New interpretation of the historical thought of this great figure of Arab-Islamic letters and of historical thought overall. The author has eschewed the ahistorical interpretations to which Ibn Khaldū n has normally been subjected...more details Format:Paperback Pages:163
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Aziz Al-Azmeh
ISBN:9780521677516
Events over recent years have increased the global interest in Islam. This volume seeks to combat generalisations about the Muslim presence in Europe by illuminating its diversity across Europe and offering a more realistic...more details Format:Paperback Pages:223
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Aziz Al-Azmeh
ISBN:9780521860116
Events over recent years have increased the global interest in Islam. This volume seeks to combat generalisations about the Muslim presence in Europe by illuminating its diversity across Europe and offering a more realistic...more details Format:Hardback Pages:223
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Aziz Al-Azmeh
ISBN:9781844673841
The author aligns himself with an anti-essentialist stance, meaning that he rejects the idea that Islam is a fixed body of beliefs or practices. He attacks both fundamentalists and Orientalists for promoting such a misleading view of Islam. Instead...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:234
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Aziz Al-Azmeh
ISBN:9781844673858
The author aligns himself with an anti-essentialist stance, meaning that he rejects the idea that Islam is a fixed body of beliefs or practices. He attacks both fundamentalists and Orientalists for promoting such a misleading view of Islam. Instead...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:234
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Aziz Al-Azmeh
ISBN:9780860914518
The conflict between fundamentalist Islam and the West, highlighted by the fatwah on Salmon Rushdie, appears impossible to resolve. This book examines how much of this antipathy between the two cultures is based on shared romantic notions of unchanging cultural identity. Al-Azmeh shows that...more details Format:hardback Pages:160
The conflict between fundamentalist Islam and the West, highlighted by the fatwah on Salmon Rushdie, appears impossible to resolve. This book examines how much of this antipathy between the two cultures is based on shared romantic notions of unchanging cultural identity. Al-Azmeh shows that...more details Format:paperback Pages:160
This study outlines the main features of the theory and practice of political power in Muslim polities in the Middle Ages against the background of Near Eastern traditions of kingship...more details Format:Paperback Pages:320
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Aziz Al-Azmeh
ISBN:9781860640537
This study outlines the main features of the theory and practice of political power in Muslim polities in the Middle Ages against the background of Near Eastern traditions of kingship...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:288
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Aziz Al-Azmeh
ISBN:9789637326738
This is a collection of essays on current questions of historiography, illustrated with reference to Islamic historiography. The main concerns are conceptions of time and temporality...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:310
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Aziz Al-Azmeh;Janos M Bak
ISBN:9789637326059
This volume of essays intends to present diverse aspects of monotheistic kingship during the Middle Ages in two general-theoretical articles and a series of "case studies" on the relationship of religion and rulership. The authors discuss examples of the role of religion--based on both textual and iconic evidence--in Carolingian...more details Format:Paperback Pages:288