This chapter explores key passages in 4th/10th century Arabic chronicles to illustrate the role of the main actors at the Abbasid court (caliph, bureaucracy, military, chamberlain, and harem) as well as discussing its impact and influence on later courts all over the Islamicate world
Modern scholarship has often, and with varying results, attempted to understand the system of educat...
Harun al-Rashid has a powerful presence in the Medieval Arabic Literary Imaginary. This chapter expl...
This dissertation investigates the two-and-a-half century evolution of Islam’s most prominent leader...
The reign of al-Muqtadir (295-320/908-32) is a crucial and controversial epoch in the history of the...
The reign of al-Muqtadir (295-320/908-32) is a crucial and controversial epoch in the history of the...
Item does not contain fulltextThe reign of al-Muqtadir (295-320/908-32) is a crucial and controversi...
The reign of al-Muqtadir (295-320/908-32) is a crucial and controversial epoch in the history of the...
Courts and the complex phenomenon of the courtly society have received intensified interest in acade...
At the middle of the tenth century the monk John of Gorze, an Ottonian envoy at the court of Cordoba...
The Arabic narrative sources record a host of tales related to the founding of Baghdad and to its fo...
The Hamdanid dynasty, which started as a tribal chiefdom and enjoyed a brief period of circumstantia...
This paper looks at communication between the caliphal court and various power player in the mid-4th...
The purpose of this work is to provide a political narrative of the Abbasid dynasty during the 11$\s...
The rise of the Buwayhids to power during the fourth century of the Hijra is important in the histor...
This study reconsiders and overturns key Orientalist assumptions about popular agency and despotic r...
Modern scholarship has often, and with varying results, attempted to understand the system of educat...
Harun al-Rashid has a powerful presence in the Medieval Arabic Literary Imaginary. This chapter expl...
This dissertation investigates the two-and-a-half century evolution of Islam’s most prominent leader...
The reign of al-Muqtadir (295-320/908-32) is a crucial and controversial epoch in the history of the...
The reign of al-Muqtadir (295-320/908-32) is a crucial and controversial epoch in the history of the...
Item does not contain fulltextThe reign of al-Muqtadir (295-320/908-32) is a crucial and controversi...
The reign of al-Muqtadir (295-320/908-32) is a crucial and controversial epoch in the history of the...
Courts and the complex phenomenon of the courtly society have received intensified interest in acade...
At the middle of the tenth century the monk John of Gorze, an Ottonian envoy at the court of Cordoba...
The Arabic narrative sources record a host of tales related to the founding of Baghdad and to its fo...
The Hamdanid dynasty, which started as a tribal chiefdom and enjoyed a brief period of circumstantia...
This paper looks at communication between the caliphal court and various power player in the mid-4th...
The purpose of this work is to provide a political narrative of the Abbasid dynasty during the 11$\s...
The rise of the Buwayhids to power during the fourth century of the Hijra is important in the histor...
This study reconsiders and overturns key Orientalist assumptions about popular agency and despotic r...
Modern scholarship has often, and with varying results, attempted to understand the system of educat...
Harun al-Rashid has a powerful presence in the Medieval Arabic Literary Imaginary. This chapter expl...
This dissertation investigates the two-and-a-half century evolution of Islam’s most prominent leader...
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