Mechanisms of social dependency in the early Islamic Empire /
The success of Islamic imperialism in the period from the conquests to the Ayyubid dynasty has traditionally been explained as purely the result of military might. This book, however, adopts a bottom-up approach which puts social relationships and local power dynamics at the centre of the Islamic em...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2024.
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| On-line přístup: | https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009384308 |
Obsah:
- List of illustrations
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Notes on transliteration, place names, dates, editions, and translations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: The ties that bound the societies of the Islamic empire / Edmund Hayes and Petra Sijpesteijn
- Ties of unfreedom in late antiquity and early Islam: debt, dependency and the origins of Islamic law / Robert Hoyland
- The local clergy and "ties of indebtedness" in Abbasid Egypt: Some reflections on studying credit and debt in early Islamicate societies / Cecilia Palombo
- 'Return to God and the brotherhood of good and excellent people': Bringing the prodigal son back home in Ayyubid Egypt / Oded Zinger
- Aloneness as connector in Arabic papyrus letters of request / Petra Sijpesteijn
- Swearing Abū al-Jaysh into office: The loyalties of Ṭūlūnid Egypt / Matthew Gordon
- Messengers in Byzantine and early Muslim Egypt - small cogs, but systemically relevant. With some remarks on the dossier of Menas, stratiōtēs / Stefanie Schmidt
- The epistolary imamate: Circular letters in the administration of the Shi'i community / Edmund Hayes
- Early Arabic decrees on papyrus from the Abbasid period / Naïm Vantieghem
- A state letter from a Marwanid caliph to his governor of Iraq: A historiographical investigation into Khālid b. 'Abd Allāh alQasrī's downfall / Noëmie Lucas
- Between the Arabs and the Turks: Household, conversion and power dynamics in early Islamic Bactria / Said Reza Huseini
- Emotion in early Islamic social hierarchies: Affection, threats, and appeals to piety in official documents from the Umayyad and Abbasid Periods / Karen Bauer
- Local elites during two periods of civil strife: Al-Ash'ath b. Qays, Muḥammad b. al-Ash'ath, and the quarter of Kinda in seventh-century Kufa / Georg Leube
- Rulers, Ḥanābila, and Shi'is: the unravelling social cohesion of fourth/tenth-century Baghdad / Nimrod Hurvitz
- Resistance to and acceptance of the Fatimids in North Africa: A Shi'i dynasty in negotiation with both adherents and enemies / Paul E. Walker
- Boundaries that bind? Pagan and Christian Arabs between Syriac and Islamic strategies of distinction (late first century AH) / Simon Pierre
- "Peace be upon you": Arabic Greetings in Greek and Coptic letters written by Christians in early Islamic Egypt / Lajos Berkes
- Tied to two empires: The material evidence of the Islamic conquest of Sicily / Joanita Vroom
- Index.