Articulating the Ḥijāba: Cultural Patronage and Political Legitimacy in al-Andalus
Articulating the Ḥijāba: Cultural Patronage and Political Legitimacy in al-Andalus

Author: Mariam Rosser-Owen

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-12-20

Total Pages: 504

ISBN-13: 9004469206

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In Articulating the Ḥijāba, Mariam Rosser-Owen analyses for the first time the artistic and cultural patronage of the ‘Amirid regents of the last Cordoban Umayyad caliph, Hisham II, a period rarely covered in the historiography of al-Andalus. Al-Mansur, the founder of this dynasty, is usually considered a usurper of caliphal authority, who pursued military victory at the expense of the transcendental achievements of the first two caliphs. But he also commissioned a vast extension to the Great Mosque of Cordoba, founded a palatine city, conducted skilled diplomatic relations, patronised a circle of court poets, and owned some of the most spectacular objects to survive from al-Andalus, in ivory and marble. This study presents the evidence for a reconsideration of this period.

Articulating the Ḥijāba
Articulating the Ḥijāba

Author: Mariam Rosser-Owen

Publisher: Handbook of Oriental Studies

Published: 2021

Total Pages: 490

ISBN-13: 9789004469136

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In Articulating the Ḥijāba, Mariam Rosser-Owen analyses for the first time the artistic and cultural patronage of the 'Amirid regents of the last Cordoban Umayyad caliph, Hisham II, a period rarely covered in the historiography of al-Andalus.

Cultural Patronage and Political Legitimacy in Al-andalus
Cultural Patronage and Political Legitimacy in Al-andalus

Author: Mariam Rosser-Owen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-07-28

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9781472458933

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This book presents a cohesive and integrated study of the artistic and cultural patronage of the âe~Äemirid dynasty, regents of Hisham II (r. 976-c.1010), the last Umayyad caliph of al-Andalus (Islamic Spain), who inherited the throne as a minor. Its particular focus is the dynasty's founder, al-Mansur, who was Hishamâe(tm)s hajib-his chamberlain and lieutenant-and ruled de facto between 976 and 1002. Not only did al-Mansur patronize a flourishing court as which new literary forms developed, he constructed a palace-city, and commissioned the largest extension to the Great Mosque of Cordoba. Moreover, al-Mansur and his sons sponsored a luxury arts industry which produced some of the largest and most spectacular works to survive from medieval Iberia. Drawing together history, poetry, archaeology, epigraphy, architecture, and objects in different media from diverse international collections, Cultural Patronage and Political Legitimacy in al-Andalus identifies a corpus of objects that should be considered as âe~Äemirid and discusses their imagery in reference to the messages these regents intended to convey. As the first book-length scholarly examination of the full range of âe~Äemirid cultural patronage, Cultural Patronage and Political Legitimacy in al-Andalus elucidates the ways in which the âe~Äemirids used cultural patronage as an expression of their political legitimacy.

Militant Islam
Militant Islam

Author: Stephen Vertigans

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2008-10-30

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 1134126395

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Militant Islam provides a sociological framework for understanding the rise and character of recent Islamic militancy. It takes a systematic approach to the phenomenon and includes analysis of cases from around the world, comparisons with militancy in other religions, and their causes and consequences. The sociological concepts and theories examined in the book include those associated with social closure, social movements, nationalism, risk, fear and ‘de-civilising’. These are applied within three main themes; characteristics of militant Islam, multi-layered causes and the consequences of militancy, in particular Western reactions within the ‘war on terror’. Interrelationships between religious and secular behaviour, ‘terrorism’ and ‘counter-terrorism’, popular support and opposition are explored. Through the examination of examples from across Muslim societies and communities, the analysis challenges the popular tendency to concentrate upon ‘al-Qa’ida’ and the Middle East. This book will be of interest to students of Sociology, Political Science and International Relations, in particular those taking courses on Islam, religion, terrorism, political violence and related regional studies.

Land, Law and Islam
Land, Law and Islam

Author: Hilary Lim

Publisher: Zed Books Ltd.

Published: 2013-07-18

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 1848137206

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In this pioneering work Siraj Sait and Hilary Lim address Islamic property and land rights, drawing on a range of socio-historical, classical and contemporary resources. They address the significance of Islamic theories of property and Islamic land tenure regimes on the 'webs of tenure' prevalent in the Muslim societies. They consider the possibility of using Islamic legal and human rights systems for the development of inclusive, pro-poor approaches to land rights. They also focus on Muslim women's rights to property and inheritance systems. Engaging with institutions such as the Islamic endowment (waqf) and principles of Islamic microfinance, they test the workability of 'authentic' Islamic proposals. Located in human rights as well as Islamic debates, this study offers a well researched and constructive appraisal of property and land rights in the Muslim world.

Politics of Piety
Politics of Piety

Author: Saba Mahmood

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 0691149801

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An analysis of Islamist cultural politics through the ethnography of a thriving, grassroots women's piety movement in the mosques of Cairo, Egypt. Unlike those organized Islamist activities that seek to seize or transform the state, this is a moral reform movement whose orthodox practices are commonly viewed as inconsequential to Egypt's political landscape. The author's exposition of these practices challenges this assumption by showing how the ethical and the political are linked within the context of such movements.

A Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture
A Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture

Author: Finbarr Barry Flood

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2017-06-16

Total Pages: 1442

ISBN-13: 1119068576

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The two-volume Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture bridges the gap between monograph and survey text by providing a new level of access and interpretation to Islamic art. The more than 50 newly commissioned essays revisit canonical topics, and include original approaches and scholarship on neglected aspects of the field. This two-volume Companion showcases more than 50 specially commissioned essays and an introduction that survey Islamic art and architecture in all its traditional grandeur Essays are organized according to a new chronological-geographical paradigm that remaps the unprecedented expansion of the field and reflects the nuances of major artistic and political developments during the 1400-year span The Companion represents recent developments in the field, and encourages future horizons by commissioning innovative essays that provide fresh perspectives on canonical subjects, such as early Islamic art, sacred spaces, palaces, urbanism, ornament, arts of the book, and the portable arts while introducing others that have been previously neglected, including unexplored geographies and periods, transregional connectivities, talismans and magic, consumption and networks of portability, museums and collecting, and contemporary art worlds; the essays entail strong comparative and historiographic dimensions The volumes are accompanied by a map, and each subsection is preceded by a brief outline of the main cultural and historical developments during the period in question The volumes include periods and regions typically excluded from survey books including modern and contemporary art-architecture; China, Indonesia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Sicily, the New World (Americas)

Islam and Modernity
Islam and Modernity

Author: Muhammad Khalid Masud

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2009-08-18

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 074863794X

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Recent events have focused attention on the perceived differences and tensions between the Muslim world and the modern West. As a major strand of Western public discourse has it, Islam appears resistant to internal development and remains inherently pre-modern. However Muslim societies have experienced most of the same structural changes that have impacted upon all societies: massive urbanisation, mass education, dramatically increased communication, the emergence of new types of institutions and associations, some measure of political mobilisation, and major transformations of the economy. These developments are accompanied by a wide range of social movements and by complex and varied religious and ideological debates. This textbook is a pioneering study providing an introduction to and overview of the debates and questions that have emerged regarding Islam and modernity. Key issues are selected to give readers an understanding of the complexity of the phenomenon from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. The various manifestations of modernity in Muslim life discussed include social change and the transformation of political and religious institutions, gender politics, changing legal regimes, devotional practices and forms of religious association, shifts in religious authority, and modern developments in Muslim religious thought.

Citizenship, Identity, and Education in Muslim Communities
Citizenship, Identity, and Education in Muslim Communities

Author: Michael S. Merry

Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan

Published: 2010-12-15

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13:

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This volume represents a rich multi-disciplinary contribution to an expanding literature on citizenship, identity, and education in a variety of majority and minority Muslim communities. Each of these essays offer important insights into the various ways one may identify with, and participate in, different societies to which Muslims belong.

Orientalism
Orientalism

Author: Edward W. Said

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2014-10-01

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 0804153868

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A groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East that is—three decades after its first publication—one of the most important books written about our divided world. "Intellectual history on a high order ... and very exciting." —The New York Times In this wide-ranging, intellectually vigorous study, Said traces the origins of "orientalism" to the centuries-long period during which Europe dominated the Middle and Near East and, from its position of power, defined "the orient" simply as "other than" the occident. This entrenched view continues to dominate western ideas and, because it does not allow the East to represent itself, prevents true understanding.