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The constitution of medina: a sociolegal interpretation of muhammad's acts of foundation of the umma
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One of the oldest extant documents in Islamic history records a set of deeds executed by Muhammad after his migration (hijra) in 622 from Mecca to Yathrib, subsequently known as the City [madīna] of the Prophet.Abstract:
One of the oldest extant documents in Islamic history records a set of deeds executed by Muhammad after his migration (hijra) in 622 from Mecca to Yathrib, subsequently known as “the City [madīna] of the Prophet” Marking the beginning of the Islamic era, the document comprising the deeds has been the subject of well over a century of modern scholarship and is commonly called the “Constitution of Medina”—with some justification, although the first modern scholar who studied it at the end of the 19th century, Julius Wellhausen, more accurately described it as the “municipal charter” (Gemeindeordnung) of Medina In 1889, Wellhausen highlighted the text's antiquity, which has been acknowledged by even the most skeptical of contemporary “source-critical” scholars, Patricia Crone, who thinks that, in Ibn Ishaq's Sira, “it sticks out like a piece of solid rock in an accumulation of rubble”read more
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Islam and Democracy in Indonesia: Tolerance without Liberalism
TL;DR: Menchik et al. as discussed by the authors argue that Indonesia's Islamic organizations sustain the country's thriving civil society, democracy, and reputation for tolerance amid diversity, yet scholars poorly understand how these organizations envision the accommodation of religious difference.
Beyond Muslim Xenophobia and Contemporary Parochialism: Aga Khan IV, the Ismā‘īlīs, and the making of a Cosmopolitan Ethic
TL;DR: In this article, the authors trace and trace cosmopolitanism from the Greeks to the Muslims, from the Aga Khans to the modern world. But they focus on the need of human alterity and the Abrahamic tradition of hospitality.
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Modern Challenges to Islamic Law
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Futures Past: On the Semantics of Historical Time
TL;DR: Tribe as discussed by the authors discusses the relation of past and future in modern history and the planes of historicity in the perspective of a modernized historical process, focusing on the relation between the past and the future.
The Encyclopedia of Islam
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TL;DR: In more than 700 A-to-Z entries, "Encyclopedia of Islam" provides easy access to the terms, concepts, personalities, historical events, and institutions that helped shape the history of Islam and the way it is practiced today as mentioned in this paper.
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Slaves on Horses: The Evolution of the Islamic Polity
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the evolution of the Sufyanid pattern, 661-84 [41-64] 4. Syria of 684 [64] 5. The Marwanid evolution, 684-744 [64-126] 6. Umayyad clientage, 744 [126] 8. Failure of the Islamic Empire: 9. The abortive service aristocracy 10. The emergence of the slave soldiers 11.