Governing the empire : provincial administration in the Almohad Caliphate (1224-1269) : critical edition, translation, and study of Manuscript 4752 of the Hasaniyya Library in Rabat containing 77 taqādīm ("appointments") / by Pascal Buresi, Hicham El Aallaoui ; English translation by Travis Bruce.
From Conquest to Rupture ; The Origins of the Empire ; From Guidance to Conquest or the State of War ; The Government of the Sons and the Brothers or the Dynastic Empire ; The Dislocated Empire. -- Part Two: Appointments and Officials of the Imperial State. Presentation of Yahyas Manuscript ; Almohad Imperial Administration. -- Part 3: Edition and translation of Yahchar.
Summary:
"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."--Publisher's website.
Series:
Studies in the history and society of the Maghrib, 1877-9808 ; v. 3
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