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Authority and Control in the Countryside
From Antiquity to Islam in the Mediterranean and Near East (6th-10th Century)
Series: - Leiden Studies in Islam and Society, Volume: 9
Authority and Control in the Countryside looks at the economic, religious, political and cultural instruments that local and regional powers in the late antique to early medieval Mediterranean and Near East used to manage their rural hinterlands. Measures of direct control â land ownership, judicial systems, garrisons and fortifications, religious and administrative appointments, taxes and regulation â and indirect control â monuments and landmarks, cultural styles and artistic models, intellectual and religious influence, and economic and bureaucratic standard-setting â are examined to reconstruct the various means by which authority was asserted over the countryside. Unified by its thematic and spatial focus, this book offers an array of interdisciplinary approaches, allowing for important comparisons across a wide but connected geographical area in the transition from the Sasanian and Roman to the Islamic period.
Contributors: Arezou Azad and Hugh Kennedy, Sobhi Bouderbala, Michele Campopiano, Alain Delattre, Jessica Ehinger, Simon Ford, James Howard-Johnston, Elif Keser-Kayaalp, Marie Legendre, Javier MartÃnez Jiménez, Harry Munt, Annliese Nef and Vivien Prigent, Marion Rivoal and Marie-Odile Rousset, Gesa Schenke, Petra Sijpesteijn, Peter Verkinderen, Luke Yarbrough, Khaled Younes.
Contributors: Arezou Azad and Hugh Kennedy, Sobhi Bouderbala, Michele Campopiano, Alain Delattre, Jessica Ehinger, Simon Ford, James Howard-Johnston, Elif Keser-Kayaalp, Marie Legendre, Javier MartÃnez Jiménez, Harry Munt, Annliese Nef and Vivien Prigent, Marion Rivoal and Marie-Odile Rousset, Gesa Schenke, Petra Sijpesteijn, Peter Verkinderen, Luke Yarbrough, Khaled Younes.
Alain Delattre, Ph.D. (2004), is Professor of Greek language and papyrology at the Université libre de Bruxelles and teaches Coptic papyrology at the Ãcole pratique des hautes études in Paris. He has published on Greek and Coptic papyri and inscriptions. Marie Legendre, Ph.D. (2013), is Lecturer in Islamic history at the University of Edinburgh. Her work focuses on early Islamic social and economic history, particularly administration and fiscal practice, non-Muslims under Muslim rule and multilingualism. Petra Sijpesteijn is professor of Arabic at Leiden University. She is currently PI of the ERC project Embedding Conquest: Naturalising Muslim Rule in the Early Islamic Empire (600-1000).
" ... les actes de ce colloque apportent des données concernant des aspects très divers du contrôle des arrière-pays ruraux dépendant de centres urbains (mais aussi, dans un cas, dâun monastère) allant de Tolède à Balkh, et concernant lâanté-islam et les deux siècles qui suivent la conquête, avec tout de même une majorité de communications concernant lâÃgypte et la Syrie." Pierre Guichard, Université Lumière â Lyon II, in Arabica 67 (2020): 637-643
"The abiding merit of this volume is the attention it devotes to that most central of questions for any historian of the Middle Eastâthat is, agrarian production and wealth and its connection to the maintenance of human settlement and culture." Matthew S. Gordon, in Journal of Near Eastern Studies 80/2 (2021)
"The abiding merit of this volume is the attention it devotes to that most central of questions for any historian of the Middle Eastâthat is, agrarian production and wealth and its connection to the maintenance of human settlement and culture." Matthew S. Gordon, in Journal of Near Eastern Studies 80/2 (2021)
Acknowledgements
Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Notes on Transliteration, Names and Dates
Introduction âPetra M. Sijpesteijn, Marie Legendre and Alain Delattre
1 New Governors Identified in Arabic Papyri âKhaled Younes
2 âIâll Not Accept Aid from a mushrikâ Rural Space, Persuasive Authority, and Religious Difference in Three Prophetic ḥadÄ«ths âLuke Yarbrough
3 The Rural Hinterland of the Visigothic Capitals of Toledo and Reccopolis, between the Years 400â800 CE âJavier MartÃnez Jiménez
4 Authority and Control in the Interior of Asia Minor, SeventhâNinth Centuries âJames Howard-Johnston
5 Church Building in the Ṭur Ê¿Abdin in the First Centuries of the Islamic Rule âElif Keser-Kayaalp
6 Les aménagements agricoles dans les Marges arides de Syrie du Nord (5eâ10e siècles) Des témoins des modalités dâ appropriation et dâ exploitation des campagnes âMarion Rivoal and Marie-Odile Rousset
7 The GhÄzÄ« Movement Performative Religious Identity on the Byzantine-Islamic Frontier âJessica L. Ehinger
8 The Coming of Islam to Balkh âArezou Azad and Hugh Kennedy
9 Contrôle et exploitation des campagnes en Sicile Le rôle du grand domaine et son évolution du VIe siècle au XIe siècle âAnnliese Nef and Vivien Prigent
10 MurtabaÊ¿ al-jund et manzil al-qabÄʾil Pénétration militaire et installation tribale dans la campagne égyptienne au premier siècle de lâ Islam âSobhi Bouderbala
11 Landowners, Caliphs and State Policy over Landholdings in the Egyptian Countryside Theory and Practice âMarie Legendre
12 Monastic Control over Agriculture and Farming New Evidence from the Egyptian Monastery of Apa Apollo at Bawit Concerning the Payment of APARCHE âGesa Schenke
13 Caliphal Estates and Properties around Medina in the Umayyad Period âHarry Munt
14 Land Tenure, Land Tax and Social Conflictuality in Iraq from the Late Sasanian to the Early Islamic Period (Fifth to Ninth Centuries CE) âMichele Campopiano
15 Land Reclamation and Irrigation Programs in Early Islamic Southern Mesopotamia Self-Enrichment vs. State Control âPeter Verkinderen
16 Checkpoints, sauf-conduits et contrôle de la population en Ãgypte au début du VIIIe siècle âAlain Delattre
17 Policing, Punishing and Prisons in the Early Islamic Egyptian Countryside (640â850 CE) âPetra M. Sijpesteijn
Index
Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Notes on Transliteration, Names and Dates
Introduction âPetra M. Sijpesteijn, Marie Legendre and Alain Delattre
Part 1 A Question of Sources
1 New Governors Identified in Arabic Papyri âKhaled Younes
2 âIâll Not Accept Aid from a mushrikâ Rural Space, Persuasive Authority, and Religious Difference in Three Prophetic ḥadÄ«ths âLuke Yarbrough
Part 2 Territoriality
3 The Rural Hinterland of the Visigothic Capitals of Toledo and Reccopolis, between the Years 400â800 CE âJavier MartÃnez Jiménez
4 Authority and Control in the Interior of Asia Minor, SeventhâNinth Centuries âJames Howard-Johnston
5 Church Building in the Ṭur Ê¿Abdin in the First Centuries of the Islamic Rule âElif Keser-Kayaalp
6 Les aménagements agricoles dans les Marges arides de Syrie du Nord (5eâ10e siècles) Des témoins des modalités dâ appropriation et dâ exploitation des campagnes âMarion Rivoal and Marie-Odile Rousset
7 The GhÄzÄ« Movement Performative Religious Identity on the Byzantine-Islamic Frontier âJessica L. Ehinger
8 The Coming of Islam to Balkh âArezou Azad and Hugh Kennedy
Part 3 Land Use and Resources
9 Contrôle et exploitation des campagnes en Sicile Le rôle du grand domaine et son évolution du VIe siècle au XIe siècle âAnnliese Nef and Vivien Prigent
10 MurtabaÊ¿ al-jund et manzil al-qabÄʾil Pénétration militaire et installation tribale dans la campagne égyptienne au premier siècle de lâ Islam âSobhi Bouderbala
11 Landowners, Caliphs and State Policy over Landholdings in the Egyptian Countryside Theory and Practice âMarie Legendre
12 Monastic Control over Agriculture and Farming New Evidence from the Egyptian Monastery of Apa Apollo at Bawit Concerning the Payment of APARCHE âGesa Schenke
13 Caliphal Estates and Properties around Medina in the Umayyad Period âHarry Munt
14 Land Tenure, Land Tax and Social Conflictuality in Iraq from the Late Sasanian to the Early Islamic Period (Fifth to Ninth Centuries CE) âMichele Campopiano
15 Land Reclamation and Irrigation Programs in Early Islamic Southern Mesopotamia Self-Enrichment vs. State Control âPeter Verkinderen
Part 4 Local Rule and Networks
16 Checkpoints, sauf-conduits et contrôle de la population en Ãgypte au début du VIIIe siècle âAlain Delattre
17 Policing, Punishing and Prisons in the Early Islamic Egyptian Countryside (640â850 CE) âPetra M. Sijpesteijn
Index
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