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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828245403321

Autore

Safi Omid <1970->

Titolo

The politics of knowledge in premodern Islam : negotiating ideology and religious inquiry / / by Omid Safi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2006

ISBN

979-88-908801-4-7

0-8078-7698-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (350 p.)

Collana

Islamic civilization and Muslim networks

Disciplina

956.1/014

Soggetti

Seljuks - History

Islamic Empire Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-281) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Transliteration Systems and Chronologies; Introduction; Chronology of the Great Saljuqs and 'Abbaasids; Key Figures and Primary Sources; Chapter One: Deconstructing the Great Saljuq Myth; Chapter Two: The Nizam's Realm, the Orderly Realm; Chapter Three: Saljuq State Apparatuses; Chapter Four: The Shifting Politics of al-Ghazali; Chapter Five: Bargaining with Baraka; Chapter Six: An Oppositional Sufi: 'Ayn al-Qudaat Hamadani; Conclusion; Appendix: Nizam al-Mulk's Descendants in Saljuq Administrations; Notes; Bibliography; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

Scholars, saints, and the state.