Transregional and Regional Elites

Transregional And Regional Elites - Connecting The Early Islamic Empire
Transregional and Regional Elites - Connecting the Early Islamic Empire
Book Category:
History > General
Author:
Hagemann, Hannah-Lena / Heidemann, Ste
Editor::
Hagemann, Hannah-Lena / Heidemann, Ste
ISBN 13:
9783110666489
Price:
EUR 86.95
Publication Year:
2020

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De Gruyter.

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Book Description

Transregional and regional elites of various backgrounds were essential for the integration of diverse regions into the early Islamic Empire, from Central Asia to North Africa. This volume is an important contribution to the conceptualization of the largest empire of Late Antiquity. While previous studies used Iraq as the paradigm for the entire empire, this volume looks at diverse regions instead. After a theoretical introduction to the concept of 'elites' in an early Islamic context, the papers focus on elite structures and networks within selected regions of the Empire (Transoxiana, KhurA