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Classical Arabic Biography - The Heirs of the Prophets in the Age of al-Ma'mun (Hardcover)
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Classical Arabic Biography - The Heirs of the Prophets in the Age of al-Ma'mun (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
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Pre-modern Arabic biography has served as a major source for the
history of Islamic civilization. In this 2000 study exploring the
origins and development of classical Arabic biography, Michael
Cooperson demonstrates how Muslim scholars used the notions of
heirship and transmission to document the activities of political,
scholarly and religious communities. The author also explains how
medieval Arab scholars used biography to tell the life-stories of
important historical figures by examining the careers of the
Abbasid Caliph al- Ma'mun, the Shiite Imam Ali al-Rida, the Sunni
scholar Ahmad Ibn Hanbal and the ascetic Bishr al-Hafi, each of
whom represented a tradition of political and spiritual heirship to
the Prophet. Drawing on anthropology and comparative religion, as
well as history and literary criticism, the book considers how each
figure responded to the presence of the others and how these
responses were preserved by posterity.
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