caa a22 4500 388101962 CHVBK 20180307125324.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199908 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S002074380005546X doi S002074380005546X pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S002074380005546X Afsaruddin Asma In Praise of the Caliphs: Re-Creating History from the Manāqib Literature [Elektronische Daten] [Asma Afsaruddin] Roughly around the end of the 7th century, a distinct genre of Islamic literature began to develop under the rubric fadāʾil ("virtues” or "excellences”) that praised the merits, for example, of reciting the Qurʾan, of the Companions of the Prophet, of performing religious duties such as hajj and jihad, and of sacred cities such as Jerusalem. The fadāʾil literature initially was a part of the burgeoning hadith corpus, and the fadāʾ-Qurʾ an traditions appear to be the oldest strand. A variant term for this type of tradition, especially with regard to the Companions of the Prophet, is manāqib (and less frequently, khasāʾ is). A survey of this kind of "praise” literature indicates that the terms manāqib and fadaāʾil could be used fairly interchangeably. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999 International Journal of Middle East Studies Cambridge University Press 31/3(1999-08), 329-350 0020-7438 31:3<329 1999 31 MES https://doi.org/10.1017/S002074380005546X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S002074380005546X text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Afsaruddin Asma NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- International Journal of Middle East Studies Cambridge University Press 31/3(1999-08), 329-350 0020-7438 31:3<329 1999 31 MES CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge