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Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History Online is a general history of relations between the two faiths as this is represented in works written by Christians and Muslims about the other and against the other. It covers all parts of the world in the period 1500-1914. Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History Online comprises thousands of comprehensive entries on individual works and their authors, together with introductory essays to the periods and areas covered, making it the fullest available source in this field.
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Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History Online is a general history of relations between the two faiths as this is represented in works written by Christians and Muslims about the other and against the other. It covers all parts of the world in the period 1500-1914. Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History Online comprises thousands of comprehensive entries on individual works and their authors, together with introductory essays to the periods and areas covered, making it the fullest available source in this field.
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Haandbog i verdens-historien
(983 words)
‘Handbook of world history’
Nikolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig Date: 1833-43 Original Language: Danish
DescriptionThis huge work is intended as an introduction to world history (its full title is
Haandbog i verdens-historien efte de bedste kilder. Et forsøg…
Habib Estefano
(691 words)
Date of Birth: 9 March 1888 Place of Birth: Btater, Lebanon Date of Death: 3 April 1946 Place of Death: Petropolis, Brazil
BiographyHabib Estefano grew up in a humble family in Btater, a mountain town in Lebanon. At the age of 14, he moved to Beirut to study at the Sagesse school and, a few years later, with the support of a Maronite archbishop, he was sent to Rome to study philosophy and theology at the Pontifical University Propaganda Fidei. In 1913, now ordained a priest, he returned to Lebanon and devoted himself to teaching at the Sagesse school.With the outbreak of the First World War,…
Hacı Abdullah Petricî
(244 words)
Hacı Abdullah ibn Hacı Destân Mustafa, Hacı Abdi Bey Petricî, Hacı Destanzâde Hacı Abdullah Efendi, Abdi Bey Date of Birth: Unknown Place of Birth: Petrich, Bulgaria Date of Death: 1886 Place of Death: Istanbul
BiographyHacı Abdullah Petricî, born in the town of Petrich in south-western Bulgaria (near the borders with Greece and North Macedonia), was an Ottoman scholar and a Sufi of the Halvetî order. He died in 1886 in Istanbul. No further information exists about his life. In addition to his three works dealing with Christianity, he wrote a defence of the Qur’an in Ottoman Turkish in an intra-Muslim dispute,
Risâle fî reddi’r-Revâfız ve isbâti temâmiyyeti Kur’ân-ı ‘Azîmi’ş-Şân (‘A treatise refuting the Rāfiḍīs and proving the completeness of the glorious Qur’an’, 1857…
Haftād u du millat
(2,289 words)
‘Seventy-two sects'
Mīrzā Āqā Khān Kirmānī Date: Between 1885 and 1893 Original Language: Persian
Description
Haftād u du millat is a short story written by Kirmānī during his exile in Istanbul, between 1885 and 1893. It is an adaptation of two stories by the French writer Jacques Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre (1737-1814),
Le café de Surate and
La chaumière indienne (1790), both of which, and especially
Le café du Surate, were in wide circulation in Europe and beyond in the late 19th century, and were translated into various languages. Kirmānī follows the overall plot of both stories. His
Haftād u du millat is a hybrid text, in some parts a translation following the wording of th…
Ḥājj ʿAlī Akbar Navvāb Shīrāzī
(467 words)
Bismil Shīrāzī, ʿAlī Akbar Shīrāzī, ʿAlī Akbar Munajjim Shīrāzī, ʿAlī Akbar Bismil-i Shīrāzī Date of Birth: 1773-4 Place of Birth: Shiraz Date of Death: 1846-7 Place of Death: Shiraz
BiographyʿAlī Akbar Shīrāzī belonged to a family of scholars who moved from Isfahan to Shiraz in the post-Safavid period. His father, Āqā ʿAlī Naqīb, and his uncle, Āqā Buzurg, both became teachers at the Madrasa-yi Ḥakīm in Shiraz, where ʿAlī Akbar Shīrāzī studied religious sciences, literature, mathematics, logic and philosophy. He kept close…
Al-Hajj Umar Kete-Krachi
(1,008 words)
Ibn Abi Bakr ibn 'Uthman al-Kabbawi; al-Kanawi ibn ̔Uthmān; Al-ḥājj ̔Umar ibn Abī Bakr; Alhajj Umar bin Abubakar bin Umar ibn Uthman; Al-ḥājj 'Umar ibn Abī Bakri Date of Birth: Mid-19th century; 1850 or 1854 Place of Birth: Kano, Sokoto Caliphate Date of Death: 1934 Place of Death: Kete-Krachi, Ghana
BiographyAl-Hajj Umar Kete-Krachi, whose full name was ῾Umar ibn Abī Bakr ibn῾Uthmān al-Kabawī l-Kanawī l-Salaghawī, was from the Kebbi tribe and a native of Kano by birth. The actual date of his birth is unknown, though some authors suggest that he was born in the mid-19th century, somewhere…
Halil Halid
(829 words)
Halil Hâlid Bey Date of Birth: 1869 Place of Birth: Ankara, Ottoman State Date of Death: 1931 Place of Death: Istanbul, Turkish Republic
BiographyAn activist, journalist, intellectual and scholar, Halil Halid came from the Çerkeşşeyhizâde family, who were followers of the Sufi tradition. Halid came to Istanbul at a young age and, following the family tradition, enrolled in a
madrasa …
Hanibal Lucić
(469 words)
Biography Hanibal Lucić was a lyrical poet and dramatist. He spent most of his life on his native island of Hvar and on the island of Vis. There are no confirmed data about his education, but it is possible that he studied law in Italy. He performed various public functions in the municipal administration of Hvar, as city judge, lawyer and municipality advocate. His works were not printed in his own lifetime, and his
…
Ḥannā Maqār
(149 words)
Date of Birth: Unknown Place of Birth: Unknown Date of Death: Unknown Place of Death: Unknown
BiographyNothing is known about Ḥannā Maqār except for the fact that he was a Christian living in Cairo (
Miṣr) at an unknown time. The addressee of his letter calls him in his response ‘one of the famous and eminent Christians’ (
aḥad mashāhīr al-Nasārā wa-min awāʾil a…
Hans Dernschwam’s Tagebuch einer Reise nach Konstantinopel und Kleinasien (1553-55)
(1,182 words)
Hans Dernschwam’s Tagebuch'Hans Dernschwam’s diary of a journey to Constantinople and Asia Minor (1553-55)’
Johannes Dernschwam von Hradizcin Date: 1555 Original Language: German
Description In 1553, at the advanced age of 59, without any official assignment or authority and at his own expense, Dernschwam joined the Habsburg diplomatic mission sent by King Ferdinand I to Süleyman I that was headed by Antonius Verantius (Antun Vrančić) and Franz Zay, both of whom Dernschwam knew well. In Constantinople, the imperial amb…
Hans Löwenklau
(1,281 words)
Johannes Löwenklau, Joannes Leunclavius Date of Birth: 1541 Place of Birth: Coesfeld, Westphalia Date of Death: 1594 Place of Death: Near Eztergom, Hungary
Biography Hans Löwenklau’s upbringing was guided by his uncle, who was Domvikar in Münster. He studied
artes
liberales and law in Wittenberg in 1555 with Philipp Melanchthon, and in Heidelberg in 1562. In 1566, he was appointed dean of the faculty of
artes…
Hartmann Schedel
(252 words)
Biography Hartmann Schedel was born in Nuremberg. After studying canon law and medicine at Leipzig and Padua, he was engaged as city physician in the Bavarian cities of Amberg and Nördlingen, before returning to his native Nuremberg in the early 1480s. Throughout his life, he copied manuscripts, collected inscriptions, and acquired books avidly, thus building up one of the largest personal libraries in late medieval Europe. Schedel exchanged correspondence with many of the leading German…
Hasan Hüsnü Toyrânî
(639 words)
Ḥasan Ḥusnī al-Ṭoyrānī Date of Birth: 1850 Place of Birth: Cairo Date of Death: 1897 Place of Death: Istanbul
BiographyHasan Husnu Paşa Toyrani Suhrabzade Hocaoğlu was an Ottoman intellectual, poet and author. As his
nisba, Toyrânî, indicates, his family originated from Doyran (Dojran in North Macedonia), but his father’s work meant that Hasan Hüsnü Toyrânî was born and brought up in Cairo. After completing his studies, he travelled extensively in Africa, Asia and the Balkans, and held various civil serv…
Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad al-Ḥaymī
(525 words)
Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad al-Ḥaymī Date of Birth: 1608 or 1609 Place of Birth: Al-Ḥayma, Yemen Date of Death: 1660 or 1661 Place of Death: Kawkabān, Yemen
BiographyPractically nothing is known about the life of Sharaf al-Dīn al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn Ṣāliḥ (or Ṣalāḥ) ibn Duʿays ibn Muḥammad ibn Ḥamza al-Ḥaymī, and there is only limited scattered data from which to reconstruct his biography. He was probably born in al-Ḥayma (hence his main
nisba ‘al-Ḥaymī’, by which he is most commonly known), an area near Kawkabān (north-west of Ṣanʿāʾ; from here comes his other
nisba al-Kawkabānī), in 1608 (or, …
Hasan Sabri
(324 words)
Seyyid Hacı Hasan Sabri Efendi Hâdimî Date of Birth: 1857 Place of Birth: Hadim, Konya, Turkey Date of Death: 1931 Place of Death: Probably Istanbul
BiographyHasan Sabri was born in Hadim, Konya. He was also known as Seyyid, indicating his descent from the Prophet. He began his religious studies in Hadim. Later, he moved to Istanbul and attended the classes of Abdülkadir Raşit Efendi, continuing at the Dârü’l-muallimîn. After graduating in 1890, he became a
dersiâm (lecturer) at the Bayezit mosque in Istanbul. In 1903, he was appointed to the
Tedkîk-i Müellefât Encümeni, in the offi…
Ḥasr al-lithām ʿan al-Islām
(1,840 words)
'Unveiling Islam'
Rizqallāh ibn Niʿmatallāh Ḥassūn Date: 1859 Original Language: Arabic
DescriptionIn the only known copy (MSS Beirut, Bibliothèque orientale – 696, 697)
Ḥasr al-lithām ʿan al-Islām consists of two volumes, comprising 144 and 142 folios respectively. The first volume is about the Prophet Muḥammad and the Qur’an. It begins with an introduction about the birth of the three monotheistic religions in the Arab world. The second volume deals with the faith and the Five Pillars of Islam, including an acc…
Hâtemü’l-enbiyâ
(831 words)
‘The Seal of the prophets’
Celal Nuri İleri Date: 1914 Original Language: Ottoman Turkish
Description
Hâtemü’l-enbiyâ. Garazkârân-ı garb ve hurâfât-ı perestân-ı şarka karşı mevki-i tarihî-i ahmedîyi muhâfazaten yapılmış tecrübe-i kalemiyedir (‘The Seal of the prophets. A penned exercise in defence of the Prophetic history against the ill-intentioned West, and the worshippers of the superstitions of the East’) is a modern example of a thematic biography of the Prophet Muḥammad, which differs from traditional chronologically arranged
siyar works. Celal Nuri was criti…
Hausaland, or, Fifteen hundred miles through the Central Soudan
(1,788 words)
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Charles Henry Robinson Date: 1896 Original Language: English
Description
Hausaland, or, Fifteen hundred miles through the Central Soudan was published in London in 1896, soon after Robinson returned from his travels in North and West Africa. The main text is 304 pages long, preceded by an Introduction (pp. v-vii) and containing 20 chapters and four appendices. Robinson actually made three trips to Africa during the period May 1893 to July 1895, sponsored by the Hausa Association. The first two were unsuccessful…