Hannah-Lena Hagemann
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Transregional and regional elites of various backgrounds were essential for the integration of diverse regions into the early Islamic Empire, from Central Asia to North Africa. This volume is an important contribution to the conceptualization of the largest empire of Late Antiquity. While previous studies used Iraq as the paradigm for the entire empire, this volume looks at diverse regions instead. After a theoretical introduction to the concept of...
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,...