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Heavenly journeys, earthly concerns : the legacy of the miʻraj in the formation of Islam / Brooke Olson Vuckovic.
Van Pelt Library BP166.57 .V83 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vuckovic, Brooke Olson.
- Series:
- Religion in history, society & culture ; 5.
- Religion in history, society, and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Muḥammad, Prophet, -632--Isrāʼ and Miʻrāj.
- Muḥammad.
- Muḥammad, Prophet, -632.
- Muḥammad, Prophet, -632--Anecdotes.
- Islam--Origin.
- Islam.
- Ummah (Islam).
- Genre:
- Anecdotes.
- Physical Description:
- x, 178 pages ; 24 cm.
- Other Title:
- Legacy of the miʻraj in the formation of Islam
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2005.
- Summary:
- Focusing on issues of interpretation, this book collects and translates a number of medieval mi'raj accounts. The narratives of Muhammad's heavenly journey offer a prism through which to view the medieval elite's communal, political and theological motives. These accounts reveal the historiographic process in which a single event becomes a focal point for those struggling to define the past and establish a communal, confessional and political identity by reporting the apparant facts about a particular moment in time. In other words, these tales have real stakes for both their authors and their audiences, and shed light on Muslim communal concerns from the late eighth through to the fourteenth century. Brooke Olson Vuckovic's groundbreaking study provides readers access to the documentation and translation of these lesser-known Arabic texts, and uncovers their role in building a meaningful, cohesive and coherent Muslim community in medieval times.
- Contents:
- Constructing the prophet of God
- The miʻraj and the early Muslims' communal and confessional identity
- Communal reaction
- The formation of communal morality.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 137-176) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0415967856
- OCLC:
- 55797673
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