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Between Rebels and Rulers in the Early Islamicate World : Power, Contention and Identity / ed. by Hannah-Lena Hagemann, Alasdair C. Grant.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (384 p.) : 13 black and white illustrations (3 tables, 9 line figures and 1 map)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2024]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Studies rebellion as historical phenomenon and literary construct in early Islamicate contexts Re-centres the long-neglected subject of rebellion in the early Islamic period as a category in its own rightSets out paradigmatic features of early Islamicate rebellion, offering historians in other fields a model for comparative analysisTranscends traditional confessional boundaries in Islamic Studies by putting into conversation scholarship on Sunnī, Shīʿī, Ibāḍī, Khārijite, and non-Muslim revoltsPursues a multidisciplinary approach by bringing together social historians, scholars of religion and literary scholarsEmbraces case studies from a wide geographical canvas and diverse contexts (e.g., Mashriq and Maghreb; mountains and waterscapes; rural and urban; elites and non-elites)Between Rebels and Rulers in the Early Islamicate World offers the first dedicated examination of the phenomenon of rebellion across the early Islamicate world. It combines discourse analysis with a return to long-neglected social-historical analysis in its study of contention and the ways in which it was narrated and enacted. These approaches are pursued through fourteen case studies, ranging geographically from North Africa to Central Asia and chronologically from the sixth to tenth centuries CE. These diverse examples reveal several patterns: First, rebellion operated as a normative means of negotiating power and obtaining justice. Second, the main constituencies of rebellion were local elites, both Muslims and non-Muslims, Arabs and members of pre-conquest societies, separately or together. Accordingly, this volume challenges the ‘othering’ of rebels found in written sources and reflected in scholarship and reframes them and their discourses as integral parts of an imperial system. Third, social ties provided a framework for the mobilisation of rebellious constituencies and the resolution of conflict.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Abbreviations
- Notes on Contributors
- Map of mentioned locations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Approaching Rebellion in the Early Islamicate World*
- PART I DISCOURSES OF REBELLION
- 1 Islamic Scholarly Giants and (Anti-)Rebellion Ḥadīths
- 2 Early Ibāḍī Historiography: The Case of the Khawārij
- PART II POLITICAL CULTURE OF REBELLION
- 3 The Revolt of Yaḥyā b. Zayd b. ʿAlī (d. 125/743): Bayʿa, Disobedience and Rebellion in the Early Islamic Period
- 4 Poet, Scholar, Rebel? ʿImrān b. Ḥiṭṭān (d. 703), Khārijite Revolt and the ‘Playbook of Rebellion’ in the Umayyad Period
- PART III CONTENTIOUS COMMUNITIES
- 5 Sectarianism and Counterinsurgency in Sixth-Century Roman Mesopotamia: A Case Study in ‘Ruralisation’
- 6 Religion and Rebellion: Mobilisation through Religious Image-Building – The Cases of the Zanj and Qarāmiṭa
- PART IV CONTENDING THE PROVINCE
- 7 Taxation, Rebellion and Withdrawal in Early ʿAbbāsid Armenia (136–58/754–75)
- 8 Local Resistance and Arab Rebellion: The Conquest of Khurāsān and Transoxiana in the Context of the First and Second Fitnas
- PART V CONTENDING THE CITY
- 9 Negotiating Rebellion: The Revolt of the Jund of Tunis (793–4)*
- 10 Changing Patterns of Rebellion in Aghlabid Ifrīqiya
- PART VI DISPUTING PRIVILEGE
- 11 Wealth and the Image of the Umayyads in the Sermons Attributed to Abū Ḥamza (d. 748)
- PART VII SPACES OF REBELLION
- 13 Three Kaʿbas, Three Rebellions: Rebels and Sacred Architectures in the Early Islamic World
- 14 Infrastructures of Contention: The Zanj Rebellion (255–69/869–83)
- Index
- Notes:
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Mar 2025)
- ISBN:
- 9781399530200
- 1399530208
- OCLC:
- 1492977648
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