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The Ê¿Abbasid and Carolingian Empires
Comparative Studies in Civilizational Formation
Series: - Islamic History and Civilization, Volume: 150
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Circa AD 750, both the Islamic world and western Europe underwent political revolutions; these raised to power, respectively, the Ê¿Abbasid and Carolingian dynasties. The eras thus inaugurated were similar not only in their chronology, but also in the foundational role each played in its respective civilization, forming and shaping enduring religious, cultural, and societal institutions.
The Ê¿AbbÄsid and Carolingian Empires: Studies in Civilizational Formation, is the first collected volume ever dedicated specifically to comparative Carolingian-Ê¿Abbasid history. In it, editor D.G. Tor brings together essays from some of the leading historians in order to elucidate some of the parallel developments in each of these civilizations, many of which persisted not only throughout the Middle Ages, but to the present day.
Contributors are: Michael Cook, Jennifer R. Davis, Robert Gleave, Eric J. Goldberg, Minoru Inaba, Jürgen Paul, Walter Pohl, D.G. Tor and Ian Wood.
The Ê¿AbbÄsid and Carolingian Empires: Studies in Civilizational Formation, is the first collected volume ever dedicated specifically to comparative Carolingian-Ê¿Abbasid history. In it, editor D.G. Tor brings together essays from some of the leading historians in order to elucidate some of the parallel developments in each of these civilizations, many of which persisted not only throughout the Middle Ages, but to the present day.
Contributors are: Michael Cook, Jennifer R. Davis, Robert Gleave, Eric J. Goldberg, Minoru Inaba, Jürgen Paul, Walter Pohl, D.G. Tor and Ian Wood.
D.G. Tor, PhD Harvard University, is Associate Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. She has published widely on the Ê¿AbbÄsid Caliphate in all its periods, including, in addition to numerous articles, Violent Order: Religious Warfare, Chivalry, and the 'Ayyar Phenomenon in the Medieval Islamic World (Orient Institut Istanbul/Ergon Verlag, 2007) and, together with A.C.S. Peacock, Medieval Central Asia and the Persianate World: Iranian Tradition and Islamic Civilisation (I.B. Tauris, 2015).
Acknowledgments
The Ê¿Abbasid and Carolingian Dynasties in Comparative Perspective
âD.G. Tor
Inventing the Missi
Delegating Power in the Late Eighth and Early Ninth Centuries
âJennifer R. Davis
Ḥasanwayh b. al-Ḥusayn al-KurdÄ« (r. ca. 350â369/ca. 961â979)
From Freehold Castles to Vassality?
âJürgen Paul
The Emperorâs Ass
Hunting for the Asiatic Onager (Equus hemionus) in the Ê¿Abbasid, Byzantine, and Carolingian Worlds
âEric J. Goldberg
Ethnicity in the Carolingian Empire
âWalter Pohl
Across the Hindūkush of the ʿAbbasid Period
âMinoru Inaba
Columbanus, the Columbanian Tradition and Caesarius
âIan Wood
The Rebel and the Imam
The Uprising of Zayd al-NÄr and ShiÊ¿i Leadership Claims
âRobert Gleave
Comparing Carolingians and Ê¿Abbasids
âMichael Cook
Index
Introduction
The Ê¿Abbasid and Carolingian Dynasties in Comparative Perspective
âD.G. Tor
Political Power
Inventing the Missi
Delegating Power in the Late Eighth and Early Ninth Centuries
âJennifer R. Davis
Ḥasanwayh b. al-Ḥusayn al-KurdÄ« (r. ca. 350â369/ca. 961â979)
From Freehold Castles to Vassality?
âJürgen Paul
Culture, Ethnicity, and Geography
The Emperorâs Ass
Hunting for the Asiatic Onager (Equus hemionus) in the Ê¿Abbasid, Byzantine, and Carolingian Worlds
âEric J. Goldberg
Ethnicity in the Carolingian Empire
âWalter Pohl
Across the Hindūkush of the ʿAbbasid Period
âMinoru Inaba
Religion
Columbanus, the Columbanian Tradition and Caesarius
âIan Wood
The Rebel and the Imam
The Uprising of Zayd al-NÄr and ShiÊ¿i Leadership Claims
âRobert Gleave
Final Summation
Comparing Carolingians and Ê¿Abbasids
âMichael Cook
Index
Anyone interested in either Carolingian or Ê¿Abbasid history, or Medieval History generally, in either medieval Europe or the medieval Islamic world, or in topics including lordship, ethnicity, and cultural and religious history.