List of Illustrations Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Acknowledgements Map 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 adith s Marjan Asi 2. Early Ibai Historiography: The Case of the Khawarij Enki Baptiste and Adam Gaiser II. Political Culture of Rebellion 3. The Revolt of Yaya b. Zayd b.
Ali (d. 125/743): Baya , Disobedience and Rebellion in the Early Islamic Period Natalie Kontny-Wendt 4. Poet, Scholar, Rebel? Imran b. ian (d. 703), Kharijite 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 Qaramia Nimrod Hurvitz IV.
Contending the Province 7. Taxation, Rebellion and Withdrawal in Early Abbasid Armenia (136-58/754-75) Alasdair C. Grant 8. Local Resistance and Arab Rebellion: The Conquest of Khurasan and Transoxiana in the Context of the First and Second Fitna s Robert Haug V. Contending the City 9. Negotiating Rebellion: The Revolt of the J und of Tunis (793-4) Alon Dar 10. Changing Patterns of Rebellion in Aghlabid Ifriqiya Antonia Bosanquet VI. Disputing Privilege 11.
Wealth and the Image of the Umayyads in the Sermons Attributed to Abu amza (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 Kabas, 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 Index.