Crone, Patricia,  1945- <br/><br/>
From Arabian tribes to Islamic empire :  army, state and society in the Near East c.600-850 / 
Patricia Crone 
 - Aldershot [England] :  Ashgate,  c2008 
 - 1 v. (various pagings) ;  23 cm. 
 - Variorum collected studies series ;  CS895 .
 - Collected studies ;  CS895 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index 
<br/><br/>Introduction -- The Arabian background -- The tribe and the state -- Tribes and states in the Middle East -- The first-century concept of higra -- The later evolution -- Were the Qays and Yemen of the Umayyad period political parties? -- A note on Muqatil b. Hayyan and Muqatil b. Sulayman -- The significance of wooden weapons in al-Mukhtar's revolt and the Abbasid revolution -- On the meaning of the Abbasid call to al-Rida -- The Abbasid Abna and Sasanid cavalrymen -- The early Islamic world -- The pay of client soldiers in the Umayyad period -- Mawali and the prophet's family : an early Shiite view -- Imperial trauma : the case of the Arabs 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780754659259 (alk. paper)  RM404.59 0754659259 (alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2007-033752 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Islam and state
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Islamic Empire--History, Military<br/>Islamic Empire--History--622-661<br/>Islamic Empire--History--750-1258