Urban Autonomy in Medieval Islam

Damascus, Aleppo, Cordoba, Toledo, Valencia and Tunis
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-90-04-31026-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 128, 226 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 466 g

Reihe: Islamic History and Civilization

In Urban Autonomy in Medieval Islam Fukuzo Amabe offers the first in-depth study on autonomous cities in medieval Islam stretching from Aleppo and Damascus to Cordoba, Toledo and Valencia through Tunis during the late tenth to early twelfth centuries. Each city is treated separately to cull facts to prove its autonomy at least for a certain period. The Middle East was the first region to develop cities and then empires in ancient times. Furthermore, the Islamic world was the first to transform ancient political or farmer cities to economic and industrial ones consisting of notables and plebeians, followed by China, then parts of Western Europe.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Amabe, Fukuzo

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Geschichte des Islam Geschichte des Islam: 7. - 14. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte Europäische Regional- & Stadtgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Chapter 1 Ninth-to-eleventh-century Baghdad: An early abortive Example

Chapter 2 Damascus during the later tenth century
Chapter 3 Aleppo during the eleventh to early twelfth centuries
Chapter 4 Cordoba during the early decades of the eleventh century
Chapter 5 Toledo during the eleventh century
Chapter 6 Valencia during the later eleventh century
Chapter 7 Tunis during the eleventh to twelfth centuries

Conclusion

Abbreviations
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Fukuzo Amabe, M. A. (1974), Kyoto University, is Professor of Eastern History and Middle Eastern Studies at Tokyo Keizai University (the University of Economic Studies in Tokyo). He has written monographs and articles on medieval Islamic history, including the Emergence of the 'Abbasid Autocracy: The 'Abbasid Army, Khurasan and Adharbayjan (Kyoto University Press, 1995).