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The politics of knowledge in premodern Islam : negotiating ideology and religious inquiry / by Omid Safi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Safi, Omid, 1970-
- Series:
- Islamic civilization & Muslim networks.
- Islamic civilization and Muslim networks
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Seljuks--History.
- Seljuks.
- Islamic Empire--Politics and government.
- Islamic Empire.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (350 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Scholars, saints, and the state.
- Contents:
- Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Transliteration Systems and Chronologies; Introduction; Chronology of the Great Saljuqs and 'Abbaasids; Key Figures and Primary Sources; Chapter One: Deconstructing the Great Saljuq Myth; Chapter Two: The Nizam's Realm, the Orderly Realm; Chapter Three: Saljuq State Apparatuses; Chapter Four: The Shifting Politics of al-Ghazali; Chapter Five: Bargaining with Baraka; Chapter Six: An Oppositional Sufi: 'Ayn al-Qudaat Hamadani; Conclusion; Appendix: Nizam al-Mulk's Descendants in Saljuq Administrations; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-281) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9798890880147
- 9780807876985
- 0807876984
- OCLC:
- 476237453
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