Vom Beutezug zur Territorialherrschaft

Das lange Jahrhundert des Aufstiegs von Nomaden zur Vormacht in Syrien und Mesopotamien 286 bis 420 / 889 bis 1029. Beduinische Gruppen in mittelislamischer Zeit I

By (author) Kurt Franz

Book cover: Vom Beutezug zur Territorialherrschaft

Extent: 292 pages

Publisher: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag

Subjects: Anthropology

Series: Nomaden und Sesshafte

Language: German

Hardback (Published)

(March 2008)

ISBN: 9783895005305

6.69 x 9.45 inches

Price: $105.00

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Bedouins made history founding small states in the midst of cultural areas—these peculiar incidents of the 10th century, unique to the Islamic Middle Age, have prompted the assumption that the Fertile Crescent was ‘bedouinized’. Kurt Franz presents a critical overview of the shifts of power between the nomadic and sedentary peoples of that period. He approaches the Bedouin point of view and shows how territorial-institutional and mobile-predatory strategies of expansion were juxta-posed. He argues that protection by Bedouin emirs constituted a new model of indigenous government, which could have served as a regional alternative to the rule of military slaves.


English description: Bedouins made history founding small states in the midst of cultural areas-these peculiar incidents of the 10th century, unique to the Islamic Middle Age, have prompted the assumption that the Fertile Crescent was ‘bedouinized’. Kurt Franz presents a critical overview of the shifts of power between the nomadic and sedentary peoples of that period. He approaches the Bedouin point of view and shows how territorial-institutional and mobile-predatory strategies of expansion were juxta-posed. He argues that protection by Bedouin emirs constituted a new model of indigenous government, which could have served as a regional alternative to the rule of military slaves. German description: Beduinen machen Geschichte und grunden inmitten des Kulturlandes Kleinstaaten. Diese im islamischen Mittelalter einzigartige Sonderentwicklung des 10. Jahrhunderts hat zum Wort von der Beduinisierung des Fruchtbaren Halbmondes gefuhrt. Kurt Franz legt eine kritische Gesamtdarstellung der Krafteverhaltnisse zwischen den Nomaden und Sesshaften jener Zeit vor. Er nahert sich dem beduinischen Blickwinkel an und zeigt das Nebeneinander von territorial-institutionellen und mobil-beuteorientierten Expansionsstrategien. Dabei wird die Auffassung vertreten, dass die Schutzherrschaft der Beduinenemire ein neues Modell indigener Herrschaft bildete, welches als regionale Alternative zur Herrschaft von Militarsklaven hatte dienen konnen.

  • By (author) Kurt Franz

Review - German "All in all, Franz's book is a major contribution to the field of Bedouin history, and we look forward to the appearance of the second volume. It remains only to add that the work is accompanied by three exceptionally good maps."Frank H. StewartIn: Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam. 37 (2010). pp. 325-331.--------------------------------------
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“All in all, Franz’s book is a major contribution to the field of Bedouin history, and we look forward to the appearance of the second volume. It remains only to add that the work is accompanied by three exceptionally good maps.”<br/><br/>Frank H. Stewart<br/><br/>In: Jerusalem Studies in Arabic and Islam. 37 (2010). pp. 325-331.<br/><br/>--------------------------------------<br/><br/>„Insgesamt gesehen setzt das Buch durch eine große Genauigkeit in der Analyse einzelner Begebenheiten und Zusammenhänge Maßstäbe und bereichert zugleich unsere Kenntnis über die Beduinen in vorsadjuqischer Zeit erheblich. Künftige Forschungen zu dieser Phase islamischer Herrschaft werden Franz’ Buch daher kaum ignorieren können.“<br/><br/>Eva Orthmann<br/><br/>In: Orientalistische Literaturzeitung. 106 (2011) 4-5. S. 304-305.
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