The Heirs of the Prophets in Classical Arabic Biography
Author: Michael David Cooperson
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 702
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Classical Arabic Biography
Author: Michael Cooperson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000-05-25
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781139426695
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPre-modern Arabic biography has served as a major source for the history of Islamic civilization. In this 2000 study exploring the origins and development of classical Arabic biography, Michael Cooperson demonstrates how Muslim scholars used the notions of heirship and transmission to document the activities of political, scholarly and religious communities. The author also explains how medieval Arab scholars used biography to tell the life-stories of important historical figures by examining the careers of the Abbasid Caliph al- Ma'mun, the Shiite Imam Ali al-Rida, the Sunni scholar Ahmad Ibn Hanbal and the ascetic Bishr al-Hafi, each of whom represented a tradition of political and spiritual heirship to the Prophet. Drawing on anthropology and comparative religion, as well as history and literary criticism, the book considers how each figure responded to the presence of the others and how these responses were preserved by posterity.
Early Islam Between Myth and History
Author: Sulaimān ʻAlī Murād
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9004148299
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis examination of the mythification of al-?asan al-Ba?r? shows how the transformation of his historical person into a complete myth was accomplished, along with the groups responsible for making him say and do what legitimizes their own views and practices.
Classes of Ladies of Cloistered Spaces
Author: Marilyn Booth
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2015-01-20
Total Pages: 371
ISBN-13: 1474403417
DOWNLOAD EBOOKZaynab Fawwaz (c.1860-1914) was as a forceful voice in support of women's rights to education and work choices in colonial-era Egypt. Her volume of 453 women's lives, al-Durr al-manthur fi tabaqat rabbat al-khudur (Pearls scattered in times and places: Classes of ladies of cloistered spaces, 1893-6) featuring Boudicca, Catherine the Great, Zaynab (the granddaughter of the Prophet Muhammad), Victoria Woodhull, the Turkish poet Sirri Hanim and many others built on the Arabic-Islamic biographical tradition to produce a work for women in the modern era, grafting European, Turkish, Arab, and Indian life narratives, amongst others onto Arabic literary patternsIn Classes of Ladies of Cloistered Spaces Marilyn Booth argues that Fawwazs work was less exemplary biography than feminist history, in its exploration of achievement but also of patriarchal trauma in the lives of women across times and places. She traces Fawwazs creative use of her sources, her presentation of biographical narratives in the context of the political essays she wrote in the Arabic press, her publicised dialogue with the President of the Board of Lady Managers of the 1893 World Columbian Exposition where she attempted to send the volume and how her inscription of a feminine ancient history diverged from that of men writing history in 1890s Egypt.
Classes of Ladies
Author: Marilyn Booth
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2015-01-20
Total Pages: 472
ISBN-13: 0748694870
DOWNLOAD EBOOKZaynab Fawwaz (c.1860-1914) was a forceful voice in support of women's rights to education and work choices in colonial-era Egypt. This book explores the writing and influence of her landmark piece al-Durr al-manthur fi tabaqat rabbat al-khudur the first Arabic-language global biographical dictionary of women.
Classical Arabic Humanities in Their Own Terms
Author: Beatrice Gruendler
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 649
ISBN-13: 9004165738
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe volume brings together approaches to different elements of Arabic-Islamic civilization, mainly in the areas of linguistics, literature, literary theory, and prosody, but also including religion, ritual, economics, and zoology. Contributions also touch upon the adjacent areas of the Old Iranian, Persian, Greek and Byzantine written traditions. Some take as their points of departure specific Arabic words (cat, giraffe) or morphemes; others explore literary genres, subgenres (oration, ode, macaronic poem, travel narrative) or figures within them (the trickster, the devil). Cultural concepts such as wishing, gift-giving or discourse are treated, as are aspects of broader phenomena, such as the role of gender in dream interpretation or the relative merits of luxury goods and mass-produced commodities.
A History of Islamic Societies
Author: Ira M. Lapidus
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-10-13
Total Pages: 1019
ISBN-13: 0521514304
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This third edition of Ira M. Lapidus's classic A History of Islamic Societies has been substantially revised to incorporate the insights of new scholarship and updated to include historical developments in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Lapidus's history explores the beginnings and transformations of Islamic civilizations in the Middle East and details Islam's worldwide diffusion to Africa, Spain, Turkey and the Balkans, Central, South and Southeast Asia, and North America, situating Islamic societies within their global, political, and economic contexts. It accounts for the impact of European imperialism on Islamic societies and traces the development of the modern national state system and the simultaneous Islamic revival from the early nineteenth century to the present. This book is essential for readers seeking to understand Muslim peoples."--Publisher information.
Religion and Politics under the Early ‘Abbāsids
Author: Muhammad Qasim Zaman
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2021-12-06
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9004493190
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe main concern of this book is the religious policies of the early ‘Abbāsid caliphs. It focuses on the religious trends which went into the making of Sunnī Islam, and traces the emergence of the nascent Sunnī elite in relation to the ‘Abbāsids. Various aspects of the caliphs' evolving relationship with the religious scholars are studied and the nature of caliphal patronage and its impact on the scholars, and ultimately on the evolution of early Sunnism, is explored. What emerges is a picture of close collaboration between the caliphs and the ‘ulama’, with the caliphs playing an active and multifaceted role in religious life. This book challenges the prevailing interpretations of the separation of religion and politics in early Islam, and offers new insights into the social and religious history of Islam's formative centuries.
Religion and Politics Under the Early ʻAbbāsids
Author: Muhammad Qasim Zaman
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9789004106789
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA study of the religious policies of the early Abb sids. It describes the caliphs' patronage of the nascent Sunni religious elite and offers a new interpretation of the relationship of religion and politics in Islam's first centuries.
American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences 19:1
Author: Mahmoud Dhaouadi
Publisher: International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT)
Published:
Total Pages: 179
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences (AJISS), established in 1984, is a quarterly, double blind peer-reviewed and interdisciplinary journal, published by the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT), and distributed worldwide. The journal showcases a wide variety of scholarly research on all facets of Islam and the Muslim world including subjects such as anthropology, history, philosophy and metaphysics, politics, psychology, religious law, and traditional Islam.
