The Umayyad Empire - (Edinburgh History of the Islamic Empires) by Andrew Marsham (Paperback)

About the Book

Explores the distinctive character of the Umayyad empire in its early Islamic context: its economy, society and political history.

Book Synopsis

Explores the distinctive character of the Umayyad empire in its early Islamic context: its economy, society and political history.

Review Quotes

Readers will gain a greater understanding of the Umayyad involvement in the transformative growth of Islam as well as further insight into the Umayyad era's historic role in connecting the pre-Islamic world with the eventual Abbasid Caliphate that succeeded it.--Robert W. Lebling "AramcoWorld"

In his new book, Andrew Marsham - one of the great historians of the Umayyads - gives us a portrait of the first Muslim empire in all its vastness, turmoil, and diversity. Much more than a dynastic history, this book helps us see the environment in which Islam was first born and spread across the ancient world. A mighty achievement.

--Christian Sahner, University of Oxford

About the Author

Andrew Marsham is Professor of Classical Arabic Studies at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Queens' College, specialising in the Late Antique and Early Medieval History of the Mediterranean and the Middle East. His publications include The Umayyad World (Routledge, 2021), Power, Patronage and Memory in Early Islam (Oxford, 2018, with Professor Alain George), and Rituals of Islamic Monarchy (Edinburgh, 2009).