Basit Kareem Iqbal

The Dread Heights

Tribulation and Refuge After the Syrian Revolution

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Understanding the devastation of the Syrian war through the Islamic tradition.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 553g
• ISBN-13: 9781531510312
• ISBN-10: 1531510310
• Artikelnr.: 72015604

Autorenporträt

Basit Kareem Iqbal is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at McMaster University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: God Grants Relief 1
1 Refuge 29
The Ruin of Community, 30 • Translating Muslim Humanitarianism, 38 •
Abstemious Images, 47 • Pedagogy in Exile, 53 • No Refuge from God but God,
63
Threshold: Natality 69
2 Tribulation 78
Accepting, 82 • Reckoning, 100 • Distributing, 114 •
Disclosing, 125 • A Grammar of Tribulation, 144
Threshold: Ambivalence 150
3 The Heights 158
Woe to Our Condition Here, 159 • Brutal Tyranny, 163 •
AsThough It Were Yesterday, 171 • If the Horizon Breaks, 184 •
The Dread Heights, 192
Afterword: Eternity Has Fallen 200
Acknowledgments 205
Notes 209
Bibliography 259
Index 281