عنوان

Becoming Muslim: Identity, Homeland, and the Making of the Perso-Islamic World

Number

TL50995

.Language of Text, Soundtrack etc

انگلیسی

Title Proper

Becoming Muslim: Identity, Homeland, and the Making of the Perso-Islamic World

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Olomi, Ali A.

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

Daryaee, Touraj

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

University of California, Irvine

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2019

Text of Note

133 p.

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

Ph.D.

Body granting the degree

University of California, Irvine

Text preceding or following the note

2019

Text of Note

This dissertation studies the formation of Muslim and Persianate identity in the post-caliphal world of the 10th to the 13th century. This is a study of how Muslims articulated a sense of belonging once the political and social core of the Muslim world began to fragment through the myriad imaginings of territory, space, and homeland. I trace how the emerging concept of homeland produced sentimental bonds of belonging that engendered a sense of continuity and connectivity and how the pluralistic categories of belonging simultaneously redrew the borders between communities geographically and socially, while providing the mechanism for religious and cultural conversion. This dissertation is also an examination of how these premodern histories are absorbed and reinterpreted in the modern pan-Islamist movement as they articulated the need for a territorial Muslim homeland.

Subject Term

Islamic culture

Subject Term

Middle Eastern history

Olomi, Ali A.

Daryaee, Touraj

University of California, Irvine

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[Thesis]

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