Living Islamic history studies in honour of Professor Carole Hillenbrand

This book gathers original research from a range of leading international scholars from the UK, Europe and the USA, throwing new light on a set of topics in medieval Islamic history, Islamic doctrine and practice, and the interaction between Islam and the modern world

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Weitere Verfasser: Suleiman, Yasir (HerausgeberIn), Hillenbrand, Carole (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Edinburgh Edinburgh University Press 2010
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  • The origin of key Shiʻite thought patterns in Islamic history Adel S. al-Abdul Jader Additions to The new Islamic dynasties C. Edmund Bosworth Al-Thaʻalibi's Adab al-muluk, a local mirror for princes Julia Bray Religious identity, dissimulation and assimilation the Ismaili experience Farhad Daftary Saladin's pious foundations in Damascus some new hypotheses Anne-Marie Eddé The coming of Islam to Bukhara Hugh Kennedy A Barmecide feast the downfall of the Barmakids in popular imagination Remke Kruk The History of the patriarchs of the Egyptian Church as a source for the history of the Seljuks of Anatolia Gary Leiser Genealogy and exemplary rulership in the Tarikh-i Chingiz Khan Charles Melville Vikings and Rus in Arabic sources James E. Montgomery Qashani and Rashid al-Din on the Seljuqs of Iran Alexander H. Morton Exile and return diasporas of the secular and sacred mind Ian Richard Netton Clerical perceptions of Sufi practices in late seventeenth-century Persia, II Al-Hurr al-ʻAmili (d. 1693) and the debate on the permissibility of Ghina Andrew J. Newman On Sunni sectarianism A. Kevin Reinhart The violence of the Abbasid revolution Chase F. Robinson Nationalist poetry, conflict and meta-linguistic discourse Yasir Suleiman