Genealogy and knowledge in Muslim societies : understanding the past /: understanding the past. ([2014])
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Genealogy and knowledge in Muslim societies : understanding the past /: understanding the past. ([2014])
- Main Title:
- Genealogy and knowledge in Muslim societies : understanding the past
- 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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