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Douglas Galbi
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- January 6, 2013
- 03:14 PM
- 112 views
dialogue with infidel women in Matthew of Edessa’s chronicle
by Douglas Galbi in purple motes
Via Armenian captive's dialogue with infidel women, Matthew of Edessa points to capabilities of eye and ear beyond grand public prophecy and chronicle. ... Read more »
MacEvitt, Christopher. (2007) The Chronicle of Matthew of Edessa: Apocalypse, the First Crusade, and the Armenian Diaspora. Dumbarton Oaks Papers, 157-181. info:/
- January 1, 2013
- 05:57 PM
- 151 views
Gog and Magog behind Alexander the Great’s wall in China
by Douglas Galbi in purple motes
Gog and Magog, Alexander the Great's wall, and a great wall in China coalesced in an official report to Abbasid Caliph al-Wathiq about 845.... Read more »
Donzel, E. J. van, Andrea B. Schmidt, and Claudia Ott. (2009) Gog and Magog in early Syriac and Islamic sources: Sallam's quest for Alexander's wall. Leiden: Brill. info:/
- December 16, 2012
- 12:07 PM
- 71 views
Roads of Arabia: new perspectives on human society
by Douglas Galbi in purple motes
The Sackler's exhibit Roads of Arabia shows culturally developed ancient Arabian societies built upon incense trade, then extended to Islamic pilgrimage.... Read more »
Ghabbān, ʻAlī ibn Ibrāhīm. (2010) Roads of Arabia: archaeology and history of the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Paris: Somogy Art Publishers. info:/
- December 9, 2012
- 12:48 PM
- 130 views
al-Biruni’s quest for truth encompassed religions and natures
by Douglas Galbi in purple motes
Al-Biruni's understanding of human natures and human history engaged with his knowledge of sacred words in his truth-seeking.... Read more »
Starr, S Frederick. (2009) Rediscovering Central Asia. The Wilson Quarterly, 33-43. info:/
- December 5, 2012
- 12:45 AM
- 179 views
spiritual use of images in ancient Asian Christianity
by Douglas Galbi in purple motes
Amid vigorous, decentralized visual-spiritual competition across ancient Asia, the story of Jesus, not spiritual use of images, distinguished "The Way."... Read more »
Parry, Ken. (2012) The Art of the Christian Remains at Quanzhou. Lieu, Samuel N. C. 2012. Medieval Christian and Manichaean remains from Quanzhou (Zayton). Turnhout: Brepols. info:/
- November 25, 2012
- 10:03 PM
- 110 views
al-Biruni treats Hindu idolatry like ancient Greco-Roman idolatry
by Douglas Galbi in purple motes
In al-Biruni view, Muslim scholars should study Hindu thought and be no more concerned Hindu idolatry than about similar Greco-Roman idolatry. ... Read more »
Friedmann, Yohanan. (1972) The temple of Multan: a note on early Muslim attitudes to idolatry. Israel Oriental Studies, 176-182. info:/
- November 18, 2012
- 10:11 PM
- 177 views
ibn Sīnā’s Treatise on Love is about money
by Douglas Galbi in purple motes
Ibn Sīnā' apparently wrote his Treatise on Love quickly and relatively thoughtlessly for a monetary commission.... Read more »
Fackenheim, Emil L. (1945) A Treatise on Love by Ibn Sina. Mediaeval Studies, 7(1), 208-228. info:/
- November 12, 2012
- 11:11 PM
- 194 views
Nahid in the Shahnameh: bad breath makes world history
by Douglas Galbi in purple motes
In the Shahnameh, Nahid's bad breath brings Alexander the Great to Greece. Al-Jahiz's claim that Persian men have sex with women with bad breath is undone. ... Read more »
Fischman, Stuart. (1997) The history of oral hygiene products: how far have we come in 6000 years?. Periodontology 2000, 15(1), 7-14. DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0757.1997.tb00099.x
- October 22, 2012
- 11:46 PM
- 275 views
views of India from the ancient Islamic world
by Douglas Galbi in purple motes
Disengagement from India in the ancient Islamic world more plausibly resulted from reconfiguration of scholarly interests than from deep cultural differences.... Read more »
Friedmann, Yohanan. (1975) Medieval Muslim Views of Indian Religions. Journal of the American Oriental Society, 95(2), 214. DOI: 10.2307/600318
- October 14, 2012
- 11:44 PM
- 243 views
al-Jahiz’s profoundly serious work on scholarly hospitality
by Douglas Galbi in purple motes
Al-Jahiz's attacks on tedious and repulsive scholarly disputes and his formulation of much more hospitable alternatives are serious scholarly work.... Read more »
Behzadi, Lale. (2009) Al-Jahiz and his Successors on Communication and the Levels of Language. Heinemann, Arnim, Manfred Kropp, Tarif Khalidi, and John Lash Meloy. 2009. Al-Jāḥiẓ: a Muslim humanist for our time. Würzburg: Ergon Verlag in Kommission, 125-132. info:/
- October 7, 2012
- 10:10 PM
- 165 views
misery of literary writers in the ancient Islamic world
by Douglas Galbi in purple motes
Intense literary status competition in the ancient Islamic world created considerable misery among literary writers.... Read more »
Bonebakker, Seeger A. (2001) The Misery of the Men of Letters: Some Quotations from their Poetry. Quaderni di Studi Arabi, 147-161. info:/
- October 2, 2012
- 07:45 PM
- 227 views
Aziz and Aziza in love with Daphnis and Chloe
by Douglas Galbi in purple motes
The story of Aziz and Aziza from the Arabian Nights outrageously re-arranges the romance of Daphnis and Chloe from an ancient Greek novel. ... Read more »
Grunebaum, Gustave E. von. (1942) Greek Form Elements in the Arabian Nights. Journal of the American Oriental Society, 62(4), 277-292. DOI: 10.2307/594031
- September 22, 2012
- 11:03 PM
- 184 views
Marian aretalogy of an impious Christian physician to Abbasid caliphs
by Douglas Galbi in purple motes
An aretalogy fragment from the early Abbasid caliphate features the Christian physician Yūhannā ibn Māsawayhi, known also for being crude and impious.... Read more »
Howard C. Kee. (1973) Aretalogy and Gospel. Journal of Biblical Literature, 92(3), 402-422. DOI: 10.2307/3263581
- September 16, 2012
- 12:01 PM
- 236 views
early Arabic love poetry caps Roman love elegy on aging
by Douglas Galbi in purple motes
An early Arabic poem -- Buthaynah and Jamīl's conversation on aging -- works to redeem Roman love elegy in exquisite, humane poetic truth.... Read more »
Jayyusi, Salma K. (1983) Umayyad poetry. In Beeston, A. F. L. Arabic literature to the end of the Umayyad period. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press., 387-432. DOI: 10.1017/CHOL9780521240154.021
- September 2, 2012
- 11:56 PM
- 208 views
Apollonius of Tyre through Arabian Nights
by Douglas Galbi in purple motes
Apollonius of Tyre, like Arabian Nights, is patterned text. A medical student's affair with a girl's corpse is an entertaining relational-textual feature.... Read more »
Hamori, Andras. (1983) A Comic Romance from the Thousand and One Nights: The Tale of Two Viziers. Arabica, 30(1), 38-56. DOI: 10.1163/157005883X00021
- August 26, 2012
- 12:07 PM
- 213 views
ibn Butlān and ibn Ridwān in vicious intellectual competition
by Douglas Galbi in purple motes
In the 11th century, the eminent physicians ibn Butlān and ibn Ridwān viciously disputed the question "which is warmer, the chick or the chicken?"... Read more »
Conrad, Lawrence I. (1995) Scholarship and social context: a medical case from the eleventh-century Near East. Bates, Donald G., ed. Knowledge and the scholarly medical traditions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press., 84-100. DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511621666.005
- August 19, 2012
- 12:09 PM
- 171 views
qadi criminal justice in comparative perspective
by Douglas Galbi in purple motes
Present-day U.S. prosecutors dispense criminal justice much more like King Louis IX in 13th-century France than like a qadi in the ancient Islamic world.... Read more »
Dripps, Donald A. (2005) Overcriminalization, Discretion, Waiver: A Survey of Possible Exit Strategies. Penn State Law Review, 1155-1179. info:/
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