The Umayyad World' captures the new wave of scholarship on the formative era of Islam and helps shape fresh avenues of inquiry. The volume integrates early Islamic history into wider global history, through the growing recognition that the first century or so of Islam (c. 610-c.…
"The Umayyad World encompasses archaeology, history, art and architecture, and the study of manuscripts and documents of the Umayyad era (644-750 CE). This era was formative both for world history and for the history of Islam. Subjects covered in detail in this collection includ…
Abū Saʿīd ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Samura b. Ḥabīb (d. 50 or 51/670 or 671) was a commander from the Qurashī tribe of ʿAbd Shams in the eastern frontier province of Sijistān (Sīstān) from 33/653–4 to 35/656 and again from about 38/658 to 46/667. He was a great-nephew of Umayya b. ʿAbd …
Fayʾ in classical legal thought is usually the collective wealth of Muslims derived from the taxation of conquered peoples. Fayʾ revenue is contrasted, on the one hand, with ghanīma , spoils taken through battle, and, on the other, with ṣadaqa (or zakāt ), alms paid by the Musli…
“ Commander of the Faithful ” (amīr al-muʾminīn) was the main title of the caliph in protocol and inscriptions. With the decline of caliphal power after the fourth/tenth century, rulers used it to express rival or independent authority, especially in western Islamic lands. In Su…