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The Rise of a Capital: Al-Fusṭāṭ and Its Hinterland, 18/639-132/750

By Jelle Bruning

Book information

Publisher
BRILL
Year
2018
ISBN
9004366350, 9789004366350, 9789004366367
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2218934 bytes)
Series
Islamic History and Civilization, 153
Pages
225\232
Topic
Religion
Time added
2018-05-07 12:49:05
CairoEgyptFustatHistoryislamIslamic StudiesIslamwissenschaftOrientOrientalismReligionReligious StudiesTheology

Description

In The Rise of a Capital: Al-Fusṭāṭ and Its Hinterland, 18/639-132/750, Jelle Bruning maps al-Fusṭāṭ’s development from a garrison town founded by Muslim conquerors near modern Cairo (Egypt) in c. 640 C.E. into a bustling provincial capital a century later. Synthesising contemporary papyri, archaeology and narrative sources, this book argues that al-Fusṭāṭ’s position in Egypt changed with the different policies of the Rightly-Guided and Umayyad caliphs and their provincial representatives. Because these policies affected the town’s centrality in the administration as well as in commercial and legal networks throughout Egypt, from Alexandria in the north to Aswan in the south, The Rise of a Capital offers valuable new insights into Egypt’s society during the first century of Muslim rule.

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