Ruqayya Yasmine Khan

Broschiertes Buch

Bedouin and 'Abb¿sid Cultural Identities

The Arabic Majn¿n Layl¿ Story

Beschreibung

This literary-historical book draws out and sheds light upon the mechanisms of â the ideological workâ that the Arabic Majnun Layla story performed for â Abbasid urbanite, imperial audiences in the wake of the disappearance of the â bedouin cosmos.â

Autor

Ruqayya Yasmine Khan is an associate professor and the M. Malas Chair of Islamic Studies in Claremont Graduate University's Religion Department. Khan's research interests include Arabic literature (early and modern), Qur'anic studies, gender/women's studies and Islam and the digital age. Her more recent scholarly interests include late antiquity and Islam, origins of Islam and cultures of Umayyad Damascus and Abbasid Baghdad. Khan is the author of the book Self and Secrecy in Early Islam (2008), which maps the relationships between the concepts of secrecy and identity in early Islamic cultures. She is also the editor of Muhammad in the Digital Age (2015).

Produktdetails

• Culture and Civilization in the Middle East
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 384g
• ISBN-13: 9781032087559
• ISBN-10: 1032087552
• Artikelnr.: 62148850