TY - JOUR
AU - Mukhia, Harbans
AB - Book Reviews Aziz Muslim Power and the Sacred in Al-Azmeh, Muslim, Kingship: Christian and London and New I.B. Tauris Polities, York, Pagan xvi + not stated Publishers, 1997, pp. 296, price (hb). The author of this book had made his mark in the magnificent early 1980s with Ibn Khaldun in Modern A in Orientul- Scholarship: Study ism and Ibn Khaldun: An in the next (1981) Essay Reinterpretation, The that Al-Azmeh was to divest year. ’reinterpretation’ attempted the fourteenth Arab historian of modern as a great century coatings and cultural of the Arab-Islamic world with an sociologist interpreter to ’modern’ Al-Azmeh ’subordin- astonishingly perspective; sought ate’ Ibn Khaldun to his own historical with medieval, temporality results. very impressive The of Islam came embedded in Al-Azmeh’s of study project the intellectual confirmed the Arab by exploring history, publication of and Islamic Societies and the Arabic (1986), particularly Thought Islams and Modernities Muslim essen- (1993). challenging Kingship seeks to historicise the rise of Islam with as the of kingship point tially into the of Islam as the and entry larger problematic incorporation extension of late If Al-Azmeh’s has a distin- attempt very Antiquity. intellectual with a of historians pedigree, galaxy having guished 
TI - Book Reviews : Aziz Al-Azmeh, Muslim Kingship: Power and the Sacred in Muslim, Christian and Pagan Polities, London and New York, I.B. Tauris Publishe ...
JO - The Medieval History Journal
DO - 10.1177/097194589900200108
DA - 1999-04-01
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SP - 169
EP - 172
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