Christian-Muslim Relations 1500 - 1900
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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.
Subscriptions: Brill.com
Zä Dəngəl, Emperor of Ethiopia
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BiographyZä Dəngəl reigned for one year as Emperor of Ethiopia (1603-4) under the throne name Asnaf Sägəd II. He was the nephew of Emperor Śärìä Dəngəl, and ruled during a turbulent period when the Ethiopian monarchy was weak and constantly challenged. Dynastic struggles erupted after the demise of Śärìä Dəngəl, who initially promised the crown to Zä Dəngəl. However, in 1596, the empress and her power-hungry sons-in-law,
ras Atnatewos, the governor of the province of Goǧǧam, and Kəfəlä waḥəd, governor of Təgray, persuaded the dying sovereign to bequeath the th…
Zakareay Sarkawagi Patmagrut‘iwn
(1,026 words)
‘The chronicle of Deacon Zak‘aria of K‘anak‘eṛ’
Zak‘aria of K‘anak‘eṛ Date: 1699 Original Language: Armenian
Description
Patmagrut
‘
iwn is composed in the spoken dialect of the Yerevan region mixed with the late classical and vernacular language and abounds in Persian and Turkish words. The earliest copy, preserved in the Matenadaran Archives (MS 1662) is dated 1699 and consists of 323 double-sided folios. It was first published in 1870 in Vagharshapat (at that time part of Russian Armenia) as
Zak
‘
areay Sarkawagi Patmagrut
‘
iwn, but this edition contained numerous errors.…
Zak‘aria K‘anak‘eṛc‘i
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Zak‘aria of K‘anak‘eṛ Date of Birth: 1627 Place of Birth: K‘anak‘eṛ Date of Death: 1699 Place of Death: K‘anak‘eṛ
Biography Zak‘aria was born in 1627 in the village of K‘anak‘eṛ, now a northern suburb of Yerevan. His father Mkrtich‘ was the scribe for the
tanutēr (land baron) of the district of Kotayk‘. At the age of 13, Zak‘aria entered as a novice the monastery of Hovhannavank‘, where he would remain for the rest of his life. According to his own account, his physical disability – lameness – prevented him from becoming a
vardapet (ordained priest), and he only rose to the rank of deacon (
sar…
Žamanakagrut‘iwn Grigor vardapeti Kamaḥec`woy kam Daranałc‘woy
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Žamanakagrut‘iwn‘Chronology of Grigor Daranałc‘i’, ‘Chronology’
Grigor Kamaxec‘i Date: 1634-40 Original Language: Armenian
Description Grigor Daranałc‘i’s
Žamanakagrut‘iwn (‘Chronology’), which essentially covers the years 1595-1634, was completed in Rodosto between 1634 and 1640. The only known manuscript copy is preserved in the collection of the St James Armenian Monastery in Jerusalem, J1069. It is written in a difficult mixture of late-middle and early-modern Armenian, with many Persian, Arabic and Turki…
Za Mogiloiu Riaboiu
(870 words)
‘Near the [place called] Riabaia Mogila’
Feofan, Theophan, Eleazar Prokopovich, Prokopovych, Prokopowicz Date: 1711 Original Language: Old Russian
DescriptionIn the summer of 1711, during the so-called Pruth Campaign, Russian forces led by Tsar Peter I marched into the territory of Moldavia, a dominion of the Ottoman Empire. In July of the same year, a decisive battle between the Russian and Turkish armies took place on the River Pruth, lasting several days and resulting in thousands of casualties on both sides. …
Zapiski
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Notes
Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Prozorovskii Date: Approximately 1780 Original Language: Russian
Description The
Zapiski general-fel’dmarshala kniazia Aleksandra Aleksandrovicha Prozorovskogo, 1756-1776 (‘Notes of Field Marshal General Duke Alexander Alexandrovich Prozorovskii’) were first published in 2004, relying on materials from the Collection of Written Sources at the Russian National Historical Museum. The 2004 edition (784 pages) was prepared and edited by A.K. Afanas’ev, who also contributed commentary, …
Zapiski L’va Nikolaevicha Engel’gardta
(1,535 words)
‘Notes of Lev Nikolaevich Engel’gardt’
Lev Nikolaievich Engel’gardt Date: 1835 Original Language: Russian
Description Engel’gardt conceived of his
Zapiski as a memoir of his life and times. He recorded them in a series of notebooks between 1826 and 1835, frequently reading passages aloud for family and close friends. The notebooks were misplaced after his death, and only recovered by his son-in-law, Nikolai Putiata, in 1858. In addition to various published excerpts, the complete memoir has been issued repeatedly, with three significant variations: an 1859 e…
Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn ibn Muḥammad
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Date of Birth: Unknown; mid to late 18th century Place of Birth: Unknown Date of Death: Unknown; after 1811 Place of Death: Unknown
BiographyNothing is known about the scholar named Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn ibn Muḥammad, apart from what can be inferred from his one known work,
Miṣbāḥ al-ẓulumāt fī tafsīr al-Tawrāt. He could have written this in Kāẓimayn, a part of Baghdad where the shrines of two Shīʿī Imams are located, so there is a possibility that he lived there. He wrote it at the request of Mīrzā ʿĪsā Qāʾim-Maqām (d. 1822), vizier of the Qajar C…
Zayn al-ʿĀbidīn Khān Kirmānī
(588 words)
Date of Birth: 1860 Place of Birth: Kerman Date of Death: 1942 Place of Death: Kerman
BiographyZayn al-ʿĀbidīn Khān Kirmānī became the master of the Kirmānī branch of the Shaykhī School following the death of his elder brother Muḥammad Khān Kirmānī in 1906. He succeeded his brother at a time of profound political upheaval, the advent of the Iranian constitutional revolution (1906-11), preceded in Kerman by significant violence against the Shaykhī community. His 36 years as leader of the school were also marked by the First World War, the 1921
coup d’état, the advent of the Pahlavi dyn…
Zdanie sprawy o Tatarach litewskich
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Biography
Primary Sources of Information
Secondary Sources of Information
Works on Christian-Muslim Relations Zdanie sprawy o Tatarach litewskich przez jednego z tych Tatarów złożone sułtanowi Sulejmanowi Artur Konopacki
Zdanie sprawy o Tatarach litewskich przez jednego z tych Tatarów złożone sułtanowi Sulejmanowi
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Risalei Tatari Leh'Report on the Lithuanian Tatars submitted to Sultan Süleyman by a Tatar'
Zdanie sprawy o Tatarach litewskich Date: 1558 Original Language: Polish
Description This short text of 22 pages gives an abundance of information about Muslims living in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the mid-16th century. It was written in 1558 by an anonymous Tatar from the Grand Duchy, or someone who knew the circumstances of the Tatars so well that he was able to describe the Tatar settlements, and specifically to name villages and hamlets. It w…
Z* Domenico Sestini
(711 words)
Domenico Sestini Date of Birth: 10 August 1750 Place of Birth: Florence Date of Death: 8 June 1832 Place of Death: Florence
BiographyDomenico Sestini was born in Florence on 10 August 1750. After completing his studies, he began his ecclesiastical career; however, after a few months he renounced his cassock although he remained an abbot. In 1774, he left his family home to begin a long series of trips, initially visiting Rome, Naples and eastern Sicily in order to study. In Catania, Ignazio Paternò di Castello, Princ…
Zebh-i azȋm’e dair hutbe
(398 words)
‘A sermon on “the great sacrifice”’
Mahmud Esad ibn Emin Seydişehrî Date: 1913 Original Language: Ottoman Turkish
DescriptionSeydişehrî’s
Zebh-i azȋm’e dair hutbe (‘A sermon on “the great sacrifice”’) comprises three very short parts, all published in the journal
Sebîlürreşâd. It is an answer to a Christian preacher whose name Seydişehrî did not know at the time he wrote. It was, in fact, an Ottoman Turkish translation of
Dhibḥ
ʿaẓīm, originally written in Arabic by Arthur T. Upson, as can be seen from Seydişehrî’s quotations from it and a list of publications…
Zemskii sobor of 1648-9
(520 words)
Biography The term
Zemskii sobor (Assembly of the land) has been applied retrospectively by historians to a series of consultative bodies that were convened in the Muscovite state between the middle of the 16th century and the end of the 17th. Although some scholars have depicted these bodies as proto-parliamentary institutions, they were in fact more informal and irregular than most similar institutions elsewhere in Europe. Their membership usually comprised the tsar’s aristocratic counsellors (the
boyar duma), the leaders of the Orthodox Church (
osviashchennyi sobor) and repr…
Z* Giammartino Arconati Visconti
(737 words)
ARCONATI, VISCONTI GIOVANNI, MARTINO Date of Birth: 11 November 1839 Place of Birth: Pau (France) Date of Death: 23 February 1876 Place of Death: Florence
BiographyGiovanni Arconati was the son of the Marquis Giuseppe and Costanza Trotti Bentivoglio. His early years were quite peripatetic. From 1821 his parents had lived in Belgium, in their castle at Gaasbeek, then in 1839 they moved to Pau (France) and in 1840 to Milan, Pisa and finally Florence. In 1849 they established their residence between Turin and the estate of…