Reclaiming Damascus: Rescripting Islamic Time and Space in the Sixteenth Century

Disconnected from the original place and time of Islam and its own glorious early-Islamic history, medieval Damascus felt like a temporally and spatially distant city. Through participating in newer hadith practices that facilitated the compression of time, Damascene scholars were able to diminish t...

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Main Author: Sajdi, Dana (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley 2019
In: History and theory
Year: 2019, Volume: 58, Issue: 4, Pages: 68-85
Further subjects:B Shams al-Din Ibn Tulun (d. 1546)
B Hadith
B prose cityscape
B al-Hafiz Ibn ʿAsakir (d. 1176)
B chronotope
B al-Ghuta
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