Messianic beliefs and imperial politics in medieval Islam: the ʿAbbāsid caliphate in the early ninth century
Introduction -- Main question -- Prophecies as text -- Messianic claims and institutionalization -- The legacy of the early caliphate -- Muslims and others: a process of conflict and confluence -- Shaping up a messianic discourse -- Qurʾānic views on the end of time -- Messianic beliefs as political...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Columbia, SC
University of South Carolina Press
2009
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| In: | Year: 2009 |
| Series/Journal: | Studies in comparative religion
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Abbasids
/ Messianism
/ Mahdi
/ History 800-830
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| Further subjects: | B
Islamic Empire
History
750-1258
B Abbasids B Eschatology, Islamic B Islamic Empire History 750-1258 B Mahdism History B Caliphate History B Islamic eschatology |
| Summary: | Introduction -- Main question -- Prophecies as text -- Messianic claims and institutionalization -- The legacy of the early caliphate -- Muslims and others: a process of conflict and confluence -- Shaping up a messianic discourse -- Qurʾānic views on the end of time -- Messianic beliefs as political ideology -- A new millennium: the year 200/800 -- Prophecies and the fourth civil war -- Crisis after Ḥārūn al-Rashīd -- The civil war as an apocalyptic fitna -- Second black banners from the East -- Making a messianic contender -- Second black banners -- Hāshimid versus ʿAbbāsid succession: designation of Alī al-riḍā -- Al-Mamūn in Baghdad -- Healing the wounds of a civil war -- Missionary activity and Byzantine raids -- God's caliph as mujaddid -- Translation activities -- Religious purity and the miḥna -- Conclusion |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-201) and index |
| ISBN: | 1570038198 |