Public Violence in Islamic Societies: Power, Discipline, and the Construction of the Public Sphere, 7th-19th Centuries Ce
Public Violence in Islamic SocietiesEdited by Christian Lange and Maribel FierroThis exploration of the role of violence in the history of Islamic societies considers the subject particularly in the context of its implementation as a political strategy to claim power over the public sphere.Violence, both among Muslims and between Muslims and non-Muslims, has been the object of research in the past, as in the case of jihad, martyrdom, rebellion or criminal law. This book goes beyond these concerns in addressing, in a comprehensive and cross-disciplinary fashion, how violence has functioned as a basic principle of Islamic social and political o…
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Weitere Autoren: Fierro, Maribel (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-7486-3731-7
- EAN: 9780748637317
- Produktnummer: 22670169
- Verlag: Edinburgh Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
- Seitenangabe: 312 S.
- Masse: H24.1 cm x B15.8 cm x D2.8 cm 616 g
- Auflage: New
- Gewicht: 616
- Sonstiges: Ab 22 J.
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Christian Lange is Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He is author of Justice, Punishment and the Medieval Muslim Imagination (2008) and co-editor (with Maribel Fierro) of Public Violence in Islamic Societies: Power, Discipline and the Construction of the Public Sphere, 7th-19th Centuries (EUP, 2009).Maribel Fierro is Research Professor at the Center of Human and Social Sciences - Higher Council for Scientific Research (Spain). Her main areas of interest are Islamic law and religion, and the history of the Islamic West. She is the author of Abd al-Rahman III, The first Cordoban caliph (Oneworld, 2005) and the co-editor of Los almohades: problemas y perspectivas (Madrid: CSIC / Casa de Velázquez, 2005). She is sectorial editor (Religious Sciences) of the third edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam.
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