@Book{585306044,
author="Y{\"u}cesoy, Hayrettin",
title="Messianic beliefs and imperial politics in medieval Islam: the ʿAbb{\={a}}sid caliphate in the early ninth century",
series="Studies in comparative religion",
year="2009",
publisher="University of South Carolina Press",
address="Columbia, SC",
keywords="Abbasids; Caliphate; History; Mahdism; Islamic eschatology; Islamic Empire; 750-1258; Eschatology, Islamic",
contents="Main questionProphecies as text -- Messianic claims and institutionalization -- The legacy of the early caliphate -- Muslims and others: a process of conflict and confluence -- Shaping up a messianic discourse -- Qurʼ{\={a}}nic views on the end of time -- Messianic beliefs as political ideology -- A new millennium: the year 200/800 -- Prophecies and the fourth civil war -- Crisis after Ḥ{\={a}}r{\={u}}n al-Rash{\={\i}}d -- The civil war as an apocalyptic fitna -- Second black banners from the East -- Making a messianic contender -- Second black banners -- H{\={a}}shimid versus ʻAbb{\={a}}sid succession: designation of Al{\={\i}} al-riḍ{\={a}} -- Al-Mam{\={u}}n in Baghdad -- Healing the wounds of a civil war -- Missionary activity and Byzantine raids -- God's caliph as mujaddid -- Translation activities -- Religious purity and the miḥna -- Conclusion.",
abstract="Introduction -- Main question -- Prophecies as text -- Messianic claims and institutionalization -- The legacy of the early caliphate -- Muslims and others: a process of conflict and confluence -- Shaping up a messianic discourse -- Qurʾ{\={a}}nic views on the end of time -- Messianic beliefs as political ideology -- A new millennium: the year 200/800 -- Prophecies and the fourth civil war -- Crisis after Ḥ{\={a}}r{\={u}}n al-Rash{\={\i}}d -- The civil war as an apocalyptic fitna -- Second black banners from the East -- Making a messianic contender -- Second black banners -- H{\={a}}shimid versus ʿAbb{\={a}}sid succession: designation of Al{\={\i}} al-riḍ{\={a}} -- Al-Mam{\={u}}n in Baghdad -- Healing the wounds of a civil war -- Missionary activity and Byzantine raids -- God's caliph as mujaddid -- Translation activities -- Religious purity and the miḥna -- Conclusion",
note="Hayrettin Y{\"u}cesoy",
note="Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-201) and index",
note="Archivierung pr{\"u}fen 20200919 DE-640 2 pdager",
note="Archivierung/Langzeitarchivierung gew{\"a}hrleistet SSG XA-DE-BW pdager DE-21",
isbn="9781570038198",
language="English"
}