Iraq after the Muslim Conquest - Michael G. Morony
ADMINISTRATIVE GEOGRAPHY edge of the desert from the Euphrates near Hit, through the region of oases called Taff to the sea near ...
ADMINISTRATION their oases. The conquest had the immediate effect of shifting the important defensive frontier of Iraq from the ...
ADMINISTRATIVE GEOGRAPHY sions of Ard Kufa were defined in the early Islamic period is provided by the description given by 'Amm ...
ADMINISTRATION mediate effects were disastrous flooding below Kaskar and the spread of swamps. Flooding occurred again in the ti ...
ADMINISTRATIVE GEOGRAPHY late Sasanian period lies in the fact that this region was occupied by the lower end of a massive irrig ...
ADMINISTRATION of Kaskar.201 In 687 an 'amil and treasury (Ar. bayt mal) were at Kaskar,202 and the city became a mint for post- ...
ADMINISTRATIVE GEOGRAPHY district and the tassiij called Ustan is likely to have been the subdistrict of the city of Kaskar itse ...
ADMINISTRATION Dast-i Maysan, and Manadhir. The subdistrict called Bahman Arda- shir was the immediate territory around the city ...
ADMINISTRATIVE GEOGRAPHY Maysan as Ubulla, this subdistrict appears actually to have been lo- cated along the old course of the ...
ADMINISTRATION kingdom and an-Nu'man ibn al-Mundhir is said to have appointed Sinan ibn Malik as its governor. Sinan is also sai ...
ADMINISTRATIVE GEOGRAPHY The unification under Ziyad was incomplete to the extent that Basra and Kufa remained twin capitals, bu ...
ADMINISTRATION opment were greatest at the lowest level of the hierarchy, where a subdistrict often consisted of the territory a ...
Part II PEOPLE ...
Introduction ALTHOUGH population groupings ought to provide a suitable frame- work for the discussion of cultural continuity and ...
PEOPLE how meaningful such categories were and be careful of assumptions about the linguistic criteria for ethnic identities. Co ...
Chapter 4 ARAMAEANS ARAMAEANS IN LATE SASANIAN IRAQ People speaking various dialects of Aramaic were by far the most numerous li ...
PEOPLE the Anbat were the Aramaic speaking peasants and townsmen of Iraqs and were thereby usually distinguished from Persians, ...
ARAMAEANS dicated by the proximity of towns and villages such as Atesh Gah (N.P., "place of fire"), presumably settled by Magian ...
PEOPLE of the Euphrates in the Sawad -of Hira, who dealt directly with the Muslims for his lands at the time of the conquest.^16 ...
ARAMAEANS in the case of Qayyoma bar Mershabor.19 A further indication of the kind of mixture existing at Nippur is provided by ...
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