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Final Colloquium
Exercising Power in the Age of the Sultanates
Production, Manifestation, Reception English text | texte
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This project has been made possible by generous contributions from the United States Department of Education and from the United States Department of State via its Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, to which we are gratefully indebted.
The quest for a dynamic historical framework in Islamic history is one of the most promising developments in current research programs. Our project about the exercise of power gives us the opportunity to elaborate a new periodization in the history of the Islamic world derived from its own sources. We are working on the hypothesis that between the epoch of the caliphates and the emergence of modern states, there exists a period we denote as "the Age of the Sultanates" when power is exercised according to certain modalities. This project allows us to study the exercise of power - its production, manifestation and reception- in a comparative manner in its many expressions. In effect, the accumulation of practices and representations, ever changing, nevertheless create patterns of power which we seek to discern. The research involved in this project offers an occasion to put forth a periodization that will be well tested.
- - The Production of Power
- The Body Politic
- Transmission of Power
- Decisions and Declarations
- The Memory of Rule
- The Territory of Power
- The Control of Resources
- - The Manifestation of Power
- Rituals
- The Interactions of Powers
- Signs of Power
- Patronage
- The Resolution of Conflicts
- Violence
- - The Reception of Power
- Acceptance
- Contestation
- Subversion
Final Colloquium 24-25 March 2006
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