Medieval History 400-1500 – Islamic Research and Information Center (IRIC) https://iric.org Sat, 08 Mar 2025 22:03:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.14 https://iric.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/iric-favicon.png Medieval History 400-1500 – Islamic Research and Information Center (IRIC) https://iric.org 32 32 Studies in Islamic Traditions and Literature https://iric.org/studies-in-islamic-traditions-and-literature/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=studies-in-islamic-traditions-and-literature https://iric.org/studies-in-islamic-traditions-and-literature/#respond Sat, 15 Feb 2025 09:38:03 +0000 https://iric.org/?p=49829 By Roberto Tottoli
Publisher: Routledge (Dec 2024)
A collection of articles and studies discussing early Islamic tenets and beliefs based on Islamic traditions and literature. A number of studies appear for the first time in English. The topics dealt with relate to the Islamic prostration in ritual prayer, Islamic traditions which are discussed through the analysis of hadith literature and reports and narratives related to the literary genre of the qiṣaṣ al-anbiyā' (Stories of the Prophets). The readers of this collection of essays are scholars and students of early Islam, of the development hadith literature and of the narratives on Islamic prophets; all together the studies bring to light the dynamics between the formation of early traditions and their role in the origin and developments of Islamic literature.]]> Studies in Islamic Traditions and Literature

 

Studies in Islamic Traditions and Literature

By Roberto Tottoli

Publisher: Routledge

Publication Date: December 18, 2024

Hardcover: 284 Pages

ISBN: 9780367531690

 

A collection of articles and studies discussing early Islamic tenets and beliefs based on Islamic traditions and literature. A number of studies appear for the first time in English. The topics dealt with relate to the Islamic prostration in ritual prayer, Islamic traditions which are discussed through the analysis of hadith literature and reports and narratives related to the literary genre of the qiṣaṣ al-anbiyā’ (Stories of the Prophets). The readers of this collection of essays are scholars and students of early Islam, of the development hadith literature and of the narratives on Islamic prophets; all together the studies bring to light the dynamics between the formation of early traditions and their role in the origin and developments of Islamic literature.

 

Table of Contents

  • Part I The Islamic act of prostration (sujūd)

1. “Muslim attitudes towards prostration (sujūd). I. Arabs and prostration at the beginning of Islam and in the Qur’ān”

Studia Islamica, 88 (1998), 5-34; Listes des Errata in Studia Islamica, 89 (1999), 209-210.

2. “Muslim attitudes towards prostration (sujūd). II. The prominence and meaning of prostration in Muslim literature”

Le Muséon, 111 (1998), 405-426.

3. “Traditions and controversies concerning the sujūd al-Qur’an in ḥadīth literature”

Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, 147 (1997), 371-393.

4. “The thanksgiving prostration (sujūd al-shukr) in Muslim traditions”

Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 61 (1998), 309-313.

5. “Muslim Traditions against Secular Prostration and Inter-religious Polemic”

Medieval Encounters 5 (1999), 99-111 (special issue Avoda and ‘Ibada: Ritual and Liturgy in Islamic and Judaic Traditions, ed. S. Ward).

  • Part II: Hadith, traditions, and literature

6. “Ḥadith and Muslim dietary norms: some traditions on the goodness of meat and the permissibility of horse meat”

[It. or. “Ḥadīth e norme alimentari musulmane: alcune tradizioni sulla bontà della carne e sulla liceità della carne di cavallo”, Annali di Ca’ Foscari, s.o. 28 (1997), 99-118].

7. “‘Two rivers are believers and two are disbelievers’. A sacred river geography in a saying attributed to Muḥammad?”

[It. or. “‘Due fiumi sono credenti e due miscredenti’. Una geografia fluviale sacra in un detto di Muḥammad?” in Scritti in onore di Giovanni M. D’Erme, eds. M. Bernardini e N.L. Tornesello, Napoli 2005, 1221-1235].

8. “Islamic traditions regarding the use of fabrics and clothing”

[It. or. “Tradizioni islamiche sull’uso di tessuti e vestiti”, in Tejer y vestir: de la Antigüedad al islam, ed. M. Marín, CSIC, Madrid 2001, pp. 43-72].

9. “Inna Allāh yubghiḍu al-balīgh min al-nās: a study of an early ḥadīth“

Quaderni di Studi Arabi, n.s. 9 (2014) (Studi in onore di Lidia Bettini), 215-227.

10. “Methods and contexts in the use of Hadiths in classical tafsīr literature: the exegesis of Q 21:85 and 17:1”

Aims, Methods and Contexts of Qur’anic Exegesis (2nd/8th-9th/15th Centuries), ed. K. Bauer, Oxford, Oxford University Press in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies, 2013, 199-215.

  • Part III: The rod of Moses, the prophets

11. “The staff of Moses transforming into a snake in Islamic exegesis and traditions”

[or. “Il bastone di Mosè mutato in serpente nell’esegesi e nelle tradizioni islamiche”, Annali dell’Istituto Universitario Orientale di Napoli, 51 (1991), 225-243, 383-394].

12. “Modern Islamic exegesis and the rejection of the Isrā’īliyyāt: the legends about the staff of Moses transforming into a snake”

[or. “La moderna esegesi islamica ed il rifiuto delle Isrā’īliyyāt: le leggende sul bastone di Mosè mutato in serpente”, Annali di Cà Foscari, s.o. 21 (1990), 25-35.

13. “At cock-crow: some Muslim traditions about the rooster”,

Der Islam, 76 (1999), 139-147.

14. “‘I just came to visit some relatives’. The wolf in Joseph’s story”

[or. “‘Sono solo venuto a trovare alcuni parenti’. Il lupo nella storia di Giuseppe”, Quaderni di Studi Arabi, n.s. 14 (2019), 201-216].

15. “Origin and use of the term isra’iliyyat in Muslim literature”, in Arabica, 46 (1999), 193-210

 

 

About the Author

Roberto Tottoli is Professor of Islamic studies at the Università di Napoli L’Orientale, Italy. His fields of interest are early Islamic traditions and literature and the Qur’an in European history. He completed his bachelor’s degree in Oriental Languages and Literatures at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice and later earned a PhD from the University of Naples “L’Orientale. He studied from 1993 to 1994 at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem under the tutelage of M.J. Kister.

Studies in Islamic Traditions and Literature
Roberto Tottoli is an Italian Arabist, Islamic studies scholar and professor.

Tottoli taught at the University of Turin from 1999 to 2002 and has been a faculty member at the University of Naples “L’Orientale since 2002. He became a full professor of Islamic studies in 2011 and took on the role of Rector in November 2020. He has held visiting positions at institutions such as Princeton, Harvard, the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, the Institute for Advanced Study in Tokyo, and the University of Pennsylvania. Additionally, he was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton.

In 2019, he began serving as the principal investigator for the ERC-Synergy project EUQU—the European Qur’an, and he is a member of the Italian Academy of sciences.

 

Source: Routledge

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Christians and Muslims in Early Medieval Italy: A Sourcebook

By Luigi Andrea Berto

Publisher: Routledge

Publication Date: July 31, 2023

 

In the early Middle Ages (ninth to eleventh centuries), Italy became the target of Muslim campaigns. The Muslims conquered Sicily, ruled her for more than two centuries, and conducted many raids against the Italian Peninsula. During that period, however, Christians and Muslims did not always fight each other. Indeed, sometimes they traded with the ‘other’ and visited the lands of the ‘other’.

 

 

By presenting the annotated English translation of the early medieval primary sources about how Muslims and Christians perceived each other, the circulation of news about them, and their knowledge of their opponents, this book aims to clarify the relationship between Muslims and Christians in early medieval Italy. Moreover, it proves that in that period the faithful of the Cross and those of the Crescent were not so ignorant of one another as is commonly believed.

Christians and Muslims in Early Medieval Italy: A Sourcebook is the ideal resource for upper-level undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars interested in the relationships between Christians and Muslims in medieval Italy and the Mediterranean.

 

Table of Contents:

  1. Definitions and information about the other
  2. Religious Otherness
  3. Perceptions
  4. Some ‘Light’ in the ‘Darkness’
  5. Supernatural Events
  6. The Enemy is Coming
  7. Prisoners
  8. Going to the ‘Other’
  9. Encounters

 

About the Author

Luigi Andrea Berto is Professor of History at Western Michigan University, USA. His research focuses on medieval Italy and the Mediterranean, with a special interest in the use of the past in the medieval and modern periods, and the relationships between Christians and Muslims.

More information on: Routledge.com

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