Transregional and regional elites: connecting the early Islamic Empire
In: The early Islamic Empire at work volume 1
In: Studies in the history and culture of the Middle East volume 36
Introduction : transregional and regional elites : connecting the early Islamic empire / Stefan Heidemann -- Studying elites in early Islamic history : concepts and terminology / Hannah-Lena Hagemann, Katharina Mewes & Peter Verkinderen -- Insult the caliph, marry al-Ḥasan, and redeem your kingdom : Freiheitsgrade of Kindī elites during the 7th to 9th century / Georg Leube -- Landowners in lower Iraq during the 8th century : types and interplays / Noëmie Lucas -- The rise and fall of the early ʻAbbāsid political and military elite / Hugh Kennedy -- Who were the mulūk Fārs? / Jürgen Paul -- An empire of elites : mobility in the early Islamic Empire / Ahmad Khan -- Preliminary notes on the term and institution of al-Shākiriyya in early Islam (ca. 14-218 H / 635-36-833 CE) mainly according to the Arabic sources / Amikam Elad -- Khurāsānī and Transoxanian ostikans of early ʻAbbāsid Armenia / Alison Vacca -- The governors of al-Shām and Fārs in the early Islamic Empire : a comparative regional perspective / Simon Gundelfinger & Peter Verkinderen -- Muslim elites in the early Islamic Jazīra : the qāḍīs of Ḥarrān, al-Raqqa, and al-Mawṣil / Hannah-Lena Hagemann -- Christian elite networks in the Jazīra, c. 730-850 / Philip Wood -- Establishing local elite authority in Egypt through arbitration and mediation / Petra Sijpesteijn -- The civilian ruling elite of the Ṭūlūnid-Ikhshīdid period / Yaacov Lev -- Connecting the Ibāḍī network in North Africa with the Empire (2nd-3rd / 8th-9th centuries) / Cyrille Aillet.