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Violent order religious warfare, chivalry, and the ʻayyār phenomenon in the medieval Islamic world

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Main Author: Tor, D. G. (Deborah Gerber) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Würzburg [Germany] Ergon 2007
Series:Istanbuler Texte und Studien Bd. 11
Subjects:
ʻAyyārs
Islamic Empire > History, military
Islamic Empire > Social conditions
Iran > Social conditions
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Table of Contents:
  • Defining the ʻayyārs
  • The volunteer warriors for the faith (mutaṭawwiʻa)
  • ʻAyyār activity in Sīstān and the rise of the Ṣaffārids
  • The ʻayyār versus the government : the Ṣaffārids and the Ṭāhirids
  • The ʻayyār and the Caliph
  • The beginning of the ʻayyār-Sufi connection, and the decline and fall of the ʻayyār realm
  • The ʻayyārs, Sufism, and chivalry
  • The ʻayyārs in the tenth and eleventh centuries : chivalry (futuwwa) and violence

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