Mechanisms of Social Dependency in the Early Islamic Empire

List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Preface and acknowledgements; Notes on transliteration, names and dates; Introduction: the ties that bound the societies of the Islamic Empire Edmund Hayes and Petra Sijpesteijn; Part I. Personal Ties: 1. Ties of unfreedom in Late Antiquity and early Islam: debt, dependency and the origins of Islamic law Robert Hoyland; 2. The local clergy and 'ties of indebtedness' in Abbasid Egypt: some reflections on studying credit and debt in early Islamicate societies Cecilia Palombo; 3. 'Return to God and the brotherhood of good and excellent people': Bringing the prodigal son back home in Ayyubid Egypt Oded Zinger; 4. Aloneness as connector in Arabic papyrus letters of request Petra Sijpesteijn; 5. Swearing Abu al-Jaysh into office: the loyalties of ?ulunid Egypt Matthew Gordon; Part II. Institutions: 6. Messengers in Byzantine and early Muslim Egypt - small cogs, but systemically relevant. With some remarks on the dossier of Menas, stratiotes Stefanie Schmidt; 7. The epistolary imamate: circular letters in the administration of the Shi?i community Edmund Hayes; 8. Early Arabic decrees on papyrus from the Abbasid period Naim Vantieghem; 9. A state letter from a Marwanid caliph to his governor of Iraq: a historiographical investigation into Khalid b. ?Abd Allah al-Qasri's downfall Noemie Lucas; 10. Between the Arabs and the Turks: household, conversion and power dynamics in early Islamic Bactria Said Reza Huseini; 11. The affective connection in early Islamic social hierarchies: affection, threats, and appeals to piety in official documents from the Umayyad and Abbasid periods Karen Bauer; Part III. Communities: 12. Local elites during two periods of civil strife: Al-Ash?ath b. Qays, Mu?ammad b. al-Ash?ath, and the quarter of Kinda in seventh-century Kufa Georg Leube; 13. Rulers, ?anabila and Shi?is - the unraveling social cohesion of fourth/tenth century Baghdad Nimrod Hurvitz; 14. Resistance to and Acceptance of the Fatimids in North Africa: A Shi?i dynasty in negotiation with both adherents and enemies Paul E. Walker; 15. Boundaries that bind? Pagan and Christian Arabs between Syriac and Islamic strategies of distinction (late first century AH) Simon Pierre; 16. 'Peace be upon you': Arabic greetings in Greek and Coptic letters written by Christians in early Islamic Egypt Lajos Berkes; 17. Tied to two empires: the material evidence of the Islamic conquest of Sicily Joanita Vroom; Index.

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