Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Rana Mikati -- Copyright Page / Rana Mikati -- Chapter 1 Calamities: Beirut at the End of Antiquity / Rana Mikati -- Chapter 2 Beirut, the Coast, and Its Conquest / Rana Mikati -- Chapter 3 Beirut, Sailors, and Ascetics / Rana Mikati -- Chapter 4 Beirut and the Rise of Ribāṭ / Rana Mikati -- Chapter 5 Beirut, the Imām, and Life on the Maritime Frontier / Rana Mikati -- Chapter 6 The Death of a Scholar: The Heirs of al-Awzāʿī in Beirut / Rana Mikati -- Chapter 7 A Few Good Men and a Woman: Beirut in the Muslim Imagination / Rana Mikati.

In Creating an Islamic City: Beirut, Jihad, and the Sacred , Rana Mikati examines for the first time the role and contribution of Beirut to the Umayyad and early Abbasid caliphates. This book traces the transformation of Beirut from a Byzantine metropolis to a place of ribāṭ , weaving previously unpublished archaeological material and narrative sources. By examining Beirut's transformation into a frontier town, the rise of a scholarly community around the Syrian jurist al-Awzā‘ī (d. 157/773-774), and its integration in an Islamic sacred landscape, Creating an Islamic City shows how a provincial frontier town was integrated and participated in the early caliphate.

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