From Arabian tribes to Islamic empire: army, state and society in the Near East c.600-850
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Aldershot ]England[ ; Burlington, VT
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Ashgate
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Variorum collected studies series
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CS895
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Patricia Crone
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introduction -- The Arabian background -- The tribe and the state -- Tribes and states in the Middle East -- The first-century concept of hi۸gra -- 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 Abnaض 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