Disenchanting the Caliphate : : The Secular Discipline of Power in Abbasid Political Thought / / / Hayrettin Yücesoy.
The political thought of Muslim societies is all too often defined in religious terms, in which the writings of clerics are seen as representative and ideas about governance are treated as an extension of commentary on sacred texts. Disenchanting the Caliphate offers a groundbreaking new account of...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : : Columbia University Press, , [2023] ©2023 |
Year of Publication: | 2023 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Columbia Studies in International and Global History
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 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