9788130712420 - Medieval Islam: A Study in Cultural Orientation von Grunebaum, Gustave E. Von (2 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. pp. x + 378 Map.

Contents 1 Islam in the medieval world The mood of the times 2 Islam in the medieval world Christendom and Islam 3 The Religious foundation Religious Foundation Revelation 4 The religious foundation Piety 5 The body politic Law and the state 6 The body politic The social order 7 The human ideal 8 Self-expression Literature and History 9 Creative borrowing Greece in the Arabian Nights 10 Conclusion Addenda IndexMedieval Islam grew out of a series of public lectures delivered at the University of Chicago The book aims to outline the cultural orientation of the Muslim Middle Ages with eastern Islam as the centre of attention It attempts to characterize the medieval Muslim?s view of himself and his defined universe the fundamental intellectual and emotional attitude that governed his works and the mood in which he lived his lifeIt strives to explain the structure of his universe in terms of inherited borrowed and original elements the institutional framework within which it functioned and its place in relation to the contemporary world The plan of this book rules out the narration of political history beyond the barest skeleton but requires the ascertaining of the exact position of Islam in the medieval world and its significance This plan also excludes a study of Muslim economy but it leads to an interpretation of the social structure as molded by the prime loyalties cherished by the MuslimThe Muslim approach to scholarship and literature is investigated but the individual result attained by the Muslim scholar or writer however important in the history of science or poetry is touched upon only inasmuch as it documents a cultural trait not otherwise traced The book is a standard reference on the subject 378 pp.