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(0)Alasdair C. Grant
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Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
Captivity and enslavement were characteristic experiences of Greek Christians in the late medieval Mediterranean. During this time, Muslim Turks and Christian western Europeans conquered and traded at the expense of the shrinking Byzantine Empire. By bringing together literary and documentary sources spanning a geographical canvas from the Aegean to Egypt and from Cyprus to Catalonia, this book tells that story in full for the first time. It traces...
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
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,...