%0 Book
%T Messianic beliefs and imperial politics in medieval Islam: the ʿAbbāsid caliphate in the early ninth century
%A Yücesoy, Hayrettin
%S Studies in comparative religion
%D 2009
%I University of South Carolina Press
%C Columbia, SC
%@ 9781570038198
%G English
%F 585306044
%O Hayrettin Yücesoy
%O Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-201) and index
%O Archivierung prüfen 20200919 DE-640 2 pdager
%O Archivierung/Langzeitarchivierung gewährleistet SSG XA-DE-BW pdager DE-21
%X 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 -- Qurʾānic 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 Ḥārūn al-Rashīd -- The civil war as an apocalyptic fitna -- Second black banners from the East -- Making a messianic contender -- Second black banners -- Hāshimid versus ʿAbbāsid succession: designation of Alī al-riḍā -- Al-Mamūn 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
%L 956/.013
%K Abbasids
%K Caliphate
%K History
%K Mahdism
%K Islamic eschatology
%K Islamic Empire
%K 750-1258
%K Eschatology, Islamic
%9 Text