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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786572503321

Autore

Buresi Pascal

Titolo

Governing the empire: provincial administration in the Almohad Caliphate (1224-1269) [[electronic resource] ] : critical edition, translation, and study of manuscript 4752 of the Hasaniyya Library in Rabat containing 77 taqadim ("appointments") / / by Pascal Buresi, Hicham El Aallaoui ; English translation by Travis Bruce

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2013

ISBN

1-283-85454-6

90-04-23971-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (566 p.)

Collana

Studies in the history and society of the Maghrib ; ; v. 3

Altri autori (Persone)

El AallaouiHicham

BruceTravis

Disciplina

961.022

Soggetti

Almohades - History

Africa, North History 647-1517

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Introduction -- Part One. The Imperial Territory: From Conquest to Rupture -- Part Two. Appointments and Officials of the Imperial State -- Part Three. Edition and Translation of Yaḥyā’s Formulary -- Annexes -- Bibliography -- Indexes.

Sommario/riassunto

In this book, Pascal Buresi and Hicham El Aallaoui edit, translate, and study an Arabic manuscript of the Royal Library of Rabat, containing 77 appointments of provincial officials. The Almohad Caliphs were the first Berbers to unite the whole Maghrib and the Iberian Peninsula under an imperial ideology elaborated at the end of the 12th C.E. by the most famous scholars, such as Averroes. This peripheral Islamic dynasty produced a pragmatic documentation that provides exceptional information about the administrative, political, ideological, and religious organisation of the largest medieval European-African Empire. Buresi and El Aallaoui convincingly stress the importance of the literature of the Chancellery in renewing the history of power and authority in medieval Islamic lands.