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Islamic Tolerance

Amir Khusraw and Pluralism

By: Alyssa Gabbay

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Islamic Tolerance

Amir Khusraw and Pluralism

By: Alyssa Gabbay

Although pluralism and religious tolerance are most often associated today with Western Enlightenment thinkers, the roots of these ideologies stretch back to non-Western and premodern societies, including many under Muslim rule. This book explores the development of pluralism in Islam in South Asia through the work of the poet, historian and musician Amir Khusraw and sheds new light on how Islam developed its own culture of tolerance. Countering stereotypes of Islam as intrinsically intolerant, the book provides a better understanding of how rhetorics of pluralism develop, which may aid in identifying and encouraging such discourses in the present. Khusraw, a practicing Muslim who showed great affection toward Hindus and used much indigenous imagery in his poetry, is an ideal figure through whom to explore these issues. Addressing issues of ethnicity, religion and gender in the early medieval period, Alyssa Gabbay demonstrates the pre-modern precedents for pluralism, conveying the broad sweep of Perso-Islamicate culture and the profound transformations it underwent in medieval South Asia. Accurately depicting the paradoxicality and jaggedness involved in the development of its composite culture, this book will have great relevance to scholars and students of Islam in South Asia, gender, religious pluralism, and Persian literature.

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Routledge

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1135230242

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9781135230241

Gender and Succession in Medieval and Early Modern Islam

Bilateral Descent and the Legacy of Fatima

By: Alyssa Gabbay

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Gender and Succession in Medieval and Early Modern Islam

Bilateral Descent and the Legacy of Fatima

By: Alyssa Gabbay

In Gender and Succession in Medieval and Early Modern Islam: Bilateral Descent and the Legacy of Fatima, Alyssa Gabbay examines episodes in pre-modern Islamic history in which individuals or societies recognized descent from both men and women. Fatima, daughter of the Prophet Muhammad, features prominently in this study, for her example constituted a striking precedent for acknowledging bilateral descent in both Sunni and Shi'i societies, with all of its ramifications for female inheritance, succession and identity. Covering a broad geographical and chronological swath, Gender and Succession in Medieval and Early Modern Islam presents alternative perspectives to patriarchal narratives, and breaks new ground in its focus upon how people conceived of family structures and bloodlines. In so doing, it builds upon a tradition of studies seeking to dispel monolithic understandings of Islam and Gender.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1838602348

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9781838602345

Gender and Succession in Medieval and Early Modern Islam

Bilateral Descent and the Legacy of Fatima

By: Alyssa Gabbay

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Bilateral Descent and the Legacy of Fatima

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Islamic Tolerance

Amir Khusraw and Pluralism

By: Alyssa Gabbay

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Amir Khusraw and Pluralism

By: Alyssa Gabbay

This book examines the development of pluralism in Islam in South Asia. It explores developments through the work of the historian and poet Amir Khusraw and seeks to show that Islam developed its own culture of tolerance rather than just import it from outside.

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1135230250

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9781135230258

Relations of Power

Women's Networks in the Middle Ages

By: Emma O. Bérat,Rebecca Hardie,Irina Dumitrescu

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Relations of Power

Women's Networks in the Middle Ages

By: Emma O. Bérat,Rebecca Hardie,Irina Dumitrescu

Women's networks – their relations with other women, men, objects and place – were a source of power in various European and neighbouring regions throughout the Middle Ages. This interdisciplinary volume considers how women's networks, and particularly women's direct and indirect relationships to other women, constituted and shaped power from roughly 300 to 1700 AD. The essays in this collection juxtapose scholarship from the fields of archaeology, art history, literature, history and religious studies, drawing on a wide variety of source types. Their aim is to highlight not only the importance of networks in understanding medieval women's power but also the different ways these networks are represented in medieval sources and can be approached today. This volume reveals how women's networks were widespread and instrumental in shaping political, familial and spiritual legacies.

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V&R Unipress

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3847012428

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Islamic Tolerance

Islamic Tolerance

Gender and Succession in Medieval and Early Modern Islam

Gender and Succession in Medieval and Early Modern Islam

Gender and Succession in Medieval and Early Modern Islam

Gender and Succession in Medieval and Early Modern Islam

Islamic Tolerance

Islamic Tolerance

Relations of Power

Relations of Power

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