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Caliphal Investiture Documents and the Ideality of a Cairo Caliphate

2020
The first of two chapters that analyse the functional aspects and formal expectations for the Cairene Abbasids based on existing investiture and succession documents to examine the caliphal institution in the context of politics and religion in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Syro-Egypt.
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Amalfitans in the Caliphate of Cordoba – Or Not?

Al-Masāq, 2012
This article concerns itself with the references in Ibn Ḥayyān's Muqtabis, Book V, to an Amalfitan presence at the court of Cordoba in the middle of the fourth/tenth century. It will be argued that these isolated references to a precociously early, Italian, mercantile presence in Spain, taken largely at face value by the text's editor and all but ...
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Beyond the Throne of the Caliphate: Analysing Caliphal Documents

2020
The 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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Caliphs, Counter-Caliphs, and Counteifeit Caliphs: Hishām and ‘Abd Allāh on Taifa Coins

1993
Abstract 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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The Caliphate

2019
Abstract 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 ...
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The Umayyad Caliphate of Cordova

1970
When ‘Abd-al-Raḥmān III succeeded his grandfather, ‘Abdullāh, in 912, he was barely twenty-three years of age. ‘Abdullāh had instigated one of his own sons to kill the other, ‘Abd-al-Raḥmān’s father, Muḥammad, on a mere suspicion of disloyalty.1 Later he connived at the murder of his other son, the fratricide, leaving himself childless.
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The Harameyin, the Caliphate, and the British Search for an Arab Caliph

2001
Abstract After 1880 the Hicaz became crucial, both practically and symbolically, to Sultan Abdulhamid’s policy of integrating the Ottoman Muslims into a cohesive community and expanding his religious influence overseas. As the holy sites for the annual Muslim pilgrimage, Mecca and Medina (nineteenth-century neo-Sufism made the latter ...
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Sentiment prevalence on Jihad , Caliphate, and Bid’ah among Indonesian students: Focusing on moderate-radical muslim group tension

Cogent Social Sciences, 2022
Muhammad Lukman Arifianto, Muhammad Saefi, Hanik Mahliatussikah   +2 more
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The Caliphate

The American Historical Review, 1925
D. B. MacDonald, Thomas W. Arnold
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The digital Caliphate

2016
Innerhalb eines relativen kurzen Zeitraums von wenigen Monaten hat es die terroristische Gruppierung DAESH geschafft ihre Präsenz im Nahen Osten zu festigen. Durch effektive Propaganda wurde ein Radikalisierungsprozess eingeläutet, mithilfe dessen internationale Kämpfer für einen Jihad rekrutiert werden konnten, um ein islamistisches Kalifat auf den ...
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