Living Islamic history : studies in honour of Professor Carole Hillenbrand / / edited by Yasir Suleiman

• Pubblicazione: Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, c2010
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvii, 318 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 297.09
• Soggetto topico: Islam - History; Islam and culture
• Altri autori: HillenbrandCarole SuleimanYasir
• Note generali: Festschrift for Carole Hillenbrand.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-308) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Living Islamic history
• ISBN: 0-7486-5321-X; 0-7486-4219-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910827701503321
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