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Rituals of Islamic monarchy : accession and succession in the first Muslim empire /
This fascinating history explores 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 ninth and tenth centuries. The study of royal rituals of accession and succession in Christian Rome, Byzantium and the ear...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2009]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Part I. Late antique Arabia and early Islam (c.550-c.660). Introduction
- 1. Alliance and allegiance in pre-Islamic Arabia
- 2. The verb BAYA'A in the Quran: allegiance to Muhammad
- 3. The oath of allegiance in the conquest society (c.628-c.660)
- Part II. The Umayyad caliphate (c.660-750). Introduction
- 4. Sufyanid accession and succession, c.660-683
- 5. The oath of allegiance in the early tradition and poetry, c.680-c.710
- 6. The Marwanid patrimony and dynastic succession
- 7. Marwanid rituals of accession and succession
- 8. Writing and the Bay'a in the Marwanid period
- 9. The quranic content of the Marwanid documents
- Part III. The early Abbasid caliphate (c.750-809). Introduction
- 10. The consolidation of Abbasid power: al-Mansur and al-Mahdi (754-785)
- 11. The caliphates of Musa al-Hadi (785-786) and Harun al-Rashid (786-809)
- 12. Dispositive documents for the early Abbasid succession
- Part IV. The Middle Abbasid caliphate (809-865). Introduction
- 13. From the civil war to Samarra (809-847)
- 14. The caliphate of al-Mutawakkil (847-861)
- 15. The outbreak of the second ninth-century civil war (861-865)
- 16. Abbasid documents for caliphal accession
- Conclusion.