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Sufism is often regarded as standing mystically aloof from its wider cultural settings. By turning this perspective on its head, Indian Sufism since the Seventeenth Century reveals the politics and poetry of Indian Sufism through the study of Islamic sainthood in the midst of a cosmopolitan Indian society comprising migrants, soldiers, litterateurs and princes. Placing the mystical traditions of Indian Islam within their cultural contexts, this interesting study focuses on the shrines of four Sufi saints in the neglected Deccan region and their changing roles under the rule

Sufism --- India --- Hyderabad (India) --- History --- Deccan (India) --- History. --- Sofism --- Mysticism --- Islam --- Geschichte. --- death --- anniversary --- fakhr --- dln --- shrine --- mughal --- conquests --- saint --- citys --- saints

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From the dawn of writing in Sumer to the sunset of the Islamic empire, Founding Gods, Inventing Nations traces four thousand years of speculation on the origins of civilization. Investigating a vast range of primary sources, some of which are translated here for the first time, and focusing on the dynamic influence of the Greek, Roman, and Arab conquests of the Near East, William McCants looks at the ways the conquerors and those they conquered reshaped their myths of civilization's origins in response to the social and political consequences of empire. The Greek and Roman conquests brought with them a learned culture that competed with that of native elites. The conquering Arabs, in contrast, had no learned culture, which led to three hundred years of Muslim competition over the cultural orientation of Islam, a contest reflected in the culture myths of that time. What we know today as Islamic culture is the product of this contest, whose protagonists drew heavily on the lore of non-Arab and pagan antiquity. McCants argues that authors in all three periods did not write about civilization's origins solely out of pure antiquarian interest--they also sought to address the social and political tensions of the day. The strategies they employed and the postcolonial dilemmas they confronted provide invaluable context for understanding how authors today use myth and history to locate themselves in the confusing aftermath of empire.

Acculturation --- Arabs --- Romans --- Greeks --- Mythology, Middle Eastern. --- Civilization --- Ethnology --- Semites --- Italic peoples --- Latini (Italic people) --- Mediterranean race --- Middle Eastern mythology --- Mythology, Oriental --- Oriental mythology --- Philosophy and civilization --- Culture contact --- Development education --- Culture --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Cultural fusion --- History. --- Philosophy. --- Middle East --- Asia, South West --- Asia, Southwest --- Asia, West --- Asia, Western --- East (Middle East) --- Eastern Mediterranean --- Fertile Crescent --- Levant --- Mediterranean Region, Eastern --- Mideast --- Near East --- Northern Tier (Middle East) --- South West Asia --- Southwest Asia --- West Asia --- Western Asia --- Orient --- Colonization. --- Intellectual life. --- Historiography. --- Arab conquests. --- Arabs. --- Greek conquests. --- Greek ethnography. --- Greek philosophy. --- Greeks. --- Ibn Qutayba. --- Islam. --- Islamic culture. --- Islamic thinking. --- Jews. --- Muhammad. --- Near East. --- Pliny. --- Qur'an. --- Roman conquests. --- Romans. --- ancient Greece. --- ancient culture. --- ancient mythology. --- ancient texts. --- civilization. --- conquerors. --- conquest. --- conquests. --- culture myths. --- ethnic belonging. --- ironsmithing. --- learned culture. --- medicine. --- native history. --- origin. --- origins. --- philosophy. --- postconquest period. --- pre-Islamic culture. --- protography. --- science. --- Culture contact (Acculturation)

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Essays on strategic thinking and practice in medieval warfare.

Military history, Medieval --- Military art and science --- Civilization, Medieval --- Politics and war --- War and society --- Society and war --- War --- Sociology --- Civilians in war --- Sociology, Military --- War and politics --- Fighting --- Military power --- Military science --- Warfare --- Warfare, Primitive --- Naval art and science --- Medieval military history --- History --- Social aspects --- Political aspects --- battle strategy. --- battle. --- crusades. --- euro. --- geography. --- historical. --- history of military stratedy. --- medieval history. --- medieval military. --- medieval war. --- militarian. --- military strategy europe. --- military. --- roman conquests. --- strategy models. --- strategy. --- war strategy. --- war.

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The Epic Mirror studies how Spanish-American writers and veterans in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century used epic poetry to search for ethical solutions to the violent conflicts of their age. The wars about which they wrote took place at the frontiers of the Spanish empire, where new political communities were emerging: fiercely independent Amerindian republics, rebellious Spanish settlers, maroon kingdoms of fugitive African slaves. This colonial reality generated a distinctive vision of just warfare and political community. Working across the fields of Hispanic literature, the history of political thought, and studies of empire, colonialism and globalisation, Choi reinterprets three major works of colonial Latin American literature: Alonso de Ercilla's La Araucana (1569-90), Pedro de Oña's Arauco domado (1596), and Juan de Miramontes Zuázola's Armas antárticas (1608-9). She argues that these works provide a rare insight into the development of political thought in Viceregal Peru. Through the imaginative mirrors of epic, the reader is forced to ask the same questions of the unfinished conquests of the Americas as of those in Africa, Asia or Europe: when conflicting forces are divided by irreconcilable world views, even if the war is won, how is it possible to achieve peace?

Spanish American poetry --- Epic poetry, Spanish --- War in literature. --- Politics in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Political science in literature --- Spanish American literature --- To 1800 --- Africa. --- Alonso de Ercilla. --- Americas. --- Amerindian Republics. --- Arauco domado. --- Armas antárticas. --- Asia. --- Colonial Peru. --- Colonial Reality. --- Colonialism. --- Conflict Ethics. --- Conquests. --- Empire. --- Epic Mirror. --- Ethical Solutions. --- Europe. --- Globalization. --- Hispanic Literature. --- History of Political Thought. --- Irreconcilable World Views. --- Juan de Miramontes Zuázola. --- Just Warfare. --- La Araucana. --- Literature. --- Maroon Kingdoms. --- Peace. --- Pedro de Oña. --- Poetry. --- Political Communities. --- Political Community. --- Search for Solutions. --- Seventeenth Century. --- Sixteenth Century. --- Spanish Empire. --- Spanish Settlers. --- Spanish-American Writers. --- Veterans. --- Viceregal Peru. --- Violent Conflicts. --- Vision of Warfare.

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"This book provides the first ever overview of the history and development of Islam in Afghanistan. It covers every era from the conversion of Afghanistan through the medieval and early modern periods to the present day. Based on primary sources in Arabic, Persian, Pashto, Urdu and Uzbek, its depth and scope of coverage is unrivalled by any existing publication on Afghanistan. As well as state-sponsored religion, the chapters cover such issues as the rise of Sufism, Sharia, women's religiosity, transnational Islamism and the Taliban. Islam has been one of the most influential social and political forces in Afghan history. Providing idioms and organizations for both anti-state and anti-foreign mobilization, Islam has proven to be a vital socio-political resource in modern Afghanistan. Even as it has been deployed as the national cement of a multi-ethnic 'Emirate' and then 'Islamic Republic,' Islam has been no less a destabilizing force in dividing Afghan society. Yet despite the universal scholarly recognition of the centrality of Islam to Afghan history, its developmental trajectories have received relatively little sustained attention outside monographs and essays devoted to particular moments or movements. To help develop a more comprehensive, comparative and developmental picture of Afghanistan's Islam from the eighth century to the present, this edited volume brings together specialists on different periods, regions and languages. Each chapter forms a case study 'snapshot' of the Islamic beliefs, practices, institutions and authorities of a particular time and place in Afghanistan"--Provided by publisher.

Islam --- Muslims --- History. --- Mohammedans --- Moors (People) --- Moslems --- Muhammadans --- Musalmans --- Mussalmans --- Mussulmans --- Mussulmen --- Mohammedanism --- Muhammadanism --- Muslimism --- Mussulmanism --- Religious adherents --- Religions --- Islam. --- Muslims. --- Afghanistan. --- A-fu-han --- Afeganistão --- Affganistan --- Affghanistan --- Afganistan --- Afġānistān Islāmī Jumhoryat --- Afganistėn --- Afganistėn Myslimėn Respublik --- Afghānistān Islāmī Imārat --- Afghánská islámská republika --- Afghanstan --- Afghanstan Islam Respublikaḣy --- Afhanistan --- Ăfqanıstan --- Ăfqanıstan İslam Respublikası --- Afuganisutan --- Ahyganit --- Apganistan --- Aphganistan --- Da Afġānistān Islāmī Jumhoryat --- Democratic Republic of Afghanistan --- DRA --- Efẍanistan --- Gweriniaeth Islamaidd Affganistan --- Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan --- Islamic Republic of Afghanistan --- Islamic State of Afghanistan --- Islamikong Republika kan Apganistan --- Islamitiese Republiek van Afghanistan --- Islamska republika Afganistan --- Islamskai͡a Rėspublika Afhanistan --- Isli͡amska republika Afganistan --- Jamhuri-ye Islami-ye Afghanistan --- Jomhūrī-ye Eslāmī-ye Afġānestān --- Jumhūrī-i Islāmī-i Afghānistān --- Republic of Afghanistan --- República Democrática de Afganistán --- Republik Islamek Afghanistan --- Tetã Islãrehegua Ahyganit --- afghanistan. --- conquests. --- conversion. --- eastern world. --- female sainthood. --- feminism. --- global history. --- islam. --- islamic culture. --- islamic history. --- islamic world. --- middle east. --- middle eastern. --- muslim feminists. --- muslim history. --- religion. --- religious extremists. --- religious ideas. --- religious studies. --- sharia law. --- taliban. --- timurid empire. --- womens issues. --- womens studies. --- world history.