Non-Muslim Provinces under Early Islam
Islamic Rule and Iranian Legitimacy in Armenia and Caucasian Albania
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Non-Muslim Provinces under Early Islam
Islamic Rule and Iranian Legitimacy in Armenia and Caucasian Albania
About this book
Eighth- and ninth-century Armenia and Caucasian Albania were largely Christian provinces of the then Islamic Caliphate. Although they formed a part of the Iranian cultural sphere, they are often omitted from studies of both Islamic and Iranian history. In this book, Alison Vacca uses Arabic and Armenian texts to explore these Christian provinces as part of the Caliphate, identifying elements of continuity from Sasanian to caliphal rule, and, more importantly, expounding on significant moments of change in the administration of the Marwanid and early Abbasid periods. Vacca examines historical narrative and the construction of a Sasanian cultural memory during the late ninth and tenth centuries to place the provinces into a broader context of Iranian rule. This book will be of benefit to historians of Islam, Iran and the Caucasus, but will also appeal to those studying themes of Iranian identity and Muslim-Christian relations in the Near East.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Series information
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Epigraph
- Table of contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Situating Places, People, and Dates
- 1 Non-Persian Provinces of Iran, Non-Muslim Provinces of Islam: An Introduction to the Umayyad and ʿAbbāsid 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...
- 4 The So-Called Marzbans 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: The Case for a Parthian Intermezzo
- Bibliography
- Index