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The Umayyad Empire (the Edinburgh History Of the Islamic Empires)
[Paperback - 2024]
andrew marsham
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Category: History
Sub-category: Islamic History
Additional Category: Middle Eastern History
Publisher: Edinburgh University | ISBN: 9780748643004 | Pages: 304
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This book presents a history of the Umayyad Empire, the only period in which an Arabian ruling elite and its tribal armies ruled a world empire. Marsham presents a number of arguments which, taken together, offer a new perspective on the Umayyads.

About the Author

Andrew Marsham is Professor of Classical Arabic Studies at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Queens College, specialising in the Late Antique and Early Medieval History of the Mediterranean and the Middle East. His publications include The Umayyad World(Routledge, 2021), Power, Patronage and Memory in Early Islam (Oxford, 2018, with Professor Alain George), and Rituals of Islamic Monarchy (Edinburgh, 2009).

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