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 (alk. paper)
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Aldershot [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 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
ER  -