[PDF.67jb] Slaves on Horses: The Evolution of the Islamic Polity

Slaves on Horses: The Evolution of the Islamic Polity

[PDF.mg60] Slaves on Horses: The Evolution of the Islamic Polity

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 | #2430644 in Books |  Cambridge University Press |  2003-10-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.50 x.71 x5.43l,.89 | File type: PDF | 316 pages

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||7 of 7 people found the following review helpful.| don't forget the appendix|By David Reid Ross|Patricia Crone wrote this in 1980, adapting it from the first part of her PhD thesis. (Another part became the book "Roman, Provincial and Islamic Law" - as of 1997, this has been challenged and as far as I know, Crone has abandoned it.) Anyway "Slaves on Horses" is the first work of Crone's which I can recommend.

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Slave soldiers are a distinctively Muslim phenomenon. Though virtually unknown in the non-Muslim world, they have been a constant and pervasive feature of the Muslim Middle East from the ninth century AD into modern times. Why did Muslim rulers choose to place military and political power in the hands of imported slaves? It is this question which Dr Crone seeks to answer. Concentrating on the period from the rise of the Umayyads to the dissolution of the 'Abbasid empire ...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Slaves on Horses: The Evolution of the Islamic Polity   |  Patricia Crone. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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