Ceremony and submission: The symbolic representation and recognition of legitimacy in tenth-century al-Andalus

Journal of Near Eastern Studies

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 191-201

  Safran, Janina M ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 79958087026     PISSN: 00222968     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/468712     Document Type: Review

References (17)

1. ⊂Alī al-Hajjī (Beirut, 1965), pp. 100, 131;
2. ⊂Īsā Ibn Ahmad al-Rāzī (360-364 H. = 971-975 J. C.) (Madrid, 1967), pp. 128, 165. The citations that follow will refer to both the Arabic and Spanish editions.
3. For a discussion of ceremony and protocol as insignia of caliphal rule in the tenth century, see Paula Sanders, "The Ceremonial Idiom", in Ritual, Politics, and the City in Fatimid Cairo (Albany, 1994), chap. 2, pp. 13-37.
4. Miguel Barceló, "El calif a patente: El ceremonial omeya de Córdoba o la enscentificación del poder", in Reyna Pastor et al., eds., Estructuras y formas del poder en la historia (Salamanca, 1991), pp. 53-56, discusses the problem of the sources and draws similar conclusions.
5. See Michael McCormick, "Analyzing Imperial Ceremonies", Jahrbuch der österreichischen Byzantinistik 35(1985):1-20, for a discussion of these methodological problems with regard to Byzantine ceremonies.
6. See Sally F. Moore and Barbara G. Myerhoff, eds., Secular Ritual (Assen and Amsterdam, 1977), chap. 1, pp. 3-24, for their discussion of how rituals can demonstrate ideas or values by objectifying them, by displaying symbols of their existence and enacting their reality.
7. See my art → "The Command of the Faithful in al-Andalus: A Study in the Articulation of Caliphal Legitimacy", International Journal of Middle East Studies 30(1998):183-98.
8. See al-Mustansir's instructions to his commanders in Ibn Hayyān, Al-Muqtabis fi Akhbār al-Andalus, pp. 79-80/Spanish trans., pp. 102-3;
9. Ibn Hayyān, Al-Muqtabis fi Akhbār al-Andalus, pp. 50-52/Spanish trans., pp. 69-70.
10. ⊃ id and how they served as insignia of power.
11. See also E. García Gomez, "La poésie politique sous le califat de Cordoue", Revue des études islamiques, 1949, pp. 5-11, for his discussion of the propagandalike qualities of the poetry of the Andalusī court.
12. Ibn Hayyān, Al-Muqtabis fi Akhbār al-Andalus, pp. 56-57.
13. See Barcelo, "El califa patente", pp. 57-65.
14. ⊂īd receptions.
15. see Heinz Halm, The Empire of the Mahdi, trans. Michael Bonner (Leiden, 1996), pp. 373, 415.
16. see the translation from Stetkevych, "The Qasldah and the Poetics of Ceremony", p. 8.
17. See M. E. Combs-Schilling, Sacred Performances (New York, 1989), pp. 56-58, for her discussion of how the myth of Ibrahim's sacrifice and the Festival of the Sacrifice reinforce patrilineality.