The Rebel and the Imãm in Early Islam
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-70814-2 (ISBN)
Engaging with contemporary debates about the sources that shape our understanding of the early Muslim world, Najam Haider proposes a new model for Muslim historical writing that draws on Late Antique historiography to challenge the imposition of modern notions of history on a pre-modern society. Haider discusses three key case studies - the revolt of Mukhtar b. Abi 'Ubayd (d. 67/687), the life of the Twelver Shi'i Imam Musa al-Kazim (d. 183/799) and the rebellion and subsequent death of the Zaydi Shi'i Imam Yahya b. 'Abd Allah (d. 187/803) - in calling for a new line of inquiry which focuses on larger historiographical questions. What were the rules that governed historical writing in the early Muslim world? What were the intended audiences for these works? In the process, he rejects artificial divisions between Sunni and Shi'i historical writing.
Najam Haider is a Professor in the Department of Religion at Barnard College, New York. He is the author of The Origins of the Shi'a (Cambridge, 2011) focusing on the role of ritual and sacred space in the formation of Shi'i identity and Shi'i Islam (Cambridge, 2014) which examines three branches of Shi'i Islam – Zaydi, Twelver, and Ismaili, through a framework of memory. He has travelled extensively in the Middle East, including Syria where he was a Fulbright scholar and Yemen where he studied with traditional Zaydi scholars.
1. Modeling Islamic historical writing; 2. The rise and fall of Mukhtâr b. Abî 'Ubayd (d. 67/687); 3. The life of Mûsâ b. Ja'far al-Kâẓim (d. 183/799); 4. The last years of Yaḥyâ b. 'Abd Allâh (d. 187/803); 5. Reconsideration; Appendix. The narrative elements of Mukhtâr's revolt.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 21.10.2020 |
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| Zusatzinfo | Worked examples or Exercises |
| Verlagsort | Cambridge |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 150 x 230 mm |
| Gewicht | 470 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-108-70814-5 / 1108708145 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-108-70814-2 / 9781108708142 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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