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

Editors:Alain Delattre, Marie Legendre, and Petra Sijpesteijn

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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 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
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Notes on Contributors
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Notes on Transliteration, Names and Dates
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Introduction
Authors:Petra M. Sijpesteijn, Marie Legendre, and Alain Delattre
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1–9

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Part 1 A Question of Sources
Editors:Alain Delattre, Marie Legendre, and Petra M. Sijpesteijn
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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
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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
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97–127
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Chapter 4 Authority and Control in the Interior of Asia Minor, Seventh–Ninth Centuries
Author:James Howard-Johnston
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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
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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
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210–264
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Chapter 7 The Ghāzī Movement Performative Religious Identity on the Byzantine-Islamic Frontier
Author:Jessica L. Ehinger
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265–283
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Chapter 8 The Coming of Islam to Balkh
Authors:Arezou Azad and Hugh Kennedy
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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
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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
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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
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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
Pages:
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
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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

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