ummayad legacies
| The Umayyads, the first dynasty of Islam, ruled over a vast empire from their central province of Syria, providing a line of caliphs from 661 to 750. Another branch later ruled in al-Andalus Islamic Spain from 756 to 1031, ruling first as emirs and then as caliphs themselves. This book is the first to bring together studies of this far-flung family and treat it not as two unrelated caliphates but as a single enterprise. Yet for all that historians have made note of Umayyad accomplishments in the Near East and al-Andalus, Umayyad legacies what later generations made of these caliphs and their achievements are poorly understood. Building on new interest in the study of memory and Islamic historiography and including interdisciplinary perspectives from Arabic literature, art, and archaeology, this book highlights Umayyad achievements and the shaping of our knowledge of the Umayyad past. | |||
Table of contents : Contents......Page 8 Preface and Acknowledgments......Page 12 List of Illustrations......Page 14 List of Contributors......Page 18 Introduction: Toward a History of Umayyad Legacies......Page 22 HISTORY AND MEMORY......Page 44 La 'Memoria' Omeyyade: Les Omeyyades Entre Souvenir et Oubli Dans Les Sources Narratives Islamiques......Page 46 'Umar ibn 'Abd al-Azīz, al-Walīd ibn Yazīd and Their Kin: Images of the Umayyads in the 'Kitāb al-Aghānī'......Page 84 Medieval Explanations for the Fall of the Umayyads......Page 110 Perceptions of the Umayyads in Christian Spanish Chronicles......Page 126 Les Sources de L'Histoire Omeyyade Dans L'oeuvre D'Ibn al-'Adīm......Page 152 Le Califat Omeyyade Selon Ibn Khaldūn: Revanche des Impies ou Fondation de L'Empire?......Page 188 PRACTICE OF POWER AND LEGITIMATION......Page 206 Umayyad Efforts at Legitimation: The Umayyads' Silent Heritage......Page 208 Notule sur le patrimonialisme omeyyade......Page 234 The Names of Estates in State Registers before and after the Arabization of the 'Dīwāns'......Page 276 Analogies entre les grandes mosquées de Damas et Cordoue: mythe et réalité?......Page 302 The al-Mughīra Pyxis and Spanish Umayyad Ivories: Aims and Tools of Power......Page 334 LEGACIES ON LAND AND SEA......Page 358 Sacred Topography in Medieval Syria and its Roots between the Umayyads and Late Antiquity......Page 360 La méditerranée musulmane, un héritage omeyyade......Page 386 An Umayyad Legacy for the Early Islamic City: Fustāt and the Experience of Egypt......Page 424 Formation et devenir du paysage architectural omeyyade: l'apport de l'archéologie......Page 438 Los palacios omeyas, entre oriente y occidente......Page 496 Index......Page 536 |
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