Violent order
Subtitle: religious warfare, chivalry, and the ʻayyār phenomenon in the medieval Islamic world
By: D.G. Tor.
Series: Istanbuler Texte und Studien -- Bd. 11
Publisher: Ergon
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Würzburg [Germany]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9783899135534
Subjects: Ayyars.; Islamic Empire -- History, Military.; Islamic Empire -- Social conditions.; Iran -- Social conditions.
Other titles: Religious warfare, chivalry, and the ʻayyār phenomenon in the medieval Islamic world
Notes: Originally presented as a Ph. D. thesis, Harvard University, 2002.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-318).
Table of contents: title: Defining the ʻayyārs; title: The volunteer warriors for the faith (mutaṭawwiʻa); title: ʻAyyār activity in Sīstān and the rise of the Ṣaffārids; title: The ʻayyār versus the government : the Ṣaffārids and the Ṭāhirids; title: The ʻayyār and the Caliph; title: The beginning of the ʻayyār-Sufi connection, and the decline and fall of the ʻayyār realm; title: The ʻayyārs, Sufism, and chivalry; title: The ʻayyārs in the tenth and eleventh centuries : chivalry (futuwwa) and violence.