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Between Memory and Power: The Syrian Space Under the Late Umayyads and Early Abbasids (C. 72-193/692-809)

Between Memory and Power: The Syrian Space Under the Late Umayyads and Early Abbasids (C. 72-193/692-809)

Borrut, Antoine
Bailey Galietti, Anna
Bailey Galietti, Anna

Hardcover

IslamGeneral Asian HistoryGeneral Middle Eastern History

ISBN10: 9004466312
ISBN13: 9789004466319
Publisher: Brill
Published: Jul 26 2023
Pages: 516
Weight: 2.02
Height: 1.40 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
Between Memory and Power intends to demonstrate that a robust culture of historical writing existed in 2nd/8th century Syria, and to offer new methodological approaches to access this now lost history, torn between memory and oblivion. By studying the making of Umayyad heroes or Abbasid origins-myths, this book aims to reveal the successive meanings granted to Syrian history, and to identify the various layers of historical writing and rewriting during the first centuries of Islam. Taken together, these elements make possible a history of meanings of the very space of Syria, articulated around power and its expression, which grants a clear coherence to the period, extending well beyond the dynastic caesura of 132/750.

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