Muslim Kingship: Power and the Sacred in Muslim, Christian and Pagan Polities by Aziz Al-Azmeh
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Muslim Kingship
Summary
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.
Muslim Kingship Summary
Table of Contents
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?.
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NLS9781860646096
9781860646096
1860646093
Muslim Kingship: Power and the Sacred in Muslim, Christian and Pagan Polities by Aziz Al-Azmeh
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
20010216
320
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