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In the United States and Europe, the word "caliphate" has conjured historically romantic and increasingly pernicious associations. Yet the caliphate's significance in Islamic history and Muslim culture remains poorly understood. This book explores the myriad meanings of the caliphate for Muslims around the world through the analytical lens of two key moments of loss in the thirteenth and twentieth centuries. Through extensive primary-source research, Mona Hassan explores the rich constellation of interpretations created by religious scholars, historians, musicians, statesmen, poets, and intellectuals. Hassan fills a scholarly gap regarding Muslim reactions to the destruction of the Abbasid c...
How the Ottomans refashioned and legitimated their rule through mystical imageries of authority The medieval theory of the caliphate, epitomized by the Abbasids (750–1258), was the construct of jurists who conceived it as a contractual leadership of the Muslim community in succession to the Prophet Muhammed’s political authority. In this book, Hüseyin Yılmaz traces how a new conception of the caliphate emerged under the Ottomans, who redefined the caliph as at once a ruler, a spiritual guide, and a lawmaker corresponding to the prophet’s three natures. Challenging conventional narratives that portray the Ottoman caliphate as a fading relic of medieval Islamic law, Yılmaz offers a no...
Alphabetical index to Turkish biographical archives (TBA), microfiche edition of biographical entries from 157 reference works published between 1836 and 2001.
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Eyyûbîlerin XII. yüzyılın ikinci yarısının ortalarında Mısır’da kurdukları devlet; ilmî, iktisadî ve askerî yönlerden Selçuklular ile Zengîlerin devamı niteliÄŸindedir. Ancak bir insan ömrüne tekabül edecek kadar bir süre (yetmiÅŸ küsur yıl) varlığını devam ettiren bu devlet, 1250 yılında Memlûkler tarafından ortadan kaldırılmıştır. Bu kısa ömrüne Kudüs’ün fethi baÅŸta olmak üzere birçok askerî baÅŸarı sığdıran Eyyûbîler ilim, kültür ve sanat alanlarında da büyük hizmetler yapmışlardır. Bu alanlardaki hizmetleri inkâr edilemeyen Eyyûbî meliklerine ailenin lideri ve devlet kurucusu Selâhaddîn Eyyûbî öncülük etmiÅŸtir. Ä...