Author: Derryl N. MacLean
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004085510
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Publisher: Harrisburg, Pub. by the Board of Commissioners for the Second Geological Survey; Publication date: 1884; Subjects: Geology; Science / Earth Sciences / Geology;
Religion and Society in Arab Sind
Author: Derryl N. MacLean
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004085510
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Publisher: Harrisburg, Pub. by the Board of Commissioners for the Second Geological Survey; Publication date: 1884; Subjects: Geology; Science / Earth Sciences / Geology;
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9789004085510
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Publisher: Harrisburg, Pub. by the Board of Commissioners for the Second Geological Survey; Publication date: 1884; Subjects: Geology; Science / Earth Sciences / Geology;
Religion and Society in Arab Sind
Author: Derryl N. MacLean
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004669299
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004669299
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Religion and Society in Arab Sind
Author: Derryl N. Maclean
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arabs
Languages : en
Pages : 954
Book Description
"Arabs exercised authority in Sind for over three centuries (93-416/711-1025), first as governors appointed directly by the Umayyads and ('c)Abbasids and then, from around 240/854, as independent rulers from the Quraysh tribes of Habbar b. al-Aswad and Samah b. Lu'ayy. This dissertation is concerned with four major topics in the religious history of the period: the identification of the non-Muslim religions and sects at the time of the Arab conquest; the mechanisms encouraging or impeding collaboration and conversion; the prosopography of the Sind(')i Muslim population; and the rise of the Isma('c('))il(')i state at Multan toward the end of the period. Correlations between religious and social factors are examined in two general areas: the observed differential between Buddhist and Hindu collaboration and conversion, and the decline in the recruitment, replication, and circulation of the Muslim religious elite." --
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arabs
Languages : en
Pages : 954
Book Description
"Arabs exercised authority in Sind for over three centuries (93-416/711-1025), first as governors appointed directly by the Umayyads and ('c)Abbasids and then, from around 240/854, as independent rulers from the Quraysh tribes of Habbar b. al-Aswad and Samah b. Lu'ayy. This dissertation is concerned with four major topics in the religious history of the period: the identification of the non-Muslim religions and sects at the time of the Arab conquest; the mechanisms encouraging or impeding collaboration and conversion; the prosopography of the Sind(')i Muslim population; and the rise of the Isma('c('))il(')i state at Multan toward the end of the period. Correlations between religious and social factors are examined in two general areas: the observed differential between Buddhist and Hindu collaboration and conversion, and the decline in the recruitment, replication, and circulation of the Muslim religious elite." --
The Making of a Syrian Identity
Author: Fruma Zachs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Beirut (Lebanon)
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The modern countries of the Middle East are generally assumed to have been created when Britain and France cast lots for parts of the dismembered Ottoman Empire before, during, and after World War II, says Zachs (Middle Eastern history, U. of Haifa), but she argues that the roots of Syrian identity can be found in the 19th century and that its emer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Beirut (Lebanon)
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
The modern countries of the Middle East are generally assumed to have been created when Britain and France cast lots for parts of the dismembered Ottoman Empire before, during, and after World War II, says Zachs (Middle Eastern history, U. of Haifa), but she argues that the roots of Syrian identity can be found in the 19th century and that its emer
The Great Arab Conquests
Author: Hugh Kennedy
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 0306817284
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Today's Arab world was created at breathtaking speed. In just over one hundred years following the death of Mohammed in 632, Arabs had subjugated a territory with an east-west expanse greater than the Roman Empire, and they did it in about one-half the time. By the mid-eighth century, Arab armies had conquered the thousand-year-old Persian Empire, reduced the Byzantine Empire to little more than a city-state based around Constantinople, and destroyed the Visigoth kingdom of Spain. The cultural and linguistic effects of this early Islamic expansion reverberate today. This is the first popular English-language account in many years of this astonishing remaking of the political and religious map of the world. Hugh Kennedy's sweeping narrative reveals how the Arab armies conquered almost everything in their path, and brings to light the unique characteristics of Islamic rule. One of the few academic historians with a genuine talent for story telling, Kennedy offers a compelling mix of larger-than-life characters, fierce battles, and the great clash of civilizations and religions.
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 0306817284
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Today's Arab world was created at breathtaking speed. In just over one hundred years following the death of Mohammed in 632, Arabs had subjugated a territory with an east-west expanse greater than the Roman Empire, and they did it in about one-half the time. By the mid-eighth century, Arab armies had conquered the thousand-year-old Persian Empire, reduced the Byzantine Empire to little more than a city-state based around Constantinople, and destroyed the Visigoth kingdom of Spain. The cultural and linguistic effects of this early Islamic expansion reverberate today. This is the first popular English-language account in many years of this astonishing remaking of the political and religious map of the world. Hugh Kennedy's sweeping narrative reveals how the Arab armies conquered almost everything in their path, and brings to light the unique characteristics of Islamic rule. One of the few academic historians with a genuine talent for story telling, Kennedy offers a compelling mix of larger-than-life characters, fierce battles, and the great clash of civilizations and religions.
A Book of Conquest
Author: Manan Ahmed Asif
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674660110
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Note on Transliteration and Translation -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Frontier with the House of Gold -- Chapter 2. A Foundation for History -- Chapter 3. Dear Son, What Is the Matter with You? -- Chapter 4. A Demon with Ruby Eyes -- Chapter 5. The Half Smile -- Chapter 6. A Conquest of Pasts -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674660110
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Note on Transliteration and Translation -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Frontier with the House of Gold -- Chapter 2. A Foundation for History -- Chapter 3. Dear Son, What Is the Matter with You? -- Chapter 4. A Demon with Ruby Eyes -- Chapter 5. The Half Smile -- Chapter 6. A Conquest of Pasts -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Acknowledgments -- Index
A Book of Conquest
Author: Manan Ahmed Asif
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674972430
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
The question of how Islam arrived in India remains markedly contentious in South Asian politics. Standard accounts center on the Umayyad Caliphate’s incursions into Sind and littoral western India in the eighth century CE. In this telling, Muslims were a foreign presence among native Hindus, sowing the seeds of a mutual animosity that presaged the subcontinent’s partition into Pakistan and India many centuries later. But in a compelling reexamination of the history of Islam in India, Manan Ahmed Asif directs attention to a thirteenth-century text that tells the story of Chach, the Brahmin ruler of Sind, and his kingdom’s later conquest by the Muslim general Muhammad bin Qasim in 712 CE. The Chachnama has long been a touchstone of Indian history, yet it is seldom studied in its entirety. Asif offers a close and complete analysis of this important text, untangling its various registers and genres in order to reconstruct the political vision at its heart. Asif challenges the main tenets of the Chachnama’s interpretation: that it is a translation of an earlier Arabic text and that it presents a history of conquest. Debunking both ideas, he demonstrates that the Chachnama was originally Persian and, far from advancing a narrative of imperial aggression, is a subtle and sophisticated work of political theory, one embedded in both the Indic and Islamic ethos. This social and intellectual history of the Chachnama is an important corrective to the divisions between Muslim and Hindu that so often define Pakistani and Indian politics today.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674972430
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
The question of how Islam arrived in India remains markedly contentious in South Asian politics. Standard accounts center on the Umayyad Caliphate’s incursions into Sind and littoral western India in the eighth century CE. In this telling, Muslims were a foreign presence among native Hindus, sowing the seeds of a mutual animosity that presaged the subcontinent’s partition into Pakistan and India many centuries later. But in a compelling reexamination of the history of Islam in India, Manan Ahmed Asif directs attention to a thirteenth-century text that tells the story of Chach, the Brahmin ruler of Sind, and his kingdom’s later conquest by the Muslim general Muhammad bin Qasim in 712 CE. The Chachnama has long been a touchstone of Indian history, yet it is seldom studied in its entirety. Asif offers a close and complete analysis of this important text, untangling its various registers and genres in order to reconstruct the political vision at its heart. Asif challenges the main tenets of the Chachnama’s interpretation: that it is a translation of an earlier Arabic text and that it presents a history of conquest. Debunking both ideas, he demonstrates that the Chachnama was originally Persian and, far from advancing a narrative of imperial aggression, is a subtle and sophisticated work of political theory, one embedded in both the Indic and Islamic ethos. This social and intellectual history of the Chachnama is an important corrective to the divisions between Muslim and Hindu that so often define Pakistani and Indian politics today.
The Oxford Handbook of Global Religions
Author: Mark Juergensmeyer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199767645
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
This is a reference for understanding world religious societies in their contemporary global diversity. Comprising 60 essays, the volume focuses on communities rather than beliefs, symbols, or rites. The contributors are leading scholars of world religions, many of whom are also members of the communities they study.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199767645
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
This is a reference for understanding world religious societies in their contemporary global diversity. Comprising 60 essays, the volume focuses on communities rather than beliefs, symbols, or rites. The contributors are leading scholars of world religions, many of whom are also members of the communities they study.
Sufi Women of South Asia
Author: Tahera Aftab
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004467181
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 619
Book Description
In Sufi Women of South Asia. Veiled Friends of God, Tahera Aftab, drawing upon various sources, offers the first unique and comprehensive account of South Asian Sufi women, from the eleventh to the twentieth century.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004467181
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 619
Book Description
In Sufi Women of South Asia. Veiled Friends of God, Tahera Aftab, drawing upon various sources, offers the first unique and comprehensive account of South Asian Sufi women, from the eleventh to the twentieth century.
Theology and Society in the Second and Third Centuries of the Hijra. Volume 2
Author: Josef van Ess
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004344020
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 856
Book Description
Theology and Society is the most comprehensive study of Islamic intellectual and religious history, focusing on Muslim theology. With its emphasis on the eighth and ninth centuries CE, it remains the most detailed prosopographical study of the early phase of the formation of Islam. Originally published in German between 1991 and 1995, Theology and Society is a monument of scholarship and a unique scholarly enterprise which has stood the test of time as an unparalleled reference work.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004344020
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 856
Book Description
Theology and Society is the most comprehensive study of Islamic intellectual and religious history, focusing on Muslim theology. With its emphasis on the eighth and ninth centuries CE, it remains the most detailed prosopographical study of the early phase of the formation of Islam. Originally published in German between 1991 and 1995, Theology and Society is a monument of scholarship and a unique scholarly enterprise which has stood the test of time as an unparalleled reference work.