Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Spatial, ritual and representational aspects of public violence in Islamic societies (7th–19th centuries ce)
- PART I Public violence and the construction of the public sphere
- PART II Ritual dimensions of violence
- 5 Reveal or conceal: public humiliation and banishment as punishments in early Islamic times
- 6 Emulating Abraham: the Fāṭimid al-Qāɔim and the Umayyad cAbd al-Raḥmān III
- 7 Where on earth is hell? State punishment and eschatology in the Islamic middle period
- 8 Justice, crime and punishment in 10th/16th-century Morocco
- PART III Representations of public violence
- Index
6 - Emulating Abraham: the Fāṭimid al-Qāɔim and the Umayyad cAbd al-Raḥmān III
from PART II - Ritual dimensions of violence
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Spatial, ritual and representational aspects of public violence in Islamic societies (7th–19th centuries ce)
- PART I Public violence and the construction of the public sphere
- PART II Ritual dimensions of violence
- 5 Reveal or conceal: public humiliation and banishment as punishments in early Islamic times
- 6 Emulating Abraham: the Fāṭimid al-Qāɔim and the Umayyad cAbd al-Raḥmān III
- 7 Where on earth is hell? State punishment and eschatology in the Islamic middle period
- 8 Justice, crime and punishment in 10th/16th-century Morocco
- PART III Representations of public violence
- Index
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- Public Violence in Islamic SocietiesPower, Discipline, and the Construction of the Public Sphere, 7th-19th Centuries CE, pp. 130 - 155Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2009