Khidma (Ar., literally âserviceâ) denotes the binding subordination of a slave or free-born noble to a lord, master, or patronâoften the ruling sultan, but sometimes lesser figuresâinvolving mutual obligations and mutual loyalty. This article studies this relationship and the ceremonies by which it was concluded in eastern Iran in the twelfth century, on the level of political thinking and, as far as possible, of political practice.
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For the term, see T. Welsford, Four Types of Loyalty in Early Modern Central Asia. The TÅ«qÄy-TÄ«mÅ«rid Takeover of Greater MÄ warÄ al-Nahr, 1598-1605 (Leiden: Brill, 2012): 17, and M. Rustow, âLoyalty.â In The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought, ed. Gerhard Bowering (Princeton: University Press, 2013): 318a-319b.âWelsford defines âloyaltyâ as âan individualâs self-subjugation to something which is not him, whether this be to an individual, a group or any other entity.â He then proposes to analyze loyalties âwith reference to peopleâs differing motivations for undertaking self-subjugation.â This is not the method followed in the present contribution. In the period under study, Mottahedehâs approach, focusing on âjuridical categories,â seems to yield better results. Welsford, Four Types of Loyalty: 17-21.
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Ibn IsfandiyÄr, ṬabaristÄn 2:104; 114-5. Every change implied the naming of another overlord in the Friday sermon and on the coinage; further obligations could vary.
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Khidma (Ar., literally âserviceâ) denotes the binding subordination of a slave or free-born noble to a lord, master, or patronâoften the ruling sultan, but sometimes lesser figuresâinvolving mutual obligations and mutual loyalty. This article studies this relationship and the ceremonies by which it was concluded in eastern Iran in the twelfth century, on the level of political thinking and, as far as possible, of political practice.
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