LEADER 03510nam 22006612 450 001 9910780275003321 005 20160421115033.0 010 $a1-107-11835-2 010 $a0-521-08854-2 010 $a0-511-15055-5 010 $a0-511-11812-0 010 $a0-511-31024-2 010 $a0-511-04885-8 010 $a0-511-49746-6 010 $a1-280-16234-1 035 $a(CKB)111082128282688 035 $a(EBL)144756 035 $a(OCoLC)52560399 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000123025 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11138761 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000123025 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10173743 035 $a(PQKB)10692285 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780511497469 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC144756 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL144756 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10014873 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL16234 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111082128282688 100 $a20090309d2000|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aClassical Arabic biography $ethe heirs of the prophets in the age of al-Ma?mu?n /$fMichael Cooperson$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aCambridge :$cCambridge University Press,$d2000. 215 $a1 online resource (xxii, 217 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aCambridge studies in Islamic civilization 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a0-521-66199-4 311 $a0-511-00823-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 197-210) and index. 327 $aPreliminaries; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Note on transliteration; Note on dating systems; Glossary; CHAPTER 1 The development of the genre; CHAPTER 2 The caliph al-Ma'mun; CHAPTER 3 The Imam 'Ali al-Rida; CHAPTER 4 The Hadith-scholar Ahmad Ibn Hanbal; CHAPTER 5 The renunciant Bishr al-Hafi; Conclusions; Appendix: The circumstances of 'Ali al-Rida's death; Bibliography; Index; Titles in the series 330 $aPre-modern Arabic biography has served as a major source for the history of Islamic civilization. In this 2000 study exploring the origins and development of classical Arabic biography, Michael Cooperson demonstrates how Muslim scholars used the notions of heirship and transmission to document the activities of political, scholarly and religious communities. The author also explains how medieval Arab scholars used biography to tell the life-stories of important historical figures by examining the careers of the Abbasid Caliph al- Ma'mun, the Shiite Imam Ali al-Rida, the Sunni scholar Ahmad Ibn Hanbal and the ascetic Bishr al-Hafi, each of whom represented a tradition of political and spiritual heirship to the Prophet. Drawing on anthropology and comparative religion, as well as history and literary criticism, the book considers how each figure responded to the presence of the others and how these responses were preserved by posterity. 410 0$aCambridge studies in Islamic civilization. 606 $aLiterature and history$zIslamic Empire 607 $aIslamic Empire$xHistoriography 607 $aIslamic Empire$xBiography$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aLiterature and history 676 $a909/.097671 700 $aCooperson$b Michael$01503340 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910780275003321 996 $aClassical Arabic biography$93731667 997 $aUNINA