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Power, Patronage, and Memory in Early Islam (Hardcover)
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Power, Patronage, and Memory in Early Islam (Hardcover)
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When the Umayyads, the first Islamic dynasty, rose to power shortly
after the death of the Prophet Muhammad (d. 632), the polity of
which they assumed control had only recently expanded out of Arabia
into the Roman eastern Mediterranean, Iraq and Iran. A century
later, by the time of their downfall in 750, the last Umayyad
caliphs governed the largest empire that the world had seen,
stretching from Spain in the West to the Indus valley and Central
Asia in the East. By then, their dynasty and the ruling circles
around it had articulated with increasing clarity the public face
of the new monotheistic religion of Islam, created major
masterpieces of world art and architecture, some of which still
stand today, and built a state apparatus that was crucial to
ensuring the continuity of the Islamic polity. Within the vast
lands under their control, the Umayyads and their allies ruled over
a mosaic of peoples, languages and faiths, first among them
Christianity, Judaism and the Ancient religion of Iran,
Zoroastrianism. The Umayyad period is profoundly different from
ours, yet it also resonates with modern concerns, from the origins
of Islam to dynamics of cultural exchange. Editors Alain George and
Andrew Marsham bring together a collection of essays that shed new
light on this crucial period. Power, Patronage, and Memory in Early
Islam elucidates the ways in which Umayyad elites fashioned and
projected their self-image, and how these articulations, in turn,
mirrored their own times. The authors, combining perspectives from
different disciplines, present new material evidence, introduce
fresh perspectives about key themes and monuments, and revisit the
nature of the historical writing that shaped our knowledge of this
period.
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