Near and Middle Eastern Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton: 1935-2018 (Gorgias Handbooks)

Schmidtke, Sabine (Editor)

ISBN 10: 1463207506 / ISBN 13: 9781463207502

Published by Gorgias Press, 2018

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680 pages. 10.28x7.20x1.81 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Near and Middle Eastern Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton: 1935-2018 (Gorgias Handbooks)
• Publisher: Gorgias Press
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1463207506
• ISBN 13: 9781463207502
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 1.58 kilograms

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Synopsis

The history of Near and Middle Eastern Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study dates back to 1935, and it is the one area of scholarship that has been continuously represented at the Institute ever since, encompassing all four schools - Mathematics, Natural Sciences, Historical Studies, and Social Science. The volume opens with a historical sketch of the study of the Near and Middle East at the Institute, discussing luminaries such as Ernst Herzfeld, Henri Seyrig, Ernst Kantorowicz, Otto Neugebauer, Marshall Clagett, Clifford Geertz, Bernard Lewis, Glen Bowersock, Oleg Grabar, and Patricia Crone and their respective impact on the field. The second part of the volume, "Fruits of Scholarship", consists of essays and short studies by IAS scholars, past and present-faculty, members, and visitors; mathematicians, social scientists, and historians-who are engaged in one way or another with the Near and Middle East in their scholarship. Their contributions cover fields such as the ancient Near East and early Islamic history, the Bible and the Qur'an, Islamic intellectual history within and beyond denominational history, Arabic and other Semitic languages and literatures, Islamic religious and legal practices, law and society, the Islamic West, the Ottoman world, Iranian studies, the modern Middle East, and Islam in the West.

About the Author

Sabine Schmidtke is Professor of Islamic Intellectual History at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. She has published extensively on Islamic and Jewish intellectual history, as well as the Muslim reception of the Bible and its early translation history into Arabic. Her works include "Theologie, Philosophie und Mystik im zwölferschiitischen Islam des 9./15. Jahrhunderts: Die Gedankenwelten des Ibn Ab umh r al-A s" (um 838/1434-35 nach 906/1501) (Brill, 2000), "The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology" (OUP, 2016), and, together with Hassan Ansari, "Studies in Medieval Islamic Intellectual Traditions" (Lockwood Press, 2017). She is also the executive editor of "Intellectual History of the Islamicate World" (Brill) and, with Hassan Ansari, of "Shii Studies Review" (Brill).