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Innovation From Above, Below, and Behind: The Linguistics of the Hebrew Revival
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In: Senior Projects Spring 2021 (2021)
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Slides for "Shaping Old Sharjah: A Geospatial Analysis of Biennial Art Exhibitions in Old Sharjah from 2003–2019" - Right to Left @ DHSI 2021 ...
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Shaping Old Sharjah: A Geospatial Analysis of Biennial Art Exhibitions in Old Sharjah from 2003–2019 - Right to Left @ DHSI 2021 ...
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Slides for "Shaping Old Sharjah: A Geospatial Analysis of Biennial Art Exhibitions in Old Sharjah from 2003–2019" - Right to Left @ DHSI 2021 ...
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Shaping Old Sharjah: A Geospatial Analysis of Biennial Art Exhibitions in Old Sharjah from 2003–2019 - Right to Left @ DHSI 2021 ...
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Adult Education at the Oriental Institute in the Twenty-First Century
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In: Journal of Archaeology and Education (2021)
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Fragmentation and Grievances as Fuel for Violent Extremism: The Case of Abu Musa’ab Al-Zarqawi
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In: Social Sciences ; Volume 10 ; Issue 10 (2021)
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Ibn Baṭṭūṭa’s “Prayer of Damascus:" A window on to Damascus in the hell of the Black Death (Part 2)
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Ibn Baṭṭūṭa’s “Prayer of Damascus:” A window on to Damascus in the hell of the Black Death (Part 1)
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Ibn Baṭṭūṭa’s famous Riḥla[(Chronicle of) Travels] is probably the only work of medieval travel literature whose protagonist claims to have personally witnessed the plague pandemic known as the Black Death, which ravaged the Mediterranean world between 1347and 1350 (and continued in subsequent waves). The passages describing the scourge include the story of a rogatory –andinter-religious prayer held in Damascus in July 1348. This is probably the most often mentioned passage of the Riḥla, the most quoted in the studies on the Black Death in the Middle East, as well in those on relations between religious groups in the Mamluk empire. Nevertheless, to this day it has not yet been the subject of in-depth analysis. This article is an endeavour to contribute to both the studies on Ibn Baṭṭūṭa’s Riḥla and the Black Death by analysing the story of the Damascus prayer in its historical context and literary aspects, i.e., by answering the questions: how does the story fit into the climate of the pandemic in general and into Ibn Baṭṭūṭa’s Riḥla in particular? What are its lexical and narrative characteristics? Moving from the story to the narrated event leads to the question on relations between the different religious groups that took part in the rite. Moreover, how did Islamic scholars interpret the prayer gathering? Since the Riḥla is not a chronicle but a narrative work, another question arises: to what extent is its information reliable? The answer will be found by comparing it with the main Middle Eastern Arabic sources of the 14thand 15thcenturies, which are mostly Chronicle texts. The concluding paragraph investigates whether the story of the Damascus prayer derives from Ibn Baṭṭūṭa’s personal testimony, as he claims in the Riḥla, or whether he (or the editor of the work, Ibn Juzayy) might have taken the information from other sources.
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Arabic Travel Literature; Black Death in the Middle East; Dhimmīin the Mamluk Sultanate; Epidemics; Ibn Baṭṭūṭa; Ibn Juzayy; Medieval Arabic Chronicles; Medieval Pandemic
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URL: http://hdl.handle.net/2318/1797619
https://doi.org/10.13135/1825-263X/5785
https://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/kervan/article/view/5785
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مؤرخ يرصد استهانة المستشرقين الألمان بمكانة اللغة العربية ... : Muʾarriḫ yarṣud istihānat al-mustašriqīn al-almān bi-makānat al-luġa al-ʿarabīya ...
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Multiple Lives: A Narrative Autoethnography Exploring Women’s Migration Experience ...
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The Middle East, North Africa, South Asia (MENASA) Initiative: Spring 2020 Newsletter
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In: Cultural Resource Centers Reports and Resources (2020)
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In Search of a Lost Profession: A Study of Journalistic Practices in Iran
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In: Theses (2020)
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مؤرخ يرصد استهانة المستشرقين الألمان بمكانة اللغة العربية ; Muʾarriḫ yarṣud istihānat al-mustašriqīn al-almān bi-makānat al-luġa al-ʿarabīya
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