Cover illustration: Statue of the caliph on a pedestal of lions, Khirbat al-Mafjar, © “Khirbat al-Mafd̲j̲ar”, Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition [s.v.].
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Borrut, Antoine, author. | Bailey Galietti, Anna, translator.
Title: Between memory and power : the Syrian space under the late Umayyads and early Abbasids (c. 72–193/692–809) / by Antoine Borrut ; translated by Anna Bailey Galietti.
Other titles: Entre mémoire et pouvoir. English
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023] | Series: Handbook of Oriental studies = Handbuch der Orientalistik. Section. 1: The Near & Middle East, 0169–9423 ; volume 162 | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Translated from the French.
Identifiers: LCCN 2023012050 (print) | LCCN 2023012051 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004466319 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004466326 (ebook other)
Subjects: LCSH: Umayyad dynasty—Historiography. | Abbasids—Historiography. | Syria—Historiography.
Classification: LCC DS94.95 .B6713 2023 (print) | LCC DS94.95 (ebook) | DDC 956.91072/2—dc23/eng/20230403
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023012050
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023012051
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