The Shaping Of Abbasid Rule

Author : Jacob Lassner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400886368
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shaping of 'Abbasid Rule written by Jacob Lassner and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In order to understand the transition between the revolutionary movement that propelled the Abbasids to power and the imperial government that later took root, Jacob Lassner studies those elements that served to shape the political attitudes and institutions of the emerging regime during its formative years. Originally published in 1980. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Jacob Lassner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780691052816
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shaping of ʻAbbāsid Rule written by Jacob Lassner and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Description for this book, The Shaping of 'Abbasid Rule, will be forthcoming.

Author : Muhammad Qasim Zaman
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004106789
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion and Politics Under the Early ʻAbbāsids written by Muhammad Qasim Zaman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1997 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the religious policies of the early Abb sids. It describes the caliphs' patronage of the nascent Sunni religious elite and offers a new interpretation of the relationship of religion and politics in Islam's first centuries.

Author : Mohsen Zakeri
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783447036528
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sasanid Soldiers in Early Muslim Society written by Mohsen Zakeri and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 1995 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Josef W. Meri
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415966906
Total Pages : 980 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval Islamic Civilization written by Josef W. Meri and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the socio-cultural history of the regions where Islam took hold between the 7th and 16th century. This two-volume work contains 700 alphabetically arranged entries, and provides a portrait of Islamic civilization. It is of use in understanding the roots of Islamic society as well to explore the culture of medieval civilization.

Author : Gavin Picken
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136853715
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Spiritual Purification in Islam written by Gavin Picken and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-03-21 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Purification of the soul is a principle that is central to understanding Islamic spirituality but despite this, relatively little has been written explicitly in the Islamic tradition regarding this discrete method of spiritual purification. This book examines the work of a scholar of this discipline, al-Hārith al-Muhāsibī, who lived and worked during the classical Islamic period under the Abbāsids. Although al-Muhāsibī was well known for his skills in many disciplines, including the Qur’ān, Prophetic narration and scholastic theology, it is his mastery in the field of Islamic spirituality and moral psychology for which he is best remembered. Assessing the extent to which the political, social and economic factors played a part in his life and work, Gavin Picken provides a comprehensive overview of his work and its great significance in the development of Islamic spirituality. Reconstructing his life in chronological order and providing the most comprehensive appraisal of his works to date, it explores a facet of al-Muhāsibī’s teaching which as yet has not been studied, namely his understanding, concept and methodology regarding the purification of the soul within the Islamic paradigm. As such, it will be of great interest not only to researchers and students of Sufism but also to scholars of comparative spirituality and mysticism.

Author : Tayeb El-Hibri
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107183243
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Abbasid Caliphate written by Tayeb El-Hibri and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the Abbasid Caliphate from its foundation in 750 and golden age under Harun al-Rashid to the conquest of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258, this study examines the Caliphate as an empire and an institution, and its imprint on the society and culture of classical Islamic civilization.

Author : John Donohue
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004492364
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Buwayhid Dynasty in Iraq 334H./945 to 403H./1012 written by John Donohue and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the development of political and social institutions in Baghdad, center of the Abbasid Caliphate, in that neglected period between Abbasid collapse and the coming of the Seljuk Turks. Three brothers, Daylemite mercenaries from the southern Caspian succeeded in establishing a dynasty that lasted nearly a century, controlling Iraq, a good part of Iran and the Gulf. The period has been labled the "Iranian intermezzo" but careful examination shows that the dynasty shaped the basic institutions to which the Seljuks would fall heir: the chief amirate, the system of army fiefs and the bureaucracy. It was a period of profound change and dislocation which fostered an open and creative cultural atmosphere. The Caliphate, bereft of power, was re-established as the center of authority and legitimation.

Author : Tayeb El-Hibri
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521650236
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reinterpreting Islamic Historiography written by Tayeb El-Hibri and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-11-25 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of the early Abbasid Caliphate has long been studied as a factual or interpretive synthesis of various accounts preserved in the medieval Islamic chronicles. Tayeb El-Hibri s book breaks with the traditional approach, applying a literary-critical reading to examine the lives of the caliphs. By focusing on the reigns of Harun al-Rashid and his successors, the study demonstrates how the various historical accounts were not in fact intended as faithful portraits of the past, but as allusive devices used to shed light on controversial religious, political and social issues of the period. The analysis also reveals how the exercise of decoding Islamic historigraphy, through an investigation of the narrative strategies and thematic motifs used in the chronicles, can uncover new layers of meaning and even identify the early narrators. This is an important book which represents a landmark in the field of early Islamic historiography.

Author : Dimitri Gutas
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415061322
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Greek Thought, Arabic Culture written by Dimitri Gutas and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the accession of the Arab dynasty of the 'Abbasids to power and the foundation of Baghdad, a Graeco-Arabic translation movement was initiated, and by the end of the tenth century, almost all scientific and philosophical secular Greek works that were available in late antiquity had been translated into Arabic. This book explores the social, political and ideological factors operative in early 'Abbasid society that sustained the translation movement.