TY  - BOOK
AU  - Yücesoy, Hayrettin
PY  - 2009
DA  - 2009//
TI  - Messianic beliefs and imperial politics in medieval Islam: the ʿAbbāsid caliphate in the early ninth century
T3  - Studies in comparative religion
PB  - University of South Carolina Press
CY  - Columbia, SC
KW  - Abbasids
KW  - Caliphate
KW  - History
KW  - Mahdism
KW  - Islamic eschatology
KW  - Islamic Empire
KW  - 750-1258
KW  - Eschatology, Islamic
AB  - 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
SN  - 9781570038198
LA  - English
N1  - Hayrettin Yücesoy
ID  - 585306044
ER  -