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Classical Arabic Biography

Name: Classical Arabic Biography
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 02039667
Price: 137.89 EUR
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Author: Michael Cooperson
ISBN: 9780521661997

The Heirs of the Prophets in the Age of al-Ma'mun

Michael Cooperson

Language

English

Book Hardback

Libristo code: 02039667

Publishers Cambridge University Press, May 2000

Pre-modern Arabic biography has served as a major source for the history of Islamic civilization. In... Full description

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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.