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Women, Islam, and Abbasid Identity
Inbunden, 2015
531 kr
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When the Abbasids overthrew the Umayyad dynasty in 750 CE, an important element in legitimizing their newly won authority involved defining themselves in the eyes of their Islamic subjects. Nadia Maria El Cheikh shows that ideas about women were central to the process by which the Abbasid …
Crisis and Continuity at the Abbasid Court
Formal and Informal Politics in the Caliphate of al-Muqtadir (295-320/908-32)
Av Maaike van Berkel, Nadia Maria El Cheikh m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
2459 kr
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The reign of al-Muqtadir (295-320/908-32) is a crucial and controversial epoch in the history of the Abbasid empire. Al-Muqtadir’s regime has traditionally been depicted as one of decline, when the political power of the caliphate and the lustre of its capital began to crumble. This book not only …
Approaches to the Study of Pre-Modern Arabic Anthologies
Av Nadia Maria El Cheikh, Bilal Orfali
Inbunden, 2021
2445 kr
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Literary anthology is a general category of adab that encompasses a range of compilations which has enjoyed tremendous popularity in Arabic literature, probably like no other literature of the world. The aim of this volume is to raise and discuss questions about the different approaches to the …
Byzantium Viewed by the Arabs
Häftad, 2004
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183 kr
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This book studies the Arabic-Islamic view of Byzantium, tracing the Byzantine image as it evolved through centuries of warfare, contact, and exchanges. Including previously inaccessible material on the Arabic textual tradition on Byzantium, this investigation shows the significance of Byzantium to …
