Rituals Of Islamic Monarchy: Accession And Succession In The First Muslim Empire
First Statement of Responsibility
/ Andrew Marsham
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Edinburgh
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: Edinburgh University Press
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, 2009.
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vii, 346 p.
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: ill., maps, plans
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Index
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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.