Seljuqs (eBook, ePUB)

Politics, Society and Culture
Redaktion: Lange, Christian; Mecit, Songul

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Despite the many important developments and innovations traceable to the Seljuq period (5th-7th/11th-13th centuries), the Seljuqs remain one of the understudied Muslim dynasties. This unique collaborative exploration of the Seljuqs' achievement contributes to the growing interest in this pivotal dynasty. The various chapters in this volume cover a representative geographical spectrum, from Central Asia and Persia to Iraq, Syria and Anatolia, and address novel questions such as the ideological foundations and ritual expressions of Seljuq power, the mutual attitudes of the learned classes and the Seljuq state, the organization of space, and the relationship between nomads and the settled peoples.The book is divided into three parts: the origins of the Seljuqs, their gradual transformation into a powerful dynasty, and their concepts of political legitimization (part one); the social history of the Seljuq period, particularly with regard to the 'ulama' and the urban populations (part two); developments in religious thought, jurisprudence, belles-lettres and architecture under the Seljuqs (part three).Key Features*Brings together the work of leading international experts in Seljuq studies including C. E. Bosworth, Massimo Campanini, Carole Hillenbrand, Robert Hillenbrand, Jurgen Paul, Andrew C. S. Peacock and Scott Redford*Critically engages with previous scholarly work on the Seljuqs*Addresses novel questions and challenges in the historiography of the Seljuq period*Pays particular attention to the Seljuqs' formative influence on later socio-political orders

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748675722
• Artikelnr.: 44755807

Autorenporträt

Christian Lange is Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He is author of Justice, Punishment and the Medieval Muslim Imagination (2008) and co-editor (with Maribel Fierro) of Public Violence in Islamic Societies: Power, Discipline and the Construction of the Public Sphere, 7th-19th Centuries (EUP, 2009). Songül Mecit is a Part-time Lecturer in Islamic Studies at the University of Edinburgh.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Politics: 1. The Origins of the Seljuqs
C. Edmund Bosworth
University of Manchester; 2. Aspects of the Court of the Great Seljuqs
Carole Hillenbrand
University of Edinburgh; 3. 'Sovereign and Pious': The Religious Life of the Great Seljuq Sultans
D. G. Tor
University of Notre Dame; 4. Kingship and ideology under the Rum Seljuqs
Songul Mecit
University of Edinburgh; 5. Seljuq Legitimacy in Islamic History
A. C. S. Peacock
British Institute at Ankara; Part II. Society: 6. Arslan Arghun - Nomadic Revival?
Jurgen Paul
University of Halle; 7. Controlling and Developing Baghdad: Caliphs
Sultans and the Balance of Power in the Abbasid Capital (Mid-5th/11th to Late 6th/12th Centuries)
Vanessa Van Renterghem
Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales
Paris; 8. The Seljuqs and the Public Sphere in the Period of Sunni Revivalism: The View from Baghdad
Daphna Ephrat
The Open University of Israel; 9. Changes in the Office of Hisba under the Seljuqs
Christian Lange
Utrecht University; 10. An Emblematic Family of Seljuq Iran: The Khujandis of Isfahan
David Durand-Guedy
University of Halle; Part III. Culture: 11. Shi'i Jurisprudence during the Seljuq Period: Rebellion and Public order in an Illegitimate State
Robert Gleave
University of Exeter; 12. In Defence of Sunnism: Al-Ghazali and the Seljuqs
Massimo Campanini
L'universita degli studi di Napoli L'Orientale; 13. Arabic and Persian Intertextuality in the Seljuq Period: Hamidi's Maqamat as a Case Study
Vahid Behmardi
Lebanese American University; 14. City Building in Seljuq Rum
Scott Redford
Georgetown University; 15. The Seljuq Munuments of Turkmenistan
Robert Hillenbrand
University of Edinburgh; Index