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JournalISSN: 0570-5398

Arabica 

Brill
About: Arabica is an academic journal published by Brill. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Islam & Philosophy. It has an ISSN identifier of 0570-5398. Over the lifetime, 925 publications have been published receiving 5644 citations.


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01 Jan 1994-Arabica
TL;DR: In this article, the authors retrace l'histoire du concept d'higra en consideration of the definition classique comme l'aboutissement d'une longue evolution.
Abstract: Dans les sources du I er siecle de l'histoire islamique, le mot higra est utilise par definir deux types d'emigration. La signification classique fait reference a l'emigration de la Mecque vers Medine a l'epoque du Prophete. Mais le terme designe aussi l'emigration de Medine et d'autres regions de l'Arabie vers des places de garnison etablies dans les pays conquis apres la mort du Prophete. L'A. retrace l'histoire du concept d'higra en consideration la definition classique comme l'aboutissement d'une longue evolution

119 citations

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01 Jan 1997-Arabica
TL;DR: In the first half of the 6th century, the Hanbalite scholar Abui 'l-Farag ibn al-Gawzl (d. 597) wrote a book to encourage his lazy contemporaries to greater efforts in the memorisation of Tradition as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: ? 1 In the sixth century of the Muslim era the Hanbalite scholar Abui 'l-Farag ibn al-Gawzl (d. 597) wrote a book to encourage his lazy contemporaries to greater efforts in the memorisation of Tradition.' God, he argued, had singled out the Muslims to memorise Koran and Tradition, whereas those who had been before them had been dependent on written sources and were incapable of memorisation. The Jews, for example, had conferred on Ezra2 the title "son of God" merely because he knew the Torah by heart; among Muslims, by contrast, a seven-year-old child could recite the Koran from memory. The same contrast obtained in the field of Tradition. "Nobody among the nations transmits the words and deeds of their Prophet in a reliable fashion apart from us; for among us Tradition is transmitted from one generation to another, and the reliability of [each] transmitter is examined until the tradition has been traced back to the Prophet. Other nations have their traditions from written sources of which the writers and transmitters are unknown."3 ? 2 Ibn al-Oawzi's exhortation suggests two basic points about the "oral Tradition" of Islam. The first concerns the significance of its oral character. For Ibn al-(awzi, as for the Muslim traditionists in general, this oral character was more than an occasion for the display of

99 citations

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01 Jan 1959-Arabica
TL;DR: The notion of "solidarite" was introduced by I400 Ibn Halduin this article, who defined the notion of solidarite as "a degager de maniere plus generale l'existence -de tels elements autonomistes, spontanes cette fois and ne devant primitivement rien a aucune organisation officielle".
Abstract: ous avons donc vu, dans ce qui precede 1, comment des inN stitutions, qui en principe representent le gouvernement unitaire de la Communaute, peuvent en fait, par interference avec les conditions locales de leur fonctionnement, en venir 'a representer, face a ce gouvernement, un element de resistance urbaine particulariste. Inversant maintenant notre enquete, nous allons -chercher directement 'a degager de maniere plus generale l'existence -de tels elements autonomistes, spontanes cette fois et ne devant primitivement rien a aucune organisation officielle. Certaines considerations preliminaires ne seront pas inutiles. L'importance de la notion de solidarite, solidarite de groupe, 'asabiyya, dans la societe musulmane a ete mainte fois soulignee ,depuis qu'a ete remise en lumiere 2 la magistrale analyse qu'en a :faite vers I400 Ibn Halduin, sur la base des societes de lui connues. Mais derriere ce terme on evoque d'abord la solidarite de tribu, ,contrepartie des luttes entre tribus, dans l'ancien monde arabe ou dans les elements du nouveau qui ont conserve' une partie de l'ancienne structure. Plus largement aussi on pense parfois a la .solidarite generale entre croyants, ou a la solidarite vague entre les sujets d'une meme principaute, d'un m6me ensemble regional .humain, dans les cas oju une telle solidarite existe. Mais dans les -textes de la periode musulmane classique, le mot 'asabiyya au singulier ou au pluriel, casabiyydt, intervient constamment aussi pour designer des formes de solidarite entre groupes restreints a

83 citations

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01 Jan 1955-Arabica

77 citations

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No. of papers from the Journal in previous years
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20239
202237
20204
20198
201813
201722