Features
- Cover Type: Hard Cover with 288 pages
- Published by: I. B. Tauris November 15, 1997
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 1860640532
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-1860640537
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Book Dimensions:
8.7 x 5.6 x 1.1 inches
- Weighs: 1.2 pounds
Product Description
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.
Book Description
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.
Reader Reviewsal-Azmeh's book is half-comparative and half-chronology of the development of Muslim conceptions of Kingship. This work thoroughly puts to rest notions of Muslim exceptialionism by demonstrating the polyvalence of kingship discourse as well as its the various exchanges, borrowings, and influences adapted from Byzantine and Persian concepts of kingship. He takes considerable steps to remove the exotic from Muslim Kingship to instead place it within the framework of its evolving historical environment throughout the middle ages. It is a rare work that combines broadstrokes with a stringent concern for accuracy and nuance.
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