Crisis and Continuity at the Abbasid Court: Formal and Informal Politics in the Caliphate of Al-Muqtadir (295-320/908-32) by Nadia Maria El Cheikh, Hugh Kennedy, Maaike Berkel

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Brill's Islamic History and Civilization #102

Crisis and Continuity at the Abbasid Court: Formal and Informal Politics in the Caliphate of Al-Muqtadir (295-320/908-32)

Nadia Maria El Cheikh, Hugh Kennedy, Maaike Berkel

276 pages • hardcover • first pub 2013 • 2 editions

nonfiction history medium-paced

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The reign of al-Muqtadir (295-320/908-32) is a crucial and controversial epoch in the history of the Abbasid empire. Al-Muqtadir's regime has traditionally been depicted as one of decline, when the political power of the caliphate and the lustre o...