Caliph and Mahdī: The Battle over Power in the Islamic Middle Period (2024)

The Wolf King: Ibn Mardanish and the Construction of Power in alAndalus

Abigail Krasner Balbale

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18 May 2023

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15 January 2023

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9781501765896

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9781501765872

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The Wolf King: Ibn Mardanish and the Construction of Power in alAndalus

Abigail Krasner Balbale

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Balbale, Abigail Krasner, 'Caliph and Mahdī: The Battle over Power in the Islamic Middle Period', The Wolf King: Ibn Mardanish and the Construction of Power in alAndalus (Ithaca, NY, 2023; online edn, Cornell Scholarship Online, 18 May 2023), https://doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501765872.003.0002, accessed 28 Nov. 2024.

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This chapter lays out heated debates among rulers and scholars over new ideas concerning the caliphate and righteous authority at a time of major demographic transition in the Islamic world. As newly Muslim groups began to form dynasties that challenged or supported the Arab caliphate, some military strongmen emerged as sultans ruling in the name of the caliphate. The chapter looks at political theories developed by scholars, such as al-Māwardī and al-Ghazālī, that justified the law-giving aspects of governance in the name of the unity of the global Muslim community under a single caliphate. It also discusses several messianic movements appearing in North Africa and al-Andalus that sought to recenter religious and political power in the hands of a single figure. The chapter points out the debate over the meaning of the caliphate that forms the nucleus of the conflict between the Almohads and Ibn Mardanīsh.

Keywords: Ibn Mardanīsh, Islamic world, Arab caliphate, al-Andalus, Almohads

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European History

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