfh6Cog/s1600/Timbuktu_Mosque_Sankore.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpUGoHUguhuAsBimI6gGsec_zEY-u-73FBNinaqjk8Sc58eEG_NCwn-c9pxqvfEG-_DHJuUhTtHw9vqZaQoSe0ELPZOqM2GoGsE4YO2dygXrW06w05pZ1HY2QQLYIMKGYafy3OLfh6Cog/s1600/Timbuktu_Mosque_Sankore.jpg" /></a></div>Muslim extremists continued destroying the heritage of the ancient Malian city of Timbuktu on Monday, razing tombs and attacking the gate of a 600-year-old mosque, despite growing international outcry. The International Criminal Court has described the destruction of the city’s patrimony as a possible war crime, while UNESCO’s committee on world heritage was holding a special session this week to address the pillaging of the site, one of the few cultural sites in sub-Saharan Africa that is listed by the agency. The Islamic faction, known as Ansar Dine, or “Protectors of the Faith,” seized control of Timbuktu last week after ousting the Tuareg rebel faction that had invaded northern Mali alongside Ansar Dine’s soldiers three months ago. Over the weekend, fighters screaming “Allah Akbar” descended on the cemeteries holding the remains of Timbuktu’s Sufi saints, and systematically began destroying the six most famous tombs. <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/islamist-fighters-in-timbuktu-continue-destruction-of-citys-mausoleums-heritage/2012/07/03/gJQAPljaKW_story.html" target="_blank">Click here to read this article from the Washington Post</a> <object height="315" width="560"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/C5QGwXP8v70?version=3&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/C5QGwXP8v70?version=3&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="560" height="315" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object> <object height="315" width="560"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/vE06cGy0byg?version=3&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vE06cGy0byg?version=3&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="560" height="315" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object> <object height="315" width="560"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/wRmgvs9tokY?version=3&hl=en_US"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/wRmgvs9tokY?version=3&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="560" height="315" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object>

Islamist fighters in Timbuktu continue destruction of city’s mausoleums, heritage

Muslim extremists continued destroying the heritage of the ancient Malian city of Timbuktu on Monday, razing tombs and attacking the gate of...

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New book offers translation of medieval Islamic debate

A recently published book is offering readers a glimpse into how medieval Muslims debated their own religion. Abu Hatim al-Razi: The Proofs of Prophecy offers an English translation of a debate between two celebrated figures of the medieval Islamic era who diverge on notions of prophecy, miracles and the origins of science. Tarif Khalidi, Shaykh Zayid Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at the American University of Beirut, edited and and translated the work, one of the that few surviving records of a medieval debate. The debate took place around 920 AD between Abu Hatim al-Razi, a well known Isma’ili missionary, and Abu Bakr al-Razi, a physician and philosopher known in Europe as Rhazes. Rhazes, during the debate, expresses deep religious skepticism. He attacks the Qur’an and Bible, points to contradictions in holy scriptures and religious narratives, and dismisses scripture as superstition. <a href="http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/06/new-book-offers-translation-of-medieval-islamic-debate/" target="_blank">Click here to read this article from Medievalists.net</a>

New book offers translation of medieval Islamic debate

A recently published book is offering readers a glimpse into how medieval Muslims debated their own religion. Abu Hatim al-Razi: The Proofs ...

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Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition – exhibition at The Met

Nearly 300 works of art are now on display at The Metropolitan Museum of Art to mark how the Middle East and eastern Mediterranean underwent important changes between the seventh and ninth centuries. Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition represents the first major museum exhibition to focus on this pivotal era in medieval history. The exhibition, which began on March 14, will be hosting a couple of important events within the next few days. The exhibition brings together works of art from museums in more than a dozen countries, including Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Israel, Italy, Jordan, the Republic of Georgia, the United Kingdom, and Vatican City among others. Many of these works have never been shown before in the United States.  “Byzantium and Islam will contribute immeasurably to the intellectual legacy that was established by the Met’s previous three widely acclaimed exhibitions on the Byzantine Empire,” said Thomas P. Campbell, Director of the Metropolitan Museum. “By bringing to general attention a complex historical period that is neither well-known nor well-understood, this exhibition will provide an important opportunity for our audiences. <a href="http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/02/byzantium-and-islam-age-of-transition-exhibition-at-the-met/" target="_blank">Click here to read this article from Medievalists.net</a>

Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition – exhibition at The Met

Nearly 300 works of art are now on display at The Metropolitan Museum of Art to mark how the Middle East and eastern Mediterranean underwent...

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Tunis reopens ancient Islamic college to counter radicals

Watched by residents of the old quarter of Tunis, a court official stepped forward and unlocked the huge wooden doors. From the gloom within, volunteers began to bring out stools and chairs that had gathered dust and cobwebs for half a century. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhgqlQ2APZ2K0yMgr_lJ2olB1_aQY56vBi14DUOVW8yoweYveoU4thzM_xRbXkVDHcGvD1U_Wki1NIqJ-_JtZF-Q5AN7fWv4rUdMZuOg3jGupMcyKTBfQO7EoKsTzW3nSreQ9hb69CQMY/s1600/Tunis.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhgqlQ2APZ2K0yMgr_lJ2olB1_aQY56vBi14DUOVW8yoweYveoU4thzM_xRbXkVDHcGvD1U_Wki1NIqJ-_JtZF-Q5AN7fWv4rUdMZuOg3jGupMcyKTBfQO7EoKsTzW3nSreQ9hb69CQMY/s400/Tunis.JPG" width="400" /></a></div> The school at Tunisia's 8th-century Zaitouna Mosque, one of the world's leading centers of Islamic learning, was closed by independence leader and secularist strongman Habib Bourguiba in 1964 as part of an effort to curb the influence of religion. Its ancient university was merged with the state's Tunis University. The college reopened its ancient doors to students on Monday, part of a drive by religious scholars and activists to revive Zaitouna's moderate brand of Islam, which once dominated North Africa, and counter the spread of more radical views. <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/04/04/us-tunisia-zaitouna-idUSBRE8330VI20120404" target="_blank">Click here to read this article from Reuters</a>

Tunis reopens ancient Islamic college to counter radicals

Watched by residents of the old quarter of Tunis, a court official stepped forward and unlocked the huge wooden doors. From the gloom within...

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