Nancy Khalek

Damascus after the Muslim Conquest (eBook, ePUB)

Text and Image in Early Islam

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In Damascus after the Muslim Conquest, Nancy Khalek demonstrates that the changes that took place in Syria during the formative period of Islamic life were not a matter of the replacement of one civilization by another as a result of military conquest, but rather of shifting relationships and practices in a multi-faceted social and cultural setting.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP eBook
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190453749
• Artikelnr.: 42635989

Autorenporträt

Nancy Khalek is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Brown University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Chapter One: Narrative and Early Islamic History
* Chapter Two: Telling Stories: Historical Writing in Early Islamic
Syria
* Chapter Three: John the Baptist and Sanctified Spaces in Islamic
Syria
* Chapter Four: Iconic Texts: Damascus in the Medieval Imagination
* Afterword