Results 161 to 170 of about 127,489,883 (215)
Some of the next articles are maybe not open access.
The Structure of the Caliphate
2020‘The Structure of the Khilafah (Caliphate)’ is a video published by al-Furqan Media on 6 July 2016 that attempts to explain the governing structure of the Islamic State.1 The video’s narrator, a member of the media department, goes into great deal about the relationship between the caliph and the Delegated Committee, bureaus, and provinces that fall ...
Haroro Ingram +2 more
openaire +1 more source
Caliphal Investiture Documents and the Ideality of a Cairo Caliphate
2020The 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.
openaire +1 more source
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 ...
openaire +1 more source
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
openaire +1 more source
The Umayyad Caliphate of Cordova
1970When ‘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.
openaire +1 more source
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 ...
openaire +1 more source
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 ...
openaire +1 more source
The Harameyin, the Caliphate, and the British Search for an Arab Caliph
2001Abstract 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 ...
openaire +1 more source