Explores the marvelous range of supernatural virtues attached to the Prophet's City and embodied ... more Explores the marvelous range of supernatural virtues attached to the Prophet's City and embodied in its names. Based on original Arabic sources.
A number of recent studies 1 have dealt with the hijrah as a central concept underlying a range o... more A number of recent studies 1 have dealt with the hijrah as a central concept underlying a range of past and present trends in Islamic thought and action. These authors commonly interpret the notion of hijrah within the prism of socio-economic and political factors prevalent in various post-prophetic periods without adequate appreciation of primary texts. While not ignoring wholesale the Quran and hadith, the remarkably complex nature of the concept of hijrah as portrayed in the early sources appears to have been seriously underestimated or simply understudied. 2 Even conceding, if only for the sake of argument, Eickelman and Piscatori's argument that "the significance of texts derives not from their inherent centrality but from the contingent political, social and economic circumstances of those interpreting them," 3 the analyst needs to be well-informed as to what these texts, on the subject matter of hijrah, relate. Without an adequate knowledge of the complexity of the hijrah as revealed in the primary texts, any attempt to investigate what Masud terms, the "dynamic interaction between text and social, economic and political conditions" 4 , a priori, will at best be flawed.
Explores the marvelous range of supernatural virtues attached to the Prophet's City and embodied ... more Explores the marvelous range of supernatural virtues attached to the Prophet's City and embodied in its names. Based on original Arabic sources.
A number of recent studies 1 have dealt with the hijrah as a central concept underlying a range o... more A number of recent studies 1 have dealt with the hijrah as a central concept underlying a range of past and present trends in Islamic thought and action. These authors commonly interpret the notion of hijrah within the prism of socio-economic and political factors prevalent in various post-prophetic periods without adequate appreciation of primary texts. While not ignoring wholesale the Quran and hadith, the remarkably complex nature of the concept of hijrah as portrayed in the early sources appears to have been seriously underestimated or simply understudied. 2 Even conceding, if only for the sake of argument, Eickelman and Piscatori's argument that "the significance of texts derives not from their inherent centrality but from the contingent political, social and economic circumstances of those interpreting them," 3 the analyst needs to be well-informed as to what these texts, on the subject matter of hijrah, relate. Without an adequate knowledge of the complexity of the hijrah as revealed in the primary texts, any attempt to investigate what Masud terms, the "dynamic interaction between text and social, economic and political conditions" 4 , a priori, will at best be flawed.
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