Longing for the lost caliphate: a transregional history
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations and Maps -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration and Dates -- INTRODUCTION -- Early History of the Caliphate -- The Abbasid Caliphate -- The Ottoman Caliphate -- Diachronic Reflections on Symbolic Loss, Destruction,...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton Oxford
Princeton University Press
2018
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| In: | Year: 2018 |
| Edition: | First paperback printing |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Islam
/ History
/ Kalifenreich
/ Caliphate
/ Reception
/ History
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| IxTheo Classification: | BJ Islam |
| Further subjects: | B
Islam / RELIGION / History
B Islam and state B Caliphate History |
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| Summary: | Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- List of Illustrations and Maps -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliteration and Dates -- INTRODUCTION -- Early History of the Caliphate -- The Abbasid Caliphate -- The Ottoman Caliphate -- Diachronic Reflections on Symbolic Loss, Destruction, and Renegotiation -- CHAPTER 1 Visions of a Lost Caliphal Capital: Baghdad, 1258 CE -- Mapping an Islamic Cultural Discourse -- al-Subkī's Living History: An Enduring Sense of Loss -- Channeling Muslim Memory through History -- Loss of the Abbasids -- Bodily Desecration -- Literary Dimensions of Religious Rites -- An Altered Landscape -- Eschatological Endings -- The Consolation of Prophetic Transmissions -- CHAPTER 2 Recapturing Lost Glory and Legitimacy -- Remembering and Recreating a Glorious Past -- Going Beyond Baghdad -- Commemorating the Caliphate -- Contesting Caliphs -- Embracing Communal Continuity -- Enduring Salience -- CHAPTER 3 Conceptualizing the Caliphate, 632-1517 CE -- Classical Articulation of the Islamic Caliphate as a Legal Necessity and Communal Obligation -- al-Juwaynī's Seminal Fifth/Eleventh-Century Resolution -- Post-656/1258 Theorists of the Caliphate -- Ghalabah, the Sultanate, and the Caliphate in Ibn Jamāʿ ah's Taḥrīr al-Aḥkām (1241-1333) -- Ibn Taymiyyah's Views on the Caliphate (1262-1328) -- Shams al-Dīn al-Dhahabī's Polemical Treatise on the Grand Imamate (1274-1348) -- Tāj al-Dīn al-Subkī and the Restoration of Blessings (1327-70) -- The Inter-School Polemics of Najm al-Dīn al-Ṭarsūsī (1310-57) -- Ibn Khaldūn's Political Entanglements and Ideals (1332-1406) -- The Mamluk Chancery Contributions of al-Qalqashandī (1355-1418) -- al-Shīrāzī's Metaphysical Exaltation of the Abbasid Caliph in Cairo (1386-1457) -- Jalāl al-Dīn al-Suyūṭī's Devotional Love of the Prophet's Family (1445-1505) -- CHAPTER 4 Manifold Meanings of Loss: Ottoman Defeat, Early 1920s -- Notions from Afar -- The Turkish Republic -- The Levant -- CHAPTER 5 In International Pursuit of a Caliphate -- An Internationalist Era -- Promoting an International Conference -- Imagining the Global Community and Its Leadership -- A Spiritual Body -- A Caliphal Council -- A Traditional Caliph -- A Global Electorate -- Dampening Hopes -- Unexpected Continuities -- CHAPTER 6 Debating a Modern Caliphate -- İsmail Şükrü (1876-1950) -- Mehmed Seyyid Çelebizade (1873-1925) -- ʿAlī ʿAbd al-Rāziq (1888-1966) -- Muḥammad al-Khiḍr Ḥusayn (1876-1958) -- Mustafa Sabri (1869-1954) -- Said Nursi (1876-1960) -- EPILOGUE The Swirl of Religious Hopes and Aspirations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index 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 caliphate in Baghdad in 1258 and challenges the notion that the Mongol onslaught signaled an end to the critical engagement of Muslim jurists and intellectuals with the idea of an Islamic caliphate. She also situates Muslim responses to the dramatic abolition of the Ottoman caliphate in 1924 as part of a longer trajectory of transregional cultural memory, revealing commonalities and differences in how modern Muslims have creatively interpreted and reinterpreted their heritage. Hassan examines how poignant memories of the lost caliphate have been evoked in Muslim culture, law, and politics, similar to the losses and repercussions experienced by other religious communities, including the destruction of the Second Temple for Jews and the fall of Rome for Christians. A global history, Longing for the Lost Caliphate delves into why the caliphate has been so important to Muslims in vastly different eras and places. |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0691183376 |