Umayyad World

Andrew Marsham is Reader in Classical Arabic Studies at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Queens’ College. His publications include Rituals of Islamic Monarchy (2009) and, with Alain George, Power, Patronage and Memory in Early Islam (2018).

• 1. Introduction: The Umayyad World; Part I Political Culture; 2. Living Together: Social Perceptions and Changing Interactions of Arabian Believers and Other Religious Communities during the Umayyad Period; 3. Prophetic Dominion, Umayyad Kingship: Varieties of Mulk in the Early Islamic Period; 4. Ethnicity, Power and Umayyad Society: The Rise and Fall of the People of Maʿadd; 5. Umayyad Visual Culture and Its Models; Part II Scribes, Administration and Law; 6. Aspects of Umayyad Administration; 7. The Social and Economic Background of Provincial Administrators in Egypt; 8. The Umayyads and the Formation of Islamic Judgeship; 9. Al-Awzaʿi and the Umayyad Influence on Islamic Legal Development; 10. The Surrender Agreements – Origins and Authenticity; Part III Regions of the Umayyad World: Conquest, Society and Economy; 11.The Umayyad North (Or: How Umayyad was the Umayyad Caliphate?); 12. Elites in the Countryside: The Economic and Political Factors behind the Umayyad ‘Desert Castles’; 13. The Umayyad Red Sea as an Islamic Mare Nostrum; 14. The Umayyads and North Africa: Imperial Rule and Frontier Society; 15. Conquest and Settlement: What Al-Andalus can tell Us about the Arab Expansion at the Time of the Umayyad Caliphate; 16. Ecology, Economy and the Conquest of Khurasan; Part IV Pilgrimage in Mecca and Jerusalem; 17. The Transition from Late Antiquity to Early Islam in Western Arabia; 18. Ibn al-Zubayr, the Kaʿba and the Dome of the Rock; 19. Umayyad Jerusalem: From a Religious Capital to a Religious Town; Part V Religion and Identity in the Material Evidence20. Arabic Rock Inscriptions up to 750 CE; 21. The Written Transmission of the Qurʾan during Umayyad Times: Contextualising the Codex Amrensis 1; 22. Christian Art and Visual Culture in Umayyad Bilad al-Sham; Part VI Limits of Empire: Rebellion, Resistance and Legacy; 23. Kharijism in the Umayyad Period; 24. Qurashi Marriage and the Roots of Revolt: The Rebellion of ʿAbd Allah b. Muʿawiya, 744–747; 25. How the West was Won: Unearthing the Umayyad History of the Conquest of the Maghrib; 26. Power, Law and Ideology in Umayyad Al-Andalus

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