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Parution: H.-L. Hagemann et A.C. Grant, Between Rebels and Rulers in the Early Islamicate World. Power, Contention and Identity, Édimbourg, EUP, 2024 (OpenAcess)

Studies rebellion as historical phenomenon and literary construct in early Islamicate contexts

  • Re-centres the long-neglected subject of rebellion in the early Islamic period as a category in its own right
  • Sets out paradigmatic features of early Islamicate rebellion, offering historians in other fields a model for comparative analysis
  • Transcends traditional confessional boundaries in Islamic Studies by putting into conversation scholarship on Sunnī, Shīʿī, Ibāḍī, Khārijite, and non-Muslim revolts
  • Pursues a multidisciplinary approach by bringing together social historians, scholars of religion and literary scholars
  • Embraces case studies from a wide geographical canvas and diverse contexts (e.g., Mashriq and Maghreb; mountains and waterscapes; rural and urban; elites and non-elites)

Between Rebels and Rulers in the Early Islamicate World offers the first dedicated examination of the phenomenon of rebellion across the early Islamicate world. It combines discourse analysis with a return to long-neglected social-historical analysis in its study of contention and the ways in which it was narrated and enacted. These approaches are pursued through fourteen case studies, ranging geographically from North Africa to Central Asia and chronologically from the sixth to tenth centuries CE.

These diverse examples reveal several patterns: First, rebellion operated as a normative means of negotiating power and obtaining justice. Second, the main constituencies of rebellion were local elites, both Muslims and non-Muslims, Arabs and members of pre-conquest societies, separately or together. Accordingly, this volume challenges the ‘othering’ of rebels found in written sources and reflected in scholarship and reframes them and their discourses as integral parts of an imperial system. Third, social ties provided a framework for the mobilisation of rebellious constituencies and the resolution of conflict.

 

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Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors
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Introduction: Approaching Rebellion in the Early Islamicate World
Hannah-Lena Hagemann and Alasdair C. Grant

I. Discourses of Rebellion
1. Islamic Scholarly Giants and (Anti-) Rebellion Ḥadīths
Marjan Asi
2. Early Ibāḍī Historiography: The Case of the Khawārij
Enki Baptiste and Adam Gaiser

II. Political Culture of Rebellion
3. The Revolt of Yaḥyā b. Zayd b. ʿAlī (d. 125/743): Bayʿa, Disobedience and Rebellion in the Early Islamic Period
Natalie Kontny-Wendt
4. Poet, Scholar, Rebel? ʿImrān b. Ḥiṭṭān (d. 703), Khārijite Revolt and the ‘Playbook of Rebellion’ in the Umayyad Period
Hannah-Lena Hagemann

III. Contentious Communities
5. Sectarianism and Counterinsurgency in Sixth-century Roman Mesopotamia: A Case Study in ‘Ruralisation’
Walter Beers
6. Religion and Rebellion: Mobilisation through Religious Image-building – The Cases of the Zanj and Qarāmiṭa
Nimrod Hurvitz

IV. Contending the Province
7. Taxation, Rebellion and Withdrawal in Early ʿAbbāsid Armenia (136–58/754–75)
Alasdair C. Grant
8. Local Resistance and Arab Rebellion: The Conquest of Khurāsān and Transoxiana in the Context of the First and Second Fitnas
Robert Haug

V. Contending the City
9. Negotiating Rebellion: The Revolt of the Jund of Tunis (793–4)
Alon Dar
10. Changing Patterns of Rebellion in Aghlabid Ifrīqiya
Antonia Bosanquet

VI. Disputing Privilege
11. Wealth and the Image of the Umayyads in the Sermons Attributed to Abū Ḥamza (d. 748)
Andrew Marsham
12. A Generational Explanation of the Third Fitna (126–36/744–54)
Leone Pecorini Goodall

VII. Spaces of Rebellion
13. Three Kaʿbas, Three Rebellions: Rebels and Sacred Architectures in the Early Islamic World
Muhamed Riyaz Chenganakkattil
14. Infrastructures of Contention: The Zanj Rebellion (255–69/869–83)
Philip Grant

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Enki Baptiste (10 janvier 2025). Parution: H.-L. Hagemann et A.C. Grant, Between Rebels and Rulers in the Early Islamicate World. Power, Contention and Identity, Édimbourg, EUP, 2024 (OpenAcess). Diwan. Consulté le 12 janvier 2026 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/131x3


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