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Author: Christopher Markiewicz
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-08-22
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 1108492142
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Explores how a new conception of kingship helped transform the Ottoman Empire, from regional dynastic sultanate to global empire.
Author: Ann K. S. Lambton
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-28
Total Pages: 386
ISBN-13: 1136605207
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First published in 2004. For the Muslim the foundation from which all discussion of government starts is the law of God, the sharī‘a. Theoretically pre-existing and eternal, it represents absolute good. It is prior to the community and the state.‘ Part of London Oriental Series, this volume’s concern wis with the political ideas of the period extending from the 2nd/8th century to the 11th/17th century and to the central lands of the caliphate, including Persia, and North Africa.
Author: Anne F. Broadbridge
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010-12-09
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780521174497
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What were the attitudes to diplomacy and kingship in the medieval Islamic world? Anne Broadbridge examines struggles over ideology in the Middle East and Central Asia from 1260 to 1405. She explores two very different ideological worlds: the Islamic world of the Mamluk Sultans of Egypt and Syria, and the Mongol world inhabited by the Golden Horde in Central Asia, the Ilkhanids in Iran and Anatolia, the Ilkhanids' successors, and Temür. The relationships among these rival rulers were often highly charged, and diplomatic missions were exchanged in an effort to promote each ruler's ideology. This was the first book to explore what it meant to be a monarch in the pre-modern Islamic world, and how ideas about sovereignty evolved across the period. This groundbreaking work will appeal to scholars of Middle Eastern and Central Asian history, Mongol history, and Islamic history, as well as historians of diplomacy and ideology.
Author: Bruce Masters
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-04-29
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 1107067790
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Ottomans ruled much of the Arab World for four centuries. Bruce Masters's work surveys this period, emphasizing the cultural and social changes that occurred against the backdrop of the political realities that Arabs experienced as subjects of the Ottoman sultans. The persistence of Ottoman rule over a vast area for several centuries required that some Arabs collaborate in the imperial enterprise. Masters highlights the role of two social classes that made the empire successful: the Sunni Muslim religious scholars, the ulama, and the urban notables, the acyan. Both groups identified with the Ottoman sultanate and were its firmest backers, although for different reasons. The ulama legitimated the Ottoman state as a righteous Muslim sultanate, while the acyan emerged as the dominant political and economic class in most Arab cities due to their connections to the regime. Together, the two helped to maintain the empire.
Author: Ahmet T. Kuru
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-08
Total Pages: 323
ISBN-13: 1108419097
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Analyzes Muslim countries' contemporary problems, particularly violence, authoritarianism, and underdevelopment, comparing their historical levels of development with Western Europe.
Author: A. C. S. Peacock
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-10-17
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 1108499368
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A new understanding of the transformation of Anatolia to a Muslim society in the thirteenth-fourteenth centuries based on previously unpublished sources.
Author: Armando Salvatore
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2018-06-18
Total Pages: 685
ISBN-13: 0470657545
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A theoretically rich, nuanced history of Islam and Islamic civilization with a unique sociological component This major new reference work offers a complete historical and theoretically informed view of Islam as both a religion and a sociocultural force. Uniquely comprehensive, it surveys and discusses the transformation of Muslim societies in different eras and various regions, providing a broad narrative of the historical development of Islamic civilization. This text explores the complex and varied history of the religion and its traditions. It provides an in-depth study of the diverse ways through which the religious dimension at the core of Islamic traditions has led to a distinctive type of civilizational process in history. The book illuminates the ways in which various historical forces have converged and crystallized in institutional forms at a variety of levels, embracing social, religious, legal, political, cultural, and civic dimensions. Together, the team of internationally renowned scholars move from the genesis of a new social order in 7th-century Arabia, right up to the rise of revolutionary Islamist currents in the 20th century and the varied ways in which Islam has grown and continues to pervade daily life in the Middle East and beyond. This book is essential reading for students and academics in a wide range of fields, including sociology, history, law, and political science. It will also appeal to general readers with an interest in the history of one of the world’s great religions.
Author: Paul Kléber Monod
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2001-08-11
Total Pages: 442
ISBN-13: 9780300090666
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This sweeping book explores the profound shift in the way European kings and queens were regarded by their subjects between the Reformation and the Enlightenment. Once viewed as godlike beings, by 1715 monarchs had come to represent the human, visible side of the rational state. The author offers new insights into the relations between kings and their subjects and the interplay between monarchy and religion.
Author: İlker Evrim Binbaş
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-05-26
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 1107054249
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Discusses the importance of informal intellectual networks and the formation of the republic of letters in Islamic history. The book focuses on the fifteenth century Timurid, Ottoman, and Mamluk empires, and traces the connections between intellectuals in these three early modern Islamic polities.
Author: ʻAzīz ʻAẓmah
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Published: 1997-11-15
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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. The early Arab-Muslim polity is treated as an integral part of late Antiquity and the book explores the way in which older traditions were transposed into Islamic form and given specifically Islamic textual sanction.
