RT Book T1 A history of diplomacy, spatiality, and Islamic ideals T2 SOAS/Routledge studies on the Middle East A2 Dekkiche, Malika LA English PP London New York PB Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group YR 2025 UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1903472849 AB Introducing space to diplomacy / Malika Dekkiche -- Between emir and rey moro : Bahāʼ al-Dawla b. Hūd and the question of sovereignty in seventh-/thirteenth-century Murcia / Anthony Minnema -- From the "Sultan of Islam" to the "realms of the world" : lists of rulers, Politics of scale, and claims to sovereignty in ninth-/fifteenth-century Egyptian chronicles / Jo Van Steenbergen -- Pepper from the sultan : commercial diplomacy from below in Mamlūk Damascus (1418) / Georg Christ -- The end of the Renaissance : Ambrosio Bembo and the 'limits' of Otoman space / Palmira Brummett -- A scribe's realm : Islamic ideals of foreign relations and diplomacy in the eighteenth-century Otoman Empire / Peter Kitlas -- Itineracy, homecoming, and territory in the Maghrib over the longue durée / Samuel Kigar. AB "Inspired by the "spatial turn", this volume links for the first time the study of diplomacy and spatiality in the premodern Islamicate world to understand practices and meanings ascribed to territory and realms. Debates on the nature of the sovereign state as a territorially defined political entity are closely linked to discussions of "modernity" and to the development of the field of international relations. While scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds have long questioned the existence of such a concept as a "territorial state," rarely have they ventured outside the European context. A closer look at the premodern Islamicate world, however, shows that "space" and "territoriality" highly mattered in the conception of interstate contacts and in the conduct and evolution of diplomacy. This volume addresses these issues over the longue durée (13th-19th centuries) and from various approaches and sources, including letters, chancery manuals, notarial records, travelogues, chronicles, and fatwas. The contributors also explore the various diplomatic practices and understandings of spatiality that were present throughout the Islamicate world, from Al-Andalus to the Ottoman realms. The book will be of interest to students and researchers in a range of disciplines, including international relations, diplomatic history, and Islamic studies"-- CN JZ1670 SN 978-1-032-66856-7 K1 Diplomacy : Religious aspects : Islam K1 Sovereignty : Religious aspects : Islam K1 Middle East : Historical geography K1 Islam and international relations K1 Territory, National : Middle East : History K1 Diplomatie K1 Geschichte des Nahen und Mittleren Ostens K1 HISTORY / Social History K1 Middle Eastern history K1 POL059000 K1 POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy K1 Social & Cultural History K1 Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte K1 HISTORY / Middle East / General K1 Middle East : Foreign relations K1 Middle East K1 Naher Osten K1 Aufsatzsammlung DO 10.4324/9781032668567