Author: Hannah-Lena HagemannPublisher: Edinburgh Studies in Classical
ISBN: 9781474450898
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Analyses the narrative function of Khārijism in 9th- and 10th-century Islamic historiography
The Kharijites in Early Islamic Historical Tradition
Author: Hannah-Lena HagemannPublisher: Edinburgh Studies in Classical
ISBN: 9781474450898
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Analyses the narrative function of Khārijism in 9th- and 10th-century Islamic historiography
The Kharijites in Early Islamic Historical Tradition
Author: Hannah-Lena HagemannPublisher: Edinburgh Studies in Classical
ISBN: 9781474450881
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Analyses the narrative function of Khārijism in 9th- and 10th-century Islamic historiography
Muslim Rebels
Author: Jeffrey T. KenneyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190285060
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
The Kharijites were the first sectarian movement in Islamic history, a rebellious splinter group that separated itself from mainstream Muslim society and set about creating, through violence, an ideal community of the saved. Their influence in the political and theological life of the nascent faith has ensured their place in both critical and religious accounts of early Islamic history. Based on the image of sect fostered by the Islamic tradition, the name Kharijite defines a Muslim as an overly-pious zealot whose ideas and actions lie beyond the pale of normative Islam. After a brief look at Kharijite origins and the traditional image of these early rebels, this book focuses on references to the Kharijites in Egypt from the 1950s to the 1990s. Jeffrey T. Kenney shows how the traditional image of the Kharijites was reawakened to address the problem of radical Islamist opposition movements. The Kharijites came to play a central role in the rhetoric of both religious authorities, whose official role it is to interpret Islam for the masses, and the secular state, which cynically turns to Islamic ideas and symbols to defend its legitimacy. Even those Islamists who defend militant tactics, and who are themselves tainted by the Kharijite label, become participants in the discourse surrounding Kharijism. Although all Egyptians agree that modern Kharijites represent a dangerous threat to society, serious debates have arisen about the underlying social, political and economic problems that lead Muslims down this destructive path. Kenney examines these debates and what they reveal about Egyptian attitudes toward Islamist violence and its impact on their nation. Long before 9/11, Egyptians have been dealing with the problem of Islamist violence, frequently evoking the Kharijites. This book represents an important contribution to Islamic studies and Middle East studies, adding to our understanding of how the Islamic past shapes the present discourse surrounding Islamist violence in one Muslim society.
Islamic History: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Adam J. SilversteinPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199545723
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
How did Islam arise from the obscurity of seventh century Arabia to the headlines of the 21st century? This introduction answers that question; exploring the cultural & religious diversity of Islamic history. Adam Silverstein explains its significance & considers its impact on Islamic society today.
The Islamic Tradition
Author: John B. ChristopherPublisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Islamic Historiography
Author: Chase F. RobinsonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521629362
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
How did Muslims of the classical Islamic period understand their past? What value did they attach to history? How did they write history? How did historiography fare relative to other kinds of Arabic literature? These and other questions are answered in Chase F. Robinson's Islamic Historiography, an introduction to the principal genres, issues, and problems of Islamic historical writing in Arabic, that stresses the social and political functions of historical writing in the Islamic world. Beginning with the origins of the tradition in the eighth and ninth centuries and covering its development until the beginning of the sixteenth century, this is an authoritative and yet accessible guide through a complex and forbidding field, which is intended for readers with little or no background in Islamic history or Arabic.
The First Dynasty of Islam
Author: G. R HawtingPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134550596
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Gerald Hawting's book has long been acknowledged as the standard introductory survey of this complex period in Arab and Islamic history. Now it is once more made available, with the addition of a new introduction by the author which examines recent significant contributions to scholarship in the field. It is certain to be welcomed by students and academics alike.
Conquered Populations in Early Islam
Author: Elizabeth UrbanPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474423221
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This book traces the journey of new Muslims as they joined the early Islamic community and articulated their identities within it. It focuses on Muslims of slave origins, who belonged to the society in which they lived but whose slave background rendered them somehow alien. How did these Muslims at the crossroads of insider and outsider find their place in early Islamic society? How did Islamic society itself change to accommodate these new members? By analysing how these liminal Muslims resolved the tension between belonging and otherness, Conquered Populations in Early Islam reveals the shifting boundaries of the early Islamic community and celebrates the dynamism of Islamic history.
Violence and Belief in Late Antiquity
Author: Thomas SizgorichPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812207440
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
In Violence and Belief in Late Antiquity, Thomas Sizgorich seeks to understand why and how violent expressions of religious devotion became central to the self-understandings of both Christian and Muslim communities between the fourth and ninth centuries. Sizgorich argues that the cultivation of violent martyrdom as a path to holiness was in no way particular to Islam; rather, it emerged from a matrix put into place by the Christians of late antiquity. Paying close attention to the role of memory and narrative in the formation of individual and communal selves, Sizgorich identifies a common pool of late ancient narrative forms upon which both Christian and Muslim communities drew. In the process of recollecting the past, Sizgorich explains, Christian and Muslim communities alike elaborated iterations of Christianity or Islam that demanded of each believer a willingness to endure or inflict violence on God's behalf and thereby created militant local pieties that claimed to represent the one "real" Christianity or the only "pure" form of Islam. These militant communities used a shared system of signs, symbols, and stories, stories in which the faithful manifested their purity in conflict with the imperial powers of the world.
Values in Islamic Culture and the Experience of History
Author: N. S. KirabaevPublisher: CRVP
ISBN: 9781565181335
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description