TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mikati,Rana
TI  - Creating an Islamic City: Beirut, Jihad, and the Sacred 
T2  - Islamic History and Civilization
SN  - 9789004682559
AV  - DS89.B4 
U1  - 956.92 23
PY  - 2024///
CY  - Leiden, Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Beirut (Lebanon)
KW  - History
N1  - 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
N2  - 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 This book traces the transformation of Beirut from a Byzantine metropolis to a place of ribāṭ , weaving previously unpublished archaeological material and narrative sources.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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004682559
ER  -