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Offers a tantalising glimpse into Islamic personal names. This volume is a mostuseful addition to the books on Islamic names. Covers a great deal of ground and many different disciplines and has much value for almost any student of Islam. An excellent reference and compendium for Islamic names. Professor Schimmel is to be commended for bringing extreme diversity and detail into a very interesting and highly useful document. -- Names: A Journal of Onomastics Offers a tantalising glimpse into Islamic personal names. This volume is a mostuseful addition to the books on Islamic names. Covers a great deal of ground and many different disciplines and has much value for almost any student of Islam. An excellent reference and compendium for Islamic names. Professor Schimmel is to be commended for bringing extreme diversity and detail into a very interesting and highly useful document.
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Guiding Western readers through the endlessly fascinating and complicated system of Islamic personal names, Annemarie Schimmel's directory touches upon almost every aspect of Islamic life.
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Islamic names are formed according to a strict pattern, at least in the classical period of Arab civilization. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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North Africa, Middle Ages, Abi Talib, Abu Bakr, Ibn Taghribirdi, Indian Muslims, Central Asia, Khalil Allah, West Africa, Middle East, South India, Umm Kulthüm New!
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Islamic names are formed according to a strict pattern, at least in the classical period of Arab civilization. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sayyid families Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
North Africa, Middle Ages, Abi Talib, Abu Bakr, Ibn Taghribirdi, Indian Muslims, Central Asia, Khalil Allah, West Africa, Middle East, South India, Umm Kulthüm New!
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- Persian Literature by C. A. Storey in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Muslim Studies (v. 1) by Ignaz Goldziher in Back Matter
- Central Asia: Pre-Historic to Pre-Modern Times by Babajan G. Gafurov on page 77
- Arabic Grammar (Dover Books on Language) by W. Wright in Back Matter
- Encyclopedia Of Islam by Clifford Edmund Bosworth in Back Matter
- Politics, Gender, and the Islamic Past by D. A. Spellberg on 5 pages
- Sufi Heirs of the Prophet: The Indian Naqshbandiyya and the Rise of the Mediating Sufi Shaykh (Studies in Comparative Religion) by Arthur F. Buehler on page 82, and Back Matter
- Daily Life in the Medieval Islamic World (The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series) by James E. Lindsay on page 203, and Back Matter
- Islamic History Through Coins: An Analysis and Catalogue of Tenth-Century Ikhshidid Coinage by Jere L. Bacharach in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- An Introduction to Islam by Gerhard Endress on page 287
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