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The volume brings together 17 articles by leading Islamicists and Arabists, on a variety of topics in Medieval and Early Modern times, including the Qur‘ān, Shi'ism, Ἁbbāsid historiography, the Crusaders, and Mamluk history.
Provides a close analysis of theʿAqila, a group collectively liable for blood money payments, in Islamic law and history.
This open access book presents select contributions from the 8th International Conference on Advances in Construction Machinery and Vehicle Engineering (ICACMVE 2023), focusing on the recent advances and best practices of Construction Machinery and Vehicle Engineering, related technologies and sciences to meet the challenges in mechanical design, mechanical control and smart manufacturing. The contents focus on design engineering, automation in engineering, construction machinery, intelligence applications, new energy and others. Some of the topics discussed here include advanced manufacturing technologies, industrial engineering and automation, design of mechanical systems, control engineering, automobile engineering, performance analysis of energy systems, thermal modelling and simulations of different systems, optimization and intelligence. The wide range of topics presented in this book will be useful for beginners, researchers, and mechanical engineering professionals.
In rich detail Jonathan Berkey interprets the social and cultural consequences of Islam's regard for knowledge, showing how education in the Middle Ages played a central part in the religious experience of nearly all Muslims. Focusing on Cairo, which under Mamluk rule (1250-1517) was a vital intellectual center with a complex social system, the author describes the transmission of religious knowledge there as a highly personal process, one dependent on the relationships between individual scholars and students. The great variety of institutional structures, he argues, supported educational efforts without ever becoming essential to them. By not being locked into formal channels, religious ed...
Includes the annual report of the Malaysian Branch, Royal Asiatic Society.
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