Adab and Modernity

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-41591-1
Verlag: Koninklijke Brill BV

Buch, Englisch, 728 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 1206 g

Reihe: Brill

Adab is a concept situated at the heart of Arabic and Islamic civilisation. Adab is etiquette, ethics, and literature. It is also a creative synthesis, a relationship within a configuration. What became of it, towards modernity ? The question of the "civilising process" (Norbert Elias) helps us reflect on this story. During the modern period, maintaining one's identity while entering into what was termed "civilisation" (al-tamaddun) soon became a leitmotiv. A debate on what was or what should be culture, ethics, and norms in Middle Eastern societies accompanied this evolution. The resilient notion of adab has been in competition with the Salafist focus on mores (akhlaq). Still, humanism, poetry, and transgression are constants in the history of adab.

Contributors: Francesca Bellino, Elisabetta Benigni, Michel Boivin, Olivier Bouquet, Francesco Chiabotti, Stéphane Dudoignon, Anne-Laure Dupont, Stephan Guth, Albrecht Hofheinz, Katharina Ivanyi, Felix Konrad, Corinne Lefevre, Cathérine Mayeur-Jaouen, Astrid Meier, Nabil Mouline, Samuela Pagani, Luca Patrizi, Stefan Reichmuth, Iris Seri-Hersch, Chantal Verdeil, Anne-Sophie Vivier-Muresan.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mayeur-Jaouen, Cathérine

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Islamische & Arabische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam: Philosophie & Wissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Preface

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen

Part 1: New Formulations of adab in Modern Islam (Sixteenth–Nineteenth Century)

1 Adab, akhlaq and Early Modern Ottoman Paraenesis: Birgivi Mehmed Efendi’s (d. 981/1573) al-Tariqa al-muhammadiyya

Katharina Ivanyi

2 Mughal Early Modernity and Royal adab: Shaykh 'Abd al-Haqq Muhaddith Dihlawi’s Sufi Voice of Reform

Corinne Lefèvre

3 Adab and Scholarship Mirrored by Law: Reading Ibn 'Abidin’s Treatise Shifa' al-'alil wa-ball al-ghalil fi hukm al-wasiyya bi-l-khatmat wa-l-tahalil

Astrid Meier

4 Arabic Encyclopaedias and Encyclopaedism between the Seventeenth and Nineteenth Centuries: Forms, Functions, Intersections of Adab and Modernity

Francesca Bellino

Part 2: Translations and Mediations in the Time of European Encounters (Nineteenth Century)

5 When Il PrincipeTravelled to Egypt: Translating Machiavelli in Nineteenth Century Cairo and the Cultural Politics of the Nation

Elisabetta Benigni

6 Changing Table Manners at the Court of the Khedives: Serving up a New adab for the Elite

Felix Konrad

7 Mirza Qalic Beg (1855–1929) and the Renewal of adabin a Peripheral Province of British India

Michel Boivin

8 Les nouveaux usages de l’adab: belles-lettres, bonnes manières et pratique des langues chez les représentants de la Porte ottomane
(XVIIIe–XXe siècle)

Olivier Bouquet

9 Un adab de classes moyennes. Normes sociales, culture et littérature dans la production réformiste arabe au temps de Jurji Zaydan (1861–1914)

Anne-Laure Dupont

10 Adab as the Art to Make the Right Choice between Local Tradition and Euromania:

Über Autor(innen)

Cathérine Mayeur-Jaouen, Ph.D. (1992), Sorbonne Université, is Professor of Modern History at that university. Among her many books: The Mulid of al-Sayyid al-Badawi of Tanta (AUC Press, 2019). She coedited, with Francesco Chiabotti, Eve Feuillebois-Pierunek and Luca Patrizi, Ethics and Spirituality in islam: Sufi Adab (Brill, 2017).