Ibadism
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[PDF of Book Flyer with Discount Code] The Ibadi Muslims, a little-known minority community, have lived in North Africa for over a thousand years. Combining an analysis of Arabic manuscripts with digital tools used in network analysis,... more
Ibāḍism is the only surviving sect of Khārijism, and thus represents the third main branch of Islam, after Sunnism and Shīʻism. Ibāḍīs, who number less than 1% of the world’s Muslims, are found mainly in the Sultanate of Oman, in the Mzāb... more
This article examines the significant yet largely overlooked role of the Mzabis, a community from the northern edges of the Algerian desert, in Algerian and Tunisian anticolonialism and nationalism. In so doing, it pursues two aims:... more
The area studies model is an impediment to the historical analysis of linkages and connections not governed by its geographical and conceptual boundaries. Its shortcomings are even more pronounced in the historiography of the modern... more
(Journal of Islamic Manuscripts, Nov 2017) This article offers a summary of a recent project aimed at the conservation and preliminary inventory of the Bin Yaʿqūb (Ben Yaqoub) family library in the village of Guīzin (Guezin) on the... more
Ibāḍī Islam, practiced by the sultans who ruled Zanzibar from 1832-1964, is a moderate sect that emerged out of Khārijism. Like the Khārijites, Ibāḍīs recognize as Muslims only those who belong to their own sect; unlike the Khārijites,... more
Arabian Humanities, 15 (2022), online (Open Access)
Özet İslam tarihinin oldukça erken bir döneminde ortaya çıkmış, belli bir dönem varlığını ve etkinliğini sürdürmüş, ancak daha sonra kâhir ekseriyetiyle mevcudiyetini kaybetmiş Hâricîler, gerek akademik gerekse de popüler yazında... more
Ibadis, like the Mu`tazila, reject the possibility of seeing God in the afterlife. This article examines Ibadi discussions on the topic and the articulation of this rejection in Ibadi theology, with emphasis on scholars in the modern... more
This dissertation analyzes the ongoing attempts of Omani Ibadis to re-envision Islamic identity in the modern era. Arguably Islam’s oldest distinct sect, Ibadism has offered alternative formulations of Islamic belief and jurisprudence... more
From the beginning of the tenth century, a strong authority whose representatives belong to the Banū Yahrāsan asserts itself in Djerba. This exclusively masculine power is at once political and religious, it is hereditary, it marks a... more
In this article, I want to offer the following two interventions in the discussion of “music” and “Islam”: first, I want to positively reassess Lois Ibsen al-Faruqi’s landmark 1985 article “Music, Musicians, and Muslim Law” by engaging... more
[The pdf contains the text accepted by the publisher] Resumé en français: Le culte ibadite en Afrique du nord a toujours été étroitement lié à la langue berbère. les îlots ibadites d’Afrique du nord demeurent berbérophones jusqu’à ce... more
coord.: Hugh Kennedy, James McDougall, Sarah Savant
At first sight, North African Ibāḍism emerged during the Berber uprisings against Umayyad and ʿAbbāsid rule and stayed at the margins of the empire. The imamate of Tāhart even stood, in the posthumous memory of the school, as an ideal... more
This paper examines the process of the formation and trans-formation of the architecture of the rulers (especially its military part) in Oman. The hypothesis is that this process can be used to understand the formation and trans-formation... more
[Paper accepted for publication] The Kitāb al-Barbariyyah, a Berber text containing a commentary on the Mudawwanah of Abū Ghānim Bishr b. Ghānim al-Khurāsānī, starts with a book which does not properly belong to the commentary but... more
When Sayyid Saʻid b. Sulṭān moved the capital of the Omani empire to Zanzibar in 1832, he transformed his new capital into a center for Islamic scholarship, inviting both Sunni and Ibāḍī scholars to make their home there. Because Ibāḍīs... more
After coming to power in 1970, Sultan Qaboos bin Said has been striving to promote equal rights among Omanis, based on national preference. This political discourse also draws its legitimacy from religion; based on an ideal of tolerance... more
Avec des contributions de Mehdi Ali Khodja et Tahar Bellal, Mongi Ben Maad, Walid Ben Omrane, Brahim Benyoucef, Mathilde Bielawski, Vermondo Brugnatelli, Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya, Olivier Collet, Nabel Dbeez, Agnès De Féo, Valerie J.... more
Les vestiges archéologiques exceptionnels de Sedrata sont ceux d’une ville médiévale enfouie sous les sables du Sahara algérien, près de Ouargla. Ce carrefour du commerce transsaharien alimentait la Méditerranée en or et en esclaves. Ce... more
André Ravéreau est parti le 12 Octobre 2017 à 19h. C'est ainsi que sa fille a annoncé la nouvelle aux membres de l'association Aladar qui a été créée autour de Ravéreau pour finaliser ses travaux d'écriture et recevoir ceux qui veulent... more
Réformisme, salafisme, wahhabisme, Frères musulmans, djihadisme, chiismes, alaouites, zaydites, ibadites, ismaéliens, soufis... Depuis les attentats, journalistes, politiques et experts, reconnus ou autoproclamés, saturent les médias... more
"Manuscripts and oral sources: new perspectives for the studies on Eastern Berber and the history of its speakers" This contribution aims at drafting a short history of the linguistic studies about Eastern Berber, including under this... more
Abstract in English: Desctiption of the main manuscript (almost 900 pages) containing a work of islamic (Ibadite) jurisprudence in Berber. It is known as the "Kitāb al Barbariyya" (Ms. Bibliothèque Nationale de Tunis Or. 2550). A... more