Maribel Fierro, Sonja Brentjes y Tilman Seidensticker (eds.)
Rulers as Authors in the Islamic World. Knowledge, Authority and Legitimacy
Leiden, Brill, 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-69061-5
https://brill.com/display/title/69667
¿Hasta qué punto estaba extendida la autoría entre los gobernantes del mundo islámico premoderno? En este libro se analizan los escritos de distintos tipos de gobernantes en diferentes regiones y periodos, desde los primeros siglos en las tierras centrales del Islam hasta el Sudán del siglo XIX. La composición de poesía aparece como el ámbito más fértil de autoría entre los gobernantes. Los escritos en prosa muestran una gran variedad, desde la astrología a la elaboración de libros, pasando por la autobiografía y los credos. Algunos de los gobernantes reivindicaban conocimientos especiales, pero en todos los casos la autoría desempeñaba un papel especial en la construcción de la autoridad y la legitimidad de los gobernantes.
ÍNDICE
List of Figures
List of Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Maribel Fierro, Sonja Brentjes and Tilman Seidensticker
Part 1 The Early Period
Rulers as Authors: ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib and the Other Twelver Imams
Teresa Bernheimer
Eloquent Exchange: Asceticism and Shirāʾ in the Poetry of Qaṭarī b. al-Fujāʾa
Adam Gaiser
A ‘Rediscovered’ Letter of the Umayyad Caliph ʿUmar b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz (r. 99–101/717–720)
Caliphal Authorship and Legal Authority in al-Risāla fī l-fayʾ
Sean W. Anthony
Abbasid Rulers and Their Standing as Authors
Letizia Osti
Part 2 Caliphs and Messianic Figures
Zaydī Rulers as Authors: A Quest for Legitimacy
Maher Jarrar
The Caliph al-Qādir bi-llāh and the Qādirī Creed
Livnat Holtzman
Do Caliphs Write? The View from the Islamic West
María Luisa Ávila † and Maribel Fierro
Authority, ijāzāt and Politics: Caliph al-Nāṣir li-Dīn Allāh’s Kitāb Rūḥ al-ʿārifīn (7Th/13th Century, Baghdad)
Angelika Hartmann †
The Pen and the Sword: The Case of the Sudanese Mahdi (1844–1885)
Ahmed Ibrahim Abushouk and Robert S. Kramer
Part 3 Emirs and Sultans
Entre l’épée et le calame : Abū l-Fidāʾ, prince et savant ayyoubide
Anne-Marie Eddé
The Quatrains of Toghrïl III. Some Reflections about the Literacy and Culture of the Saljuqs
David Durand-Guédy
Royal Quatrains: Rulers of the Anūshteginid Line of Khwārazmshāhs as Poets
Jürgen Paul
Rulers as Authors in 13th-Century Yemen: the Oeuvre of al-Ashraf ʿUmar
Petra Schmidl
Non-caliphal Rulers and Their Writings in the Islamic West (2nd–9th/8th–15th Centuries)
Maribel Fierro
Legitimating Sultanic Rule in Arabic, Turkish and Persian—Late Mamluk Rulers as Authors of Religious Poetry
Christian Mauder
Part 4 The Great Empires: Timurids-Mughals, Ottomans, Safavids
The Ottoman Ruler Poet Sultan Süleyman I, His Third Divan, and His Reception beyond the Palace Walls
Christiane Czygan
The Power of Poetry in the Ottoman Context
Fatma Sinem Eryılmaz
Timurid-Mughal Philosopher-Kings as Sultan-Scientists
Matthew Melvin-Koushki
Shah Ṭahmāsp and the Taẕkira: A Sixteenth-Century Ruler’s Justification of His Policies
Philip Bockholt
Index