The Shaping Of Abbasid Rule

Author : Jacob Lassner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400886364

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The Shaping of 'Abbasid Rule by Jacob Lassner Pdf

In order to understand the transition between the revolutionary movement that propelled the Abbasids to power and the imperial government that later took root, Jacob Lassner studies those elements that served to shape the political attitudes and institutions of the emerging regime during its formative years. Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Jacob Lassner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Abbasids
ISBN : 0691052816

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The Shaping of ʻAbbāsid Rule by Jacob Lassner Pdf

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Author : Muhammad Qasim Zaman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 9004106782

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Religion and Politics Under the Early ʻAbbāsids by Muhammad Qasim Zaman Pdf

A study of the religious policies of the early Abb sids. It describes the caliphs' patronage of the nascent Sunni religious elite and offers a new interpretation of the relationship of religion and politics in Islam's first centuries.

Author : Mohsen Zakeri
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Futuwwa (Islamic social groups)
ISBN : 3447036524

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Sasanid Soldiers in Early Muslim Society by Mohsen Zakeri Pdf

Author : Josef W. Meri
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 980 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Islam
ISBN : 9780415966900

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Medieval Islamic Civilization by Josef W. Meri Pdf

Examines the socio-cultural history of the regions where Islam took hold between the 7th and 16th century. This two-volume work contains 700 alphabetically arranged entries, and provides a portrait of Islamic civilization. It is of use in understanding the roots of Islamic society as well to explore the culture of medieval civilization.

Author : Gavin Picken
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781136853715

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Spiritual Purification in Islam by Gavin Picken Pdf

Purification of the soul is a principle that is central to understanding Islamic spirituality but despite this, relatively little has been written explicitly in the Islamic tradition regarding this discrete method of spiritual purification. This book examines the work of a scholar of this discipline, al-Hārith al-Muhāsibī, who lived and worked during the classical Islamic period under the Abbāsids. Although al-Muhāsibī was well known for his skills in many disciplines, including the Qur’ān, Prophetic narration and scholastic theology, it is his mastery in the field of Islamic spirituality and moral psychology for which he is best remembered. Assessing the extent to which the political, social and economic factors played a part in his life and work, Gavin Picken provides a comprehensive overview of his work and its great significance in the development of Islamic spirituality. Reconstructing his life in chronological order and providing the most comprehensive appraisal of his works to date, it explores a facet of al-Muhāsibī’s teaching which as yet has not been studied, namely his understanding, concept and methodology regarding the purification of the soul within the Islamic paradigm. As such, it will be of great interest not only to researchers and students of Sufism but also to scholars of comparative spirituality and mysticism.

Author : Tayeb El-Hibri
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107183247

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The Abbasid Caliphate by Tayeb El-Hibri Pdf

A history of the Abbasid Caliphate from its foundation in 750 and golden age under Harun al-Rashid to the conquest of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258, this study examines the Caliphate as an empire and an institution, and its imprint on the society and culture of classical Islamic civilization.

Author : Spencer C. Tucker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 1928 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781440853531

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Middle East Conflicts from Ancient Egypt to the 21st Century [4 volumes] by Spencer C. Tucker Pdf

With more than 1,100 cross-referenced entries covering every aspect of conflict in the Middle East, this definitive scholarly reference provides readers with a substantial foundation for understanding contemporary history in the most volatile region in the world. This authoritative and comprehensive encyclopedia covers all the key wars, insurgencies, and battles that have occurred in the Middle East roughly between 3100 BCE and the early decades of the twenty-first century. It also discusses the evolution of military technology and the development and transformation of military tactics and strategy from the ancient world to the present. In addition to the hundreds of entries on major conflicts, military engagements, and diplomatic developments, the book also features entries on key military, political, and religious leaders. Essays on the major empires and nations of the region are included, as are overview essays on the major periods under consideration. The book additionally covers such non-military subjects as diplomacy, national and international politics, religion and sectarian conflict, cultural phenomena, genocide, international peacekeeping missions, social movements, and the rise to prominence of international terrorism. The reference entries are augmented by a carefully curated documents volume that offers primary sources on such diverse topics as the Greco-Persian Wars, the Crusades, and the Arab-Israeli Wars.

Author : Jacob Lassner,Michael Bonner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313047091

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Islam in the Middle Ages by Jacob Lassner,Michael Bonner Pdf

In the Middle Ages, a varied and vibrant Islamic culture flourished in all its aspects, from religious institutions to legal and scientific endeavors. Lassner, Reisman, and Bonner detail how all three montheist traditions are linked to the same sacred history. They trace the most current scholarship on the Arabian background to Islam, the prophet's early religious message and its appeal. They the Qur'an and how it would have been understood by the earliest generations of Muslims. How much does historical memory come into play in current depictions of this early era? Beyond religious institutions, Muslim scholars and scientists were vital to both the transmission of knowledge from the Greek civilization and to the uninterrupted progress of science. The authors explore the role that non-Muslim minorities played within this culture and they detail the splits within the Muslim world that continue to this day.

Author : Parvaneh Pourshariati
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857711991

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Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire by Parvaneh Pourshariati Pdf

I.B.Tauris in association with the Iran Heritage Foundation Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire has been acclaimed as one of the most intellectually exciting books about late antique Persia to have been published for years. It proposes a convincing contemporary answer to an age-old mystery and conundrum: why, in the seventh century ce, did the seemingly powerful and secure Sasanian empire of Persia succumb so quickly and disastrously to the all-conquering armies of Islam? In her bold solution to this enigma, Parvaneh Pourshariati explains that the decentralized dynastic system of the Sasanian ruling hierarchy in fact contained the seeds of its own destruction. This confederacy, whose powerbase relied on patronage and preferment, eventually became unstable, and its degeneration sealed the fate of a doomed dynasty.

Author : Josef Meri
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351668231

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Routledge Revivals: Medieval Islamic Civilization (2006) by Josef Meri Pdf

Islamic civilization flourished in the Middle Ages across a vast geographical area that spans today's Middle and Near East. First published in 2006, Medieval Islamic Civilization examines the socio-cultural history of the regions where Islam took hold between the 7th and 16th centuries. This important two-volume work contains over 700 alphabetically arranged entries, contributed and signed by international scholars and experts in fields such as Arabic languages, Arabic literature, architecture, history of science, Islamic arts, Islamic studies, Middle Eastern studies, Near Eastern studies, politics, religion, Semitic studies, theology, and more. Entries also explore the importance of interfaith relations and the permeation of persons, ideas, and objects across geographical and intellectual boundaries between Europe and the Islamic world. This reference work provides an exhaustive and vivid portrait of Islamic civilization and brings together in one authoritative text all aspects of Islamic civilization during the Middle Ages. Accessible to scholars, students and non-specialists, this resource will be of great use in research and understanding of the roots of today's Islamic society as well as the rich and vivid culture of medieval Islamic civilization.

Author : John Donohue
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004492363

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The Buwayhid Dynasty in Iraq 334H./945 to 403H./1012 by John Donohue Pdf

A study of the development of political and social institutions in Baghdad, center of the Abbasid Caliphate, in that neglected period between Abbasid collapse and the coming of the Seljuk Turks. Three brothers, Daylemite mercenaries from the southern Caspian succeeded in establishing a dynasty that lasted nearly a century, controlling Iraq, a good part of Iran and the Gulf. The period has been labled the "Iranian intermezzo" but careful examination shows that the dynasty shaped the basic institutions to which the Seljuks would fall heir: the chief amirate, the system of army fiefs and the bureaucracy. It was a period of profound change and dislocation which fostered an open and creative cultural atmosphere. The Caliphate, bereft of power, was re-established as the center of authority and legitimation.

Author : Scott Savran
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317749080

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Arabs and Iranians in the Islamic Conquest Narrative by Scott Savran Pdf

Arabs and Iranians in the Islamic Conquest Narrative analyzes how early Muslim historians merged the pre-Islamic histories of the Arab and Iranian peoples into a didactic narrative culminating with the Arab conquest of Iran. This book provides an in-depth examination of Islamic historical accounts of the encounters between representatives of these two peoples that took place in the centuries prior to the coming of Islam. By doing this, it uncovers anachronistic projections of dynamic identity and political discourses within the contemporaneous Islamic world. It shows how the formulaic placement of such embellishment within the context of the narrative served to justify the Arabs’ rise to power, whilst also explaining the fall of the Iranian Sasanian empire. The objective of this book is not simply to mine Islamic historical chronicles for the factual data they contain about the pre-Islamic period, but rather to understand how the authors of these works thought about this era. By investigating the intersection between early Islamic memory, identity construction, and power discourses, this book will benefit researchers and students of Islamic history and literature and Middle Eastern Studies.

Author : Muhammad Qasim Zaman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004493193

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Religion and Politics under the Early ‘Abbāsids by Muhammad Qasim Zaman Pdf

The main concern of this book is the religious policies of the early ‘Abbāsid caliphs. It focuses on the religious trends which went into the making of Sunnī Islam, and traces the emergence of the nascent Sunnī elite in relation to the ‘Abbāsids. Various aspects of the caliphs' evolving relationship with the religious scholars are studied and the nature of caliphal patronage and its impact on the scholars, and ultimately on the evolution of early Sunnism, is explored. What emerges is a picture of close collaboration between the caliphs and the ‘ulama’, with the caliphs playing an active and multifaceted role in religious life. This book challenges the prevailing interpretations of the separation of religion and politics in early Islam, and offers new insights into the social and religious history of Islam's formative centuries.

Author : R. Stephen Humphreys
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691214238

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Islamic History by R. Stephen Humphreys Pdf

This book will be immensely helpful to those who wish to orient themselves to what has become a very large body of literature on medieval Islamic history. Combining a bibliographic study with an inquiry into method, it opens with a survey of the principal reference tools available to historians of Islam and a systematic review of the sources they will confront. Problems of method are then examined in a series of chapters, each exploring a broad topic in the social and political history of the Middle East and North Africa between A.D. 600 and 1500. The topics selected represent a cross-section of Islamic historical studies, and range from the struggles for power within the early Islamic community to the life of the peasantry. Each chapter pursues four questions. What concrete research problems are likely to be most challenging and productive? What resources do we possess for dealing with these problems? What strategies can we devise to exploit our resources most effectively? What is the current state of the scholarly literature for the topic under study?