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Author : Sean Anthony
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 38,88 MB
Release : 2011-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9004209301
This book offers an examination of the origins of Sh??ite Islam as viewed through the lens of the traditions surrounding its earliest and most infamous heretic, ?Abd All?h ibn Saba?, and the sectarian movement he purportedly founded, the Saba??ya.
Author : Sean Anthony
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,20 MB
Release : 2011-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9004216065
This book is an examination of the traditions and legends concerning early Islam’s first and most infamous heretic, the Yemenite Jew known as ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sabaʾ. Tracing the evolution and transformation of the many stories and narratives about Ibn Sabaʾ as adapted by Sunnī and Shīʿī scholars alike, this work attempts for the first time to give a comprehensive account of the formation of the image of Ibn Sabaʾ as the quintessential heretic of Islam’s early years. It also offers a new interpretation of the historical importance and beliefs of Ibn Sabaʾ and those early Shīʿa reviled as his followers, the Sabaʾīya. The end result is a revolutionary, new portrait of Shīʿite origins and early Islamic sectarianism.
Author : Sean William Anthony
Publisher :
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 32,53 MB
Release : 2009
Category :
ISBN : 9781109312683
The advent of Shi'ism as the earliest sectarian manifestation of the Islamic religion remains on the more perplexing issues for modern historians of early Islam; this study attempts to address this problem through a fresh approach to the most prominent legend concerning the emergence Shi'i dogma.
Author : Tayeb El-Hibri
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 26,43 MB
Release : 1999-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521650236
The history of the early Abbasid Caliphate has long been studied as a factual or interpretive synthesis of various accounts preserved in the medieval Islamic chronicles. Tayeb El-Hibri s book breaks with the traditional approach, applying a literary-critical reading to examine the lives of the caliphs. By focusing on the reigns of Harun al-Rashid and his successors, the study demonstrates how the various historical accounts were not in fact intended as faithful portraits of the past, but as allusive devices used to shed light on controversial religious, political and social issues of the period. The analysis also reveals how the exercise of decoding Islamic historigraphy, through an investigation of the narrative strategies and thematic motifs used in the chronicles, can uncover new layers of meaning and even identify the early narrators. This is an important book which represents a landmark in the field of early Islamic historiography.
Author : Kirill Dmitriev
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 22,9 MB
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9004409556
Insatiable Appetite: Food as Cultural Signifier in the Middle East and Beyond explores the cultural ramifications of food and foodways in the Mediterranean and Arab-Muslim countries.
Author : Sean W. Anthony
Publisher :
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 40,78 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0520340418
Introduction : the making of the historical Muḥammad -- The earliest evidence -- Muḥammad the Arabian merchant -- The Beginnings of the corpus -- The letters of 'Urwah ibn al-Zubayr -- The court impulse -- Prophecy and empires of faith -- Muḥammad and Cædmon -- Epilogue : The future of the historical Muḥammad.
Author : Maribel Fierro
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,97 MB
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1780741871
Abd al-Rahman III (891 - 961) was the greatest of the Umayyad rulers of Spain and the first to take the title of Caliph. During his reign, Islamic Spain became wealthy and prosperous. He founded the great Caliphate of Madinat al-Zahra at Cordova and did much in his lifetime to pacify his realm and stabilise the borders with Christian Spain. He died at the apex of his power on Oct. 15, 961.
Author : Maʿmar ibn Rāshid
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 31,66 MB
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1479800473
One of the earliest surviving biographies of Prophet Muḥammad, translated into readable, modern English for the first time The Expeditions is one of the oldest biographies of the Prophet Muḥammad to survive into the modern era. Its primary author, Maʿmar ibn Rāshid (96-153/714-770), was a prominent scholar from Basra in southern Iraq who was revered for his learning in prophetic traditions, Islamic law, and the interpretation of the Qurʾan. This fascinating foundational seminal work contains stories handed down by Maʿmar to his most prominent pupil, ʿAbd al-Razzāq of Sanaa, relating Muḥammad’s early life and prophetic career as well as the adventures and tribulations of his earliest followers during their conquest of the Near East. This new translation, which renders the original text into readable, modern English for the first time, is accompanied by numerous annotations elucidating the cultural, religious, and historical contexts of the events and individuals described within its pages. The Expeditions represents an important testimony to the earliest Muslims’ memory of the lives of Muḥammad and his companions, and is an indispensable text for gaining insight into the historical biography of both the Prophet and the rise of the Islamic empire. An English-only edition.
Author : Jan M. Ziolkowski
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,81 MB
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0823263886
Dante put Muhammad in one of the lowest circles of Hell. At the same time, the medieval Christian poet placed several Islamic philosophers much more honorably in Limbo. Furthermore, it has long been suggested that for much of the basic framework of the Divine Comedy Dante was indebted to apocryphal traditions about a “night journey” taken by Muhammad. Dante scholars have increasingly returned to the question of Islam to explore the often surprising encounters among religious traditions that the Middle Ages afforded. This collection of essays works through what was known of the Qur’an and of Islamic philosophy and science in Dante’s day and explores the bases for Dante’s images of Muhammad and Ali. It further compels us to look at key instances of engagement among Muslims, Jews, and Christians.
Author : Mustafa Banister
Publisher : Edinburgh Studies in Classical
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 23,66 MB
Release : 2022-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781474453370
Mustafa Banister presents a thorough investigation of a forgotten dynasty: the Cairene descendants of the Abbasid family. He uncovers the public and private lives of the 18 men invested as caliphs during the period of 'Mamluk' rule in Egypt and Syria (1250-1517) and reveals a nuanced understanding of the Abbasid Caliphate according to elite members of Syro-Egyptian society. In doing so, he addresses the function of the caliph and his office amidst the breakdown and recreation of each new socio-political order of the sultanate.