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Book Synopsis The Caliph and the Heretic by : Sean Anthony
Download or read book The Caliph and the Heretic written by Sean Anthony and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-12-02 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an examination of the traditions and legends concerning early Islam’s first and most infamous heretic, the Yemenite Jew known as ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sabaʾ. Tracing the evolution and transformation of the many stories and narratives about Ibn Sabaʾ as adapted by Sunnī and Shīʿī scholars alike, this work attempts for the first time to give a comprehensive account of the formation of the image of Ibn Sabaʾ as the quintessential heretic of Islam’s early years. It also offers a new interpretation of the historical importance and beliefs of Ibn Sabaʾ and those early Shīʿa reviled as his followers, the Sabaʾīya. The end result is a revolutionary, new portrait of Shīʿite origins and early Islamic sectarianism.
Book Synopsis Reinterpreting Islamic Historiography by : Tayeb El-Hibri
Download or read book Reinterpreting Islamic Historiography written by Tayeb El-Hibri and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-11-25 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the early Abbasid Caliphate has long been studied as a factual or interpretive synthesis of various accounts preserved in the medieval Islamic chronicles. Tayeb El-Hibri s book breaks with the traditional approach, applying a literary-critical reading to examine the lives of the caliphs. By focusing on the reigns of Harun al-Rashid and his successors, the study demonstrates how the various historical accounts were not in fact intended as faithful portraits of the past, but as allusive devices used to shed light on controversial religious, political and social issues of the period. The analysis also reveals how the exercise of decoding Islamic historigraphy, through an investigation of the narrative strategies and thematic motifs used in the chronicles, can uncover new layers of meaning and even identify the early narrators. This is an important book which represents a landmark in the field of early Islamic historiography.
Book Synopsis Muhammad and the Empires of Faith by : Sean Anthony
Download or read book Muhammad and the Empires of Faith written by Sean Anthony and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This work offers a fresh assessment of the sources for the prophet Muhammad's life, integrating the earliest non-Muslim and documentary sources with the earliest prophetic biographies written in Arabic during the eighth-ninth centuries C.E. By placing these sources within the intellectual and cultural world of Late Antiquity, the author carves out a methodological approach to studying the historical Muhammad that, though reliant on the methods of critical historical scholarship, strikes a balance between revisionist historical skepticism and naïve historical realism"--
Book Synopsis 'Abd al-Rahman III by : Maribel Fierro
Download or read book 'Abd al-Rahman III written by Maribel Fierro and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abd al-Rahman III (891 - 961) was the greatest of the Umayyad rulers of Spain and the first to take the title of Caliph. During his reign, Islamic Spain became wealthy and prosperous. He founded the great Caliphate of Madinat al-Zahra at Cordova and did much in his lifetime to pacify his realm and stabilise the borders with Christian Spain. He died at the apex of his power on Oct. 15, 961.
Book Synopsis Insatiable Appetite: Food as Cultural Signifier in the Middle East and Beyond by : Kirill Dmitriev
Download or read book Insatiable Appetite: Food as Cultural Signifier in the Middle East and Beyond written by Kirill Dmitriev and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Insatiable Appetite: Food as Cultural Signifier in the Middle East and Beyond explores the cultural ramifications of food and foodways in the Mediterranean and Arab-Muslim countries.
Book Synopsis Dante and Islam by : Jan M. Ziolkowski
Download or read book Dante and Islam written by Jan M. Ziolkowski and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2014-12-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dante put Muhammad in one of the lowest circles of Hell. At the same time, the medieval Christian poet placed several Islamic philosophers much more honorably in Limbo. Furthermore, it has long been suggested that for much of the basic framework of the Divine Comedy Dante was indebted to apocryphal traditions about a “night journey” taken by Muhammad. Dante scholars have increasingly returned to the question of Islam to explore the often surprising encounters among religious traditions that the Middle Ages afforded. This collection of essays works through what was known of the Qur’an and of Islamic philosophy and science in Dante’s day and explores the bases for Dante’s images of Muhammad and Ali. It further compels us to look at key instances of engagement among Muslims, Jews, and Christians.
Book Synopsis The Expeditions by : Ma'mar Ibn Rashid
Download or read book The Expeditions written by Ma'mar Ibn Rashid and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Expeditions is one of the oldest biographies of the Prophet Muhammad to survive into the modern era. Its primary author, Ma'mar ibn Rashid (714-770 AD/96-153 AH), was a prominent scholar from Basra in southern Iraq who was revered for his learning in prophetic traditions, Islamic law, and the interpretation of the Qur'an. This fascinating foundational seminal work contains stories handed down by Ma'mar to his most prominent pupil, 'Abd al-Razzaq of Sanaa, relating Muhammad’s early life and prophetic career as well as the adventures and tribulations of his earliest followers during their conquest of the Near East. Edited from a sole surviving manuscript, the Arabic text offers numerous improved readings over those of previous editions, including detailed notes on the text’s transmission and variants as found in later works. This new translation, which renders the original into readable, modern English for the first time, is accompanied by numerous annotations elucidating the cultural, religious and historical contexts of the events and individuals described within its pages. The Expeditions represents an important testimony to the earliest Muslims’ memory of the lives of Muhammad and his companions, and is an indispensable text for gaining insight into the historical biography of both the Prophet and the rise of the Islamic empire.
Book Synopsis Islam and the Future of Tolerance by : Sam Harris
Download or read book Islam and the Future of Tolerance written by Sam Harris and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this dialogue between a famous atheist and a former radical, Sam Harris and Maajid Nawaz invite you to join an urgently needed conversation: Is Islam a religion of peace or war? Is it amenable to reform? Why do so many Muslims seem drawn to extremism? The authors demonstrate how two people with very different views can find common ground.
Book Synopsis The Abbasid Caliphate by : Tayeb El-Hibri
Download or read book The Abbasid Caliphate written by Tayeb El-Hibri and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the Abbasid Caliphate from its foundation in 750 and golden age under Harun al-Rashid to the conquest of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258, this study examines the Caliphate as an empire and an institution, and its imprint on the society and culture of classical Islamic civilization.
Book Synopsis Caliphs and their Non-Muslim Subjects by : A S Tritton
Download or read book Caliphs and their Non-Muslim Subjects written by A S Tritton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1939. After the death of Muhammad his community was ruled by three caliphs who kept their capital as Medina, the City of the Prophet. Under the rule of the caliphs those who did not confess the Muslim faith were under certain restrictions both in public and private life. This volume examines the social, cultural, religious and economic aspects of this period and includes chapters on: Government Service; Churches and Monasteries; Christian Arabs, Jews and Magians; Dress; Financial Persecution, Medicine and Literature and Taxation.
Book Synopsis Analysing Muslim Traditions by : Nicolet Boekhoff- van der Voort
Download or read book Analysing Muslim Traditions written by Nicolet Boekhoff- van der Voort and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its inception, the study of ad th conducted by scholars trained in the Western academic tradition has been marked by sharp methodological debates. A focal issue is the origin and development of traditions on the advent of Islam. Scholars' verdicts on these traditions have ranged from late fabrications without any historical value for the time concerning which the narrations purport to give information to early, accurately transmitted texts that allow one to reconstruct Islamic origins . Starting from previous contributions to the debate, the studies collected in this volume show that, by careful analysis of their texts and chains of transmission, the history of Muslim traditions can be reconstructed with a high degree of probability and their historicity assessed afresh.
Book Synopsis Le shi'isme imāmite quarante ans après by : Etan Kohlberg
Download or read book Le shi'isme imāmite quarante ans après written by Etan Kohlberg and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2009 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Au printemps 1968, lorsque la France et bon nombre d'endroits dans le monde etaient secoues par des mouvements de protestations sociopolitiques importants, quelques grands savants se reunissaient a la vieille et prestigieuse universite de Strasbourg et allaient declencher un veritable tournant dans les etudes islamologiques en Occident. En effet, pour la premiere fois, des chercheurs d'envergure mondiale se rencontraient dans un colloque exclusivement consacre au shi'isme imamite. Les conferences et les discussions aboutirent a la publication d'un excellent recueil d'articles: Le shi'isme imamite: Colloque de Strasbourg (6-9 mai 1968), Presses Universitaires de France, Paris 1970. Si nous avons souhaite associer le 40e anniversaire de cet evenement a l'hommage que nous voulions rendre a Etan Kohlberg, c'est pour souligner le role majeur de ce dernier dans l'enrichissement et l'approfondissement des etudes consacrees au shiisme imamite. En effet, l'ampleur de ses connaissances, la rigueur radicale de son erudition et ses grandes qualites humaines ont ete des facteurs decisifs dans la diffusion des etudes shi'ites et leur transmission a travers la formation de generations entieres de chercheurs. Ainsi, ce volume d'hommage se veut un temoignage de l'essor grandissant des etudes shi'ites imamites et de la dette indeniable de celles-ci aux savants reunis, il y a quarante ans, a Strasbourg, ainsi qu'a l'oeuvre immense d'Etan Kohlberg.
Book Synopsis Inquisition in Early Islam by : John Turner
Download or read book Inquisition in Early Islam written by John Turner and published by I. B. Tauris. This book was released on 2013-05-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 833 CE, the Abbasid Caliph al-Ma'mun began a period of inquisition (mihna), one which continued until his successor al-Mutawakkil decreed its end, fifteen years later. During this period, the Caliphs in power strove to promote 'correct belief' in the 'createdness' of the Qur'an, thus ordering the interrogation of religious scholars, and disqualifying, punishing or even executing those who answered incorrectly. Here, John P. Turner examines this major episode, viewing it as a pivotal point in the struggle between the temporal authorities and religious law in the Middle East. By examining the definition of 'heresy', Turner presents a vivid account of the heresy trials in this period, as well as incisive analysis concerning the relationship between secular power and religious authority. This book is of particular interest to researchers and scholars of Islamic history, comparative religion and the medieval world.
Book Synopsis Islam Instrumentalized by : Jean-Philippe Platteau
Download or read book Islam Instrumentalized written by Jean-Philippe Platteau and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges the widespread view that Islam is a reactionary religion that defends tradition against modernity and individual freedom. Jean-Philippe Platteau shows how Islam is vulnerable to political manipulation and how the threat of religious extremism is especially high because Islam is not organized as a centralized church.
Book Synopsis Sultan Mahmud of Ghaznin by : Mohammad Habib
Download or read book Sultan Mahmud of Ghaznin written by Mohammad Habib and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Handbook of Islamic Sects and Movements by :
Download or read book Handbook of Islamic Sects and Movements written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Islamic Sects and Movements offers a multinational study of Islam, its variants, influences, and neighbouring movements, from a multidisciplinary range of scholars. These chapters highlight the diversity of Islam, especially in its contemporary manifestations, as a religion of many communities, theologies, and ideologies. Over five sections—on Sunni, Shia, Sufi, fundamentalist, and fringe Islamic movements—the authors provide historical overviews, analyses, and in-depth studies of large and small Islamic and related groups from all around the world. The contents of this volume will be of interest to both newcomers to the study of Islam and established scholars of religion who wish to engage with the dynamic label of Islam and the many impactful movements of the Islamic world.
Book Synopsis An Anxious Inheritance by : Aaron W. Hughes
Download or read book An Anxious Inheritance written by Aaron W. Hughes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction -- Part I: Late Antique Fantasies: 1. Qur'ānic Others -- 2. Producing Islam through the Production of Religious Others -- 3. Past Perfect: Opening the Jāhiliyya's Complex Present -- Part II: Subsequent Constructions: 4. Good Jew, Bad Jew -- 5. Making Christians -- 6. Shīʻa: The Other Within -- 7. The Amorphous Zindīq -- Conclusions -- Bibliography.
