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Transregional and regional elites of various backgrounds were essential for the integration of diverse regions into the early Islamic Empire, from Central Asia to North Africa. This volume is an important contribution to the conceptualization of the largest empire of Late Antiquity. While previous studies used Iraq as the paradigm for the entire empire, this volume looks at diverse regions instead. After a theoretical introduction to the concept of 'elites' in an early Islamic context, the papers focus on elite structures and networks within selected regions of the Empire (Transoxiana, Khurāsān, Armenia, Fārs, Iraq, al-Jazīra, Syria, Egypt, and Ifrīqiya). The papers analyze elite groups across social, religious, geographical, and professional boundaries. Although each region appears unique at first glance, based on their heterogeneous surviving sources, its physical geography, and its indigenous population and elites, the studies show that they shared certain patterns of governance and interaction, and that this was an important factor for the success of the largest empire of Late Antiquity.

Abbasiden. --- Abbasids. --- Early Islamic History. --- Elites. --- Frühislamische Geschichte. --- Umayyaden. --- Umayyads. --- Islamic Empire. --- Arab Empire --- Muslim Empire

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Abbasiden. --- Abbasids. --- Caliphs --- Caliphs. --- Civilisation islamique --- Pays islamiques --- ʻAbbāssides. --- Histoire. --- Ṭabarī, --- Abbassides (dynastie) --- Histoire --- Sources. --- Empire islamique --- Sources

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Abbasiden --- Abbasides --- Abbasides (Dynastie) --- Abbasids --- Abbassides --- Abbassides (Dynastie) --- 'Abbassides --- Islamic Empire --- Iraq --- Empire islamique --- Irak --- History --- Histoire --- ʻAbbāssides --- Caliphate --- Politics and government.

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This book re-examines the so-called Ἁbbāsid revolution, the ethnic character of whose effective constituency has been contested for over eight decades. It also brings to question the authenticity of the Ἁbbāsid dynastic claim. To establish its two theses (neither Arab nor Ἁbbāsid) this book employs, in its three parts, three distinct methodological approaches. To reconstruct the secret history of the clandestine Organization, Part One elicits a narrative through a rigorous application of the historical-critical method. Part Two subjects to close textual analysis some prime-grade literary specimen. In Part Three, a purely quantitative approach is adopted to study the demographic character of the formal structures of leadership within the Organization. History, historiography, heresiography, literature, the narrative, the textual analysis, and the quantitative approach, cannot be less inseparable.

Abbasids --- Islamic Empire --- History --- Abbassides (dynastie) --- Empire islamique --- Caliphs --- -Arab countries --- Arab Empire --- Empire, Islamic --- Middle East --- Muslim Empire --- -History --- Abbasids. --- ʻAbbāssides --- Histoire --- Sturz. --- Abbasiden, --- Omaijaden. --- 750-1258. --- Islamic Empire. --- Abbassides --- Islamic Empire - History - 750-1258

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"During the Abbasid period (750-820), the vast territories beyond the Amu Darya river (the Mawara'annahr), conquered by the Umayyad generals in the first half of the eighth century, entered definitively into the cultural sphere of Islam. The comparative analysis of medieval Arabic, Persian, and Chinese sources, supplemented by materials from unpublished manuscripts, as well as the latest results yielded by archaeological excavations at Samarkand, have made it possible to establish a fine-grained chronology of this turning point in the history of Central Asia. Examined in this new light are complex and irreversible processes that resulted in a changed political and religious fabric, transformations of the Sogdian and Muslim elite, and the evolution of the state's system of controlling territories on its borders, within a context of confrontations and diplomatic relations between the caliphate, the Tang empire in China, and the Turks"--Back cover.

Abbasids --- Islam --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- 'Abbassides --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- History --- Histoire --- Asia, Central --- Samarqand (Uzbekistan) --- Asie centrale --- Samarkand (Ouzbékistan) --- Antiquities --- Antiquités --- Antiquities. --- Excavations (Archaeology). --- Islam. --- Abbasiden, --- To 1500. --- Transoxiana --- Asia, Central. --- Asia --- Uzbekistan --- Transoxanien. --- Samarkand. --- Sogdiana. --- ʻAbbāssides --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Samarkand (Ouzbékistan) --- Antiquités --- Islam - Asia, Central - History - To 1500 --- Excavations (Archaeology) - Uzbekistan - Samarqand --- Transoxiana - History - To 1500 --- Asia, Central - History - To 1500 --- Samarqand (Uzbekistan) - Antiquities