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Abbasid Rulers and Their Standing as Authors
This chapter looks at how 3rd/9th and 4th/10th century historical and literary sources assess Abbasid rulers as scholars, poets and authors, and whether and how such assessment is tied to their legitimacy. Starting from the authors and works recorded in the Kitāb al-fihrist by Ibn al-Nadīm (d.openaire +1 more source
’Abbasids, Fatimids and Seljuqs
2004In the course of the tenth century, his Fatimid dynasty had risen to power, first in North Africa and then in Egypt and Syria, while the original Arab empire under the older 'Abbasids dynasty of caliphs had finally disintegrated under the weight of its own excessive taxation.
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The Abbasid and Byzantine Courts
2018This chapter discusses how research into court culture is an essential part of the growth in historical anthropology. The main historiographical developments have focused first, on the ritual and symbolic aspects of rulership; and second, on the personal and domestic world.
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Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 1971
Claude Cahen, M. A. Shaban
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Claude Cahen, M. A. Shaban
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