An updated classic study of 10th- and 11th-century society in Buyid Iran. Arguing that medieval Islamic society must be understood in its own cultural terms, the author explains how it was able to function in a stable manner without the type of political institutions familiar to the West.
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This work is an excellent roadmap of social relations between various social actors in the Buyid dynasty, which ruled during the 10th and 11th centuries in much of modern day Iraq and Iran. The period is interesting in itself because it marked the end of the classical period of Islamic history and was both the site of both political decline and a cultural bloom. Mottahedeh's approach is straightforward, dividing the book into basically two parts. The first addresses acquired loyalties of a formal nature and the the second addresses categorical loyalties of a more informal character. His insights are too numerous to elucidate here because of the various levels of society he examines, but his examination of the ulema I found to be worth the price of admission alone. The overall picture, however, is a fascinating one of how during a period of immense upheaval a new Muslim society emerged with self-renewing and self-preserving values and institutions starkly different form the Abbassids period preceding it which also continued centuries after its disappearance.
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This book describes some of the manners that gave shape to the political life of a society that flourished a thousand years ago in the Near East. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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This book describes some of the manners that gave shape to the political life of a society that flourished a thousand years ago in the Near East. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
acquired loyalties, primal compact, religious learning, informal consensus Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Near Eastern, Ibn Muqlah, Ibn Bagiyah, Ibn Abi, Ibn Suraij, Ibn Wasif, Ibn Rd'iq, Messenger of God New!
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