Format:
Online-Ressource (xi, 471 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780231150828
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9780231521659
Content:
The story of the succession to the Prophet Muhammad and the rise of the Rashidun Caliphate (632-661 AD) has been familiar to historians from the political histories of medieval Islam, which lend a factual credibility to scholarly narratives, and the competing perspectives of Sunni and Shi'i Islam, which focus on the legitimacy of their claims. While descriptive and varied, these approaches have long excluded a third reading in which the conflict over the succession to the Prophet is treated as a parable, the motives, sayings, and actions of the protagonists revealing profound links to
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contents; Preface; GENEALOGICAL CHART; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; APPENDIX ONE; APPENDIX TWO; APPENDIX THREE; Notes; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780231150828
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Parable and Politics in Early Islamic History : The Rashidun Caliphs
Language:
English
