RECLAIMING DAMASCUS: RESCRIPTING ISLAMIC TIME AND SPACE IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.

Disconnected from the original place and time of Islam and its own glorious early‐Islamic history, medieval Damascus felt like a temporally and spatially distant city. Through participating in newer hadith practices that facilitated the compression of time, Damascene scholars were able to diminish t...

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Published in:	History & Theory Vol. 58; no. 4; pp. 68 - 86
Main Author:	SAJDI, DANA
Format:	Article
Published:	Wiley-Blackwell Dec2019
Subjects:	Chronotope Arabic literature Sixteenth century Cities & towns in literature Hadith 15th & 16th century literature Intellectual life Damascus (Syria) Islamic Empire Syria
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