Muslim Kingship

Power and the Sacred in Muslim, Christian and Pagan Polities

Aziz Al-Azmeh author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:16th Feb '01

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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.

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.

ISBN: 9781860646096

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320 pages