Muslim Kingship: Power and the Sacred in Muslim, Christian and Pagan Polities

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This study outlines the main features of the theory and practice of political power in Muslim polities in the Middle Ages against the background of Near Eastern traditions of kingship, particularly Hellenistic, Persian, and Byzantine. The early Arab-Muslim polity is treated as an integral part of late Antiquity and the book explores the way in which older traditions were transposed into Islamic form and given specifically Islamic textual sanction.

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Aziz Al-Azmeh is a Fellow of the Institute of Advanced Study, Berlin.