Embedding Conquest: Naturalising Muslim Rule in the Early Islamic Empire (600-1000)

Project Information

EMBEDDING CONQUEST

Grant agreement ID: 683194

DOI

10.3030/683194

Project closed

EC signature date 8 June 2016

Start date 1 January 2017

End date 31 December 2022

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 999 960,00

EU contribution

€ 1 999 960,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITEIT LEIDEN
Netherlands

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (21)

Between Implementation and Legislation: The Shiʿi Imam Muḥammad al-Jawād’s Khums Demand Letter of 220 ah/835 ce

Author(s): Edmund Hayes
Published in: Islamic Law and Society, Issue 28 (4), 2021, Page(s) 382-414, ISSN 1568-5195
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/15685195-bja10014

Acts of Protection Represented in Bactrian Documents

Author(s): Reza Huseini
Published in: Annales Islamologiques, Issue 54, 2021, Page(s) 107-124, ISSN 2429-2850
Publisher: Open Edition Journals
DOI: 10.4000/anisl.7655

The Muqaddam Represented in the pre-Mongol Persian Documents from Ghur

Author(s): Said Reza Huseini
Published in: Afghanistan, Issue 4 (2), 2021, Page(s) 91-113, ISSN 2399-3588
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
DOI: 10.3366/afg.2021.0074

The Rebellion of al-Ḥārith b. Surayj (116–28/734–46):The Local Perspective*

Author(s): Said Reza Huseini
Published in: al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā, Issue 30, 2022, Page(s) 734-746, ISSN 1068-1051
Publisher: Columbia University Libraries

Alms and the Man: Fiscal Sectarianism in the Legal Statements of the Shiʿi Imams

Author(s): Edmund Hayes
Published in: Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Issue 17, 2018, Page(s) 280-298, ISSN 0806-198X
Publisher: n.a.
DOI: 10.5617/jais.6119

The Arabic script and language in the earliest papyri: mirrors of change

Author(s): Petra M. Sijpesteijn
Published in: Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam, Issue 49, 2021, Page(s) 433-494, ISSN 0334-4118
Publisher: The Max Schloessinger Memorial Foundation

The ẓll of ancient Dadān: Ritual and documentary practice

Author(s): Fokelien Kootstra
Published in: Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, Issue 33, 2022, Page(s) 178-187, ISSN 0905-7196
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/aae.12205

Procedures of Protection. Coptic Protection Letters and Village Life

Author(s): Eline Scheerlinck
Published in: Annales Islamologiques, Issue 54, 2021, Page(s) 15-30, ISSN 2429-2850
Publisher: Open Edition Journals
DOI: 10.4000/anisl.7263

A merchant reports: flax trade in an Arabic papyrus

Author(s): Sijpesteijn, P.M.
Published in: Aegyptus: rivista italiana di egittologia e di papirologia, Issue 9, 2022, Page(s) 235 – 242, ISSN 1827-7888
Publisher: Universita Cattolica

Studying Trade and Local Economies in Early Islamicate Societies: Responses to the ‘Long-Divergence’ Debate from Islamic History

Author(s): Cecilia Palombo
Published in: Cromohs, Issue 24, 2022, Page(s) 161-181, ISSN 1123-7023
Publisher: Firenze University Press
DOI: 10.36253/cromohs-13571

Governors and Provincial Elites in Umayyad Egypt

Author(s): Alon Dar
Published in: Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā, Issue 30, 2022, Page(s) 500-515, ISSN 1068-1051
Publisher: Columbia University Libraries

Neoplatonism and the Pax Mongolica in the making of ṣulḥ-i kull. A view from Akbar's millennial history

Author(s): Jos Gommans, Said Reza Huseini
Published in: Modern Asian Studies, Issue 56 (3), 2022, Page(s) 870-901, ISSN 1469-8099
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0026749x21000044

Introduction: Acts of Rebellion and Revolt in the Early Islamic Caliphate

Author(s): Alon Dar; Petra M. Sijpesteijn
Published in: Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā, Issue 30, 2022, Page(s) 436-444, ISSN 1068-1051
Publisher: Columbia University Libraries
DOI: 10.52214/uw.v30i.9995

Shaving Hair and Beards in Early Islamic Egypt: An Arab Innovation?

Author(s): Petra Sijpesteijn
Published in: Al-Masāq, Issue 30/1, 2018, Page(s) 9-25, ISSN 0950-3110
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Inc.
DOI: 10.1080/09503110.2018.1425809

Beards, Braids and Moustachios: Exploring the Social Meaning of Hair in the Mediaeval Muslim World

Author(s): Petra M. Sijpesteijn
Published in: Al-Masāq, Issue 30/1, 2018, Page(s) 4-8, ISSN 0950-3110
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Inc.
DOI: 10.1080/09503110.2018.1435390

Expressing New Rule: Seals from Early Islamic Egypt and Syria, 600–800 CE

Author(s): Petra M. Sijpesteijn
Published in: The Medieval Globe, Issue 1/4, 2018, Page(s) 99-148, ISSN 2377-3561
Publisher: ARC Medieval Press

Early Islamic Cosmopolitanism? Constructing the ʾUmma of India in Pre-Mongol Muslim Scholarship

Author(s): Edmund Hayes
Published in: Iranian Studies, Issue 13, 2017, Page(s) 75-120, ISSN 1743-1638
Publisher: Equinox Publishing
DOI: 10.1558/cis.32620

Acts of Protection in Early Islamicate Societies, Introduction

Author(s): Edmund Hayes et Eline Scheerlinck
Published in: Annales Islamologiques, Issue 54 2020, 2020, Page(s) 3-14, ISSN 2429-2850
Publisher: Open Edition Journals
DOI: 10.4000/anisl.7173

The Institutions of the Shīʿī Imāmate: Towards a Social Historyof Early Imāmī Shiʿism

Author(s): Edmund Hayes
Published in: Al-Masaq, Issue Vol.33 No.2, 2021, Page(s) 188 - 204, ISSN 0950-3110
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Inc.
DOI: 10.1080/09503110.2021.1907520

Expressing New Rule: Seals from Early Islamic Egypt and Syria, 600–800 CE

Author(s): Sijpesteijn, P.M.; Bedos-Rezak B.M.
Published in: TITLE=The Medieval Globe, Issue bi-anually, 2018, Page(s) 99-148, ISSN 2377-3561
Publisher: Arc Humanities press

Closing Ranks: Discipline and Loyalty in the Umayyad Army

Author(s): Petra M. Sijpesteijn
Published in: Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā, Issue 30, 2022, Page(s) 469-499, ISSN 1068-1051
Publisher: Columbia Unversity Libraries
DOI: 10.52214/uw.v30i.9935

Other (4)

Qur’ān Quotations Preserved on Papyrus Documents, 7th–10th Centuries. And the Problem of Carbon Dating Early Qur’āns - Review

Author(s): Cecilia Palombo
Published in: Der Islam, Issue 98 (2), 2021, Page(s) 613-618, ISSN 1613-0928
Publisher: de Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/islam-2021-0043

Embedding Conquest: Naturalizing Muslim Rule in the Early Islamic Empire (Project Report)

Author(s): Cecilia Palombo
Published in: Medieval Worlds, Issue 17, 2022, Page(s) 198, ISSN 2412-3196
Publisher: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
DOI: 10.1553/medievalworlds_no17_2022s198

Review Muhammad and the Empires of Faith: The Making of the Prophet of Islam. Oakland

Author(s): Cecilia Palombo
Published in: The Medieval Review, Issue 2021 issue, 2021, ISSN 1096-746X
Publisher: University of California Press

Review of Ruffini, G.R. (2018) Life in an Egyptian village in late antiquity: Aphrodito before and after the Islamic conquest

Author(s): Sijpesteijn, P.M.
Published in: Journal of Roman Studies, Issue 13, 2018, Page(s) 347-348, ISBN 9781107105607
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0075435820001343

Book chapters (16)

Perversion and Subversion: Gender Relations and Illicit Sexuality in Ibn Dāniyāl’s Shadow Play

Author(s): Edmund Hayes
Published in: Queering the Medieval Mediterranean: Transcultural Sea of Sex, Gender, Identity, and Culture, Issue 121, 2021, Page(s) 95-116, ISBN 978-90-04-46532-9
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/9789004465329

Egypt’s Connections in the Early Caliphate: Political, Economic, and Cultural

Author(s): Petra M. Sijpesteijn
Published in: Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean World From Constantinople to Baghdad, 500-1000 CE, 2022, Page(s) 238-271, ISBN 9781009170031
Publisher: Cambridge University press
DOI: 10.1017/9781009170031.009

RELIGION ET FISCALITÉ DANS L’ÉGYPTE MÉDIÉVALE(600-900 AP. J.-C.)

Author(s): Petra M. Sijpesteijn
Published in: RELIGIONS ET FISCALITÉ DANS LE MONDE MÉDITERRANÉEN DE L’ANTIQUITÉ À NOS JOURS, 2023, Page(s) 289-304, ISBN 979-10-231-0728-9
Publisher: Sorbonne Université Presses

“‘…So that the descendants of the descendants [of the Muslims] may profit by it’: ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, the Muslim Army and the Decision not to Divide the Lands of Alexandria.”

Author(s): Alon Dar
Published in: Living the End of Antiquity: Individual Histories from Byzantine to Islamic Egypt, 2020, Page(s) 49-62
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/9783110683554-006

Loyal and knowledgeable supporters: integrating egyptian elites in early Islamic Egypt

Author(s): Petra M. Sijpesteijn
Published in: Oxford Studies in Early Empires; Empires and communities in the post-Roman and Islamic World, C. 400-1000 CE, 2021, Page(s) 329-359, ISBN 9780190067946
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780190067946.003.0012

Neoplatonic kingship in the Islamic world: Akbar’s millennial history

Author(s): Jos Gommans, Said Reza Huseini
Published in: Sacred kingship in world history: between immanence and transcendence, 2022, Page(s) 192 - 222, ISBN 9780231555401
Publisher: Columbia University Press
DOI: 10.7312/moin20416-010

Introduction

Author(s): Jelle Bruning, Janneke De Jong, Petra m. Sijpesteijn
Published in: Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean World: From Constantinople to Baghdad, 500-1000 CE, 2022, Page(s) 1-16, ISBN 9781009170031
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/9781009170031.001

Good governance in theory and practice: comparing Abū Yūsuf's Kitāb al-Kharāj with papyri

Author(s): Petra M. Sijpesteijn
Published in: The historian of Islam at work. Essays in honor of Hugh N. Kennedy, 2022, Page(s) 183-200, ISBN 9789004525238
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/9789004525245_011

"""The Curses Will Be Like Oil in Their Bones."" Excommunication and Curses in Bishops’ Letters beyond Late Antiquity"

Author(s): Eline Scheerlinck
Published in: Religious Identifications in Late Antique Papyri 3rd—12th Century Egypt, 2022, Page(s) 213-231, ISBN 9781032263496
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.4324/9781003287872

Kontinuität und Wandel

Author(s): Sijpesteijn, P.M.; Palme, B.
Published in: Halbmund über dem Nil. Wie aus dem byzantinischen das arabische Ägypten wurde, Issue 5, 2022, Page(s) 31-46, ISBN 978385161275
Publisher: Phoibos Verlag

Visible identities: in search of Egypt’s Jews in early Islamic Egypt

Author(s): Petra M. Sijpesteijn
Published in: Israel in Egypt : The land of Egypt as concept and reality for Jews in antiquity and the early medieval period, 2020, Page(s) 424 - 440, ISBN 9789004435407
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/9789004435407_019

Introduction

Author(s): Petra M. Sijpesteijn, Marie Legendre, Alain Delattre
Published in: Authority and Control in the Countryside: From Antiquity to Islam in the Mediterranean and Near East (6th-10th Century), Issue 9, 2019, Page(s) 1-9, ISBN 9789-004386549
Publisher: BRILL
DOI: 10.1163/9789004386549_002

Policing, Punishing and Prisons in the Early Islamic Egyptian Countryside (640–850 CE)

Author(s): Petra M. Sijpesteijn
Published in: Authority and Control in the Countryside: From Antiquity to Islam in the Mediterranean and Near East (6th-10th Century), Issue 9, 2019, Page(s) 547–588, ISBN 9789004386549
Publisher: BRILL
DOI: 10.1163/9789004386549_019

Delegation of Judicial Power in Abbasid Egypt

Author(s): Petra M. Sijpesteijn
Published in: Legal Documents as Sources for the History of Muslim Societies, 2017, Page(s) 61-84, ISBN 9789-004343733
Publisher: BRILL
DOI: 10.1163/9789004343733_005

Mohammeds wereld in Egypte

Author(s): Petra M. Sijpesteijn
Published in: Mohammed en de Late Oudheid, Issue 6, 2018, Page(s) 137- 158, ISBN 9789-087045838
Publisher: Uitgeverij Verloren

Establishing Local Elite Authority in Egypt Through Arbitration and Mediation

Author(s): Petra Sijpesteijn
Published in: Transregional and Regional Elites – Connecting the Early Islamic Empire, Issue 36, 2020, Page(s) 387-406, ISBN 9783-110669800
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/9783110669800-015

Monographic books (1)

IntroductionArabic Medical-Magical Manuscripts: A Living Traditioneditorship

Author(s): Editors: Marcela A. Garcia Probert and Petra M. Sijpesteijn
Published in: Leiden Studies in Islam and Society, Issue 13, 2022, Page(s) 1-12; 78-104, ISBN 978-90-04-47147-4
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/9789004471481