Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Map of the Middle East
- Introduction
- 1 Etic Concepts and Emic Terms
- 2 The State of the Art
- Part One A Sacred Place: The Shrine of al-Husayn’s Head
- Part Two A Sacred Time: The Month of Rajab
- Final Comments: Spacial and Temporal Sanctity
- Works Cited
- Index
9 - Excursus: Arabic Treatises in Praise of Ascalon
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 October 2020
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Map of the Middle East
- Introduction
- 1 Etic Concepts and Emic Terms
- 2 The State of the Art
- Part One A Sacred Place: The Shrine of al-Husayn’s Head
- Part Two A Sacred Time: The Month of Rajab
- Final Comments: Spacial and Temporal Sanctity
- Works Cited
- Index
Summary
A Preliminary List of Ninth- to Fifteenth-century Works
Abū al-Ḥasan ʿAlī b. Muḥammad al-Madāʾinī (d. 225/839–40), Fatḥ ʿAsqalān (The Conquest of Ascalon).
Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan Ibn Ādam al-ʿAsqalānī (d. 325/937?), Juzʾ fīhi Faḍl ʿAsqalān (A Chapter in Praise of Ascalon).
ʿAlī b. al-Ḥasan Ibn ʿAsākir (d. 571/1176), Faḍāʾil ʿAsqalān (The Merits of Ascalon).
Taqī al-Dīn ʿUthmān b. ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Ibn al-Ialāḥ al-Shahrazūrī (d. 643/1245), al-Aḥādīth fī Faḍl al-Iskandariyya wa-ʿAsqalān (Hadith on the Merit of Alexandria and Ascalon). Ms. 1389 in Berlin Stadtbibliotek (20 folios).
Anonymous, Faḍāʾil al-Shām wa-Faḍāʾil Mudunihā wa-Bayt al-Maqdis wa-ʿAsqalān wa-Ghazza wa-l-Ramla wa-Arīḥā wa-Nāblus wa-Baysān wa-Dimashq wa-Ḥumṣ wa-dhikr al-anbiyāʾ al-mashhūrīn fīhā wa-dhikr al-ṣḥāba al-madfūnīn fīhā (The Merits of Syria and its Towns Jerusalem, Ascalon, Gaza, Ramla, Jericho, Nablus, Beth-Sheʾan, Damascus and Homs, with the mention of its known Prophets and the Companion that were buried in the Land). Ms. Tubingen no. 26 (24 folios), copied in Damascus in 741/1340–1.
[A chapter of] Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Asyū†ī (d. 880/1475–6), Itḥāf al-Akhiṣṣā bi-Faḍāʾil al-Masjid al-Aqṣā (Presenting the Choice Merits of the al-Aqsa Mosque).
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- Sacred Place and Sacred Time in the Medieval Islamic Middle EastA Historical Perspective, pp. 85 - 86Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2020