Crisis and Continuity at the Abbasid Court
Formal and Informal Politics in the Caliphate of al-Muqtadir (295-320/908-32)
Maaike van Berkel, University of Amsterdam, Nadia El Cheikh, American University Beirut, Hugh Kennedy, SOAS, London and Letizia Osti
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Biographical note
Maaike van Berkel, Ph.D. (Amsterdam, 2003) is Associate Professor of Medieval History at the University of Amsterdam. Her research focuses on communication, court and urban history in the medieval Middle Eastern world.
Nadia Maria El Cheikh is Professor of History at the American University of Beirut. Her book, Byzantium Viewed by the Arabs, was published in 2004. Her other main areas of research are gender history and court history in the Abbasid period.
Hugh Kennedy studied for his MA and PHD at Cambridge and taught at the University of St Andrews from 1972 to 2007, becoming Professor of Middle Eastern History. From 2007 he has been Professor of Arabic at SOAS, University of London.
Letizia Osti, Ph.D. (St Andrews, 2002) is Ricercatore in Lingua e Letteratura Araba at the University of Milan. Her work focuses on classical Arabic prose and narrative techniques in biographical collections, historiography, literature and intersections thereof.
Nadia Maria El Cheikh is Professor of History at the American University of Beirut. Her book, Byzantium Viewed by the Arabs, was published in 2004. Her other main areas of research are gender history and court history in the Abbasid period.
Hugh Kennedy studied for his MA and PHD at Cambridge and taught at the University of St Andrews from 1972 to 2007, becoming Professor of Middle Eastern History. From 2007 he has been Professor of Arabic at SOAS, University of London.
Letizia Osti, Ph.D. (St Andrews, 2002) is Ricercatore in Lingua e Letteratura Araba at the University of Milan. Her work focuses on classical Arabic prose and narrative techniques in biographical collections, historiography, literature and intersections thereof.
Readership
Scholars and students of Islamic history and Arabic literature; historians of Byzantium and the Medieval Latin West; court historians.Undergraduates and graduates in courses on Medieval History, Islamic History and Arabic literature.
Table of contents
Introduction
Time line
Map of caliphate
Part I
1. The Reign of al-Muqtadir (295-320/908-32): A History, Hugh Kennedy
2. The Caliph, Letizia Osti
Part II
3. The Vizier, Maaike van Berkel
4. The Bureaucracy, Maaike van Berkel
5. The Military, Hugh Kennedy
Part III
6. The Chamberlains, Nadia Maria El Cheikh
7. The Harem, Nadia Maria El Cheikh
8. Culture, Education and the Court, Letizia Osti
General Conclusion
Appendix: Baghdad at the Time of al-Muqtadir, Judith Ahola and Letizia Osti
Bibliography
Index
Time line
Map of caliphate
Part I
1. The Reign of al-Muqtadir (295-320/908-32): A History, Hugh Kennedy
2. The Caliph, Letizia Osti
Part II
3. The Vizier, Maaike van Berkel
4. The Bureaucracy, Maaike van Berkel
5. The Military, Hugh Kennedy
Part III
6. The Chamberlains, Nadia Maria El Cheikh
7. The Harem, Nadia Maria El Cheikh
8. Culture, Education and the Court, Letizia Osti
General Conclusion
Appendix: Baghdad at the Time of al-Muqtadir, Judith Ahola and Letizia Osti
Bibliography
Index
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