Mechanisms of social dependency in the early Islamic Empire / edited by Edmund Hayes, Leiden University, Petra M. Sijpesteijn, Leiden University.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hayes, Edmund (Edmund Philip), editor, author.

Sijpesteijn, Petra, editor, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Interpersonal relations--Islamic Empire--History.

Interpersonal relations.

Islamic Empire--History.

Islamic Empire.

Islamic Empire--Social life and customs.

Islamic Empire--Politics and government.

Islamic Empire--History, Military.

Middle East--Civilization.

Middle East.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 521 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Summary:

"Explains the success of the early Islamic empire as not purely the result of military might but rather as the product of the cohesion achieved through social relationships and local power dynamics, especially between different linguistic and religious communities. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

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

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 06 Dec 2024).

ISBN:

9781009384285

1009384287

9781009384308

1009384309