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Public Violence in Islamic Societies
. Ed(S): Lange, Christian; Fierro, Maribel
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Description for Public Violence in Islamic Societies
This volume explores the use of violence in the construction of Islamic public and private spheres. It contributes to the growing interest in the vital question of Muslim attitudes towards violence. Editor(s): Lange, Christian; Fierro, Maribel. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: 1QFM; HBG; HRH; JFFE; JFSR2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 158 x 28. Weight in Grams: 616.
This exploration of the role of violence in the history of Islamic societies considers the subject particularly in the context of its implementation as a political strategy to claim power over the public sphere. Violence, both among Muslims and between Muslims and non-Muslims, has been the object of research in the past, as in the case of jihad, martyrdom, rebellion or criminal law. This book goes beyond these concerns in addressing, in a comprehensive and cross-disciplinary fashion, how violence has functioned as a basic principle of Islamic social and political organization in a variety of historical and geographical contexts. Contributions ... Read more
This exploration of the role of violence in the history of Islamic societies considers the subject particularly in the context of its implementation as a political strategy to claim power over the public sphere. Violence, both among Muslims and between Muslims and non-Muslims, has been the object of research in the past, as in the case of jihad, martyrdom, rebellion or criminal law. This book goes beyond these concerns in addressing, in a comprehensive and cross-disciplinary fashion, how violence has functioned as a basic principle of Islamic social and political organization in a variety of historical and geographical contexts. Contributions ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780748637317
SKU
V9780748637317
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99-15
About . Ed(S): Lange, Christian; Fierro, Maribel
Christian Lange is Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He is author of Justice, Punishment and the Medieval Muslim Imagination (2008) and co-editor (with Maribel Fierro) of Public Violence in Islamic Societies: Power, Discipline and the Construction of the Public Sphere, 7th-19th Centuries (EUP, 2009). Maribel Fierro is Research Professor at the ... Read more
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