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- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- Online publication date:
- September 2014
- Print publication year:
- 2014
- Online ISBN:
- 9780748644988
- Subjects:
- Middle East Studies, Islam, Area Studies, History, Religion, Middle East History
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From the Prophet Mohammad's family tree to the present, ideas about kinship and descent have shaped communal and national identities in Muslim societies. So an understanding of genealogy is therefore vital to our understanding of Muslim societies, particularly with regard to the generation, preservation and manipulation of genealogical knowledge. These case studies link genealogical knowledge to particular circumstances in which it was created, circulated and promoted. They stress the malleability of kinship and memory, and the interests this malleability serves.
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