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2019
This chapter analyzes the views on the nature of authority in Islam, diverse visions of the caliphate and its relation to sultanate as a political regime, and portrayals of the perfect ruler through archetype-building and reinterpretation of Islamic history. The emergence of Turko-Mongolian dynasties whose Islamic credentials were at best questionable,
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This chapter analyzes the views on the nature of authority in Islam, diverse visions of the caliphate and its relation to sultanate as a political regime, and portrayals of the perfect ruler through archetype-building and reinterpretation of Islamic history. The emergence of Turko-Mongolian dynasties whose Islamic credentials were at best questionable,
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Caliphs, Counter-Caliphs, and Counteifeit Caliphs: Hishām and ‘Abd Allāh on Taifa Coins
1993Abstract The political changes of the period between the overthrow of the Mansūrids, in 399/1009, and the Almoravid intervention in al-Andalus, nearly a century later, are reflected in the coinages of the peninsula, at least so far as such coinages actually existed and have survived. Perhaps the most significant change, if only on the
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2019
The caliphate as an institution for governing the Muslim community can be traced back to the time immediately after the death of the Prophet Muhammad in 632 ce. With its humble origins in the parochial settings of an Arabian desert oasis, the caliphate provided the structure for the shepherding of a community of believers organized around prophetic ...
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The caliphate as an institution for governing the Muslim community can be traced back to the time immediately after the death of the Prophet Muhammad in 632 ce. With its humble origins in the parochial settings of an Arabian desert oasis, the caliphate provided the structure for the shepherding of a community of believers organized around prophetic ...
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2018
The medieval theory of the caliphate, epitomized by the Abbasids (750–1258), was the construct of jurists who conceived it as a contractual leadership of the Muslim community in succession to the Prophet Muhammed's political authority. This book traces how a new conception of the caliphate emerged under the Ottomans, who redefined the caliph as at once
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The medieval theory of the caliphate, epitomized by the Abbasids (750–1258), was the construct of jurists who conceived it as a contractual leadership of the Muslim community in succession to the Prophet Muhammed's political authority. This book traces how a new conception of the caliphate emerged under the Ottomans, who redefined the caliph as at once
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Beyond the Throne of the Caliphate: Analysing Caliphal Documents
2020The second of two chapters that discuss caliphal documents that offer opportunities to examine Abbasid legitimacy alongside conceptual representations of the caliphate’s authority in late medieval Syro-Egyptian society. The documents counted among a small number of venues in which the theoretical power and authority of the Abbasid Caliphate could be ...
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