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The Middle East remembered : forged identities, competing narratives, contested spaces
- 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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- Description
- xvii, 428 p.; 25 cm.
- Subjects
- 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