accession and succession in the first Muslim empire Marsham, Andrew 1973- creator author. text bibliography Electronic books. History. stk 2009 2009 monographic eng 1 online resource (vii, 346 pages) : illustrations, maps, plans "Rituals of Islamic Monarchy is a history of the oath of allegiance by which the caliph was recognised at his accession. It begins in pre-Islamic Arabia and traces the development of a formal ceremonial of Islamic monarchy in Syria and Iraq during the 7th-9th centuries CE. It examines how the caliphs sought to proclaim their status as the representatives of God's covenant on earth through syntheses of Roman and Iranian royal ritual and customs and practices brought from pre-Islamic and early Islamic Arabia. It engages with current debates about the reliability of the Islamic tradition for early Islamic history and identifies key turning-points in the formation of classical Islamic political culture. An early chapter discusses the importance of the Qur'an as a historical source for the time of the Prophet Muhammad. For the caliphal period, close readings of the sources for specific rituals alternate with the examination of later copies of documents used at these accession rituals. This study of the invention and re-invention of a central institution of early Islamic political culture is the first such account of Islamic accession ceremonial and will appeal to both specialists in early Islamic history and non-specialists alike."--Jacket. Introduction -- Part I. Late antique Arabia and early Islam (c.550-c.660). Introduction -- 1. Alliance and allegiance in pre-Islamic Arabia -- 2. The verb BAYA'A in the Quran: allegiance to Muhammad -- 3. The oath of allegiance in the conquest society (c.628-c.660) -- Part II. The Umayyad caliphate (c.660-750). Introduction -- 4. Sufyanid accession and succession, c.660-683 -- 5. The oath of allegiance in the early tradition and poetry, c.680-c.710 -- 6. The Marwanid patrimony and dynastic succession -- 7. Marwanid rituals of accession and succession -- 8. Writing and the Bay'a in the Marwanid period -- 9. The quranic content of the Marwanid documents -- Part III. The early Abbasid caliphate (c.750-809). Introduction -- 10. The consolidation of Abbasid power: al-Mansur and al-Mahdi (754-785) -- 11. The caliphates of Musa al-Hadi (785-786) and Harun al-Rashid (786-809) -- 12. Dispositive documents for the early Abbasid succession -- Part IV. The Middle Abbasid caliphate (809-865). Introduction -- 13. From the civil war to Samarra (809-847) -- 14. The caliphate of al-Mutawakkil (847-861) -- 15. The outbreak of the second ninth-century civil war (861-865) -- 16. Abbasid documents for caliphal accession -- Conclusion. Andrew Marsham. Includes bibliographical references (pages 320-337) and index. Use copy Restrictions unspecified star MiAaHDL Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL aw----- ff----- e-sp--- Islam Rituals History Islamic Empire Kings and rulers Succession Islam Politics and government Islam and politics History State, The Caliphate RELIGION Islam Rituals & Practice RELIGION Islam Theology Caliphate Islam and politics Islam Rituals Kings and rulers Succession State, The Islamic Empire Islam Dynastie Kalifenreich BP166.9 .M375 2009eb 297.3/8 Marsham, Andrew, 1973- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2009 (DLC) 2009483882 (OCoLC)226360316 9780748630776 0748630775 9780748653157 0748653155 213642 MIL 22573/cttk1kdk JSTOR http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=280015 http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=280015 Use copy MiAaHDL N$T 090817 20200709055219.0 ocn430842436 eng