Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents iii
3. List of maps and figures v
4. Acknowledgements vi
5. Map 1 viii
6. Map 2 x
7. Map 3 xii
8. INTRODUCTION 1
9. Part I. Late Antique Arabia and Early Islam (C. 550–C. 660)
10. INTRODUCTION 21
11. 1. ALLIANCE AND ALLEGIANCE IN PRE-ISLAMIC ARAB 24
12. 2. THE VERB BĀYAʿA IN THE QURʾĀN: ALLEGIANCE TO MUḤAMMAD 40
13. 3. THE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE IN THE ‘CONQUEST SOCIETY’ (C. 628–C. 660) 60
14. Part II. The Umayyad Caliphate (C. 660–750)
15. INTRODUCTION 81
16. 4. SUFYANID ACCESSION AND SUCCESSION, C. 660–683 86
17. 5. THE OATH OF ALLEGIANCE IN THE EARLY TRADITION AND POETRY, C. 680–C. 710 96
18. 6. THE MARWANID PATRIMONY AND DYNASTIC SUCCESSION 113
19. 7. MARWANID RITUALS OF ACCESSION AND SUCCESSION 134
20. 8. WRITING AND THE BAYʿA IN THE MARWANID PERIOD 145
21. 9. THE QURANIC CONTENT OF THE MARWANID DOCUMENTS 168
22. Part III. The Early Abbasid Caliphate (C. 750–809)
23. INTRODUCTION 183
24. 10. THE CONSOLIDATION OF ABBASID POWER: AL-MANṢŪR AND AL-MAHDĪ (754–785) 192
25. 11. THE CALIPHATES OF MŪSĀ AL-HĀDĪ (785–786) AND HĀRŪN AL-RASHĪD (786–809) 216
26. 12. ‘DISPOSITIVE DOCUMENTS’ FOR THE EARLY ABBASID SUCCESSION 230
27. Part IV. The Middle Abbasid Caliphate (809–865)
28. INTRODUCTION 253
29. 13. FROM THE CIVIL WAR TO SAMARRA (809–847) 259
30. 14. THE CALIPHATE OF AL-MUTAWAKKIL (847–861) 274
31. 15. THE OUTBREAK OF THE SECOND NINTH-CENTURY CIVIL WAR (861–865) 283
32. 16. ABBASID DOCUMENTS FOR CALIPHAL ACCESSION 294
33. CONCLUSION 309
34. Genealogical table of Quraysh 318
35. Genealogical table of the Abbasid caliphs 319
36. Bibliography 320
37. Index 338