Disenchanting the Caliphate by Hayrettin Ycesoy
Hayrettin Yucesoy offers a groundbreaking new account of political discourse in Islamic history by examining Abbasid imperial practice, illuminating the emergence and influence of a vibrant secular tradition.
Disenchanting the Caliphate breaks ground for radically new conversations in world history, political theory, empire studies, and Middle Eastern and Global South StudiesAt once erudite, astutely conceived, and sparkling with insight, this book is a must read for anyone seeking to de-eurocentrize public and scholarly assumptions about the world's interconnected past and present. -- Laura Doyle, author of Inter-imperiality: Vying Empires, Gendered Labor, and the Literary Arts of Alliance
Gibbon’s flourish about ‘Mahomet, sword in one hand, Koran in the other’ long served as metonym for the diachronic Caliphate. Yücesoy provocatively but convincingly disputes whether ‘Islamic political thought’ was inflexibly Islamic. Αlongside religious scholars he highlights Umayyad and Abbasid bureaucrat-literati, who propounded ethical and managerial principles of governance. -- Garth Fowden, author of Before and After Muḥammad: The First Millennium Refocused
A revision of revisionist scholarship, Yücesoy’s book is theoretically engaged and philologically endowed. It unravels the contentions between what he calls the “secular ethos of adab-siyasa” and “scholastic” political knowledge during the eighth century. This work is a contribution to understanding the early background within which the former was to be absorbed by the latter. -- Wael Hallaq, Columbia University
In Disenchanting the Caliphate, Yücesoy pierces the wall of biased binaries erected by Western colonial scholarship. Behind the wall, we are treated to the creative, open-ended process—unfolding during the High Caliphate—that bundled relational practices of power-knowledge into a secular discipline of political civility. -- Armando Salvatore, author of The Sociology of Islam: Knowledge, Power and Civility
Yucesoy has produced a valuable work which scholars of political thought in the Muslim world and on secularism will benefit greatly from. * Middle East Monitor *
Offer[s] new approaches for young scholars to use when studying Muslim thought beyond the approaches of Orientalists on the one hand and modern Islamists on the other. * Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations *
Gibbon’s flourish about ‘Mahomet, sword in one hand, Koran in the other’ long served as metonym for the diachronic Caliphate. Yücesoy provocatively but convincingly disputes whether ‘Islamic political thought’ was inflexibly Islamic. Αlongside religious scholars he highlights Umayyad and Abbasid bureaucrat-literati, who propounded ethical and managerial principles of governance. -- Garth Fowden, author of Before and After Muḥammad: The First Millennium Refocused
A revision of revisionist scholarship, Yücesoy’s book is theoretically engaged and philologically endowed. It unravels the contentions between what he calls the “secular ethos of adab-siyasa” and “scholastic” political knowledge during the eighth century. This work is a contribution to understanding the early background within which the former was to be absorbed by the latter. -- Wael Hallaq, Columbia University
In Disenchanting the Caliphate, Yücesoy pierces the wall of biased binaries erected by Western colonial scholarship. Behind the wall, we are treated to the creative, open-ended process—unfolding during the High Caliphate—that bundled relational practices of power-knowledge into a secular discipline of political civility. -- Armando Salvatore, author of The Sociology of Islam: Knowledge, Power and Civility
Yucesoy has produced a valuable work which scholars of political thought in the Muslim world and on secularism will benefit greatly from. * Middle East Monitor *
Offer[s] new approaches for young scholars to use when studying Muslim thought beyond the approaches of Orientalists on the one hand and modern Islamists on the other. * Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations *
Hayrettin Yücesoy is an associate professor of Middle Eastern and Islamic studies at Washington University in St. Louis. His books include Messianic Beliefs and Imperial Politics in Medieval Islam: The Abbasid Caliphate in the Early Ninth Century (2009).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780231209410 |
| ISBN 10 | 023120941X |
| Title | Disenchanting the Caliphate |
| Author | Hayrettin Yücesoy |
| Series | Columbia Studies In International And Global History |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Columbia University Press |
| Year published | 2023-08-08 |
| Number of pages | 392 |
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