The Delineation Between Believer, Rebel, and Heretic: Islamic Heterodoxy in the Late Umayyad Period

dc.contributor.advisorBorrut, Antoineen_US
dc.contributor.authorNovak, Valerie Lynnen_US
dc.contributor.departmentHistoryen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2012-10-11T06:18:19Z
dc.date.available2012-10-11T06:18:19Z
dc.date.issued2012en_US
dc.description.abstractThis research explores the concept of orthodoxy and heresy in an Islamic context during the late Umayyad period, by investigating two early Islamic heretics, al-Harith ibn Surayj and Jahm ibn Safwan. The goal is to demonstrate the heterodoxical nature of Islam in the early Umayyad period, in contrast to Western Christian model, which more easily delineates between heretic and believer. The role of the caliphate and decline of the Umayyad administration inform the circumstances of the heretics and their condemnation in this period. The case studies are informed by al-Tabari's Târîkh and al-Baladhuri's Ansâb al-Ashrâf, and illuminate the difficult circumstances of a growing Islamic heterodoxy, with the slow codification of Islamic orthodoxy.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/13263
dc.subject.pqcontrolledHistoryen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledal-Harith ibn Surayjen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledHeresyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledHeterodoxyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledJahm ibn Safwanen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledOrthodoxyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledUmayyadsen_US
dc.titleThe Delineation Between Believer, Rebel, and Heretic: Islamic Heterodoxy in the Late Umayyad Perioden_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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