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Title Living Islamic history : studies in honour of Professor Carole Hillenbrand / edited by Yasir Suleiman
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 318 pages) : illustrations, maps, portrait
Contents 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
Summary The publication of this book honours Professor Carole Hillenbrand's outstanding achievements in and service to Islamic and Middle Eastern Scholarship. It gathers original research from a range of leading international scholars from the UK, Europe and the USA whose chapters throw new light on a set of topics in medieval Islamic history, Islamic doctrine and practice, and the interaction between Islam and the modern world. Seeking to present fresh evidence and engaging ways of looking at old and new material, the authors contribute to a richer understanding of the interaction between historical events, social trends, religious practices and lived experiences in medieval Turkey and Central Asia, Iran and the Arabic-speaking lands. The book also discusses how some of the most abiding themes in the Arab-Islamic tradition continue to resonate in the modern world. The book features contributions from: Julia Bray, Edmund Bosworth, Farhad Daftary, Gerhard Endress, Gary Leiser, Remke Kruk, Charles Melville, A. H. Morton, Ian Netton, Andrew Newman, A. Kevin Reinhart and Yasir Suleiman
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-308) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Islam -- History.
Islam and culture.
RELIGION -- Fundamentalism.
RELIGION -- Islam -- History.
RELIGION -- Islam -- General.
Islam
Islam and culture
Genre/Form Festschriften
History
Festschriften.
Form Electronic book
Author Hillenbrand, Carole
Suleiman, Yasir
LC no. 2010444864
ISBN 0748642196
9780748642199