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The
Caliphate
General
Government
- An
Arab
Ambassador
in
Constantinople,
(late
10th
Century)
- Al-Tanűkhî:
Ruminations
and
Reminiscences,
c.
980
CE
"The
Table
Talk
of
a
Mesopotamian
Judge"
- Yakut:
Baghdad
under
the
Abbasids,
c.
1000
CE
- Abul
Hasan
Ali
Al-Masu'di
(Masoudi)
(ca.
895?-957
CE):
The
Book
of
Golden
Meadows,
c.
940
CE
Masu'di
-
"the
Arab
Suetonius"
or
"the
Arab
Herodotus"
-
specialized
in
a
history
which
went
beyond
chronology
to
look
at
themes
and
individual
anecdotes.
This
is
an
extensive
selection
on
various
caliphs.
- Ibn-Miskawaih:
The
Experiences
of
the
Nations,
c.
980
CE
Powerplays
in
the
Abbasid
court.
- Al
Biruni
(973-1048
CE):
The
Existing
Monuments
or
Chronology,
c.
1030
CE
One
of
the
earlist
Arabic
historians.
- Gaston
Wiet:
Baghdad:
Metropolis
of
the
Abbasid
Caliphate,
(Norman
OK:
Univ
of
Oklahoma
Press,
19??
)
Chap.
5
- J.
Schact:
"Law
and
Justice",
in
Cambridge
Encyclopaedia
of
Islam,
vol.
II,
pt.
VIII/chap.
4,
pp.
539
ff.
Science
- Sunan
Abu-Dawud,
Book
28:
Medicine
(Kitab
Al-Tibb)
[At
USC-MSA]
- Ibn
Sina
(Avicenna)
(973-1037
CE):
On
Medicine,
c.
1020
CE
- Adelard
of
Bath:
Natural
Questions,
c.
1137
Impact
of
Muslim
science
in
the
West.
- Seyyed
Hossain
Nasr:
Science
and
Civilization
in
Islam,
(New
York
:
New
American
Library.
1968).
"Introduction".
-
History
of
Islamic
Medicine
- Famous
Muslim
Scientist
Lists
The
lists
below
seem
to
be
part
of
a
certain
genre
of
list
creation,
usually
to
make
the
claim
(which
is
true)
that
Islam
had
a
glorious
role
in
the
history
of
science.
Non
of
them
seem
to
address
what
happened
after
c.
1500
(the
Western
Intrusion
was
not
until
c.
1800,
so
it
will
not
do
as
an
"excuse".)
Culture
- The
Poets
of
Arabia,
Selections
- Al
Hariri
of
Basrah
(446-516
A.H./1054-1122
CE):
Maqamat,
(The
Assemblies),
c.
1100
CE,
12
of
the
50
"assemblies".
Maqamat
(singular
Maqamah)
were
a
popular
sort
of
Arabic
entertainment
literature
(adab).
This
is
perhaps
the
most
popular
example.
- The
Women
and
Her
Suitors
story
from
the
Thousand
and
One
Nights
[caution:
very
rude!]
- The
Seven
Yoyages
of
Sinbad
the
Sailor
story
from
the
Thousand
and
One
Nights
[At
thekids.com]
- The
Arabian
Nights
Entertainments,
translated
by
Andrew
Lang
- The
Arabian
Nights,
translated
Sir.
Richard
Francis
Burton.
Full
Text
[At
Virginia
Tech]
- The
Nizámu'l
Mulk
(?-1092
CE)
: On
the
Courtiers
and
Familars
of
Kings
- Ibn
Batuta
(1307-1377
CE):
Travels,
selections
- Arthur
Goldschmidt:
A
Concise
History
of
the
Middle
East.
Chap.
8.
"Islamic
Civilization"
- Oleg
Grabar:
Ceremonial
and
Art
at
the
Umayyad
Court.
PhD
Dissertation,
Princeton
Univ
1955.
Chap.
I.
The
Umayyad
Royal
Idea
and
its
Expression
under
Mu'awiyah
I.
pp
18
ff
- Oleg
Grabar:
The
Formation
of
Islamic
Art,
(New
Haven:
Yale
Univ
Press,
19??),
pp.
43-
71,.Chap.
3
"The
Symbolic
Appropriation
of
the
Land"
chapter
3
- S.
M.
Ghazanfar:
The
Islamic
World
and
the
Western
Renaissance
[At
Zenithco].
Useful
enough,
but
written
with
a
chip
on
his
shoulder
by
an
economist.
Philosophy
Gender
and
Sexuality
in
Classical
Islam
- The
Qur'an
on
Homosexuality.
- Edward
Carpenter
(1884-1929):
Iolaus:
An
Anthology
of
Friendship
[chapter
on
Arabia
and
Persia],
with
extracts
from
Rumi,
Hafiz
and
Saadi.
- The
Tale
of
Nur
Al-Din
Ali
and
his
Son
Badr
Al-Din
Hasan,
from
The
Arabian
Nights,
translated
Sir.
Richard
Francis
Burton.
- Abu
Nawas
(c.756-810
CE):
Poetry
- The
Nizámu'l
Mulk
(?-1092
CE)
: On
the
Courtiers
and
Familars
of
Kings
- Sa'di
(1184-1292
CE):
Gulistan,
13th
Century
CE,
Full
text
of
Persian
prose/poetry
text
with
significant
homoerotic
content.
- Rumi:
Poetry
- Sa'di
(1184-1292
CE):
The
Gulistan,
c.
1256
CE.
another
translation.
- Sheikh
Nefzaoui:
The
Perfumed
Garden,
16th
Cent.
CE/c.
A.H
925,
translated
by
Sir
Richard
Burton
,
in
chapter
files,
full
text,
[At
Bibliomania]
A
guide
to
sex
by
a
Tunisian
writer
of
the
16th
century.
Does
not
discuss
male
homosexuality,
but
does
discuss
Lesbianism
(in
chap.
20).
- Ogier
Ghiselin
de
Busbecq
(1522
-
1592
CE):
Lesbian
Love
in
A
Turkish
Bath,
1560
[At
Letters
Magazine]
- Richard
Burton:
Terminal
Essay,
from
his
edition
of
the
Arabian
Nights.
Burton'
compilation
of
data
on
variety
of
societies
was
meant
to
explain
some
of
the
stories
in
The
Nights.
In
doing
so,
he
provided
first
overview
of
Islamic
homosexuality.
-
Islam
and
Homosexuality
[At
Islam
Homepage]
An
extremely
homophobic
article
which
claims
Islam
never
tolerated
homosexuality.
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