Contents

pp v-vii

List of Illustrations

pp viii-viii

Abbreviations

pp ix-ix

Notes on Contributors

pp x-xiii

Map of mentioned locations

pp xiv-xv

Acknowledgements

pp xvi-xvi

Introduction: Approaching Rebellion in the Early Islamicate World

pp 1-22

Part I - Discourses of Rebellion

pp 23-24

1 - Islamic Scholarly Giants and (Anti-)Rebellion Ḥadīths

pp 25-51

2 - Early Ibāḍī Historiography: The Case of the Khawārij

pp 52-70

Part II - Political Culture of Rebellion

pp 71-72

3 - The Revolt of Yaḥyā b. Zayd b. ʿAlī (d. 125/743): Bayʿa, Disobedience and Rebellion in the Early Islamic Period

pp 73-94

4 - Poet, Scholar, Rebel? ʿImrān b. Ḥiṭṭān (d. 703), Khārijite Revolt and the ‘Playbook of Rebellion’ in the Umayyad Period

pp 95-118

Part III - Contentious Communities

pp 119-120

5 - Sectarianism and Counterinsurgency in Sixth-Century Roman Mesopotamia: A Case Study in ‘Ruralisation’

pp 121-142

6 - Religion and Rebellion: Mobilisation through Religious Image- Building – The Cases of the Zanj and Qarāmiṭa

pp 143-164

Part IV - Contending the Province

pp 165-166

7 - Taxation, Rebellion and Withdrawal in Early ʿAbbāsid Armenia (136–58/754–75)

pp 167-190

8 - Local Resistance and Arab Rebellion: The Conquest of Khurāsān and Transoxiana in the Context of the First and Second Fitnas

pp 191-214

Part V - Contending the City

pp 215-216

9 - Negotiating Rebellion: The Revolt of the Jund of Tunis (793–4)

pp 217-238

10 - Changing Patterns of Rebellion in Aghlabid Ifrīqiya

pp 239-262

Part VI - Disputing Privilege

pp 263-264

11 - Wealth and the Image of the Umayyads in the Sermons Attributed to Abū Ḥamza (d. 748)

pp 265-289

12 - A Generational Explanation of the Third Fitna (126–36/744–54)

pp 290-314

Part VII - Spaces of Rebellion

pp 315-316

13 - Three Kaʿbas, Three Rebellions: Rebels and Sacred Architectures in the Early Islamic World

pp 317-338

14 - Infrastructures of Contention: The Zanj Rebellion (255–69/ 869–83)

pp 339-360

Index

pp 361-366