Authority and Control in the Countryside: From Antiquity to Islam in the Mediterranean and Near East (6th-10th Century)

‎Contents
‎Acknowledgements
‎Figures and Tables
	‎Figures
	‎Tables
‎Notes on Contributors
‎Notes on Transliteration, Names and Dates
‎Introduction (Sijpesteijn, Legendre and Delattre)
	‎1. A Question of Sources
	‎2. Territoriality
	‎3. Land Use and Resources
	‎4. Local Rule and Networks
‎Part 1. A Question of Sources
	‎Chapter 1. New Governors Identified in Arabic Papyri (Younes)
	‎Chapter 2. “I’ll Not Accept Aid from a mushrik” (Yarbrough)
‎Part 2. Territoriality
	‎Chapter 3. The Rural Hinterland of the Visigothic Capitals of Toledo and Reccopolis, between the Years 400–800CE (Martínez Jiménez)
	‎Chapter 4. Authority and Control in the Interior of Asia Minor, Seventh–Ninth Centuries (Howard-Johnston)
	‎Chapter 5. Church Building in the Ṭur ʿAbdin in the First Centuries of the Islamic Rule (Keser-Kayaalp)
	‎Chapter 6. Les aménagements agricoles dans les Marges arides de Syrie du Nord (5e–10e siècles) (Rivoal et Rousset)
	‎Chapter 7. The Ghāzī Movement (Ehinger)
	‎Chapter 8. The Coming of Islam to Balkh (Azad and Kennedy)
‎Part 3. Land Use and Resources
	‎Chapter 9. Contrôle et exploitation des campagnes en Sicile (Nef et Prigent)
	‎Chapter 10. Murtabaʿ al-jund et manzil al-qabāʾil (Bouderbala)
	‎Chapter 11. Landowners, Caliphs and State Policy over Landholdings in the Egyptian Countryside (Legendre)
	‎Chapter 12. Monastic Control over Agriculture and Farming (Schenke)
	‎Chapter 13. Caliphal Estates and Properties around Medina in the Umayyad Period (Munt)
	‎Chapter 14. Land Tenure, Land Tax and Social Conflictuality in Iraq from the Late Sasanian to the Early Islamic Period (Fifth to Ninth Centuries CE) (Campopiano)
	‎Chapter 15. Land Reclamation and Irrigation Programs in Early Islamic Southern Mesopotamia (Verkinderen)
‎Part 4. Local Rule and Networks
	‎Chapter 16. Checkpoints, sauf-conduits et contrôle de la population en Égypte au début du VIIIe siècle (Delattre)
	‎Chapter 17. Policing, Punishing and Prisons in the Early Islamic Egyptian Countryside (640–850CE) (Sijpesteijn)
‎Index