A history of diplomacy, spatiality, and Islamic ideals / edited by Malika Dekkiche.
"Inspired by the "spatial turn", this volume links for the first time the study of diplomacy and spatiality in the premodern Islamicate world to understand practices and meanings ascribed to territory and realms. Debates on the nature of the sovereign state as a territorially defined...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge,
2024.
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| Series: | SOAS/Routledge studies on the Middle East.
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| Summary: | "Inspired by the "spatial turn", this volume links for the first time the study of diplomacy and spatiality in the premodern Islamicate world to understand practices and meanings ascribed to territory and realms. Debates on the nature of the sovereign state as a territorially defined political entity are closely linked to discussions of "modernity" and to the development of the field of international relations. While scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds have long questioned the existence of such a concept as a "territorial state," rarely have they ventured outside the European context. A closer look at the premodern Islamicate world, however, shows that "space" and "territoriality" highly mattered in the conception of interstate contacts and in the conduct and evolution of diplomacy. This volume addresses these issues over the longue dureĢe (13th-19th centuries) and from various approaches and sources, including letters, chancery manuals, notarial records, travelogues, chronicles, and fatwas. The contributors also explore the various diplomatic practices and understandings of spatiality that were present throughout the Islamicate world, from Al-Andalus to the Ottoman realms. The book will be of interest to students and researchers in a range of disciplines, including international relations, diplomatic history, and Islamic studies"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781032668567 1032668563 9781040090121 1040090125 9781040090091 1040090095 |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 09, 2024). |
| Biographical or Historical Data: | Malika Dekkiche is Associate Professor in the History Department at the University of Antwerp. Her research focuses on Muslim diplomatic contacts in the thirteenth-sixteenth centuries, chancery practices, and religious patronage. She is the co-editor of the volume Mamluk Cairo. A Crossroad for Embassies (2019). |