Rituals of Islamic Monarchy : : Accession and Succession in the First Muslim Empire / / Andrew Marsham.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Marsham, Andrew,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (360 p.)

This fascinating history explores 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 following aspects of the subject:The place of ritual in political practiceChanges and continuities in that practiceThe 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'. It presents an accessible discussion of 'royal' ritual in early Islam which situates developments in the Islamic world in a late antique and early medieval context, adding an important comparative context to the book.Key FeaturesThe first book-length exploration of royal ritual in the Islamic worldFocuses on the oath of allegiance pledged by subjects to their caliphContributes to major debates in Islamic history including the development of Arab-Muslim identity and the formation of the 'Islamic state'Explicitly situates developments in the Islamic world in a late antique and early medieval context

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of maps and figures -- Acknowledgements -- Map 1 -- Map 2 -- Map 3 -- INTRODUCTION -- Part I. Late Antique Arabia and Early Islam (C. 550–C. 660) -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. ALLIANCE AND ALLEGIANCE IN PRE-ISLAMIC ARAB -- 2. THE VERB BĀYAʿA IN THE QURʾĀN: ALLEGIANCE TO MUḤAMMAD -- 3. THE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE IN THE ‘CONQUEST SOCIETY’ (C. 628–C. 660) -- Part II. The Umayyad Caliphate (C. 660–750) -- INTRODUCTION -- 4. SUFYANID ACCESSION AND SUCCESSION, C. 660–683 -- 5. THE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE IN THE EARLY TRADITION AND POETRY, C. 680–C. 710 -- 6. THE MARWANID PATRIMONY AND DYNASTIC SUCCESSION -- 7. MARWANID RITUALS OF ACCESSION AND SUCCESSION -- 8. WRITING AND THE BAYʿA IN THE MARWANID PERIOD -- 9. THE QURANIC CONTENT OF THE MARWANID DOCUMENTS -- Part III. The Early Abbasid Caliphate (C. 750–809) -- INTRODUCTION -- 10. THE CONSOLIDATION OF ABBASID POWER: AL-MANṢŪR AND AL-MAHDĪ (754–785) -- 11. THE CALIPHATES OF MŪSĀ AL-HĀDĪ (785–786) AND HĀRŪN AL-RASHĪD (786–809) -- 12. ‘DISPOSITIVE DOCUMENTS’ FOR THE EARLY ABBASID SUCCESSION -- Part IV. The Middle Abbasid Caliphate (809–865) -- INTRODUCTION -- 13. FROM THE CIVIL WAR TO SAMARRA (809–847) -- 14. THE CALIPHATE OF AL-MUTAWAKKIL (847–861) -- 15. THE OUTBREAK OF THE SECOND NINTH-CENTURY CIVIL WAR (861–865) -- 16. ABBASID DOCUMENTS FOR CALIPHAL ACCESSION -- CONCLUSION -- Genealogical table of Quraysh -- Genealogical table of the Abbasid caliphs -- Bibliography -- Index