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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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The creative reuse of materials, texts, and ideas was a common phenomenon in the medieval world. The seven chapters offer here a synchronic and diachronic consideration of the receptions and meanings of events and artifacts, analyzing the processes that allowed medieval works to remain relevant in sociocultural contexts far removed from those in which they originated. In the process, they elucidate the global valences of recycling, revision, and relocation throughout the interconnected Middle Ages, and their continued relevance for the shaping of modernity. The essays examine cases in the Arab and Muslim world, China and Mongolia, and the Prussian-Lithuanian frontier of eastern Europe.
Intercultural communication --- Civilization, Medieval. --- Literature, Medieval --- History --- History and criticism. --- Early Islamic History. --- Jennifer Purtle. --- Late Abbasid Period. --- Medieval China. --- Medieval Mongolia. --- Meredyth Lynn Winter. --- Prussian-Lithuanian Frontier. --- Ryan J. Lynch. --- Sino-Mongol Quanzhou. --- al-Balādhurī. --- circular economy. --- medieval globe. --- medieval material culture. --- recycling, medieval. --- spolia. --- Civilization, Medieval --- Medieval civilization --- Middle Ages --- Civilization --- Chivalry --- Renaissance --- Cross-cultural communication --- Communication --- Culture --- Cross-cultural orientation --- Cultural competence --- Multilingual communication --- Technical assistance --- Anthropological aspects
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