The Shaping of 'Abbasid Rule ( Princeton Studies on the Near East )

Publication series ：Princeton Studies on the Near East

Author： Lassner Jacob  

Publisher： Princeton University Press‎

Publication year： 2017

E-ISBN: 9781400886364

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780691616285

Subject： K377.3 The history of the Middle Ages (637 - 1553).

Keyword： 世界史

Language： ENG

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In order to understand the transition between the revolutionary movement that propelled the Abbasids to power and the imperial government that later took root, Jacob Lassner studies those elements that served to shape the political attitudes and institutions of the emerging regime during its formative years.

Originally published in 1980.

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Chapter

Cover

Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Maps

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction

Part 1. The Political Setting

I. The First Internal Crisis : The Succession to Abū al-'Abbās

A. The Succession

B. The Claims of al-Mansūr

C. The Claims of 'Abdallāh b. 'Alī

D. The Revolt of 'Abdallāh b. 'Alī

E. The Aftermath

II. Fratricide and Family Politics : Did the Caliph Murder 'Abdallāh b. 'Alī?

A. The Alleged Murder

B. Historic and Pseudohistoric Precedents

C. Subsequent Acts of Fratricide

D. 'Abdallāh b. 'Alī and 'Īsā b. Mūsā

E. The Plot Analyzed

III. The Provincial Administration : Old Revolutionaries and Family Politics

A. The Old Revolutionaries and the New Order

B. The Ruling Family and the Haramayn

C. The Ruling Family and the Iraqi Amsār

D. Additional Observations

IV. The Ruling Family and its Clients (MAW ĀLĪ): Reflections on a Conversation Among Notables

A. The Conversation Between 'Abd al-Samad and the Caliph al-Mahdī

B. The Mawālī of 'Abd al-Samad: Some Speculations

C. Function of the Mawālī and the Ruling Family

D. Additional Thoughts: Clientage and the Army of al-Mansūr

V. The Regiments of the Imperial Army : Notes on al-Jāhiz's Epistle to al-Fath b. Khāqān

A. The Text

B. The Problem of Historicity

C. The Composition of the Army

D. The Catalogue of Virtues

E. The Abnā'

Part 2. The Physical Setting

VI. Before Baghdad: The Early 'Abbāsid Centers of Government in Iraq

A. The Political Background

B. The Hīrah-Kūfah Region

C. Al-Hāshimīyah

D. Al-Mansūr

VII. Baghdad: Legendary Origins and Historic Realities

A. Choosing the Site

B. Theories of Cosmology and City Planning

C. The Argument Against Cosmological Origins

VIII. The Topography of Baghdad in Retrospect: The Government Sector and Urban Development

A. The Palace Complex: Plan and Function

B. Leaving the Round City

C. The Subsequent Compromise: Widening the Administrative Center

D. The Pattern of Military Settlement

E. Defining the Government Sector

F. The Dynamics of Urban Expansion: Preliminary Thoughts

Postscript

Appendices

A. Proto-Shī'ite Contenders

B. The Early 'Abbāsid Caliphs

C. The Mansūrid Line

D. The Family of Muhammad b. 'Alī

E. The 'Umūmah

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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