Author:
Antoine Borrut
Search for other papers by Antoine Borrut in
Current site
Google Scholar
PubMed Close
Translator:
Anna Bailey Galietti
Search for other papers by Anna Bailey Galietti in
Current site
Google Scholar
PubMed Close
Free access

Index

ʿAbbās, I. 97, 324
Abbasid Revolution
actors’ identities 289–290, 292–295, 324–327
and messianism 329–338
Christian sources 299–311, 300–301f
continuities with Umayyad era 297–299, 399
key episode 284–287, 310–311
legitimation 67, 68–73, 189, 245–247, 304–305, 312–314, 333–335
modern interpretations 298–299, 336–337
Abū Muslim; dawla; historiographic phases; key episodes; Khurāsān
ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAbbās 183, 188
ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAlī 304
campaign against the Byzantines 304, 315
death 288, 304, 320–321, 323
governor of the Shām 304
massacre of the Umayyads 162–164, 165–169
pretentions to the caliphate 288, 314–321
Syrian rebel 321–327
laqab (attribution)
ʿAbd Allāh b. Marwān 171
ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz al-ʿUmarī 400–401
ʿAbd al-Ḥakam b. Aʿyan b. al-Layth al-Aylī 278
ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd al-Kātib 23, 66, 97, 195, 293–294, 298, 388
ʿAbd al-Malik b. Marwān
and ʿAlī b. ʿAbd Allāh 183
and Solomon 193–195
and the Umayyad state 5, 34–36, 60, 142, 157–158, 341
and writing history 58–61
and al-Zuhrī 40
architectural program 176–177, 346
mobile exercise of power 352–353, 357–363, 374–375
patrimonialism 346–351, 374–375
al-Ḥajjāj; Ibn al-Zubayr
ʿAbd al-Malik b. Ṣāliḥ 397, 398, 401–402, 409–410, 418
ʿAbd al-Ṣamad b. ʿAlī 318
Abū al-ʿAbbās
designation by Ibrāhīm al-Imām 184, 303, 312–314
first Abbasid caliph 288, 304–305
massacre of the Umayyads 164–165
residence at al-Anbār 303, 314
succession 307, 312, 314–317
laqab (attribution)
Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān Khālid b. Hishām al-Umawī 51
Abū Ayyūb Sulaymān b. Makhlad al-Muryānī al-Khūzī 297
Abū al-Azhar al-Muhallab b. Abī ʿĪsā 320
Abū Bakr b. Muḥammad b. ʿAmr b. Ḥazm 274
Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣfahānī 102–103, 165, 251, 255
Abū Ḥamza al-Khārijī 117, 273
Abū Hāshim b. Muḥammad b. al-Ḥanafiyya 322
Abū al-Haydhām al-Murrī 400–402
Abū Ismāʿīl al-Azdī 31
Abū Jaʿfar. see al-Manṣūr
Abū Maʿshar Najīḥ 50
Abū Mikhnāf 29, 50, 73, 228–232
Abū Muḥammad al-ʿAbdī 162
Abū Mushir al-Ghassānī 33, 47–48
Abū Muslim
and ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAlī 304, 318, 321
and ʿĪsā b. Mūsā 315, 317–318
and al-Manṣūr 318, 325
and the Shām 325
assassination 304
Khurāsān rebellion 287, 288, 289, 293, 302
Abū Nuʿaym al-Iṣfahānī 254
Abū Nukhayla 245
Abū Saʿīd b. Yūnus 90
Abū ʿUbayd Allāh Muʿāwiya b. ʿUbayd Allāh b. Yassār 297
Abū ʿUbayda b. al-Jarrāḥ 205
Abū Yūsuf Yaʿqūb 44, 73
Abū Zurʿa al-Dimashqī 32–33, 48, 49, 324
Agapius of Manbij
Abbasid Revolution 302–304
ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAlī 325
as a source 126–127
Hishām 382, 384
massacre of the Umayyads 166–167
ʿUmar II 269
Agha, S. S. 290, 293
al-Aghdaf 376
ahl al-Jazīra. see Jazīra
ahl Khurāsān. see Khurāsān
ahl al-Shām. see Shām
ʿajam (definition) 294–295 Persians
Akhbār al-dawla al-ʿAbbāsiyya. see Anonymous History of the Abbasids
Akhbār Majmūʿa 328
akhbāriyūn 21
al-Akhṭal 59–60, 101
Albert, Jean-Pierre 203, 250, 283
Aleppo 106, 128–129, 315, 345, 350, 396
Alexander the Great. see Dhū al-Qarnayn
ʿAlī b. ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAbbās 183–184, 185–188, 317, 328, 335, 337
ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib,
and the Umayyads 157, 166, 169, 181, 309, 311
cursing of 252–253, 267
ignored caliphate 49, 130, 132–133, 138, 142
succession of the Prophet 70
ʿAlī b. Mujāhid 51
ʿAlī al-Riḍā 74
Alids
ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAlī 162–163, 168–169
in Abbasid historiography 414
al-Maʾmūn’s policies 75
Muḥammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya 332, 335–336
rivalry with the Abbasids 67, 69, 115–116, 166, 175, 177, 303, 337
sources 83, 89, 335–336
ʿamal 73, 275
al-Aʿmāq (cycle of) 239
al-Amīn 74, 141, 179, 331, 397–398, 408
Amman (region) 376–378
ʿAmmūriyya 212, 239–240
Anas b. Mālik Abū Ḥamza 274
al-Anbār 303, 314, 315, 318, 404
al-Andalus 113, 175, 261
Andalusian sources 113, 222
ʿAnjar 345, 363–365, 375, 390–392
Anonymous History of the Abbasids 82, 184, 188, 257, 280–281, 287–288, 328, 335
Antichrist 267, 331
Antioch 406
Antipatris. see Nahr Abī Fuṭrus
apocalypse of Shenute 141, 330
apocalypses 113–116, 139–143, 194, 238–240, 330–332 messianism
archives 85
Arjomand, S. A. 291, 317, 319
Amorium. see ʿAmmūriyya
archaeological sites
ʿAnjar 363–365
Baysān 381, 394
al-Ḥumayma 99, 188
in the Balqāʾ 375–378
in Palmyrena 378–385
Khirbat al-Mafjar 195–196, 197f
Qaṣr al-Ḥayr al-Gharbī 367, 378
Qaṣr al-Ḥayr al-Sharqī 181, 370, 378, 410
Qaṣr al-Kharāna 376
al-Qasṭal 377, 410
al-Ṣinnabra 358–361
architectural evidence
archaeological sources 22, 55–56, 98–100, 159, 181–183, 189, 369–370, 378 archaeological sites; architectural evidence
architectural evidence
and memory 154, 157–159, 159, 176–177
dating 370–372
Dome of the Rock 195, 342
Hiraqla 403
Khirbat al-Mafjar 195–196, 197f
milestones 359–363
mosque of al-Aqṣā 342
mosque of Damascus 343–344
mosque of al-Ramla 349–350
mosques 342–344, 349–350
Quṣayr ʿAmra 370–372
source of knowledge 98–99, 157–159, 340–341
symbolic spaces 195–196, 342–346
archaeological sites; Umayyad castles
Armenian sources 128, 135–136
Arnold of Regensburg 18
al-Aṣbagh (brother of ʿUmar II) 257
Ascalon 333
Assmann, Jan 4, 57, 152, 153–155, 250
ʿAwāna b. al-Ḥakam 50
ʿawāṣim 4, 397–398, 402, 413
al-Awzāʿī 46, 62
Ayla 187–188, 278
al-Azraq 376
Baalbek 190, 352, 358, 363
Bāb al-Abwāb 232–236
Bāb al-Lān 232
Bacharach, Jere L. 332, 373, 381
Badā 187–188
Baghdad
and writing history 68–88
architectural model 403, 404–405
caliphal residence 51, 80–81, 83–84, 408
fitna 74–75
foundation 67, 70–71, 181, 404–405
Hishām b. al-Ghāz 46
intellectual life 76–78, 124
military value 116, 409
Baḥshal (al-Wāsiṭī) 106
al-Bakhrāʾ 381
Bakhtarī b. al-Ḥasan 216
Bakkār b. Muslim al-ʿUqaylī 298
al-Balādhurī
ʿAbd al-Malik 352–353, 357–358
and Syrian memory 104
Banū Abī Muʿayṭ 385–386
Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ 317
massacre of the Umayyads 162
prosopography 81
al-Rāfiqa 406
reading framework 89
al-Saffāḥ 327
use of Syrian sources 30, 81
al-Walīd II 376
Yazīd b. al-Muhallab 228–232
Balʿamī 80, 85, 89, 208, 211–214, 215
Bālis 349, 382
Balqāʾ 183
Banū Abī Muʿayṭ 385–386
Baqī b. Makhlad al-Qurṭubī 48
al-Bāqir (Muḥammad b. ʿAlī) 257–258
Bar Hebraeus 128–129
Barmakids 73, 298, 398, 402, 409–410, 418
Barthold, W. W. 251, 274, 281
Bashear, S. 256, 258
Baṣra 12, 29, 230, 288, 304, 317, 318
Bates, Michael L. 115, 333
al-Baṭṭāl 203–204, 211, 212, 213
Baysān 72, 381, 394
Bayt al-Ḥikma 76
Bernhardt, John W. 356
Bible (references)
Daniel 134, 257, 308
David and Goliath 326
Isaiah 307, 331
Solomon 189–198
apocalypses; messianism
biographical dictionaries 103–106
biography 109–110
Blankinship, Khalid Y. 290, 312, 389
Bligh-Abramski, Irit I. 293, 297–298
Bone, H. J. 388
Bonner, Michael 398, 402
Bukhārā 116, 332
al-Bukhārī 47, 92
Būṣīr 285
Buṭrus b. Rāḥib 167
Cahen, Claude 134, 289, 337, 384
Calder, Norman 275
caliphal residences (movement)
al-Anbār 303
Baghdad 67, 83, 174
Byzantine proximity 73
Ḥarrān 66, 198, 309
Raqqa 73, 407, 408
al-Ruṣāfa 63–64
Sāmarrāʾ 77
al-Ḥumayma
caliphs and writing history
ʿAbd al-Malik 60
Hishām 63–64
al-Mahdī 72
al-Maʾmūn 74–78
al-Manṣūr 70–71 174
Marwān II 66
al-Mutawakkil 77
al-Rashīd 72–73
al-Saffāḥ 72
Sulaymān 61–62
ʿUmar II 61–62, 270
historiographic filter; historiographic phases; writing layers
Campbell, Sandra S. 148–149
Canard, M. 203–205, 210, 215–216
Carruthers, Mary 153
Cheddadi, Abdesselam 19, 24–25, 28, 86, 148
Chiffoleau, J. 163
Chinese sources 51n238, 143, 305
Christian sources
Abbasid Revolution 399–311, 300f
apocalypses 139–143
campaign in the Caucasus 236–237
chronicles 132–140
echoing Umayyad sources 200–201, 270–271
Hishām 382–385
importance 56–57, 134–139
siege of Constantinople 215–228, 217f, 219f–221f
Theophilus of Edessa 123–132
ʿUmar II 262–271, 263f, 264f
Chronicle of 705 132
Chronicle of 716 133, 262
Chronicle of 724 132, 267
Chronicle of 741
as a source 129–130
regionalisation of powers 347
siege of Constantinople 222
ʿUmar II 269
Chronicle of 754
Abbasid Revolution 304–305
as a source 129–130
siege of Constantinople 222
Chronicle of 775 132, 267, 305
Chronicle of 813 133, 406
Chronicle of 818 138, 306
Chronicle of 819
Abbasid Revolution 306–307, 309–310
ʿAnjar 364
as a source 130–131
Hishām 382
rampart in the Caucasus 236
siege of Constantinople 217–218
ʿUmar II 269–270
Chronicle of 846
Abbasid Revolution 306–307, 309–310
ʿAnjar 364
as a source 130–131
Hishām 382
rampart in the Caucasus 236
siege of Constantinople 217–218
ʿUmar II 269–270
Chronicle of 1234
Abbasid Revolution 302–303
as a source 124–125, 128
massacre of the Umayyads 167
siege of Constantinople 216
ʿUmar II 269
Chronicle of Zuqnīn
Abbasid Revolution 307–308
as a source 133–135
campaign in the Caucasus 236–237
dating 243
definition of history 17–18
natural disasters 266
siege of Constantinople 216, 223–227
chronographies
areas of production 10–11, 29–31
chronological gap 10, 306
divergences 31, 90, 207, 230, 236, 310
emergence 32–35, 42–43
establishing a vulgate 53–54, 83–89
first Syrian authors 34–43
chronology of Qartamīn 131
Clausewitz, Carl von 201
Cobb, Paul M.
Abbasid Shām 286, 292, 324, 341, 395, 399, 412
historiography 107, 179
Conrad, Lawrence I. 79–80, 369
Constantine (VII) Porphyrogenitus 205, 306
Constantinople
caliphal objectives 206–207
mosque of 203–206, 214–215, 241
symbolic possession 206, 213–214, 227
under the Prophet’s protection 241–242
year 100 AH; key episodes; Maslama b. ʿAbd al-Malik
Continuatio of the Samaritan Chronicle 137–138, 267
Cook, David 85, 114–115, 240–241, 243, 259
Cook, Michael 12, 31, 119, 255
Coptic apocalypse of Daniel 140–141, 330
Cornette, J. 244
colours. see symbolism of colours
Crone, Patricia 117–118, 119, 254, 255, 271–272, 290, 324
Dābiq 131, 206, 208–209, 212, 333, 349, 357
al-Ḍaḥḥāk b. Qays 392
al-dajjāl. see Antichrist
Dakhlia, Jocelyne 412
Damascus
Abbasid capital 80, 188, 325–326
and Hishām 379, 381–382
mosque 190–191, 342–344
Qaysite revolt 400–402
space of Umayyad memory 158
Umayyad capital 182, 352, 358
Daniel, Elton L. 290
daʿwa 168–169, 184, 229, 281, 290, 291, 320, 336 Abbasid Revolution; year 100 AH
dawla (definition) 295–296, 336, 338 Abbasid Revolution
Dawrīn. see Dūrayn
Daylam 242–243
Dayr Murrān 270, 352, 357, 400
Dayr Simʿān 269–270
Décobert, Christian
Islamic historiography 3
Mālik b. Anas 275
patrimonialism 347–349, 369, 412
prophetic memory 148
Dennet, Daniel C. 390
Derat, M.-L. 353, 355, 357
Dhāt al-Himma 204
Dhū al-Qarnayn 232–236
Digenis Akritas 204
Dionysius of Tell-Maḥrē 124–125
documentary sources
epigraphy 96–97
letters 97
numismatics 96–7
papyri 96
various documents 97–98
Dome of the Rock
and Solomon 194–195
construction 37
inscriptions 43, 176–177, 344
political and religious message 97, 342, 344–345
symbolism 158, 176–177, 344–345
Donner, Fred M.
messianism 255
al-Ṭabarī 55, 91
writing history 19–20, 24–33, 43, 45, 49
Duby, Georges 284
Dulūk 315
Dūrayn 380–381
Duri, A. A. 29, 39, 82
Dutton, Yasin 274–275
Egypt
ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz 267
and ʿUmar II’s image 278–279
Continuatio of the Samaritan Chronicle 137
History of the Patriarchs of Alexandria 136, 267
Ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥakam 109, 278
Marwān I 358
Marwān II’s flight and death 130, 285, 288, 299, 303, 305, 326, 336
massacre of the Umayyads 165
papyri 95–96
regionalisation of powers 347
Ṣāliḥ b. ʿAlī 317–318, 396
siege of Constantinople 222
al-Ṭabarī 86, 90
al-Yaʿqūbī 83
El-Hibri, Tayeb 68, 86, 149, 179, 402–403
Elad, Amikam 291, 292–294, 297–298, 359
Elias of Nisibis 76, 138–139
Eliezer (Pirqē) 331
epigraphic sources 96–97, 328, 344–345, 370–372, 381
epistolary sources 97, 194–195, 232, 252, 262–263, 293–294
Esch, Arnold 9–11, 94, 104, 143, 337
Euphrates
and caliphal power 403–408
caliphal residence at al-Anbār 303
Hishām’s works 381–384
site of al-Zaytūna 379–380
symbolic border 181, 199, 309
faḍāʾil 108, 175
Faḍl b. Ṣāliḥ 396–397
al-Farazdaq 101–102, 117, 192, 194
Fentress, James 151
fitna
ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAlī 318–319
and Islamic memory 157
and revolution 311
and writing history 49, 59, 60–61, 179–180, 311
first fitna 25, 49, 112, 169, 181, 309, 311
fourth fitna 74–80, 412
in opposition to the dawla 296, 311
second fitna 51, 58–61, 341, 347
third fitna 65–68, 292, 296, 348, 388–391, 418–419
Abbasid Revolution; Ibn al-Zubayr; key episodes; Qadarites
Fōrsāyē. see Persians
Fowden, Garth 373
Fried, Johannes 155
Frye, Richard N. 289
Furet, François 175, 310
García-Arenal, Mercedes 280
Gaube, Heinz 367, 374–375
Geary, Patrick J.
creation of the past 182
creative oblivion 68
historical continuity 84, 180, 298–299, 419
memory 150–153
oral vs. written 153
relation to the past 8, 18, 84–86, 145–146, 281–282
Geertz, Clifford 339, 353–354, 418
Genequand, Denis
ephemeral landscapes 412–413, 419
Qaṣr al-Ḥayr al-Sharqī 370
Quṣayr ʿAmra 370
sites in the Balqāʾ 377
sites at Palmyrena 378
Umayyad agriculture 366–367
Umayyad castles
geographic sources 107–108, 149
Ghaylān al-Dimashqī 38, 47, 64
Ghūṭa 267, 400–401
Gil, Moshe 278
Gilliot, Claude 92
Goeje, M. J. de 91
Gog and Magog 234, 237–238, 238, 242, 282
Goitein, S. D. 292, 294, 297
Grabar, Oleg 181, 294, 367, 371
Greek apocalypse of pseudo-Daniel 141–142
Griffith, Sidney H. 308
Gryaznevitch, P. A. 82
Günther, S. 153
ḥadīth
and codification 43–44, 62
and messianism 258–260
and capturing Constantinople 241–242
dictated to al-Zuhrī 40–41
Syrian transmitters 36–49
ʿUmar II 271–273
al-Ḥafṣ b. Nuʿmān al-Umawī 328
al-Ḥajjāj 36, 60–61, 112, 157, 183, 251, 274
Ḥajjī Khalīfa 91
Halbwachs 151–152
Ḥammām al-Sarākh 376
Harrak, Amir 134–135
Ḥarrān
and ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAlī 316, 318, 327
and the Chronicle of 846 131
death of Ibrāhīm al-Imām 164, 184, 287, 303, 312–314
Qaysite context 66
Umayyad capital 66, 112, 198, 296, 309, 349, 391, 404
al-Ḥārith b. Surayj al-Tamīmī 294
Hārūn al-Rashīd
and ʿAbd al-Malik b. Ṣāliḥ 397
and jihād 402–403, 412
and Maslama b. ʿAbd al-Malik 246–247
and the Shām 397–398
Antioch 406
Byzantine campaigns 402–403, 410
death and succession 73–77, 178–180, 408, 418
patrimonialism 397–398
Raqqa 407–408
siege of Constantinople 245–247
al-Ḥasan b. ʿAlī 260
Hawting, G. R. 7, 12, 91
Heraclius 241–242
Herbelot (Barthélemi d’) 91
heroisation 200–201, 202–203, 227–228, 231–232, 249–250, 271–272 Maslama b. ʿAbd al-Malik; ʿUmar II
Hillenbrand, Robert 350, 365
Hinds, Martin 117, 254, 271–273
Hiraqla 403
Hishām b. ʿAbd al-Malik
and al-Manṣūr 172–173
and Maslama b. ʿAbd al-Malik 231–232
and Palmyrena 349, 378–384
and Solomon 192
and ʿUmar II 270, 282–283
and al-Walīd II 41–42
and al-Zuhrī 63–65
mobile exercise of power 379–385
Qaṣr al-Ḥayr al-Gharbī; Qaṣr al-Ḥayr al-Sharqī; al-Ruṣāfa; al-Zaytūna
Hishām b. al-Ghāz 46
Ḥiṣn Maslama 349
historians
Abbasid period 46–49, 73
and Bayt al-Ḥikma 76
and memory 150–152, 155–157
and poetry 100–103
conditions of knowledge 57
definition of the Abbasid Revolution 287–299
messianic context 116–117
search for continuity 84
al-Ṭabarī’s influence 88–92
ties to power 59–61, 71–73
Umayyad period 34–43
historical conscience
emergence 23–28
first chronographies 32–35
historical material
and memory 145–146, 155
apocalypses 113–116
architectural evidence 154
common kernel 55, 168–169, 227
exclusivity 55
geography 107–108, 149
heresiographies 116–118
khabar 18–22, 82
transmission as 22
historical sources. see archaeological sources; architectural evidence; documentary sources; epigraphic sources; narrative sources; numismatic sources
historicity
and Muslim identity 26–28, 59–60, 85–86
and the Qurʾān 23–26
historiographic filter
Abū Mikhnāf 73
and external sources 122
and memory sedimentation 177
definition 53–54
al-Madāʾinī 78
Sayf b. ʿUmar 73
al-Ṭabarī 87, 88–92, 215
al-Wāqidī 78
al-Zuhrī 64–65
caliphs and writing history; historiographic phases; writing layers
historiographic phases
Abbasid legitimation 69–73, 167–169, 173–174, 280–283, 296–297, 320–321, 326, 334–335
Hishām’s caliphate 63–65, 218, 236, 243, 270–271, 383–384
Marwanid affirmation 58–61
Marwanid reforms 61–63
al-Mutawakkil’s caliphate 80–83
post-Sāmarrāʾ 83–88, 179–180, 214–215
al-Rashīd’s succession 74–80, 179–180
third fitna 65–66
Abbasid Revolution
History of the Patriarchs of Alexandria 136–137, 267, 299, 326, 377
Hitti, Philip K. 286
Homs
and axes of communication 358, 363
and Hishām 386
apocalyptic traditions 114
narrative subject 106
rebellion 392, 402
sources 31, 37, 42, 45, 126
Hoyland, Robert G. 120, 129–130, 134, 136, 141, 262
al-Ḥumayma 99, 108, 183–189, 285–287, 312–314, 321–323, 335, 340
Humphreys, R. Stephen 84–85, 289
al-Ḥusayn b. ʿAlī 116, 157, 163, 164–166, 169
hypomnēma 14, 149
Ibn ʿAbd al-Ḥakam 78, 273, 274, 277–278
Ibn Abī al-Ḥadīd 316
Ibn Abī Ṭāhir Ṭayfūr 76
Ibn al-ʿAdīm 104–106
Ibn ʿĀʾidh al-Dimashqī 33, 48, 81
Ibn ʿAsākir
ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAlī 323
Abū al-Haydhām al-Murrī 400
and ʿUmar II 255
as a source 104–105, 395, 400
mosque of Damascus 190, 344
Taʾrīkh madīnat Dimashq 104–105
transmitter of Sayf b. ʿUmar 16
Ibn Aʿtham al-Kūfī 79–80
siege of Constantinople 211–214, 215, 223
Yazīd b. al-Muhallab 229–232
Ibn al-Athīr 255
Ibn al-Faqīh 108
mosque of Constantinople 205
mosque of Damascus 191–192, 343
Ibn Ḥajar al-ʿAsqalānī 333
Ibn Ḥanbal 47, 259
Ibn Ḥawqal 108, 158, 233
Ibn Hishām
and Ibn Isḥāq 34
authenticity 71
Ibn Isḥāq
at al-Manṣūr’s court 71
Medina school 29, 31
works 50, 71
Ibn al-Jawzī 254
Ibn Kathīr 109–110
Ibn Khaldūn
reading framework 111–113
role of history 44–45
Solomon and Islam 191
Solomon and Umayyads 192–194
ʿUmar II 253, 260
Ibn Manẓūr 105, 187
Ibn al-Muqaffaʿ 44, 174, 317, 319, 394
Ibn al-Nadīm 33, 50
Ibn Qutayba 17, 37, 161, 257
Ibn Saʿd 78, 105, 271
Ibn Shiḥna 350
Ibn al-Zubayr
and the Abbasids 183, 322–323
and the Anonymous History of the Abbasids 188
consequences of revolt 20, 40, 58–59
in the Syriac sources 138, 309
legitimate caliph 138, 339–341
Zubayrid memory 148
Ibrāhīm b. Ṣāliḥ b. ʿAlī 397
Ibrāhīm b. ʿUthmān b. Nahīk al-ʿAkkī 407
Ibrāhīm al-Imām 164, 184, 287–288, 302–303, 312–313, 317, 320, 321
Imbert, F. 371
inscription of Ehnesh 333
Iraq
and spaces of memory 178–183
and writing history 9–12, 30–33, 68–88, 336–337, 414–415
Iraqi-Abbasid memoria 180–183, 189, 198–199, 416
forgotten Umayyad space 182–183
Abbasid Revolution; Baghdad; caliphal residences; Euphrates; al-Ḥajjāj; Maslama b. ʿAbd al-Malik; Sāmarrāʾ; vulgate
ʿĪsā b. ʿAlī 317–318
ʿĪsā b. Mūsā
and ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAlī 320–321
caliphal pretentions 315–321
al-Iṣfahānī 102–103
Isḥāq b. Muslim al-ʿUqaylī 298
isnād
authenticity 20–21
chain of transmission 78, 147
collective isnād 54–55
emergence 19–20
isnād/khabar pair 18–22, 82, 106
loss of importance 86
manipulation 255
memorisation 147, 149
siege of Constantinople 207–209
ʿUmar II 271–273, 274
Jabal Says 374
al-Jābiya 352, 357, 362
al-Jāḥiẓ 111
Jarīr 101–102, 194, 251
al-Jarrāḥ b. ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥakamī 237
Jazīra
ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAlī 315, 318, 324–325, 337
ahl al-Jazīra 315, 324–325, 337, 391, 396
al-Azdī 106
and Syriac sources 122, 278–279
Banū Ṣāliḥ 397
Euphrates as border 181
Isḥāq b. Muslim al-ʿUqaylī’s revolt 298
al-Manṣūr 298, 304
Marwān II 196–198, 389–390, 391
Marwanid administrative entity 4, 244–245
Maslama b. ʿAbd al-Malik 217–218, 232–233, 244–245
Maymūn b. Mihrān 38
monasteries 122
Ṣāliḥ b. ʿAlī 396
Euphrates
Jazīra ibn ʿUmar 363
Jerusalem
and mobile exercise of power 359, 411
and Solomon 190
and Umayyad caliphs 375
al-Mahdī 252, 397, 411
al-Manṣūr 411
al-Muqaddasī 108
Thawr b. Yazīd al-Kalāʾī 45
ʿUmar I 256
Umayyad architectural program 345
vs. Mecca 40
Dome of the Rock; Palestine
John of Daylam 357–358
John of Wasīm 136, 299
Judd, Steven C. 89, 390
Juynboll, G. H. A. 272
Kalb 89, 158, 341 Yemenites
Kallinikos. see Raqqa
Keaney, Heather N. 88
Kennedy, Hugh 369, 384, 396, 407, 412
key episodes
Abū al-ʿAbbās’s succession 306–307
Abū al-Haydhām al-Murrī’s revolt 400–401
and history of the Shām 339
assassination of al-Walīd II 302, 381
battle of al-Ḥarra 58–59
battle of Marj Rāhiṭ 60, 341
battle of Ṣiffīn 132, 157, 169, 181
battle of Zāb 157, 285, 288, 303, 336–337
al-Ḥumayma as Abbasid stronghold 183–189, 287–288
Ibn al-Zubayr’s anti-caliphate 58–59
al-Manṣūr’s caliphate 169–173
massacre of the Umayyads 160–170
miḥna 57, 179
al-Rashīd’s death 179–180, 408, 419
siege of Constantinople 141–142, 202–228, 239–240, 261–262
siege of Mecca 157
Umayyad downfall 115, 140, 285
Umayyad memoria 157–159
year 100 AH 114–115, 184
Abbasid Revolution; Abū Muslim; Khurāsān
khabar
isnād/khabar pair 18–22, 82, 106
Khālid b. Maʿdān al-Kalāʾī al-Ḥimṣī 37, 244
Khālid al-Qasrī 186
Khalidi, Tarif 20, 25, 27, 89, 101
Khalīfa b. Khayyāṭ
and Ibn ʿĀʾidh 48
and al-Khwārizmī 76
first chronography 28, 81
massacre of the Umayyads 161–162
prosopography 81
siege of Constantinople 215
use of Syrian sources 30, 81
al-Khawlānī 106
Khazars 201–202, 228, 230, 232–236, 242
Khirbat al-Bayḍāʾ 374–375
Khirbat al-Mafjar 195–196, 197f
Khirbat al-Minya 365
Khunāṣira 252
Khurāsān
Abbasid Revolution 287–288, 289–290, 291, 293, 302–303, 336, 391–392
ahl Khurāsān 166–167, 293, 315, 324, 406, 409
and narrative sources 285, 305, 393
governors 74, 112, 212, 229, 230, 244, 293, 333
Hārūn al-Rashīd 408
messianic expectations 333
theory of schools 25–26
al-Khwārizmī 76, 83, 139, 235
King, G. D. R. 374
kitāb (definition) 14
Kitāb al-Aghānī. see Abū al-Faraj al-Iṣfahānī
Kitāb al-Fitan. see Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād
Kitāb al-ʿUyūn 210–211
Kohlberg, E. 116–117
Kūfa
and Abū al-ʿAbbās 82, 288, 304, 313
and Abū Jaʿfar al-Manṣūr 304
theory of schools 29, 31
Kuthayyir ʿAzza 377
kuttāb 60
Lammens, Henri 7, 8, 101, 183, 286, 366
Landau-Tasseron, Ella 14–17, 59, 279 n171
laqab (attribution)
al-Hādī 334
al-Mahdī 115–116, 329, 332–334
al-Manṣūr 332
al-Marḍī 334
al-Muʾtaman 398
al-Rashīd 334
al-Saffāḥ 165, 327–329, 417
Lassner, Jacob 149, 291, 317, 320
Lauwers, Michel 176
Le Goff, Jacques 155, 279
Lecker, Michael 39, 187–188
Leder, Stefan 22
Leo III
correspondence with ʿUmar II 135–136, 261–262, 267
siege of Constantinople 203–232
Lewis, Bernard 142, 295, 297, 331
Łewond
as a source 135–136
campaign in the Caucasus 236
correspondence between ʿUmar II/ Leo III 261
siege of Constantinople 224–228
ʿUmar II 267
libraries 27, 65–66, 76, 90
licitness of writing 12–14, 59
literary sources 203–205 poetry
literate administration 60–61
Maʿān 158
al-Madāʾinī
Abū al-Haydhām al-Murrī 400
and Ibn Aʿtham al-Kūfī 80
historiographic filter 78
siege of Constantinople 208–209, 215
madīnat al-Fār. see Ḥiṣn Maslama
madīnat al-Qahr 212–214
mahdī 115, 256–262, 279–280
al-Mahdī
messianic dimension 72, 115–116
al-Rāfiqa 405
Umayyad memory 69–70, 176–177
Malaṭya 396
Mālik b. Anas 39, 42–43, 45, 64, 193, 273–278, 280
al-Maʾmūn 74–78, 121, 139, 175–177, 179–180, 331, 398
man with forty cubits 210
Manbij 402
al-Manṣūr
and Umayyad memory 169–173, 176
caliphal pretentions 288, 318–319
elimination of ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAlī 320–322
laqab 331–332
legitimacy 321–324
messianic dimension 331–332
patrimonialism 395–397
al-Rāfiqa 403–407
Umayyad downfall 304
Abū Muslim; Alids; Baghdad
al-Maqrīzī 110–111
Martinez-Gros, Gabriel 111–112
Marwān II
and Solomon 198
caliphal pretentions 390–391
flight and death 303, 305, 306, 326
governor 390
Ḥarrān 349
Ibrāhīm al-Imām’s death 184, 288, 312–314
mobile exercise of power 391–392
rise to power 302–303
key episodes
al-Masīḥiyya 213–214
Maslama b. ʿAbd al-Malik
administrator 244–245, 349, 383–384, 390
against Yazīd b. al-Muhallab 229–230
and Dhū al-Qarnayn 232–234
and Hishām 230, 231–232, 245, 282
and ʿUmar II 247–248, 249–250, 281, 282
combat hero 201–202, 231–232, 238–248
in the Caucasus 230–238, 242
messianic dimension 238
siege of Constantinople 202–228
Maslama b. Hishām 41, 323
al-Masʿūdī
Abū al-ʿAbbas’s succession 322–323
Antioch 406
assassination of ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAlī 319–320
al-Ḥumayma 186–187
al-Manṣūr 169–173, 334
massacre of the Umayyads 161
rampart in the Caucasus 235
al-Saffāḥ 328
siege of Constantinople 212
al-Ṣinnabra 358
sources 50–51, 82, 106, 113, 127
ʿUmar II 252, 270
Maymūn b. Mihrān 38, 81
McKitterick, Rosamond 152, 178, 419
Mecca
Abū Jaʿfar al-Manṣūr 288, 315, 322
Hishām 117, 378, 386
Hārūn al-Rashīd 398
Ibn al-Zubayr 36, 40
al-Maqrīzī 110
Muḥammad b. al-Ḥanafiyya 188
siege of 157
Thawr b. Yazīd al-Kalāʾī 45
vs. Jerusalem 40
Medina
ʿAbd al-Malik b. Ṣāliḥ 397
and the Umayyads 111
al-Mahdī 96, 176, 335
Mālik b. Anas 42, 275, 276
mosque of 69, 176, 335
Samhūdī 187
theory of schools 29–32
Thawr b. Yazīd al-Kalāʿī 45
ʿUmar II 257, 273–274, 276, 278–279
ʿUrwa b. al-Zubayr 36
al-Zuhrī 39
memory
and Islam 147–150, 169, 272
collective 150–152
cultural 153–155
historical material 155
memorial competition 159
memorial culture 147–149
social 103–104, 146, 151
key episodes; memoria; architectural evidence; remembrance; oblivion
memoria
Abbasid 180–181, 188–189, 280–283
as culture 151
as research subject 147–155
as social phenomenon 151, 153–154
reuse 173–174, 175–176, 189, 199
Shām 105, 108, 198–199
Umayyad 155–156, 189–199, 246–248, 278–283, 345–346
key episodes; memory; architectural evidence
memorial culture 147–149 memoria
Merv 74, 77, 114
Mesopotamia (Upper). see Jazīra
messianic dimension
Abbasids 71, 183–185, 326, 326–338
al-Hādī 334
al-Mahdī 72, 115–116, 332–333
al-Manṣūr 331–332
Maslama b. ʿAbd al-Malik 238
Muḥammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya 70
al-Rashīd 334
ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb 255–256
ʿUmar II 256–262, 280–281
laqab (attribution)
messianic expectations 62, 72, 85, 113–116, 158–159, 238–239, 262–266, 279–280 ( messianism )
messianism
and Islam 255–256
context 76, 114–117, 142, 258–261, 329–330
use 327–328
year 100 AH; apocalypses; messianic expectations; messianic dimension; Sufyānī; myth of return
methodology
comparative historiography 123
interpretation of the Abbasid Revolution 289–299
search for lost sources 53–54, 57–58, 340–341
transmission as a historical object 21–22
use of external sources 56–57
use of memory 146
Michael the Sabaite 308
Michael the Syrian
as a source 124–125, 125–128
Hishām 384
natural disasters 262–266
Raqqa 407
ʿUmar II 261, 268–269
miḥna 75, 77–78
mobile exercise of power
Abbasid 395–403
and patrimonialism 353–354, 374–375, 385, 395, 411–413
definition 353–358
pre-modern era 353–358
territorial control 352–358, 395–403, 410–413
Umayyad 357–365, 374–375, 378, 384–385, 392–393
Umayyad castles 359, 365, 365–385, 378, 410–411
Morony, Michael G. 297
Mordtmann, A. D. 91
Moscati, Sabatino 160
Mosul (Mawṣil) 106, 129, 315, 392, 408
Motzki, Harald 20, 275
Mshattā 377–378
al-Muʾarrij b. ʿAmr al-Sadūsī 72
Muʿāwiya
and Solomon 192–194
and ʿUbayd b. Sharya 33–34
and Umayyad memoria 85, 157–159, 175, 252, 260
first fitna 169, 181, 309, 311
in the sources 46, 49, 50, 331
patrimonialism 347
siege of Constantinople 241
al-Ṣinnabra 358
Syrian coast 45
writing layers 101
Muʿāwiya II 259
Muḍarites. see Qaysites
Muḥammad b. ʿĀʾidh al-Dimashqī. see Ibn ʿĀʾidh
Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. ʿAbd Allāh b. al-ʿAbbās 186, 246, 281, 287
Muḥmmad b. al-Ḥanafiyya 188
Muḥammad b. Ṣāliḥ b. al-Nattāḥ 81–82
Muḥammad b. al-Walīd b. ʿĀmir al-Zubaydī al-Ḥimṣī 42
Muḥammad al-Nafs al-Zakiyya 70, 332, 335, 337
al-Muhtadī 281
mujaddid 114, 251, 256, 280
al-Muqaddasī 108, 205, 342–343
Muqātil al-ʿAkkī 316
Muqātil b. Sulaymān 20–21, 234
Murad, M. Q. 255
Mūsā b. ʿĪsā b. ʿAlī 401
Musil, Alois 366, 370–373, 376
al-Mutawakkil 80–81, 180, 188, 325, 412
Mutiʿ b. Iyās 333
al-Muwaqqar 376, 410
Nahr Abī Fuṭrus 161
narrative sources
and orality 13–14
and Qurʾān 23–24
authenticity 251–252
caliphal control 55, 68
chronological gap 10, 310–311
common kernel 55–56, 168, 227–228, 278, 280–281
concurrent versions 32–33, 89, 94, 160–161, 164–165, 223, 228–232, 310–311
dating 215–216, 243, 270–271, 275, 282–283
distortions 11–12, 14–15, 17–18, 49–50, 68, 312–314
external sources 118–120
gaps 11–12, 23
historical material 55–56
intercultural transmission 121–123, 215–216
licitness of writing 13–14
oblivion 14–15, 68, 310
representativity 11–12
transmission 9–10, 14, 51–52, 53–56
Naṣr b. Sayyār 293
Nisibis 138, 288, 304, 318, 337
Nora, Pierre 149, 152, 157
Northedge, Alastair 366, 368, 371
Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād 114, 239, 242, 336
numismatic sources 96–97, 116, 332, 404, 408
numismatics. see numismatic sources
oblivion
and orality 152
as social revenge 154–155
of narrative sources 14–15, 51–52, 309–310, 325–326
prior to historiography 146–147
strategy of compilers 51–52, 145–146, 160–162, 168, 320–321
memory; memoria
Oexle, O. G. 57, 153–154
Omar, Farouk 289
orality
and oblivion 152
and transmission 13–14
coexistence with writing 152–154
Palestine
and al-Mahdī 411
and Ṣāliḥ b. ʿAlī 396
and Sulaymān b. ʿAbd al-Malik 348–349
Continuatio of the Samaritan Chronicle 137–138
sources 72, 106, 115, 308
key episodes; Nahr Abī Fuṭrus
Palmyra
and Marwān II 198
and Solomon 190
Umayyad architectural projects 345, 381
Umayyad castles
papyri 13, 23, 28, 95–96
Paravicini, Werner 356
patriarch Germanus’s homily
as a source 216
siege of Constantinople 216, 224–227
patrimonialism
Abbasid 395–399, 411
and mobile exercise of power 352–353, 374–375, 384–385, 395, 411–413
definition 346–348
al-Manṣūr 395–397
regionalisation of powers 346–351, 411
Umayyad 346–351, 382–385
Umayyad castles
Persians 293–295, 306–308, 309
poetry 59–60, 86, 100–103, 176, 254, 295, 328
practice 73, 275
Prémare, A.-L. de 21, 25
prosopography 81–82
Qabīṣa b. Dhuʿayb 36
Qadarites 37, 45–46, 47, 48, 63, 66, 272, 277
al-Qāḍī, Wadād 37, 97, 195, 293
Qaḥṭaba b. Shabīb al-Ṭāʾī 303, 313
Qaryatayn 374, 381
al-Qāsim 398
Qaṣr Burquʿ 374
Qaṣr al-Hallabat 375–376
Qaṣr al-Ḥayr al-Gharbī 367, 378
Qaṣr al-Ḥayr al-Sharqī 181, 370, 378, 387, 410
Qaṣr al-Kharāna 375–376
Qaṣr al-Mushāsh 376
Qaṣr Ṭūba 376
al-Qasṭal 377, 410
Qaysites 66, 298, 303, 396, 400–402
al-Qifṭī 91
Qinnasrīn 38, 244, 363, 392, 396, 400, 402, 410
Qudaym 381
Qurʾān
and ʿAbd al-Malik 60
and al-Ḥajjāj 36, 60
and historicity 23–26
and licitness of writing 12–13
and narrative sources 23
and political legitimation 169
Qurra b. Sharīk 96
Quṣayr ʿAmra 99, 195, 346, 366, 370–373
al-Qushayrī 106
al-Rabaʿī (ʿAlī b. Muḥammad) 108, 177
al-Rāfiqa 340, 403–408, 405f
Rajāʾ b. Ḥaywa al-Kindī 37–38, 349
al-Ramla 161, 345, 349–350
Raqqa 73, 158, 340, 380, 382, 403–408, 405f
Rāwandiyya 332–333
Rayṭa bt. ʿUbayd Allāh al-Ḥārithī 281
al-Rāzī (Abū al-Ḥusayn) 105
realms of memory
Abbasids 183–189
and Umayyad memoria 159
definition 157
Dhū al-Qarnayn 237–238
al-Ḥumayma 183–189
importance 149
Khirbat al-Mafjar 195
of Maslama b. ʿAbd al-Malik 205–206
Umayyads 157–159, 182–183, 196–199
key episodes; architectural evidence
remembrance
and poetry 100, 103
and political legitimation 163–167
as historical material 154–155
memorial images 57
search for meaning 57
rewriting history
concurrent versions 169, 310
geographic justifications 64, 66, 67, 73, 83
justifying assassination 65–66, 74, 179–180
key moments 53–54, 60–61, 173–174, 198–199, 278–283, 284–287, 310–311, 336–337
legitimation by history 43–45, 113
messianic expectations 62, 62–63, 85, 258–259
methodological approach 56–57
search for continuity 84–85, 179–180
social logic 84
Robinson, Chase F.
Abbasid Revolution 161, 188–189
historiography 18–19, 27, 49, 98, 109
Islamic state 342
methodology 1
non-Muslim sources 132
transmission 153
role of history
appropriation of the past 84–87, 178, 179–180
educational virtues 43–45
legitimation of power 43–45, 178, 285–286, 337–338
al-Ruṣāfa
and Hishām’s memory 172
Hishām’s accession to the caliphate 379
Hishām’s residence 66, 349, 382, 387, 404
identifying Ruṣāfa Hishām 379–380
mobile exercise of power 381, 387
Muḥammad b. al-Walīd ʿĀmir al-Zubaydī al-Ḥimṣī 42
Sulaymān b. Mūsā 38
Umayyad architectural program 345, 379–380, 386
al-Zuhrī and Hishām 30–31, 40–41, 63–64
Ruṣāfa Hishām. see al-Ruṣāfa
Sābiq al-Khwārizmī 313
al-Ṣafadī 105
al-Saffāḥ. see ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAlī; Abū al-ʿAbbās; laqab (attribution)
al-Ṣaḥṣāḥ 204
Saʿīd b. Biṭrīq 136, 267
Saʿīd b. Musayyab 257
Saʿīd b. ʿUmar b. Jaʿda b. Ḥubayra al-Makhzūmī 316
Saʿīd b. al-Ḥarāshī 230–231
Saʿīd al-Tanūkhī 31
Saint Peter of Capitolias 357
Salamiyya 396
Ṣāliḥ b. ʿAlī
and the Abbasid Revolution 285, 288, 304–305
and the Syrian space 188, 337, 393, 395–396
governor of Egypt 317
massacre of the Umayyads 166
patrimonialism 396–397, 410, 418–419
Sāmarrāʾ
abandonment 83–84
anarchy 81
capital 77–78, 296–297, 412, 418–419
al-Ṭabarī 86
historiographic phases
Samhūdī 187
Samuel of Qalamūn 141, 330
Sauvaget, Jean 119, 294, 366, 371, 376, 379–380, 387
Sayf b. ʿUmar
historiographic filter 73
Kūfa school 29
“reliable” transmitter 16–17
writing history 73
Schacht, J. 277
Schlumberger, Daniel 367
Schmitt, Jean-Claude 15, 22
Schoeler, Gregor 13–14, 23, 27, 42, 102, 149, 153
sedimentation of memory 58, 159, 177
Sergiopolis. see al-Ruṣāfa
Shaban, M. A. 289
Shacklady, H. 291
Shaghb wa-Badā 41, 187–188
Shām
Abbasid space 182–189, 198–199, 285–287, 339–341, 395–403, 410–413
ahl al-Shām 37, 174, 186, 229, 315, 318, 323–325, 337, 394, 410
and spaces of memory 178–183
Arab space 309
East of the Syriac authors 309
historical continuity 339–340, 399, 412–413
Islamic space 106, 107, 110, 113, 174–175, 179
land of revolt 313–314, 314–327, 395–403
memorial stakes 180–199
messianic space 335–336
sources 29–31, 80–81, 103–108, 270–271, 340–341
Umayyad space 174–177, 189–199, 244, 248, 270–271, 278–283, 311, 339–341
mobile exercise of power
al-Sharāt 184
Sharon, M. 289–290, 317, 333, 359, 362
Shuʿayb b. Abī Ḥamza 41, 42
Ṣiffīn. see key episodes
Silverstein, Adam 392
Simon ben Yōḥai 142, 330
al-Ṣinnabra 352, 358–359, 360f, 361f
Solomon 190–199
Sourdel, Dominique 269, 286, 366
Sourdel, Janine 269, 366
Spiegel, Gabrielle M. 87, 90
Stetkevych, Suzanne P. 59–60
Straughn, Ian B. 369
Sudayf b. Maymūn 162n103, 164
Sufyān b. al-Thawrī 30
Sufyānī
curse 175–176
myth of return 115, 158–159, 256 n47, 335
Sulaymān b. ʿAbd al-Malik
and Palestine 347–349
and siege of Constantinople 206, 206–208, 212–214, 217–218, 222, 240–242
and Solomon 194
and ʿUmar II 251–252
Quṣayr ʿAmra 371–373
regionalisation of powers 347–350
Sulaymān b. ʿAlī 288, 304, 317, 319
Sulaymān b. Dāwūd 42, 190–198
Sulaymān b. Hishām 164, 363, 392
Sulaymān b. Muʿādh 210–211, 215–217, 218
Sulaymān b. Mūsā 38–39, 280
sunna 271–273, 280
al-Suyūṭī 242–243
symbolism of colours
black 74–75, 132, 135, 181–182, 294, 302–304, 322–323, 325–326
gold and blue 344–345
green 74
white 181–182, 213
yellow 229
syngramma 14, 149
Syria. see Shām
al-Ṭabarānī 240
al-Ṭabarī
Abbasid Revolution 288
and ʿUmar II 251, 261
assassination of ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAlī 320–321
al-Azraq 376
campaign in the Caucasus 232–235
Hishām 380–381
historiographic filter 87, 88–92
al-Ḥumayma 184–185
al-Manṣūr 334
al-Manṣūr’s caliphate 172–173
massacre of the Umayyads 160–161
personal observations 86
popularity 90–92
al-Rāfiqa 406
Raqqa 407–409
reading framework 89
al-Ruṣāfa 380–381
al-Saffāḥ 327
siege of Constantinople 207–211, 211, 215
Solomon and the Umayyads 194
spread to the East 91–92
sunna 272
transmitter of Sayf b. ʿUmar 16
use of Syrian sources 29–30
al-Walīd II 377
Yazīd b. al-Muhallab 229–232
Ṭaha Ḥusayn 101
al-Ṭāʾif 188
takbīr
siege of Constantinople 213, 239–240
topos (Islamic literature) 240
al-Tanūkhī (Saʿīd b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz) 32, 47, 49
taʾrīkh
definition 27–28
Tarsus 75
Ṭawāna 212
Ṭayyāyē 307–308
Thawr b. Yazīd al-Kalāʿī 45, 81
Theophanes
Abbasid Revolution 302–305
chronicler 125–126
al-Mahdī 333
massacre of the Umayyads 166
siege of Constantinople 216, 222
ʿUmar II 268
Theophilus of Edessa
Abbasid Revolution 302–305
as a source 123–131
siege of Constantinople 222
ʿUmar II 268
transmission
theory of schools 29–32
thughūr 4, 398, 413
topos (Islamic literature)
book burning 58
dying while reading the Qurʾān 169
grandeur 170
licitness of writing 58
piety 170
takbīr 239–240
walls and ramparts 190–191, 239–240
writing 12–13
transmission
and memory 147–150
and writing history 15, 49–51, 85–87
as a historical object 22
between Muslim/Christian sources 131–133, 166–167, 201, 269–271
Christian sources 131, 166–167
codification 22
dating information 131, 215, 215–216, 243, 277–278
intercultural 121–123, 215–216
manipulation 255, 312–314
narrative sources 9–10, 14, 51–52, 53–56
predominance of certain authors 54
reliability of authors 15–18
selectivity 169
variety of sources 143
isnād
Turks
Maslama’s enemies 201–202, 205, 228–229, 232–233, 234–237, 242
rise 77, 80, 87, 180
Gog and Magog; Sāmarrāʾ
ʿUbāda b. Nusayy al-Kindī 38, 81
ʿUbayd b. Sharya al-Jurhumī 33–34
Ukhaydir 183
ʿUmar b. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz. see ʿUmar II
ʿUmar (I) b. al-Khaṭṭāb
and ʿUmar II 253–256
messianic dimension 255–256
ʿUmar b. Hubayra 208, 210, 216
ʿUmar II
and Abbasids 280–281
and Hishām 282
and Mālik b. Anas 273–278
and Maslama b. ʿAbd al-Malik 246–247, 249–250, 281
and mosque of Damascus 344
and siege of Constantinople 209–211, 214, 218–222, 218–224, 228, 261–262
and Solomon 192
and Sulaymān b. ʿAbd al-Malik 250, 250–251, 261
and ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb 253–256
biography 109, 278–279
correspondence with Leo III 135–136, 261, 266–267
fifth orthodox caliph 250–253
governor of Medina 257–258, 273–274, 276
“holy” caliph 249–283
legislator 273–278
messianic dimension 255–283
musnad attributed to 272
religious policies 267–268, 276–277
scar 256–257
tomb 163, 269–270
Umayyad castles
Biblical references 195
in the Balqāʾ 375–378
in Palmyrena 378–385
interpretations 365–375
mobile exercise of power 359, 365, 365–385, 377–378
multiple functions 368–369, 382–385
Qaṣr al-Ḥayr al-Sharqī 181, 370, 378–379, 387, 410
Quṣayr ʿAmra 370–373
al-Ṣinnabra 358–359
spaces of memory 99, 159
ʿAnjar; patrimonialism
Umayyad sources
and the Shām 103–108, 113, 243, 244, 270–271, 340
architectural evidence 100, 176–177, 340–341
echoes in Christian sources 200–201, 243, 270
poetry 100–103
Umm al-Walīd 377
ʿUrwa b. al-Zubayr
and al-Zuhrī 36, 39, 64
as a source 36
destruction of works 58–59
Van Berchem, Max 362–363
Van Vloten, G. 289
Von Sievers, Peter 412
vulgate
and Abbasid Shām 180, 285–288
and messianism 336
and other Islamic sources 94–95
and persistent divergences 89–90
characteristics 88, 287–288
conditions of development 53–54, 83–88, 285–288, 304–305, 336
rewriting history
Wādī al-Qurā 187
al-Waḍīn b. ʿAṭāʾ al-Dimashqī 46
Wahb b. Munabbih 190
al-Walīd b. Muslim al-Umawī al-Dimashqī 47, 48, 81
al-Walīd (I) b. ʿAbd al-Malik
and ʿAlī b. ʿAbd Allāh 185
and Solomon 190–191, 194
mobile exercise of power 374–375
mosque of Damascus 190, 343–344
al-Walīd (II) b. Yazīd
and Hishām 41
and al-Zuhrī 41, 65
assassination 65, 157, 169, 296, 302, 390
al-Bakhrāʾ 381
image 89, 157, 195
in the Balqāʾ 376
mobile exercise of power 349–350, 377
Quṣayr ʿAmra 373
al-Wāqidī
and Ibn Aʿtham al-Kūfī 80
historiographic filter 78, 82
library 76
school of Medina 29
siege of Constantinople 207–208, 215
Wāsiṭ 106, 112, 182–183, 183, 230, 285, 303
Wāsiṭ al-Raqqa 380–381
Wellhausen, J. 16, 29–30, 32, 91, 290, 293, 295–296
Whitcomb, Donald 358–359, 360f, 361f, 368
Wickham, Chris 151, 365
writing history. see rewriting history
writing layers
and caliphal legitimacy 60–61, 61–62, 69–70, 76
and cultural turning points 60
and orthodoxy 64, 65–66
and political changes 58–59, 62–63, 66, 282–283
and transfer of caliphal residence 64, 66, 67–68, 73, 76–77, 83, 173–174
early Abbasids 68–89, 160–169, 160–174, 183–189, 281, 306–307, 336–338
Marwanids 58–68, 278–281, 382–384
al-Ṭabarī 88–92
caliphs and writing history; historiographic filter; historiographic phases
Yaḥyā b. Saʿīd al-Umawī 47
al-Yaʿqūbī
ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿAlī 319
and Christian sources 167
legitimate revenge 166
al-Manṣūr 319
massacre of the Umayyads 162
al-Rāfiqa 404
siege of Constantinople 215
al-Ṣinnabra 358
ʿUmar II 252–253
works 83
Yāqūt
Hiraqla 403
massacre of the Umayyads 161
al-Muwaqqar 376
Raqqa 408
Shaghb 188
al-Ṣinnabra 358
Yazīd b. al-Muhallab 212, 228–232, 272–273
Yazīd (II) b. ʿAbd al-Malik
and Maslama 231–232, 389
and Yazīd b. al-Muhallab 229
and al-Zuhrī 40
Chronicle of 724 133
Chronicle of 741 130
historiographic phases 63, 218
Łewond 224
mobile exercise of power 375–376, 375–377
patrimonialism 348
Yazīd (III) b. al-Walīd
and assassination of al-Walīd II 350
and Quṣayr ʿAmra 371
architectural program 350
laqab 133, 138
Qadarism 46, 66, 89
al-Ṣinnabra 358
year 100 AH 85, 114–115, 184, 239, 256–261, 262–266, 279–280, 337
Yemenites 290, 303, 400
Zāb. see key episodes
Zayd b. ʿAlī 164, 168
al-Zaytūna 379–380
Zīzāʾ 377–378
Zotz, Thomas 355–356
al-Zuhrī
ʿAlī b. ʿAbd Allāh 187
and ʿAbd al-Malik 40
and Hishām 63–65
and political ruptures 63–66
and ʿUrwa b. al-Zubayr 36, 39, 65
and al-Walīd II 42, 65–66
domains 42, 187
historiographic filter 64–65
passage to writing 13–14
ties to the Umayyads 39–42, 50
  • Collapse
  • Expand

Between Memory and Power

The Syrian Space under the Late Umayyads and Early Abbasids (c. 72-193/692-809)

Series:  Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 1 The Near and Middle East, Volume: 162
Cover Between Memory and Power
E-Book ISBN:
9789004466326
Publisher:
Brill
Print Publication Date:
07 Jul 2023

Metrics

All Time Past 365 days Past 30 Days
Abstract Views 0 0 0
Full Text Views 38 11 3
PDF Views & Downloads 0 0 0