The place to go : contexts of learning in Baghdad, 750-1000 C.E. / edited by Jens Scheiner and Damien Janos.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Scheiner, Jens J., 1976- editor.

Janos, Damien, editor.

Series:

Studies in late antiquity and early Islam ; 26.

Studies in late antiquity and early Islam ; 26

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--Iraq--Baghdad--History--To 1500.

Education.

Abbasids--History.

Abbasids.

Baghdad (Iraq)--Intellectual life--To 1500.

Baghdad (Iraq).

Iraq--History--634-1534.

Iraq.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 655 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : Gerlach Press, 2021.

Summary:

This work focuses on the intellectual and educational history of Baghdad in the early ?Abbasid and Buyid periods (eighth-tenth centuries). It covers a wide range of disciplines taught in the metropolis before the institutionalization of the madrasa system.<br><b>Among these fields of knowledge are Arabic poetry and literature, the transmission of prophetic reports, Arabic historiography and astronomical-astrological teaching. Christian learning in the city is highlighted by two contributions, while two more papers focus on Jewish practices of knowledge production.<br><br>The volume seeks to promote a better understanding of Baghdad's multi-cultural circles of learning, the transmission of knowledge, and common patterns of patronage during this period.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of Figures

List of Contributors

Foreword

Preface

1 Jens Scheiner &amp

Damien Janos, Baghdād: Political Metropolis and Intellectual Center

2 Isabel Toral-Niehoff, Talking about Arab Origins: The Transmission of the ayyām al-ʿarab in al-Kūfa, al-Baṣra and Baghdād

3 Nora Schmidt, The Language of the Arabs in Early Ninth Century Philology: An Investigation of the Term mathal in Abū ʿUbayda's Majāz al-Qurʾān

4 Hans-Peter Pökel, 'Earnest and Jest (al-jidd wa-l-hazl)' as an Educational Concept? Some Considerations on Selected Works of al-Jāḥiẓ (d. 255/869)

5 Nora K. Schmid, Abū I-ʿAtāhiya and the Versification of Disenchantment

6 Jens Scheiner, Teachers and Ḥadīth Transmitters: The Quṣṣāṣ in Ibn Ḥanbal's Musnad

7 Clare Wilde, 'We shall neither learn the Qurʾān nor teach it to our children': The Covenant of ʿUmar on Learning

8 Krisztina Szilágyi, Christian Learning about Islam in the Early ʿAbbāsid Caliphate: The Muslim Sources of the Disputation of the Monk Abraham of Tiberias

9 Mohsen Zakeri, Muḥammad b. Khalaf b. al-Marzbān (d. 309/921) and His Role in Translations from the Middle Persian

10 John Watt, Why Did Ḥunayn, the Master Translator into Arabic, Make Translations into Syriac? On the Purpose of the Syriac Translations of Ḥunayn and his Circle

11 Damien Janos, Al-Maʾmūn's Patronage of Astrology: Some Biographical and Institutional Considerations

12 Antoine Borrut, Court Astrologers and Historical Writing in Early ʿAbbāsid Baghdād: An Appraisal

13 Johannes Thomann, From Lyrics by al-Fazārī to Lectures by al-Fārābī: Teaching Astronomy in Baghdād (750-1000 C.E.)

14 Elisabetta Abate, 'Until his eyes light up': Talmud Teaching in Babylonian Geonic Yeshivot

15 Elvira Martín Contreras, Safeguarding Lord's Word: The Work of the Masoretes in Palestine and Babylon.

Sketches for Further Research

16 Claudia Ott, 'Baghdād for lovers lies not far away': Baghdād and other Imaginary Places in a 7th/13th cent. Manuscript of the Hundred and One Nights

17 Yoones Dehghani Farsani, Historical Writing in Baghdād: The Case of the Futūḥ al-Shām ascribed to al-Wāqidī (d. 207/822)

18 Luise Ossenbach, Teaching Qurʾānic Exegesis: Some Initial Insights

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 25 Sep 2025).

Originally published in 2014 by Darwin Press Inc, Princeton, NJ.

ISBN:

3-95994-131-5

OCLC:

1229921804