Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> Islam - History

A thrillingly panoramic and incredibly timely account of the rise of Islam, from the acclaimed author of Rubicon and Persian Fire.

The evolution of the Arab empire is one of the supreme narratives of ancient history, a story dazzlingly rich in drama, character, and achievement. In this exciting and sweeping history--the third in his trilogy of books on the ancient world--Holland describes how the Arabs emerged to carve out a stupefyingly vast dominion in a matter of decades, overcoming seemingly insuperable odds to create an imperial civilization aspects of which endure...

The Ottomans were newcomers to Southeast Europe when they first set foot on the Balkan Peninsula at the end of the 14th century, but they proceeded to dominate the region for almost 500 years. This work examines the history of political culture and migration during the Ottoman period.

Der Rationalismus ist ein zentraler Pfeiler des modernen okzidentalen Selbstverstandnisses. Der Begriff ist aber, wie eine postkoloniale Lekture des Begriffs in Max Webers religionsvergleichenden Studien zeigt, ebenso ein Instrument zur Hierarchisierung und Essentialisierung im interreligiosen und interkulturellen Vergleich. Dabei wendet sich der Rationalismusbegriff nicht nur in Gestalt des Orientalismus gegen den "irrationalen" Islam, sondern als dessen spiegelbildliche Ruckseite bestimmt er ebenso die idealisierte Selbstdarstellung des Westens als Okzidentalismus und marginalisiert...

"Making Moro"s offers a unique look at the colonization of Muslim subjects during the early years of American rule in the southern Philippines. Hawkins argues that the ethnological discovery, organization, and subsequent colonial engineering of Moros was highly contingent on developing notions of time, history, and evolution, which ultimately superseded simplistic notions about race. He also argues that this process was highly collaborative, with Moros participating, informing, guiding, and even investing in their configuration as modern subjects. Drawing on a wealth of archival sources...

Al-Andalus, the Arabic name for the medieval Islamic state in Iberia, endured for over 750 years following the Arab and Berber conquest of Hispania in 711. While the popular perception of al-Andalus is that of a land of religious tolerance and cultural cooperation, the fact is that we know relatively little about how Muslims governed Christians and Jews in al-Andalus and about social relations among Muslims, Christians, and Jews. In Defining Boundaries in al-Andalus, Janina M. Safran takes a close look at the structure and practice of Muslim political and legal-religious authority...

The question of how Islam arrived in India remains markedly contentious in South Asian politics. Standard accounts center on the Umayyad Caliphate's incursions into Sind and littoral western India in the eighth century CE. In this telling, Muslims were a foreign presence among native Hindus, sowing the seeds of a mutual animosity that presaged the subcontinent's partition into Pakistan and India many centuries later.

But in a compelling reexamination of the history of Islam in India, Manan Ahmed Asif directs attention to a thirteenth-century text that tells the story of Chach, the...