Umayyad legacies
Subtitle: medieval memories from Syria to Spain
By: edited by Antoine Borrut, Paul M. Cobb
Series: Islamic history and civilization. Studies and texts -- v. 80; Islamic history and civilization -- v. 80.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 528
ISBN-13: 9789004184749
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Articles in English and French; one in Spanish, with English summary.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: toward a history of Umayyad legacies / Antoine Borrut and Paul M. Cobb; title: La memoria omeyyade : les omeyyades entre souvenir et oubli dans les sources : narratives islamiques / Antoine Borrut; title: Umar ibn abd al-Aziz, al-Walid ibn Yazid and their kin : images of the Umayyads in the Kitab al-Aghani / Hilary Kilpatrick; title: Medieval explanations for the fall of the Umayyads / Steven Judd; title: Perceptions of the Umayyads in Christian Spanish chronicles / Olivia Remie Constable; title: Les sources de l'histoire omeyyade dans l'ouvre d'ibn al-Adim / Anne-Marie Edde; title: Le califat omeyyade selon ibn Khaldun : revanche des impies ou fondation de l'empire? / Gabriel Martinez-Gros; title: Umayyad efforts at legitimation : the Umayyads' silent heritage / Fred M. Donner; title: Notule sur le patrimonialisme omeyyade / Christian Decobert; title: The names of estates in state registers before and after the Arabization of the Diwans / Wadad al-Qadi; title: Analogies entre les grandes mosquees de damas et cordoue : mythe ou realite? / Susanna Calvo Capilla; title: The al-Mughira pyxis and Spanish Umayyad ivories : aims and tools of power / Sophie Makariou; title: Sacred topography in medieval Syria and its roots between the Umayyads and late antiquity / Mattia Guidetti; title: La mediterranee musulmane, un heritage omeyyade / Christophe Picard; title: An Umayyad legacy for the early Islamic city : Fustat and the experience of Egypt / Donald Whitcomb; title: Formation et devenir du paysage architectural omeyyade : l'apport de l'archeologie / Denis Genequand; title: Los palacios omeyas, entre oriente y occidente (with English summary) / Antonio Almagro.