The Umayyad world / edited by Andrew Marsham.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Marsham, Andrew, 1973- editor.

Series:

Routledge worlds

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islamic law--History.

Islamic law.

History.

Politics and government.

Religion.

Umayyad dynasty.

Islamic Empire--History--661-750.

Islamic Empire.

Islamic Empire--Politics and government.

Islamic Empire--Religion.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xx, 616 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2021.

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:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: the Umayyad World

2. Living together: social perceptions and changing interactions of Arabian Believers and other religious communities during the Umayyad period / Andrew Marsham

3. Prophetic dominion, Umayyad kingship: varieties of mulk in the early Islamic period / Fred M. Donner

4. Ethnicity, power and Umayyad society: the rise and fall of the people of Ma'add / Sean W. Anthony

5. Umayyad visual culture and its models / Peter Webb

6. Aspects of Umayyad administration / Katharina Meinecke

7. The social and economic background of provincial administrators in Egypt / Marie Legendre

8. The Umayyads and the formation of Islamic judgeship / Lucian Reinfandt

9. Al-Awzafi and the Umayyad influence on Islamic legal development / Mathieu Tillier

10. The surrender agreements: origins and authenticity / Steven Judd

11. The Umayyad North (or: How Umayyad was the Umayyad Caliphate?) / Milka Levy-Rubin

12. Elites in the countryside: the economic and political factors behind the Umayyad 'desert castles' / Alison M. Vacca

13. The Umayyad Red Sea as an Islamic mare nostrum / Denis Genequand

14. The Umayyads and North Africa: imperial rule and frontier society / Donald Whitcomb / Veronica Morriss

15. Conquest and settlement: what al-Andalus can tell us about the Arab expansion at the time of the Umayyad caliphate / Corisande Fenwick

16. Ecology, economy, and the conquest of Khurasan / Eduardo Manzano Moreno

17. The transition from late antiquity to early Islam in western Arabia / Arezou Azad

18. Ibn al-Zubayr, the Ka'ba and the Dome of the Rock / Harry Munt

19. Umayyad Jerusalem: from a religious capital to a religious town / Gerald Hawting

20. Arabic rock inscriptions up to 750 CE / Suleiman A. Mourad

21. The written transmission of the Qur'an during Umayyad times: contextualising the Codex Amrensis 1 / Ilkka Lindstedt

22. Christian art and visual culture in Umayyad Bilad al-Sham / Eleonore Cellard

23. Kharijism in the Umayyad period / Basema Hamarneh

24. Qurashi marriage and the roots of revolt: the rebellion of 'Abd Allah b. Mu'awiya, 744-747 / Peter Verkinderen / Hannah-Lena Hagemann

25. How the west was won: unearthing the Umayyad history of the conquest of the Maghrib / Majied Robinson

26. Power, law and ideology in Umayyad al-Andalus / Edward Coghill.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: The Umayyad world

ISBN:

9781138913509

1138913502

OCLC:

1154860033

Publisher Number:

99986941767