Breakup of the Abbasid empire

Abbasid breakup


Hodgson, 2:1-151
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Prologue to Book 3: image of the High Caliphate
Precariousness of agrarianate prosperity
On cultural unity
Formation of the International Political Order, 945-1118
Development of political and cultural multiplicity
The Fatimis: a Shi`i state based on the Nile and a navy
Decline of Fatimi power
Party Kingdoms in Spain
Convivencia and the Aesthetics of Architecture in al-Andalus (power point)
Persian provincial successor states
The Shi`i century
The Ghaznavis: a Turkic successor state
The Seljuks: Turkic empire and Muslim unity
`Ulama' and amirs in the international political order
Breakup of Seljuk power
The latter-day caliphate and the legitimation of the amirs
Abbasid coins  ; Islamic coins collection
Isma`ili revolt

Social Order: Mercantile Interests, Military Power, Liberty
liberty of the Muslim and open structure of social order
Regional ecology
cosmopolitanism of the mid-Arid Zone and its core area
pastoralists holding the balance of power
population shifts and ethnic change
A`yan-Amir system
villages
revenue resources of the rich
assessing revenues
refuges of the poor
town organization
social structures of free men
civil decisions: success to office and common policy
fluidity of urban life
Shari`ah as civic force
futuwwah clubs, town militias, garrison govt.
military despotism and interstitial anarchy
Daily life
international trade and economic investment
sex, slavery, and the harem system: masculine honor
private fears and pleasures