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    <title>Symbols of authority in medieval Islam</title>
    <subTitle>history, religion and Muslim legitimacy in the Delhi Sultanate</subTitle>
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    <namePart>Auer, Blain H.</namePart>
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    <publisher>I.B. Tauris</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2012</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xix, 237 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>1. Delhi at the center of Islamic authority -- 2. Pre-Islamic prophetic paradigms in Delhi Sultanate historiography -- 3. Muḥammad's example as the perfect ruler -- 4. Images of the friends of God in the lives of the sultans -- 5. Caliphal authority and representation in the Delhi Sultanate -- 6. Sharīʻah and justice -- Conclusion.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Blain H. Auer.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-220) and index.</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Minhāj Sirāj Jūzjānī</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1193-</namePart>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Z̤iyāʼ al-Dīn Baranī</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">active 1284-1356</namePart>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>ʻAfīf, Shams Sirāj</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">active 1351-1388</namePart>
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    <topic>Islamic civilization</topic>
    <topic>Historiography</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Islamic leadership</topic>
    <topic>History</topic>
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    <geographic>Delhi (Sultanate)</geographic>
    <topic>Historiography</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Delhi (Sultanate)</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>Delhi (Sultanate)</geographic>
    <topic>Kings and rulers</topic>
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      <title>Library of South Asian history and culture ; v. 6</title>
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