From Arabian tribes to Islamic empire : army, state and society in the Near East c.600-850

1. Verfasser: Crone, Patricia, 1945-
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Aldershot [England] ; : Burlington, VT :. Ashgate, 2008.
Umfang/Format: 1 v. (various pagings) ; 23 cm.
Schriftenreihe: Collected studies ; CS895
Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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.