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Knowledge and power in Muslim societies : approaches in intellectual history /

"The study of Islam and of Islamic history is enjoying something of a revival with an emphasis on intellectual history and a greater concern with the ’subaltern’ within that. Why does religion continue to hold significance in our times? Are humans better off, adaptable, less violent, consistent...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Morimoto, Kazuo, 1970- (Editor), Raz̤avī, Sajjād (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Berlin : Gerlach Press, 2023.
Series:Studies in Islamic intellectual history ; v. 1.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : diversifying the intellectual history of Islam and Muslim Cultures / Sajjad Rizvi and Kazuo Morimoto
  • Three portraits of a philosopher in Islamic cultures / Sajjad Rizvi
  • Philosophy for politics : ancient Greek philosophy echoed in Ibn al-Muqaffaʻ’s writings / István T. Kristó-Nagy
  • The sorcerer scholar : Sirāj al-Dīn al-Sakkākī between grammar and grimoire / Emily Selove and Mohammed Sanad
  • Knowledge for all : Zayn al-Dīn al-Kaššī (d. Before 1228) on philosophical writing / Hisashi Obuchi
  • Cancelling the apocalypse : refracted anticipation for the awaited Mahdī in Sayyid Muḥammad al-Mushaʻshaʻ’s discourse / Tetsuro Sumida
  • Didactic discourse and sarcastic expressions in the context of Abū Hilāl al-ʻAskarī’s literary criticism / Mohammed Sanad
  • Writing the imams’ virtues under the interconfessional policy of al-Nāṣir li-Dīn Allāh : Ibn al-Biṭrīq al-Ḥillī and his Faḍāʼil works / Ryo Mizukami
  • A Jaʻfarid-Zaynabid genealogy from thirteenth-century Egypt : ʻUrbān uprising, Najafī connection, and the representation of the twelve imams / Kazuo Morimoto
  • Ilm al-Siyāq and bureaucrats in Safavid Iran / Nobuaki Kondo
  • Ma Dexin’s criticism of saint Veneration : “Chinese”-flavored Islam formed by a denominational conflict / Tatsuya Nakanishi
  • The politics of the Bayʻa ceremony in modern Morocco / Nozomi Shiratani
  • The Tawḥīd of the painting of god the mother / William Gallois
  • Teaching Iranian history : narrative style and messages / Keiko Sakurai
  • Inscribing “god’s words” in Japan : connecting the past to the present through the translations of the Qurʼan / Emi Goto.