Caliphate And Sultanate In Medieval Persia Dr A H Siddiqi Adam Publishers English

In the political theory of Islam as a world-historic movement, the Caliphate as an institution occupies the central position. The author’s short but brilliant treatise is one the best study of the subject during the middle ages that has yet seen the light. How was this unity, the basis of Islamic culture and social life, to be reconciled with the ‘administrative decentralization’ In its present form the book attempts to present a concise but exhaustive study of the political developments of Islam until the fall of Baghdad in 1258.