Seljuqs Politics, Society and Culture

Name: Seljuqs Politics, Society and Culture
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ISBN: 9780748668571

ISBN-10: 0748668578

ISBN-13: 9780748668571

Edition: 2011

Authors: Christian Lange, Songï¿½l Mecit, Songï¿½l Mecit

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The Seljuqs is a unique collaborative exploration of the Seljuqs' achievement and contributes to the growing interest in this pivotal dynasty. The various chapters in this volume cover a representative geographical spectrum, from Central Asia and Persia to Iraq, Syria and Anatolia, and address novel questions such as the ideological foundations and ritual expressions of Seljuq power, the mutual attitudes of the learned classes and the Seljuq state, the organization of space, and the relationship between nomads and the settled peoples.

Book details

List price: $37.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Publication date: 10/3/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 9.20" wide x 6.10" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Christian Lange is Professor of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. He is author of <i Justice, Punishment and the Medieval Muslim Imagination</i (2008) and co-editor (with Maribel Fierro) of <i Public Violence in Islamic Societies: Power, Discipline and the Construction of the Public Sphere, 7th-19th Centuries</i (EUP, 2009).

Songï¿½l Mecit is a Part-time Lecturer in Islamic Studies at the University of Edinburgh.



List of figures


Acknowledgements


List of abbreviations


Introduction



Politics



The Origins of the Seljuqs




Aspects of the Court of the Great Seljuqs




'Sovereign and Pious': The Religious Life of the Great Seljuq Sultans




Kingship and Ideology under the Rum Seljuqs




Seljuq Legitimacy in Islamic History




Society



Arslan Arghun - Nomadic Revival?




Controlling and Developing Baghdad: Caliphs, Sultans and the Balance of Power in the Abbasid Capital (Mid-5th/11th to late 6th/12th Centuries)




The Seljuqs and the Public Sphere in the Period of Sunni Revivalism: The View from Baghdad




Changes in the Office of Hisba under the Seljuqs




An Emblematic Family of Seljuq Iran: The Khujandis of Isfahan




Culture



Shi'i Jurisprudence During the Seljuq Period: Rebellion and Public Order in an Illegitimate State




In Defence of Sunnism: Al-Ghazali and the Seljuqs



Arabic and Persian Intertextuality in the Seljuq Period: Hamidi's Maqamat as a Case Study




City Building in Seljuq Rum




The Seljuq Monuments of Turkmenistan



Index