Imitating the Empire from Outside
This paper attempts to show how the theoretical transformation of the Caliphate into an Islamic Empire took place in the context of a network of intra – and inter-religious conflicts. By focusing on a founding text of Islamic political thought, it argues for the paradigmatic role played by the pre-I...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2024
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| In: |
Political theology
Year: 2024, Volume: 25, Issue: 7, Pages: 706-721 |
| Further subjects: | B
Sovereignty
B Ibn al-Mugaffa‘ B Islamic political theology B Empire B Secularization B Monotheism B Carl Schmitt |
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| Summary: | This paper attempts to show how the theoretical transformation of the Caliphate into an Islamic Empire took place in the context of a network of intra – and inter-religious conflicts. By focusing on a founding text of Islamic political thought, it argues for the paradigmatic role played by the pre-Islamic Persian Empire in the genesis of the idea of an Islamic Empire. On the other hand, it identifies the Persian Empire as playing the same paradigmatic role in the formation of monotheistic theology in late antiquity, one that Islam inherited. By reconsidering the theological and political genealogy of the idea of an Islamic empire, the point is to grasp how such an empire would distinguish itself as a monotheistic empire from a Christian empire. To achieve this goal, the paper analyses the way the Islamic Empire sought to give structure to Islamic conceptions of sovereignty, divine law, and messianism. |
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| ISSN: | 1743-1719 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Political theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/1462317X.2024.2433342 |
