Abstract:
The study of urbanisation processes in an ancient city also defines aspects of social, political and religious features of a society. While the impulse to urbanise issued from the politico-religious and cultural background of the society in question, the act and very form of urbanising is mostly connected with a selected territory and its morphology. This article attempts to reconstitute the urban plan of a major medieval capital of Iran, Rayy, during the Seljūq period. Thanks to satellite views, photos from the 1950s, the Pascal Coste plan and a newly discovered drawing by him, as well as several surveys conducted since 2005, a plausible map of the medieval Seljuq city can be attempted.
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- Titelseiten
- The Legacy and Influence of Patricia Crone (1945–2015)
- Special Issue: The Religious and Intellectual History of Rayy from 900 Through the Seljūq Period, Guest Editors: Hassan Ansari/Sabine Schmidtke/D. G. Tor
- Preface
- Rayy and the Religious History of the Seljūq Period
- The Linguistic History of Rayy up to the Early Islamic Period
- The Urbanisation of Rayy in the Seljūq Period
- From Khalaf (beginning of the 4th/10th century?) to Ḥasan al-Ṣabbāḥ (d. 518 H/1124 CE): Ismailism in Rayy before and under the Seljūqs
- Sunnism in Rayy during the Seljūq Period: Sources and Observations
- The Zaydīs and Rayy: The Path to Inclusion and Back
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- Nomads and Bukhara. A Study in Nomad Migrations, Pasture, and Climate Change (11th century CE)
- Reviews
- Bibliographie raisonnée zur arabischen Papyrologie: Neuerscheinungen 2015 und Nachträge 2013–2014
- Eleazar Birnbaum, Ottoman Turkish and Çaĝatay MSS in Canada. A Union Catalogue of the Four Collections, Islamic Manuscripts and Books
- Christopher Braun, Das Kitāb Sidrat al-muntahā des Pseudo-Ibn Waḥšīya. Einleitung, Edition und Übersetzung eines hermetisch-allegorischen Traktats zur Alchemie
- Angelika Brodersen, Der unbekannte kalām. Theologische Positionen der frühen Māturīdīya am Beispiel der Attributenlehre
- Julia Gonnella / Rania Abdellatif / Simone Struth (Hrsg.), Beiträge zur Islamischen Archäologie 4
- Johannes von Segovia, De gladio divini spiritus in corda mittendo Sarracenorum
- Linda G. Jones, The Power of Oratory in the Medieval Muslim World
- Amr Osman, The Ẓāhirī Madhhab (3rd/9th–10th/16th Century): A Textualist Theory of Islamic Law, Studies in Islamic Law and Society
- A.C.S. Peacock, Mediaeval Islamic Historiography and Political Legitimacy: Balʿamī’s Tārīkhnāma
- Anton Spitaler / Kathrin Müller, Erste Halbverse in der klassisch-arabischen Literatur
- Jutta Wintermann, Dichtung und Historie. Aspekte der Herrschaft Ḫosrous II. in Neẓamīs Ḫosrau-o Šīrīn
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Titelseiten
- The Legacy and Influence of Patricia Crone (1945–2015)
- Special Issue: The Religious and Intellectual History of Rayy from 900 Through the Seljūq Period, Guest Editors: Hassan Ansari/Sabine Schmidtke/D. G. Tor
- Preface
- Rayy and the Religious History of the Seljūq Period
- The Linguistic History of Rayy up to the Early Islamic Period
- The Urbanisation of Rayy in the Seljūq Period
- From Khalaf (beginning of the 4th/10th century?) to Ḥasan al-Ṣabbāḥ (d. 518 H/1124 CE): Ismailism in Rayy before and under the Seljūqs
- Sunnism in Rayy during the Seljūq Period: Sources and Observations
- The Zaydīs and Rayy: The Path to Inclusion and Back
- Articles
- Nomads and Bukhara. A Study in Nomad Migrations, Pasture, and Climate Change (11th century CE)
- Reviews
- Bibliographie raisonnée zur arabischen Papyrologie: Neuerscheinungen 2015 und Nachträge 2013–2014
- Eleazar Birnbaum, Ottoman Turkish and Çaĝatay MSS in Canada. A Union Catalogue of the Four Collections, Islamic Manuscripts and Books
- Christopher Braun, Das Kitāb Sidrat al-muntahā des Pseudo-Ibn Waḥšīya. Einleitung, Edition und Übersetzung eines hermetisch-allegorischen Traktats zur Alchemie
- Angelika Brodersen, Der unbekannte kalām. Theologische Positionen der frühen Māturīdīya am Beispiel der Attributenlehre
- Julia Gonnella / Rania Abdellatif / Simone Struth (Hrsg.), Beiträge zur Islamischen Archäologie 4
- Johannes von Segovia, De gladio divini spiritus in corda mittendo Sarracenorum
- Linda G. Jones, The Power of Oratory in the Medieval Muslim World
- Amr Osman, The Ẓāhirī Madhhab (3rd/9th–10th/16th Century): A Textualist Theory of Islamic Law, Studies in Islamic Law and Society
- A.C.S. Peacock, Mediaeval Islamic Historiography and Political Legitimacy: Balʿamī’s Tārīkhnāma
- Anton Spitaler / Kathrin Müller, Erste Halbverse in der klassisch-arabischen Literatur
- Jutta Wintermann, Dichtung und Historie. Aspekte der Herrschaft Ḫosrous II. in Neẓamīs Ḫosrau-o Šīrīn