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Author : Jan-Olaf Blichfeldt
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Islam and politics
ISBN : 9004076433
Author : Blichfeldt
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004661875
Author : Jamel Velji
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780748690893
Explores the role of apocalyptic symbolism in the formation and maintenance of a medieval Islamic empireHow can religion transform a society? This book investigates the ways in which a medieval Islamic movement harnessed Quranic visions of utopia to construct one of the most brilliant and lasting empires in Islamic history (979-1171). The Fatimids apocalyptic vision of their central place in an imminent utopia played a critical role in transfiguring the intellectual and political terrains of North Africa in the early tenth century. Yet the realities that they faced on the ground often challenged their status as the custodians of a pristine Islam at the end of time.Through a detailed examination of some of the structural features of the Fatimid revolution, as well as early works of ta'wil, or symbolic interpretation, Jamel Velji illustrates how the Fatimids conceived of their mission as one that would bring about an imminent utopia. He then examines how the Fatimids reinterpreted their place in history when the expected end never materialised. The book ends with an extensive discussion of another apocalyptic event linked to a Fatimid lineage: the Nizari Ismaili declaration of the end of time on August 8, 1164.Key featuresIntroduces selected themes, texts and theoretical problems in early Fatimid history and thought to those unfamiliar with Islam or the Shia tradition Explores the nature of apocalyptic rhetoric, what constitutes an apocalypse and how apocalyptic prophecies can be reinterpretedUses techniques from religious studies and rhetorical analysis on data from the Fatimid tradition, showing how Islam can contribute to broader discussions in the history of religionsContains extensive translations from two Fatimid texts, including: the Kitab al-Kashf (Book of unveiling), and Qadi l-Nu'mans Ta'wil al-da'a'im (Symbolic interpretation of his Pillars of Islam)
Author : Ian Knight
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472845627
In the early 1880s, Britain intervened in independent Egypt and seized control of the Suez Canal. British forces were soon deployed to Egypt's southern colony, the Sudan, where they confronted a determined and capable foe amid some of the world's most inhospitable terrain. In 1881 an Islamic fundamentalist revolt had broken out in the Sudan, led by a religious teacher named Muhammad Ahmad bin Abd Allah, who proclaimed himself al-Mahdi, 'The Guided One'. In 1884, Mahdist forces besieged the Sudanese capital of Khartoum; Colonel Charles Gordon was sent to the city with orders to evacuate British personnel, but refused to leave. Although the British despatched a relief column to rescue Gordon, the Mahdists stormed Khartoum in January 1885 and he was killed. British troops abandoned much of the Sudan, but renewed their efforts to reconquer it in the late 1890s, in a bloody campaign that would decide the region's fate for generations. Written by leading expert Ian Knight, this fully illustrated study examines the evolving forces, weapons and tactics employed by both sides in the Sudan, notably at the battles of Abu Klea (16–18 January 1885), Tofrek (22 March 1885) and Atbara (8 April 1898).
Author : Johann Christoph Bürgel
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Islam and politics
ISBN : 9004077073
Author : J. Halverson,S. Corman,H. L. Goodall
Publisher : Springer
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230117235
This volume introduces the concept of Islamist extremist 'master narratives' and offers a method for identifying and analyzing them. Drawing on rhetorical and narrative theories, the chapters examine thirteen master narratives and explain how extremists use them to solidify their base, recruit new members, and motivate actions.
Author : Laurent Murawiec
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008-08-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139474627
This book examines contemporary jihad as a cult of violence and power. All jihadi groups, whether Shiite or Sunni, Arab or not, are characterized by a similar bloodlust. Murawiec characterizes this belief structure as identical to that of Europe's medieval millenarians and apocalyptics, arguing that both jihadis and their European cousins shared in a Gnostic ideology: a God-given mission endowed the Elect with supernatural powers and placed them above the common law of mankind. Although the ideology of jihad is essentially Islamic, Murawiec traces the political technologies used by modern jihad to the Bolsheviks. Their doctrines of terror as a system of rule were appropriated by radical Islam through multiple lines of communication. This book brings history, anthropology, and theology to bear to understand the mind of jihad that has declared war on the West and the world.
Author : David Emmanuel Singh
Publisher : David Emmanuel Singh
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Authority
ISBN : 8172147287
Author : Hassan Ahmed Ibrahim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004138544
This is an engrossing analysis of ?Abd al-Ra?m?n al-Mahd?'s initiative to abandon the futile political violence and religious fanaticism of the 19th century historic Mahdiyya. It articulates his alternative constitutional strategy that has placed Neo-Mahdism in the centre stage of Sudanese politics.
Author : Various
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 5461 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351002257
The 16 volumes in this set, originally published between 1919 and 1998, draw together research by leading academics in the area of World Empires and provide an examination of related key issues. The books examine French Colonialism, the German Empire, and the Ottoman Empire, as well as the effect European colonialism had in Africa and Asia. This set will be of particular interest to students of world history.
Author : Omid Ghaemmaghami
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-29
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004413153
In Encounters with the Hidden Imam in Early and Pre-Modern Twelver Shīʿī Islam, Omid Ghaemmaghami traces the history of one of the core ideas that animate and form the highly influential and instrumental belief in the Hidden Imam, the central figure of Twelver Shīʿī messianic expectation.
Author : Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791494790
The Imam, the Divine Guide, is the central point around which the Shi'ite religion turns. The power of Shi'ism comes from the actions of the Imam. This title is reserved exclusively for the sucessors of the prophets in their mission. The author shows that from the beginning of Shi'ite Islam until the tenth century, the Imam was primarily a master of knowledge with supernatural powers, not a jurist theologian. The Imam is the threshold through which God and the creatures communicate. He is thus a cosmic necessity, the key and the center of the universal economy of the sacred. The author presents Shi'ism as a religion founded on double dimensions where the role of the leader remains constantly central: perpetual initiation into divine secrets and continued confrontation with anti-initiation forces. Without esotericism, exotericism loses its meaning. Early Imamism is an esoteric doctrine. Historically, then, at the beginning of esotericism in Islam, we find an initiatory, mystical, and occultist doctrine. This is the first book to systematically explore the immense literature attributed to the Imams themselves in order to recover the authentic original vision. It restores an essential source of esotericism in the world of Islam.
Author : Maribel Fierro
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780861541928
‘Abd al-Mu’min (c.1094–1163) did not establish the first caliphate in the Islamic West, but his encompassed more territory than any that had preceded it. As leader of the Almohads, a politico-religious movement grounded in an uncompromising belief in the unity of God, he unified for the first time the whole of North Africa west of Egypt, and conquered much of southern Spain. Studying every facet of ‘Abd al-Mu’min’s rule, from his violent repression of opposition to the flourishing of scholarship during his reign, Maribel Fierro reveals an intelligent leader and a skilled military commander who sought to build a lasting caliphate across disparate and diverse societies.
Author : Yedida K Stillman,Norman A Stillman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 589 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789004679214
This rich, interdisciplinary collection of articles offers fascinating new insights into the history and culture of Sephardic Jewry both in pre-Expulsion Iberia and throughout the far-flung diaspora.
Author : Veronika Wieser,Vincent Eltschinger,Johann Heiss
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 1181 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110593587
In all religions, in the medieval West as in the East, ideas about the past, the present and the future were shaped by expectations related to the End. The volumes Cultures of Eschatology explore the many ways apocalyptic thought and visions of the end intersected with the development of pre-modern religio-political communities, with social changes and with the emergence of new intellectual and literary traditions. The two volumes present a wide variety of case studies from the early Christian communities of Antiquity, through the times of the Islamic invasion and the Crusades and up to modern receptions, from the Latin West to the Byzantine Empire, from South Yemen to the Hidden Lands of Tibetan Buddhism. Examining apocalypticism, messianism and eschatology in medieval Christian, Islamic, Hindu and Buddhist communities, the contributions paint a multi-faceted picture of End-Time scenarios and provide their readers with a broad array of source material from different historical contexts. The first volume, Empires and Scriptural Authorities, examines the formation of literary and visual apocalyptic traditions, and the role they played as vehicles for defining a community’s religious and political enemies. The second volume, Time, Death and Afterlife, focuses on key topics of eschatology: death, judgment, afterlife and the perception of time and its end. It also analyses modern readings and interpretations of eschatological concepts.
