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Umayyad Legacies
Medieval Memories from Syria to Spain
Series: - Islamic History and Civilization, Volume: 80
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 first to bring together studies of this far-flung family and treat it not as two unrelated caliphates but as a single enterprise. Yet for all that historians have made note of Umayyad accomplishments in the Near East and al-Andalus, Umayyad legacies – what later generations made of these caliphs and their achievements – are poorly understood. Building on new interest in the study of memory and Islamic historiography and including interdisciplinary perspectives from Arabic literature, art, and archaeology, this book highlights Umayyad achievements and the shaping of our knowledge of the Umayyad past.
Antoine Borrut, Ph.D. (2007) in Islamic history, Université de Paris I–La Sorbonne, is Assistant Professor of Middle East History in the Department of History at the University of Maryland. He is the author of
Entre mémoire et pouvoir: l’espace syrien sous les derniers Omeyyades et les premiers Abbassides (v. 72–193/692–809) (Leiden: Brill, 2010) and several articles dealing with early Islamic history and historiography.
Paul M. Cobb, Ph.D. (1997) in Islamic history, University of Chicago, is Associate Professor of Islamic History in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of, among other works, White Banners: Contention in
Abbasid Syria, 750–880
(Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001).
Contributors are Hilary Kilpatrick, Steven Judd, Olivia R. Constable, Anne-Marie Eddé, Gabriel Martinez-Gros, Fred M. Donner, Christian Décobert, Wadad al-Qāḍī, Susana Calvo-Capilla, Sophie Makariou, Mattia Guidetti, Christophe Picard, Donald Whitcomb, Denis Genequand, and Antonio Almagro.
Paul M. Cobb, Ph.D. (1997) in Islamic history, University of Chicago, is Associate Professor of Islamic History in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of, among other works, White Banners: Contention in
Contributors are Hilary Kilpatrick, Steven Judd, Olivia R. Constable, Anne-Marie Eddé, Gabriel Martinez-Gros, Fred M. Donner, Christian Décobert, Wadad al-Qāḍī, Susana Calvo-Capilla, Sophie Makariou, Mattia Guidetti, Christophe Picard, Donald Whitcomb, Denis Genequand, and Antonio Almagro.
« Les deux éditeurs […] ainsi que tous les contributeurs ont pris conscience du fait que le sujet de leur conférence, les Héritages des Omeyyades, soulève plusieurs questions, mais, en même temps, illumine quelques questions existantes. Ce fait est l’indication d’un grand succès ainsi qu’une invitation de poursuivre les itinéraires supplémentaires de la première dynastie de l’Islam. »
Alexandra Ath. Photopoulou, JOAS 2010-2
Alexandra Ath. Photopoulou, JOAS 2010-2
All those interested in Islamic history and historiography, medieval history, Arabic literature, art history and archaeology, as well as those interested in the history of memory.