Umayyad legacies : : medieval memories from Syria to Spain / / edited by Antoine Borrut, Paul M. Cobb.

• Superior document: Islamic history and civilization. Studies and texts, v. 80
• Author: Institut français du Proche-Orient.
• TeilnehmendeR: Borrut, Antoine.; Cobb, Paul M., 1967-; Institut français du Proche-Orient.; University of Notre Dame. Medieval Institute.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2010.
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Islamic History and Civilization 80.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (548 p.)
• Notes: Includes selected papers from a conference organized by the Institut français du Proche-Orient (IFPO) and the University of Notre Dame's Medieval Institute held in Damascus, Syria, June 29-July 2, 2006.

The Umayyads, the first dynasty of Islam, ruled over a vast empire from their central province of Syria, providing a line of caliphs from 661 to 750. Another branch later ruled in al-Andalus – Islamic Spain – from 756 to 1031, ruling first as emirs and then as caliphs themselves. This book is the first to bring together studies of this far-flung family and treat it not as two unrelated caliphates but as a single enterprise. Yet for all that historians have made note of Umayyad accomplishments in the Near East and al-Andalus, Umayyad legacies – what later generations made of these caliphs and their achievements – are poorly understood. Building on new interest in the study of memory and Islamic historiography and including interdisciplinary perspectives from Arabic literature, art, and archaeology, this book highlights Umayyad achievements and the shaping of our knowledge of the Umayyad past.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / A. Borrut and P. M. Cobb -- Introduction. Toward A History Of Umayyad Legacies / Antoine Borrut and Paul M. Cobb -- La memoria omeyyade : les Omeyyades entre souvenir et oubli dans les sources narratives islamiques / Antoine Borrut -- ’Umar ibn ’Abd al-’Azīz, al-Walīd ibn Yazīd and their Kin: Images of the Umayyads in the Kitāb al-Aghānī / Hilary Kilpatrick -- Medieval Explanations For The Fall Of The Umayyads / Steven C. Judd -- Perceptions Of The Umayyads In Christian Spanish Chronicles / Olivia Remie Constable -- Les sources de l’histoire omeyyade dans l’œuvre d’Ibn al-’Adīm / Anne-Marie Eddé -- Le califat omeyyade selon Ibn Khaldūn : revanche des impies ou fondation de l’empire ? / Gabriel Martinez-Gros -- Umayyad Efforts at Legitimation: The Umayyads’ Silent Heritage / Fred M. Donner -- Notule sur le patrimonialisme omeyyade / Christian Décobert -- The Names of Estates in State Registers before and after the Arabization of the Dīwāns / Wadād al-Qādị̄ -- Analogies entre les grandes mosquées de Damas et Cordoue : mythe ou réalité ? / Susana Calvo Capilla -- The al-Mughīra Pyxis and Spanish Umayyad Ivories: Aims and Tools of Power / Sophie Makariou -- Sacred Topography In Medieval Syria And Its Roots Between The Umayyads And Late Antiquity / Mattia Guidetti -- La méditerranée musulmane, un héritage omeyyade / Christophe Picard -- An Umayyad Legacy for the Early Islamic City: Fusṭāṭ and the Experience of Egypt / Donald Whitcomb -- Formation et devenir du paysage architectural omeyyade : l’apport de l’archéologie / Denis Genequand -- Los palacios omeyas, entre oriente y occidente (With English Summary) / Antonio Almagro -- English Summary The Umayyad Palaces, Between The East And The West / A. Borrut and P. M. Cobb -- Index / A. Borrut and P. M. Cobb -- Colour Plates / A. Borrut and P. M. Cobb.