Between Memory and Power : The Syrian space under the late Umayyads and early Abbasids (c. 72-193/692-809) /

Between Memory and Power : The Syrian space under the late Umayyads and early Abbasids (c. 72-193/692-809) /

Between Memory and Power intends to demonstrate that a robust culture of historical writing existed in 2nd/8th century Syria, and to offer new methodological approaches to access this now lost history, torn between memory and oblivion. By studying the making of Umayyad heroes or Abbasid origins-myth...

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Main Author: Borrut, Antoine (Author)

Other Authors: Galietti, Anna Bailey (Translator)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2023.

Series: Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East ; 162.

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Abbasids > Historiography.
Historiography.

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Call Number: DS94.95

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Table of Contents:
  • Preface to the English Translation (2022)
  • Acknowledgements to the French Edition (2011)
  • Translator's Note
  • List of Illustrations
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • 1 A Time of Writings and Rewritings: Writing History in the Syrian Space
  • 1.1 Narrative Islamic Sources and the Question of Their Transmission
  • 1.2 Writing History in the Syrian Space under the Late Umayyads and Early Abbasids
  • 2 A Time of Writings and Rewritings: Historiographic Filters and Vulgates
  • 2.1 In Search of Umayyad Historiographic Projects
  • 2.2 Toward a Historiographic Vulgate: The History of Syria Rewritten in Abbasid Iraq
  • 3 A Time of Writings and Rewritings: Sources on the Margins of the Historiographic Vulgate?
  • 3.1 Islamic Sources on the Margins of the Vulgate?
  • 3.2 Non-Muslim Sources: "External" or "Eastern" Sources?
  • 4 The Second/Eight-Century Syrian Space: Between Memory and Oblivion
  • 4.1 Memoria as an Object of Study
  • 4.2 Umayyad Memoria
  • 4.3 Spaces of Memory
  • 5 The Creation of Umayyad Heroes Maslama B. ʿAbd Al-Malik, Combat Hero
  • 5.1 The Siege of Constantinople: Military Failure, Narrative Success
  • 5.2 From Hero of the Byzantine Frontier to Islamic Hero?
  • 5.3 Eschatology and the Creation of Heroes
  • 6 The Creation of Umayyad Heroes: ʿUmar B. ʿAbd Al-ʿAziz, the "Holy" Caliph
  • 6.1 ʿUmar II in the Islamic Tradition
  • 6.2 ʿUmar II in the Christian Sources
  • 6.3 Constructing the Image of the Pious Caliph: Stages and Conditions
  • 7 Interpreting the Abbasid Revolution in the Syrian Space
  • 7.1 The Abbasid Revolution: Medieval and Modern Vulgates
  • 7.2 Syrian Memories of the Abbasid Revolution
  • 7.3 ʿAbd Allāh B. ʿAlī and the Allure of a Syrian Abbasid Caliphate?
  • 8 Exercising Power in the Syrian Space in the Second/Eighth Century: A History of Meanings
  • 8.1 Patrimonialism and the Creation of a Caliphal Landscape
  • 8.2 The Mobile Exercise of Power
  • 8.3 Abbasid Reconfigurations
  • Conclusion
  • Sources
  • Bibliography
  • Index.