Between Rebels and Rulers in the Early Islamicate World: Power, Contention and Identity Edited by Hannah-Lena Hagemann and Alasdair C. Grant

Contenu

Titre

Between Rebels and Rulers in the Early Islamicate World: Power, Contention and Identity Edited by Hannah-Lena Hagemann and Alasdair C. Grant

Créateur

Allehbi, Mohammed

analyse de

Hagemann, Hannah-Lena

Grant, Alasdair C.

Résumé

The history of rebels and rulers during the formative period of Islam (700–945) is often at the mercy of narratives and discourses that have survived, been shaped, and reshaped centuries later, or have been chosen to be told. Researching this early Islamic era presents challenges. The majority of early Islamic historiography has been written centuries later by Muslim scholars, who primarily lived in cosmopolitan imperial centres. Many of these urban literary elites viewed rebels as either deviators from the political-religious order, heretics, or fringe nuisances. The bias and selective coverage found in much of this written material (e.g. chronicles and biographical dictionaries), along with modern anachronisms, can obscure the understanding of the historical contexts and motives behind rebellions in early Islam. This volume, Between Rebels and Rulers in the Early Islamicate World, edited by Hannah-Lena Hagemann and Alasdair C. Grant, offers a fresh and inclusive study of this subject with an extensive geographical and chronological reach.

Est une partie de

Journal of Islamic Studies

Editeur

Oxford University Press

Couverture spatiale

Oxford

Date

2026

volume

37

numéro

3

pages

etag020

Titre abrégé

Journal of Islamic Studies

Between Rebels and Rulers in the Early Islamicate World

doi

10.1093/jis/etag020

uri

https://doi.org/10.1093/jis/etag020

issn

0955-2340

Langue

eng