Ebook: Routes and realms : the power of place in the early Islamic world
Author: Antrim Zayde
- Tags: Geography Arab, Geography, Philosophy, Geography, Religious aspects, Islam, Place attachment, Islamic Empire
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- City: New York, Oxford, Islamic Empire
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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This title explores the ways in which Muslims expressed attachment to land in formal texts from the ninth through the eleventh centuries. These texts reveal that territories were imagined specifically as homes, cities, and regions and acted as powerful categories of belonging in the early Islamic world.
Abstract: This title explores the ways in which Muslims expressed attachment to land in formal texts from the ninth through the eleventh centuries. These texts reveal that territories were imagined specifically as homes, cities, and regions and acted as powerful categories of belonging in the early Islamic world