EMPIRE AND ELITES AFTER THE MUSLIM CONQUEST by Chase F. Robinson ( 9780521028738 )

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EMPIRE AND ELITES AFTER THE MUSLIM CONQUEST
THE TRANSFORMATION OF NORTHERN MESOPOTAMIA

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Chase F. Robinson

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0521028736

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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

31 July, 2006

Series:

Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization

Pages:

224

Description:

The history of northern Mesopotamia from the Islamic conquests until the early Abbasids, first published in 2000.

Synopsis:

The study of early Islamic historical tradition has flourished with the emergence of an innovative scholarship no longer dependent on more traditional narratival approaches. Chase Robinson's book, first published in 2000, takes full account of the research available and interweaves history and historiography to interpret the political, social and economic transformations in the Mesopotamian region after the Islamic conquests. Using Arabic and Syriac sources to elaborate his argument, the author focuses on the Muslim and Christian elites, demonstrating that the immediate effects of the conquests were in fact modest ones. Significant social change took place only at the end of the seventh century with the imposition of Marwanid rule. Even then, the author argues, social power was diffused in the hands of local elites. This is a sophisticated study in a burgeoning field in Islamic studies.

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