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Historical dimensions of Islam : pre-modern and modern periods

Authors:James E. Lindsay (Editor), Jon Armajani (Editor)

Print Book, English, 2009

Edition:View all formats and editions

Publisher:Darwin Press, Princeton, N.J., 2009

Genre:History

Physical Description:xvi, 286, [18] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

ISBN:

9780878501908, 0878501908

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:463832883

Subjects:

Interfaith relations

Islam Relations Christianisme

Islam Relations Christianity

Islam and politics

Islam and politics History

Islamic countries

Islamic countries History

Pays musulmans Histoire

Contents:

Contributors

vii

Introduction

ix

James E. Lindsay

Jon Armajani

Bibliography of R. Stephen Humphreys' Works

xiii

I. PRE-MODERN PERIOD

1

(182)

David Son of Jesse and Muhammad Son of `Abd Allah: Warlords, State Builders, Paradigms of Piety

3

(14)

James E. Lindsay

`His Girdle Wrapped about His Waist/It is as though it is Made from my Heart': The Christian Exotic in Medieval Muslim Imperial Literature

17

(28)

Thomas Sizgorich

Personal and Political Networks and the Fatimid Crisis of the Mid-Eleventh Century

45

(20)

Rachel Howes

Christian Anecdotes: The Reconquista in the Biographical Portraits of Muslims from Sharq al-Andalus in the al-Ihata of Ibn al-Khatib and the Takmila of Ibn al-Abbar

65

(54)

Linda G. Jones

The Forgotten Palace: Morocco's al-Badi' as a Symbol of Caliphal Splendor

119

(32)

Stephen Cory

The Circle and the Tree: A Vision of Justice in the Middle East

151

(32)

Linda T. Darling

II. MODERN PERIOD

183

(90)

Historical Memory and Imagined Communities: Modern Ibadi Writings on Kharijism

185

(16)

Valerie J. Hoffman

From Noble City to People's Republic: Reimagining Bukhara, 1900--1924

201

(16)

Adeeb Khalid

Hagiography and History: Haider Shaikh and His Interlocutors

217

(16)

Anna Bigelow

Painting the Bible Land: An Artist Missionary's Re-creation of Palestine

233

(12)

Nancy L. Stockdale

Taha Husayn, al-Tabari, and the Future of History in Egypt

245

(12)

Heather Keaney

Reconstructed Sacred Histories in Modern Islamic and Christian Religio-Political Movements

257

(16)

Jon Armajani

III. THOUGHTS IN RETROSPECT

273

(6)

R. Stephen Humphreys

Index

279