Umayyad legacies : medieval memories from Syria to Spain /

The Umayyads, the first dynasty of Islam, ruled over a vast empire from their central province of Syria, providing a line of caliphs from 661 to 750. Another branch later ruled in al-Andalus - Islamic Spain - from 756 to 1031, ruling first as emirs and then as caliphs themselves. This book is the fi...

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Corporate Authors: Institut français du Proche-Orient., University of Notre Dame. Medieval Institute.

Other Authors: Borrut, Antoine., Cobb, Paul M., 1967-

Format: eBook

Language: English
French
Spanish

Published: Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

Series: Islamic History and Civilization 80.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2010, ISBN: 9789004223059.

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Call Number: DP107 .U63 2010

Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
  • A. Borrut and P. M. Cobb
  • Introduction. Toward A History Of Umayyad Legacies /
  • Antoine Borrut and Paul M. Cobb
  • La memoria omeyyade : les Omeyyades entre souvenir et oubli dans les sources narratives islamiques /
  • Antoine Borrut
  • 'Umar ibn 'Abd al-'Azīz, al-Walīd ibn Yazīd and their Kin: Images of the Umayyads in the Kitāb al-Aghānī /
  • Hilary Kilpatrick
  • Medieval Explanations For The Fall Of The Umayyads /
  • Steven C. Judd
  • Perceptions Of The Umayyads In Christian Spanish Chronicles /
  • Olivia Remie Constable
  • Les sources de l'histoire omeyyade dans l'œuvre d'Ibn al-'Adīm /
  • Anne-Marie Eddé
  • Le califat omeyyade selon Ibn Khaldūn : revanche des impies ou fondation de l'empire ? /
  • Gabriel Martinez-Gros
  • Umayyad Efforts at Legitimation: The Umayyads' Silent Heritage /
  • Fred M. Donner
  • Notule sur le patrimonialisme omeyyade /
  • Christian Décobert
  • The Names of Estates in State Registers before and after the Arabization of the Dīwāns /
  • Wadād al-Qādị̄
  • Analogies entre les grandes mosquées de Damas et Cordoue : mythe ou réalité ? /
  • Susana Calvo Capilla
  • The al-Mughīra Pyxis and Spanish Umayyad Ivories: Aims and Tools of Power /
  • Sophie Makariou
  • Sacred Topography In Medieval Syria And Its Roots Between The Umayyads And Late Antiquity /
  • Mattia Guidetti
  • La méditerranée musulmane, un héritage omeyyade /
  • Christophe Picard
  • An Umayyad Legacy for the Early Islamic City: Fusṭāṭ and the Experience of Egypt /
  • Donald Whitcomb
  • Formation et devenir du paysage architectural omeyyade : l'apport de l'archéologie /
  • Denis Genequand
  • Los palacios omeyas, entre oriente y occidente (With English Summary) /
  • Antonio Almagro
  • English Summary The Umayyad Palaces, Between The East And The West /
  • A. Borrut and P. M. Cobb
  • Index /
  • A. Borrut and P. M. Cobb
  • Colour Plates /
  • A. Borrut and P. M. Cobb.