General Introduction Part OneParadigms of Medieval Cosmopolitanism: The Case of Erznka/Erzinj?n—Sciences, Society, and Literature in the Thirteenth Century 1 Th e City of Erznka and the Ism?‘?l? Connection 2 Secularization of Knowledge and Sciences: An Armenian Summary of Ras?’il Ikhw?n al-S.af?’ 3 Project for the Spiritualization and Control of Urban Society: ‘Abb?sid Caliph al-N?s.ir’s Futuwwa Project as Model for the Constitution of the Brotherhood of Erznka 4 Urbanization of Culture—Th e Cultural Significance of the Fity?n and Manuks Part TwoTh e Prophet and Islam in Armenian Literature—Seventh to Fourteenth Centuries: Armenian Conceptualization of Islam through Polemics—Apologetics 1 Life and Teachings of Prophet Muh. ammad 2 Islam and the Tradition of Arab-Christian Apologetic/Polemical Literature 3 Th e Armenian Mahmet/Muh. ammad 4 Grigor and Matt‘?os: Texts and Polemical Strategies
Seta B. Dadoyan was formerly professor at the American University of Beirut. She is a specialist in Islamic-Armenian interaction from the seventh to the fourteenth centuries and is the author of The Fatimid Armenians: Cultural and Political Interaction in the Middle East.
-For the story of the medieval Islamic world to be told in full,
the Armenian dimension to it needs to be fully addressed by
imaginative scholars having complete command of the Armenian
humanities, and at the same time fully conversant with the Islamic
side to the equation. This is the kind of scholar one rarely comes
across, but the fact that it can exist is demonstrated by the
pioneer work of Seta Dadoyan. This is a truly comprehensive
work--what one may call a summa . . . that brings into relief
hitherto unnoticed aspects and unstudied issues, along with a
panoramic view of the medieval Islamic world.- --Kamal Salibi,
American University of Beirut -In a recent review article Peter
Brown, the seminal historian of Late Antiquity, laments the
relative ignorance of the Christian East in academic writing on
early Islam. His focus is the corpus of Syriac literature; but the
Armenian dossier is incomparably vaster and has awaited the
historian with the tools of an Arabist master of the sources. Seta
Dadoyan is that person, and her work, beginning with her
groundbreaking study of the Fatimid Armenians, comes to fruition in
this multi-volume series, which redefines Armenia's history in
local context and makes the Armenian case essential to any serious
student of the Islamic medieval period.- --James R. Russell,
Harvard University -On the margins of Armenian history Seta Dadoyan
offers an incisive insight on the making of traditional
histo-rio-graphy and modern philology. She has an incredible
know-ledge of the Arabic sources that had never been read before
her in the same perspective--if at all. This new type of historical
writing not only aims at establishing new paradigms, but also has a
powerful de-cons-tructive effect on the way we understand history
since the nineteenth century. Boldly by-passing the usual
constraints in terms of discipline, Dadoyan's trilogy contributes
to post-national re-definitions of identity and renewed accounts of
the Armenian experience in diasporic terms. It is not an
exaggeration to say that her work is revolutionary.- --Marc
Nichanian, Sabanci University, Istanbul -Dadoyan is to be commended
for undertaking such a bold, innovative project, reconceptualizing
Armenian history from the seventh to the fourteenth century,
through the prism of the Armenians' increasing integration into the
structures of the broader Islamic Near East. Her methodology in
this groundbreaking study has been to focus attention on a set of
countercases that problematize the teleologically-constructed
narrative of a stable collective sustained up to the present, as
postulated by modern nationalism. In this final volume Dadoyan
completes her pioneering oeuvre by illuminating the little studied
question of medieval cosmopolitanism and Armenian intellectual and
spiritual engagement with an encompassing Islam, to arrive at a
modus vivendi.- --S. Peter Cowe, UCLA -Dr. Seta Dadoyan belongs in
the pantheon of celebrated Armenists which includes such scholars
as Nicholas Adontz, Hagop Manandyan, and Cyril Toumanoff. She is a
pioneer in the study of cultural interactions between diverse
Armenian societies and Armenia's diverse neighbors. Using
innovative methods and a brilliant investigative style, she has
uncovered an alternate reality for Armenian studies, revealing
materials always available but never comprehended in their proper
contexts until now. There are few to compare her with. . . . She is
a trailblazer. The field of Armenian-Islamic interaction is one she
created or 'resurrected' from the primary sources by herself.-
--Robert Bedrosian, Independent Scholar, New York, NY
"For the story of the medieval Islamic world to be told in full,
the Armenian dimension to it needs to be fully addressed by
imaginative scholars having complete command of the Armenian
humanities, and at the same time fully conversant with the Islamic
side to the equation. This is the kind of scholar one rarely comes
across, but the fact that it can exist is demonstrated by the
pioneer work of Seta Dadoyan. This is a truly comprehensive
work--what one may call a summa . . . that brings into relief
hitherto unnoticed aspects and unstudied issues, along with a
panoramic view of the medieval Islamic world." --Kamal Salibi,
American University of Beirut "In a recent review article Peter
Brown, the seminal historian of Late Antiquity, laments the
relative ignorance of the Christian East in academic writing on
early Islam. His focus is the corpus of Syriac literature; but the
Armenian dossier is incomparably vaster and has awaited the
historian with the tools of an Arabist master of the sources. Seta
Dadoyan is that person, and her work, beginning with her
groundbreaking study of the Fatimid Armenians, comes to fruition in
this multi-volume series, which redefines Armenia's history in
local context and makes the Armenian case essential to any serious
student of the Islamic medieval period." --James R. Russell,
Harvard University "On the margins of Armenian history Seta Dadoyan
offers an incisive insight on the making of traditional
histo-rio-graphy and modern philology. She has an incredible
know-ledge of the Arabic sources that had never been read before
her in the same perspective--if at all. This new type of historical
writing not only aims at establishing new paradigms, but also has a
powerful de-cons-tructive effect on the way we understand history
since the nineteenth century. Boldly by-passing the usual
constraints in terms of discipline, Dadoyan's trilogy contributes
to post-national re-definitions of identity and renewed accounts of
the Armenian experience in diasporic terms. It is not an
exaggeration to say that her work is revolutionary." --Marc
Nichanian, Sabanci University, Istanbul "Dadoyan is to be commended
for undertaking such a bold, innovative project, reconceptualizing
Armenian history from the seventh to the fourteenth century,
through the prism of the Armenians' increasing integration into the
structures of the broader Islamic Near East. Her methodology in
this groundbreaking study has been to focus attention on a set of
countercases that problematize the teleologically-constructed
narrative of a stable collective sustained up to the present, as
postulated by modern nationalism. In this final volume Dadoyan
completes her pioneering oeuvre by illuminating the little studied
question of medieval cosmopolitanism and Armenian intellectual and
spiritual engagement with an encompassing Islam, to arrive at a
modus vivendi." --S. Peter Cowe, UCLA "Dr. Seta Dadoyan belongs in
the pantheon of celebrated Armenists which includes such scholars
as Nicholas Adontz, Hagop Manandyan, and Cyril Toumanoff. She is a
pioneer in the study of cultural interactions between diverse
Armenian societies and Armenia's diverse neighbors. Using
innovative methods and a brilliant investigative style, she has
uncovered an alternate reality for Armenian studies, revealing
materials always available but never comprehended in their proper
contexts until now. There are few to compare her with. . . . She is
a trailblazer. The field of Armenian-Islamic interaction is one she
created or 'resurrected' from the primary sources by herself."
--Robert Bedrosian, Independent Scholar, New York, NY
"For the story of the medieval Islamic world to be told in full,
the Armenian dimension to it needs to be fully addressed by
imaginative scholars having complete command of the Armenian
humanities, and at the same time fully conversant with the Islamic
side to the equation. This is the kind of scholar one rarely comes
across, but the fact that it can exist is demonstrated by the
pioneer work of Seta Dadoyan. This is a truly comprehensive
work--what one may call a summa . . . that brings into relief
hitherto unnoticed aspects and unstudied issues, along with a
panoramic view of the medieval Islamic world." --Kamal Salibi,
American University of Beirut "In a recent review article Peter
Brown, the seminal historian of Late Antiquity, laments the
relative ignorance of the Christian East in academic writing on
early Islam. His focus is the corpus of Syriac literature; but the
Armenian dossier is incomparably vaster and has awaited the
historian with the tools of an Arabist master of the sources. Seta
Dadoyan is that person, and her work, beginning with her
groundbreaking study of the Fatimid Armenians, comes to fruition in
this multi-volume series, which redefines Armenia's history in
local context and makes the Armenian case essential to any serious
student of the Islamic medieval period." --James R. Russell,
Harvard University "On the margins of Armenian history Seta Dadoyan
offers an incisive insight on the making of traditional
histo-rio-graphy and modern philology. She has an incredible
know-ledge of the Arabic sources that had never been read before
her in the same perspective--if at all. This new type of historical
writing not only aims at establishing new paradigms, but also has a
powerful de-cons-tructive effect on the way we understand history
since the nineteenth century. Boldly by-passing the usual
constraints in terms of discipline, Dadoyan's trilogy contributes
to post-national re-definitions of identity and renewed accounts of
the Armenian experience in diasporic terms. It is not an
exaggeration to say that her work is revolutionary." --Marc
Nichanian, Sabanci University, Istanbul "Dadoyan is to be commended
for undertaking such a bold, innovative project, reconceptualizing
Armenian history from the seventh to the fourteenth century,
through the prism of the Armenians' increasing integration into the
structures of the broader Islamic Near East. Her methodology in
this groundbreaking study has been to focus attention on a set of
countercases that problematize the teleologically-constructed
narrative of a stable collective sustained up to the present, as
postulated by modern nationalism. In this final volume Dadoyan
completes her pioneering oeuvre by illuminating the little studied
question of medieval cosmopolitanism and Armenian intellectual and
spiritual engagement with an encompassing Islam, to arrive at a
modus vivendi." --S. Peter Cowe, UCLA "Dr. Seta Dadoyan belongs in
the pantheon of celebrated Armenists which includes such scholars
as Nicholas Adontz, Hagop Manandyan, and Cyril Toumanoff. She is a
pioneer in the study of cultural interactions between diverse
Armenian societies and Armenia's diverse neighbors. Using
innovative methods and a brilliant investigative style, she has
uncovered an alternate reality for Armenian studies, revealing
materials always available but never comprehended in their proper
contexts until now. There are few to compare her with. . . . She is
a trailblazer. The field of Armenian-Islamic interaction is one she
created or 'resurrected' from the primary sources by herself."
--Robert Bedrosian, Independent Scholar, New York, NY
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