Authority and Control in the Countryside

Alain Delattre, Ph.D. (2004), is Professor of Greek language and papyrology at the Université libre de Bruxelles and teaches Coptic papyrology at the École pratique des hautes études in Paris. He has published on Greek and Coptic papyri and inscriptions.Marie Legendre, Ph.D. (2013), is Lecturer in Islamic history at the University of Edinburgh. Her work focuses on early Islamic social and economic history, particularly administration and fiscal practice, non-Muslims under Muslim rule and multilingualism.Petra Sijpesteijn is professor of Arabic at Leiden University. She is currently PI of the ERC project Embedding Conquest: Naturalising Muslim Rule in the Early Islamic Empire (600-1000).

" ... les actes de ce colloque apportent des données concernant des aspects très divers du contrôle des arrière-pays ruraux dépendant de centres urbains (mais aussi, dans un cas, d’un monastère) allant de Tolède à Balkh, et concernant l’anté-islam et les deux siècles qui suivent la conquête, avec tout de même une majorité de communications concernant l’Égypte et la Syrie." Pierre Guichard, Université Lumière – Lyon II, in Arabica 67 (2020): 637-643"The abiding merit of this volume is the attention it devotes to that most central of questions for any historian of the Middle East—that is, agrarian production and wealth and its connection to the maintenance of human settlement and culture." Matthew S. Gordon, in Journal of Near Eastern Studies 80/2 (2021)

• AcknowledgementsFigures and TablesNotes on ContributorsNotes on Transliteration, Names and DatesIntroductionPetra M. Sijpesteijn, Marie Legendre and Alain DelattrePart 1 A Question of Sources1 New Governors Identified in Arabic PapyriKhaled Younes2 “I’ll Not Accept Aid from a mushrik”Rural Space, Persuasive Authority, and Religious Difference in Three Prophetic ḥadīthsLuke YarbroughPart 2 Territoriality3 The Rural Hinterland of the Visigothic Capitals of Toledo and Reccopolis, between the Years 400–800 CEJavier Martínez Jiménez4 Authority and Control in the Interior of Asia Minor, Seventh–Ninth CenturiesJames Howard-Johnston5 Church Building in the Ṭur ʿAbdin in the First Centuries of the Islamic RuleElif Keser-Kayaalp6 Les aménagements agricoles dans les Marges arides de Syrie du Nord (5e–10e siècles)Des témoins des modalités d’ appropriation et d’ exploitation des campagnesMarion Rivoal and Marie-Odile Rousset7 The Ghāzī MovementPerformative Religious Identity on the Byzantine-Islamic FrontierJessica L. Ehinger8 The Coming of Islam to BalkhArezou Azad and Hugh KennedyPart 3 Land Use and Resources9 Contrôle et exploitation des campagnes en SicileLe rôle du grand domaine et son évolution du VIe siècle au XIe siècleAnnliese Nef and Vivien Prigent10 Murtabaʿ al-jund et manzil al-qabāʾilPénétration militaire et installation tribale dans la campagne égyptienne au premier siècle de l’ IslamSobhi Bouderbala11 Landowners, Caliphs and State Policy over Landholdings in the Egyptian CountrysideTheory and PracticeMarie Legendre12 Monastic Control over Agriculture and FarmingNew Evidence from the Egyptian Monastery of Apa Apollo at Bawit Concerning the Payment of APARCHEGesa Schenke13 Caliphal Estates and Properties around Medina in the Umayyad PeriodHarry Munt14 Land Tenure, Land Tax and Social Conflictuality in Iraq from the Late Sasanian to the Early Islamic Period (Fifth to Ninth Centuries CE)Michele Campopiano15 Land Reclamation and Irrigation Programs in Early Islamic Southern MesopotamiaSelf-Enrichment vs. State ControlPeter VerkinderenPart 4 Local Rule and Networks16 Checkpoints, sauf-conduits et contrôle de la population en Égypte au début du VIIIe siècleAlain Delattre17 Policing, Punishing and Prisons in the Early Islamic Egyptian Countryside (640–850 CE)Petra M. SijpesteijnIndex