The Middle East remembered
The Middle East remembered: forged identities, competing narratives, contested spaces Jacob Lassner
Publisher: Ann Arbor [Mich.] : University of Michigan Press, c2000.
ISBN: 0472110837
LCC: DS35.65
Notes:
Includes bibliographic references (p. 387-420) and index.
The Early Abbasid Caliphs -- Islamic Themes -- Pt. 1. Competing
Narratives. Ch. 1. Reckoning Time, Recording History: The Formation
of Historical Consciousness in the Medieval Near East. Ch. 2.
Recovering the Early Islamic Past: Problems and Approaches to
Competing Narratives. Ch. 3. Dawlah: Transformative Politics and
Historical Memory -- Pt. 2. Contested Spaces. Ch. 4. Regionalism and
Regional Identities versus the Idealized Islamic Community (Ummah).
Ch. 5. The First "Islamic" Cities: Religion, Tribal Identities, and
Civic Organization. Ch. 6. The Emergence of the Imperial Center in
Islam: Identity Politics, Architecture, and Urban Space. Ch. 7. The
Road to Samarra: Clients, Slave Regiments, and the Failure of Central
Planning -- Pt. 3. Communal Identity, Narrative, and Competition for
Sacred Space. Ch. 8. The Dialectic of Jewish-Muslim Relations in the
Medieval Near East. Ch. 9. Ritual Purity and Political Exile: A Jew
in the Lands of Islam Explains the Babylonian Exile. Ch. 10.
Contested Narratives and Sacred Space: Muslim Texts, Jewish Subtexts.
Ch. 11. Joseph Sambari on Muhammad and the Origins of Islam: A
Learned Rabbi Confronts Muslim Apologetics and a Christian Polemical
Tradition.
Language: eng
Physical Description: xvii, 428 p. : ill., plans ; 25 cm.
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