Rulers as Authors in the Islamic World : Knowledge, Authority and Legitimacy (Islamic History and Civilization)

Fierro, Maribel (EDT)/ Brentjes, Sonja (EDT)/ Seidensticker, Tilman (EDT)

Brill（2024/01発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 672 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004690608
• DDC分類 892.70992062

Full Description

How widespread was authorship among rulers in the premodern Islamic world? The writings of different types of rulers in different regions and periods are analyzed in this book, from the early centuries in the central lands of Islam to 19th century Sudan. The composition of poetry appears as the most fertile area for authorship among rulers. Prose writings show a wide variety, from astrology to bookmaking, from autobiography to creeds. Some of the rulers made claims to special knowledge, but in all cases authorship played a special role in the construction of the rulers' authority and legitimacy.

Contributors: Ahmed Ibrahim Abushouk, Sean W. Anthony, María Luisa Ávila†, Teresa Bernheimer, Philip Bockholt, Sonja Brentjes, Christiane Czygan, David Durand-Guédy, Anne-Marie Eddé, Sinem Eryılmaz, Maribel Fierro, Adam Gaiser, Angelika Hartmann†, Livnat Holtzman, Maher Jarrar, Robert S. Kramer, Christian Mauder, Matthew Melvin-Koushki, Letizia Osti, Jürgen Paul, Petra Schmidl, Tilman Seidensticker.

Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

 Maribel Fierro, Sonja Brentjes and Tilman Seidensticker

Part 1 The Early Period

1 Rulers as Authors: ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib and the Other Twelver Imams

 Teresa Bernheimer

2 Eloquent Exchange: Asceticism and Shirāʾ in the Poetry of Qaṭarī b. al-Fujāʾa

 Adam Gaiser

3 A 'Rediscovered' Letter of the Umayyad Caliph ʿUmar b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz (r. 99-101/717-720)

Caliphal Authorship and Legal Authority in al-Risāla fī l-fayʾ

 Sean W. Anthony

4 Abbasid Rulers and Their Standing as Authors

 Letizia Osti

Part 2 Caliphs and Messianic Figures

5 Zaydī Rulers as Authors: A Quest for Legitimacy

 Maher Jarrar

6 The Caliph al-Qādir bi-llāh and the Qādirī Creed

 Livnat Holtzman

7 Do Caliphs Write? The View from the Islamic West

 María Luisa Ávila † and Maribel Fierro

8 Authority, ijāzāt and Politics: Caliph al-Nāṣir li-Dīn Allāh's Kitāb Rūḥ al-ʿārifīn (7Th/13th Century, Baghdad)

 Angelika Hartmann †

9 The Pen and the Sword: The Case of the Sudanese Mahdi (1844-1885)

 Ahmed Ibrahim Abushouk and Robert S. Kramer

Part 3 Emirs and Sultans

10 Entre l'épée et le calame : Abū l-Fidāʾ, prince et savant ayyoubide

 Anne-Marie Eddé

11 The Quatrains of Toghrïl III. Some Reflections about the Literacy and Culture of the Saljuqs

 David Durand-Guédy

12 Royal Quatrains: Rulers of the Anūshteginid Line of Khwārazmshāhs as Poets

 Jürgen Paul

13 Rulers as Authors in 13th-Century Yemen: the Oeuvre of al-Ashraf ʿUmar

 Petra Schmidl

14 Non-caliphal Rulers and Their Writings in the Islamic West (2nd-9th/8th-15th Centuries)

 Maribel Fierro

15 Legitimating Sultanic Rule in Arabic, Turkish and Persian—Late Mamluk Rulers as Authors of Religious Poetry

 Christian Mauder

Part 4 The Great Empires: Timurids-Mughals, Ottomans, Safavids

16 The Ottoman Ruler Poet Sultan Süleyman I, His Third Divan, and His Reception beyond the Palace Walls

 Christiane Czygan

17 The Power of Poetry in the Ottoman Context

 Fatma Sinem Eryılmaz

18 Timurid-Mughal Philosopher-Kings as Sultan-Scientists

 Matthew Melvin-Koushki

19 Shah Ṭahmāsp and the Taẕkira: A Sixteenth-Century Ruler's Justification of His Policies

 Philip Bockholt

Index