Christians and others in the Umayyad state
By: edited by Antoine Borrut and Fred M. Donner with contributions by Touraj Daryaee, Muriel Debié, Sidney H. Griffith, Wadād al-Qādī, Milka Levy-Rubin, Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych, Donald Whitcomb, and Luke Yarbrough
Contributors: Qāḍī, Wadād, contributor
Series: Late Antique and Medieval Islamic Near East -- 1; Late antique and medieval Islamic Near East -- no. 1.
Publisher: Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago; Oriental Institute Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Chicago, Illinois
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9781614910312
Subjects: Islam; Relations; Christianity; Christianity and other religions; Christians; History; Ethnic relations; Religious aspects
Description: "The papers in this first volume of the new Oriental Institute series LAMINE are derived from a conference entitled “Christians, Jews, and Zoroastrians in the Umayyad State,” held at the University of Chicago on June 17–18, 2011. The goal of the conference was to address a simple question: Just what role did non-Muslims play in the operations of the Umayyad state? It has always been clear that the Umayyad family (r. 41–132/661–750) governed populations in the rapidly expanding empire that were overwhelmingly composed of non-Muslims — mainly Christians, Jews, and Zoroastrians — and the status of those non-Muslim communities under Umayyad rule, and more broadly in early Islam, has been discussed continuously for more than a century. The role of non-Muslims within the Umayyad state has been, however, largely neglected. The eight papers in this volume thus focus on non-Muslims who participated actively in the workings of the Umayyad government."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.