History And Memory In The Abbasid Caliphate

Author : Letizia Osti
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781838600556
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History and Memory in the Abbasid Caliphate written by Letizia Osti and published by . This book was released on with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Abu Bakr al-Suli was a noted polymath and table companion in the courts of three Abbasid caliphs. In addition to his work as observer of the court, he is perhaps best known for his poetry - which would have a long-lasting influence on Arabic literature - historiographical insight and skill as a chess player. Letizia Osti here provides the first full-length English-language study devoted to al-Suli. In so doing, she sheds light onto broader questions, such as: How did the Abbasid court make sense of the past? What was the importance of written culture? And book collecting? What does 'historiography' mean in a medieval Islamic context?"--

Author : Jacob Lassner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islamic Revolution and Historical Memory written by Jacob Lassner and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jacob Lassner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islamic Revolution and Historical Memory written by Jacob Lassner and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Madawi Al-Rasheed
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190257407
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Demystifying the Caliphate written by Madawi Al-Rasheed and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Western popular imagination, the Caliphate often conjures up an array of negative images, while rallies organised in support of resurrecting the Caliphate are treated with a mixture of apprehension and disdain, as if they were the first steps towards usurping democracy. Yet these images and perceptions have little to do with reality. While some Muslims may be nostalgic for the Caliphate, only very few today seek to make that dream come true. Yet the Caliphate can be evoked as a powerful rallying call and a symbol that draws on an imagined past and longing for reproducing or emulating it as an ideal Islamic polity. The Caliphate today is a contested concept among many actors in the Muslim world, Europe and beyond, the reinvention and imagining of which may appear puzzling to most of us. Demystifying the Caliphate sheds light on both the historical debates following the demise of the last Ottoman Caliphate and controversies surrounding recent calls to resurrect it, transcending alarmist agendas to answer fundamental questions about why the memory of the Caliphate lingers on among diverse Muslims. From London to the Caucasus, to Jakarta, Istanbul, and Baghdad, the contributors explore the concept of the Caliphate and the re-imagining of the Muslim ummah as a diverse multi-ethnic community.

Author : Tayeb El-Hibri
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781316869567
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Abbasid Caliphate written by Tayeb El-Hibri and published by . This book was released on 2021-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mona Hassan
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691183376
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Longing for the Lost Caliphate written by Mona Hassan and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States and Europe, the word "caliphate" has conjured historically romantic and increasingly pernicious associations. Yet the caliphate's significance in Islamic history and Muslim culture remains poorly understood. This book explores the myriad meanings of the caliphate for Muslims around the world through the analytical lens of two key moments of loss in the thirteenth and twentieth centuries. Through extensive primary-source research, Mona Hassan explores the rich constellation of interpretations created by religious scholars, historians, musicians, statesmen, poets, and intellectuals. Hassan fills a scholarly gap regarding Muslim reactions to the destruction of the Abbasid caliphate in Baghdad in 1258 and challenges the notion that the Mongol onslaught signaled an end to the critical engagement of Muslim jurists and intellectuals with the idea of an Islamic caliphate. She also situates Muslim responses to the dramatic abolition of the Ottoman caliphate in 1924 as part of a longer trajectory of transregional cultural memory, revealing commonalities and differences in how modern Muslims have creatively interpreted and reinterpreted their heritage. Hassan examines how poignant memories of the lost caliphate have been evoked in Muslim culture, law, and politics, similar to the losses and repercussions experienced by other religious communities, including the destruction of the Second Temple for Jews and the fall of Rome for Christians. A global history, Longing for the Lost Caliphate delves into why the caliphate has been so important to Muslims in vastly different eras and places.

Author : Madawi Al-Rasheed
Publisher : Hurst & Company
ISBN 13 : 9781849042284
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Demystifying the Caliphate written by Madawi Al-Rasheed and published by Hurst & Company. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Demystifying the Caliphate' sheds light on both the historical debates following the demise of the last Ottoman Caliphate and controversies surrounding the recent calls to resurrect it, transcending alarmist agendas to answer fundamental questions about why the memory of the Caliphate lingers on among diverse Muslims.

Author : Antoine Borrut
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004190988
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Umayyad Legacies written by Antoine Borrut and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-06-14 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on new interest in the study of memory and Islamic historiography and including interdisciplinary perspectives from Arabic literature, art, and archaeology, the papers in this book consider the achievements of the Umayyad dynasty in the Near East and Islamic Spain, and highlight the shaping of our knowledge of the Umayyad past.

Author : Antoine Borrut
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004466320
Total Pages : 543 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between Memory and Power written by Antoine Borrut and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-07-17 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between Memory and Power intends to demonstrate that a robust culture of historical writing existed in 2nd/8th century Syria, and to offer new methodological approaches to access this now lost history, torn between memory and oblivion. By studying the making of Umayyad heroes or Abbasid origins-myths, this book aims to reveal the successive meanings granted to Syrian history, and to identify the various layers of historical writing and rewriting during the first centuries of Islam. Taken together, these elements make possible a history of meanings of the very space of Syria, articulated around power and its expression, which grants a clear coherence to the period, extending well beyond the dynastic caesura of 132/750.

Author : Hugh Kennedy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317358074
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Early Abbasid Caliphate written by Hugh Kennedy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-17 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early Abbasid Caliphate was an important period for Islam. The dynasty, based in Baghdad, ruled over a vast Empire, stretching from the Indus Valley and Southern Russia to the East to Tunisia in the West; and presided over an age of brilliant cultural achievements. This study, first published in 1981, examines the Abbasid Caliphs from their coming to power in 750 AD, to the death of the Caliph al-Ma’mun in 833 AD, when the period of Turkish domination began. It looks at the political history of the period, and also considers the social and economic factors, showing how they developed and influenced political life. The work is designed as a unique introduction to the period, and will prove invaluable to all students involved with Islamic, Byzantine and Mediterranean history and culture.