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Beschreibung
This book explores the Christian caliphal provinces of Armenia and Caucasian Albania as part of the larger Iranian cultural sphere.
This book explores the Christian caliphal provinces of Armenia and Caucasian Albania as part of the larger Iranian cultural sphere.
Über den Autor
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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Fachbereich: Regionalgeschichte
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781316638552
ISBN-10: 1316638553
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Vacca, Alison
Hersteller: Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 229 x 152 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Alison Vacca
Erscheinungsdatum: 26.03.2020
Gewicht: 0,424 kg
Artikel-ID: 118279986