Rethinking the Islamic Hijra: A Religious Paradigm or an Ideological Instrument of Political Action
1.
SYSNO ASEP
0335045
Document Type
J - Journal Article
R&D Document Type
Journal Article
Subsidiary J
Článek ve WOS
Title
Rethinking the Islamic Hijra: A Religious Paradigm or an Ideological Instrument of Political Action
Author(s)
Mendel, Miloš (OU-W)
Number of authors
1
Source Title
Archiv orientální: Quarterly Journal of African and Asian Studies. - : Orientální ústav AV ČR, v. v. i.
- ISSN 0044-8699
Roč. 77, č. 1 (2009), s. 1-26
Number of pages
26 s.
Language
eng - English
Country
CZ - Czech Republic
Keywords
hijra ; Islam
Subject RIV
AB - History
CEZ
AV0Z90210515 - OU-W (2005-2011)
UT WOS
000269666700001
Annotation
The article examines the phenomenon that occurs in three monotheistic religions – Judaism, Christianity and Islam – which has been constantly known in the European tradition under the Greco-Latin term of Exodus. The Islamic variant of it (in Arabic called hijra – emigration, or originally and more precisely, cutting kin and tribal ties) is briefly defined and put into the broader historical context. In the same time the article comprises partial informations and critical remarks on the state of the research of the issue of Islamic hijra, including the list of bibliographic data, based on the collection of relatively representative samples of sources and studies
