The Popular Preachers and Storytellers (Quṣṣāṣ) – The Earliest Historians, Exegetes, and Legal Specialists in Islam

Author(s): Pavel Pavlovich / Language(s): English Issue: 3/2023

Popular preachers and storytellers (quṣṣāṣ; sg. qāṣṣ) appeared towards the middle of the first/seventh century and quickly became the earliest informal historians and exegetes in Islam. Before long, the Umayyad caliphs recognized the political impact of their sermons and institutionalized preaching and storytelling (qaṣaṣ) as a state office. Notwithstanding this fact, informal qaṣaṣ did not vanish altogether, sometimes giving voice to pious discontent with the ruling dynasty. In the present study, I demonstrate that during the Marwānid period qaṣaṣ was combined with judgeship and other official positions. A comparison with documentary sources suggests that during the same period the term qāḍī (judge) was not yet used, and it may have been retroactively grafted onto the Umayyad past by early ʿAbbāsid historical literature. Literary sources also imply the existence of regional hierarchies of quṣṣāṣ. During the second/eighth century, qaṣaṣ lost its significance to the professional collection and transmission of traditions (ḥadīth) for the needs of Islamic jurisprudence and exegesis. Ḥadīth transmitters and critics eventually came to dismiss the quṣṣāṣ with contempt and derision.

Оценка на символите на модернизацията в България на границата на XIX и XX век в описанията на руски пътешественици

Author(s): Nikita Gusev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2023

The article provides a discursive analysis of the descriptions of Bulgaria compiled by Russian travelers in the first years after the fall of S. Stambolov and the normalization of relations between the two countries, in semiotic and axiological aspects. Publications in newspapers and books of those years, materials of the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art are compiled. On their basis, the features of Bulgarian public life that the authors paid the most attention to are highlighted: urban improvement, political development, attitude to religion and culture. Based on the analysis of the attitude to these symbols of modernity and Westernization, it is assumed that the descriptions of Bulgaria by Russian eyewitnesses contain elements of both oriental and occidental discourse, and the descriptions are based on a comparison of Bulgaria with an ideal modernization project.

Монография за цар Фердинанд и европеизацията на България

Author(s): Aleka Strezova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2023

Приносите в новата монография за българите в Турция

Author(s): Kalina Peeva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2023

Научна конференция на тема „Фактори на икономическия растеж в историческа перспектива“

Author(s): Ivan Roussev / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2023

Правосъдие, власт и общество – исторически паралели

Author(s): Albena Simova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2023

The Possibility of the Tragic

Author(s): Evangelos Kalfopoulos / Language(s): English Issue: 4/2023

In this paper the relationship between humanities as a field and tragedy is examined. Relying on Menke’s analysis of the tragic (Menke 2009) we examine in some depth the ideas of Schelling, Hölderlin and Friedrich Schlegel on the subject and how they positioned themselves on the topic of the possibility of the tragic in Modernity. Accepting that both the speculative idealist model of the didactic play and the model of the romantic comedy tried to overcome the tragic, we conclude that the element of tragic is still a worthy and much needed topic to be part of the humanities in the XXI century and Post-Modernity, primarily as a way of thinking power.

Ролята на интернет в дейността на българските организации в Урал и Сибир

Author(s): Marina Petrovna Klyaus,Julia Popcheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 4/2022

Bulgarians settled in the territories of the Urals and Siberia within several waves of migration mainly in the 20th century and individually in the 21st century. They live scattered over this large territory but nevertheless manage to get together in various organizations. The article identifies the main territories inhabited by individuals with a Bulgarian identity, as well as the ways of virtual communication between them. The different models of online communication and representation of the Bulgarian organizations in the two regions, their influence on the maintenance of community life and the development of their socio-cultural activities are explored. Additional focus is placed on the role of the Internet in creating and preserving the collective memory of life in the Komi Republic and in uniting former workers and students in virtual communities. The study was conducted in the period 2019-2022 with an emphasis on the social networks Facebook and VKontakte and on-site among organizations in the cities of Tyumen, Syktyvkar, Usogorsk and Blagoevo.

Дисертации 2023

Author(s): Nikola Kazanski / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 46/2023

Defended PhD theses in Bulgaria in the field of linguistics, literature, history, folklore, ethnography and art studies.

Национална научна конференция „Найден Геров и духовните измерения на Българското възраждане“

Author(s): Vanina Sumrova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 46/2023

Международен научен форум за книжовното наследство на Константин Преславски в светлината на съвременната палеославистика

Author(s): Georgi Mitov / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 46/2023

Международна научна конференция „Кирило-Методиевото дело в научната и културната памет“

Author(s): Desislava Naydenova,Lyuba Ilieva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 46/2023

Дмитрий Буланин на 70 години

Author(s): Anisava Miltenova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 46/2023

In memoriam Георги Попов

Author(s): Tatyana Ilieva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 46/2023

Манастирски библиотеки в южнославянските земи и Русия през XIV–XVI век. Доклади от Международната научна конференция, 26–28 април 2021 г.

Author(s): Neli Gancheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 46/2023

Димитрина Хамзе. Културата на пола в пословиците (върху материал от полските и българските паремии).

Author(s): Margarita Mladenova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 46/2023

Снежана Александрова. Облекло и цветове в българските диалекти. Лексикосемантична характеристика.

Author(s): Mariana Vitanova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 46/2023

Награден учен

Author(s): Author Not Specified / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 46/2023

Завръщане на монархическия дискурс. Посткомунистическо разколебаване на суверенитета

Author(s): Ivaylo Znepolski / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 1/2002

Борба с детската смъртност- организации, институции, дейности (Исторически поглед 19-20 век)

Author(s): Nadezhda Mihaylova-Georgieva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 3/2020

The aim of the study is to investigate the fight against infant mortality in the second half of 19-th century till the 1930-s, by examining it in four selected countries, significantly different in rates of the indicators and development of the healthcare system – France, Great Britain, Russia, USA. Methodology A historical documentary method is applied for achieving the aim. There are some common features of the fight against infant mortality for the defined period in the four countries – recognition of infant mortality as a socially important problem, expansion and enrichment of the statistics, and on their basis development and implementation of measures for its reduction. Risks related to the mother, low socio-economic status, bad hygiene, especially in urban environments are the main reasons for the high infant mortality rates. Physicians and social reformers are the main actors in the development of organizations fighting infant mortality. Charity has a leading role in improving child health in the lack of social policy. During the first half of the 20th century legislation was passed in many countries on the protection of motherhood and childhood, aimed at all regardless of their socio-economic status. Specific structures and organizations for prevention mothers and children are established, good practices such as health-visitors are applied, medical and social approaches are integrated. The fight against infant mortality entered a new stage after the Second World War, grounded on the concept of the development of maternal and child healthcare, when the major scientific inventions in medicine contribute to its successful realization.