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Living Islamic History : Studies in Honour of Professor Carole Hillenbrand / Yasir Suleiman.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (336 p.) : 10 B/W illustrationsContent type:
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  • 9780748637386
  • 9780748642199
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Professor Carole Hillenbrand: List of Publications -- Preface -- 1. The Origin of Key Shi'ite Thought Patterns in Islamic History -- 2. Additions to The New Islamic Dynasties -- 3. Al- Tha'alibi’s Adab al-muluk, a Local Mirror for Princes -- 4. Religious Identity, Dissimulation and Assimilation: the Ismaili Experience -- 5. Saladin’s Pious Foundations in Damascus: Some New Hypotheses -- 6. The Coming of Islam to Bukhara -- 7. A Barmecide Feast: the Downfall of the Barmakids in Popular Imagination -- 8. The History of the Patriarchs of the Egyptian Church as a Source for the History of the Seljuks of Anatolia -- 9. Genealogy and Exemplary Rulership in the Tarikh-i Chingiz Khan -- 10. Vikings and Rus in Arabic Sources -- 11. Qashani and Rashid al-Din on the Seljuqs of Iran -- 12. Exile and Return: Diasporas of the Secular and Sacred Mind -- 13. Clerical Perceptions of Sufi Practices in Late Seventeenth- Century Persia, II: Al- Hurr al-'Amili (d. 1693) and the Debate on the Permissibility of Ghina -- 14. On Sunni Sectarianism -- 15. The Violence of the Abbasid Revolution -- 16. Nationalist Poetry, Conflict and Meta- linguistic Discourse -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index
Summary: The publication of this book honours Professor Carole Hillenbrand's outstanding achievements in and service to Islamic and Middle Eastern Scholarship.It gathers original research from a range of leading international scholars from the UK, Europe and the USA whose chapters throw new light on a set of topics in medieval Islamic history, Islamic doctrine and practice, and the interaction between Islam and the modern world. Seeking to present fresh evidence and engaging ways of looking at old and new material, the authors contribute to a richer understanding of the interaction between historical events, social trends, religious practices and lived experiences in medieval Turkey and Central Asia, Iran and the Arabic-speaking lands. The book also discusses how some of the most abiding themes in the Arab-Islamic tradition continue to resonate in the modern world. The book features contributions from: Julia Bray, Edmund Bosworth, Farhad Daftary, Gerhard Endress, Gary Leiser, Remke Kruk, Charles Melville, A. H. Morton, Ian Netton, Andrew Newman, A. Kevin Reinhart and Yasir Suleiman.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Professor Carole Hillenbrand: List of Publications -- Preface -- 1. The Origin of Key Shi'ite Thought Patterns in Islamic History -- 2. Additions to The New Islamic Dynasties -- 3. Al- Tha'alibi’s Adab al-muluk, a Local Mirror for Princes -- 4. Religious Identity, Dissimulation and Assimilation: the Ismaili Experience -- 5. Saladin’s Pious Foundations in Damascus: Some New Hypotheses -- 6. The Coming of Islam to Bukhara -- 7. A Barmecide Feast: the Downfall of the Barmakids in Popular Imagination -- 8. The History of the Patriarchs of the Egyptian Church as a Source for the History of the Seljuks of Anatolia -- 9. Genealogy and Exemplary Rulership in the Tarikh-i Chingiz Khan -- 10. Vikings and Rus in Arabic Sources -- 11. Qashani and Rashid al-Din on the Seljuqs of Iran -- 12. Exile and Return: Diasporas of the Secular and Sacred Mind -- 13. Clerical Perceptions of Sufi Practices in Late Seventeenth- Century Persia, II: Al- Hurr al-'Amili (d. 1693) and the Debate on the Permissibility of Ghina -- 14. On Sunni Sectarianism -- 15. The Violence of the Abbasid Revolution -- 16. Nationalist Poetry, Conflict and Meta- linguistic Discourse -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index

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The publication of this book honours Professor Carole Hillenbrand's outstanding achievements in and service to Islamic and Middle Eastern Scholarship.It gathers original research from a range of leading international scholars from the UK, Europe and the USA whose chapters throw new light on a set of topics in medieval Islamic history, Islamic doctrine and practice, and the interaction between Islam and the modern world. Seeking to present fresh evidence and engaging ways of looking at old and new material, the authors contribute to a richer understanding of the interaction between historical events, social trends, religious practices and lived experiences in medieval Turkey and Central Asia, Iran and the Arabic-speaking lands. The book also discusses how some of the most abiding themes in the Arab-Islamic tradition continue to resonate in the modern world. The book features contributions from: Julia Bray, Edmund Bosworth, Farhad Daftary, Gerhard Endress, Gary Leiser, Remke Kruk, Charles Melville, A. H. Morton, Ian Netton, Andrew Newman, A. Kevin Reinhart and Yasir Suleiman.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

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