Authority and Control in the Countryside

From Antiquity to Islam in the Mediterranean and Near East (6th-10th Century)
Approx 450 Pp. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-38635-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 594 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 794 g

Reihe: Leiden Studies in Islam and Society

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 – land ownership, judicial systems, garrisons and fortifications, religious and administrative appointments, taxes and regulation – and indirect control – monuments and landmarks, cultural styles and artistic models, intellectual and religious influence, and economic and bureaucratic standard-setting – 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 Martínez Jiménez, Harry Munt, Annliese Nef and Vivien Prigent, Marion Rivoal and Marie-Odile Rousset, Gesa Schenke, Petra Sijpesteijn, Peter Verkinderen, Luke Yarbrough, Khaled Younes.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Delattre, Alain

Legendre, Marie

Sijpesteijn, Petra

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

Notes on Transliteration, Names and Dates

Introduction
Petra M. Sijpesteijn, Marie Legendre and Alain Delattre

Part 1 A Question of Sources

1 New Governors Identified in Arabic Papyri
Khaled Younes

2 “I’ll Not Accept Aid from a mushrik”
Rural Space, Persuasive Authority, and Religious Difference in Three Prophetic ?adiths
Luke Yarbrough

Part 2 Territoriality

3 The Rural Hinterland of the Visigothic Capitals of Toledo and Reccopolis, between the Years 400–800 CE
Javier Martínez Jiménez

4 Authority and Control in the Interior of Asia Minor, Seventh–Ninth Centuries
James Howard-Johnston

5 Church Building in the ?ur ?Abdin in the First Centuries of the Islamic Rule
Elif Keser-Kayaalp

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
Marion Rivoal and Marie-Odile Rousset

7 The Ghazi Movement
Performative Religious Identity on the Byzantine-Islamic Frontier
Jessica L. Ehinger

8 The Coming of Islam to Balkh
Arezou 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
Annliese Nef and Vivien Prigent

10 Murtaba? al-jund et manzil al-qaba?il
Pénétration militaire et installation tribale dans la campagne égyptienne au premier siècle de l’ Islam
Sobhi Bouderbala

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

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

13 Caliphal Estates and Properties around Medina in the Umayyad Period
Harry 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)
Michele Campopiano

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

Part 4 Local Rule and Networks

16 Checkpoints, sauf-conduits et contrôle de la population en Égypte au début du VIIIe siècle
Alain Delattre

17 Policing, Punishing and Prisons in the Early Islamic Egyptian Countryside (640–850 CE)
Petra M. Sijpesteijn

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Alain Delattre, Ph.D. (2004), is Professor of Greek language and papyrology at the Université libre de Bruxelles and teaches Coptic papyrology at the École 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).