Muslim kingship : power and the sacred in Muslim, Christian and pagan polities /

Muslim kingship : power and the sacred in Muslim, Christian and pagan polities /

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Main Author: ʿAẓmah, ʿAzīz (Author)

Format: Book

Language: English

Published: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2001.

Edition: pbk. ed.

Subjects:

Islam and politics > History.
Islam > Government.
Polity (Religion)

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Call Number: BP173.7 .A53 2001

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Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. Sublime Analogies Pagan and Monotheistic
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Kings and Gods
  • Ubiquitous Regalia
  • Figures of the Sacred
  • 3. Kings in the World
  • Royal Cosmography
  • Monotheistic Types
  • Virtue and Order
  • 4. Interregnum: The Early Muslim Polity
  • Part 2. Muslim Polities
  • 5. Writing Power
  • Corpus of Universal Wisdom
  • Topics of Power
  • Power Islamised
  • 6. Absolutist Imperative
  • Power Enunciated
  • Power Manifest
  • 7. Absolutism Sublime
  • Sacral Caliphate
  • Caliphal Kingship
  • Sultanic Shadow of God
  • 8. Political Soteriology
  • Hierocratic Saviours
  • Logocratic Sages?