A Short History of the Gibb Memorial Trust and Its Trustees: A Century of Oriental Scholarship

Editor: Charles Melville
Year: 2023
ISBN: 9781399516259
Language: English
208p, H216 x W138 (mm) 

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction

1. NORMS AND VALUES IN MEDIAEVAL MUSLIM SOCIETY
1. Ideals and Actual Behaviour
2. Some Enduring Values in Mediaeval Muslim Society
3. A Preliminary Definition of Mujūn

2. THE MOTIFS OF MUJŪN : RELIGION
1. An Omnipresent Religious Culture
2. Quran and ÍadÐths
3. The Stuff of a Sound Education: Religious Disciplines,Theology, and Islamic History
4. The Religious Obligations
5. Images of Afterlife
6. Hyperboles in Praise Poetry
7. Genuine Mujūn: A Provisional Summary

3. THE MOTIFS OF MUJŪN : DECENCY AND PROPRIETY
1. Breaches of the Norms of Proper Conduct
2. Images of Sexuality
3. Stylistic Features: Punning, Double Entendre, Obscenity, and Parody

4. THE RECEPTION OF MUJŪN
1. The Reception of Mujūn
2. Sanctions and Rewards
3. Regional Differences in the Reception of Mujūn

5. MUJŪN, VALUES AND NORMS
1. Mujūn vis-à-vis Dominant Values
2. The Sociology of Mujūn

Afterword: On Defining Mujūn
Sources
Index

The Gibb Memorial Trust, founded at the start of the 20th century, comprised among its trustees some of the most celebrated and prominent orientalists of their day. Together, they sponsored and supported research on editing and translating Arabic, Persian and Turkish manuscripts on a range of subjects, from history, literature, geography and poetry to Sufism and the Islamic sciences. This volume covers the development of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies over the last 120 years or so, as seen through the biographies of the leading scholars of the period. It opens with a short history of the Trust, before presenting a series of short biographical and often personal appreciations of these eminent Middle Eastern scholars of the past, written by existing trustees. In providing a history of this important institution, the book shines a light on the history and development of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies in Britain more broadly.

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