Classical Arabic biography
להגדלת הטקסט להקטנת הטקסט- ספר
Pre-modern Arabic biography has served as a major source for the history of Islamic civilization. In this 2000 study exploring the origins and development of classical Arabic biography, Michael Cooperson demonstrates how Muslim scholars used the notions of heirship and transmission to document the activities of political, scholarly and religious communities. The author also explains how medieval Arab scholars used biography to tell the life-stories of important historical figures by examining the careers of the Abbasid Caliph al- Ma'mun, the Shiite Imam Ali al-Rida, the Sunni scholar Ahmad Ibn Hanbal and the ascetic Bishr al-Hafi, each of whom represented a tradition of political and spiritual heirship to the Prophet. Drawing on anthropology and comparative religion, as well as history and literary criticism, the book considers how each figure responded to the presence of the others and how these responses were preserved by posterity.
כותר |
Classical Arabic biography : the heirs of the prophets in the age of al-Maʼmūn / Michael Cooperson. |
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מהדורה |
1st ed. |
מוציא לאור |
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press |
שנה |
2000 |
הערות |
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-210) and index. English |
הערת תוכן ותקציר |
Preliminaries Contents Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations Note on transliteration Note on dating systems Glossary CHAPTER 1 The development of the genre CHAPTER 2 The caliph al-Ma'mun CHAPTER 3 The Imam 'Ali al-Rida CHAPTER 4 The Hadith-scholar Ahmad Ibn Hanbal CHAPTER 5 The renunciant Bishr al-Hafi Conclusions Appendix: The circumstances of 'Ali al-Rida's death Bibliography Index Titles in the series |
סדרה |
Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization |
היקף החומר |
1 online resource (xxii, 217 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). |
שפה |
אנגלית |
מספר מערכת |
997010702731505171 |
תצוגת MARC
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