Journal of Arabic and Islamic
Studies
CONTENTS
Volume I, 1996-97
Edited by Joseph Norment Bell with Petr Zemánek
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Adrian Gully. The
Discourse of Arabic Advertising: Preliminary Investigations. Pages
1-49. HTML Unicode version.
Abstract: This article explores the discourse
of commercial consumer advertising in the written and visual media of
Heinz Grotzfeld. The Age of the Galland
Manuscript of the Nights: Numismatic Evidence for Dating a Manuscript? Pages 50-64. HTML Unicode version.
Abstract: The importance of the age of the Galland manuscript of the Nights derives from its being the
oldest manuscript extant of this text. There is no date of transcription in the
manuscript. In an earlier study, the present writer postulated 1426 as a date
post quem because of the mention of the coin ashrafi (first issued by al-Ashraf
Barsbay in 1426). This date post quem
has been rejected by Muhsin Mahdi,
the editor of the manuscript, in a recent publication in which he attempted to
identify the ashrafi mentioned in the text
with the gold coin issued by al-Ashraf Khalil (1290–93). This article
shows that his identification is untenable, and that the Galland manuscript, in all likelihood, was not copied
earlier than 1450.
Jaakko Hämeen-Anttila.
Ibn Shuhayd and his Risalat al-tawabi' wa 'l-zawabi'.
Pages 65-80. HTML Unicode version.
Abstract: Ibn Shuhayd's (d. 1035) Risalat
al-tawabi' has been preserved in fragments in Ibn Bassam's al-Dhakhira. The early eleventh century was a period of
great experimentation in narrative prose. Just a few decades before Ibn Shuhayd wrote his work, al-Hamadhani had written his maqamas
on the other side of the Islamic world. The Risalat
al-tawabi' comes into the margin of maqama literature. The original structure of the
treatise is reconstructable to a certain extent,
especially with the help of al-Tha'alibi's Yatimat al-dahr,
which has been neglected in earlier studies. In his work, Ibn
Shuhayd quotes not only from his own poetry but also
from his rasa'il. One of these
quotations shows how Ibn Shuhayd
himself has revised his original Risalat
al-halwa' and modified it to fit it into the new
context of the Tawabi'.
Abstract: In this paper two previously
unpublished texts on the magnetic compass from the medieval Islamic world will
be discussed, the first by the Yemeni Sultan al Ashraf
(ca. 1290) and the second by the Cairene astronomer Ibn Sim'un (ca. 1300). These two
treatises constitute the earliest known evidence attesting the use of the
magnetic compass for the determination of the qibla,
the sacred direction of Islam. A brief introduction glimpses at the history of
the magnetic compass in Europe and
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