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Parable and politics in early Islamic history: the Rashidun caliphs
"The story of the succession to the Prophet Muhammad and the rise of the Rashidun Caliphate (632-661 AD) is familiar to historians from the political histories of medieval Islam, which treat it as a factual account. The story also informs the competing perspectives of Sunni and Shri Islam, which read into it the legitimacy of their claims. Yet while descriptive and varied, these approaches have long excluded a third reading, which views the conflict over the succession to the Prophet as a parable. From this vantage point, the motives, sayings, and actions of the protagonists reveal profound links to previous texts, not to mention a surprising irony regarding political and religious issues." "In a controversial break from previous historiography, Tayeb El-Hibri privileges the literary and artistic triumphs of the medieval Islamic chronicles and maps the origins of Islamic political and religious orthodoxy. Considering the patterns and themes of these unified narratives, including the problem of measuring personal qualification according to religious merit, nobility, and skills in government, El-Hibri offers an insightful critique of both carly and contemporary Islam and the concerns of legitimacy shadowing verious rulers. In building an argument for reading the texts as parabolic commentary, he also highlights the Islamic reinterpretation of biblical traditions, both by Quraanic exegesis and historical composition."--Jacket
Luftpostens historia i Norden - The history of air-mail in Scandinavia
In: Sveriges Filatelist-Förbund, Specialhandbok 10
Medieval metropolises: proceedings of the congress of the Atlas Working Group, International Commission for the History of Towns, Bologna 8 - 10 maggio 1997
In: Attraverso le città italiane 6
History, Transfer, Politics. Five Studies on the Legacy of Uppsala Philosophy
In: Statsvetenskaplig tidskrift, Band 114, Heft 2, S. 309-311
ISSN: 0039-0747
Spazio urbano e organizzazione economica nell'Europa medievale: atti della session C23; 11th International Economic History Congress (Milano, 12 - 16 settembre 1994)
In: Annali della Facoltà di Scienze Politiche
In: Materiali di storia 14 = 29 [d. Gesamtw.]
In: Annali della Facoltà di Scienze Politiche 29
Crossroads: studies on the history of exchange relations in the East Asian world
ISSN: 2190-8796
Methods, interventions and reflections: report from the X Nordic women's and gender history conference in Bergen, Norway, August 9-12, 2012
In: Sveriges kvinno- och genushistorikers skriftserie no. 1
Historien i politiken: historieanvändning i norsk och svensk EU-debatt 1990 - 1994 : summary: history in politics: the use of history in the Norwegian and Swedish debates on member ship in the European Union 1990 - 1994
In: Studia historica Upsaliensia 226
In: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis
Bibliographical guide to economic and social history of the Middle East and Latin America, 1770-1870
In: Monographie / Centre d'histoire économique internationale, Université de Genève 2
THE HISTORY OF THE ECUADORIAN CORPORATION AND ITS CONTRIBUTION TO THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF ECUADOR: 1897-1986
In: Chakiñan: revista de ciencias sociales y humanidades, Heft 19, S. 199-216
ISSN: 2550-6722
While much has been written about the construction of the Guayaquil and Quito railroad, little has been written about the important connection between the subsidiary companies organized by the railroad and the development of the Ecuadorian Corporation, the first modern holding company to be organized in Ecuador. The objective of this article is to present the history of the Ecuadorian Corporation from its beginnings in 1897 with the organization of the Guayaquil and Quito Railway Company to its dissolution in 1986 as a result of a hostile take over by the Rooney Pace corporation. In exploring the connection between the railway company and the Ecuadorian Corporation, emphasis has been placed on the roles of Archer Harman, the promoter of the railway company and its subsidiaries, Evermont Hope Norton, the founder of the Ecuadorian Corporation, and Hope Norton Stevens, his grandson and successor. The methodology for this article was based on an analysis of the unpublished primary sources of the Guayaquil and Quito Railway Company and its subsidiaries and of the Ecuadorian Corporation. The article concludes with an analysis of the important contribution made by the Ecuadorian Corporation to the economic development of Ecuador.