Del 162 - Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East

Between Memory and Power

The Syrian Space under the Late Umayyads and Early Abbasids (c. 72-193/692-809)

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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Between Memory and Power intends to demonstrate that a robust culture of historical writing existed in 2nd/8th century Syria, and to offer new methodological approaches to access this now lost history, torn between memory and oblivion. By studying the making of Umayyad heroes or Abbasid origins-myths, this book aims to reveal the successive meanings granted to Syrian history, and to identify the various layers of historical writing and rewriting during the first centuries of Islam. Taken together, these elements make possible a history of meanings of the very space of Syria, articulated around power and its expression, which grants a clear coherence to the period, extending well beyond the dynastic caesura of 132/750.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-07-26
Mått155 x 235 x 40 mm
Vikt1 025 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieHandbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East
Antal sidor516
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004466319
ÖversättareBailey Galietti, Anna

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Preface to the English Translation (2022)Acknowledgements to the French Edition (2011)Translator’s NoteList of IllustrationsAbbreviationsIntroduction1 A Time of Writings and Rewritings: Writing History in the Syrian Space1.1 Narrative Islamic Sources and the Question of Their Transmission1.2 Writing History in the Syrian Space under the Late Umayyads and Early Abbasids2 A Time of Writings and Rewritings: Historiographic Filters and Vulgates2.1 In Search of Umayyad Historiographic Projects2.2 Toward a Historiographic Vulgate: The History of Syria Rewritten in Abbasid Iraq3 A Time of Writings and Rewritings: Sources on the Margins of the Historiographic Vulgate?3.1 Islamic Sources on the Margins of the Vulgate?3.2 Non-Muslim Sources: “External” or “Eastern” Sources?4 The Second/Eight-Century Syrian Space: Between Memory and Oblivion4.1 Memoria as an Object of Study4.2 Umayyad Memoria4.3 Spaces of Memory5 The Creation of Umayyad Heroes Maslama B. ʿAbd Al-Malik, Combat Hero5.1 The Siege of Constantinople: Military Failure, Narrative Success5.2 From Hero of the Byzantine Frontier to Islamic Hero?5.3 Eschatology and the Creation of Heroes6 The Creation of Umayyad Heroes: ʿUmar B. ʿAbd Al-ʿAziz, the “Holy” Caliph6.1 ʿUmar II in the Islamic Tradition6.2 ʿUmar II in the Christian Sources6.3 Constructing the Image of the Pious Caliph: Stages and Conditions7 Interpreting the Abbasid Revolution in the Syrian Space7.1 The Abbasid Revolution: Medieval and Modern Vulgates7.2 Syrian Memories of the Abbasid Revolution7.3 ʿAbd Allāh B. ʿAlī and the Allure of a Syrian Abbasid Caliphate?8 Exercising Power in the Syrian Space in the Second/Eighth Century: A History of Meanings8.1 Patrimonialism and the Creation of a Caliphal Landscape8.2 The Mobile Exercise of Power8.3 Abbasid ReconfigurationsConclusionSourcesBibliographyIndex