Slaves on Horses The Evolution of the Islamic Polity

Name: Slaves on Horses The Evolution of the Islamic Polity
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ISBN: 9780521529402

ISBN-10: 0521529409

ISBN-13: 9780521529402

Edition: 2002

Authors: Patricia Crone

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In this book, Dr Crone seeks to explain the Muslim phenomenon of slave soldiers, concentrating on the period from the rise of the Umayyads to the dissolution of the Abbadis empire (roughly AD 650-850).

Book details

List price: $53.99
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/30/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 316
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Patricia Crone is Mellon Professor of Islamic History at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. She is author of several books including Pre-industrial Societies: Anatomy of the Pre-modern World; Roman, Provincial, and Islamic Law; Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam;and Slaves on Horses: the Evolution of Islamic Polity.



Preface


A note on conventions



Introduction



Historiographical introduction



The nature of the Arab conquest



The Evolution of the Conquest Society



The Sufyanid pattern, 661-84 [41-64]



Syria of 684 [64]



The Marwanid evolution, 684-744 [64-126]



The Marwanid faction



Syria of 744 [126]



Umayyad clientage



The Failure of the Islamic Empire



The abortive service aristocracy



The emergence of the slave soldiers



The emergence of the medieval polity


Appendices


Notes


Bibliography


General index


Prosopographical index