Christians and others in the Umayyad state / edited by Antoine Borrut and Fred M. Donner with contributions by Antoine Borrut, Touraj Daryaee, Muriel Debié, Fred M. Donner, Sidney H. Griffith, Wadād al-Qādī, Milka Levy-Rubin, Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych, Donald Whitcomb, and Luke Yarbrough
- Published
- Chicago, Illinois : Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, 2016.
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (ix, 213 pages) : illustrations (some color), plans
- Additional Creators
- Borrut, Antoine, Donner, Fred McGraw, 1945-, Daryaee, Touraj, 1967-, Debié, Muriel, Griffith, Sidney Harrison, Qāḍī, Wadād, Levy-Rubin, Milka, 1955-, Stetkevych, Suzanne Pinckney, Whitcomb, Donald S., Yarbrough, Luke B., and Christians, Jews and Zoroastrians in the Umayyad State (Conference) (2011 : Chicago, Ill.)
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- Contents
- Notes for an archaeology of Mu'awiya: material culture in the transitional period of believers / Donald Whitcomb -- Mansur Family and Saint John of Damascus: Christians and Muslims in Umayyad times / Sidney H. Griffith --tChristians in the service of the Caliph: through the looking glass of communal identities / Muriel Debie -- Persian lords and the Umayyads: cooperation and coexistence in a turbulent time / Touraj Daryaee -- Non-Muslims in the Muslim conquest army in Early Islam / Wadad al-Qadi -- Al-Akhtal at the Court of 'Abd al-Malik: the Qasida and the construction of Umayyad authority / Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych -- 'Umar II's ghiyar edict: between ideology and practice / Milka Levy-Rubin -- Did 'Umar b. 'Abd al-'Aziz issue an edict concerning non-Muslim officials? / Luke Yarbrough.
- Summary
- The papers in this first volume of the new Oriental Institute series LAMINE are derived from a conference entitled "Christians, Jews, and Zoroastrians in the Umayyad State," held at the University of Chicago on June 17-18, 2011. The goal of the conference was to address a simple question: Just what role did non-Muslims play in the operations of the Umayyad state? It has always been clear that the Umayyad family (r. 41-132/661-750) governed populations in the rapidly expanding empire that were overwhelmingly composed of non-Muslims -- mainly Christians, Jews, and Zoroastrians -- and the status of those non-Muslim communities under Umayyad rule, and more broadly in early Islam, has been discussed continuously for more than a century. The role of non-Muslims within the Umayyad state has been, however, largely neglected. The eight papers in this volume thus focus on non-Muslims who participated actively in the workings of the Umayyad government. This new Oriental Institute series (Late Antique and Medieval Islamic Near East (LAMINE)) aims to publish a variety of scholarly works, including monographs, edited volumes, critical text editions, translations, studies of corpora of documents -- in short, any work that offers a significant contribution to understanding the Near East between roughly 200 and 1000 CE.
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- ISBN
- 9781614910312 (paperback)
1614910316 - Collection
- Electronic Publications Initiative of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- Note
- "The papers assembled below were presented at a workshop held in Chicago on June 17-18, 2011, entitled "Christians, Jews, and Zoroastrians in the Umayyad State"--Page vii.
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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