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Author Tor, D. G

Title The ʿAbbasid and Carolingian Empires Comparative Studies in Civilizational Formation
Published Boston : BRILL, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (241 pages)
Series Islamic History and Civilization Ser
Islamic History and Civilization Ser
Contents Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The Ê¿Abbasid and Carolingian Dynasties in Comparative Perspective -- Part 1 Political Power -- Inventing the Missi: Delegating Power in the Late Eighth and Early Ninth Centuries -- áıÞasanwayh b. al-áıÞusayn al-Kurdı (r. ca. 350â#x80;#x93;369/ca. 961â#x80;#x93;979): From Freehold Castles to Vassality? -- Part 2 Culture, Ethnicity, and Geography -- The Emperorâ#x80;#x99;s Ass: Hunting for the Asiatic Onager (Equus hemionus) in the Ê¿Abbasid, Byzantine, and Carolingian Worlds -- Ethnicity in the Carolingian Empire
Across the Hindűkush of the Ê¿Abbasid PeriodPart 3 Religion -- Columbanus, the Columbanian Tradition and Caesarius -- The Rebel and the Imam: The Uprising of Zayd al-NÄ#x81;r and ShiÊ¿i Leadership Claims -- Final Summation -- Comparing Carolingians and Ê¿Abbasids
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Subject Abbasids.
Carolingians -- History
Islamic civilization.
Abbasid.
Abbasids
Carolingians
Islamic civilization
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004353046
9004353046