Non-Muslim Provinces Under Early Islam: Islamic Rule and Iranian Legitimacy in Armenia and Caucasian Albania

ISBN-13: 9781316638552 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 289 str.

Alison Vacca

Opis

This book explores the Christian caliphal provinces of Armenia and Caucasian Albania as part of the larger Iranian cultural sphere.

Recenzje

'Alison Vacca has produced an exciting, ambitious, and groundbreaking investigation that unfurls across a massive cross-cultural canvas. Deploying a bold interdisciplinary approach grounded in an impressive array of sources, this is the most important monograph on early Islamic Caucasia since Ter-Ghewondyan's Arab Emirates in Bagratid Armenia. It will immediately establish itself as a 'go to' book not only for Armenologists and Caucasiologists but also specialists of Sasanian Iran, the early Islamic world, and Byzantium.' Stephen Rapp, Jr, Professor of Eurasian History, Sam Houston State University

Spis treści

1. Non-Persian provinces of Iran, non-Muslim provinces of Islam: an introduction to the Umayyad and 'Abbāsid North; 2. Whence the Umayyad North?: Byzantine, Sasanian and caliphal administrative geography of the North; 3. Lost Greek kings and hoodwinked Khazars: Sasanian and Byzantine legacy in the construction of caliphal frontiers in the North; 4. The so-called Marzbāns and the Northern Freemen: local leadership in the North from Sasanian to caliphal rule; 5. Caliphs, commanders and Catholicoi mechanisms to control the North under Byzantine, Sasanian and caliphal rule; 6. Taxing the dead and sealing the necks of the living: Sasanian and caliphal treaties and taxation in the North; 7. Collective historical amnesia: claiming Sasanian legacy and the case for a Parthian Intermezzo.