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Power, patronage, and memory in early Islam : perspectives on Umayyad elites
- Title
- Power, patronage, and memory in early Islam : perspectives on Umayyad elites / edited by Alain George and Andrew Marsham.
- Publication
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xx, 348 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 25 cm
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Part I: Caliphal authority in text and image. "God's Caliph" revisited : Umayyad political thought in its late antique context / Andrew Marsham -- Paradise or empire? On a paradox of Umayyad art / Alain George -- A Qur'anic script from Umayyad times : around the Codex of Fustat / François Déroche. Part II: Patronage and power : the evidence of the "Desert Castles." Hishām's balancing act : the case of Qaṣr al-Ḥayr al-Gharbī / Robert Hillenbrand -- Khanāṣira and Andarīn (Northern Syria) in the Umayyad Period and a new Arabic tax document / Robert G. Hoyland -- Two possible caliphal representations from Qaṣr al-Ḥayr al-Sharqī and their implication for the history of the site / Denis Genequand -- Umayyad palace iconography : on the practical aspects of artistic creation / Nadia Ali and Mattia Guidetti. Part III: Historiography and historical memory. Christians in Umayyad Iraq : decentralization and expansion (600-750) / Philip Wood -- The future of the past : historical writing in early Islamic Syria and Umayyad memory / Antoine Borrut -- Caliphs and conquerors : images of the Marwanids and their agents in narratives of the conquest of Iberia / Nicola Clarke -- The Umayyads in contemporary Arab TV drama : ʻUmar ibn ʻAbd al-ʻAziz and al-Hajjāj ibn Yūsuf in Musalsalāt / Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen.
- Call Number
- JFE 18-1748
- ISBN
- 9780190498931
- 0190498935
- LCCN
- 2016028243
- OCLC
- 951915386
- Title
- Power, patronage, and memory in early Islam : perspectives on Umayyad elites / edited by Alain George and Andrew Marsham.
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 622-661
- Added Author
- George, Alain, editor.Marsham, Andrew, 1973- editor.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 18-1748