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Umayyad Efforts at Legitimation: The Umayyads’ Silent Heritage
2010The Umayyads left to their successors in the Islamic worldnot only to their successors as rulers of the empire, the ʾAbbāsids, but also to Muslims at largea formidable political, intellectual, and communal legacy. This legacy, however, has often been poorly appreciated. This chapter outlines some of the major initiatives the Umayyads undertook in order
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1983
Cordoba under the Umayyads filled many of the roles of Visigothic Toledo as royal residence, cultural centre and capital. It was, however, less strategically placed as far as the north of the peninsula was concerned, though it should be borne in mind that the Muslim rulers were more often interested in events in North Africa than in those in ...
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Cordoba under the Umayyads filled many of the roles of Visigothic Toledo as royal residence, cultural centre and capital. It was, however, less strategically placed as far as the north of the peninsula was concerned, though it should be borne in mind that the Muslim rulers were more often interested in events in North Africa than in those in ...
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The Meaning of the Umayyad Dome of the Rock
Muqarnas, 1988archaeological evidence that, during the reigns of the four Orthodox Caliphs and the early Umayyads, a few communal buildings were constructed in the capital Medina and later Damascus, and in the new settlements or garrison towns (amsdr) in Syria, Iraq, and Egypt, but we know very little about their plans, structures, and construction materials.
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2017
This essay argues that the Church of the East should be seen as a Sasanian institution that adapted to a regime without central patronage in the Umayyad period. The seventh century was characterized by the private patronage of local elites and the conversion of polytheists. The Marwanid period saw a search for new Arab patrons after the regime began to
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This essay argues that the Church of the East should be seen as a Sasanian institution that adapted to a regime without central patronage in the Umayyad period. The seventh century was characterized by the private patronage of local elites and the conversion of polytheists. The Marwanid period saw a search for new Arab patrons after the regime began to
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1970
When in 75o the ‘Abbāsids signalized their accession by a general massacre of the members of the house of Umayyah,1one of the very few who escaped was ‘Abd-al-Raḥmān ibn-Mu‘āwiyah,2 a grandson of Hishām, the tenth caliph of Damascus. The story of the narrow escape of this twenty-year-old youth and of his five years’ wandering in disguise through ...
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When in 75o the ‘Abbāsids signalized their accession by a general massacre of the members of the house of Umayyah,1one of the very few who escaped was ‘Abd-al-Raḥmān ibn-Mu‘āwiyah,2 a grandson of Hishām, the tenth caliph of Damascus. The story of the narrow escape of this twenty-year-old youth and of his five years’ wandering in disguise through ...
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