Rituals of Islamic monarchy : accession and succession in the first Muslim empire

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

This fascinating history explores 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 ninth and tenth centuries. The study of royal rituals of accession and succession in Christian Rome, Byzantium and the ear...

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Main Author: Marsham, Andrew, 1973- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2009]
Subjects:
Islam > Rituals > History.
Islam > Politics and government.
Islam and politics > History.
State, The.
Caliphate.
RELIGION > Islam > Rituals & Practice.
RELIGION > Islam > Theology.
Caliphate
Islam and politics
Islam > Rituals
Kings and rulers > Succession
State, The
Islam
Dynastie
Islamic Empire > Kings and rulers > Succession.
Islamic Empire
Kalifenreich
Electronic books.
History
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Table of 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.

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