Authority and Control in the Countryside: From Antiquity to Islam in the Mediterranean and Near East (6th-10th Century)

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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 hinter See More

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• Front Matter
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    Copyright Page

    Editors:Alain Delattre, Marie Legendre, and Petra M. Sijpesteijn
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    Acknowledgements

    Editors:Alain Delattre, Marie Legendre, and Petra M. Sijpesteijn
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    Notes on Contributors

    Editors:Alain Delattre, Marie Legendre, and Petra M. Sijpesteijn
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    Notes on Transliteration, Names and Dates

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  Introduction

  Authors:Petra M. Sijpesteijn, Marie Legendre, and Alain Delattre

  Pages:

  1–9

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  Part 1 A Question of Sources

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    Chapter 1 New Governors Identified in Arabic Papyri

    Author:Khaled Younes

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    13–43

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    Chapter 2 “I’ll Not Accept Aid from a mushrik” Rural Space, Persuasive Authority, and Religious Difference in Three Prophetic ḥadīths

    Author:Luke Yarbrough

    Pages:

    44–93

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  Part 2 Territoriality

  Editors:Alain Delattre, Marie Legendre, and Petra M. Sijpesteijn
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    Chapter 3 The Rural Hinterland of the Visigothic Capitals of Toledo and Reccopolis, between the Years 400–800 CE

    Author:Javier Martínez Jiménez

    Pages:

    97–127

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    Chapter 4 Authority and Control in the Interior of Asia Minor, Seventh–Ninth Centuries

    Author:James Howard-Johnston

    Pages:

    128–175

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    Chapter 5 Church Building in the Ṭur ʿAbdin in the First Centuries of the Islamic Rule

    Author:Elif Keser-Kayaalp

    Pages:

    176–209

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    Chapter 6 Les aménagements agricoles dans les Marges arides de Syrie du Nord (5e–10e siècles) Des témoins des modalités d’ appropriation et d’ exploitation des campagnes

    Authors:Marion Rivoal and Marie-Odile Rousset

    Pages:

    210–264

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    Chapter 7 The Ghāzī Movement Performative Religious Identity on the Byzantine-Islamic Frontier

    Author:Jessica L. Ehinger

    Pages:

    265–283

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    Chapter 8 The Coming of Islam to Balkh

    Authors:Arezou Azad and Hugh Kennedy

    Pages:

    284–310

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  Part 3 Land Use and Resources

  Editors:Alain Delattre, Marie Legendre, and Petra M. Sijpesteijn
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    Chapter 9 Contrôle et exploitation des campagnes en Sicile Le rôle du grand domaine et son évolution du VIe siècle au XIe siècle

    Authors:Annliese Nef and Vivien Prigent

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    313–366

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    Chapter 10 Murtabaʿ al-jund et manzil al-qabāʾil Pénétration militaire et installation tribale dans la campagne égyptienne au premier siècle de l’ Islam

    Author:Sobhi Bouderbala

    Pages:

    367–391

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    Chapter 11 Landowners, Caliphs and State Policy over Landholdings in the Egyptian Countryside Theory and Practice

    Author:Marie Legendre

    Pages:

    392–419

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    Chapter 12 Monastic Control over Agriculture and Farming New Evidence from the Egyptian Monastery of Apa Apollo at Bawit Concerning the Payment of APARCHE

    Author:Gesa Schenke

    Pages:

    420–431

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    Chapter 13 Caliphal Estates and Properties around Medina in the Umayyad Period

    Author:Harry Munt

    Pages:

    432–463

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    Chapter 14 Land Tenure, Land Tax and Social Conflictuality in Iraq from the Late Sasanian to the Early Islamic Period (Fifth to Ninth Centuries CE)

    Author:Michele Campopiano

    Pages:

    464–499

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    Chapter 15 Land Reclamation and Irrigation Programs in Early Islamic Southern Mesopotamia Self-Enrichment vs. State Control

    Author:Peter Verkinderen

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    500–527

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  Part 4 Local Rule and Networks

  Editors:Alain Delattre, Marie Legendre, and Petra M. Sijpesteijn
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    Chapter 16 Checkpoints, sauf-conduits et contrôle de la population en Égypte au début du VIIIe siècle

    Author:Alain Delattre

    Pages:

    531–546

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    Chapter 17 Policing, Punishing and Prisons in the Early Islamic Egyptian Countryside (640–850 CE)

    Author:Petra M. Sijpesteijn

    Pages:

    547–588

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  Index

  Editors:Alain Delattre, Marie Legendre, and Petra M. Sijpesteijn