Living Islamic History : : Studies in Honour of Professor Carole Hillenbrand / / Yasir Suleiman.

The publication of this book honours Professor Carole Hillenbrand's outstanding achievements in and service to Islamic and Middle Eastern Scholarship.It gathers original research from a range of leading international scholars from the UK, Europe and the USA whose chapters throw new light on a s...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.) :; 10 B/W illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Professor Carole Hillenbrand: List of Publications
  • Preface
  • 1. The Origin of Key Shi'ite Thought Patterns in Islamic History
  • 2. Additions to The New Islamic Dynasties
  • 3. Al- Tha'alibi’s Adab al-muluk, a Local Mirror for Princes
  • 4. Religious Identity, Dissimulation and Assimilation: the Ismaili Experience
  • 5. Saladin’s Pious Foundations in Damascus: Some New Hypotheses
  • 6. The Coming of Islam to Bukhara
  • 7. A Barmecide Feast: the Downfall of the Barmakids in Popular Imagination
  • 8. The History of the Patriarchs of the Egyptian Church as a Source for the History of the Seljuks of Anatolia
  • 9. Genealogy and Exemplary Rulership in the Tarikh-i Chingiz Khan
  • 10. Vikings and Rus in Arabic Sources
  • 11. Qashani and Rashid al-Din on the Seljuqs of Iran
  • 12. Exile and Return: Diasporas of the Secular and Sacred Mind
  • 13. Clerical Perceptions of Sufi Practices in Late Seventeenth- Century Persia, II: Al- Hurr al-'Amili (d. 1693) and the Debate on the Permissibility of Ghina
  • 14. On Sunni Sectarianism
  • 15. The Violence of the Abbasid Revolution
  • 16. Nationalist Poetry, Conflict and Meta- linguistic Discourse
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index