Authority and control in the countryside from antiquity to Islam in the Mediterranean and Near East (6th-10th century) / Edited by Alain Delattre, Marie Legendre, Petra Sijpesteijn.

• TeilnehmendeR: Delattre, Alain,; Legendre, Marie,; Sijpesteijn, Petra,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2018]
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Leiden Studies in Islam and Society 09.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (594 pages).

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.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Notes on Transliteration, Names and Dates -- Introduction / Petra M. Sijpesteijn , Marie Legendre and Alain Delattre -- A Question of Sources -- New Governors Identified in Arabic Papyri / Khaled Younes -- “I’ll Not Accept Aid from a mushrik” / Luke Yarbrough -- Territoriality -- The Rural Hinterland of the Visigothic Capitals of Toledo and Reccopolis, between the Years 400–800 CE / Javier Martínez Jiménez -- Authority and Control in the Interior of Asia Minor, Seventh–Ninth Centuries / James Howard-Johnston -- Church Building in the Ṭur ʿAbdin in the First Centuries of the Islamic Rule / Elif Keser-Kayaalp -- Les aménagements agricoles dans les Marges arides de Syrie du Nord (5e–10e siècles) / Marion Rivoal and Marie-Odile Rousset -- The Ghāzī Movement / Jessica L. Ehinger -- The Coming of Islam to Balkh / Arezou Azad and Hugh Kennedy -- Land Use and Resources -- Contrôle et exploitation des campagnes en Sicile / Annliese Nef and Vivien Prigent -- Murtabaʿ al-jund et manzil al-qabāʾil / Sobhi Bouderbala -- Landowners, Caliphs and State Policy over Landholdings in the Egyptian Countryside / Marie Legendre -- Monastic Control over Agriculture and Farming / Gesa Schenke -- Caliphal Estates and Properties around Medina in the Umayyad Period / Harry Munt -- 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 -- Land Reclamation and Irrigation Programs in Early Islamic Southern Mesopotamia / Peter Verkinderen -- Local Rule and Networks -- Checkpoints, sauf-conduits et contrôle de la population en Égypte au début du VIIIe siècle / Alain Delattre -- Policing, Punishing and Prisons in the Early Islamic Egyptian Countryside (640–850 CE) / Petra M. Sijpesteijn -- Back Matter -- Index.