Routes and Realms
Author | : Zayde Antrim |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2012 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780190227159 |
ISBN-13 | : 019022715X |
Rating | : 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Download or read book Routes and Realms written by Zayde Antrim and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Routes and Realms 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.