Arabic manuscripts abound in notes: readers scribbled notes recording their reading of the text, teachers issued certificates and licences of transmission, owners stated their legal ownership of the manuscript, users praised (or dispraised) the text, copyists added their verses and endowers set down [...]

The book is about the Hadramawt Documents, 1904-51: Family Life and Social Customs under the Last Sultans.

The nineteen articles gathered in this volume were presented at a conference on the cultural history of Mamluk Egypt and Syria, jointly sponsored by the Orient-Institut Beirut and the University of Balamand in May 2005. The authors of these studies break new ground, delving into diverse topics [...]

Das Buch handelt von arabischen Istanbul-Reisende im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert.

Part One – Diversity and Change in Philosophy and Mystic
Part Two – Shii Jurisprudence
Part Three – Doctrinal Debates and Political Theorie