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The Caliph And The Heretic
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Author : Sean Anthony
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2011-12-02
The Caliph And The Heretic written by Sean Anthony and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-12-02 with History categories.
This book offers an examination of the origins of Shīʿite Islam as viewed through the lens of the traditions surrounding its earliest and most infamous heretic, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sabaʾ, and the sectarian movement he purportedly founded, the Sabaʾīya.
The Caliph And The Heretic
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Author : Sean William Anthony
language : en
Publisher: Proquest, UMI Dissertation Publishing
Release Date : 2011-09
The Caliph And The Heretic written by Sean William Anthony and has been published by Proquest, UMI Dissertation Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09 with categories.
The advent of Shi'ism as the earliest sectarian manifestation of the Islamic religion remains on the more perplexing issues for modern historians of early Islam; this study attempts to address this problem through a fresh approach to the most prominent legend concerning the emergence Shi'i dogma. Early, anti-Shi'i scholars often attempted to account for the Shi'i sectarianism by appealing to a mysterious Jewish convert to Islam, named 'Abd Allah ibn Saba', and his eponymous followers, the Saba'iya, to whom they accused of inventing Shi'ism by importing into Islam foreign ideas originating in the Jewish religion. Such ideas included the notion that Muh&dotbelow;ammad appointed his kinsman and son-in-law 'Al i ibn Abi Talib as his true successor, the obligatory cursing of the first three caliphs who (allegedly) usurped 'Ali's leadership, and Muh&dotbelow;ammad's entrusting to 'Ali secret portions of the Qur'an. In response to such polemics, prominent Shi'i scholars appropriated Ibn Saba' and re-fashioned him and his followers into the dogmatic enemies of Shi'i orthodoxy and the descendents of the outcasts of their own community: i.e., the 'extremists' (ghul at) who professed 'extreme' beliefs regarding 'Ali such as his return from the dead and/or his divinity. Over the centuries, even these so-called extreme Shi'a re-appropriated Ibn Saba' by casting him into a positive model worthy of emulation and a hero of their own confessional communities. While a great deal of these materials are undoubtedly of legendary character, I argue that one can uncover a historical bedrock underlying the layers of legend that accumulated around the Saba'iya and their alleged founder over the centuries. Much of this bedrock material arises at the intersection of late antique Christian, Jewish, and Muslim apocalypticism, revealing that early Shi'ism was, in fact, a profoundly messianically and apocalyptically inclined movement from the outset. With this aim in mind, this dissertation attempts, for the first time, to gather together all of accounts relating to Ibn Saba' and the Saba' iya, to plot the trajectory of their evolution and dissemination, and to evaluate the historicity of the sect and its alleged founder in order to gauge their influence, or lack thereof, on the formation of early Sh i'ism.
Muhammad And The Empires Of Faith
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Author : Dr. Sean W. Anthony
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2020-04-21
Muhammad And The Empires Of Faith written by Dr. Sean W. Anthony and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-21 with History categories.
In Muhammad and the Empires of Faith, Sean W. Anthony demonstrates how critical readings of non-Muslim and Muslim sources in tandem can breathe new life into the historical study of Muhammad and how his message transformed the world. By placing these sources within the intellectual and cultural world of Late Antiquity, Anthony offers a fresh assessment of the earliest sources for Muhammad’s life, taking readers on a grand tour of the available evidence, and suggests what new insights stand to be gained from the techniques and methods pioneered by countless scholars over the decades in a variety of fields. Muhammad and the Empires of Faith offers both an authoritative introduction to the multilayered traditions surrounding the life of Muhammad and a compelling exploration of how these traditions interacted with the broader landscape of Late Antiquity.
An Anxious Inheritance
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Author : Aaron W. Hughes
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2022
An Anxious Inheritance written by Aaron W. Hughes and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with History categories.
Introduction -- Part I: Late Antique Fantasies: 1. Qur'ānic Others -- 2. Producing Islam through the Production of Religious Others -- 3. Past Perfect: Opening the Jāhiliyya's Complex Present -- Part II: Subsequent Constructions: 4. Good Jew, Bad Jew -- 5. Making Christians -- 6. Shīʻa: The Other Within -- 7. The Amorphous Zindīq -- Conclusions -- Bibliography.
The Caliph And The Imam
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Author : Toby Matthiesen
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2023-03-09
The Caliph And The Imam written by Toby Matthiesen and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-09 with History categories.
The authoritative account of Islam's schism that for centuries has shaped events in the Middle East and the Islamic world. In 632, soon after the Prophet Muhammad died, a struggle broke out among his followers as to who would succeed him. Most Muslims argued that the leader of Islam should be elected by the community's elite and rule as Caliph. They would later become the Sunnis. Otherswho would become known as the Shiabelieved that Muhammad had designated his cousin and son-in-law Ali as his successor, and that henceforth Ali's offspring should lead as Imams. This dispute over who should guide Muslims, the Caliph or the Imam, marks the origin of the Sunni-Shii split in Islam. Toby Matthiesen explores this hugely significant division from its origins to the present day. Moving chronologically, his book sheds light on the many ways that it has shaped the Islamic world, outlining how over the centuries Sunnism and Shiism became Islam's two main branches, and how Muslim Empires embraced specific sectarian identities. Focussing on connections between the Indian subcontinent and the Middle East, it reveals how colonial rule and the modern state institutionalised sectarian divisions and at the same time led to pan-Islamic resistance and Sunni and Shii revivalism. It then focuses on the fall-out from the 1979 revolution in Iran and the US-led military intervention in Iraq. As Matthiesen shows, however, though Sunnism and Shiism have had a long and antagonistic history, most Muslims have led lives characterised by confessional ambiguity and peaceful co-existence. Tensions arise when sectarian identity becomes linked to politics. Based on a synthesis of decades of scholarship in numerous languages, The Caliph and the Imam will become the standard text for readers looking for a deeper understanding of contemporary sectarian conflict and its historical roots.
Opposing The Imam
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Author : Nebil Husayn
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-04-29
Opposing The Imam written by Nebil Husayn and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-29 with History categories.
Examines the enduring legacy of the nawasib, early Muslims who were hostile to Islam's fourth caliph, Ali, and his descendants.
Heretic
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Author : Ayaan Hirsi Ali
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2015-03-24
Heretic written by Ayaan Hirsi Ali and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-24 with Political Science categories.
Continuing her journey from a deeply religious Islamic upbringing to a post at Harvard, the brilliant, charismatic and controversial New York Times and Globe and Mail #1 bestselling author of Infidel and Nomad makes a powerful plea for a Muslim Reformation as the only way to end the horrors of terrorism, sectarian warfare and the repression of women and minorities. Today, she argues, the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims can be divided into a minority of extremists, a majority of observant but peaceable Muslims and a few dissidents who risk their lives by questioning their own religion. But there is only one Islam and, as Hirsi Ali shows, there is no denying that some of its key teachings—not least the duty to wage holy war—are incompatible with the values of a free society. For centuries it has seemed as if Islam is immune to change. But Hirsi Ali has come to believe that a Muslim Reformation—a revision of Islamic doctrine aimed at reconciling the religion with modernity—is now at hand, and may even have begun. The Arab Spring may now seem like a political failure. But its challenge to traditional authority revealed a new readiness—not least by Muslim women—to think freely and to speak out. Courageously challenging the jihadists, she identifies five key amendments to Islamic doctrine that Muslims have to make to bring their religion out of the seventh century and into the twenty-first. And she calls on the Western world to end its appeasement of the Islamists. “Islam is not a religion of peace,” she writes. It is the Muslim reformers who need our backing, not the opponents of free speech. Interweaving her own experiences, historical analogies and powerful examples from contemporary Muslim societies and cultures, Heretic is not a call to arms, but a passionate plea for peaceful change and a new era of global toleration. In the wake of the Charlie Hebdo murders, with jihadists killing thousands from Nigeria to Syria to Pakistan, this book offers an answer to what is fast becoming the world’s number one problem.
Disenchanting The Caliphate
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Author : Hayrettin Yücesoy
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2023-08-08
Disenchanting The Caliphate written by Hayrettin Yücesoy and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-08 with History categories.
The political thought of Muslim societies is all too often defined in religious terms, in which the writings of clerics are seen as representative and ideas about governance are treated as an extension of commentary on sacred texts. Disenchanting the Caliphate offers a groundbreaking new account of political discourse in Islamic history by examining Abbasid imperial practice, illuminating the emergence and influence of a vibrant secular tradition. Closely reading key eighth-century texts, Hayrettin Yücesoy argues that the ulema’s discourse of religious governance and the political thought of lay intellectuals diverged during this foundational period, with enduring consequences. He traces how notions of good governance and reflections on prudent statecraft arose among cosmopolitan literati who envisioned governing as an art. Competent in nonreligious branches of knowledge and trained in administrative professions, these belletrists articulated and defended secular political practices, reimagining the caliphal realm as politically constituted rather than natural. They sought to improve administrative efficiency and bolster state control for an empire made up of diverse cultures. Their ideas about moral cultivation, temporal reasoning, and governmental rationality endured for centuries as a counterpoint to religious rulership. Drawing on this history, Yücesoy critiques the concept of “Islamic political thought,” calling for decolonizing debates about “secular” and “religious” politics. Theoretically rich and historically grounded, Disenchanting the Caliphate is an insightful and provocative reconsideration of key strands of political discourse in the intellectual history of Muslim societies.
The Door Of The Caliph
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Author : Elsa Cardoso
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-05-29
The Door Of The Caliph written by Elsa Cardoso and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-29 with History categories.
This book focuses on the conceptualization of the court, palace and ruler of the Umayyad Caliphate of al-Andalus. Western terminology still plays a normative role in the representation of foreign courts, determining concepts that fit poorly into chronologies with their own dynamics and specificities, which is the case of Muslim courts. While Court Studies is a well-developed field for modern Western societies, Muslim medieval courts lack a consistent field of research. Sources elaborate a specific terminology for medieval Muslim court societies. In the specific case of the Umayyad Caliphate of al-Andalus, the court is usually articulated as Bāb Suddat al-Khalīfa (“The door of the Sudda of the caliph”) – a reference to the symbology of the main city gate of Cordoba – or simply as Bāb. Bāb Suddat al-Khalīfa became the most emblematic concept to name the Umayyad palace and its society, which will be additionally interpreted in the framework of the performance of ceremonial. The strong conceptualization of the Umayyad court of Cordoba was highlighted through the articulation of ceremonial, as the mis-en-scène of the conceptualization, expressed by gestures, insignia and hierarchies. The preliminary comparative perspective with the Umayyad Caliphate of Damascus, the ‘Abbasid and Fatimid Caliphates and the Byzantine Empire further discusses the Umayyad Andalusi model in relation to other dynasties. While this book focuses on the Umayyad conceptualization and articulation of ceremonial, this model will be discussed within the Mediterranean and Eastern framework of the 10th and 11th centuries, which broadens the interest of the book to other fields of research.
The Caliph And The Imam
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Author : Toby Matthiesen
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2023-02-07
The Caliph And The Imam written by Toby Matthiesen and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-07 with History categories.
The authoritative account of the sectarian division that for centuries has shaped events in the Middle East and the Islamic world. In 632, soon after the prophet Muhammad died, a struggle broke out among his followers as to who would succeed him. The majority argued that the new leader of Islam should be elected by the community's elite. Others believed only members of Muhammad's family could lead. This dispute over who should guide Muslims, the appointed Caliph or the bloodline Imam, marks the origin of the Sunni-Shii split in Islam. Toby Matthiesen explores this hugely significant division from its origins to the present day. Moving chronologically, his book sheds light on the many ways that it has shaped the Islamic world, outlining how over the centuries Sunnism and Shiism became Islams two main branches, particularly after the Muslim Empires embraced sectarian identity. It reveals how colonial rule institutionalised divisions between Sunnism and Shiism both on the Indian subcontinent and in the greater Middle East, giving rise to pan-Islamic resistance and Sunni and Shii revivalism. It then focuses on the fall-out from the 1979 revolution in Iran and the US-led military intervention in Iraq. As Matthiesen shows, however, though Sunnism and Shiism have had a long and antagonistic history, most Muslims have led lives characterised by confessional ambiguity and peaceful co-existence. Tensions arise when sectarian identity becomes linked to politics. Based on a synthesis of decades of scholarship in numerous languages, The Caliph and the Imam will become the standard text for readers looking for a deeper understanding of contemporary sectarian conflict and its historical roots.