Author: RUQAYYA YASMINE KHAN
Title: Self & Secrecy in Early Islam
Description: South Carolina. Gekartonneerd met stofomslag. Pp: 182. This book presents an original inquiry into the meanings of concealment and revelation in early Arabo-Islamic texts. In this comparative analysis of the significance of keeping and revealing secrets in early Islamic culture, Ruqayya Yasmine Khan draws from a broad range of Arabo-Islamic texts to map interconnections between concepts of secrecy and identity. In early Islamic discourse, Khan maintains, individual identity is integrally linked to a psychology of secrecy and revelation - a connection of even greater importance than what is being concealed or displayed. Khan further maintains that secrecy and identity demarcate boundaries for interpersonal relations when governed by the cultural norms of discretion espoused in these texts. ISBN: 9781570037542. Cond./Kwaliteit: Ramsj.

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