Authority and control in the countryside : from antiquity to Islam in the Mediterranean and Near East (sixth-tenth century) / edited Alain Delattre, Marie Legendre, Petra Sijpesteijn.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

New governors identified in Arabic Papyri / Khaled Younes -- "I'll not accept aid from a Mushrik": Rural space, persuasive authority, and religious difference in three prophetic Hadiths / Luke Yarbrough -- The rural Hinterland of the Visigothic Capitals of Toledo and Reccopolis, between the years 400-800 BCE / Javier Martinez Jimenez -- Authority and control in the interior of Asia Minor, 7th-9th centuries / James Howard-Johnston -- Church building in the Tur 'Abdin in the first centuries of the Islamic rule / Elif Keser-Kayaalp -- Les aménagements agricoles dans les marges Arides de Syrie du Nord (5e-10e siecles): Des temoins des modalités d'appropriation et d'exploitation des campagnes / Marion Rivoal, Marie-Odile Rousset -- The Ghazi movement: Performative religious identity on the Byzantine-Islamic frontier / Jessica Ehinger -- The coming of Islam to Balkh / Arezou Azad, Hugh Kennedy -- Controle et exploitation des campagnes en Sicile: Le role du grand domaine et son evolution du vie siecle au xie siecle / Annliese Nef, Vivien Prigent -- Murtaba' al-Jund et Manzil al-Qaba'il: Pénétration militaire et installation tribale dans la campagne egyptienne au premier Siècle de l'Islam / Sobhi Bouderbala -- Landowners, caliphs and state policy over landholdings in the early Islamic Egyptian countryside theory and practice / Marie Legendre -- Monastic control over agriculture and farming: New evidence from the Egyptian Monastery of Apa Apollo at Bawit concerning the payment of Aparche / Gesa Schenke -- Caliphal estates and properties around Medina in the Umayyad period / Harry Munt -- Land tenure, land tax and social conflictuality in Iraq from the late Sasanian to the early Islamic period (5th to 9th centuries CE) / Michele Campopiano -- Land reclamation and irrigation programs in early Islamic Southern Mesopotamia: Self-enrichment vs. state control / Peter Verkinderen.

Authority and Control in the Countryside looks at the economic, religious, political and cultural instruments that local and regional powers in the late antique to early medieval Mediterranean and Near East used to manage their rural hinterlands. Measures of direct control - land ownership, judicial systems, garrisons and fortifications, religious and administrative appointments, taxes and regulation - and indirect control - monuments and landmarks, cultural styles and artistic models, intellectual and religious influence, and economic and bureaucratic standard-setting - are examined to reconstruct the various means by which authority was asserted over the countryside. Unified by its thematic and spatial focus, this book offers an array of interdisciplinary approaches, allowing for important comparisons across a wide but connected geographical area in the transition from the Sasanian and Roman to the Islamic period.0Contributors: Arezou Azad and Hugh Kennedy, Sobhi Bouderbala, Michele Campopiano, Alain Delattre, Jessica Ehinger, Simon Ford, James Howard-Johnston, Elif Keser-Kayaalp, Marie Legendre, Javier Martinez Jimenez, Harry Munt, Annliese Nef and Vivien Prigent, Marion Rivoal and Marie-Odile Rousset, Gesa Schenke, Petra Sijpesteijn, Peter Verkinderen, Luke Yarbrough, Khaled Younes.

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