{"product_id":"the-abbasid-and-carolingian-empires-comparative-studies-in-civilizational-formation-9789004349896","title":"The ʿAbbasid and Carolingian Empires: Comparative Studies in Civilizational Formation","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCirca AD 750, both the Islamic world and western Europe underwent political revolutions; these raised to power, respectively, the ʿAbbasid and Carolingian dynasties. The eras thus inaugurated were similar not only in their chronology, but also in the foundational role each played in its respective civilization, forming and shaping enduring religious, cultural, and societal institutions.  The ʿAbbāsid and Carolingian Empires: Studies in Civilizational Formation, is the first collected volume ever dedicated specifically to comparative Carolingian-ʿAbbasid history. In it, editor D.G. Tor brings together essays from some of the leading historians in order to elucidate some of the parallel developments in each of these civilizations, many of which persisted not only throughout the Middle Ages, but to the present day.  Contributors are: Michael Cook, Jennifer R. Davis, Robert Gleave, Eric J. Goldberg, Minoru Inaba, Jürgen Paul, Walter Pohl, D.G. Tor and Ian Wood.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  Introduction  The ʿAbbasid and Carolingian Dynasties in Comparative Perspective  D.G. Tor  Political Power  Inventing the Missi Delegating Power in the Late Eighth and Early Ninth Centuries  Jennifer R. Davis  Ḥasanwayh b. al-Ḥusayn al-Kurdī (r. ca. 350–369\/ca. 961–979) From Freehold Castles to Vassality?  Jürgen Paul  Culture, Ethnicity, and Geography  The Emperor’s Ass Hunting for the Asiatic Onager (Equus hemionus) in the ʿAbbasid, Byzantine, and Carolingian Worlds  Eric J. Goldberg  Ethnicity in the Carolingian Empire  Walter Pohl  Across the Hindūkush of the ʿAbbasid Period  Minoru Inaba  Religion  Columbanus, the Columbanian Tradition and Caesarius  Ian Wood  The Rebel and the Imam The Uprising of Zayd al-Nār and Shiʿi Leadership Claims  Robert Gleave  Final Summation  Comparing Carolingians and ʿAbbasids  Michael Cook  Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210730299735,"sku":"9789004349896","price":119.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-abbasid-and-carolingian-empires-comparative-studies-in-civilizational-formation-9789004349896","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}