IMC 2014: Sessions

Session 819: Were the Umayyad Caliphates Empires?, II

Organiser:	Ann R. Christys, Independent Scholar, Leeds
Moderator/Chair:	Andrew Marsham, School of Literatures, Languages & Cultures, University of Edinburgh
Paper 819-a	Sustaining Fleets - Shaping Empires?: The Conscription of Non-Muslim Sailors in Umayyad Naval Warfare - Coptic, Syriac, and Armenian Historiographies as Alternatives to Arabic Sources and Papyri (Language: English) Myriam Wissa, Department of the Languages & Cultures of the Near & Middle East, School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Political Thought
Paper 819-b	An Unwanted Empire?: The Umayyads in the Andalusi Sources of the 3rd/9th Century (Language: English) Mateusz Wilk, Institute of History, Uniwersytet Warszawski Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Political Thought
Paper 819-c	Heirs and Spares: Children of the Elite in the Literary Sources of Umayyad Iberia (Language: English) Nicola Clarke, School of History, Classics & Archaeology, Newcastle University Index terms: Historiography - Medieval, Islamic and Arabic Studies, Political Thought
Abstract	In the second of two sessions, the participants will examine some aspects of the questions discussed in the first session, extended to the wider Umayyad world. How relevant is the concept of empire, to the Umayyad conquest of North Africa? What was the influence of the political heritage of Damascus on the politics of Umayyad rule in al-Andalus?