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Beschreibung
Engaging with contemporary debates about the sources that shape our understanding of the early Muslim world, Najam Haider proposes a new model for Muslim historical writing that draws on Late Antique historiography to question why we impose modern notions of history on a pre-modern society.
Engaging with contemporary debates about the sources that shape our understanding of the early Muslim world, Najam Haider proposes a new model for Muslim historical writing that draws on Late Antique historiography to question why we impose modern notions of history on a pre-modern society.
Über den Autor
Najam Haider is a Professor in the Department of Religion at Barnard College, New York. He is the author of The Origins of the Shi'a (Cambridge, 2011) focusing on the role of ritual and sacred space in the formation of Shi'i identity and Shi'i Islam (Cambridge, 2014) which examines three branches of Shi'i Islam - Zaydi, Twelver, and Ismaili, through a framework of memory. He has travelled extensively in the Middle East, including Syria where he was a Fulbright scholar and Yemen where he studied with traditional Zaydi scholars.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Modeling Islamic historical writing; 2. The rise and fall of Mukhtâr b. Abî 'Ubayd (d. 67/687); 3. The life of Mûsâ b. Ja'far al-Kâ¿im (d. 183/799); 4. The last years of Yäyâ b. 'Abd Allâh (d. 187/803); 5. Reconsideration; Appendix. The narrative elements of Mukhtâr's revolt.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Fachbereich: Regionalgeschichte
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781108708142
ISBN-10: 1108708145
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Haider, Najam
Hersteller: Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Najam Haider
Erscheinungsdatum: 29.10.2020
Gewicht: 0,466 kg
Artikel-ID: 118871448

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