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The Sword of Ambition belongs to a genre of religious polemic
written for the rulers of Egypt and Syria between the twelfth and
the fourteenth centuries. Unlike most medieval Muslim polemic, the
concerns of this genre were more social and political than
theological. Leaving no rhetorical stone unturned, the book's
author, an unemployed Egyptian scholar and former bureaucrat named
'Uthman ibn Ibrahim al-Nabulusi (d. 660/1262), poured his deep
knowledge of history, law, and literature into the work. Now edited
in full and translated for the first time, The Sword of Ambition
opens a new window onto the fascinating culture of elite rivalry in
the late-medieval Islamic Middle East. It contains a wealth of
little-known historical anecdotes, unusual religious opinions,
obscure and witty poetry, and humorous cultural satire. Above all,
it reveals that much of the inter-communal animosity of the era was
conditioned by fierce competition for scarce resources that were
increasingly mediated by an ideologically committed Sunni Muslim
state. This insight reminds us that seemingly timeless and
inevitable "religious" conflict must be considered in its broader
historical perspective. The Sword of Ambition is both the earliest
and most eclectic of several independent works composed in medieval
Egypt against the employment of Coptic and Jewish officials, and is
vivid testimony to the gradual integration of Islamic scholarship
and state administration that was well underway in its day. A
bilingual Arabic-English edition.
Conversion to Islam is a phenomenon of immense significance in
human history. At the outset of Islamic rule in the seventh
century, Muslims constituted a tiny minority in most areas under
their control. But by the beginning of the modern period, they
formed the majority in most territories from North Africa to
Southeast Asia. Across such diverse lands, peoples, and time
periods, conversion was a complex, varied phenomenon. Converts
lived in a world of overlapping and competing religious, cultural,
social, and familial affiliations, and the effects of turning to
Islam played out in every aspect of life. Conversion therefore
provides a critical lens for world history, magnifying the
constantly evolving array of beliefs, practices, and outlooks that
constitute Islam around the globe. This groundbreaking collection
of texts, translated from sources in a dozen languages from the
seventh to the eighteenth centuries, presents the historical
process of conversion to Islam in all its variety and unruly
detail, through the eyes of both Muslim and non-Muslim observers.
The Sword of Ambition belongs to a genre of religious polemic
written for the rulers of Egypt and Syria between the twelfth and
the fourteenth centuries. Unlike most medieval Muslim polemic, the
concerns of this genre were more social and political than
theological. Leaving no rhetorical stone unturned, the book's
author, an unemployed Egyptian scholar and former bureaucrat named
'Uthman ibn Ibrahim al-Nabulusi (d. 660/1262), poured his deep
knowledge of history, law, and literature into the work. Now edited
in full and translated for the first time, The Sword of Ambition
opens a new window onto the fascinating culture of elite rivalry in
the late-medieval Islamic Middle East. It contains a wealth of
little-known historical anecdotes, unusual religious opinions,
obscure and witty poetry, and humorous cultural satire. Above all,
it reveals that much of the inter-communal animosity of the era was
conditioned by fierce competition for scarce resources that were
increasingly mediated by an ideologically committed Sunni Muslim
state. This insight reminds us that seemingly timeless and
inevitable "religious" conflict must be considered in its broader
historical perspective. The Sword of Ambition is both the earliest
and most eclectic of several independent works composed in medieval
Egypt against the employment of Coptic and Jewish officials, and is
vivid testimony to the gradual integration of Islamic scholarship
and state administration that was well underway in its day. A
bilingual Arabic-English edition.
Tajrid sayf al-himmah li-stikhraj ma fi dhimmat al-dhimmah is a
scholarly, Arabic-only edition of a text by 'Uthman ibn Ibrahim
al-Nabulusi, which is also available in English translation from
the Library of Arabic Literature as The Sword of Ambition. In this
work addressed to the Ayyubid sultan, al-Nabulusi argues against
employing Coptic and Jewish officials, leaving no rhetorical stone
unturned as he pours his deep knowledge of history, law, and
literature into the work. An Arabic edition with English scholarly
apparatus.
Heinz Halm is an internationally renowned scholar of the Middle
East. The Arabs, Heinz Halm's masterful narrative, is now available
in two versions: as a general reader and introductory text for
college courses and, now, in an expanded version with a new
160-page annotated appendix of primary sources. The new source
appendix, edited by Luke Yarbrough and Oded Zinger, greatly
enhances the text's value for teachers as well as for general
readers. Some 40 primary source readings--ranging from Spain to
Iraq, from classical antiquity to the 2011 Arab Spring, and from
poetry and scripture to medieval economics and travelogue--provide
a classroom-ready component for courses in history, area studies,
and religious studies. Several of the readings occur here for the
first time in translation; all have been chosen to give vivid and
representative accounts of the Arabs' history as told by those who
experienced it. Taken together, they offer readers a glimpse into
the vast, richly textured mosaic of texts that have been generated
by and about the Arabs and encourage further exploration.
Conversion to Islam is a phenomenon of immense significance in
human history. At the outset of Islamic rule in the seventh
century, Muslims constituted a tiny minority in most areas under
their control. But by the beginning of the modern period, they
formed the majority in most territories from North Africa to
Southeast Asia. Across such diverse lands, peoples, and time
periods, conversion was a complex, varied phenomenon. Converts
lived in a world of overlapping and competing religious, cultural,
social, and familial affiliations, and the effects of turning to
Islam played out in every aspect of life. Conversion therefore
provides a critical lens for world history, magnifying the
constantly evolving array of beliefs, practices, and outlooks that
constitute Islam around the globe. This groundbreaking collection
of texts, translated from sources in a dozen languages from the
seventh to the eighteenth centuries, presents the historical
process of conversion to Islam in all its variety and unruly
detail, through the eyes of both Muslim and non-Muslim observers.
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