Kategoria BISAC: Religion >> Islam - History

In Islam Translated, Ronit Ricci uses the Book of One Thousand Questions--from its Arabic original to its adaptations into the Javanese, Malay, and Tamil languages between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries--as a means to consider...

What historian decided that Alexander of Macedonia was "Great"? How do people with only an outsider's view become "cultural experts" whose views are splashed across the airwaves? How do we decide what stories are relevant to our lives? In "The Rise of Revolutionary Islam," the essays of David Grad ask - and attempt to answer - many of those same questions. Grad puts his immense base of knowledge to good use as he examines the very beginnings of "history." He looks into why it is that one of the biggest stories in Judeo-Christian history is frequently taught only once a year. And he spends...

The emergence of Islam in the seventh century AD still polarises scholars who seek to separate religious truth from the historical reality with which it is associated. However, history and prophecy are not solely defined by positive evidence or apocalyptic truth, but by human subjects, who consider them to convey distinct messages and in turn make these messages meaningful to others. These messages are mutually interdependent, and analysed together provide new insights into history.

It is by way of this concept that Olof Heilo presents the decline of the Eastern Roman Empire as a...

Also in this issue past and present explorations of Lahore, Melbourne, Istanbul, a photo essay on the dreams of the...

This book traces the global, national, and local origins of the conflict between Muslims and Jews in France, challenging the belief that rising anti-Semitism in France is rooted solely in the unfolding crisis in Israel and Palestine. Maud Mandel shows how the conflict in fact emerged from processes internal to French society itself even as it was shaped by affairs elsewhere, particularly in North Africa during the era of decolonization.

Mandel examines moments in which conflicts between Muslims and Jews became a matter of concern to French police, the media, and an array of...

First published in 1994, this volume brings together essays from the celebrated scholar of African history, Nehemia Levtzion. The articles cover a wide range of themes including Islamization, Islam in politics, Islamic revolutions and the work of the historian in studying this field. This collection is a rich source of supplementary material to Professor Levtzion s major publications on Islam in West Africa.

This book will be of key interest to those studying Islamic and West African history. "