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Classical Arabic biography : the heirs of the prophets in the age of al-Mamun / / Michael Cooperson



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Autore: Cooperson Michael Visualizza persona
Titolo: Classical Arabic biography : the heirs of the prophets in the age of al-Mamun / / Michael Cooperson Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Cambridge ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2000
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxii, 217 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina: 909/.097671
Soggetto topico: Literature and history - Islamic Empire
Soggetto geografico: Islamic Empire Historiography
Islamic Empire Biography History and criticism
Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-210) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Preliminaries; 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
Sommario/riassunto: Pre-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.
Titolo autorizzato: Classical Arabic biography  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-107-11835-2
0-521-08854-2
0-511-15055-5
0-511-11812-0
0-511-31024-2
0-511-04885-8
0-511-49746-6
1-280-16234-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910828006503321
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Serie: Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization.