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The Seljuqs: politics, society and culture

The Seljuqs: politics, society and culture
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ISBN 0748668578 (pbk.)
9780748668571 (pbk.)
Title The Seljuqs : politics, society and culture / edited by Christian Lange and Songül Mecit
Publisher Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2012
Physical desc. x, 318 p. ; ill, map ; 24 cm.
Note Chiefly papers from the conference The Seljuqs: Islam revitalized?, held 14-15 September 2008, in Edinburgh.
Paperback edition; first published 2011.
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- Pt. 1: Politics. The origins of the Seljuqs / C. Edmund Bosworth -- Aspects of the court of the great Seljuqs / Carole Hillenbrand -- 'Sovereign and pious': the religious life of the great Seljuq sultans / D.G. Tor -- Kingship and ideology under the Rum Seljuqs / Songül Mecit -- Seljuq legitimacy in Islamic history / A.C.S. Peacock -- Pt. 2: Society. Arslan Arghun - Nomadic revival? / Jürgen Paul -- Controlling and developing Baghdad: caliphs, sultans and the balance of power in the Abbasid capital (mid-5th/11th to late-6th/12th centuries / Vanessa van Renterghem -- The Seljuqs and the public sphere in the period of Sunni revivalism: the view from Baghdad / Daphna Ephrat -- Changes in the office of hisba under the Seljuqs / Christian Lange - An emblematic family of Seljuq Iran: the Khujandis of Isfahan / David Durand-Guédy -- Pt. 3: Culture. Shi'i jurisprudence during the Seljuq period: rebellion and public order in an illegitimate state / Robert Gleave -- In defence of Sunnism: al-Ghazali and the Seljuqs / Massimo Campanini -- Arabic and Persian intertextuality in the Seljuq period: Hamidi's Maqamat as a case study / Vahid Behmardi -- City building in Seljuq Rum / Scott Redford -- The Seljuq monuments of Turkmenistan / Robert Hillenbrand.
Subject Seljuks -- History
Seljuks -- Civilization
Islamic Empire -- History -- 750-1258
Added name(s) Lange, Christian Robert 1975- ed.
Mecit, Songül ed.
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