The Rhetoric of Caliphal Legitimacy: On the Use of alqāb by the Umayyad Rulers in the East
The Umayyad caliphs of Damascus have been remembered in Arabic historiography by their respective given name ( ism ). While epithets ( alqāb ) are widely documented from the ʿAbbāsid period onward for rulers, emirs, viziers, and courtiers, and have been treated in some detail in research, no compara...
| Subtitles: | "Thematic Focus: The Umayyads from West to East: New Perspectives" |
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De Gruyter
2023
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Der Islam
Year: 2023, Volume: 100, Issue: 2, Pages: 370-396 |
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