Books by Marie Legendre
All interested in the history of the late antique and medieval Mediterranean and Near East. Stude... more All interested in the history of the late antique and medieval Mediterranean and Near East. Students and scholars of economic, social, political and cultural history, archaeology, papyrology, numismatics, philology, religious studies from the Iberian Peninsula and the Balkan to Arabia and Central Asia in the Roman, Sasanian and Islamic period.
Articles by Marie Legendre
Medieval Encounters, 2023
This article offers a reassessment of the ties between the families of two half-brothers, ʿAbd al... more This article offers a reassessment of the ties between the families of two half-brothers, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz and ʿAbd al-Malik sons of Marwān ibn al-Ḥakam. The first succeeded their father as caliph, while the second was governor of Egypt at the turn of the eighth century. The modern historiography has made much of ninth- and tenth-century narratives of opposition between the two. Those narratives are reassessed with a focus on how ties of kinship were used as a literary tool to build a distinctive memory of the Marwanid family. Even if moments of competition are recorded between the two, the families of those two men were instrumental to the success of the Marwanids as a caliphal family. The focus here is on marriage ties between their sons and daughters as well as on how the sons and their fathers participated in the same marriage patterns. The paper offers to shift our perspective by placing emphasis on family members that are usually not given proper attention: mothers, daughters, sisters and a wider pool of sons.
Revue des Mondes Musulmans et de la Méditerranée , 2022
Female genealogies and regional dynamics (Egypt-Syria-Iraq) at the beginning of the Marwanid era:... more Female genealogies and regional dynamics (Egypt-Syria-Iraq) at the beginning of the Marwanid era: About the publication of: MABRA Joshua, 2017, Princely authority in the early Marwānid state: The life of ʻAbd al-ʻAzīz ibn Marwān (d. 86/705), Piscataway, NJ, Gorgias Press.
This article offers to re-examine a number of conclusions in the recent publication of J. Mabra on the governorate of ‘Abd al-‘Azīz b. Marwān in Egypt (65/685-86/705). The book offers an account of the tribal alliances that allowed the Marwanids to access to the califate as well as an examination of some of the dynamics between ‘Abd al-Malik (65/685-86/705) and his governors of Egypt and Iraq. J. Mabra understands the administration of ‘Abd al-‘Azīz as independent from the caliphal centre in Damascus and opposed to his brother’s reform on language use and coinage. After reconsidering the reading of a number of papyrus documents, coins and narrative sources, it is offered here to see the appointment of such a governor as one of the keys to the Marwanid success and to reject the idea that caliphal ruling strategies aimed at centralizing the Umayyad realm.
This article investigates how the early Islamic state developed out of pre-Islamic administrative... more This article investigates how the early Islamic state developed out of pre-Islamic administrative structures. Taking the example of the Byzantine provincial structure in Egypt, the governor (duke) of the Thebaid clearly appears in papyri written in Greek, Coptic and Arabic as an agent of the Medinan and early Umayyad administration. The progressive redistribution of his responsibilities to new offices developed within the Islamic state shows how the Byzantine system contributed to the formation of Islamic administration, casting light on a pre-Islamic heritage which is often neglected in the narrative.
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Edited Journals by Marie Legendre
Journal of Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies, 2022
Journal of Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies, 2022
by Antoine Borrut, Zayde Antrim, Jelle Bruning, Abed el-Rahman Tayyara, Kevin van Bladel, Sébastien Garnier, Theodore S Beers, Pamela Klasova, Daisy Livingston, Christian Mauder, Hannah Barker, Adday Hernández López, Monika Schönléber, Marijn van Putten, Rachel N Schine, and Marie Legendre
by Antoine Borrut, Pamela Klasova, Rachel N Schine, Marie Legendre, Marijn van Putten, Austin O'Malley, Zara Pogossian, Hythem Sidky, Ignacio Sánchez, Coleman Connelly, Robert Haug, and Noah Gardiner
Conferences Organised by Marie Legendre
Articles should be written in English and can be up to 15,000 words in total length (i.e. includi... more Articles should be written in English and can be up to 15,000 words in total length (i.e. including all footnotes, bibliography and any appendices). Submissions to Journal of Late Antique, Islamic and Byzantine Studies should be formatted in accordance with the full JLAIBS style guidelines and sent as Word and PDF files to: [email protected]
Talks and Events by Marie Legendre
In the last few years of the seventh century, the Marwanid Reforms established Arabic as the admi... more In the last few years of the seventh century, the Marwanid Reforms established Arabic as the administrative language of the Umayyad Caliphate. It was appreciated across religious boundaries such that Christians and Jews quickly began composing and engaging texts in Arabic. Yet despite its centrality, Arabic did not spread evenly or quickly throughout the entire Islamic world. During this symposium, speakers will discuss Arabic and multilingualism within a broader setting of linguistic diversity in the Islamic world.
Book Reviews by Marie Legendre
al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā 27, 2019
Book Review T his book makes use of the largest corpus of Egyptian documents dating to the early ... more Book Review T his book makes use of the largest corpus of Egyptian documents dating to the early Islamic period. Written in Coptic and Greek on ostraca (pottery or limestone) or papyrus, these documents originate from the Theban village of Djeme, which was built in and around the ruins of the temple of Rameses III at Medinet Abu "with a population between fifteen hundred and two thousand" (p. 3). Dating from the late sixth to late eighth centuries CE, there are "1,877 texts from Djeme, out of a total of 3,559 texts from the wider Theban region... Almost 20 percent of published Coptic texts are from Djeme alone" (p. 2, n. 1). These texts have, however, attracted less interest from the wider research community concerned with the history of the early Islamic period than has the
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Articles by Marie Legendre
This article offers to re-examine a number of conclusions in the recent publication of J. Mabra on the governorate of ‘Abd al-‘Azīz b. Marwān in Egypt (65/685-86/705). The book offers an account of the tribal alliances that allowed the Marwanids to access to the califate as well as an examination of some of the dynamics between ‘Abd al-Malik (65/685-86/705) and his governors of Egypt and Iraq. J. Mabra understands the administration of ‘Abd al-‘Azīz as independent from the caliphal centre in Damascus and opposed to his brother’s reform on language use and coinage. After reconsidering the reading of a number of papyrus documents, coins and narrative sources, it is offered here to see the appointment of such a governor as one of the keys to the Marwanid success and to reject the idea that caliphal ruling strategies aimed at centralizing the Umayyad realm.
Edited Journals by Marie Legendre
Conferences Organised by Marie Legendre
Talks and Events by Marie Legendre
Book Reviews by Marie Legendre
This article offers to re-examine a number of conclusions in the recent publication of J. Mabra on the governorate of ‘Abd al-‘Azīz b. Marwān in Egypt (65/685-86/705). The book offers an account of the tribal alliances that allowed the Marwanids to access to the califate as well as an examination of some of the dynamics between ‘Abd al-Malik (65/685-86/705) and his governors of Egypt and Iraq. J. Mabra understands the administration of ‘Abd al-‘Azīz as independent from the caliphal centre in Damascus and opposed to his brother’s reform on language use and coinage. After reconsidering the reading of a number of papyrus documents, coins and narrative sources, it is offered here to see the appointment of such a governor as one of the keys to the Marwanid success and to reject the idea that caliphal ruling strategies aimed at centralizing the Umayyad realm.