Publications
Below, you find a bibliography of articles and books published by the project team over the course of the project, including our Working Paper Series as well as the book series Early Islamic Empire at Work published by DeGruyter. Please refer to the individual team members' site for their full publication lists.
forthcoming
Antonia Bosanquet and Stefan Heidemann (eds.). The Measure of Integration – Fiscal Structures and Resources of the Early Islamic Empire (The Early Islamic Empire at Work 3 / Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East 38), Berlin: De Gruyter.
Stefan Heidemann and Katharina Mewes (eds.). The Reach of Empire (The Early Islamic Empire at Work 2 / Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East 37), Berlin: De Gruyter.
Link to The Reach of Empire on the De Gruyter website
Antonia Bosanquet. “Shifting Trade Patterns in the ʿAbbāsid Province of Ifrīqiya.” In The Measure of Integration – Fiscal Structures and Resources of the Early Islamic Empire (The Early Islamic Empire at Work 3 / Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East 38), ed. by Antonia Bosanquet and Stefan Heidemann, Berlin: De Gruyter.
Simon Gundelfinger. “Production and Trade Patterns in Islamic al-Shām and its Vicinities”. In The Measure of Integration – Fiscal Structures and Resources of the Early Islamic Empire (The Early Islamic Empire at Work 3 / Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East 38), ed. by Antonia Bosanquet and Stefan Heidemann, Berlin: De Gruyter.
Hannah-Lena Hagemann. “The Limits of Imperial Control: The Jazīran North in the Early Islamic Period”. In The Reach of Empire (The Early Islamic Empire at Work 2 / Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East 37), ed. by Stefan Heidemann and Katharina Mewes, Berlin: De Gruyter.
Ahmad Khan. “Khurasan”. In Encyclopaedia of Islam THREE, ed. by Kate Fleet (et al.), Leiden: Brill (app. 2,000 words).
Ahmad Khan. Early Islamic Khurasan – The Idea and Practice of the Empire (The Early Islamic Empire at Work 5 / Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East), Berlin: De Gruyter.
Peter Verkinderen. “Taxing the Province - Taxation in Early Islamic Fārs”. In The Measure of Integration – Fiscal Structures and Resources of the Early Islamic Empire (The Early Islamic Empire at Work 3 / Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East 38), ed. by Antonia Bosanquet and Stefan Heidemann, Berlin: De Gruyter.
Peter Verkinderen. Early Islamic Fars – Government and Administration (The Early Islamic Empire at Work 4 / Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East), Berlin: De Gruyter.
2020
Antonia Bosanquet. “Keeping their Place: The Prohibition on Non-Muslim Scribes in Ahkām ahl al-dhimma.” In Minorities in Contact in the Medieval Mediterranean. Cultural Encounters in the Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages (Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages 33), ed. by Clara Almagro Vidal, Jessica Tearney-Pearce and Luke Yarbrough, Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 211-30.
Link to Minorities in Contact on the Brepols website
Simon Gundelfinger and Peter Verkinderen. “The Governors of al-Shām and Fārs in the Early Islamic Empire – A Comparative Regional Perspective”. In Transregional and Regional Elites – Connecting the Early Islamic Empire (The Early Islamic Empire at Work 1 / Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East 36), ed. by Hannah-Lena Hagemann and Stefan Heidemann, Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 255-329.
Hannah-Lena Hagemann and Stefan Heidemann (eds.). Transregional and Regional Elites – Connecting the Early Islamic Empire (The Early Islamic Empire at Work 1 / Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East 36), Berlin: De Gruyter.
Link to Transregional and Regional Elites (Open Access) on the De Gruyter website
Hannah-Lena Hagemann, Katharina Mewes and Peter Verkinderen. “Studying Elites in Early Islamic History: Concepts and Terminology.” In Transregional and Regional Elites – Connecting the Early Islamic Empire (The Early Islamic Empire at Work 1 / Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East 36), ed. by Hannah-Lena Hagemann and Stefan Heidemann, Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 17-44.
Hannah-Lena Hagemann and Peter Verkinderen. “Khārijism in the Umayyad Period.” In The Umayyad World (Routledge Worlds), ed. by Andrew Marsham, London: Routledge, pp. 489-517.
Link to The Umayyad World on the Routledge website
Hannah-Lena Hagemann. “Muslim Elites in the Early Islamic Jazīra: The Qāḍīs of Ḥarrān, al-Raqqa, and al-Mawṣil.” In Transregional and Regional Elites – Connecting the Early Islamic Empire (The Early Islamic Empire at Work 1 / Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East 36), ed. by Hannah-Lena Hagemann and Stefan Heidemann, Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 331-58.
Stefan Heidemann. "Introduction: Transregional and Regional Elites – Connecting the Early Islamic Empire." In Transregional and Regional Elites – Connecting the Early Islamic Empire (The Early Islamic Empire at Work 1 / Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East 36), ed. by Hannah-Lena Hagemann and Stefan Heidemann, Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 1-16.
Ahmad Khan. “An Empire of Elites: Mobility in the Early Islamic Empire.” In Transregional and Regional Elites – Connecting the Early Islamic Empire (The Early Islamic Empire at Work 1 / Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East 36), ed. by Hannah-Lena Hagemann and Stefan Heidemann, Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 147-69.
2019
Hannah-Lena Hagemann. "Whence Diyār Bakr? An Inquiry into Early Jazīran Adminstrative Geography." In Der Islam: Journal of the History and Culture of the Middle East 96.2: 324-44.
Link to the article on Hagemann's Academia.edu-website
2018
Hannah-Lena Hagemann. “Review of Shurāt Legends, Ibāḍī Identities: Martyrdom, Asceticism, and the Making of an Early Islamic Community, by Adam R. Gaiser, Columbia, SC: The University of South Carolina Press, 2016.” In Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations 29.4: 534-36.
Hannah-Lena Hagemann. “Review of Alison Vacca, Non-Muslim Provinces under Early Islam: Islamic Rule and Iranian Legitimacy in Armenia and Caucasian Albania, Cambridge: CUP, 2017.” In BSOAS 81.2: 342-44.
Ahmad Khan. “Review of T. Bernheimer, The ʿAlids: The First Family of Islam, 750-1200.” In Der Islam: Journal of the History and Culture of the Middle East 95.1: 201-05.
2016
Hannah-Lena Hagemann. “Challenging Authority: Al-Balādhurī and al-Ṭabarī on Khārijism during the Reign of Muʿāwiya b. Abī Sufyān”. In al-Masaq 28.1: 36-56.
Link to the article on Hagemann's Academia.edu website
Ahmad Khan. “Islamic Tradition in an Age of Print: Editing, Printing, and Publishing the Classical Heritage.” In Reclaiming Islamic Tradition: Modern Interpretations of the Classical Heritage, ed. by Elisabeth Kendall and Ahmad Khan, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 52-100.
Link to Reclaiming Islamic Tradition on the EUP website
José Haro Peralta and Peter Verkinderen . “'Find for me!': Building a Context-Based Search Tool Using Python.” In The Digital Humanities and Islamic & Middle East Studies, ed. by Elias Muhanna, Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 199-231.
Link to the article (Open Access) on the De Gruyter website
2015
Hannah-Lena Hagemann. History and Memory: Khārijism in Early Islamic Historiography (PhD Dissertation, University of Edinburgh, under contract with EUP).
Link to History and Memory on the Edinburgh Research Archive
2011
Stefan Heidemann. “The Agricultural Hinterland of Baghdād, al-Raqqa and Sāmarrāʾ: Settlement Patterns in the Diyār Muḍār.” In Le Proche-Orient de Justinien aux Abbasides. Peuplement et dynamiques spatiales. Actes du colloque «Continuites de l'occupation entre les periodes byzantine et abbasside au Proche-Orient, VIe-IXe siecles» Paris, 18-20 octobre 2007 (Bibliothèque de l’antiquitè tardive 19), ed. by A. Borrut, M. Debié, A. Papaconstantinou, D. Pieri, and J.-P. Sodini, Turnhout: Brepols, pp. 43-58.
Heidemann-Hinterland (pdf)
2009
Stefan Heidemann. “Settlement Patterns, Economic Development and Archaeological Coin Finds in Bilad al-Sham: the Case of the Diyar Mudar – The Process of Transformation from the 6th to the 10th Century A.D.” In Residences, Castles, Settlements. Transformation Processes from Late Antiquity to Early Islam in Bilad al-Sham. Proceedings of the International Conference Held at Damascus, 5-9 November 2006 (Orient-Archäologie 24), ed. by Karin Bartl and Abd al-Razzaq Moaz, Rahden: Verlag Marie Leidorf, pp. 493-516.
Heidemann-Settlement Patterns (pdf)
