Living Islamic history

Edinburgh University Press

2010

xvii, 318 p.

9780748637386

Acknowledgements; Professor Carole Hillenbrand: List of Publications; List of Contributors; Introduction, Yasir Suleiman; 1. The Origin of Key Shiite Thought Patterns in Islamic History, Adel Al-Abdul Jader (Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences); 2. Additions to The New Islamic Dynasties, C. Edmund Bosworth (University of Manchester (Emeritus)); 3. Al-Tha'alibi's Adab al-muluk, A Local Mirror for Princes, Julia Bray (Universite Paris 8); 4. Religious Identity, Dissimulation and Assimilation: The Ismaili Experience, Farhad Daftary (Institute of Ismaili Studies); 5. Saladin's Pious Foundations in Damascus: Some New Hypotheses, Anne-Marie Edde (Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes, CNRS); 6. The Coming of Islam to Bukhara, Hugh Kennedy (School of Oriental and African Studies); 7. A Barmecide Feast: The Downfall of the Barmakids in Popular Imagination, Remke Kruk (Universiteit Leiden); 8. The History of the Patriarchs of the Egyptian Church as a Source for the History of the Seljuks of Anatolia, Gary Leiser (Travis Air Museum); 9. Genealogy and Exemplary Rulership in the Tarikh-i Chingiz Khan, Charles Melville (University of Cambridge); 10. Vikings and Rus in Arabic Sources, James E. Montgomery (University of Cambridge); 11. Qashani and Rashid al-Din on the Seljuqs of Iran, Alexander H. Morton (School of Oriental and African Studies); 12. Exile and Return: Diasporas of the Secular and Sacred Mind, Ian Richard Netton (University of Exeter); 13. Clerical Perceptions of Sufi Practices in Late 17th Century Persia, II: Al-Hurr al-'Amili (d. 1693) and the Debate on the Permissibility of Ghina, Andrew J. Newman (University of Edinburgh); 14. On Sunni Sectarianism, A. Kevin Reinhart (Dartmouth College); 15. The Violence of the Abbasid Revolution, Chase F. Robinson (City University of New York); 16. Nationalist Poetry, Conflict and Meta-linguistic Discourse, Yasir Suleiman (University of Cambridge); Bibliography; Index

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