Rituals of Islamic Monarchy : Accession and Succession in the First Muslim Empire.
Title:
Rituals of Islamic Monarchy : Accession and Succession in the First Muslim Empire.
Author:
Marsham, Andrew.
ISBN:
9780748630776
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (361 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Maps and figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I Late Antique Arabiaand Early Islam (C. 550-C. 660) -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Alliance and allegiance in pre-Islamic Arabia -- Chapter 2 The verb bayaʻa in the Qurʼan: Allegiance to Muhammad -- Chapter 3 The oath of allegiance in the 'conquest society' (C. 628-C. 660) -- Part II The Umayyad Caliphate (C. 660-750) -- Introduction -- Chapter 4 Sufyanid accession and succession, C. 660-683 -- Chapter 5 The oath of allegiance in the early tradition and poetry, C. 680-C. 710 -- Chapter 6 The Marwanid patrimony and dynastic succession -- Chapter 7 Marwanid rituals of accession and succession -- Chapter 8 Writing and the bayʻa in the Marwanid period -- Chapter 9 The quranic content of the Marwanid documents -- Part III The Early Abbasid Caliphate (C. 750-809) -- Introduction -- Chapter 10 The consolidation of Abbasid power: al-Mansur and al-Mahdı (754-785) -- Chapter 11 The caliphates of Musa al-Hadi (785-786) and Harun al-Rashid (786-809) -- Chapter 12 'Dispositive documents' for the early Abbasid succession -- Part IV The Middle Abbasid Caliphate (809-865) -- Introduction -- Chapter 13 From the civil war to Samarra (809-847) -- Chapter 14 The caliphate of al-Mutawakkil (847-861) -- Chapter 15 The outbreak of the second ninth centurycivil war (861-865) -- Chapter16 Abbasid documents for caliphal accession -- Conclusion -- Genealogical Tables -- Bibliography -- index.
Abstract:
A history of the ceremony of the oath of allegiance to the caliph from the time of the Prophet Muhammad until the fragmentation of the caliphate in the late 9th and 10th centuries.Blurb by author:Rituals of Islamic Monarchy is the first full-length study of the rituals by which the caliphs were made rulers of the early Muslim empire. It is an original contribution to scholarship on early Islam and the Middle East, which gives important insights into the formation of classical Islamic culture and civilisation. It clearly sets out the particular evidential problems of early Islamic history and identifies strategies for overcoming them. It also engages with the problem of how Islamic history relates to the history of the pre-Islamic Middle East, arguing for the importance of the pre-Islamic, Arabian context of early Islam, as well as a wider perspective that takes in the legacy of the pre-Islamic empires of Rome and Iran.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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