Non-Muslim Provinces under Early Islam - Islamic Rule and Iranian Legitimacy in Armenia and Caucasian Albania

This book explores the Christian caliphal provinces of Armenia and Caucasian Albania as part of the larger Iranian cultural sphere.

List of contents

1. Non-Persian provinces of Iran, non-Muslim provinces of Islam: an introduction to the Umayyad and 'Abb¿sid 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 of caliphal frontiers in the North; 4. The so-called Marzb¿ns 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: claiming Sasanian legacy and the case for a Parthian Intermezzo.

About the author

Alison Vacca is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. A recipient of the Fulbright Islamic Civilization Initiative award and the Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fund fellowship, her research focuses on intercultural transmission of historical texts, the use of Arabic sources to tell Armenian history, the relationship between the South Caucasus and Central Asia, and inter-communal conflict between Muslims and Christians under early Islamic rule.

Product details

• Authors: Alison Vacca, Alison (University of Tennessee Vacca
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.03.2020
• EAN: 9781316638552
• ISBN: 978-1-316-63855-2
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 433 g
• Illustrations: 7 b/w illus., Raster,schwarz-weiss, Worked examples or Exercises
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization; Cambridge Studies in Islamic C
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Islam, HISTORY / Middle East / General, Middle East, Islamic Studies, Middle Eastern history, Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities