Authority and Control in the Countryside - From Antiquity to Islam in the Mediterranean and Near East (6th-10th Century)

Authority and Control in the Countryside looks at the economic, religious, political and cultural instruments that local and regional powers in the late antique to early medieval Mediterranean and Near East used to manage their rural hinterlands.

About the author

Alain Delattre, Ph.D. (2004), is Professor of Greek language and papyrology at the Université libre de Bruxelles and teaches Coptic papyrology at the École pratique des hautes études in Paris. He has published on Greek and Coptic papyri and inscriptions. Marie Legendre, Ph.D. (2013), is Lecturer in Islamic history at the University of Edinburgh. Her work focuses on early Islamic social and economic history, particularly administration and fiscal practice, non-Muslims under Muslim rule and multilingualism. Petra Sijpesteijn is professor of Arabic at Leiden University. She is currently PI of the ERC project Embedding Conquest: Naturalising Muslim Rule in the Early Islamic Empire (600-1000).

Product details

• Assisted by: Alain Delattre (Editor), Marie Legendre (Editor), Petra Sijpesteijn (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2018
• EAN: 9789004386358
• ISBN: 978-90-04-38635-8
• No. of pages: 612
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 234 mm x 33 mm
• Weight: 794 g
• Series: Leiden Studies in Islam and So
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous