Table Of ContentUmayyad Legacies
Islamic History
and Civilization
Studies and Texts
Editorial Board
Sebastian Günther
Wadad Kadi
VOLUME 80
Umayyad Legacies
Medieval Memories from Syria to Spain
Edited by
Antoine Borrut
Paul M. Cobb
LEIDEN • BOSTON
2010
Cover illustration: Pyxis made for Prince al-Mughīra, “The enthronement scene.”
© Ali Meyer. Courtesy of Sophie Makariou.
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Umayyad legacies : medieval memories from Syria to Spain / edited by
Antoine Borrut, Paul M. Cobb.
p. cm. — (Islamic history and civilization. Studies and texts,
ISSN 0929-2403 ; v. 80)
Articles in English and French; one in Spanish.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-90-04-18474-9 (hardback : alk. paper)
1. Umayyad dynasty. 2. Islamic Empire—History—661–750. 3. Islamic Empire—
History—750–1258. 4. Spain—History—711–1516. 5. Syria—History—634–750.
I. Borrut, Antoine. II. Cobb, Paul M., 1967–. III. Title.
DP107.U63 2010
956’.013—dc22
2010015728
ISSN 0929-2403
ISBN 978 90 04 18474 9
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In Memory of
Alfred-Louis de Prémare
Yaʿizzu ʿalayya an naghdū jamīʿan
wa-tusḅ iḥa thāwiyan rahnan bi-wādī
– Kuthayyir ʿAzza (d. ca. 723)
CONTENTS
Preface and Acknowledgments ....................................................... xi
List of Illustrations ............................................................................ xiii
List of Contributors ........................................................................... xvii
Introduction: Toward a History of Umayyad Legacies .............. 1
Antoine Borrut and Paul M. Cobb
HISTORY AND MEMORY
La memoria omeyyade : les Omeyyades entre souvenir et oubli
dans les sources narratives islamiques ....................................... 25
Antoine Borrut
ʿUmar ibn ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz, al-Walīd ibn Yazīd and their Kin:
Images of the Umayyads in the Kitāb al-Aghānī .................... 63
Hilary Kilpatrick
Medieval Explanations for the Fall of the Umayyads ................. 89
Steven C. Judd
Perceptions of the Umayyads in Christian Spanish Chronicles .... 105
Olivia Remie Constable
Les sources de l’histoire omeyyade dans l’œuvre d’Ibn
al-ʿAdīm .......................................................................................... 131
Anne-Marie Eddé
Le califat omeyyade selon Ibn Khaldūn : revanche des impies
ou fondation de l’empire ? ........................................................... 167
Gabriel Martinez-Gros
viii contents
PRACTICE OF POWER AND LEGITIMATION
Umayyad Efforts at Legitimation: The Umayyads’ Silent
Heritage ........................................................................................... 187
Fred M. Donner
Notule sur le patrimonialisme omeyyade ...................................... 213
Christian Décobert
The Names of Estates in State Registers before and after the
Arabization of the Dīwāns ........................................................... 255
Wadād al-Qāḍī
Analogies entre les grandes mosquées de Damas et Cordoue :
mythe ou réalité ? ........................................................................... 281
Susana Calvo Capilla
The al-Mughīra Pyxis and Spanish Umayyad Ivories: Aims and
Tools of Power ............................................................................... 313
Sophie Makariou
LEGACIES ON LAND AND SEA
Sacred Topography in Medieval Syria and its Roots between
the Umayyads and Late Antiquity ............................................. 339
Mattia Guidetti
La méditerranée musulmane, un héritage omeyyade .................. 365
Christophe Picard
An Umayyad Legacy for the Early Islamic City: Fustạ̄ t ̣and the
Experience of Egypt ...................................................................... 403
Donald Whitcomb
Formation et devenir du paysage architectural omeyyade :
l’apport de l’archéologie ............................................................... 417
Denis Genequand
contents ix
Los palacios omeyas, entre oriente y occidente (with English
summary) ........................................................................................ 475
Antonio Almagro
Index .................................................................................................... 515
Colour Plates .................................................................... following 528
Description:The Umayyads, the first dynasty of Islam, ruled over a vast empire from their central province of Syria, providing a line of caliphs from 661 to 750. Another branch later ruled in al-Andalus Islamic Spain from 756 to 1031, ruling first as emirs and then as caliphs themselves. This book is the first
