Luke B. Yarbrough

Friends of the Emir (eBook, PDF)

Non-Muslim State Officials in Premodern Islamic Thought

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Produktbeschreibung

Reveals how early Muslims devised and elaborated normative views concerning non-Muslim state officials at moments of intense competition.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108758550
• Artikelnr.: 70911680

Autorenporträt

Luke B. Yarbrough is Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at University of California, Los Angeles. A specialist in early and medieval Islamic history, he previously taught at Saint Louis University, Missouri, and the Sorbonne, and held research fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania and New York University, Abu Dhabi. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles, as well as a recent edition of a medieval Arabic polemic from Egypt, The Sword of Ambition, by Uthman ibn Ibrahim al-Nabulusi (2016). He holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University, New Jersey and has studied and researched widely in the Middle East, notably in Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Beginnings: 1. An introduction to the prescriptive discourse surrounding non-Muslim state officials
2. Preludes to the discourse: non-Muslim officials and late ancient antecedents
3. The beginnings of the discourse to 236/851
4. The discourse comes of age: the edicts of the caliph al-Mutawakkil
Part II. Elaboration: 5. Juristic aspects of the discourse
6. Literary aspects of the discourse
Part III. Efflorescence and Comparisons: 7. The discourse at its apogee: the independent counsel works
8. The discourse in wider perspective: comparisons and conclusions
9. Afterword: the discourse to the nineteenth century.