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Mudarrisūn e muḥaddiṯūn a Damasco negli awāmir sulṭāniyyah (1876-1908)
2014
The Center for Historical Documentation of Damascus, which was founded in 1960, houses a relevant variety of first-hand sources dating back to the Ottoman period, which prove to be fundamental in order to better define some peculiar aspects of history of Bilād al-Šām, such as the role of ʿulamāʾ and transmission of knowledge. As far as this is concerned, the awāmir sulṭāniyyah represent an essential part of the documentation, not only for the number of biographical data about mudarrisūn and muḥadditūn who were living and teaching in Damascus, but also for the particular relationship that they established with the main cultural institutions of the city, such as the traditional madāris. Throu…
The ethnobotany, phytochemistry, and biological properties of Nigella damascena – A review
2022
This review is a systematic scientific work on medicinal and traditional use, on the chemical composition of specialized metabolites, volatile and non-volatile, on aspects related to toxicology and phytotherapy of Nigella damascena L. The genus Nigella (Ranunculaceae) is distributed throughout the Mediterranean basin, extending to northern India, and has been divided into three sections. Nigella damanscena L. is traditionally used as an ingredient in food, for example, as flavouring agents in bread and cheese, but is also known in folk medicine, used to regulate menstruation; for catarrhal affections and amenorrhea; as a diuretic and sternutatory; as an analgesic, anti-oedematous, and antip…
Mente, corporeità e mondo naturale
2010
'Ulama' e qudat maghribini a Damasco secondo il dizionario biografico di Nagm al-Din Muhammad al-Ghazzi (sec. xvi-xvii).
2011
'Ulamā' e istituzioni a Damasco all'epoca della fondazione delle madāris ahliyya (xix-xx secolo).
2017
Despite a certain western look tending to consider overall the group of 'ulamā' as "misoneist" (that is to say "hostile to any innovation"), the relationship of the 'ālim with the institutional sphere in late-Ottoman Damascus gives evidence of a more complex role from a social as well as cultural perspective which takes into account the changes introduced by modernity. The considerable impoverishment of culture - with particular regard to those institutions mainly appointed to education in an Arab-Islamic context - following the general process of reform in the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire - drives many 'ulamā' to re-consider their position, through a recovery of the past, on the on…
Appunti per una biografia intellettuale dello sayh Gamal al-Din al-Qasimi 'alim riformatore damasceno (1866-1914).
2017
La trasmissione dei saperi a Damasco fra tradizione e innovazione (1876-1908). La produzione arabo-islamica e la documentazione siriana dell'epoca.
2012
Il periodo di governo del sultano 'Abd al-Hamîd ii (1876-1908) fu epoca caratterizzata da sensibili mutamenti, in cui ruolo determinante ebbe la riforma del settore dell'istruzione. Entro tale quadro, Damasco - capitale della wilâya di Siria - assume valore emblematico nel rapporto tra il permanere di modalità di trasmissione del sapere tradizionali, in modo specifico legate al contesto arabo-islamico, e la creazione di nuovi canali e istituzioni deputate all'insegnamento. Attraverso un'analisi cosciente della diversità e complementarietà di aspetti legati alla sfera educativa - si pensi all'ambito propriamente istituzionale o a quello relativo a coloro che vi operavano - e il recupero di i…
L'essere maġribī tra marginalità e tamyīz. Il caso degli al-Baybānī a Damasco.
2013
The two main Arab-Islamic areas of Magrib and Masriq, although one could well distinguish them geographically, should not be considered as separated entities, both from a historical and a cultural point of view, but as two interconnected areas. This mainly depends on the unfailing flow of 'ulama' travelling from one area to the other, due to their willing of learning and at the same time transmitting their knowledge. Most 19th century Arabic biographical literature represents in this sense an essential source witnessing the important contribution which many 'ulama' magariba gave to a social as well as cultural process of progressive integration and development. In a more specific way, the c…
Un regard en arrière vers la tradition. Les madāris de Damas à la fin de la période ottomane.
2015
Le système d'enseignement fut l'un des domaines les plus sensiblement affectés par le général procès de réforme que le gouvernement ottoman amorça vers la moitié du 19ème siècle. Dans ce fervent climat de modernisation, les anciennes madāris de Damas risquaient de disparaître, au détrimen de la culture de la communauté musulmane du Bilād al-Shām. À ce propos, les sources arabes de l'époque, parmi lesquelles se trouve un document officiel du début du dernier siècle, nous portent à considérer un intêret renouvelé de la part des historiens et de certains 'ulamā' de Damas à l'égard des institutions traditionnelles. Il s'agit, par rapport à l'esprit de modernité, d'un procès inverse de retour à …
'Ulamā' and Power: the case of al-Manīnī family in late-Ottoman Damascus.
2017
This contribution deals with the relationship between two relevant fields of the Islamic world, knowledge and power, otherwise said, ulemas and political authority, through the peculiar dynamics which tended to characterize the relationship between some renowned representatives of the former and the institutional as well as social sphere in late-Ottoman Damascus. In particular, it will focus on the analysis of data concerning members of an important branch of ulemas who lived in Damascus between the mid-19th century and the early 20th century: the Manini family.