Messianic beliefs and imperial politics in medieval Islam the ʻAbbāsid caliphate in the early ninth century /

Yücesoy, Hayrettin

Messianic beliefs and imperial politics in medieval Islam the ʻAbbāsid caliphate in the early ninth century / [Texte imprimé] : Hayrettin Yücesoy - Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press , 2009 - 1 vol. (xvi-212 p.) : ill., carte ; 24 cm - Studies in comparative religion . - Studies in comparative religion (University of South Carolina Press, Columbia) .

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Bibliogr. p. [145]-201

Main question -- Prophecies as text -- Messianic claims and institutionalization -- The legacy of the early caliphate -- Muslims and others: a process of conflict and confluence -- Shaping up a messianic discourse -- Qurʼānic views on the end of time -- Messianic beliefs as political ideology -- A new millennium: the year 200/800 -- Prophecies and the fourth civil war -- Crisis after Ḥārūn al-Rashīd -- The civil war as an apocalyptic fitna -- Second black banners from the East -- Making a messianic contender -- Second black banners -- Hāshimid versus ʻAbbāsid succession: designation of Alī al-riḍā -- Al-Mamūn in Baghdad -- Healing the wounds of a civil war -- Missionary activity and Byzantine raids -- God's caliph as mujaddid -- Translation activities -- Religious purity and the miḥna -- Conclusion

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Abbasids Islamic Empire Caliphate Mahdism Islamic eschatology

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