Perched on the Shoulders of Giants? Looking at the Almohad Empire in the Hafsid Chronicles
Affiliation:
1. EHESS, ERC-St-2010-263361 IGAMWI “Imperial Government and Authority in Medieval Western Islam”
Abstract
Abstract
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.
Subject
Literature and Literary Theory,Religious studies,Language and Linguistics,Cultural Studies