La pluralità identitaria dell'Islam iracheno: Baghdad città-laboratorio

Martino Diez

La pluralità identitaria dell'Islam iracheno: Baghdad città-laboratorio

Translated title of the contribution: [Autom. eng. transl.] The identity plurality of Iraqi Islam: Baghdad laboratory-city

Martino Diez

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Abstract

If Paris was, according to Walter Benjamin's famous definition, the capital of the 19th century, then Baghdad was the capital of the 9th and 10th. Its history is to a large extent the history of classical Islam. The first feature of this city was its diversity: a plurality of religions and, as far as Islam is concerned, a plurality of ways of being Muslim. While this plurality came to an end with the decadence and ruin of the Abbasid caliphate, it can still serve as a symbolic resource for contemporary Iraq.

Translated title of the contribution	[Autom. eng. transl.] The identity plurality of Iraqi Islam: Baghdad laboratory-city
Original language	Italian
Title of host publication	L'Iraq contemporaneo
Pages	147-164
Number of pages	18
Publication status	Published - 2023

Keywords

Abbasid age
Baghdad
Cultural diversity in medieval Islam

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