Disenchanting the Caliphate - The Secular Discipline of Power in Abbasid Political Thought

Hayrettin Yücesoy offers a groundbreaking new account of political discourse in Islamic history by examining Abbasid imperial practice, illuminating the emergence and influence of a vibrant secular tradition.

Sommario

Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Early, Umayyad, and Abbasid Caliphs, 632–861
Introduction: Critical Reflections on “Islamic Political Thought”
1. Caliphal Practice
2. The Language of Imamate
3. Political Prose Revolution
4. The Disruptive Language of Siyasa
5. Deconfessionalizing the Caliph
6. A Theory of Imperial Law
7. Territorial Consciousness
8. Reimagining the People of the Empire
Conclusion: Releasing Siyasa from the Imamate
Conventions and Spelling
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Info autore

Hayrettin Yücesoy is an associate professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies at Washington University in St. Louis. His books include Messianic Beliefs and Imperial Politics in Medieval Islam: The Abbasid Caliphate in the Early Ninth Century (2009).

Riassunto

Hayrettin Yücesoy offers a groundbreaking new account of political discourse in Islamic history by examining Abbasid imperial practice, illuminating the emergence and influence of a vibrant secular tradition.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Hayrettin Yucesoy, Hayrettin Yücesoy
• Editore: Columbia University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 08.08.2023
• EAN: 9780231209410
• ISBN: 978-0-231-20941-0
• Pagine: 392
• Serie: Columbia Studies in International and Global History
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Islam, History, HISTORY / Middle East / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Medieval, HISTORY / World, RELIGION / Islam / History, Middle East, Political science & theory, History of Religion, Middle Eastern history, Political science and theory, Western philosophy: Medieval & Renaissance, c 500 to c 1600, Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups, Medieval Western philosophy