320 Pages
by
Routledge
320 Pages
by
Routledge
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In the present collection of his articles George Makdisi is first of all concerned with the local history and the topography of Baghdad. This is of interest in itself, as a study of one of the principal urban centres of the medieval world, but it also has a broader significance. For Baghdad, as the seat of the Abbasid caliphate, was the focal point of much of the Islamic world at the time: the... Read more
Contents: Foreword; The diary in Islamic historiography; Autograph diary of an 11th-century historian of Baghdad; Nouveaux détails sur l'affaire d'Ibn Aqil; The topography of 11th-century Baghdad; Notes on Hilla and the Mazyadids in medieval Islam; The Sunni revival; Les rapports entre calife et sultân à l'époque saljûqide; Authority in the Islamic community; The marriage of Tughril Beg; Addenda and corrigenda; Index.
Biography
George Makdisi
'...this collection of Makdisi's articles not only brings together some of his finest work but also offers a highly detailed and nuanced picture of eleventh-century Islamic society in Baghdad'. Carole Hillenbrand, Bulletin of the School of Oriental & African Studies, Volume LVI Part I
