... the ambiguous floriated Kufic script, reflecting and embodying the exoteric and inclusive doctrines of the Sunni revival. ʿAbbasids artisans cursive script Fatimids Ibn al Bawwab Ibn Muqla legitimacy monumental calligraphy Qurʾan Qurʾanic calligraphy cont signatures Sunnī Islam Sunnī Revival Dodd...

... in a Machiavellian fashion toward religious classes; and were not responsible for the Sunni Revival. This chapter aims to solve the puzzle attached to Seljuqs by examining a key aspect of the Seljuq's religious life and the way they were perceived by the Muslim public. It examines the personal piety, beliefs...

... the caliphs and the sultans whose policy was shaped by the nature of the relationship they intended to establish with the Abbasids. The ‘Sunni-Abbasid’ policy of the Seljuqs is considered a part of the ‘Sunni revival’ which is considered an integral part of the evolution of the period, however on a closer...

...The miḥna of Ibn ʿAqīl (d. 513/1119) and the fitnat Ibn al-Qushayrī (d. 514/1120)—two major events that took place in eleventh-century Baghdad—mark the victory of traditionalist Islam over rationalist Islam, and as such are considered as part of ‘the Sunni Revival...

...During the period called the Sunni revival (late fifth/eleventh and sixth and twelfth centuries), a mainstream Sunni camp was emerging in the Islamic Near East. In their effort to end the religious ferment of the late classical period, Muslim scholars and others combined to delimit a commonly...