Presents articles that deal with the formation of the first Islamic State under the \'rightly-guided\' and Umayyad caliphs (632-750 CE), trace the crystallization of key institutions of the growing empire, and treat such fundamental issues as taxation, military institutions, administrative organization and practices, and questions of legitimation..
Presents articles that deal with the formation of the first Islamic State under the \'rightly-guided\' and Umayyad caliphs (632-750 CE), trace the crystallization of key institutions of the growing empire, and treat such fundamental issues as taxation, military institutions, administrative organization and practices, and questions of legitimation.