Caliphate Redefined : : The Mystical Turn in Ottoman Political Thought /

Caliphate Redefined : : The Mystical Turn in Ottoman Political Thought / / Hüseyin Yılmaz.

The medieval theory of the caliphate, epitomized by the Abbasids (750-1258), was the construct of jurists who conceived it as a contractual leadership of the Muslim community in succession to the Prophet Muhammed's political authority. In this book, Hüseyin Yilmaz traces how a new conception of...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
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Yılmaz, Hüseyin,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Translation, Transliteration, and Pronunciation
  • Introduction
  • Abbreviations
  • The Discourse on Rulership
  • The Caliphate Mystified
  • The Sultan and the Sultanate
  • The Caliph and the Caliphate
  • The Myth of the Ottoman Caliphate
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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