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Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations viii
4. Abbreviations ix
5. Notes on Contributors x
6. Map of mentioned locations xiv
7. Acknowledgements xvi
8. Introduction: Approaching Rebellion in the Early Islamicate World* 1
9. PART I DISCOURSES OF REBELLION
10. 1 Islamic Scholarly Giants and (Anti-)Rebellion Ḥadīths 25
11. 2 Early Ibāḍī Historiography: The Case of the Khawārij 52
12. PART II POLITICAL CULTURE OF REBELLION
13. 3 The Revolt of Yaḥyā b. Zayd b. ʿAlī (d. 125/743): Bayʿa, Disobedience and Rebellion in the Early Islamic Period 73
14. 4 Poet, Scholar, Rebel? ʿImrān b. Ḥiṭṭān (d. 703), Khārijite Revolt and the ‘Playbook of Rebellion’ in the Umayyad Period 95
15. PART III CONTENTIOUS COMMUNITIES
16. 5 Sectarianism and Counterinsurgency in Sixth-Century Roman Mesopotamia: A Case Study in ‘Ruralisation’ 121
17. 6 Religion and Rebellion: Mobilisation through Religious Image-Building – The Cases of the Zanj and Qarāmiṭa 143
18. PART IV CONTENDING THE PROVINCE
19. 7 Taxation, Rebellion and Withdrawal in Early ʿAbbāsid Armenia (136–58/754–75) 167
20. 8 Local Resistance and Arab Rebellion: The Conquest of Khurāsān and Transoxiana in the Context of the First and Second Fitnas 191
21. PART V CONTENDING THE CITY
22. 9 Negotiating Rebellion: The Revolt of the Jund of Tunis (793–4)* 217
23. 10 Changing Patterns of Rebellion in Aghlabid Ifrīqiya 239
24. PART VI DISPUTING PRIVILEGE
25. 11 Wealth and the Image of the Umayyads in the Sermons Attributed to Abū Ḥamza (d. 748) 265
26. 11 Wealth and the Image of the Umayyads in the Sermons Attributed to Abū Ḥamza (d. 748) 290
27. PART VII SPACES OF REBELLION
28. 13 Three Kaʿbas, Three Rebellions: Rebels and Sacred Architectures in the Early Islamic World 317
29. 14 Infrastructures of Contention: The Zanj Rebellion (255–69/869–83) 339
30. Index 361