Shii News – ‘Mechanisms of Social Dependency in the Early Islamic Empire’ – E Hayes and P M Sijpesteijn, eds.

Including:
Edmund Hayes, “The Epistolary Imamate: Circular Letters in the Administration of the Shiʿi Community”;
Georg Leube, “Local Elites during Two Periods of Civil Strife: Al-Ashʿath b. Qays, Muḥammad b. al-Ashʿath, and the Quarter of Kinda in Seventh-Century Kufa”;
Nimrod Hurvitz, “Rulers, Ḥanābila, and Shiʿis: The Unravelling Social Cohesion of Fourth/Tenth-Century Baghdad”;
Paul Walker, “Resistance to and Acceptance of the Fatimids in North Africa: A Shiʿi Dynasty in Negotiation with Both Adherents and Enemies”

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