Between Rebels and Rulers in the Early Islamicate World

Hannah-Lena Hagemann is the Principal Investigator of the Emmy Noether research group “Social Contexts of Rebellion in the Early Islamic Period” (SCORE) at the University of Hamburg. She is author of The Khārijites in Early Islamic Historical Tradition (Edinburgh University Press, 2021) and co-editor (with Stefan Heidemann) of Transregional and Regional Elites: Connecting the Early Islamic Empire (De Gruyter, 2020). Alasdair C. Grant is Research Associate in the Emmy Noether project “Social Contexts of Rebellion in the Early Islamic Period” (SCORE) at the University of Hamburg. He is author of Greek Captives and Mediterranean Slavery, 1260–1460 (Edinburgh University Press, 2024).

• List of IllustrationsAbbreviationsNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsMapIntroduction: Approaching Rebellion in the Early Islamicate WorldHannah-Lena Hagemann and Alasdair C. GrantI. Discourses of Rebellion1. Islamic Scholarly Giants and (Anti-) Rebellion ḤadīthsMarjan Asi2. Early Ibāḍī Historiography: The Case of the KhawārijEnki Baptiste and Adam GaiserII. Political Culture of Rebellion3. The Revolt of Yaḥyā b. Zayd b. ʿAlī (d. 125/743): Bayʿa, Disobedience and Rebellion in the Early Islamic PeriodNatalie Kontny-Wendt4. Poet, Scholar, Rebel? ʿImrān b. Ḥiṭṭān (d. 703), Khārijite Revolt and the ‘Playbook of Rebellion’ in the Umayyad PeriodHannah-Lena HagemannIII. Contentious Communities5. Sectarianism and Counterinsurgency in Sixth-century Roman Mesopotamia: A Case Study in 'Ruralisation'Walter Beers6. Religion and Rebellion: Mobilisation through Religious Image-building – The Cases of the Zanj and QarāmiṭaNimrod HurvitzIV. Contending the Province7. Taxation, Rebellion and Withdrawal in Early ʿAbbāsid Armenia (136–58/754–75)Alasdair C. Grant8. Local Resistance and Arab Rebellion: The Conquest of Khurāsān and Transoxiana in the Context of the First and Second FitnasRobert HaugV. Contending the City9. Negotiating Rebellion: The Revolt of the Jund of Tunis (793–4)Alon Dar10. Changing Patterns of Rebellion in Aghlabid IfrīqiyaAntonia BosanquetVI. Disputing Privilege11. Wealth and the Image of the Umayyads in the Sermons Attributed to Abū Ḥamza (d. 748)Andrew Marsham12. A Generational Explanation of the Third Fitna (126–36/744–54)Leone Pecorini GoodallVII. Spaces of Rebellion13. Three Kaʿbas, Three Rebellions: Rebels and Sacred Architectures in the Early Islamic WorldMuhamed Riyaz Chenganakkattil14. Infrastructures of Contention: The Zanj Rebellion (255–69/869–83)Philip GrantIndex

This collective volume with its extensive temporal and regional treatment of cases of contention, rebellion and revolt in early Islamic history, paired with the detailed and thought-provoking approach to each specific case, will become the reference book on the topic.