TY - GEN AU - Hagemann,Hannah-Lena AU - Heidemann,Stefan AU - Hagemann,Hannah-Lena AU - Heidemann,Stefan TI - Transregional and Regional Elites – Connecting the Early Islamic Empire SN - 9783110669800 PY - 2020/// CY - Berlin/Boston PB - De Gruyter KW - Ancient history: to c 500 CE KW - bicssc KW - Religion: general KW - Elites KW - Early Islamic History KW - Umayyads Abbasids N1 - Open Access N2 - To integrate the regions of the early Islamic Empire from Central Asia to North Africa, transregional and regional elites of various backgrounds were essential. The papers analyze elite groups, their structures and networks, within selected regions across geographical, religious and social boundaries. While each region seems to be different, certain common patterns of governance and interaction made the largest empire of Late Antiquity work UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/37613/1/9783110669800.pdf UR - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/35906 ER -