The caliphate in the West : an Islamic political institution in the Iberian peninsula
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The caliphate in the West : an Islamic political institution in the Iberian peninsula
Clarendon Press, 1993
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Bibliography: p. [265]-273
Includes index
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Description
This is a study of the caliphate as a political institution in Islamic Spain, from its inception in 316/939 until the disappearance of the Umayyads in Cordoba in 422/1031. David J. Wasserstein explores the caliphal claims of the Hammudid dynasty in the south of the peninsula, and examines the caliphal practices of two Slav rulers of the eleventh century. He shows that the caliphal insitution was not abolished at any stage, and that it served rulers throughout the
eleventh century as, among other things, an important source of legitimacy.
Professor Wasserstein's important new interpretation is thoroughly grounded not only in the documentary sources, but also in the little-studied and revealing numismatic evidence. This is a significant contribution both to the Islamic history of the Iberian Peninsula and to our understanding of the nature of the caliphate within Islam in general.
Table of Contents
- The caliphal institution in al-Andalus until 422/1031
- Cordoba after 422/1031
- the Hammudids
- caliphs, counter-caliphs and counterfeit caliphs - Hisham and Abd Allah on Taifa coins
- Mujahid
- Zuhayr
- was the caliphate abolished in 422/1031?
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