|
Books > History > Asian / Middle Eastern history
|
Buy Now
Friends of the Emir - Non-Muslim State Officials in Premodern Islamic Thought (Hardcover)
Loot Price: R2,952
Discovery Miles 29 520
|
|
|
Friends of the Emir - Non-Muslim State Officials in Premodern Islamic Thought (Hardcover)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
Expected to ship within 12 - 17 working days
|
The caliphs and sultans who once ruled the Muslim world were often
assisted by powerful Jewish, Christian, Zoroastrian, and other
non-Muslim state officials, whose employment occasioned energetic
discussions among Muslim scholars and rulers. This book reveals
those discussions for the first time in all their diversity,
drawing on unexplored medieval sources in the realms of law,
history, poetry, entertaining literature, administration, and
polemic. It follows the discourse on non-Muslim officials from its
beginnings in the Umayyad empire (661-750), through medieval Iraq,
Egypt, Syria, and Spain, to its apex in the Mamluk period
(1250-1517). Far from being an intrinsic part of Islam, views about
non-Muslim state officials were devised, transmitted, and
elaborated at moments of intense competition between Muslim and
non-Muslim learned elites. At other times, Muslim rulers employed
non-Muslims without eliciting opposition. The particular shape of
the Islamic discourse on this issue is comparable to analogous
discourses in medieval Europe and China.
General
Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate?
Let us know about it.
Does this product have an incorrect or missing image?
Send us a new image.
Is this product missing categories?
Add more categories.
Review This Product
No reviews yet - be the first to create one!
|
You might also like..
|
Email address subscribed successfully.
A activation email has been sent to you.
Please click the link in that email to activate your subscription.
Welcome to Loot.co.za!
Sign in / Register |Wishlists & Gift Vouchers |Help | Advanced search
(3)
