From Arabian tribes to Islamic empire army, state and society in the Near East c.600-850
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Aldershot [England] Burlington, VT
Ashgate
c2008
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| Series: | Variorum collected studies series
895 |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The Arabian background
- The tribe and the state
- Tribes and states in the Middle East
- The first-century concept of higra
- The later evolution
- Were the Qays and Yemen of the Umayyad period political parties?
- A note on Muqatil b. Hayyan and Muqatil b. Sulayman
- The significance of wooden weapons in al-Mukhtar's revolt and the Abbasid revolution
- On the meaning of the Abbasid call to al-Rida
- The Abbasid Abna and Sasanid cavalrymen
- The early Islamic world
- The pay of client soldiers in the Umayyad period
- Mawali and the prophet's family : an early Shiite view
- Imperial trauma : the case of the Arabs