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Living Islamic history : studies in honour of Professor Carole Hillenbrand / edited by Yasir Suleiman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Suleiman, Yasir, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Islam--History.
- Islam.
- Islam and culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 318 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Festschrift for Carole Hillenbrand.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-308) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-7486-5321-X
- 0-7486-4219-6
- OCLC:
- 712995836
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