The Umayyad world / edited by Andrew Marsham.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Marsham, Andrew, 1973- editor.

Series:

Routledge worlds

Routledge handbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Umayyad dynasty.

Islamic law--History.

Islamic law.

History.

Religion.

Islamic Empire--History--661-750.

Islamic Empire.

Islamic Empire--Politics and government.

Politics and government.

Islamic Empire--Religion.

Genre:

History.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Andrew Marsham is Reader in Classical Arabic Studies at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Queens' College. His publications include Rituals of Islamic Monarchy (2009) and, with Alain George, Power, Patronage and Memory in Early Islam (2018).

Summary:

"The Umayyad World encompasses archaeology, history, art and architecture, and the study of manuscripts and documents of the Umayyad era (644-750 CE). This era was formative both for world history and for the history of Islam. Subjects covered in detail in this collection include regions conquered in Umayyad times, ethnic and religious identity among the conquerors, political thought and culture, administration and the law, art and architecture, the history of religion, pilgrimage and the Qur'an, and violence and rebellion. Close attention is paid to new methods of analysis and interpretation, including source critical studies of the historiography and inter-disciplinary approaches combining literary sources and material evidence. Scholars of Islamic history, archaeologists and researchers interested in the Umayyad Caliphate, its context and influence on the wider world, will find much to enjoy in this volume"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : The Umayyad World / Andrew Marsham

Living Together : Social Perceptions and Changing Interactions of Arabian Believers and Other Religious Communities during the Umayyad Period / Fred M. Donner

Prophetic Dominion, Umayyad Kingship : Varieties of Mulk in the Early Islamic Period / Sean W. Anthony

Ethnicity, Power and Umayyad Society : The Rise and Fall of the People of Maʻadd / Peter Webb

Umayyad Visual Culture and Its Models / Katharina Meinecke

Aspects of Umayyad Administration / Marie Legendre

The Social and Economic Background of Provincial Administrators in Egypt / Lucian Reinfandt

The Umayyads and the Formation of Islamic Judgeship / Mathieu Tillier

Al-Awzaʻi and the Umayyad Influence on Islamic Legal Development / Steven Judd

The Surrender Agreements

Origins and Authenticity / Milka Levy-Rubin

The Umayyad North (Or : How Umayyad was the Umayyad Caliphate?) / Alison M. Vacca

Elites in the Countryside : The Economic and Political Factors behind the Umayyad 'Desert Castles' / Denis Genequand

The Umayyad Red Sea as an Islamic Mare Nostrum / Veronica Morriss and Donald Whitcomb

The Umayyads and North Africa : Imperial Rule and Frontier Society / Corisande Fenwick

Conquest and Settlement : What Al-Andalus can tell Us about the Arab Expansion at the Time of the Umayyad Caliphate / Eduardo Manzano Moreno

Ecology, Economy and the Conquest of Khurasan / Arezou Azad

The Transition from Late Antiquity to Early Islam in Western Arabia / Harry Munt

Ibn al-Zubayr, the Kaʻba and the Dome of the Rock / Gerald Hawting

Umayyad Jerusalem : From a Religious Capital to a Religious Town / Suleiman A. Mourad

Arabic Rock Inscriptions up to 750 CE / Ilkka Lindstedt

The Written Transmission of the Qurʼan during Umayyad Times : Contextualising the Codex Amrensis 1 / Eléonore Cellard

Christian Art and Visual Culture in Umayyad Bilad al-Sham / Basema Hamarneh

Kharijism in the Umayyad Period / Hannah-Lena Hagemann and Peter Verkinderen

Qurashi Marriage and the Roots of Revolt : The Rebellion of ʻAbd Allah b. Muʻawiya, 744

747 / Majied Robinson

How the West was Won : Unearthing the Umayyad History of the Conquest of the Maghrib / Edward Coghill

Power, Law and Ideology in Umayyad Al-Andalus / Mateusz Wilk.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 15, 2020).

Other Format:

Print version: The Umayyad world

ISBN:

9781315691411

1315691418

9781317430049

1317430042

9781317430056

1317430050

9781317430032

1317430034

OCLC:

1154979507

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