UID:
edoccha_9961164488202883
Format:
1 online resource (318 pages).
ISBN:
3-95650-691-X
Series Statement:
Istanbuler Texte und Studien ; Band 11
Content:
The present volume contains contributions from Classical Studies which aim at a retrospective interpretation of ceremonies to secure power in the regions of Mesopotamia, Anatolia, Egypt and the Levant. The activities in which all wielders of military power in medieval societies, both Islamic and Christian, habitually engaged are so alien to the modern society that there is a tendency to attribute such behaviour to lawless aggression rather than to what were considered to have been respectable actions by elite members of society. The revised understanding of the social role and position of the ʿayyārs laid forth here will enable us to better recognize and contextualize manifestations of that native Muslim military and political initiative.
Note:
Defining the ʻayyārs -- The volunteer warriors for the faith (mutaṭawwiʻa) -- ʻAyyār activity in Sīstān and the rise of the Ṣaffārids -- The ʻayyār versus the government : the Ṣaffārids and the Ṭāhirids -- The ʻayyār and the Caliph -- The beginning of the ʻayyār-Sufi connection, and the decline and fall of the ʻayyār realm -- The ʻayyārs, Sufism, and chivalry -- The ʻayyārs in the tenth and eleventh centuries : chivalry (futuwwa) and violence.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3-89913-553-9
Language:
English
