作者簡介 休•甘迺迪Hugh Kennedy 資深著名伊斯蘭研究學者。倫敦大學亞非學院語言與文化系阿拉伯語文教授，英國學院和皇家學院研究員。他是研究哈里發制度權威，從16歲開始對此主題產生興趣，出版過多本教科書等級的哈里發相關著作，如《哈里發的宮廷》（Court of the Caliphs）。二○○○年，被選為愛丁堡皇家學會院士。二○一三年，被選為英國國家學術院院士。 譯者簡介 黃煜文 1974年生。專職譯者，譯有《讀建築》、《阿拉伯人500年史》、《耶路撒冷三千年》、《我們最幸福：北韓人民的真實生活》等書。

作者簡介 休•甘迺迪Hugh Kennedy 資深著名伊斯蘭研究學者。倫敦大學亞非學院語言與文化系阿拉伯語文教授，英國學院和皇家學院研究員。他是研究哈里發制度權威，從16歲開始對此主題產生興趣，出版過多本教科書等級的哈里發相關著作，如《哈里發的宮廷》（Court of the Caliphs）。二○○○年，被選為愛丁堡皇家學會院士。二○一三年，被選為英國國家學術院院士。 譯者簡介 黃煜文 1974年生。專職譯者，譯有《讀建築》、《阿拉伯人500年史》、《耶路撒冷三千年》、《我們最幸福：北韓人民的真實生活》等書。

The medieval theory of the caliphate, epitomized by the Abbasids (750–1258), was the construct of jurists who conceived it as a contractual leadership of the Muslim community in succession to the Prophet Muhammed’s political authority. In this book, Hüseyin Yılmaz traces how a new conception of the caliphate emerged under the Ottomans, who redefined the caliph as at once a rule...(展开全部)

Sufis created the most extensive Muslim revivalist network in Asia before the twentieth century, generating a vibrant Persianate literary, intellectual, and spiritual culture while tying together a politically fractured world. In a pathbreaking work combining social history, religious studies, and anthropology, Waleed Ziad examines the development across Asia of Muslim revivali...(展开全部)

The medieval theory of the caliphate, epitomized by the Abbasids (750–1258), was the construct of jurists who conceived it as a contractual leadership of the Muslim community in succession to the Prophet Muhammed’s political authority. In this book, Hüseyin Yılmaz traces how a new conception of the caliphate emerged under the Ottomans, who redefined the caliph as at once a rule...(展开全部)

Sufis created the most extensive Muslim revivalist network in Asia before the twentieth century, generating a vibrant Persianate literary, intellectual, and spiritual culture while tying together a politically fractured world. In a pathbreaking work combining social history, religious studies, and anthropology, Waleed Ziad examines the development across Asia of Muslim revivali...(展开全部)

The lost archive of the Fatimid caliphate (909–1171) survived in an unexpected place: the storage room, or geniza, of a synagogue in Cairo, recycled as scrap paper and deposited there by medieval Jews. Marina Rustow tells the story of this extraordinary find, inviting us to reconsider the longstanding but mistaken consensus that before 1500 the dynasties of the Islamic Middle E...(展开全部)