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Informationen zum Autor Christian Lange is Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He is author of Justice, Punishment and the Medieval Muslim Imagination (2008) and co-editor (with Maribel Fierro) of Public Violence in Islamic Societies: Power, Discipline and the Construction of the Public Sphere, 7th-19th Centuries (EUP, 2009). Songül Mecit is a Part-time Lecturer in Islamic Studies at the University of Edinburgh. Klappentext AUTHOR APPROVEDSEEKING ENDORSEMENTSDespite the many important developments and innovations traceable to the Seljuq period (5th-7th/11th-13th centuries), the Seljuqs remain one of the understudied Muslim dynasties. This unique collaborative exploration of the Seljuqs' achievement contributes to the growing interest in this pivotal dynasty. The various chapters in this volume cover a representative geographical spectrum, from Central Asia and Persia to Iraq, Syria and Anatolia, and address novel questions such as the ideological foundations and ritual expressions of Seljuq power, the mutual attitudes of the learned classes and the Seljuq state, the organization of space, and the relationship between nomads and the settled peoples.The book is divided into three parts: the origins of the Seljuqs, their gradual transformation into a powerful dynasty, and their concepts of political legitimation (part one); the social history of the Seljuq period, particularly with regard to the 'ulam?' and the urban populations (part two); developments in religious thought, jurisprudence, belles-lettres and architecture under the Seljuqs (part three).Christian Lange is Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He is author of /Justice, Punishment and the Medieval Muslim Imagination/ (2008) and co-editor (with Maribel Fierro) of /Public Violence in Islamic Societies: Power, Discipline and the Construction of the Public Sphere, 7th-19th Centuries/ (EUP, 2009).Songül Mecit is a Part-time Lecturer in Islamic Studies at the University of Edinburgh.This volume seeks to fill the gap in the historiography of premodern Islam and is conceived as a new standard scholarly resource for those interested in the Seljuk period. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Politics: 1. The Origins of the Seljuqs, C. Edmund Bosworth, University of Manchester; 2. Aspects of the Court of the Great Seljuqs, Carole Hillenbrand, University of Edinburgh; 3. 'Sovereign and Pious': The Religious Life of the Great Seljuq Sultans, D. G. Tor, University of Notre Dame; 4. Kingship and ideology under the Rum Seljuqs, Songul Mecit, University of Edinburgh; 5. Seljuq Legitimacy in Islamic History, A. C. S. Peacock, British Institute at Ankara; Part II. Society: 6. Arslan Arghun - Nomadic Revival?, Jurgen Paul, University of Halle; 7. Controlling and Developing Baghdad: Caliphs, Sultans and the Balance of Power in the Abbasid Capital (Mid-5th/11th to Late 6th/12th Centuries), Vanessa Van Renterghem, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris; 8. The Seljuqs and the Public Sphere in the Period of Sunni Revivalism: The View from Baghdad, Daphna Ephrat, The Open University of Israel; 9. Changes in the Office of Hisba under the Seljuqs, Christian Lange, Utrecht University; 10. An Emblematic Family of Seljuq Iran: The Khujandis of Isfahan, David Durand-Guedy, University of Halle; Part III. Culture: 11. Shi'i Jurisprudence during the Seljuq Period: Rebellion and Public order in an Illegitimate State, Robert Gleave, University of Exeter; 12. In Defence of Sunnism: Al-Ghazali and the Seljuqs, Massimo Campanini, L'universita degli studi di Napoli L'Orientale; 13. Arabic and Persian Intertextuality in the Seljuq Period: Hamidi's Maqamat as a Case Study, Vahid Behmardi, Lebanese American University; 14. City Building in Seljuq Rum, Scott Redford, Georgetown University; 15. The Seljuq Munuments of Turkmenistan, Robert Hillenbrand,...
