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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Early Islamic"”.
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Umma and Identity in Early Islamic Persia
… prophetic experience, and a blessed role in the Islamic umma.
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Fatawa and their development since the early Islamic era
… conflicts around the world. The issuing of Islamic legal rulings, otherwise known as fatāwā, has drawn interest from Muslims and non-Muslims. This paper seeks to discuss the development of fatāwā from the early Islamic era and its importance to Muslims throughout history. The prominence of …
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Searching for the origins of early Islamic brass-making in Western Asia
In the early part of the second millennium AD, brass emerged as a major form of Islamic metalworking, with the production of highly decorated objects in a variety of forms and styles. However, we know comparatively little about the background to this development, and particularly its association …
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A Critique of the Early Islamic Charge That Paul Corrupted Christ’s Original Religion
This dissertation is a critique of the early Islamic charge that Paul corrupted Christ’s original religion with doctrines and practices that Jesus did not promote. Muslim writers in the first six centuries of Islam claimed that core Christian doctrines and practices were inventions of Paul, namely …
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Knowledge and Social Order in Early Islamic Mesopotamia (60–193 AH/680–809 CE)
… of knowledge sought to order society in early Islamic Mesopotamia (60–193 AH/680–809 CE). This research examines the conditions under which two frameworks of knowledge came into being; how they tried to maximize their power through forging alliance with the caliphate; how they established …
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Agree to Disagree: How Ikhtilāf Enabled Muslim Scholars in the Early Islamic Period to Co-Exist
… of his Companions as scholars within the early Islamic period (approximately 7th-10th centuries CE) would debate about the accurate understanding and application of Islamic law ‘sharīʿah’. The geographical expansion of Islam from its centre in Medina to regions like Kufa, Cairo, Damascus …
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The first Islamic conquest of Aelia (Islamic Jerusalem): a critical analytical study of the early Islamic historical narratives
… the inaccuracies and contradictions in the early Islamic narratives and sources with regard to the first Islamic conquest of Aelia (Islamic Jerusalem). The study attempts to establish new evedence and to develop new evidence for anacademic debate concerning the early Islamic history of …
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The role of the Friday Mosque (Al-Jami) in Islamic cities
This paper studies four prototypical models of early Islamic cities, namely Al-Basrah, Al-Kufah, Baghdad, and Damascus, and the different elements of which they were composed, with emphasis on Al-Jami (Friday mosque). It analyzes the importance of Al-Jami in the formation of these cities, the role …
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Misplaced Methodologies: The Legal Hermeneutics of Muḥammad b. al Ḥasan al-Shaybānῑ (d.189/804)
As a student of Islamic law, one quickly comes to the realisation that much of the historiography of early Islamic law reads like a love letter to Muḥammad b. al-Idrῑs al-Shāfiʿῑ (d.204/820). Such renditions remain as an ode to the ‘master architect,’ the ‘deus ex machina’ who emerged victorious at …
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Local Elites, Empires, and Responses to the Rise of Islam in the Roman-Sasanian Northern Frontier Region, 640-726
… of non-Muslim populations to the seventh-century Islamic conquests. It focuses upon historic Armenia and Caucasian Albania—areas which, in the decades immediately prior to the early Islamic conquests, had been situated within a contested ‘northern frontier region’ between the Sasanian and Roman …
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Caliphs, Governors and their Administrators in Early Islam A Prosopographical Approach (AH 24–36/644–661 CE)
… “Caliphs, Governors, and their Administrators in Early Islam: A Prosopographical Approach AH 24–41/644–661 CE,” offers a fresh perspective on early Islamic history by examining the broader social and political networks that underpin the power and influence of historical figures. It uses …
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Knowledge and the City: Redefining Islamic Urbanism, 762–1067
… demonstrates that the rapid urbanization of the Islamic world in its first five centuries can be attributed in part to the development of an independent class of city administrators who ensured that urban life thrived even in the most tumultuous of political times. This dissertation subverts …
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At the Sea's Edge: Revisiting the Origins of Native Seamanship in Southern Arabia
Research into the pre-Islamic Arabs has posited an autochthonous, maritime tradition in Southern Arabia which provided the foundation for effective use of sea power within the early Islamic state. Using historical and archaeological evidence, the existence of such a tradition is reexamined within …
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Ghazal Poetry and the Marwanids: A study of Kuthayyir Azza
… rise of monothematic love poetry in the pre- and early Islamic period, and offers a new perspective on the relationship between poetry and power, between early Islamic rituals (such as the performance of the Hajj) and rightful claims to rulership, and between cognate motifs in Umayyad poetry and …
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Out of antiquity : Umayyad baths in context
… between the art and architecture of the early Islamic period to those of pre-Islamic Bilad al-Sham (the region encompassing the modem-day countries of Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and Israel), and focuses on the Umayyad bathhouse as a paradigm through which this relationship is …
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