Research Catalog

Title

The Middle East remembered : forged identities, competing narratives, contested spaces / Jacob Lassner.

Author

Lassner, Jacob.

Publication

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2000.

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Details

Description

xvii, 428 p.; 25 cm.

Subject

• Jews > Islamic Empire > Historiography
• Jewish-Arab relations > Historiography
• Islamic Empire > History > Study and teaching
• Historians, Arab
• Muslim historians
• Islamic Empire > Historiography

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographic references (p. 387-420) and index.

Contents

Reckoning time, recording history: the formation of historical consciousness in the medieval Near East -- Recovering the early Islamic past: problems and approaches to competing narratives -- Dawlah: transformative politics and historical memory -- Regionalism and regional identities versus the idealized Islamic community (Ummah) -- The first "Islamic" cities: religion, tribal identities, and civic organization -- The emergence of the imperial center in Islam: identity politics, architecture, and urban space -- The road to Samarra: clients, slave regiments, and the failure of central planning -- The dialectic of Jewish-Muslim relations in the medieval Near East -- Ritual purity and political exile: a Jew in the lands of Islam explains the Babylonian exile -- Contested narratives an sacred space: Muslims, texts, Jewish subtexts -- Joseph Sambari on Muhammad and the origins of Islam: a learned Rabbi confronts Muslim apologetics and a Christian polemical tradition.

Call Number

*OFI 01-2143

ISBN

0472110837

LCCN

00020212

OCLC

42365487

Author

Lassner, Jacob.

Title

The Middle East remembered : forged identities, competing narratives, contested spaces / Jacob Lassner.

Imprint

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2000.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographic references (p. 387-420) and index.

Research Call Number

*OFI 01-2143