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Imitating the Empire from Outside

Anoush Ganjipour

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This paper attempts to show how the theoretical transformation of the Caliphate into an Islamic empire took place in the context of a network of intra- and inter-religious conflicts. By focusing on a founding text of Islamic political thought, the author highlights the paradigmatic role played by the pre-Islamic Persian Empire in the genesis of the idea of an Islamic Empire. On the other hand, he identifies the same paradigmatic role of the Persian Empire in the late antique formation of monotheistic theology from which Islam inherited. By reconsidering theological and political genealogy of the idea of an Islamic empire, the author tries to grasp how such an empire would distinguish itself as a monotheistic empire from a Christian empire. To achieve this goal, he analyses the way the Islamic Empire sought to put structurally together the Islamic conceptions of sovereignty, divine law and messianism.
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halshs-04377017, version 1 (10-01-2024)

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Paternité - CC BY 4.0

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Anoush Ganjipour. Imitating the Empire from Outside: On the (Counter)Secular Genesis of Islamic Sovereignty. 2023. ⟨halshs-04377017⟩
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