Governing the Empire: Provincial Administration in the Almohad Caliphate (1224-1269): Critical Edition, Translation, and Study of Manuscript 4752 of t

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-04-23333-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Arabisch, Band 3, 540 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 617 g

Reihe: Studies in the History and Soc

In this book, Pascal Buresi and Hicham El Aallaoui edit, translate, and study an Arabic manuscript of the Royal Library of Rabat, containing 77 appointments of provincial officials. The Almohad Caliphs were the first Berbers to unite the whole Maghrib and the Iberian Peninsula under an imperial ideology elaborated at the end of the 12th C.E. by the most famous scholars, such as Averroes.
This peripheral Islamic dynasty produced a pragmatic documentation that provides exceptional information about the administrative, political, ideological, and religious organisation of the largest medieval European-African Empire. Buresi and El Aallaoui convincingly stress the importance of the literature of the Chancellery in renewing the history of power and authority in medieval Islamic lands.

Zielgruppe

All those working on medieval Islam, medieval political authority, the pre-modern Mediterranean and similar themes.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Buresi, Pascal

El Aallaoui, Hicham

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Historiographie
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Geschichte des Islam Geschichte des Islam: 7. - 14. Jahrhundert

Über Autor(innen)

Buresi, Pascal
Pascal Buresi, Ph.D. (2000), University of Lyon 2, is Director of research at CNRS (French National Centre for the Research). He has published monographs and articles on Islam, including a Géo-histoire de l’islam (Belin, 2005).

El Aallaoui, Hicham
Hicham El Allaoui, Ph.D. (2007), University of Lyon 2, is a post-doctoral researcher at CNRS, within ERC Starting Grant n°263361, entitled Imperial Government and Authority in Medieval Western Islam directed by Pascal Buresi.

Pascal Buresi, Ph.D. (2000), University of Lyon 2, is Director of research at the CNRS (French National Center for the Research). He has published monographs and articles on Islam, including Géo-histoire de l’islam (Belin, 2005).

Hicham El Aallaoui, Ph.D. (2007), University of Lyon 2, is a post-doctoral researcher at the CNRS, within ERC Starting Grant n°263361, entitled Imperial Government and Authority in Medieval Western Islam directed by Pascal Buresi.