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- Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean World
- Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean World
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures, Graphs, and Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Transliteration, Names, and Dates
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Additional material
- Introduction
- Part I Political and Administrative Connections
- Chapter 1 Egypt in the Age of Justinian: Connector or Disconnector?
- Chapter 2 At the Crossroads of Regional Settings: Egypt, 500–1000 CE
- Chapter 3 The Frontier Zone at the First Cataract before and at the Time of the Muslim Conquest (Fifth to Seventh Centuries)
- Chapter 4 Islamic Historiography on Early Muslim Relations with Nubia
- Chapter 5 Local Tradition and Imperial Legal Policy under the Umayyads: The Evolution of the Early Egyptian School of Law
- Chapter 6 Ibn Ṭūlūn’s Pacification Campaign: Sedition, Authority, and Empire in Abbasid Egypt
- Part II Economic Connections
- Part III Social and Cultural Connections
- Index
- References
Chapter 6 - Ibn Ṭūlūn’s Pacification Campaign: Sedition, Authority, and Empire in Abbasid Egypt
from Part I - Political and Administrative Connections
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 December 2022
- Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean World
- Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean World
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures, Graphs, and Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Notes on Transliteration, Names, and Dates
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Additional material
- Introduction
- Part I Political and Administrative Connections
- Chapter 1 Egypt in the Age of Justinian: Connector or Disconnector?
- Chapter 2 At the Crossroads of Regional Settings: Egypt, 500–1000 CE
- Chapter 3 The Frontier Zone at the First Cataract before and at the Time of the Muslim Conquest (Fifth to Seventh Centuries)
- Chapter 4 Islamic Historiography on Early Muslim Relations with Nubia
- Chapter 5 Local Tradition and Imperial Legal Policy under the Umayyads: The Evolution of the Early Egyptian School of Law
- Chapter 6 Ibn Ṭūlūn’s Pacification Campaign: Sedition, Authority, and Empire in Abbasid Egypt
- Part II Economic Connections
- Part III Social and Cultural Connections
- Index
- References
Summary
Developments in third/ninth-century Egypt relate to the wider history of the Abbasid imperial realm in a number of ways. These had to do, in one sense or another, with the fraying of the Arab Islamic empire, governed, at this point, by the Abbasid house.1 This chapter considers one such development: the turn to control over Egypt by the Turkic–Central Asian military command in Samarra. My argument is that, at a moment in which the Abbasid state was struggling to sustain its hold over a once far-flung but now shrinking domain, it ceded authority over Egypt to those same military/political circles. Egypt, in this scenario, was a key interest of the Samarran commanders and in defense of which they devoted considerable energy and resources. It was a matter of consolidating authority over the province’s considerable public wealth, to be sure, but the sources point to apparent private interests – specifically, landholdings – on the part of the commanders as well.
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- Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean WorldFrom Constantinople to Baghdad, 500-1000 CE, pp. 169 - 202Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022