Muslim Kingship Power and the Sacred in Muslim, Christian and Pagan Polities
Heftet /
2001
/ Engelsk
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781860646096
Publisert
2001-02-16
Utgiver
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; I.B. Tauris
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
138 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
320
Forfatter
Om bidragsyterne
Aziz Al-Azmeh is a Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Study, Berlin.
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.
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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.
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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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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.
Les mer
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781860646096
Publisert
2001-02-16
Utgiver
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC; I.B. Tauris
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
138 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
320
Forfatter