Rituals of Islamic monarchy : accession and succession in the first Muslim empire / Andrew Marsham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marsham, Andrew, 1973-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam--Rituals--History.

Islam.

Caliphate.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 346 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A history of the ceremony of the oath of allegiance to the caliph from the time of the Prophet Muhammad until the fragmentation of the caliphate in the late 9th and 10th centuries. Blurb by author: Rituals of Islamic Monarchy is the first full-length study of the rituals by which the caliphs were made rulers of the early Muslim empire. It is an original contribution to scholarship on early Islam and the Middle East, which gives important insights into the formation of classical Islamic culture and civilisation. It clearly sets out the particular evidential problems of early Islamic history and identifies strategies for overcoming them. It also engages with the problem of how Islamic history relates to the history of the pre-Islamic Middle East, arguing for the importance of the pre-Islamic, Arabian context of early Islam, as well as a wider perspective that takes in the legacy of the pre-Islamic empires of Rome and Iran.

Contents:

Introduction

- Part I. Late antique Arabia and early Islam (c.550-c.660). Introduction

1. Alliance and allegiance in pre-Islamic Arabia

2. The verb BAYA'A in the Quran: allegiance to Muhammad

3. The oath of allegiance in the conquest society (c.628

c.660)

- Part II. The Umayyad caliphate (c.660-750). Introduction

4. Sufyanid accession and succession, c.660-683

5. The oath of allegiance in the early tradition and poetry, c.680-c.710

6. The Marwanid patrimony and dynastic succession

7. Marwanid rituals of accession and succession

8. Writing and the Bay'a in the Marwanid period

9. The quranic content of the Marwanid documents

- Part III. The early Abbasid caliphate (c.750-809). Introduction

10. The consolidation of Abbasid power: al-Mansur and al-Mahdi (754-785)

11. The caliphates of Musa al-Hadi (785-786) and Harun al-Rashid (786-809)

12. Dispositive documents for the early Abbasid succession

- Part IV. The Middle Abbasid caliphate (809-865). Introduction

13. From the civil war to Samarra (809-847)

14. The caliphate of al-Mutawakkil (847-861)

15. The outbreak of the second ninth-century civil war (861-865)

16. Abbasid documents for caliphal accession

- Conclusion.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 320-337) and index.

ISBN:

0-7486-5315-5

1-282-13642-9

9786612136429

0-7486-3077-5

OCLC:

430842436