Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xxvii, 276 pages)
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illustrations, 1 map
Edition:
London Bloomsbury Publishing 2020 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Edition:
Also issued in print
ISBN:
9780755610099
Series Statement:
Library of Ottoman studies 17
Content:
Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Before the 1670s -- Before and after1500: how artisan organization may have emerged in the Ottoman lands -- 3. Services to the state -- 4. Guildsmen of Istanbul and Cairo -- 5. Provincial craftspeople and merchant networks. From the 1670s to the 1850s -- 6. Changes in Istanbul guilds -- 7. Cairo: from military penetration of artisan guilds to the state monopolies of Mehmed Ali Paşa -- 8. The political role of craftsmen -- 9. Provincial craftsmen: how guildsmen adapted to new circumstances -- After 1850. 10. From 1850 to 1914: a different state, a different economy and the disappearance of the guilds -- 11. Conclusion. A note on transliteration.
Content:
"Few doctrines in Islam have engendered as much contention and disagreement as those surrounding the imamate, the office of supreme leader of the Muslim community after the death of the Prophet. In the medieval period while the caliphate still existed, rivalry among the claimants to that most lofty position was particularly intense. The early 5th/11th-century Ismaili da'i Hamid al-Din al-Kirmani worked for most of his life in the eastern lands of the Islamic world, principally within the hostile domain of the Abbasid caliphs and the Buyid amirs.At a critical point he was summoned by the da'wa to Egypt where he taught and wrote for several years before returning once again to Iran and Iraq. About 405/1015, just prior to his move from Iraq to Cairo, he composed a treatise he called Lights to Illuminate the Proof of the Imamate (al-Masabih fi ithbat al-imama) in the bold hope of convincing Fakhr al-Mulk, the Shi'i wazir of the Buyids in Baghdad, to abandon the Abbasids and support the Fatimid caliph al-Hakim. For that purpose he produced a long, interconnected series of philosophically sophisticated proofs, all leading logically to the absolute necessity of the imamate. This work is thus unique both in the precision of its doctrine and in the historical circumstance surrounding its composition. The text appears here in a modern critical edition of the Arabic original with a complete translation, introduction and notes."--Bloomsbury publishing
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Also issued in print.
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781845115883
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781848859609
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780857737618
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Language:
English
DOI:
10.5040/9780755610099
