Islamic education in Tunisia (ca. 800-1574)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Introduction V
3. Contents XI
4. PART 1.North Africa
5. Introduction 3
6. Islamic education in Tunisia (ca. 800-1574) 5
7. Early Moroccan reactions to the French protectorate: The cultural dimension 15
8. Cultural problems and social structure: The Campaign for Arabization in Morocco 33
9. The realm of justice: Apocalyptic revolts in Algeria (1849-1879) 47
10. The Libyan revolution according to Meredith O. Ansell and Ibrahim Massaud al-Arif 61
11. Arab Algerian literature revisited 77
12. PART 2.Mediaeval Islam
13. A seventh-century (A.H.) Sunnî creed: The 'Aqïda Wâsitïya of Ibn Taymïya 91
14. A controversy on the problem of perception: Two religious outlooks in Islam 133
15. Psychosomatic methods of cures in the Islamic Middle Ages 157
16. Poetic structure in Arabic: Three poems by al-Mu'tamid Ibn 'Abbad 173
17. PART 3.Turkish Islam and other cultures
18. A young Croat's encounter with an exotic Muslim culture: A Serbo-Croatian travel epic of the nineteenth century 189
19. Muscovite-Ottoman relations in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries 207
20. Orhan Veli Kanik and the beginnings of modern Turkish poetry 219
21. The Alexander romance in the Diwan Lughat at-Turk 233
22. PART 4.The state of Islamic studies
23. Changes of perspective in Islamic studies over the last decades 247
24. On teaching Islam to undergraduates 261
25. List of contributors 278
26. Index of proper names 280