Christians and Others in the Umayyad State Paperback / softback
Edited by Antoine Borrut, Fred M Donner
Part of the Late Antique and Medieval Islamic Near East series
Paperback / softback
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The papers in this first volume of the new Oriental Institute series LAMINE are derived from a conference entitled "Christians, Jews, and Zoroastrians in the Umayyad State," held at the University of Chicago on June 17-18, 2011.
The goal of the conference was to address a simple question: Just what role did non-Muslims play in the operations of the Umayyad state?
It has always been clear that the Umayyad family (r. 41-132/661-750) governed populations in the rapidly expanding empire that were overwhelmingly composed of non-Muslims - mainly Christians, Jews, and Zoroastrians - and the status of those non-Muslim communities under Umayyad rule, and more broadly in early Islam, has been discussed continuously for more than a century.
The role of non-Muslims within the Umayyad state has been, however, largely neglected.
The eight papers in this volume thus focus on non-Muslims who participated actively in the workings of the Umayyad government." This new Oriental Institute series - Late Antique and Medieval Islamic Near East (LAMINE) - aims to publish a variety of scholarly works, including monographs, edited volumes, critical text editions, translations, studies of corpora of documents - in short, any work that offers a significant contribution to understanding the Near East between roughly 200 and 1000 CE. "
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- Pages:214 pages
- Publisher:Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
- Publication Date:30/04/2016
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- ISBN:9781614910312
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:214 pages
- Publisher:Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
- Publication Date:30/04/2016
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- ISBN:9781614910312