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" Crown - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Kadoi, Yuka
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AL
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English
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1061323
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ALei1720
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Kadoi, Yuka
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Crown - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Kadoi, Yuka
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Leiden: Brill
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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(1,592 words)
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The crown has been an essential symbol of sovereign power in Islamic society since the early years of Islam, when Muslims adopted the tradition from Byzantium and Persia. A distinctive head covering as a symbol of sovereignty is not quintessentially Islamic, but rather, it is an ancient, seemingly universal idea. Muslims, however, did not adopt a single unified form of the crown, but instead, from early times on, they variously appropriated symbolic headgears of disparate origins, based on their socio-cultural relationship with pre-existing monarchies in conquered or neighbouring
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Islam.
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ALei1720.pdf
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