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Friends of the emir : non-Muslim state officials in premodern Islamic thought
- Title
- Friends of the emir : non-Muslim state officials in premodern Islamic thought / Luke B. Yarbrough, University of California, Los Angeles.
- Author
- Yarbrough, Luke B.
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- ©2019
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- Description
- xiv, 361 pages; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "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 is comparable to analogous discourses in medieval Europe and China"--
- Series Statement
- Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization
- Uniform Title
- Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Part I. Beginnings. An introduction to the prescriptive discourse surrounding non-Muslim state officials ; Preludes to the discourse: non-Muslim officials and late ancient antecedents ; The beginnings of the discourse to 236/851 ; The discourse comes of age: the edicts of the caliph al-Mutawakkil -- Part II. Elaboration. Juristic aspects of the discourse ; Literary aspects of the discourse -- Part III. Efflorescence and comparisons. The discourse at its apogee: the independent counsel works ; The discourse in wider perspective: comparisons and conclusions ; Afterword: the discourse to the nineteenth century.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-8002
- ISBN
- 9781108496605
- 1108496601
- LCCN
- 2019007590
- OCLC
- 1100427203
- Author
- Yarbrough, Luke B., author.
- Title
- Friends of the emir : non-Muslim state officials in premodern Islamic thought / Luke B. Yarbrough, University of California, Los Angeles.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Cambridge studies in Islamic civilizationCambridge studies in Islamic civilization.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Form:
- ebook version : 9781108758550
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-8002