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Between Rebels and Rulers in the Early Islamicate World: Power, Contention and Identity

Between Rebels and Rulers in the Early Islamicate World: Power, Contention and Identity

Hagemann, Hannah-Lena
Grant, Alasdair C.

Hardcover

Series: Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryCentral Asian HistoryGeneral Middle Eastern History

ISBN10: 1399530186
ISBN13: 9781399530187
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: Dec 31 2024
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.57
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
Between Rebels and Rulers in the Early Islamicate World offers the first dedicated examination of the phenomenon of rebellion across the early Islamicate world. It combines discourse analysis with a return to long-neglected social-historical analysis in its study of contention and the ways in which it was narrated and enacted. These approaches are pursued through fourteen case studies, ranging geographically from North Africa to Central Asia and chronologically from the sixth to tenth centuries CE. These diverse examples reveal several patterns: First, rebellion operated as a normative means of negotiating power and obtaining justice. Second, the main constituencies of rebellion were local elites, both Muslims and non-Muslims, Arabs and members of pre-conquest societies, separately or together. Accordingly, this volume challenges the 'othering' of rebels found in written sources and reflected in scholarship and reframes them and their discourses as integral parts of an imperial system. Third, social ties provided a framework for the mobilisation of rebellious constituencies and the resolution of conflict.

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