Public Violence in Islamic Societies : : Power, Discipline, and the Construction of the Public Sphere, 7th-19th Centuries CE / / Christian Lange, Maribel Fierro.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
• VerfasserIn: Lange, Christian,; Fierro, Maribel,
• MitwirkendeR: Auer, Blain,; Fierro, Maribel,; Gleave, Robert,; Hawting, Gerald,; Lange, Christian,; Lev, Yaacov,; Marín, Manuela,; Mediano, Fernando Rodríguez,; Nef, Annliese,; Rowson, Everett K.,; Seidensticker, Tilman,; Szombathy, Zoltán,; Tillier, Mathieu,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 p.)

This exploration of the role of violence in the history of Islamic societies considers the subject particularly in the context of its implementation as a political strategy to claim power over the public sphere.Violence, both among Muslims and between Muslims and non-Muslims, has been the object of research in the past, as in the case of jihad, martyrdom, rebellion or criminal law. This book goes beyond these concerns in addressing, in a comprehensive and cross-disciplinary fashion, how violence has functioned as a basic principle of Islamic social and political organization in a variety of historical and geographical contexts.Contributions trace the use of violence by governments in the history of Islam, shed light on legal views of violence, and discuss artistic and religious responses. Authors lay out a spectrum of attitudes rather than trying to define an Islamic doctrine of violence. Bringing together some of the most substantive and innovative scholarship on this important topic to date, this volume contributes to the growing interest, both scholarly and general, in the question of Muslim attitudes toward violence.Key Features:Satisfies increasing interest in the issue of Muslim attitudes toward violence, highlighting the complexity of this topic and the diversity of Muslim attitudes toward violence.Offers an overview of the economy of violence under the various dynasties/governments that shaped the history of Islamic civilization.Incorporates innovative and novel approaches to violence as a feature of social and political organization.Contributions are written by well-known scholars in the field, providing up-to-date scholarship that spans languages (primary and secondary) and academic disciplines.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Spatial, ritual and representational aspects of public violence in Islamic societies (7th–19th centuries CE) -- PART I Public violence and the construction of the public sphere -- 1 The case of Jaʿd b. Dirham and the punishment of ‘heretics’ in the early caliphate -- 2 Qāḍīs and the political use of the maẓālim jurisdiction under the ʿAbbāsids -- 3 From revolutionary violence to state violence: the Fāṭimids (297–567/909–1171) -- 4 Actions speak louder than words: reactions to lampoons and abusive poetry in medieval Arabic society -- PART II Ritual dimensions of violence -- 5 Reveal or conceal: public humiliation and banishment as punishments in early Islamic times -- 6 Emulating Abraham: the Fāṭimid al-Qāʾim and the Umayyad ʿAbd al-Raḥmān III -- 7 Where on earth is hell? State punishment and eschatology in the Islamic middle period -- 8 Justice, crime and punishment in 10th/16th-century Morocco -- PART III Representations of public violence -- 9 Responses to crucifixion in the Islamic world (1st–7th/7th–13th centuries) -- 10 Violence and the prince: the case of the Aghlabid Amīr Ibrāhīm II (261–89/875–902) -- 11 Concepts of justice and the catalogue of punishments under the Sultans of Delhi (7th–8th/13th–14th centuries) -- 12 Public violence, state legitimacy: the Iqāmat al-ḥudūd and the sacred state -- 13 Violence in Islamic societies through the eyes of non-Muslim travellers: Morocco in the 19th and early 20th centuries -- Index