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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Islamic History"”.
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THE APPROPRIATION OF ISLAMIC HISTORY AND AHL AL-BAYTISM IN OTTOMAN HISTORICAL WRITING, 1300-1650
… that deal directly with narratives of early Islamic history. It specifically deals with the representations of the formative events of early Islamic history. Through the lenses of universal histories, biographies of Muhammad, religious treatieses and other narrative sources, this study …
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Caliphs, Governors and their Administrators in Early Islam A Prosopographical Approach (AH 24–36/644–661 CE)
… 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 prosopography – a study of collective biography and social network theory – to reshape our understanding of …
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Khadīja and ʻĀ’isha: a study of premodern and modern scholarly portrayals
… of two of the most influential women in Islamic history: Khadīja bint Khuwaylid and ‘A̅’isha bint Abū Bakr. This paper will outline the descriptions of these women made by both premodern and modern scholars. The eighth volume of Muḥammad Ibn Sa‘d’s Al-Ṭabaqa̅t al-Kubrá and Badr al-Dīn …
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Wives, Witches, And Warriors: Women In Arabic Popular Epic
… works also created during the Middle Periods of Islamic history, we can conclude that the modern perception of women being confined to the private sphere and thus invisible in medieval Arabic literary production is based on ignorance of their ubiquitous and complex roles in more popular forms of …
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On Prophecy and Revelation in the Virtuous City: Towards Establishing a Viable Framework for Re-Contextualizing al-Fārābī
… member of the community of Muslims who founded Islamic Philosophy. In his tenth-century work, On the Perfect State, al-Fārābī tackles questions of eminent importance to society of Muslims still deciding who they were. These questions and their inevitable solutions were, for a time, a source of …
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The shadow of Muhammed : developing a charismatic leadership model for the Islamic world
… or an example of a recurring type in the Islamic world. This thesis proposes that a specific, recurring type of charismatic religio-political leadership - first exhibited by Muhammad, the prophet and founder of Islam - has proven to be spectacularly successful throughout Islamic history. …
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How Mediation Can be a Viable Alternative for Litigation and Arbitration of Commercial Disputes in Saudi Arabia
… of mediation, the paper traces historic and Islamic history and precedents of mediation, its limited current role, as well as the roots of both litigation and arbitration and their contemporary use in Saudi jurisprudence. The modernity of the judiciary is, at the same time, confronting the …
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A perspective on Islamic legal methodology in terms of objectives of law: (a comparative analysis with special reference to English equity and Istihsan)
This study examines the development of Islamic legal methodology in terms of the principles laid down by the Prophet and strictly followed by the companions. These principles manifest an underlying theme or objective for the development of Islamic legal methodology: the law must be interpreted in …
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The Effect of the Sunni-Shi'a Conflict in Shaping Arab Countries' Response to the Shi'a Crescent and a Nuclearizing Iran
… an Arab country for the first time in Arab-Islamic history, when the Iraq War removed Saddam Hussein's Sunni regime from power in Iraq. This rise of Shi'as' political power in Iraq overlapped with the "re-revolutionizing” of Iran in 2005, as Shi'ite fundamentalists regained power in Iran and …
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A political study of al-Mawardi with special reference to the concept of legitimacy
… but also with regard to the governments of past Islamic history. The study will also examine various responsibilities of the ruler as well as his concept of political change in a broad context. The material has been divided into six chapters and a conclusion. The first chapter deals with the …
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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 Aelia. It …
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The Literary Role of Jews in Qur'anic Exegesis
… relations, the development of Sunnī Islamic views, Islamic history (750-1400 CE), Christian and Muslim anti-Jewish polemical literature (and how they may be linked), and Islamic theological conceptions of the People of the Book.
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Muslim Distinction: Imitation and the Anxiety of Jewish, Christian, and Other Influences
… Jews, Christians, and others across pre-modern Islamic history. First, I argue that this discourse functions as a prism through which to view the interplay of religion and politics; a key function of both empire and religion in a pre-modern Muslim context was to uphold hierarchical social …
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Glass beads as indicators of contact and trade in Southern Africa ca. AD 900 - AD 1250
… any kind were very rare. From ca. AD 900-1000, Islamic influences spread southward along the African east coast. This coincided with the marked increase of glass beads found in southern Africa. Their presence is direct evidence of foreign industry, external trade and contact. The beads are …
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Salvation in Times of Survival: The Singular Voice of a Crypto-Muslim Scholar in Sixteenth Century Spain
… colonial imaginaries and their attendant anti-Islamic rhetoric amidst a time of growing inquisitorial surveillance and oppression? This dissertation examines the ways in which one crypto Muslim scholar living in sixteenth century Spain, the Mancebo de Arévalo, articulated a sovereign and …
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The Edge of Glory: The ʿAbbāsid Turkic Guard in Third/Ninth-Century Praise Writing
This thesis assesses praise writing on the ʿAbbāsid Turkic guard across the third/ninth century, from the foundation of the guard to the semi-independent Ṭūlūnid dynasty. Chronicles and geographic writing from the third/ninth and fourth/tenth centuries are quick to cast the Turks as the ‘Other’, …
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The Functions of Colour in the Age of Iconoclasm, ca. 691—867
… including recent development in ‘Chromatic History’. Chapter Two then introduces some of the crucial dynamics of Byzantine colour and vision, and explores their relationships to ideas in the surviving iconoclast theology. Chapter Three evaluates how this theory compares with evidence of …
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Defying distance : remembrance, narration, and the gender imaginary in Assia Djebar’s Loin de Médine
… from Madina), a novel that re-imagines the early Islamic past through women’s perspectives. Djebar framed the work as an inspired re-reading of the earliest Sunni historiography compendiums: Ibn Hishām’s (d. 828-835) prophetic biography, the biographical dictionary of Ibn Saʿd (d. 845), and the …
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Traditions of Learning in Fāṭimid Ifrīqiya (296-362/909-973): Networks, Practices, and Institutions
This thesis explores the practices, networks, and institutions of learning (ʿilm) in Fāṭimid Ifrīqiya with a focus on the practice of disputation (munāẓara) in its scholarly and courtly contexts — in the majālis — and the relationship between the learned elite of Ifrīqiya and the ruling Fāṭimid …
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