Muslim kingship : power and the sacred in Muslim, Christian and pagan polities

Their book outlines the main features of the theory and practice of political power in Muslim politics in the middle age against the background of Near Eastern traditions of sacred kingship. It explores the way in which older traditions were transposed into Klanic form and given Islamic textual san...

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Main Author: Al-Azmeh, Aziz
Published: London: I.B.Tauris, 2001.
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