TY  - BOOK
AU  - Crone,Patricia
TI  - From Arabian tribes to islamic empire : army, state and society in the Near East c.600-850 
T2  - Variorum collected studies series
SN  - 9780754659259 
AV  - DS38.1 .C75 2008
U1  - 953.02 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - England
PB  - Ashgate
KW  - Islam and state
KW  - Islamic Empire
KW  - History, Military
KW  - History
KW  - 622-661
KW  - 750-1258
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction -- The Arabian background -- The tribe and the state -- Tribes and states in the Middle East -- The first-century concept of hiǧra -- The later evolution -- Were the Qays and Yemen of the Umayyad period political parties? -- A note on Muqātil b. Ḥayyan and Muqātil b. Sulaymān -- The significance of wooden weapons in al-Mukhtār's revolt and the ʻAbbāsid revolution -- On the meaning of the ʻAbbāsid call to al-Riḍā -- The ʻAbbāsid Abnāʼ and Sāsānid cavalrymen -- The early Islamic world -- The pay of client soldiers in the Umayyad period -- Mawālī and the prophet's family : an early Shīʻite view -- Imperial trauma : the case of the Arabs
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0725/2007033752.html
ER  -