:Army, State and Society in the Near East c.600-850
/ Patricia Crone
Aldershot [England] ;Burlington, VT
: Ashgate
, 2008.
1 v.
: (various pagings)
(Variorum collected Studies Series
; 895)
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Bibliography
Index
Introduction - The Arabian background - The tribe and the state - Tribes and states in the Middle East - The first-century concept of higra - The later evolution - Were the Qays and Yemen of the Umayyad period political parties? - A note on Muqatil b. Hayyan and Muqatil b. Sulayman - The significance of wooden weapons in al-Mukhtar's revolt and the Abbasid revolution - On the meaning of the Abbasid call to al-Rida - The Abbasid Abna and Sasanid cavalrymen - The early Islamic world - The pay of client soldiers in the Umayyad period - Mawali and the prophet's family : an early Shiite view - Imperial Trauma: the case of the Arabs