Concept of Territory in Islamic Thought

ISBN-13: 9780710307255 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 206 str.

Yanagihashi Hiroyuki

Opis

This edited volume analyses the concepts of territory as conceived of and developed in Islamic history. In legal terms the world is divided into two parts, the dar al-Islam governed by the Islamic shari'a and the dar al-harb which is beyond the border of dar al-Islam. The work explores the central question of what the concepts of territory and border were like for those Muslims who were driven by their will to expand the dar al-Islam, those who experienced vicissitudes in the course of history, or who were inspired with mystical feelings.

Spis treści

Part One: Classical Concepts of Territory; From Dar al-Hijra to Dar aI-Islam: The Islamic Utopia; On the Burial of Martyrs in Islam; Solidarity in an Islamic Society: (A’saba, Family, and the Community; The Land of Love: Rumi's Concept of "Territory" in Islam; Part Two: Muslims in the Face of Dar al-Harb; Migration and Islamization in the Early Islamic Period: The Arab-Byzantine Border Area; Territorial Disputes Between Syrian Cities and the Early Crusaders: The Struggle for Economic and Political Dominance; Part Three: Transformation of the Concept of Territory; Territorial Expansion and Contraction in the Malay Islamic Traditional Polity as Reflected in Contemporary Thought and Administration; Writing the Boundary: Khitat al-Sham by Muhammad Kurd 'Ali

O autorze

Yanagihashi Hiroyuki