Download or read book Muslim Kingship written by Aziz Al-Azmeh and published by I.B. Tauris. This book was released on 2001-02-16 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study outlines the main features of the theory and practice of political power in Muslim polities in the Middle Ages against the background of Near Eastern traditions of kingship, particularly Hellenistic, Persian, and Byzantine. The early Arab-Muslim polity is treated as an integral part of late Antiquity and the book explores the way in which older traditions were transposed into Islamic form and given specifically Islamic textual sanction.