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Living Islamic history : studies in honour of Professor Carole Hillenbrand /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Hillenbrand, Carole, Suleiman, Yasir
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • The origin of key Shiʻite thought patterns in Islamic history / Adel S. al-Abdul Jader
  • Additions to The new Islamic dynasties / C. Edmund Bosworth
  • Al-Thaʻalibi's Adab al-muluk, a local mirror for princes / Julia Bray
  • Religious identity, dissimulation and assimilation : the Ismaili experience / Farhad Daftary
  • Saladin's pious foundations in Damascus : some new hypotheses / Anne-Marie Eddé
  • The coming of Islam to Bukhara / Hugh Kennedy
  • A Barmecide feast : the downfall of the Barmakids in popular imagination / Remke Kruk
  • The History of the patriarchs of the Egyptian Church as a source for the history of the Seljuks of Anatolia / Gary Leiser
  • Genealogy and exemplary rulership in the Tarikh-i Chingiz Khan / Charles Melville
  • Vikings and Rus in Arabic sources / James E. Montgomery
  • Qashani and Rashid al-Din on the Seljuqs of Iran / Alexander H. Morton
  • Exile and return : diasporas of the secular and sacred mind / Ian Richard Netton
  • Clerical perceptions of Sufi practices in late seventeenth-century Persia, II : Al-Hurr al-ʻAmili (d. 1693) and the debate on the permissibility of Ghina / Andrew J. Newman
  • On Sunni sectarianism / A. Kevin Reinhart
  • The violence of the Abbasid revolution / Chase F. Robinson
  • Nationalist poetry, conflict and meta-linguistic discourse / Yasir Suleiman.