TY - BOOK AU - Hillenbrand,Carole AU - Suleiman,Yasir TI - Living Islamic history: studies in honour of Professor Carole Hillenbrand SN - 0748642196 (electronic bk.) AV - BP50 .L58 2010eb U1 - 297.09 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Edinburgh PB - Edinburgh University Press KW - Islam KW - History KW - Islam and culture KW - RELIGION / Fundamentalism KW - bisacsh KW - RELIGION / Islam / History KW - Electronic books N1 - Festschrift for Carole Hillenbrand; Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-308) and index; The origin of key Shiʻite thought patterns in Islamic history; Adel S. al-Abdul Jader --; Additions to The new Islamic dynasties; C. Edmund Bosworth --; Al-Thaʻalibi's Adab al-muluk, a local mirror for princes; Julia Bray --; Religious identity, dissimulation and assimilation; the Ismaili experience; Farhad Daftary --; Saladin's pious foundations in Damascus; some new hypotheses; Anne-Marie Eddé --; The coming of Islam to Bukhara; Hugh Kennedy --; A Barmecide feast; the downfall of the Barmakids in popular imagination; Remke Kruk --; The History of the patriarchs of the Egyptian Church as a source for the history of the Seljuks of Anatolia; Gary Leiser --; Genealogy and exemplary rulership in the Tarikh-i Chingiz Khan; Charles Melville --; Vikings and Rus in Arabic sources; James E. Montgomery --; Qashani and Rashid al-Din on the Seljuqs of Iran; Alexander H. Morton --; Exile and return; diasporas of the secular and sacred mind; Ian Richard Netton --; 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; Andrew J. Newman --; On Sunni sectarianism; A. Kevin Reinhart --; The violence of the Abbasid revolution; Chase F. Robinson --; Nationalist poetry, conflict and meta-linguistic discourse; Yasir Suleiman N2 - 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 UR - http://site.ebrary.com/id/10433750 UR - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=488683 ER -