In Praise of the Caliphs
Re-Creating History from the Manāqib Literature
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8969800 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Asma Afsaruddin (0009-0003-0643-1012, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 329-350 |
| Publication date | 1999-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal Middle East Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7438 • E-ISSN: 1471-6380 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s002074380005546x |
| OpenAlex | W2036022259 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 9 |
Roughly around the end of the 7th century, a distinct genre of Islamic literature began to develop under the rubric fadāʾil (“virtues” or “excellences”) that praised the merits, for example, of reciting the Qurʾan, of the Companions of the Prophet, of performing religious duties such as hajj and jihad, and of sacred cities such as Jerusalem. The fadāʾil literature initially was a part of the burgeoning hadith corpus, and the fadāʾ-Qurʾ an traditions appear to be the oldest strand. A variant term for this type of tradition, especially with regard to the Companions of the Prophet, is manāqib (and less frequently, khasāʾ is ). A survey of this kind of “praise” literature indicates that the terms manāqib and fadaāʾil could be used fairly interchangeably
Art · Hajj · Islam · Literature · Praise · Rubric · Sociology · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Islamic Studies and History
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,13 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2023 (22) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |