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Author Antrim, Zayde

Title Routes and realms : the power of place in the early Islamic world / Zayde Antrim
Published New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013

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Contents Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Note on Translations, Transliterations, and Dates; Glossary; A; B; C; F; H; I; K; M; Q; S; T; U; W; Introduction: The Discourse of Place; PART ONE: HOME; 1. Home as Homeland; PART TWO: CITY; 2. Cities and Sacred History; 3. The Image of the City; PART THREE: REGION; 4. Dividing the World; 5. Routes and Realms; Conclusion: Looking Forward; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; W; Y; Z
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Oct. 31, 2012)
Subject Geography, Arab.
Geography -- Philosophy
Geography -- Religious aspects -- Islam
Place attachment -- Islamic Empire
Geography, Arab
Geography -- Philosophy
Place attachment
Islamic Empire
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780199980178
0199980179