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Crucifixion and Death as Spectacle explores how the first caliphal dynasty of early Islam, the Umayyads, employed crucifixion to punish brigands and heretics and to humiliate rebels and enemies, and how they drew upon a late antique legacy of punitive practices associated with crucifixion in the Late Roman and Sasanid Persian worlds.

Crucifixion and Death As Spectacle Umayyad

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      Publisher: American Oriental Society
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 21/03/2014
      ISBN13: 9780940490376, 978-0940490376
      ISBN10: 940490374

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      Book Synopsis
      Crucifixion and Death as Spectacle explores how the first caliphal dynasty of early Islam, the Umayyads, employed crucifixion to punish brigands and heretics and to humiliate rebels and enemies, and how they drew upon a late antique legacy of punitive practices associated with crucifixion in the Late Roman and Sasanid Persian worlds.

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