Living Islamic history studies in honour of Professor Carole Hillenbrand / [electronic resource] :
edited by Yasir Suleiman.
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2010.
- 1 online resource (xvii, 318 p.) : ill., maps, port.
Festschrift for Carole Hillenbrand.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-308) and index.
The origin of key Shiʻite thought patterns in Islamic history / Additions to The new Islamic dynasties / Al-Thaʻalibi's Adab al-muluk, a local mirror for princes / Religious identity, dissimulation and assimilation : the Ismaili experience / Saladin's pious foundations in Damascus : some new hypotheses / The coming of Islam to Bukhara / A Barmecide feast : the downfall of the Barmakids in popular imagination / The History of the patriarchs of the Egyptian Church as a source for the history of the Seljuks of Anatolia / Genealogy and exemplary rulership in the Tarikh-i Chingiz Khan / Vikings and Rus in Arabic sources / Qashani and Rashid al-Din on the Seljuqs of Iran / Exile and return : diasporas of the secular and sacred mind / Clerical perceptions of Sufi practices in late seventeenth-century Persia, II : Al-Hurr al-ʻAmili (d. 1693) and the debate on the permissibility of Ghina / On Sunni sectarianism / The violence of the Abbasid revolution / Nationalist poetry, conflict and meta-linguistic discourse / Adel S. al-Abdul Jader -- C. Edmund Bosworth -- Julia Bray -- Farhad Daftary -- Anne-Marie Eddé -- Hugh Kennedy -- Remke Kruk -- Gary Leiser -- Charles Melville -- James E. Montgomery -- Alexander H. Morton -- Ian Richard Netton -- Andrew J. Newman -- A. Kevin Reinhart -- Chase F. Robinson -- Yasir Suleiman.
This text gathers original research from a range of leading international scholars from the UK, Europe and the USA, throwing new light on a set of topics in medieval Islamic history Islamic doctrine and practice, and the interaction between Islam and the modern world.