Umayyad legacies : : medieval memories from Syria to Spain / / edited by Antoine Borrut, Paul M. Cobb.
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 fi...
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| Superior document: | Islamic history and civilization. Studies and texts, v. 80 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2010. |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Islamic History and Civilization
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| 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. |
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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.