Living Islamic History : Studies in Honour of Professor Carole Hillenbrand.

Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Professor Carole Hillenbrand: List of Publications -- Preface -- 1. The Origin of Key Shi ite Thought Patterns in Islamic History -- 2. Additions to The New Islamic Dynasties -- 3. Al-Tha alibi's Adab al-muluk, a Local Mirror for Princes -- 4. Religious Identity, Dissimulation and Assimilation: the Ismaili Experience -- 5. Saladin's Pious Foundations in Damascus: Some New Hypotheses -- 6. The Coming of Islam to Bukhara -- 7. A Barmecide Feast: the Downfall of the Barmakids in Popular Imagination -- 8. The History of the Patriarchs of the Egyptian Church as a Source for the History of the Seljuks of Anatolia -- 9. Genealogy and Exemplary Rulership in the Tarikh-i Chingiz Khan -- 10. Vikings and Rus in Arabic Sources -- 11. Qashani and Rashid al-Din on the Seljuqs of Iran -- 12. Exile and Return: Diasporas of the Secular and Sacred Mind -- 13. Clerical Perceptions of Sufi Practices in Late Seventeenth-Century Persia, II: Al-Hurr al-Amili (d. 1693) and the Debate on the Permissibility of Ghina -- 14. On Sunni Sectarianism -- 15. The Violence of the Abbasid Revolution -- 16. Nationalist Poetry, Conflict and Meta-linguistic Discourse -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.

This book gathers original research from a range of leading international scholars from the UK, Europe and the USA, throwing new light on a set of topics in medieval Islamic history, Islamic doctrine and practice, and the interaction between Islam and the modern world.

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