1st Edition

The Armenians in the Medieval Islamic World Medieval Cosmopolitanism and Images of Islamthirteenth to Fourteenth Centuries

By Seta B. Dadoyan Copyright 2014
316 Pages
by Routledge

318 Pages
by Routledge

316 Pages
by Routledge

In the third volume of the trilogy, Seta B. Dadoyan focuses on social and cultural aspects, rather than the core political focus exhibited in her first two volumes. Her objective is to suggest political readings of these themes and related texts by revealing hitherto unstudied and novel interactions in the cities of Asia Minor during the Mongol Period. Dadoyan focuses on the Armenian condition... Read more
General Introduction Part OneParadigms of Medieval Cosmopolitanism: The Case of Erznka/Erzinj?n—Sciences, Society, and Literature in the Thirteenth Century 1 Th e City of Erznka and the Ism?‘?l? Connection 2 Secularization of Knowledge and Sciences: An Armenian Summary of Ras?’il Ikhw?n al-S.af?’ 3 Project for the Spiritualization and Control of Urban Society: ‘Abb?sid Caliph al-N?s.ir’s Futuwwa Project as Model for the Constitution of the Brotherhood of Erznka 4 Urbanization of Culture—Th e Cultural Significance of the Fity?n and Manuks Part TwoTh e Prophet and Islam in Armenian Literature—Seventh to Fourteenth Centuries: Armenian Conceptualization of Islam through Polemics—Apologetics 1 Life and Teachings of Prophet Muh. ammad 2 Islam and the Tradition of Arab-Christian Apologetic/Polemical Literature 3 Th e Armenian Mahmet/Muh. ammad 4 Grigor and Matt‘?os: Texts and Polemical Strategies

Biography

Dadoyan, Seta B.