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

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

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...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.)
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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

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