Les premières dynasties de l’Islam: entre légitimation impériale, patrimonialisation du pouvoir et construction historiographique
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[1] Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
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- Localización: Hesperis Tamuda, ISSN 0018-1005, Nº. 57, 1, 2022 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Le Califat : esquisses historiques), págs. 21-49
- Idioma: francés
- Títulos paralelos:
- The First Caliphal Dynasties: between Imperial Legitimation, Patrimonial Sovereignty and Historiographical Construction
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Resumen
The history of the first two caliphal dynasties, Umayyads and Abbasids, is well known. However, it is based on late sources − none of which predate the IIIrd/IXth century− which idealized the period of the origins and imposed the vision of a linear succession of caliphs. This historiography, which culminated in the masterly work of al-Ṭabarī (d. 310/923), aimed, among other purposes, to legitimize the Abbasids by situating them in the continuity of a caliphate whose origins go back to 10/632 and whose history is articulated, after the golden age of the so-called rightly guided caliphs, around the opposition between two dynasties.
Recent studies on these writing processes allow us to investigate in this paper some main points such as the vocabulary used to designate the caliphs, the narration of the civil wars and the caliphal succession, the establishment of a patrimonial practice of sovereignty, the real scope of the Abbasid 'Revolution' and the relevance of a dynastic periodization
