Genealogy and knowledge in Muslim societies : understanding the past /: understanding the past. ([2014])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Sarah Bowen Savant and Helena de Felipe.
• Editors: Savant, Sarah Bowen; Felipe, Helena de
• Contents: List of figures and tables -- Introduction / Sarah Bowen Savant and Helena de Felipe -- Part one. The generation of genealogical knowledge: 1. Keeping the Prophet's family alive: profile of a genealogical discipline / Kazuo Morimoto; 2. Motives and techniques of genealogical forgery in pre-modern Muslim societies / Zolt án Szombathy; 3. The genealogy of power and the power of genealogy in Morocco: history, imaginary and politics / Zakaria Rhani -- Part two: Empowering political and religious elites: 4. Berber leadership and genealogical legitimacy: the Almoravid case / Helena de Felipe; 5. Ways of connecting with the past: genealogies in Nasrid Granada / Maribel Fierro; 6. Embarrassing cousins: genealogical conundrums in the central Sahara / Judith Scheele -- Part three. Genealogy as a source for writing history: 7. Was Marwan ibn al-Hakam the first "real" Muslim? / Fred M. Donner; 8. Genealogy and ethnogenesis in al-Mas'udi's Muruj al-dhahab / Sarah Bowen Savant; 9. Genealogical prestige and marriage strategy among the Ahl al-Bayt: the case of the al-Sadr family in recent times / Raffaele Mauriello -- About the contributors.
• Publisher Details: Edinburgh [Scotland] : Edinburgh University Press in association with the Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (156 pages), illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 909.097671; Genealogy -- Religious aspects -- Islam; Kinship -- Religious aspects -- Islam; Muslims -- Intellectual life; Civilization; Intellectual life; Muslims -- Intellectual life; Islamic countries -- Intellectual life; Islamic countries -- Civilization; Islamic countries; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781785395451; 1785395459; 0748644989; 9780748644988
• Related ISBNs: 9780748644971; 0748644970
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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