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Between Rebels and Rulers in the Early Islamicate World: Power, Contention and Identity (Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture) - Hardcover

 
9781399530187: Between Rebels and Rulers in the Early Islamicate World: Power, Contention and Identity (Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture)
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ISBN 10: 1399530186 ISBN 13: 9781399530187
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2024

Synopsis

Between Rebels and Rulers in the Early Islamicate World offers the first dedicated examination of the phenomenon of rebellion across the early Islamicate world. It combines discourse analysis with a return to long-neglected social-historical analysis in its study of contention and the ways in which it was narrated and enacted. These approaches are pursued through fourteen case studies, ranging geographically from North Africa to Central Asia and chronologically from the sixth to tenth centuries CE. These diverse examples reveal several patterns: First, rebellion operated as a normative means of negotiating power and obtaining justice. Second, the main constituencies of rebellion were local elites, both Muslims and non-Muslims, Arabs and members of pre-conquest societies, separately or together. Accordingly, this volume challenges the ‘othering’ of rebels found in written sources and reflected in scholarship and reframes them and their discourses as integral parts of an imperial system. Third, social ties provided a framework for the mobilisation of rebellious constituencies and the resolution of conflict.

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About the Authors

Hannah-Lena Hagemann is the Principal Investigator of the Emmy Noether research group “Social Contexts of Rebellion in the Early Islamic Period” (SCORE) at the University of Hamburg. She is author of The Khārijites in Early Islamic Historical Tradition (Edinburgh University Press, 2021) and co-editor (with Stefan Heidemann) of Transregional and Regional Elites: Connecting the Early Islamic Empire (De Gruyter, 2020).

Alasdair C. Grant is Research Associate in the Emmy Noether project “Social Contexts of Rebellion in the Early Islamic Period” (SCORE) at the University of Hamburg. He is author of Greek Captives and Mediterranean Slavery, 1260–1460 (Edinburgh University Press, 2024).

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Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Publication date
2024
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1399530186
ISBN 13 
9781399530187
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
328
Editor
Hannah-Lena Hagemann, Alasdair C. Grant