Le monde musulman : des origines au Xe siècle (Cursus) (French Edition)

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The resulting distortions are highly problematic, since it was during those centuries that the Maghreb emancipated itself from the Eastern Islamic and Arabic model. Understanding this development requires tackling the contemporary non-narrative documentary record, which we can find preserved in the chancery documents.

The project I am leading is a methodical attempt to address this critical problem. The project will have four stages: Histoire des pays d'Islam.

Nov 13, Publication Name: Provincial Administration in the Almohad Caliphate more. This little volume, the surviving copy of which dates It contains 77 acts of appointment of provincial officials, governors, military chiefs, chiefs of Arab tribes, tax-collectors and judges, written between and Set down in writing and rendered anonymous through the quasi-systematic deletion of proper names, toponyms and dates, these acts were neutralized for the use of successive specialists in the language of power.

Performative as they were, they came to be accepted as models and thus were absorbed into the ever-growing thesaurus of reference texts.

This pragmatic collection is the last vestige of the most important indigenous authority in the history of the Maghreb. Governing Empire begins by retracing the political history of the Almohad Empire and the stages through which a territory and an authority were built up. Living witnesses of the islamization and arabization of the Maghreb, this dynasty resolved to reorganize the structures of power and authority to its own advantage.

To that end, jurists and wise men were separated from the interpretative process that the Malikite school had reserved to them since the 9th century, and they were reduced to judicial tasks or enrolled in the chancery services. The literature that the chancery produced, of which the manuscript presented, re-edited and translated here is one of the fundamental examples, plainly reveals this reversal of the relationships of authority between the religious knowledge of the ulemas and the political power of the caliphs.

The tasks assigned to the appointed functionaries, the counsels and orders given them, and the instructions addressed to subjects, all clearly reflect the organic conception of society and of imperial authority that characterized the Almohad ideology. The infinite stylistic and lexical variations combine adherence to rigid codes of chancery language with the kind of poetic and rhetorical innovations characteristic of great works of literature. This work on the language of power, at once laborious and skilled, bureaucratic and poetic, puts a voice to a specific authority —the authority of the Almohad caliphs, rooted in a particular time and place: The posthumous compilation of these performative utterances abstracts the language of power and sets Almohad history, dogma and order in the context of the corpus of timeless Islamic authorities.

Belin Sup-Histoire Publication Date: Law and Religion , Empires , and History of Islam. Paris, Publibook, , p.

Les mondes de l'islam. Une foi, des cultures more. Ancient History and Archaeology Antiquity and Classics: Ancient History and Archaeology. Procedural acts can provide rich information when analyzed well, completing the sometimes different information found in chronicles. Historians have heretofore studied mainly the latter and focused on the first decades of the Almohad Historians have heretofore studied mainly the latter and focused on the first decades of the Almohad Empire, when it was expanding.

It leads us deep into the administrative practices of the Almohad Chancellery. Nevertheless, their interests go beyond their informative aspects about the imperial administration. The heavily codified chancery language they were redacted in is at the heart of the process of lexical and semantic genesis that determined the elaboration of the political and religious thinking of the Arab and Muslim world.

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This is all the more remarkable during the Almohad Era since jurists and men of Law had gone into the Chancery offices, after having been deprived of any jurisprudential function, by the interdiction of the Malekite school and practice and by the imposition of the Almohad dogma which reserved to the Caliph alone the right to interpret the Divine Law. Las Navas de Tolosa, Babylone, Grenade, villes mythiques: Actas del XII simposio internacional de Mudejarismo.

Most of the texts produced by the Almohad Chancery have been transmitted to us solely through quotations in literature: This process of transmission of the documentation raises many questions of a diverse nature, concerning notably conservation, disappearance and dispersion of the archives, as well as processes of rewriting documents.

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Indeed, from one author to another, the quoted letters reveal a great number of variations which provide substantial information concerning terminological, ideological, political or administrative aspects. The original manuscript of this manual can be found in the Royal Library of Rabat. It contains models of letters: Nevertheless, we possess a small amount of original documents, acts of the provincial Almohad chanceries, which have been available for a long time as they are conserved in Western collections, especially Italian ones.

Their publication and translation, dating from the 19th C. This paper proposes a fresh view of those original documents, enlightened by a renewed historiography of the questions.

La chancellerie almohade more. El Kenz et S. Jan 1, Publication Name: Medieval History and Empires. Power and Authority in the Middle Ages and Empires. The Almohads are no exception to the rule, but they go further still: Henceforth, in an eschatological context, the entire Muslim West, centered on the Almohad dynasty, becomes the new cradle of the Divine Word. Captifs et rachat de captifs. From Miracle to the Institution more. From Tenth to Thirteenth century, the relations between Christians and Muslims around the Mediterranean Sea multiplied, competition was on the increase and confrontations became more and more regular and violent.

This growing militarization of the contact included the beginnings of professionalisation and, on the Christian side, formalisation and institutionalisation. The capture of the enemy and the system of ransom were included in this process: These did not appear like a bolt from the blue: These specialised institutions took root at the crossroad of the municipal law conceived to ensure the extension and the survey of the frontier concejos , and at the crossroad of the economic, commercial and religious preoccupations of the different protagonists of this frontier: Arabica, 60, , p.

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