Routes and realms : the power of place in the early Islamic world /

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 wo...

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Gespeichert in:
1. Verfasser:
Antrim, Zayde
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.
Zusammenfassung:
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.
Umfang:
1 online resource (233 p.)
Anmerkungen:
Description based upon print version of record.
Anmerkungen:
English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-19-991388-9
Schlagworte:
Geography, Arab.
Geography > Philosophy.
Geography > Religious aspects > Islam.
Place attachment > Islamic Empire.
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