Dr. Walter Young “Uṣūl al-fiqh”

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Oxford Islamic Studies Online

OISO, a major reference tool for Islamic Studies as it covers the whole Muslim world from Indonesia to Morocco and everything in between. The reference tool’s usefulness just increased with the recent publication of Dr. Walter Young, a recent IIS graduate. His article entitled “Uṣūl al-fiqh” provides a concise overview of the subject as well as a splendid bibliography for further reading.

To access the article you must login to your McGill account (or your local institution): Uṣūl al-fiqh.

Walter’s PhD thesis The Dialectical Forge: proto-system juridical disputation in the Kitāb Ikhtilāf al-‘Irāqiyyīn (2 vols.) is freely accessible via McGill’s escholarship platform.

Congratulations, Dr. Young!

McGill Institute of Islamic Studies Tehran Branch publications now online!

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Institute of Islamic Studies Tehran Branch publications

  • Qazwīnī, ʻAlī ibn ʻUmar, 1203 or 4-1276 or 7. Ḥikmat al-ʻayn. Tihrān : Anjuman-i Ās̲ār va Mafākhir-i Farhangī, 1384 [2005 or 2006].
  • Quṭb al-Shīrāzī, Maḥmūd ibn Masʻūd, 1236 or 7-1310 or 11. Sharḥ Ḥikmat al-ishrāq Suhrawardī.Tihrān : Muʼassasah-ʼi Muṭālaʻāt-i Islāmī, Dānishgāh-i Tihrān, Dānishgāh-i Makʹgīl, 2001.
  • Tabrīzī, Rajabʻalī, d. 1669 or 70. al-Aṣl al-aṣīl : uṣūl-i āṣifīyah. Tihrān : Anjuman-i Asār va Mufākhir-i Farhangī, 1386 [2007].
  • Turkah Iṣfahānī, ʻAlī ibn Muḥammad, 1368 or 1369-1431 or 1432. Kitāb al-Manāhij fī al-manṭiq. Tihrān : Muʼassasah-ʼi Muṭālaʻāt-i Islāmī, Dānishgāh-i Tihrān ; Kuwālā Lāmpư̄r : Muʼassasah-ʼi Bayna al-Milalī-i Andīshah va Tamaddun-i Islāmī, 1376 [1997]
  • Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274. Maṣāriʻ al-muṣāriʻ. Tihrān : Intishārāt-i Muʼassasah-ʼi Muṭālaʻāt-i Islāmī-i Dānishgāh-i Tihrān, Dānishgāh-i Mīkgīl, bā hamkārī-i Markaz-i Bayn al-Milalī-i Guftugū-yi Tamaddunhā, 1383 [2004 or 2005]
  • Ṭūsī, Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad, 1201-1274. Talkhīṣ al-Muḥaṣṣal : bi-inz̤imām-i rasāʼil va favāʼid kalamī. Tihrān : Intishārāt-i Muʼassasah-ʼi Muṭālaʻāt-i Islāmī, Dānishgāh-i Mīkgīl, Shuʻbah-ʼi Tihrān, bā hamkārī-i Dānishgāh-i Tihrān,   1980.

Ottoman Postcards

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A recent ‘discovery’ in the Islamic collection in Rare Books and Special Collections, is a set of Ottoman-French postcards named Medjmouaï teçavir (Collection de costumes). There are 22 postcards with each image portraying a different cultural aspect of Ottoman customs and dress attire. Unfortunately, there is no date on the cards themselves but we can assume these date from the late 19th or early 20th centuries.Ottoman PC3For further reading on Ottoman costumes, have a look at:

Salman, Fikri. 2012. Türk kumaş sanatı. Erzurum: Atatürk Üniversitesi, Güzel Sanatlar Fakültesi.

Fenerci Mehmed. 1986. Osmanlı kıyafetleri: Fenerci Mehmed albümü = Ottoman costume book. İstanbul: Vehbi Koç Vakfı.

Hamilton, Alastair. 2001. Arab culture and Ottoman magnificence in Antwerp’s Golden Age. London: Arcadian Library.

Ottoman PC1Sevin, Nureddin. 1973. On üç asırlık Türk kıyâfet târihine bir bakış. [İstanbul]: Devlet Kitapları.

Yılmaz, Hale. 2013. Becoming Turkish nationalist reforms and cultural negotiations in early republican Turkey, 1923-1945. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press.

As well as: http://www.midafternoonmap.com/2014/02/ottoman-hats.html

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Ignác Goldziher signatures

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Ignaz Goldziher (Ignác Goldziher) (1850-1921), the famous Orientalist (in the pre-Said definition of the word) and scholar of Islamic Studies. He was born in Budapest in 1850 and has been recognised as one of the founders of Islamic studies, along with Theodor Nöldeke and Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje.

Discovered in the stacks in a bound collection of offprints are a number of Goldziher’s signatures. The signatures are throughout the articles, complete with dedications some of which are to the philologist, René Basset who is also suspected as being the binder of these volumes. The dedications are written in German, Arabic and French.

In related news, the Oriental Collection of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences has released “The Goldziher correspondence of Budapest – more than 13000 letters related to Ignaz Goldziher.” The letters are searchable, here.

Below are some of the signatures in multiple languages for your viewing pleasure.

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Further reading: Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 42 (1922), pp.189-193.

Nöldeke, Theodor, Ignác Goldziher, and René Basset. 1871. Mélanges. (Held in the Islamic rare books collection at Rare Books and Special Collections, 4th floor McLennan Library.)