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Rituals of Islamic Monarchy: Accession and Succession in the First Muslim Empire

By Andrew Marsham

Book information

Year
2009
ISBN
0748625127, 9780748625123, 9780748630776
LCC
BP166.9 .M375 2009
Open Library ID
OL23731569M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1312292 bytes)
Pages
320\361
Topic
Religion
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

The Ritual of Accession in Early Islam provides a history of the ceremony of the oath of allegiance to the caliph from the time of the Prophet Muhammad until the fragmentation of the caliphate in the late ninth and tenth centuries.The study of royal rituals of accession and succession in Christian Rome, Byzantium and the early Medieval West has generated an extensive literature. This has however remained unexplored in scholarship on the Islamic world. This book redresses that by examining the ceremonial of accession to the caliphate in early Islam, covering the place of ritual in political practice, changes and continuities in that practice and the problem of how best to understand accounts of ritual. It also offers a contribution to major, current debates in Islamic history: the development of Arab-Muslim identity and the formation of the 'Islamic state'.

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