Najam Haider

Gebundenes Buch

The Rebel and the Imam in Early Islam

Beschreibung

Drawing on case studies from Islamic history, Haider challenges assumptions about the nature of the sources shaping understandings of the early Muslim world.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 616g
• ISBN-13: 9781107026056
• ISBN-10: 1107026059
• Artikelnr.: 55731689