Authority and Control in the Countryside
From Antiquity to Islam in the Mediterranean and Near East (6th-10th Century)
Published on 1. November 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
612 pages
978-90-04-38635-8 (ISBN)
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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 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 Martinez Jimenez, Harry Munt, Annliese Nef and Vivien Prigent, Marion Rivoal and Marie-Odile Rousset, Gesa Schenke, Petra Sijpesteijn, Peter Verkinderen, Luke Yarbrough, Khaled Younes.
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 Martinez Jimenez, Harry Munt, Annliese Nef and Vivien Prigent, Marion Rivoal and Marie-Odile Rousset, Gesa Schenke, Petra Sijpesteijn, Peter Verkinderen, Luke Yarbrough, Khaled Younes.
Reviews / Votes
" ... les actes de ce colloque apportent des donnees concernant des aspects tres divers du controle des arriere-pays ruraux dependant de centres urbains (mais aussi, dans un cas, d'un monastere) allant de Tolede a Balkh, et concernant l'ante-islam et les deux siecles qui suivent la conquete, avec tout de meme une majorite de communications concernant l'Egypte et la Syrie." Pierre Guichard, Universite Lumiere - Lyon II, in Arabica 67 (2020): 637-643"The abiding merit of this volume is the attention it devotes to that most central of questions for any historian of the Middle East-that is, agrarian production and wealth and its connection to the maintenance of human settlement and culture." Matthew S. Gordon, in Journal of Near Eastern Studies 80/2 (2021)
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Series
Edition
xviii, 594 pp.
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 33 mm
Weight
794 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-38635-8 (9789004386358)
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Persons
Alain Delattre, Ph.D. (2004), is Professor of Greek language and papyrology at the Universite libre de Bruxelles and teaches Coptic papyrology at the Ecole pratique des hautes etudes 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).
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).
Content
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 Martinez Jimenez
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 amenagements agricoles dans les Marges arides de Syrie du Nord (5e-10e siecles)
Des temoins des modalites 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 Controle et exploitation des campagnes en Sicile
Le role du grand domaine et son evolution du VIe siecle au XIe siecle
?Annliese Nef and Vivien Prigent
10 Murtaba? al-jund et manzil al-qaba?il
Penetration militaire et installation tribale dans la campagne egyptienne au premier siecle 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 controle de la population en Egypte au debut du VIIIe siecle
?Alain Delattre
17 Policing, Punishing and Prisons in the Early Islamic Egyptian Countryside (640-850 CE)
?Petra M. Sijpesteijn
Index
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 Martinez Jimenez
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 amenagements agricoles dans les Marges arides de Syrie du Nord (5e-10e siecles)
Des temoins des modalites 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 Controle et exploitation des campagnes en Sicile
Le role du grand domaine et son evolution du VIe siecle au XIe siecle
?Annliese Nef and Vivien Prigent
10 Murtaba? al-jund et manzil al-qaba?il
Penetration militaire et installation tribale dans la campagne egyptienne au premier siecle 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 controle de la population en Egypte au debut du VIIIe siecle
?Alain Delattre
17 Policing, Punishing and Prisons in the Early Islamic Egyptian Countryside (640-850 CE)
?Petra M. Sijpesteijn
Index