Living Islamic History: Studies in Honour of Professor Carole Hillenbrand

337 Pages·2010·2.79 MB·English

by  Yasir Suleiman

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IVING SLAMIC ISTORY
STUDIES IN HONOUR OF
PROFESSOR CAROLE HILLENBRAND
Edited by Yasir Suleiman
Edinburgh University Press
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Contents
Acknowledgements vii
Professor Carole Hillenbrand: List of Publications viii
Preface xiii
1. The Origin of Key Shi(cid:2)ite Thought Patterns in Islamic
History 1
Adel S. al- Abdul Jader
2. Additions to The New Islamic Dynasties 14
C. Edmund Bosworth
3. Al- Tha(cid:2)alibi’s Adab al- muluk, a Local Mirror for Princes 32
Julia Bray
4. Religious Identity, Dissimulation and Assimilation: the
Ismaili Experience 47
Farhad Daftary
5. Saladin’s Pious Foundations in Damascus: Some New
Hypotheses 62
Anne- Marie Eddé
6. The Coming of Islam to Bukhara 77
Hugh Kennedy
7. A Barmecide Feast: the Downfall of the Barmakids in
Popular Imagination 92
Remke Kruk
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8. The History of the Patriarchs of the Egyptian Church as a
Source for the History of the Seljuks of Anatolia 107
Gary Leiser
9. Genealogy and Exemplary Rulership in the Tarikh- i
Chingiz Khan 129
Charles Melville
10. Vikings and Rus in Arabic Sources 151
James E. Montgomery
11. Qashani and Rashid al-D in on the Seljuqs of Iran 166
Alexander H. Morton
12. Exile and Return: Diasporas of the Secular and Sacred
Mind 178
Ian Richard Netton
13. Clerical Perceptions of Sufi Practices in Late Seventeenth-
Century Persia, II: Al-H urr al- (cid:2)Amili (d. 1693) and the
Debate on the Permissibility of Ghina 192
Andrew J. Newman
14. On Sunni Sectarianism 209
A. Kevin Reinhart
15. The Violence of the Abbasid Revolution 226
Chase F. Robinson
16. Nationalist Poetry, Confl ict and Meta- linguistic Discourse 252
Yasir Suleiman
Bibliography 279
List of Contributors 309
Index 313
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Acknowledgements
As editor I would like to offer my thanks to the contributors for their
patience and cooperation. My thanks go to Robert Hillenbrand for his
help behind the scenes, and to Nicola Ramsey and James Dale at EUP
for their patience and support. Shahla Suleiman helped in many ways.
To her I owe a debt of gratitude.
My sincerest thanks go to Saeko Yazaki who helped in editing this
book. Saeko’s contribution to bringing this book to conclusion is enor-
mous. She pursued the contributors for information, responded to their
queries, liaised with EUP and produced the draft of the manuscript. I
am hugely indebted to her for these reasons, as well as for her unfailing
courtesy, great sense of humour and boundless patience.
Yasir Suleiman
King’s College, Cambridge
July 2009
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Professor Carole Hillenbrand:
List of Publications
Books
1. The Waning of the Umayyad Caliphate, 1989, State University of
New York Press, Albany, 273pp.
2. A Muslim Principality in Crusader Times: the Early Artuqid
State, 1990, The Netherlands Historical and Archaeological
Institute for the Near East in Istanbul, Leiden, 266pp.
3. The Crusades: Islamic Perspectives, 1999, Edinburgh University
Press, Edinburgh, 647pp.
4. Turkish Myth and Muslim Symbol: the Battle of Manzikert,
2007, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 320pp. This book
has been translated into Russian and Indonesian.
Books Edited
5. Qajar Iran: Political, Social and Cultural Change, 1800–1925,
1984, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 414pp. Co-e dited
with C. Edmund Bosworth.
6. The Sultan’s Turret: Studies in Persian and Turkish Culture
in Honour of Professor Edmund Bosworth, 1999, Brill, Leiden,
544pp.
Articles Published as Sole Author
7. ‘The career of Najm al- Din Il- Ghazi’, 1981, Der Islam 58/2,
250–91.
8. ‘Some Mediaeval Islamic approaches to source material’, 1981,
Oriens 27–8, 197–225.
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prof. carole hillenbrand’s publications
9. ‘The establishment of Artuqid power in Diyar Bakr in the twelfth
century’, 1981, Studia Islamica LIV, 129–53.
10. ‘Medieval Islamic geography: the case of Merv’, 1983, Proceedings
of the International Conference on Science in Islamic Polity (sic)
II, Islamabad, 338–41.
11. ‘The history of the Jazira: a short introduction’, 1985, in The Art
of Syria and the Jazira, 1100–1250, ed. J. Raby, Oxford University
Press, Oxford, 9–19.
12. ‘The Islamic world and the Crusades’, 1987, Scottish Journal of
Religious Studies VIII, 150–7.
13. ‘Malazgird’, 1987, Encyclopedia of Islam (2nd edn), Brill, Leiden,
cols 243a–244b.
14. ‘Marwanids’, ibid. cols 626a–627b.
15. ‘Mayyafarikin’, ibid. cols 930a–932b.
Note: These three articles (items 13–15), which total some 8,000
words, constitute the outline of a history of eastern Turkey in the
tenth and eleventh centuries.
16. ‘Islamic orthodoxy or Realpolitik?: Al- Ghazali’s views on govern-
ment’, 1988, Iran XXVI, 81–94 (13,000 words).
17. ‘A Muslim success in the Second Crusade’, 1989, in Mélanges
Dominique Sourdel, ed. L. Kalus, Geutner, Paris, 165–71.
18. ‘Mu(cid:2)in al-D in Sulayman Parwana’, 1992, Encyclopedia of Islam
(2nd edn), Brill, Leiden, cols 479a–480b.
19. ‘Al- Mustandjid’, ibid. cols 726a–727a.
20. ‘Al- Mustansir’, ibid. cols 727a–729a.
21. ‘Al- Mustarshid’, ibid. cols 733a–735b.
22. ‘Al- Mustazhir’, ibid. cols 755a–756a.
Note: These four articles (items 19–22), which total well over
8,000 words, together represent an attempt to establish for the
fi rst time the history of the revived caliphate in the twelfth
century.
23. ‘Mu(cid:2)in al- Din Parwana: the servant of two masters?’, 1993, in
Miscellanea Arabica et Islamica, ed. F. de Jong, Peeters, Leuven,
267–75.
24. ‘Aspects of Jihad propaganda: the evidence of 12th century
inscriptions’, 1993, Proceedings of the Conference on the History
of the Crusades, University of Bir Zeit, Bir Zeit, 53–63.
25. ‘Al- Ghazali on beauty’, 1994, Festschrift Professor Annemarie
Schimmel, ed. J. C. Bürgel, Peter Lang Verlag, Bern, 249–65.
26. ‘Ibn al- (cid:2)Adim’s biography of the Seljuq Sultan, Alp Arslan’,
1995, Actas XVI Congreso Union Européene des Arabisants et
Islamisants, Salamanca, 237–42.
27. 1092: A murderous year’, 1995, Proceedings of the 14th Congress
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