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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Main Authors: Hayes, Edmund (Edmund Philip) (Author, Editor), Sijpesteijn, Petra (Author, Editor)
格式: Licensed eBooks
语言:英语
出版: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2024.
在线阅读:https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009384308
书本目录:
  • 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.