Aziz Al-Azmeh

Muslim Kingship

Power and the Sacred in Muslim, Christian and Pagan Polities

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Seitenzahl: 316
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Februar 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 400g
• ISBN-13: 9781860646096
• ISBN-10: 1860646093
• Artikelnr.: 21207975

Autorenporträt

Aziz Al-Azmeh is Professor at the Department of History, Central European University, Vienna, Austria. He has held visiting professorships at Columbia University, Yale University

Inhaltsangabe

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?.