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An Unexpected Caliph

Author : Steven Derfler
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1483665070
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (836 download)

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Download or read book An Unexpected Caliph written by Steven Derfler and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For millennia, people of faith around the world have viewed their religious texts as sacred, holy, and at times, even infallible when it comes to our understanding of our past. We have all used them as guidelines to chart our journeys on earth; not only regarding spirituality but also our relationship with other humans. Sometimes we use these letters written by our parent in heaven to assert our own ethnic or spiritual superiority over others. But as archaeologists and historians, religious scholars and scientists, have discovered through research, no one seems to have a lock on the truth or the perspective or the right holy way. Rather, this attitude has led to hatred, prejudice and violence as we all try to one-up everyone else. Imagine the consequences of the re-discovery of ancient manuscripts that support the notion of commonality- found in the homeland of World War IIs Third Reich, the idea that, regardless of religious belief, the best people rise to the top in an attempt to bring their society, their community, to the most civilized level possible. Imagine a set of documents that shows that ancient societies were more tolerant, and accepting, than todays world. And just imagine the impact that it might have in changing our world view- slowly, slowly as they say in the MidEast. DR. STEVEN L. DERFLER An international educational consultant, archaeologist, historian, researcher, teacher and writer, Dr. Derfler has been uncovering the histories of ancient civilizations for nearly 40 years. Tracing the development of western religions from their roots in the Middle East and Eastern Mediterranean countries, Dr. Derfler brings insight to current political and social events, bridging the past with the future to promote greater understanding between people from different faiths and walks of life. Dr. Derfler has been associated with institutions both in the Midwest and Israel; including Tel Aviv University's Institute of Archaeology, the Israeli Antiquities Authority, and The Negev Museum of Beersheva. Archaeological work in Israel has included serving as staff of Tel Sheva, Arad, Tel Michal and Tel Gerishe Expeditions, and as American director of the Nahal Yattir and Tel Keriot excavations. International study/travel programs under his aegis include Israel/Jordan/Turkey, Egypt, Morocco, Greece, and Cuba. In the Upper Midwest, he is director of Educational Resources, Inc and is a retired professor from the University of Wisconsin River Falls. He also works closely with the Renaissance Academy of Florida Gulf Coast University and other venues in Southwest Florida.

Longing for the Lost Caliphate

Author : Mona Hassan
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691183376
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Longing for the Lost Caliphate written by Mona Hassan and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States and Europe, the word "caliphate" has conjured historically romantic and increasingly pernicious associations. Yet the caliphate's significance in Islamic history and Muslim culture remains poorly understood. This book explores the myriad meanings of the caliphate for Muslims around the world through the analytical lens of two key moments of loss in the thirteenth and twentieth centuries. Through extensive primary-source research, Mona Hassan explores the rich constellation of interpretations created by religious scholars, historians, musicians, statesmen, poets, and intellectuals. Hassan fills a scholarly gap regarding Muslim reactions to the destruction of the Abbasid caliphate in Baghdad in 1258 and challenges the notion that the Mongol onslaught signaled an end to the critical engagement of Muslim jurists and intellectuals with the idea of an Islamic caliphate. She also situates Muslim responses to the dramatic abolition of the Ottoman caliphate in 1924 as part of a longer trajectory of transregional cultural memory, revealing commonalities and differences in how modern Muslims have creatively interpreted and reinterpreted their heritage. Hassan examines how poignant memories of the lost caliphate have been evoked in Muslim culture, law, and politics, similar to the losses and repercussions experienced by other religious communities, including the destruction of the Second Temple for Jews and the fall of Rome for Christians. A global history, Longing for the Lost Caliphate delves into why the caliphate has been so important to Muslims in vastly different eras and places.

The Early Abbasid Caliphate

Author : Hugh Kennedy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317358074
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book The Early Abbasid Caliphate written by Hugh Kennedy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-17 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early Abbasid Caliphate was an important period for Islam. The dynasty, based in Baghdad, ruled over a vast Empire, stretching from the Indus Valley and Southern Russia to the East to Tunisia in the West; and presided over an age of brilliant cultural achievements. This study, first published in 1981, examines the Abbasid Caliphs from their coming to power in 750 AD, to the death of the Caliph al-Ma’mun in 833 AD, when the period of Turkish domination began. It looks at the political history of the period, and also considers the social and economic factors, showing how they developed and influenced political life. The work is designed as a unique introduction to the period, and will prove invaluable to all students involved with Islamic, Byzantine and Mediterranean history and culture.

Amram the Slave, Or, the Caliph of Bagdad, Etc

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Amram the Slave, Or, the Caliph of Bagdad, Etc written by and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Medical History of Persia and the Eastern Caliphate

Author : Cyril Elgood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108015883
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book A Medical History of Persia and the Eastern Caliphate written by Cyril Elgood and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-31 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elgood presents a continuous history of the fascinating art and practice of medicine in Persia (Iran) from the earliest times.

The Lost Archive

Author : Marina Rustow
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691189528
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book The Lost Archive written by Marina Rustow and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling look at the Fatimid caliphate's robust culture of documentation The lost archive of the Fatimid caliphate (909–1171) survived in an unexpected place: the storage room, or geniza, of a synagogue in Cairo, recycled as scrap paper and deposited there by medieval Jews. Marina Rustow tells the story of this extraordinary find, inviting us to reconsider the longstanding but mistaken consensus that before 1500 the dynasties of the Islamic Middle East produced few documents, and preserved even fewer. Beginning with government documents before the Fatimids and paper’s westward spread across Asia, Rustow reveals a millennial tradition of state record keeping whose very continuities suggest the strength of Middle Eastern institutions, not their weakness. Tracing the complex routes by which Arabic documents made their way from Fatimid palace officials to Jewish scribes, the book provides a rare window onto a robust culture of documentation and archiving not only comparable to that of medieval Europe, but, in many cases, surpassing it. Above all, Rustow argues that the problem of archives in the medieval Middle East lies not with the region’s administrative culture, but with our failure to understand preindustrial documentary ecology. Illustrated with stunning examples from the Cairo Geniza, this compelling book advances our understanding of documents as physical artifacts, showing how the records of the Fatimid caliphate, once recovered, deciphered, and studied, can help change our thinking about the medieval Islamicate world and about premodern polities more broadly.

The Third Caliph

Author : Alex Archer
Publisher : Gold Eagle
ISBN 13 : 0373621604
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (736 download)

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Download or read book The Third Caliph written by Alex Archer and published by Gold Eagle. This book was released on 2013-01-02 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During a dig in Morocco, archaeologist Annja Creed and her companions are nearly buried alive when the "khettara" ceiling collapses, revealing a 1,300-year-old corpse. But when Bedouin bandits raid the camp, Annja barely escapes with her lifeNand half of a scroll in ancient "Kufic" script. Original.

E.J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam

Author : E. J. Brill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789004097926
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (979 download)

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Download or read book E.J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam written by E. J. Brill and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Far from the Caliph's Gaze

Author : Nicholas H. A. Evans
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501715704
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Far from the Caliph's Gaze written by Nicholas H. A. Evans and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-15 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you prove that you're Muslim? This is not a question that most believers ever have to ask themselves, and yet for members of India's Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, it poses an existential challenge. The Ahmadis are the minority of a minority—people for whom simply being Muslim is a challenge. They must constantly ask the question: What evidence could ever be sufficient to prove that I belong to the faith? In Far from the Caliph's Gaze Nicholas H. A. Evans explores how a need to respond to this question shapes the lives of Ahmadis in Qadian in northern India. Qadian was the birthplace of the Ahmadiyya community's founder, and it remains a location of huge spiritual importance for members of the community around the world. Nonetheless, it has been physically separated from the Ahmadis' spiritual leader—the caliph—since partition, and the believers who live there now and act as its guardians must confront daily the reality of this separation even while attempting to make their Muslimness verifiable. By exploring the centrality of this separation to the ethics of everyday life in Qadian, Far from the Caliph's Gaze presents a new model for the academic study of religious doubt, one that is not premised on a concept of belief but instead captures the richness with which people might experience problematic relationships to truth.

ETHNIC AND POLITICAL HISTORY OF AZERBAIJAN: from ancient times to the present day

Author : Ismail bey Zardabli
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 024439783X
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (443 download)

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Download or read book ETHNIC AND POLITICAL HISTORY OF AZERBAIJAN: from ancient times to the present day written by Ismail bey Zardabli and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph provides full and detailed information about the ethnic and political history of Azerbaijan from ancient times until the present day and clarifies a number of disputed questions. This book is intended for students, lecturers and non-specialists working in the educational system as well as for the general reader with an interest in Azerbaijan.

The Caliph's Splendor

Author : Benson Bobrick
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416568069
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book The Caliph's Splendor written by Benson Bobrick and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-08-14 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Caliph’s Splendor is a revelation: a history of a civilization we barely know that had a profound effect on our own culture. While the West declined following the collapse of the Roman Empire, a new Arab civilization arose to the east, reaching an early peak in Baghdad under the caliph Harun al-Rashid. Harun is the legendary caliph of The Thousand and One Nights, but his actual court was nearly as magnificent as the fictional one. In The Caliph’s Splendor, Benson Bobrick eloquently tells the little-known and remarkable story of Harun’s rise to power and his rivalries with the neighboring Byzantines and the new Frankish kingdom under the leadership of Charlemagne. When Harun came to power, Islam stretched from the Atlantic to India. The Islamic empire was the mightiest on earth and the largest ever seen. Although Islam spread largely through war, its cultural achievements were immense. Harun’s court at Baghdad outshone the independent Islamic emirate in Spain and all the courts of Europe, for that matter. In Baghdad, great works from Greece and Rome were preserved and studied, and new learning enhanced civilization. Over the following centuries Arab and Persian civilizations made a lasting impact on the West in astronomy, geometry, algebra (an Arabic word), medicine, and chemistry, among other fields of science. The alchemy (another Arabic word) of the Middle Ages originated with the Arabs. From engineering to jewelry to fashion to weaponry, Arab influences would shape life in the West, as they did in the fields of law, music, and literature. But for centuries Arabs and Byzantines contended fiercely on land and sea. Bobrick tells how Harun defeated attempts by the Byzantines to advance into Asia at his expense. He contemplated an alliance with the much weaker Charlemagne in order to contain the Byzantines, and in time Arabs and Byzantines reached an accommodation that permitted both to prosper. Harun’s caliphate would weaken from within as his two sons quarreled and formed factions; eventually Arabs would give way to Turks in the Islamic empire. Empires rise, weaken, and fall, but during its golden age, the caliphate of Baghdad made a permanent contribution to civilization, as Benson Bobrick so splendidly reminds us.

The Door of the Caliph

Author : Elsa Cardoso
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000878422
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Door of the Caliph written by Elsa Cardoso and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-29 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the conceptualization of the court, palace and ruler of the Umayyad Caliphate of al-Andalus. Western terminology still plays a normative role in the representation of foreign courts, determining concepts that fit poorly into chronologies with their own dynamics and specificities, which is the case of Muslim courts. While Court Studies is a well-developed field for modern Western societies, Muslim medieval courts lack a consistent field of research. Sources elaborate a specific terminology for medieval Muslim court societies. In the specific case of the Umayyad Caliphate of al-Andalus, the court is usually articulated as Bāb Suddat al-Khalīfa (“The door of the Sudda of the caliph”) – a reference to the symbology of the main city gate of Cordoba – or simply as Bāb. Bāb Suddat al-Khalīfa became the most emblematic concept to name the Umayyad palace and its society, which will be additionally interpreted in the framework of the performance of ceremonial. The strong conceptualization of the Umayyad court of Cordoba was highlighted through the articulation of ceremonial, as the mis-en-scène of the conceptualization, expressed by gestures, insignia and hierarchies. The preliminary comparative perspective with the Umayyad Caliphate of Damascus, the ‘Abbasid and Fatimid Caliphates and the Byzantine Empire further discusses the Umayyad Andalusi model in relation to other dynasties. While this book focuses on the Umayyad conceptualization and articulation of ceremonial, this model will be discussed within the Mediterranean and Eastern framework of the 10th and 11th centuries, which broadens the interest of the book to other fields of research.

The Orient Under the Caliphs

Author : Alfred Freiherr von Kremer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book The Orient Under the Caliphs written by Alfred Freiherr von Kremer and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Von Kremer sC ulturgeaehichte des Orients will be welcome to all English-knowing lovers of Islamic history and culture. Von Kremer still stands unsurpassed. He has had no competitors; he alone occupies the field. His researches patient, laborious, thorough have illumined every aspect of Muslim life. He is the most trustworthy interpreter of the social, political, economic, literary, and legal problems of I slam. The volume before us opens with an account of the death of the Prophet, and the trouble that arose over the question of succession. Paction fought faction. Heavy banks of cloud loomed up menacingly on the political horizon of A rabia. The spirit of tribal faction theretofore checked and kept in restraint asserted itself; and, in its very infancy, I slam was threatened with division, disunion, ruin and disruption. Omar saw the danger, and felt the need of prompt and vigorous action. He did as a practical and sagacious statesman would do. He settled the question of succession at a stroke ;and with that the clouds rolled away, and the danger which had confronted I slam was at once averted. -- From https://www.amazon.co.uk (Sep. 21, 2016).

The Caliphate, Its Rise, Decline, and Fall

Author : Sir William Muir
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Caliphate, Its Rise, Decline, and Fall written by Sir William Muir and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Caliphate

Author : Sir William Muir
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Caliphate written by Sir William Muir and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Demystifying the Caliphate

Author : Madawi Al-Rasheed
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199327955
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Demystifying the Caliphate written by Madawi Al-Rasheed and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Western popular imagination, the Caliphate often conjures up an array of negative images, while rallies organised in support of resurrecting the Caliphate are treated with a mixture of apprehension and disdain, as if they were the first steps towards usurping democracy. Yet these images and perceptions have little to do with reality. While some Muslims may be nostalgic for the Caliphate, only very few today seek to make that dream come true. Yet the Caliphate can be evoked as a powerful rallying call and a symbol that draws on an imagined past and longing for reproducing or emulating it as an ideal Islamic polity. The Caliphate today is a contested concept among many actors in the Muslim world, Europe and beyond, the reinvention and imagining of which may appear puzzling to most of us. Demystifying the Caliphate sheds light on both the historical debates following the demise of the last Ottoman Caliphate and controversies surrounding recent calls to resurrect it, transcending alarmist agendas to answer fundamental questions about why the memory of the Caliphate lingers on among diverse Muslims. From London to the Caucasus, to Jakarta, Istanbul, and Baghdad, the contributors explore the concept of the Caliphate and the re-imagining of the Muslim ummah as a diverse multi-ethnic community.

Orations of the Fatimid Caliphs

Author : Paul E. Walker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 085771533X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Orations of the Fatimid Caliphs written by Paul E. Walker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-02-28 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I.B. Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies The Fatimid empire was a highly sophisticated and cosmopolitan regime that flourished from the beginning of the 10th to the end of the 12th century. Under the enlightened rule of the Fatimid Caliphs, Cairo was founded as the nucleus of an imperium that extended from Arabia in the east to present-day Morocco in the west. Dynamic rulers like the the fourth caliph al-Mu'izz (who conquered Egypt and founded his new capital there) were remarkable not only for their extensive conquests but also for combining secular with religious legitimacy. As living imams of the Ismaili branch of Shi'ism, they exercised authority over both spiritual and secular domains. The sacred dimension of their mandate was manifested most powerfully twice a year, when the imam-Caliphs personally delivered sermons, or khutbas, to their subjects, to co-incide with the great feasts and festivals of fast-breaking and sacrifice.While few of these sermons have survived, those that have endured vividly evoke both of the atmosphere of the occasion and the words uttered on it. Paul E Walker here provides unique access to these orations by presenting the Arabic original and a complete English translation of all the khutbas now extant. He also offers a history of the festival sermons and explores their key themes and rhetorical strategies.