Longing for the Lost Caliphate
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18337-4 (ISBN)
Hassan fills a scholarly gap regarding Muslim reactions to the destruction of the Abbasid caliphate in Baghdad in 1258 and challenges the notion that the Mongol onslaught signaled an end to the critical engagement of Muslim jurists and intellectuals with the idea of an Islamic caliphate. She also situates Muslim responses to the dramatic abolition of the Ottoman caliphate in 1924 as part of a longer trajectory of transregional cultural memory, revealing commonalities and differences in how modern Muslims have creatively interpreted and reinterpreted their heritage. Hassan examines how poignant memories of the lost caliphate have been evoked in Muslim culture, law, and politics, similar to the losses and repercussions experienced by other religious communities, including the destruction of the Second Temple for Jews and the fall of Rome for Christians.
A global history, Longing for the Lost Caliphate delves into why the caliphate has been so important to Muslims in vastly different eras and places.
Mona Hassan is an assistant professor in the departments of Religious Studies and History and the International Comparative Studies program at Duke University.
List of Illustrations and Maps ix
Acknowledgments xi
Note on Transliteration and Dates xv
Introduction 1
Early History of the Caliphate 5
The Abbasid Caliphate 6
The Ottoman Caliphate 9
Diachronic Reflections on Symbolic Loss, Destruction, and Renegotiation 13
1 Visions of a Lost Caliphal Capital: Baghdad, 1258 CE 20
Mapping an Islamic Cultural Discourse 22
al-Subki's Living History: An Enduring Sense of Loss 27
Channeling Muslim Memory through History 30
Loss of the Abbasids 33
Bodily Desecration 37
Literary Dimensions of Religious Rites 44
An Altered Landscape 46
Eschatological Endings 57
The Consolation of Prophetic Transmissions 64
2 Recapturing Lost Glory and Legitimacy 66
Remembering and Recreating a Glorious Past 67
Going Beyond Baghdad 69
Commemorating the Caliphate 71
Contesting Caliphs 75
Embracing Communal Continuity 83
Enduring Salience 88
3 Conceptualizing the Caliphate, 632-1517 CE 98
Classical Articulation of the Islamic Caliphate as a Legal Necessity and Communal Obligation 99
al-Juwayni's Seminal Fifth/Eleventh-Century Resolution 103
Post-656/1258 Theorists of the Caliphate 108
Ghalabah, the Sultanate, and the Caliphate in Ibn Jama'ah's Tahrir al-Ahkam (1241-1333) 108
Ibn Taymiyyah's Views on the Caliphate (1262-1328) 111
Shams al-Din al-Dhahabi's Polemical Treatise on the Grand Imamate (1274-1348) 115
Taj al-Din al-Subki and the Restoration of Blessings (1327-70) 118
The Inter-School Polemics of Najm al-Din al-Tarsusi (1310-57) 120
Ibn Khaldun's Political Entanglements and Ideals (1332-1406) 123
The Mamluk Chancery Contributions of al-Qalqashandi (1355-1418) 126
al-Shirazi's Metaphysical Exaltation of the Abbasid Caliph in Cairo (1386-1457) 131
Jalal al-Din al-Suyuti's Devotional Love of the Prophet's Family (1445-1505) 136
4 Manifold Meanings of Loss: Ottoman Defeat, Early 1920s 142
Notions from Afar 145
The Turkish Republic 155
The Levant 171
5 In International Pursuit of a Caliphate 184
An Internationalist Era 186
Promoting an International Conference 188
Imagining the Global Community and Its Leadership 192
A Spiritual Body 194
A Caliphal Council 199
A Traditional Caliph 202
A Global Electorate 204
Dampening Hopes 205
Unexpected Continuities 212
6 Debating a Modern Caliphate 218
Ismail Sukru (1876-1950) 218
Mehmed Seyyid Celebizade (1873-1925) 220
'Ali 'Abd al-Raziq (1888-1966) 225
Muhammad al-Khidr husayn (1876-1958) 233
Mustafa Sabri (1869-1954) 236
Said Nursi (1876-1960) 244
Epilogue The Swirl of Religious Hopes and Aspirations 253
Notes 261
Bibliography 341
Index 373
| Erscheinungsdatum | 20.09.2018 |
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| Verlagsort | New Jersey |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 235 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Islam | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-691-18337-6 / 0691183376 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-691-18337-4 / 9780691183374 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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