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The ʿAbbasid and Carolingian Empires
Comparative Studies in Civilizational Formation
Series: - Islamic History and Civilization, Volume: 150
Editor:
Circa AD 750, both the Islamic world and western Europe underwent political revolutions; these raised to power, respectively, the ʿAbbasid and Carolingian dynasties. The eras thus inaugurated were similar not only in their chronology, but also in the foundational role each played in its respective civilization, forming and shaping enduring religious, cultural, and societal institutions.
The ʿAbbāsid and Carolingian Empires: Studies in Civilizational Formation, is the first collected volume ever dedicated specifically to comparative Carolingian-ʿAbbasid history. In it, editor D.G. Tor brings together essays from some of the leading historians in order to elucidate some of the parallel developments in each of these civilizations, many of which persisted not only throughout the Middle Ages, but to the present day.
Contributors are: Michael Cook, Jennifer R. Davis, Robert Gleave, Eric J. Goldberg, Minoru Inaba, Jürgen Paul, Walter Pohl, D.G. Tor and Ian Wood.
The ʿAbbāsid and Carolingian Empires: Studies in Civilizational Formation, is the first collected volume ever dedicated specifically to comparative Carolingian-ʿAbbasid history. In it, editor D.G. Tor brings together essays from some of the leading historians in order to elucidate some of the parallel developments in each of these civilizations, many of which persisted not only throughout the Middle Ages, but to the present day.
Contributors are: Michael Cook, Jennifer R. Davis, Robert Gleave, Eric J. Goldberg, Minoru Inaba, Jürgen Paul, Walter Pohl, D.G. Tor and Ian Wood.
D.G. Tor, PhD Harvard University, is Associate Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame. She has published widely on the
ʿAbbāsid Caliphate in all its periods, including, in addition to numerous articles,
Violent Order: Religious Warfare, Chivalry, and the 'Ayyar Phenomenon in the Medieval Islamic World (Orient Institut Istanbul/Ergon Verlag, 2007) and, together with A.C.S. Peacock,
Medieval Central Asia and the Persianate World: Iranian Tradition and Islamic Civilisation (I.B. Tauris, 2015).
Acknowledgments
The ʿAbbasid and Carolingian Dynasties in Comparative Perspective
D.G. Tor
Inventing the Missi
Delegating Power in the Late Eighth and Early Ninth Centuries
Jennifer R. Davis
Ḥasanwayh b. al-Ḥusayn al-Kurdī (r. ca. 350–369/ca. 961–979)
From Freehold Castles to Vassality?
Jürgen Paul
The Emperor’s Ass
Hunting for the Asiatic Onager (Equus hemionus) in the ʿAbbasid, Byzantine, and Carolingian Worlds
Eric J. Goldberg
Ethnicity in the Carolingian Empire
Walter Pohl
Across the Hindūkush of the ʿAbbasid Period
Minoru Inaba
Columbanus, the Columbanian Tradition and Caesarius
Ian Wood
The Rebel and the Imam
The Uprising of Zayd al-Nār and Shiʿi Leadership Claims
Robert Gleave
Comparing Carolingians and ʿAbbasids
Michael Cook
Index
Introduction
The ʿAbbasid and Carolingian Dynasties in Comparative Perspective
D.G. Tor
Political Power
Inventing the Missi
Delegating Power in the Late Eighth and Early Ninth Centuries
Jennifer R. Davis
Ḥasanwayh b. al-Ḥusayn al-Kurdī (r. ca. 350–369/ca. 961–979)
From Freehold Castles to Vassality?
Jürgen Paul
Culture, Ethnicity, and Geography
The Emperor’s Ass
Hunting for the Asiatic Onager (Equus hemionus) in the ʿAbbasid, Byzantine, and Carolingian Worlds
Eric J. Goldberg
Ethnicity in the Carolingian Empire
Walter Pohl
Across the Hindūkush of the ʿAbbasid Period
Minoru Inaba
Religion
Columbanus, the Columbanian Tradition and Caesarius
Ian Wood
The Rebel and the Imam
The Uprising of Zayd al-Nār and Shiʿi Leadership Claims
Robert Gleave
Final Summation
Comparing Carolingians and ʿAbbasids
Michael Cook
Index
Anyone interested in either Carolingian or ʿAbbasid history, or Medieval History generally, in either medieval Europe or the medieval Islamic world, or in topics including lordship, ethnicity, and cultural and religious history.