Islam and the Abode of War

Military Slaves and Islamic Adversaries

David Ayalon

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• Print ISBN:
  9780860784302
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781000585179
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

This fourth selection of studies by David Ayalon takes up the theme of the preceding volume, that of the opposition between the Abode of Islam and the external world, the Abode of War. Similarly, a number of the articles are concerned with the impact of outsiders, moving into the world of Islam, but others focus on aspects of the conflict between the two worlds, for instance raising the question of why it was only on the Nubian frontier that the early Arab advance was halted. The majority of the studies however concentrate on the Mamluk institution, especially in Mamluk Egypt, and carry forward the author's argument of the decisiveness of the slave institution in Muslim society, particularly this socio-military component which played such a critical role in both the expansion and the defense of Islam. Cette quatrième sélection d'études de David Ayalon reprend le thème du volume précédent: celui de l'opposition entre le monde de l'Islam et le monde extérieur, ou monde dela guerre. De façon analogue, un certain nombre d'articles s'attachent à l'impact des étrangers s'installant dans le monde l'Islam, alors que d'autres se concentrant sur différents aspects du conflit entre les deux mondes, soulevant, par exemple, la question quant à la raison pour laquelle la première avance arabe fut uniquement arrêtée à la frontière nubienne. La plupart des études cependant, se concentrent sur l'institution mamelouke, plus spécifiquement en Egypte mamelouke. Elles poursuivent l'argument de l'auteur quant au caractère décisif de l'institution de l'esclavage dans la société musulmane, plus particulièrement en ce qui concerne l'élément socio-militaire qui jouât un rôle primordial dans l'expansion et la défense de l'Islam.

INDEX

• ^cAbdallāh b. Ḥumayd b. Qaḥṭba: I 7n, 12
• ^cAbdallāh b. Sa^cd b. Abī Sarḥ: XII 375, 3767, 378, 379, 380, 384
• ^cAbdallāh b. Ṭāhir: I 22
• ^cAbd al-Malik b. Ṣāliḥ b. ^cAlī b. ^cAbdallāh b. ^cAbbās: i 13–14, 17, 20
• ^cAbd al-Raḥmān b. Jabala al-Abnāwī: I 8, 12
• ’Abnā:I 2, 4–20, 22, 31–3, 34, 38–9
• ’Abnā’ al-Da^cwa: see ‘Abnā’
• ‘Abnā’ al-Dawla:see ‘Abnā ‘
• ’Abnā’ al-Shīa: see ‘Abnā’
• Abū ^cAbdallāh Muhammad b. Ja^cfar al-Anbārī: XI 297
• Abū al-Fidā’: IV 18, 47
• Abū Muslim: I 5, 9n
• Abū Shāma: IV 20–1
• Acre: XIII 251–252
• al-^cĀdil Abu Bakr: III 45–6
• aḍḥiya/ḍaḥāyāX 429n
• ^cAfrā’: XI 292–3
• Afrahenjad: XII 380
• aghawāt: II 14; X 416, 417, 419, 428n
• Ahl Baghdād/jund Ahl Baghdād: I 6, 9, 31–2
• Ahl al-Ḥarbiyya: I 11, 31–2
• Ahl al-Arbāḍ:I 11, 31–2
• Aḥmad b. Mazyad: I 12
• Aḥmad b. Ṭūlūn: XI 299
• Ahmed Pasha: IX 141–2
• ajlāb/julbān: X 427n
• ajnabī:II 15; IV 25; VI 207
• akhbāz:IV 29
• Akrād/Kurd: III 46; VII 13–17, 21–3, 37; IX 133
• Shahrazūriyya: VII 22
• Āl Faḍl: VII 27, 33
• Aleppo: IX 129, 131, 1...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• I The military reforms of Caliph al-MuCtasim: their background and consequences
• II Mamlūk: military slavery in Egypt and Syria
• III From Ayyūbids to Mamlūks
• IV Baḥrī Mamlūks, Burjī Mamlūks: inadequate names for the two reigns of the Mamlük sultanate
• v The Mamlük novice: on his youthfulness and on his original religion
• VI Mamlūk military aristocracy: a non-hereditary nobility
• VII The auxiliary forces of the Mamlūk sultanate
• VIII Some remarks on the economic decline of the Mamlūk sultanate
• IX The end of the Mamlūk sultanate: why did the Ottomans spare the Mamlüks of Egypt and wipe out the Mamlüks of Syria?
• X Mamlūk military aristocracy during the first years of the Ottoman occupation of Egypt
• XI On the term khādim in the sense of ‘eunuch’ in the early Muslim sources
• XII The Nubian Dam
• XIII Islam versus Christian Europe: the case of the Holy Land
• XIV The impact of firearms on the Muslim world
• Index