Article: Putting the caliph in his place; power, authority, and the late Abbasid caliphate.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Article: Messianic beliefs and imperial politics in medieval Islam; the ...
Reference & Research Book News;  August 1, 2009 ;     572 words ... ... Messianic beliefs and imperial politics in medieval Islam; the Abbasid caliphate in the early ninth century. Yucesoy, Hayrettin. U ... comparative religion DS76 Examining the history of the `Abbasid caliphate between 809 and 833, a period that began in civil war ...

Article: Religious inquisition as social policy: the persecution of the ...
Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ);  March 22, 1994 ;     700+ words ... ... inquisition (Arabic mihna). There are two instances when such inquisitions were carried out in the first century of the Abbasid Caliphate, the one started by al-Mahdi in 780 A.D. and the other by al-Ma'mun in 832 A.D. Concentrating on the first ...

Article: The History of al-Tabari, vols. 27, 29, 30, 32, 33.
The Journal of the American Oriental Society;  October 1, 1993 ;     700+ words ... ... volumes present a broad overview of the Abbasid caliphate at the zenith of its power and prestige ... course, since two periods when the Abbasid caliphate was suffering severe difficulties ... death in 169/785. Volume XXX, The Abbasid Caliphate in Equilibrium, continues with the ...

Article: Abbasid
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      680 words ... ... Baghdad and overthrew the Abbasid caliphate. The 37th caliph died in ... The Cairo line of the Abbasid caliphate, completely subordinated ... H. Kennedy, The Early Abbasid Caliphate (1981).

Article: Arabs
International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences;      700+ words ... ... translated into Arabic during the Abbasid caliphate, and because the new Arab-centered ... monopoly over it. With the rise of the Abbasid caliphate in 750, the Muslim ruling elites ... then the Saljuks. Nonetheless, the Abbasid caliphate was retained in Baghdad as a sort ...

Article: Turkistan
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition;      700+ words ... ... invasion of the 8th cent.; first the Umayyad and then the Abbasid caliphate held all of Turkistan. Zoroastrianism was suppressed ... remains the chief religion of Turkistan, was imposed. The Abbasid caliphate weakened in the middle of the 9th cent.; at the same ...

Article: Das Aleppiner Kalifat: Vom Ende des Kalifates in Baghdad uber ...
The Journal of the American Oriental Society;  July 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ... ... whole process of the transfer and reestablishment of the Abbasid caliphate. It begins with the contacts between Hulegu and al-Mustasim ... who, of course, had an interest in the demise of the Abbasid caliphate. 3) The story reported in the Mamluk sources of the traitorous ...