Parable And Politics In Early Islamic History

Author : Tayeb El-Hibri
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231150822
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Parable and Politics in Early Islamic History written by Tayeb El-Hibri and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tayeb El-Hibri draws on medieval Islamic chronicles to remap the origins of Islamic political and religious orthodoxy, offering an insightful critique of both early and contemporary Islam and the concerns of legitimacy shadowing various rulers. He also highlights the Islamic reinterpretation of biblical traditions.

Author : Tayeb El-Hibri
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780231150835
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Parable and Politics in Early Islamic History written by Tayeb El-Hibri and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tayeb El-Hibri draws on medieval Islamic chronicles to remap the origins of Islamic political and religious orthodoxy, offering an insightful critique of both early and contemporary Islam and the concerns of legitimacy shadowing various rulers. He also highlights the Islamic reinterpretation of biblical traditions.

Author : Tayeb El-Hibri
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107183243
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Abbasid Caliphate written by Tayeb El-Hibri and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the Abbasid Caliphate from its foundation in 750 and golden age under Harun al-Rashid to the conquest of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258, this study examines the Caliphate as an empire and an institution, and its imprint on the society and culture of classical Islamic civilization.

Author : Tayeb El-Hibri
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521650236
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reinterpreting Islamic Historiography written by Tayeb El-Hibri and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-11-25 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Deborah Baker
Publisher : Graywolf Press
ISBN 13 : 1555970281
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Convert written by Deborah Baker and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2011-05-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *A 2011 National Book Award Finalist* A spellbinding story of renunciation, conversion, and radicalism from Pulitzer Prize-finalist biographer Deborah Baker What drives a young woman raised in a postwar New York City suburb to convert to Islam, abandon her country and Jewish faith, and embrace a life of exile in Pakistan? The Convert tells the story of how Margaret Marcus of Larchmont became Maryam Jameelah of Lahore, one of the most trenchant and celebrated voices of Islam's argument with the West. A cache of Maryam's letters to her parents in the archives of the New York Public Library sends the acclaimed biographer Deborah Baker on her own odyssey into the labyrinthine heart of twentieth-century Islam. Casting a shadow over these letters is the mysterious figure of Mawlana Abul Ala Mawdudi, both Maryam's adoptive father and the man who laid the intellectual foundations for militant Islam. As she assembles the pieces of a singularly perplexing life, Baker finds herself captive to questions raised by Maryam's journey. Is her story just another bleak chapter in a so-called clash of civilizations? Or does it signify something else entirely? And then there's this: Is the life depicted in Maryam's letters home and in her books an honest reflection of the one she lived? Like many compelling and true tales, The Convert is stranger than fiction. It is a gripping account of a life lived on the radical edge and a profound meditation on the cultural conflicts that frustrate mutual understanding.

Author : Seth Kimmel
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022627828X
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Parables of Coercion written by Seth Kimmel and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-10-12 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on how questions surrounding the conversion of Muslims and Jews to Christianity in 16th and 17th century Spain drove religious reform and scholarly innovation.

Author : Louay M. Safi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000483541
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islam and the Trajectory of Globalization written by Louay M. Safi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-10-18 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines the growing tension between social movements that embrace egalitarian and inclusivist views of national and global politics, most notably classical liberalism, and those that advance social hierarchy and national exclusivism, such as neoliberalism, neoconservatism, and national populism. In exploring issues relating to tensions and conflicts around globalization, the book identifies historical patterns of convergence and divergence rooted in the monotheistic traditions, beginning with the ancient Israelites that dominated the Near East during the Axial age, through Islamic civilization, and finally by considering the idealism-realism tensions in modern times. One thing remained constant throughout the various historical stages that preceded our current moment of global convergence: a recurring tension between transcendental idealism and various forms of realism. Transcendental idealism, which prioritize egalitarian and universal values, pushed periodically against the forces of realism that privilege established law and power structure. Equipped with the idealism-realism framework, the book examines the consequences of European realism that justified the imperialistic venture into Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America in the name of liberation and liberalization. The ill-conceived strategy has, ironically, engendered the very dysfunctional societies that produce the waves of immigrants in constant motion from the South to the North, simultaneously as it fostered the social hierarchy that transfer external tensions into identity politics within the countries of the North. The book focuses particularly on the role played historically by Islamic rationalism in translating the monotheistic egalitarian outlook into the institutions of religious pluralism, legislative and legal autonomy, and scientific enterprise at the foundation of modern society. It concludes by shedding light on the significance of the Muslim presence in Western cultures as humanity draws slowly but consistently towards what we may come to recognize as the Global Age. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781003203360, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Author : R. Michael McCoy III
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004466827
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Interpreting the Qurʾān with the Bible (Tafsīr al-Qurʾān bi-l-Kitāb) written by R. Michael McCoy III and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-09-13 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Interpreting the Qurʾān with the Bible, R. Michael McCoy III examines the reception of the Arabic Bible in tafsīr literature by analyzing Ibn Barraǧān’s (d. 546/1141) and al-Biqāʿī’s (d. 885/1480) methods of scriptural engagement.

Author : MAULANA MUHAMMAD ZAKARIA IQBAL
Publisher : Dar Al Kotob Al Ilmiyah دار الكتب العلمية
ISBN 13 : 2745161539
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book STORIES FROM THE HADITH written by MAULANA MUHAMMAD ZAKARIA IQBAL and published by Dar Al Kotob Al Ilmiyah دار الكتب العلمية. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004284346
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Documents and the History of the Early Islamic World written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-11-28 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents and the History of the Early Islamic World presents new Greek, Arabic and Coptic material from the seventh to the fifteenth centuries C.E. from Egypt and Palestine and explores its rich potential for historical analysis.