Harun Al-Rashid and The Mecca Protocol Of 802
A plan For Division Or Succession
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8966408 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tayeb El-Hibri (American Institute of Biological Sciences, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 461-480 |
| Publication date | 1992-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal Middle East Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7438 • E-ISSN: 1471-6380 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s002074380002198x |
| OpenAlex | W2165750783 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 4 |
The succession crisis and civil war that followed the death of Caliph Harun alRashid in 809 is a gloomy chapter in the history of the Abbasid caliphate in its prime that captured the attention of later medieval Muslim scholars. Their main challenge lay in trying to find an appropriate rationale for justifying the conflict between the caliph's sons, al-Amin and al-Maʾmun, and the fate of the community under a caliphate seized by force for the first time in the Abbasid era. The destruction wrought by the civil war on the capital, Baghdad, combined with the spread of factional strife to other provinces of the caliphate, presented an ethical and religious dilemma reminiscent to contemporaries of the early Islamic fitnas . Conscious of this parallel, the chronicler al-Tabari, writing a century later, devotes considerably more space to the years of the civil war than he does to the reigns of al-Rashid and al-Maʾmun that bracketed it
Ancient history · Archaeology · Caliphate · Capital (architecture · Dilemma · Ecological succession · Islam · Political science · Spanish Civil War · Archaeology and Historical Studies · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2010 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |