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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      13 August 2009
      21 December 2000
      ISBN:
      9780511497513
      9780521781152
      9780521028738
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511497513
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.5kg, 224 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.351kg, 224 Pages
      • Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
      Subjects:
      Middle East Studies, Islam, Area Studies, History, Regional History Before 1500, Middle East History
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    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization
    Subjects:
    Middle East Studies, Islam, Area Studies, History, Regional History Before 1500, Middle East History
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    The study of early Islamic historical tradition has flourished with the emergence of an innovative scholarship no longer dependent on more traditional narratival approaches. Chase Robinson's book, first published in 2000, takes full account of the research available and interweaves history and historiography to interpret the political, social and economic transformations in the Mesopotamian region after the Islamic conquests. Using Arabic and Syriac sources to elaborate his argument, the author focuses on the Muslim and Christian élites, demonstrating that the immediate effects of the conquests were in fact modest ones. Significant social change took place only at the end of the seventh century with the imposition of Marwanid rule. Even then, the author argues, social power was diffused in the hands of local élites. This is a sophisticated study in a burgeoning field in Islamic studies.

    Reviews

    ‘This book is an excellent contribution to early Islamic history. By concentrating on a small area, almost a microcosm, which has a particularly rich historiographical tradition, Robinson has made a major contribution to our understanding of the more general processes of the formation of the Islamic state.’

    Source: History

    'For its intended audience… the book will no doubt be welcomed as an impressive and highly accomplished treatment of its subject. Indeed, it is at the cutting edge of contemporary scholarship on early Islam in many respects. The author's command of sources in exhaustive.'

    Elton L. Daniel - University of Hawaii

    ‘… rich in detail … a definitive work …’

    Source: Bulletin of the School of Oriental & African Studies

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