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The public sphere in Muslim societies / Miriam Hoexter, Shmuel N. Eisenstadt, Nehemia Levtzion, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- SUNY Series in Near Eastern Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Islam and justice.
- Islam and state.
- Islam--Essence, genius, nature.
- Islam.
- Islamic sociology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 191 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Challenging conventional assumptions, the contributors to this interdisciplinary volume argue that premodern Muslim societies had diverse and changing varieties of public spheres, constructed according to premises different from those of Western societies. The public sphere, conceptualized as a separate and autonomous sphere between the official and private, is used to shed new light on familiar topics in Islamic history, such as the role of the shari`a (Islamic religious law), the `ulama' (Islamic scholars), schools of law, Sufi brotherhoods, the Islamic endowment institution, and the relationship between power and culture, rulers and community, from the ninth to twentieth centuries.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments
- Note on Transliteration
- FOREWORD: THE RELIGIOUS PUBLIC SPHERE
- IN EARLY MUSLIM SOCIETIES
- Dale F. Eickelman
- INTRODUCTION
- Miriam Hoexter and Nehemia Levtzion
- 1 THE MIHNA (INQUISITION) AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE
- Nimrod Hurvitz
- 2 RELIGIOUS LEADERSHIP AND ASSOCIATIONS IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE OF SELJUK BAGHDAD
- Daphna Ephrat
- 3 RELIGION IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE: RULERS, SCHOLARS, AND COMMONERS IN SYRIA UNDER ZANGID AND AYYUBID RULE
- (1150-1260)
- Daniella Talmon-Heller
- 4 THE PUBLIC SPHERE AND CIVIL SOCIETY IN THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE
- Haim Gerber
- 5 THE QADI'S ROLE IN THE ISLAMIZATION OF SEDENTARY TRIBAL SOCIETY
- Aharon Layish
- 6 THE DYNAMICS OF SUFI BROTHERHOODS
- Nehemia Levtzion
- 7 THE WAQF AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE
- Miriam Hoexter
- 8 CONCLUDING REMARKS: PUBLIC SPHERE, CIVIL SOCIETY, AND POLITICAL DYNAMICS IN ISLAMIC SOCIETIES
- Shmuel N. Eisenstadt
- WORKS CITED
- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
- INDEX.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-183) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780791488614
- 0791488616
- 9780585476100
- 0585476101
- OCLC:
- 53226174
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