Public Violence in Islamic Societies (eBook, PDF)

Power, Discipline, and the Construction of the Public Sphere, 7th-19th Centuries CE
Redaktion: Lange, Christian; Fierro, Maribel

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Produktbeschreibung

This exploration of the role of violence in the history of Islamic societies considers the subject particularly in the context of its implementation as a political strategy to claim power over the public sphere.Violence, both among Muslims and between Muslims and non-Muslims, has been the object of research in the past, as in the case of jihad, martyrdom, rebellion or criminal law. This book goes beyond these concerns in addressing, in a comprehensive and cross-disciplinary fashion, how violence has functioned as a basic principle of Islamic social and political organization in a variety of historical and geographical contexts.Contributions trace the use of violence by governments in the history of Islam, shed light on legal views of violence, and discuss artistic and religious responses. Authors lay out a spectrum of attitudes rather than trying to define an Islamic doctrine of violence. Bringing together some of the most substantive and innovative scholarship on this important topic to date, this volume contributes to the growing interest, both scholarly and general, in the question of Muslim attitudes toward violence.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748637331
• Artikelnr.: 42372162

Autorenporträt

Christian Lange is Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He is author of Justice, Punishment and the Medieval Muslim Imagination (2008) and co-editor (with Maribel Fierro) of Public Violence in Islamic Societies: Power, Discipline and the Construction of the Public Sphere, 7th-19th Centuries (EUP, 2009). Maribel Fierro is Research Professor at the Center of Human and Social Sciences - Higher Council for Scientific Research (Spain). Her main areas of interest are Islamic law and religion, and the history of the Islamic West. She is the author of Abd al-Rahman III, The first Cordoban caliph (Oneworld, 2005) and the co-editor of Los almohades: problemas y perspectivas (Madrid: CSIC / Casa de Velázquez, 2005). She is sectorial editor (Religious Sciences) of the third edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Spatial, Ritual and Representational Aspects of Public
Violence in Islamic Societies (7th-19th Centuries CE); Part I: Public
Violence and the construction of the public sphere; 1. The Case of Ja'd b.
Dirham and the Punishment of Heretics in the Early Caliphate, Gerald
Hawting; 2. Qadis and the Political Use of the Mazalim Jurisdiction under
the Abbasids, Mathieu Tillier; 3. The Fatimids (297-567/909-1171): From
Revolutionary Violence to State Violence, Yaacov Lev; 4. Actions Speak
Louder Than Words: Reactions to Lampoons and Abusive Poetry in Medieval
Arabic Society, Zoltan Szombathy; Part II: Ritual Dimensions of Violence;
5. Reveal or Conceal: Public Humiliation and Banishment as Punishments in
Early Islamic Times, Everett Rowson; 6. Emulating Abraham: The Fatimid
al-Qa'im and the Umayyad 'Abd al-Rahman III, Maribel Fierro; 7. Where on
Earth is Hell? State Punishment and Eschatology in the Islamic Middle
Period, Christian Lange; 8. Justice, Crime and Punishment in
Eleventh/Seventeenth-Century Morocco, Fernando Rodriguez Mediano; Part III:
Representations of Public Violence; 9. Responses to Crucifixion in the
Islamic World (1st-7th/7th-13th Centuries), Tilman Seidensticker; 10.
Public Violence and the Prince: The Case of the Aghlabid Amir Ibrahim II
(261-89/875-902), Annliese Nef; 11. Concepts of Justice and the Catalogue
of Punishments under the Sultans of Delhi (7th-8th/13th-14th Centuries),
Blain Auer; 12. Public Violence, State Legitimacy: The Iqamat al-hudud and
the Sacred State, Robert Gleave; 13. Violence in Islamic Societies through
the Eyes of Non-Muslim Travellers: Morocco in the 19th and Early 20th
Centuries, Manuela Marin.