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The Great Caliphs

Author : Amira K. Bennison
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300154895
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Great Caliphs written by Amira K. Bennison and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This endlessly informative history brings the classical Islamic world to lifeIn this accessibly written history, Amira K. Bennison contradicts the common assumption that Islam somehow interrupted the smooth flow of Western civilization from its Graeco-Roman origins to its more recent European and American manifestations. Instead, she places Islamic civilization in the longer trajectory of Mediterranean civilizations and sees the ‘Abbasid Empire (750–1258 CE) as the inheritor and interpreter of Graeco-Roman traditions.At its zenith the ‘Abbasid caliphate stretched over the entire Middle East and part of North Africa, and influenced Islamic regimes as far west as Spain. Bennison’s examination of the politics, society, and culture of the ‘Abbasid period presents a picture of a society that nurtured many of the “civilized” values that Western civilization claims to represent, albeit in different premodern forms: from urban planning and international trade networks to religious pluralism and academic research. Bennison’s argument counters the common Western view of Muslim culture as alien and offers a new perspective on the relationship between Western and Islamic cultures.

The Great Caliphs

Author : Amira K. Bennison
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857720260
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book The Great Caliphs written by Amira K. Bennison and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-07-30 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The flowering of the 'Abbasid caliphate between 750 and 1258 CE is often considered the classical age of Islamic civilization. In the preceding 120 years the Arabs had conquered much of the known world of antiquity and established a vast empire stretching from Spain to China. But was this empire really so very different, as has sometimes been claimed, from what it superseded? The Great Caliphs creatively explores the immense achievements of the 'Abbasid age through the lens of Mediterranean history. When the Umayyad caliphs were replaced by the 'Abbasids in 750, and the Arab capital moved to Baghdad, Iraq quickly became the centre not only of an imperium but also of a culture built on the foundations of the great civilizations of antiquity: Greece, Rome, Byzantium and Persia. Debunking popular misconceptions about the Arab conquests, Amira Bennison shows that, far from seeing themselves as purging the 'occidental' culture of the ancient world with a 'pure' and 'oriental' Islamic doctrine, the 'Abbasids perceived themselves to be as much within the tradition of Mediterranean and Near Eastern empire as any of their predecessors. Like other outsiders who inherited the Roman Empire, the Arabs had as much interest in preserving as in destroying, even while they were challenged by the paganism of the past. Indebted to that past while building creatively on its foundations, the 'Abbasids and their rulers inculcated and nurtured precisely the 'civilized' values which western civilization so often claims to represent.

The Great Caliphs

Author : Amira K. Bennison
Publisher : I. B. Tauris
ISBN 13 : 9781848859760
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (597 download)

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Download or read book The Great Caliphs written by Amira K. Bennison and published by I. B. Tauris. This book was released on 2011 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The flowering of the 'Abbasid caliphate between 750 and 1258 CE is often considered the classical age of Islamic civilization. In the preceding 120 years the Arabs had conquered much of the known world of antiquity and established a vast empire stretching from Spain to China. But was this empire really so very different, as has sometimes been claimed, from what it superseded? The Great Caliphs creatively explores the immense achievements of the 'Abbasid age through the lens of Mediterranean history. When the Umayyad caliphs were replaced by the 'Abbasids in 750, and the Arab capital moved to Baghdad, Iraq quickly became the centre not only of an imperium but also of a culture built on the foundations of the great civilizations of antiquity: Greece, Rome, Byzantium and Persia. Debunking popular misconceptions about the Arab conquests, Amira Bennison shows that, far from seeing themselves as purging the 'occidental' culture of the ancient world with a 'pure' and 'oriental' Islamic doctrine, the 'Abbasids perceived themselves to be as much within the tradition of Mediterranean and Near Eastern empire as any of their predecessors.Like other outsiders who inherited the Roman Empire, the Arabs had as much interest in preserving as in destroying, even while they were challenged by the paganism of the past. Indebted to that past while building creatively on its foundations, the 'Abbasids and their rulers inculcated and nurtured precisely the 'civilized' values which western civilization so often claims to represent.

The Abbasid Caliphate

Author : Tayeb El-Hibri
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107183243
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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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.

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.

The Great Four Rashidun Caliphs of Islam

Author : Kids Islamic Books
Publisher : Children Islamic Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The Great Four Rashidun Caliphs of Islam written by Kids Islamic Books and published by Children Islamic Books. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The religion of Islam, which was initiated with the preaching of Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W.W) from the city of Makkah, spread enormously in the surrounding regions of Arabia in just twenty-nine years of the Rashidun Caliphate. This book explains to the children about the great teachings of the Prophet Muhammad (S.A.W.W) to his Companions (R.A) which completely transformed their mindset and later how they implemented these teachings to inspire the friends and the enemies altogether. Learn How these Four Rashidun Caliphs became a beacon of leadership and management of the people and the state, creating first time the concept of a welfare state for the contemporary world.

Caliphate

Author : Hugh Kennedy
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465094392
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Caliphate written by Hugh Kennedy and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a preeminent scholar of Islamic history, the authoritative history of caliphates from their beginnings in the 7th century to the modern day In Caliphate, Islamic historian Hugh Kennedy dissects the idea of the caliphate and its history, and explores how it became used and abused today. Contrary to popular belief, there is no one enduring definition of a caliph; rather, the idea of the caliph has been the subject of constant debate and transformation over time. Kennedy offers a grand history of the caliphate since the beginning of Islam to its modern incarnations. Originating in the tumultuous years following the death of the Mohammad in 632, the caliphate, a politico-religious system, flourished in the great days of the Umayyads of Damascus and the Abbasids of Baghdad. From the seventh-century Orthodox caliphs to the nineteenth-century Ottomans, Kennedy explores the tolerant rule of Umar, recounts the traumatic murder of the caliph Uthman, dubbed a tyrant by many, and revels in the flourishing arts of the golden eras of Abbasid Baghdad and Moorish Andalucí Kennedy also examines the modern fate of the caliphate, unraveling the British political schemes to spur dissent against the Ottomans and the ominous efforts of Islamists, including ISIS, to reinvent the history of the caliphate for their own malevolent political ends. In exploring and explaining the great variety of caliphs who have ruled throughout the ages, Kennedy challenges the very narrow views of the caliphate propagated by extremist groups today. An authoritative new account of the dynasties of Arab leaders throughout the Islamic Golden Age, Caliphate traces the history-and misappropriations-of one of the world's most potent political ideas.

The Caliph's Splendor

Author : Benson Bobrick
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416567623
Total Pages : 296 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 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the story of the celebrated late-eighth and early ninth-century caliph from "The Thousand and One Nights" against a backdrop of Baghdad's cosmopolitan culture and its complex influence on the Byzantine Empire and Frankish kingdom of Charlemagne.

كتاب جهات الأئمة الخلفاء من الحرائر والإماء المسمى نساء الخلفاء

Author : ابن الساعي، علي بن انجب،
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479866792
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Book Synopsis كتاب جهات الأئمة الخلفاء من الحرائر والإماء المسمى نساء الخلفاء by : ابن الساعي، علي بن انجب،

Download or read book كتاب جهات الأئمة الخلفاء من الحرائر والإماء المسمى نساء الخلفاء written by ابن الساعي، علي بن انجب، and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consorts of the Caliphs is a seventh/thirteenth-century compilation of anecdotes about thirty-eight women who were, as the title suggests, consorts to those in power, most of them concubines of the early Abbasid caliphs and wives of latter-day caliphs and sultans. This slim but illuminating volume is one of the few surviving texts by Ibn al-Saʿi (d. 674 H/1276 AD). Ibn al-Saʿi was a prolific Baghdadi scholar who chronicled the academic and political elites of his city, and whose career straddled the final years of the Abbasid dynasty and the period following the cataclysmic Mongol invasion of 656 H/1258 AD.

Sea of the Caliphs

Author : Christophe Picard
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674660463
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (746 download)

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Download or read book Sea of the Caliphs written by Christophe Picard and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-21 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christophe Picard recounts the adventures of Muslim sailors who competed with Greek and Latin seamen for control of the 7th-century Mediterranean. By the time Christian powers took over trade routes in the 13th century, a Muslim identity that operated within, and in opposition to, Europe had been shaped by encounters across the sea of the caliphs.

The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates

Author : Hugh Kennedy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317376382
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book The Prophet and the Age of the Caliphates written by Hugh Kennedy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Prophet and the Age of Caliphates is an accessible history of the Near East from c.600-1050AD, the period in which Islamic society was formed. Beginning with the life of Muhammad and the birth of Islam, Hugh Kennedy goes on to explore the great Arab conquests of the seventh century and the golden age of the Umayyad and Abbasid caliphates when the world of Islam was politically and culturally far more developed than the West. The arrival of the Seljuk Turks and the period of political fragmentation which followed shattered this early unity, never to be recovered. This new edition is fully updated to take into account the considerable amount of new research on early Islam, and contains a completely revised bibliography. Based on extensive reading of the original Arabic sources, Kennedy breaks away from the Orientalist tradition of seeing early Islamic history as a series of ephemeral rulers and pointless battles by drawing attention to underlying long term social and economic processes. The Prophet and the Age of Caliphates deals with issues of continuing and increasing relevance in the twenty-first century, when it is, perhaps, more important than ever to understand the early development of the Islamic world. Students and scholars of early Islamic history will find this book a clear, informative and readable introduction to the subject.

Two Billion Caliphs

Author : Haroon Moghul
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 080702466X
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Two Billion Caliphs written by Haroon Moghul and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains the attraction of Muslims to their faith, and discusses the challenges contemporary Islam confronts, and how we might imagine an Islamic theology and identity ready to face tomorrow Islam is often associated with and limited to the worst of the world—extremism, obscurantism, misogyny, bigotry. So why would so many people associate with such a fundamentalist faith? Two Billion Caliphs advocates for a way of being Muslim in the world, ready for today and prepared for tomorrow. Unlike stale summaries, which restrict themselves to facts and figures, Haroon Moghul presents a deeply Muslim perspective on the world, providing Islamic answers to universal questions: Who are we? What are we doing here? What happens to us when we die? And from description, Moghul moves to prescription, aspiring to something outrageous and audacious. Two Billion Caliphs describes what Islam has been and what it is, who its heroes are, what its big ideas are, but not only to tell you about the past or the present, but to speak to the future. Two Billion Caliphs finds that Islam was a religion of intimacy, a faith rooted in and reaching for love, and that it could be and should be again. Fulfilling that destiny depends on the efforts of Muslims to reclaim their faith, rebuild their strength, and reimagine their future, on their own terms. Two Billion Caliphs offers Muslim thoughts for the age ahead, to create an interpretation Islam of and for days to come, the kind of religion the world’s Muslims deserve, with echoes of the confident faith Muslims once had. The destiny of Islam, then, is not, as so many prefer to argue, a reformation. It is a counter-reformation. A restoration of what once was.

The Caliph's House

Author : Tahir Shah
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553902318
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (539 download)

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Download or read book The Caliph's House written by Tahir Shah and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2006-01-31 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of A Year in Provence and Under the Tuscan Sun, acclaimed English travel writer Tahir Shah shares a highly entertaining account of making an exotic dream come true. By turns hilarious and harrowing, here is the story of his family’s move from the gray skies of London to the sun-drenched city of Casablanca, where Islamic tradition and African folklore converge–and nothing is as easy as it seems…. Inspired by the Moroccan vacations of his childhood, Tahir Shah dreamed of making a home in that astonishing country. At age thirty-six he got his chance. Investing what money he and his wife, Rachana, had, Tahir packed up his growing family and bought Dar Khalifa, a crumbling ruin of a mansion by the sea in Casablanca that once belonged to the city’s caliph, or spiritual leader. With its lush grounds, cool, secluded courtyards, and relaxed pace, life at Dar Khalifa seems sure to fulfill Tahir’s fantasy–until he discovers that in many ways he is farther from home than he imagined. For in Morocco an empty house is thought to attract jinns, invisible spirits unique to the Islamic world. The ardent belief in their presence greatly hampers sleep and renovation plans, but that is just the beginning. From elaborate exorcism rituals involving sacrificial goats to dealing with gangster neighbors intent on stealing their property, the Shahs must cope with a new culture and all that comes with it. Endlessly enthralling, The Caliph’s House charts a year in the life of one family who takes a tremendous gamble. As we follow Tahir on his travels throughout the kingdom, from Tangier to Marrakech to the Sahara, we discover a world of fierce contrasts that any true adventurer would be thrilled to call home.

The Great Four Rashidun Caliphs of Islam

Author : Muslim Children Story Publisher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book The Great Four Rashidun Caliphs of Islam written by Muslim Children Story Publisher and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-22 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ✓ The Great Four Rightly-Guided Caliphs of Islam The religion of Islam, which initiated with the preaching of Prophet Muhammad ﷺ from the city of Makkah, spread enormously in the surrounding regions of Arabia in just twenty-nine years of the Rashidun Caliphate. This beautifully designed book explains to the children about the great teachings of the Prophet Muhammad ﷺ to his Companions (R.A) which completely transformed their mindset and later how they implemented these teachings to inspire the friends and the enemies altogether. Learn How these Four Rashidun Caliphs became a beacon of leadership and management of the people and the state, creating first time the concept of a welfare state for the contemporary world. --- Enjoy & Learn along with children about thought-provoking concepts that will introduce her/him to Islamic beliefs, culture, and way of life. Click on the Author Profile for a must-have children's Islamic book collection which includes Prophet Stories for Kids, Why We Love Our Prophet Muhammad ﷺ?, What is Religion?, Angels & Jinns; Who are they?

The Rightly-Guided Caliphs

Author : Enis Yuce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781597842617
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book The Rightly-Guided Caliphs written by Enis Yuce and published by . This book was released on 2012-08-16 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores for the children the life of the first four Caliphs after Prophet Muhammad. Each one of the Rightly-Guided Caliphs was a paragon of virtue. What made them great as not their political power but the power of their faith. Every anecdote in their lives tells a different parable. This book features selections from their lives both during the life of the Prophet and during their subsequent caliphate.

Caliphs and Merchants

Author : Fanny Bessard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192597833
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Caliphs and Merchants written by Fanny Bessard and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-09 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caliphs and Merchants: Cities and Economies of Power in the Near East (700-950) offers fresh perspectives on the origins of the economic success of the early Islamic Caliphate, identifying a number of previously unnoticed or underplayed yet crucial developments, such as the changing conditions of labour, attitudes towards professional associations, and the interplay between the state, Islamic religious institutions, and the economy. Moving beyond the well-studied transition between the death of Justinian in 565 and the Arab-Muslim conquests in the seventh century, the volume focuses on the period between 700 and 950 during which the Islamic world asserted its identity and authority. Whilst the extraordinary prosperity of Near Eastern cities and economies during this time was not unprecedented when one considers the early Imperial Roman world, the aftermath of the Arab-Muslim conquests saw a deep transformation of urban retail and craft which marked a distinct break from the past. It explores the mechanisms effecting these changes, from the increasing involvement of caliphs and their governors in the patronage of urban economies, to the empowerment of enriched entrepreneurial tāğir from the ninth century. Combining detailed analysis of a large corpus of literary sources in Arabic with presentation of new physical and epigraphic evidence, and utilizing an innovative approach which is both comparative and global, the discussion lucidly locates the Middle East within the contemporary Eurasian context and draws instructive parallels between the Islamic world and Western Christendom, Byzantium, South-East Asia, and China.

The Ottomans

Author : Marc David Baer
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 1541673778
Total Pages : 567 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (416 download)

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Download or read book The Ottomans written by Marc David Baer and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 567 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major new history of the Ottoman dynasty reveals a diverse empire that straddled East and West. The Ottoman Empire has long been depicted as the Islamic, Asian antithesis of the Christian, European West. But the reality was starkly different: the Ottomans’ multiethnic, multilingual, and multireligious domain reached deep into Europe’s heart. Indeed, the Ottoman rulers saw themselves as the new Romans. Recounting the Ottomans’ remarkable rise from a frontier principality to a world empire, historian Marc David Baer traces their debts to their Turkish, Mongolian, Islamic, and Byzantine heritage. The Ottomans pioneered religious toleration even as they used religious conversion to integrate conquered peoples. But in the nineteenth century, they embraced exclusivity, leading to ethnic cleansing, genocide, and the empire’s demise after the First World War. The Ottomans vividly reveals the dynasty’s full history and its enduring impact on Europe and the world.