Islamic Legends
Author: Jan Knappert
Publisher: Brill Archive
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9789004074873
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Publisher: Brill Archive
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 9789004074873
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Publisher: Global Academic Publishing
Published: 2001-01-01
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9781586841324
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →English translation and introductory study of a previously unedited Hispano-Arabic legend of Alexander the Great.
Author: A. F. L. Beeston
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1983-11-03
Total Pages: 567
ISBN-13: 0521240158
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The History provides an invaluable source of reference of the intellectual, literary and religious heritage of the Arabic-speaking and Islamic world.
Author: Knappert
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-09-20
Total Pages: 323
ISBN-13: 9004668454
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2023-09-25
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 9004668462
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Reuven Firestone
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 1990-01-01
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780791403310
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Scholars have long pointed to the great affinity between stories found in the Bible and the Qur'an, yet no explanation has been proposed that satisfactorily explains the odd combination of incredible likeness and unique divergence. Firestone provides a refreshing, new approach to scriptural issues of textuality, exegesis, and the origins and use of legend. This book clearly presents the full range of Islamic legends from the Qur'an and early Islamic exegesis about Abraham's journeys and adventures in the Land of Canaan and Arabia, many of them available for the first time in English translation. The author examines this broad sample of Islamic legends in relation to those found in Jewish, Christian, and pre-Islamic Arabian communities, and postulates an evolutionary journey of the literature. He presents a thorough textual analysis of the material and proposes a model for understanding early Islamic narrative based in literary theory, approaches to comparative religion, and the history of the pre-Islamic and early Islamic Middle East.
Author: Amira El-Zein
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Published: 2009-10-16
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 0815650701
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →According to the Qur’an, God created two parallel species, man and the jinn, the former from clay and the latter from fire. Beliefs regarding the jinn are deeply integrated into Muslim culture and religion, and have a constant presence in legends, myths, poetry, and literature. In Islam, Arabs, and the Intelligent World of the Jinn, Amira El-Zein explores the integral role these mythological figures play, revealing that the concept of jinn is fundamental to understanding Muslim culture and tradition.
Author: Dario Fernandez-Morera
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2023-07-11
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 1684516293
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A finalist for World Magazine's Book of the Year! Scholars, journalists, and even politicians uphold Muslim-ruled medieval Spain—"al-Andalus"—as a multicultural paradise, a place where Muslims, Christians, and Jews lived in harmony. There is only one problem with this widely accepted account: it is a myth. In this groundbreaking book, Northwestern University scholar Darío Fernández-Morera tells the full story of Islamic Spain. The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise shines light on hidden history by drawing on an abundance of primary sources that scholars have ignored, as well as archaeological evidence only recently unearthed. This supposed beacon of peaceful coexistence began, of course, with the Islamic Caliphate's conquest of Spain. Far from a land of religious tolerance, Islamic Spain was marked by religious and therefore cultural repression in all areas of life and the marginalization of Christians and other groups—all this in the service of social control by autocratic rulers and a class of religious authorities. The Myth of the Andalusian Paradise provides a desperately needed reassessment of medieval Spain. As professors, politicians, and pundits continue to celebrate Islamic Spain for its "multiculturalism" and "diversity," Fernández-Morera sets the historical record straight—showing that a politically useful myth is a myth nonetheless.
Author: Itzchak Weismann
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-05-06
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 1317112210
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Islamic myths and collective memory are very much alive in today’s localized struggles for identity, and are deployed in the ongoing construction of worldwide cultural networks. This book brings the theoretical perspectives of myth-making and collective memory to the study of Islam and globalization and to the study of the place of the mass media in the contemporary Islamic resurgence. It explores the annulment of spatial and temporal distance by globalization and by the communications revolution underlying it, and how this has affected the cherished myths and memories of the Muslim community. It shows how contemporary Islamic thinkers and movements respond to the challenges of globalization by preserving, reviving, reshaping, or transforming myths and memories.
Author: Bernard O’Kane
Publisher: Assouline Publishing
Published: 2019-06-01
Total Pages: 6
ISBN-13: 1614288429
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →While all mosques stem from a common tradition of reverence, differing sects, regions and practices have led to many innovations and novel architectural forms. Mosques is the latest addition to the “Ultimate collection,” and is a journey though centuries and continents that brings readers to the threshold of 100 of the world’s most historically significant buildings that are home to worshippers of the fastest growing, and second largest, religion in the world.