Empires and communities in the post-Roman and Islamic world, c. 400-1000 CE

Weitere Verfasser: Pohl, Walter, 1953- , [HerausgeberIn]
Kramer, Rutger , [HerausgeberIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]
Umfang/Format: x, 449 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Schriftenreihe: Oxford studies in early empires
Schlagworte:
Parallelausgabe: Empires and communities in the post-Roman and Islamic world, c. 400-1000 CE (Online version:) | ISSN: 9780190067960
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction: Empires and communities in the post-Roman and Islamic world
  • The emergence of new polities in the break-up of the Abbasid Caliphate
  • The emergence of new polities in the break-up of the Western Roman Empire
  • Comparative perspectives: differences between the dissolution of the Abbasid Caliphate and the Western Roman Empire
  • Fragmentation and integration: a response to the contributions by Hugh Kennedy and Walter Pohl
  • Historicizing resilience: the paradox of the Medieval East Roman state - collapse, adaptation, and survival
  • Processions, power, and community identity: east and west
  • Death of a patriarch: the murder of Yūḥannā ibn Jamī (d. 966) and the question of 'Melkite' identity in Early Islamic Palestine
  • Diversity and convergence: the accommodation of ethnic and legal pluralism in the Carolingian Empire
  • Franks, Romans, and countrymen: Imperial interests, local identities, and the Carolingian conquest of Aquitaine
  • From the sublime to the ridiculous: Yemeni Arab identity in Abbasid Iraq
  • Loyal and knowledgeable supporters: integrating Egyptian elites in early Islamic Egypt
  • Concluding thoughts: empires and communities.