Perched on the Shoulders of Giants?: Looking at the Almohad Empire in the Hafsid Chronicles

Our contribution tackles the ideological aspect of "legacy" developed in the pro-Hafsid legitimizing discourse. The court historiographers pretended that their patrons had deserved and inherited the throne of Ifrīqiya. We shall see how they sketched a genealogy of founding fathers—Abū Ḥafṣ...

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1. VerfasserIn: Garnier, Sébastien (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Brill [2018]
In: Arabica
Jahr: 2018, Band: 65, Heft: 5/6, Seiten: 563-596
weitere Schlagwörter:B Historiographie
B Ifrīqiya
B Historiography
B Legitimization
B légitimation
B Hafsides
B Almohades
B Hafsids
B Almohads
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Zusammenfassung:Our contribution tackles the ideological aspect of "legacy" developed in the pro-Hafsid legitimizing discourse. The court historiographers pretended that their patrons had deserved and inherited the throne of Ifrīqiya. We shall see how they sketched a genealogy of founding fathers—Abū Ḥafṣ ʿUmar (d. 571/1175-1176), Abū Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Wāḥid (d. 618/1221) and Abū Zakariyyāʾ Yaḥyā (d. 647/1249)—, considering that Muʾminids and Hafsids were the two pillars of the Almohad Empire, so it was natural that the latters took up the torch when the formers declined.
ISSN:1570-0585
Enthält:Enthalten in: Arabica
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15700585-12341500