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Classical Arabic Biography: The Heirs of the Prophets in the Age of al-Ma'mun(Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization)

Classical Arabic Biography: The Heirs of the Prophets in the Age of al-Ma'mun(Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization)


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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.

Table of Contents:
Preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Note on transliteration; Note on dating systems; Glossary; 1. The development of the genre; 2. The caliph al-Ma'mun; 3. The Imam 'Ali al'Rida; 4. The Hadith-scholar Ahmad Ibn Hanbal; 5. The renunciant Bishr al-Hafi; Conclusions; Appendix: the circumstances of 'Ali al-Rida's death; Bibliography; Index.

Review :
From the hardback review: 'Cooperson's book is elegantly written and a pleasure to read.' Journal of Islamic Law and Society From the hardback review: 'Cooperson's book is a careful study of an important theme and deserves to become a basic tool for scholars working in the fields of Early Abbasid period or biographical studies.' Journal of Islamic Law and Society


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780521088541
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Cambridge University Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 244
  • Returnable: N
  • Series Title: Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
  • Sub Title: The Heirs of the Prophets in the Age of al-Ma'mun
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0521088542
  • Publisher Date: 30 Oct 2008
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 14 mm
  • Weight: 412 gr


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