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Islamic Sensory History, Volume 2: 600-1500 presents a selection of texts translated into English from Arabic and Persian. These selected texts all offer illustrative engagements with issues related to the sensorium in different times, places, and social milieus throughout the early and medieval history of Islamic societies. Each chapter is prefaced by an introductory essay by the translator, with specific attention to the role of the senses in the translated text's language, genre, and social context.
Contributors
Eyad Abuali, Tanvir Ahmed, Hanif Amin Beidokhti, Shahzad Bashir, Maroussia Bednarkiewicz, David Bennett, Hinrich Biesterfeldt, Julie Bonnéric, Adam Bursi, Fatih Han, Rotraud Hansberger, Jan Hogendijk, Domenico Ingenito, Anya King, Hannelies Koloska, Christian Lange, Danilo Marino, Richard McGregor, Pernilla Myrne, Nawal Nasrallah, Zhinia Noorian, Austin O'Malley, Franz Rosenthal (†), Everett K. Rowson, Abdelhamid I. Sabra (†), George Sawa, Asghar Seyed-Gohrab, Jocelyn Sharlet, Cornelis van Lit, Geert Jan van Gelder, James Weaver, Ines Weinrich, Brannon Wheeler, Alan Williams, Cyrus Ali Zargar.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Note on Dates, Transliteration, and Citation
Notes on Contributors
Part 1: Scriptural Foundations
1 The Senses in the Qurʾān
Hannelies Koloska
2 Ibn Isḥāq (d. ca. 151/768) on Vision in the Prophet's Biography
Richard McGregor
3 Ibn Abī Shayba (d. 235/849) on the Senses in the Afterlife
Christian Lange
4 Ibn Abī l-Dunyā (d. 281/894) on Scrupulous Sensory Piety among Early Muslim Ascetics
Adam Bursi
5 Ibn Bābawayh (d. 381/991) on the Shiʿi Sensorium
Christian Lange
6 Ibn al-Athīr (d. 606/1210) on the Prophet's Sense of Smell
Christian Lange
Part 2: Literary and Aesthetic Perspectives
7 Al-Jāḥiẓ (d. 255/869) on Animal and Human Sensation
Christian Lange
8 Ibn Sayyār al-Warrāq (fl. Mid-fourth/Mid-tenth Century) on Multisensory Dining and Wining
Nawal Nasrallah
9 Al-Sarī al-Raffāʾ's (d. 362/973) Invitations to Delight
Jocelyn Sharlet
10 Abū l-Faraj al-Iṣbahānī (d. 360/971) on the Conditions and Effects of Music
George Sawa
11 ʿAlī b. Naṣr al-Kātib (fl. Late Fourth/Tenth Century) on Erotic Sensations
Pernilla Myrne
12 Ibn Jubayr (d. 614/1217) on the Illumination of the Sacred Mosque in Mecca
Julie Bonnéric
13 Abū l-Majd Tabrīzī (d. after 736/1336) on the Debate between the Ear and the Eye
Tanvir Ahmed and Shahzad Bashir
14 Al-Maqrīzī (d. 845/1442) on the History of the Call to Prayer in Egypt
Maroussia Bednarkiewicz
15 Al-Badrī (d. 894/1489) on Hashish and the Senses
Danilo Marino and Franz Rosenthal
16 Al-Suyūṭī (d. 911/1505) on the Four Princes of Perfume
Geert Jan van Gelder
Part 3: Philosophical and Scientific Perspectives
17 Al-Kindī (d. after 256/870) on the Effects of Music, Colors, and Scents
Adam Bursi and Anya King
18 The Ikhwān al-Ṣafāʾ (Fourth/Tenth Century) on Sense and Sensibilia
Christian Lange
19 Abū Zayd al-Balkhī (d. 322/934) on the Nature and Therapeutic Use of Odorous Substances
Hinrich Biesterfeldt and Everett K. Rowson
20 Ibn al-Jazzār (d. 369/979-80) on Smell, Perfume, and Health
Anya King
21 Ibn al-Haytham (d. ca. 432/1040) on Vision
Jan Hogendijk and Abdelhamid I. Sabra
22 Suhrawardī (d. 587/1191) on Eyesight and Vision
Hanif Amin Beidokhti
23 Ibn Rushd (d. 595/1198) on Sense Perception
Rotraud Hansberger
24 Al-Jildakī (fl. 8th/14th Century) on the Alchemy of the Senses
Christian Lange
25 Nakhshabī (d. 751/1350) on the Nose
Zhinia Noorian
Part 4: Theological Perspectives
26 Al-Naẓẓām (d. ca. 230/845) on the Physics of Sensory Perception
James Weaver
27 Al-Ashʿarī (d. 324/935-6) on Muʿtazilite Claims about the Senses and Sense Perception
David Bennett
28 Al-Qāḍī ʿAbd al-Jabbār (d. 415/1025) on the Impossibility of Seeing God
Fatih Han
29 Ibn Sīnā (d. 428/1037) on Dismissing Sense Perception and on the Eternal Sense
Cornelis van Lit
30 Al-Ghazālī (d. 505/1111) on Visionary Experiences and the Internal and External Senses
Domenico Ingenito
31 Al-Khāzin al-Baghdādī (d. 741/1340) on the Evil Eye
Christian Lange
32 Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya (d. 751/1350) on the Virtues of the Eye and the Ear
Christian Lange
Part 5: Spiritual and Mystical Perspectives
33 Al-Ghazālī (d. 505/1111) on Listening to Music
Ines Weinrich
34 The Taʾwīlāt Najmiyya (7th/13th Century) on the Body, the Soul, and the Senses
Eyad Abuali
35 ʿAṭṭār (d. 618/1221) on the Wayfarer's Encounter with the Senses
Cyrus Ali Zargar
36 Ibn al-ʿArabī (d. 638/1240) on the Masters of Sensation
Christian Lange
37 Najm al-Dīn Rāzī Dāya (d. 654/1256) on the Sequence of Visionary Lights
Austin O'Malley
38 Rūmī (d. 627/1273) on Sensory Perception
Asghar Seyed-Gohrab and Alan Williams
39 Saʿdī (d. 691/1292) on the Senses, the Body, and Imagination
Domenico Ingenito
Part 6: Legal and Ethical Perspectives
40 Ibn Abī Zayd (d. 386/996) on Scent, Sight, Taste, and Touch during the Ḥajj
Adam Bursi
41 Al-Qudūrī (d. 428/1037) on Purity
Brannon Wheeler
42 Al-Sarakhsī (d. ca. 490/1096) on the Protocol of the Gaze
Christian Lange
43 Ibn al-ʿArabī (d. 543/1148) on Touching the Qurʾān
Christian Lange
44 Al-Nawawī (d. 676/1277) on Kissing and Handshaking
Christian Lange
45 Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya (d. 751/1350) on the Legal Status of the Senses
Christian Lange
Index of Names
Index of Terms
