Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- Map of mentioned locations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Approaching Rebellion in the Early Islamicate World -- Part I Discourses of Rebellion -- 1 Islamic Scholarly Giants and (Anti-)Rebellion Ḥadīths -- 2 Early Ibāḍī Historiography: The Case of the Khawārij -- Part II Political Culture of Rebellion -- 3 The Revolt of Yaḥyā b. Zayd b. ʿAlī (d. 125/743): Bayʿa, Disobedience and Rebellion in the Early Islamic Period -- 4 Poet, Scholar, Rebel? ʿImrān b. Ḥiṭṭān (d. 703), Khārijite Revolt and the ‘Playbook of Rebellion’ in the Umayyad Period -- Part III Contentious Communities -- 5 Sectarianism and Counterinsurgency in Sixth-Century Roman Mesopotamia: A Case Study in ‘Ruralisation’ -- 6 Religion and Rebellion: Mobilisation through Religious Image-Building – The Cases of the Zanj and Qarāmiṭa -- Part IV Contending the Province -- 7 Taxation, Rebellion and Withdrawal in Early ʿAbbāsid Armenia (136–58/754–75) -- 8 Local R esistance and Arab Rebellion: The Conquest of Khurāsān and Transoxiana in the Context of the First and Second Fitnas -- Part V Contending the City -- 9 Negotiating Rebellion: The Revolt of the Jund of Tunis (793–4) -- 10 Changing Patterns of Rebellion in Aghlabid Ifrīqiya -- Part VI Disputing Privilege -- 11 Wealth and the Image of the Umayyads in the Sermons |