Examining a single broad tribal identity - al-Azd - from the
immediate pre-Islamic period into the early Abbasid era, this book
notes the ways it was continually refashioned over that time. It
explores the ways in which the rise of the early Islamic empire
influenced the peoples of the Arabian Peninsula who became a core
part of it, and examines the connections between the kinship
societies and the developing state of the early caliphate. This
helps us to understand how what are often called 'tribal' forms of
social organisation identity conditioned its growth and helped
shape what became its common elite culture. Studying the
relationship between tribe and state during the first two centuries
of the caliphate, author Brian Ulrich's focus is on understanding
the survival and transformation of tribal identity until it became
part of the literate high culture of the Abbasid caliphate and a
component of a larger Arab ethnic identity. He argues that, from
pre-Islamic Arabia to the caliphate, greater continuity existed
between tribal identity and social practice than is generally
portrayed.
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