Naming Shuʿūbīs
Document Type
Book Chapter
Series
Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East
Publication (Name of Journal)
Essays in Islamic Philology, History, and Philosophy
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110313789
Publisher
De Gruyter
City
Berlin
Abstract
In what follows, I argue that scholars have greatly overestimated the extent and importance of the Shuʿūbī movement and that overstating the Shuʿūbiyya crowds out more searching investigations of the situation of non-Arabs in early Islam. Furthermore, it plays into the hands of modern nationalist polemics, in which Shuʿūbiyya has been a term of approbation
Recommended Citation
Savant, S.
(2016). Naming Shuʿūbīs. Essays in Islamic Philology, History, and Philosophy.
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https://ecommons.aku.edu/book_chapters/543
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