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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

New governors identified in Arabic Papyri / Khaled Younes -- "I'll not accept aid from a Mushrik": Rural space, persuasive authority, and religious difference in three prophetic Hadiths / Luke yarbrough -- The rural Hinterland of the Visigothic Capitals of Toledo and Reccopolis, between the years 400-800 BCE / Javier Martinez Jimenez -- Authority and control in the interior of Asia Minor, 7th-9th centuries / James Howard-Johnston -- Church building in the Tur 'Abdin in the first centuries of the Islamic rule / Elif Keser-Kayaalp -- Les amenagements agricoles dans les marges Arides de Syrie du Nord (5e-10e siecles): Des temoins des modalites d' appropriation et d' exploitation des campagnes / Marion Rivoal, Marie-Odile Rousset -- The Ghazi movement: Performative religious identity on the Byzantine-Islamic frontier / Jessica Ehinger -- The coming of Islam to Balkh / Arezou Azad, Hugh Kennedy -- Controle et exploitation des campagnes en Sicile: Le role du grand domaine et son evolution du vie siecle au xie siecle / Annliese Nef, Vivien Prigent -- Murtaba' al-Jund et Manzil al-Qaba'il: Penetration militaire et installation tribale dans la campagne egyptienne au premier Siecle de l' islam / Sobhi Bouderbala -- Landowners, caliphs and state policy over landholdings in the early Islamic Egyptian countryside theory and practice / Marie Legendre -- Monastic control over agriculture and farming: New evidence from the Egyptian Monastery of Apa Apollo at Bawit concerning the payment of Aparche / Gesa Schenke -- Caliphal estates and properties around Medina in the Umayyad period / Harry Munt -- Land tenure, land tax and social conflictuality in Iraq from the late Sasanian to the early Islamic period (5th to 9th centuries CE) / Michele Campopiano -- Land reclamation and irrigation programs in early Islamic Southern Mesopotamia: Self-enrichment vs. state control / Peter Verkinderen.