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A preliminary catalog of Ibadi and other Arabic Manuscripts at the Association pour la Sauvegarde de l'Île de Djerba (Houmet Souk, Tunisia). The catalog includes codicological descriptions of each manuscript, a list of watermarks with... more
Durant l’époque médiévale, de nombreux Berbères du Sud tunisien embrassèrent l’ibadisme. Cette particularité religieuse conduisit les historiens arabes à les considérer comme des rebelles et les géographes à railler leurs coutumes. Cette... more
by Dr. Amr K. al-Nami
The historical development of an Ibāḍī textual tradition in the Arabian peninsula was not straightforward. Early Ibāḍīs adopted divergent approaches to the relationship of reason to questions of faith, the requirement of dissociation... more
This is the Arabic version of my paper about the Ibadi Jurisprudence regarding the architecture of mosques
[Paper accepted for publication] The Kitāb al-Barbariyyah, a Berber text containing a commentary on the Mudawwanah of Abū Ghānim Bishr b. Ghānim al-Khurāsānī, starts with a book which does not properly belong to the commentary but... more
Arabic translation of « De nouvelles données sur les origines de l’ibadisme et l’élaboration de la théorie de l’imamat », Arabica, 59, 2012, p. 134-144.
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[PDF of Book Flyer with Discount Code] The Ibadi Muslims, a little-known minority community, have lived in North Africa for over a thousand years. Combining an analysis of Arabic manuscripts with digital tools used in network analysis,... more
In his paper, “Tracing the Ascetic Life and Very Special Death of Abū Bilāl: Martyrdom and Early Ibāḍī Identity,” Adam Gaiser examines early Ibāḍī writings (i.e., Abū Yazīd’s and Abū Sufyān's narratives) about the life and martyrdom of... more
Ancient names of "God" in Berber, from Ibadite sources. Besides the already known "Yuš", also "Bab-enneɣ" (= "our father/master") and "Babay" (meaning "(a) god, divinity", not as a proper name and with a plural: "Ibabayen").
The ksour and mosques of the southern Tunisian mountains, whose architecture is still very much influenced by the former presence of the Ibadis, contain astonishing figurations of boats. Some researchers have estimated that they... more
Voici le quatrième volume de la collection « Studies on Ibadism and Oman » ; il est dirigé par Ersilia Francesca de l'Université « L'Orientale » de Naples, bien connue pour ses travaux sur le développement de la jurisprudence ibadite.... more
This is a paper is about the religious texts regulating the building of Mosques in the Ibadhi Fiqh. I explore the effect of such texts on the mosques built by the Ibadhi community in M'zab, Djerba and Oman
The work focuses on the formation of the Ibadi law, analyzing some inheritance cases, as they are solved in the most ancient Ibadi sources. The study is based on a comparative approach between doctrines elaborated in the different... more
Shaykh Ibrâhîm b. 'Umar Bayyûḍ of Wâdî Mzâb (1899-1981), leader of Ibâḍî reformism in Algeria after the death of Muḥammad b. Yûsuf Aṭfiyyash (1820-1914), delivered a public commentary on the Qur'an from 1935-1980, which was recorded... more
[The pdf contains the text accepted for publication] The Berber commentary to Abū Ghānim’s Mudawwana bears unique testimony to the ancient format of this early Ibadi text, preserving the outline of this work as it was in Middle Ages,... more
Presentation, in a colloquium held in 2004, of an Ibadite poem recently discovered in Djerba. Still preserved in memory and chanted by some elders of Guellala, the text is also recorded in some manuscripts. This texts displays an... more
The published Ibadi chronicles and biographical collections of pious scholars offer a lot of narratives about the trans-Saharan trade. Unfortunately, the study of these texts leads to two important problems. On the one hand, they often... more
When Sayyid Saʻid b. Sulṭān moved the capital of the Omani empire to Zanzibar in 1832, he transformed his new capital into a center for Islamic scholarship, inviting both Sunni and Ibāḍī scholars to make their home there. Because Ibāḍīs... more
André Ravéreau has passed on October 12, 2017 at 7pm. This is how his daughter announced the news to members of the Aladar association that was created around Ravéreau to finalize his writing work and to receive those who want to learn... more
A catalog of Ibadi manuscripts at the Universita degli Studi di Napoli L'Orientale in Naples, Italy. It includes appendices of copyists and watermarks.
The area studies model is an impediment to the historical analysis of linkages and connections not governed by its geographical and conceptual boundaries. Its shortcomings are even more pronounced in the historiography of the modern... more
Shafi`i qadis of the Zanzibar sultanate. In Italian
Openness, mobility and identity: The case of the Ibadi community of the Mzab
Description and partial edition of a religious text composed in the Berber-speaking island of Djerba (Tunisia) at the beginning of the 19th century. (Article in Italian, several verses in Berber with facing Italian translation)
28 Les ibaclites L'ibadisme forme, à côté du sunnisme et du chiisme, la troisième branche de l'islam. Issues du khârijisme, des communautés ibadites subsistent dans le sultanat d'Oman, en Algérie et dans l'île tunisienne de Djerba. Pour... more
The Arabian Peninsula. The Birth of Traditions Installment 1 of 2 Corrado la Martire (Guest ed.) Table des matières Valerie J. Hoffman (Professor Emerita, University of Illinois). The Development of an Ibāḍī Textual Tradition in the... more
Applying network analysis on five Ibadi siyar, from the eleventh to the sixteenth century, with each one representing roughly one century, Love has written a unique history of the Ibadi community in North Africa in the Middle Period. Its... more
A brief research annotation describing efforts to conserve a private manuscript library belonging to the El Bessi (al-Basi) famly on the island of Jerba, Tunisia.
Le livre de Heinz Gaube, consacré à la côte swahilie, se veut une compilation critique des sources matérielles, des sources historiques et des études modernes parues dans différentes langues. Il a pour fil conducteur la présence omanaise... more
Deadline for proposals 15 February 2020
Claude Gilliot « Der koranische Kommentar des Ibāḍiten Hūd b. Muḥkim/Muḥakkam », 1998 (G.3.52). See our more detailed article in French on Academia.edu: « Le Commentaire coranique de Hūd b. Muḥakkam/Muḥkim », Arabica, XLIV (1997/2), p.... more