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Routes and Realms - The Power of Place in the Early Islamic World (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,793
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Routes and Realms - The Power of Place in the Early Islamic World (Hardcover): Zayde Antrim

Routes and Realms - The Power of Place in the Early Islamic World (Hardcover)

Zayde Antrim

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Routes and Realms explores the ways in which Muslims expressed attachment to land from the ninth through the eleventh centuries, the earliest period of intensive written production in Arabic. In this groundbreaking first book, Zayde Antrim develops a "discourse of place," a framework for approaching formal texts devoted to the representation of territory across genres. The discourse of place included such varied works as topographical histories, literary anthologies, religious treatises, world geographies, poetry, travel literature, and maps.
By closely reading and analyzing these works, Antrim argues that their authors imagined plots of land primarily as homes, cities, and regions and associated them with a range of claims to religious and political authority. She contends that these are evidence of the powerful ways in which the geographical imagination was tapped to declare loyalty and invoke belonging in the early Islamic world, reinforcing the importance of the earliest regional mapping tradition in the Islamic world.
Routes and Realms challenges a widespread tendency to underestimate the importance of territory and to over-emphasize the importance of religion and family to notions of community and belonging among Muslims and Arabs, both in the past and today.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United States
Release date: October 2012
First published: September 2012
Authors: Zayde Antrim (Associate Professor of History and International Studies)
Dimensions: 242 x 173 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-991387-9
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > World history > 500 to 1500
Books > Humanities > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > History of religion
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Islamic studies
Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history > General
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Social & cultural history
Books > History > World history > 500 to 1500
Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > History of religion
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LSN: 0-19-991387-0
Barcode: 9780199913879

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