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Contents

Preface

A note on conventions

PART I INTRODUCTION

1 Historiographical introduction

2 The nature of the Arab conquest

PART II THE EVOLUTION OF THE CONQUEST SOCIETY

3 The Sufyānid pattern, 661—84 [41—64]

4 Syria of 684 [64]

5 The Marwānid evolution, 684—744 [64—126]

6 The Marwānid faction

7 Syria of 744 [126]

8 Umayyad clientage

PART III THE FAILURE OF THE ISLAMIC EMPIRE

9 The abortive service aristocracy

10 The emergence of the slave soldiers

11 The emergence of the medieval polity

APPENDICES

I The Ashrāf Syria and Iraq

II The Subgovernors of Syria, 685—744 [65—126]

III The Subgovernors of Iraq and its dependencies, 694—744 [75—126]

IV The Yamaniyya and the Qaysiyya

V The 'Abbāsid servants, 750—813 [132—98]

VI Mawlā in the sense of 'kinsman'

Notes

Bibliography

General Index

Prosopographical index