Muslim Kingship

Power and the Sacred in Muslim, Christian and Pagan Polities

Häftad, Engelska, 2001

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Beskrivning

This study outlines the main features of the theory and practice of political power in Muslim polities in the Middle Ages against the background of Near Eastern traditions of kingship, particularly Hellenistic, Persian, and Byzantine. The early Arab-Muslim polity is treated as an integral part of late Antiquity and the book explores the way in which older traditions were transposed into Islamic form and given specifically Islamic textual sanction.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2001-02-16
Mått:138 x 216 x 17 mm
Vikt:400 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:320
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9781860646096

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Politik och statsskick inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Aziz Al-Azmeh is a Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Study, Berlin.

Innehållsförteckning

Part 1 Sublime analogies pagan and monotheistic: kings and gods - ubiquitous regalia, figures of the sacred; kings in the world - royal cosmography, monotheistic types, virtue and order; an interregnum - the early Muslim polity. Part 2 Muslim polities: writing power - a corpus of universal wisdom, topics of power, power Islamized; the absolutist imperative - power enunciated, power manifest; absolutism sublime - the sacral caliphate, caliphal kingship, the sultanic shadow of God; political soteriology - hierocratic saviours, logocratic sages?.

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