The Crisis of Muslim History: Religion And Politics in Early Islam - Brossura

Ayoub, Mahmoud M.

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ISBN 10: 1851683968 ISBN 13: 9781851683963

Casa editrice: Oneworld Pubns Ltd, 2005

Riassunto

This balanced and sensitive study draws on a wide range of original sources to provide a scholarly yet highly readable account of the period, exploring the delicate interplay between religion and politics and the roots of the conflict that led to the Crisis of Succession and Sunni/Shii schism.

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L'autore:

Author Mahmoud Ayoub is Professor of Islamic Studies for the Department of Religion at Temple University and Research Fellow at the Middle East Center of the University of Pennsylvania. He has lectured at universities around the world, is Editorial Consultant of The Muslim World Journal, and the author of several books and numerous articles.

Product Description:

This new study of the Islamic tradition''s earliest years presents the key events, individuals, and social-political conditions which defined the era of the first Four Caliphs (from the death of the Prophet to that of Ali, thirty years later), and which led to the Sunni/Shi''i schism and the Crisis of Succession. In an objective and thoroughly researched book representing both Sunni and Shi''i perspectives, Mahmoud M. Ayoub has drawn on a wide range of primary materials from this period, which explain the various sources of the violent struggles and dissension characterizing this time. Covering everything from the first caliphate of Abu Bakr to the Battles of the Camel and Siffin, it is essential reading for all students and scholars of Islamic studies and of the formative years of the Muslim tradition.

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• Editore: Oneworld Pubns Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1851683968
• ISBN 13: 9781851683963
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 224