Inscribed Administrative Material Culture and the Development of the Umayyad State in Syria-Palestine 661-750 CE
[Thesis]
Tareq Ramadan
Chrisomalis, Stephen
Wayne State University
2017
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Committee members: Ryzewski, Krysta; Seikaly, May; Whitcomb, Donald
Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-0-355-46967-7
Ph.D.
Anthropology
Wayne State University
2017
The seventh century CE in the Near East was a period characterized by major political transition and cultural change, representing an era that witnessed the decline of the region's long-standing major political institutions alongside the emergence of a powerful Arab Caliphate that supplanted both the offices of the Byzantine Emperor and the Persian, Sasanid Shah in most or all of the region. This Arab Caliphate, first based out of the Hejaz, then out of Syria-Palestine with the rise of the Umayyads (r. 661-750 CE), Islam's first hereditary dynasty, embarked on a successful campaign of Arab and Muslim hegemony across three continents within the course of a century.
Archaeology; Islamic Studies; Ancient history
Social sciences;Arabic orthography;Early Islamic;Material culture;Numismatics and lead seals;State formation;Umayyads