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The first Muslims : history and memory / Asma Afsaruddin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Afsaruddin, Asma, 1958-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Muslims--History--To 1500.
- Muslims.
- History.
- Islamic countries--History--To 1500.
- Islamic countries.
- Physical Description:
- xx, 254 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oneworld, 2008.
- Contents:
- 1 The Rise of Islam and Life of the Prophet Muhammad 1
- The Constitution of Medina 4
- War and peace 7
- The Treaty of al-Hudaybiyya 10
- The fall of Mecca 12
- Farewell pilgrimage 13
- Remembering the Prophet, the Beloved of God 16
- 2 The Issue of Succession to the Prophet 19
- Early tension between kinship and individual moral excellence 22
- Why did the Prophet not indicate a successor? 26
- 3 The Age of the Rightly-Guided Caliphs 27
- Abu Bakr, the first caliph 27
- 'Umar ibn al-Khattab, the second caliph 30
- 4 The End of Rightly-Guided Leadership 47
- Political administration 47
- The collection of the Qur'an 48
- Toward fragmentation of the community 50
- The caliphate of 'Ali ibn Abi Talib 51
- The first civil war 52
- The legacy of the era of the Rightly-Guided Caliphs 54
- 5 The Age of the Companions 59
- Ibn 'Abbas: the sage of the Muslim community 61
- Ibn Mas'ud: interpreter of the Word of God 63
- 'A'isha bint Abi Bakr: the beloved of Muhammad 66
- Umm 'Umara: valiant defender of the Prophet 70
- Bilal ibn Rabah: the voice of Islam 71
- 6 The Age of the Successors 76
- The historical milieu 76
- The politics of piety and the second civil war 81
- The third civil war 85
- The 'Abbasid revolution 87
- Prominent successors 90
- The consolidation of Shi'i thought 95
- The rise of law and jurisprudence among the early Sunnis 98
- 7 The Successors to the Successors I: Administration, Leadership, and Jihad 106
- The founding of Baghdad 106
- Statecraft, administration, and leadership: acquiring a Persian flavor 107
- The concept of jihad: Qur'anic antecedents and the classical juridical doctrine 108
- Reading the Qur'an in context 109
- Later understandings of jihad 115
- Negotiating the polyvalence of the term jihad 116
- Many paths to martyrdom 120
- Changes in conceptions of leadership 123
- 8 The Successors to the Successors II: Humanism, Law, and Mystical Spirituality 129
- The rise of humanism 129
- The flourishing of law and jurisprudence 137
- The rise of tasawwuf (Sufism) 142
- 9 Constructing the Pious Forbears I: Historical Memory and the Present 148
- The Islamist construction 148
- Implications and relevance of studying the lives of the first Muslims today 152
- The Salaf al-Salih in the Islamist imagination 155
- 10 Constructing the Pious Forbears II: Historical Memory and the Present 168
- The significance of the Salaf al-Salih for the modernists 168
- 11 Assessment of Islamist and Modernist Views 183
- The "Islamic State" 183
- The pervasiveness of the religious law and its scope 187
- Status of women 190
- The nature of jihad 192.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [231]-238) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edwin E. Aubrey Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781851685189
- 1851685189
- 9781851684977
- 1851684972
- OCLC:
- 76852893
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