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 |