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The Umayyad World encompasses the archaeology, history, art, and
architecture of the Umayyad era (644-750 CE). This era was
formative both for world history and for the history of Islam.
Subjects covered in detail in this collection include regions
conquered in Umayyad times, ethnic and religious identity among the
conquerors, political thought and culture, administration and the
law, art and architecture, the history of religion, pilgrimage and
the Qur'an, and violence and rebellion. Close attention is paid to
new methods of analysis and interpretation, including source
critical studies of the historiography and inter-disciplinary
approaches combining literary sources and material evidence.
Scholars of Islamic history, archaeologists, and researchers
interested in the Umayyad Caliphate, its context, and infl uence on
the wider world, will find much to enjoy in this volume.
The Umayyad Empire (644-750 CE) was the first Islamic empire and
one of the largest empires of ancient and medieval times, extending
over 5,000 miles between the Atlantic Ocean in the West and the
Indian Ocean in the East. This book traces the empire's origins to
the Arabian Peninsula and the Syrian Steppe in the centuries before
Islam. It explores the dynamics that shaped this formative era for
the history of the Mediterranean, North Africa, the Middle East and
Central Asia. The century of Umayyad rule witnessed war with the
Eastern Roman Empire, against whom the Umayyads defined their
claims to rule as God's deputies on Earth. This was the period in
which the Qur'an was compiled, monuments such as the Dome of the
Rock were built, and new Islamic and Arab identities developed.
The Umayyad World encompasses the archaeology, history, art, and
architecture of the Umayyad era (644-750 CE). This era was
formative both for world history and for the history of Islam.
Subjects covered in detail in this collection include regions
conquered in Umayyad times, ethnic and religious identity among the
conquerors, political thought and culture, administration and the
law, art and architecture, the history of religion, pilgrimage and
the Qur'an, and violence and rebellion. Close attention is paid to
new methods of analysis and interpretation, including source
critical studies of the historiography and inter-disciplinary
approaches combining literary sources and material evidence.
Scholars of Islamic history, archaeologists, and researchers
interested in the Umayyad Caliphate, its context, and infl uence on
the wider world, will find much to enjoy in this volume.
New perspectives on and interpretations of the popular medieval
genre of the universal chronicle. Found in pre-modern cultures of
every era and across the world, from the ancient Near East to
medieval Latin Christendom, the universal chronicle is
simultaneously one of the most ubiquitous pre-modern cultural forms
and one of the most overlooked. Universal chronicles narrate the
history of the whole world from the time of its creation up to the
then present day, treating the world's affairs as though they were
part of a single organic reality, and uniting various strands of
history into a unifed, coherent story. They reveal a great deal
about how the societies that produced them understood their world
and how historical narrative itself can work to produce that
understanding. The essays here offer new perspectives on the genre,
from a number of different disciplines, demonstrating their
vitality, flexibility and cultural importance, They reveal them to
be deeply political texts, which allowed history-writers and their
audiences to locate themselves in space, time and in the created
universe. Several chapters address the manuscript context, looking
at the innovative techniques of compilation, structure and layout
that placed them at the cutting edge of medieval book technology.
Others analyse the background of universal chronicles, and identify
their circulation amongst different social groups; there are also
investigations into their literary discourse, patronage, authorship
and diffusion. Michele Campopiano is Senior Lecturer in Medieval
Latin Literature at the University of York; Henry Bainton is
Lecturer in High Medieval Literature at the University of York.
Contributors:Tobias Andersson, Michele Campopiano, Cornelia Dreer,
Catherine Gaullier-Bougassas, Elena Koroleva, Keith Lilley, Andrew
Marsham, Rosa M. Rodriguez Porto, Christophe Thierry, Elizabeth M.
Tyler, Steven Vanderputten, Bjorn Weiler, Claudia Wittig.
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