Great Caliphs The Golden Age of the 'Abbasid Empire

Name: Great Caliphs The Golden Age of the 'Abbasid Empire
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ISBN: 9780300167986

ISBN-10: 0300167989

ISBN-13: 9780300167986

Edition: 2010

Authors: Amira K. Bennison

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Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 8/31/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Acknowledgements


Note on Transliteration and Arabic Conventions


Introduction



A Stormy Sea: The Politics of the 'Abbasid Caliphate


The making of an empire


The Umayyads: Islam's first caliphal dynasty


The rise of the 'Abbasids


The early 'Abbasid caliphate


The Samarran interlude


The Shi'i century


The Saljuq sultanate and the 'Sunni revival'


The Crusades and the twilight of the caliphate



From Baghdad to Cordoba: The Cities of Classical Islam


Arab urbanism at the dawn of Islam


The first Muslim towns


Umayyad urbanism


'Abbasid imperial cities and their imitators


Provincial cities in the 'Abbasid age



Princes and Beggars: Life and Society in the 'Abbasid Age


Peasants and country folk


The people of the city


Women and children


The religious minorities


Beggars and tricksters



The Lifeblood of Empire: Trade and Traders in the 'Abbasid Age


Routes and commodities


Merchants and pilgrims


Trade facilities



Baghdad's 'Golden Age': Islam's Scientific Renaissance


The foundations of Islamic learning


The flowering of knowledge under the 'Abbasids


The 'Abbasid translation movement


Translations, translators and scientists


Knowledge and science after the translation movement



The 'Abbasid Legacy


Notes


Bibliography


Index