Drawing on case studies from Islamic history, Haider challenges assumptions about the nature of the sources shaping understandings of the early Muslim world.
Drawing on case studies from Islamic history, Haider challenges assumptions about the nature of the sources shaping understandings of the early Muslim world.
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.
Inhaltsangabe
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-Kâ¿im (d. 183/799) 4. The last years of Yäyâ b. 'Abd Allâh (d. 187/803) 5. Reconsideration Appendix. The narrative elements of Mukhtâr's revolt.
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-Kâ¿im (d. 183/799) 4. The last years of Yäyâ b. 'Abd Allâh (d. 187/803) 5. Reconsideration Appendix. The narrative elements of Mukhtâr's revolt.
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