Authority in Islam: From the Rise of Muhammad to the Establishment of the Umayyads - Softcover

Dabashi, Hamid

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1560005866 ISBN 13: 9781560005865

Verlag: Routledge, 1989

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From the origins of Muhammad's prophetic movement through the development of Islam's principal branches to the establishment of the Umayyad dynasty, the concept of authority has been central to Islamic civilization

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Hamid Dabashi is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Born in Iran, he received a dual Ph.D. in the sociology of culture and Islamic studies from the University of Pennsylvania, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University. Dabashi has written and edited many books, including Iran, the Green Movement and the USA and The Arab Spring, as well as numerous chapters, essays, articles and book reviews. He is an internationally renowned cultural critic, whose writings have been translated into numerous languages. Dabashi has been a columnist for the Egyptian Al-Ahram Weekly for over a decade, and is a regular contributor to Al Jazeera and CNN. He has been a committed teacher for nearly three decades and is also a public speaker, a current affairs essayist, a staunch anti-war activist and the founder of Dreams of a Nation. He has four children and lives in New York with his wife, the Iranian-Swedish feminist scholar and photographer Golbarg Bashi.

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• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1989
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1560005866
• ISBN 13: 9781560005865
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 196
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