Caterina Bori
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Address: Dipartimento di Storia Culture E civiltà
Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna
Via Zamboni, 33
40 126 Bologna (IT)
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Alma Mater Studiorum, Università di Bologna
Via Zamboni, 33
40 126 Bologna (IT)
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Books by Caterina Bori
Salvatore Armando, Babak Rahimi, and Roberto Tottoli (eds). 2018. The Wiley Blackwell History of Islam. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell.
[You'll find the Introduction and my two co-authored Chapters in the section 'Book Chapters and Intros' by scrolling down my main academia webpage]
A theoretically rich, nuanced history of Islam and Islamic civilization with a unique sociological component. This major new reference work offers a complete historical and theoretically informed view of Islam as both a religion and a sociocultural force. It surveys and discusses the transformation of Muslim societies in different eras and various regions, providing a broad narrative of the historical development of Islamic civilization.
This text explores the complex and varied history of the religion and its traditions. It provides an in-depth study of the diverse ways through which the religious dimension at the core of Islamic traditions has led to a distinctive type of civilizational process in history. The book illuminates the ways in which various historical forces have converged and crystallized in institutional forms at a variety of levels, embracing social, religious, legal, political, cultural, and civic dimensions. Together, the team of internationally renowned scholars move from the genesis of a new social order in 7th-century Arabia, right up to the rise of revolutionary Islamist currents in the 20th century and the varied ways in which Islam has grown and continues to pervade daily life in the Middle East and beyond.
This book is essential reading for students and academics in a wide range of fields, including sociology, history, law, and political science. It will also appeal to general readers with an interest in the history of one of the world’s great religions.
The purpose of this book is to identify the factors that shaped the making of Ibn Taymiyya’s early biographical tradition; to identify the literary and religious topoi that lay behind the creation of his biographical narratives and to propose a reassessment of Ibn Taymiyya’s personality and of his impact on the social, political and religious life of his time.
accommodation and adaptation, rejection and refutation. In one way or another, it
implies some form of engagement, either on Ibn Taymiyya's part with the scholarship of
his predecessors, or his legacy after his death. In Griffel and Hoover's articles reception is not about who read and engaged with Ibn Taymiyya after his death, and how and why this was done - which is the topic of the other articles - but about Ibn Taymiyya's reception of his own work within subsequent writings, and his own engagement with the theological thought of his predecessors. The remaining five contributions (Bori, Dayeh, Adem, Zouggar and Sheikh) tackle the reception of some of Ibn Taymiyya's works or ideas from after his death to the beginning of the 17th century.
The book also offers a fresh reading in the biographical sources on Ibn Qayyim al-Ğawziyyah, and suggests some new trajectories for future research.
The articles featured in this volume portray Ibn Qayyim al-Ğawziyyah as a systematic theologian and scholar, who strives to integrate highly theoretical discussions with practical aspects of everyday life.
A Scholar in the Shadow is the first comprehensive academic treatment of Ibn Qayyim al-Ğawziyyah's legal and theological thought. The book attempts to decipher the appeal of Ibn Qayyim al-Ğawziyyah to modern Muslims and others
interested in early medieval Islam, while highlighting Ibn Qayyim
al-Ğawziyyah's contributions to Islamic thought.
Papers by Caterina Bori
It includes an interview with Konrad Hirschler, a critical reflection on the use of Islam in modern historiography on the Mediterranean, a thematic section on the modern lives of Toledo Yeshu, and much more.
Please check it out!
It includes an interview with Konrad Hirschler, a critical reflection on the use and misuse of the category 'Islam' in modern historiography, a thematic section on the modern lives of Toledot Yeshu and much more.
Casuistry lives at the heart of such questions, in the tension between norms and exceptions, between what seems forbidden but is not. A Historical Approach to Casuistry does not only examine this tension, but re-frames casuistry as a global phenomenon that has informed ethical and religious traditions for millennia, and that continues to influence our lives today.
Salvatore Armando, Babak Rahimi, and Roberto Tottoli (eds). 2018. The Wiley Blackwell History of Islam. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell.
[You'll find the Introduction and my two co-authored Chapters in the section 'Book Chapters and Intros' by scrolling down my main academia webpage]
A theoretically rich, nuanced history of Islam and Islamic civilization with a unique sociological component. This major new reference work offers a complete historical and theoretically informed view of Islam as both a religion and a sociocultural force. It surveys and discusses the transformation of Muslim societies in different eras and various regions, providing a broad narrative of the historical development of Islamic civilization.
This text explores the complex and varied history of the religion and its traditions. It provides an in-depth study of the diverse ways through which the religious dimension at the core of Islamic traditions has led to a distinctive type of civilizational process in history. The book illuminates the ways in which various historical forces have converged and crystallized in institutional forms at a variety of levels, embracing social, religious, legal, political, cultural, and civic dimensions. Together, the team of internationally renowned scholars move from the genesis of a new social order in 7th-century Arabia, right up to the rise of revolutionary Islamist currents in the 20th century and the varied ways in which Islam has grown and continues to pervade daily life in the Middle East and beyond.
This book is essential reading for students and academics in a wide range of fields, including sociology, history, law, and political science. It will also appeal to general readers with an interest in the history of one of the world’s great religions.
The purpose of this book is to identify the factors that shaped the making of Ibn Taymiyya’s early biographical tradition; to identify the literary and religious topoi that lay behind the creation of his biographical narratives and to propose a reassessment of Ibn Taymiyya’s personality and of his impact on the social, political and religious life of his time.
accommodation and adaptation, rejection and refutation. In one way or another, it
implies some form of engagement, either on Ibn Taymiyya's part with the scholarship of
his predecessors, or his legacy after his death. In Griffel and Hoover's articles reception is not about who read and engaged with Ibn Taymiyya after his death, and how and why this was done - which is the topic of the other articles - but about Ibn Taymiyya's reception of his own work within subsequent writings, and his own engagement with the theological thought of his predecessors. The remaining five contributions (Bori, Dayeh, Adem, Zouggar and Sheikh) tackle the reception of some of Ibn Taymiyya's works or ideas from after his death to the beginning of the 17th century.
The book also offers a fresh reading in the biographical sources on Ibn Qayyim al-Ğawziyyah, and suggests some new trajectories for future research.
The articles featured in this volume portray Ibn Qayyim al-Ğawziyyah as a systematic theologian and scholar, who strives to integrate highly theoretical discussions with practical aspects of everyday life.
A Scholar in the Shadow is the first comprehensive academic treatment of Ibn Qayyim al-Ğawziyyah's legal and theological thought. The book attempts to decipher the appeal of Ibn Qayyim al-Ğawziyyah to modern Muslims and others
interested in early medieval Islam, while highlighting Ibn Qayyim
al-Ğawziyyah's contributions to Islamic thought.
It includes an interview with Konrad Hirschler, a critical reflection on the use of Islam in modern historiography on the Mediterranean, a thematic section on the modern lives of Toledo Yeshu, and much more.
Please check it out!
It includes an interview with Konrad Hirschler, a critical reflection on the use and misuse of the category 'Islam' in modern historiography, a thematic section on the modern lives of Toledot Yeshu and much more.
Casuistry lives at the heart of such questions, in the tension between norms and exceptions, between what seems forbidden but is not. A Historical Approach to Casuistry does not only examine this tension, but re-frames casuistry as a global phenomenon that has informed ethical and religious traditions for millennia, and that continues to influence our lives today.
Caterina Bori and Livnat Holtzman (eds.), A Scholar in the Shadow, Oriente Moderno 1 (2010).
The translator is Amr Basiony.