White Banners
Subtitle: Contention in Abbasid Syria, 750-880 (Suny Series in Medieval Middle East History)
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: April 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780791448809
Subjects: History; History - General History; History: World; Middle East; Medieval; Middle East - General; 750-1260; Abbasids; Syria
Description: "Using Arabic, non-Arabic and newly available local Syrian sources, this detailed study examines the central events of medieval Islamic history: the fall of the Syrian Umayyad caliphate and the rise of the 'Abbasid state. The book also provides answers to key questions concerning the history of medieval Syria: what strategies did the 'Abbasid government use to rule their new province? What was the fate of the Umayyads in Syria who survived the revolution?

How did Syria's tribal-military elite cope under new masters? What pushed the common folk to violence?"--BOOK JACKET.