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Violence permeated much of social life across the vast geographical space of the European, American, Asian and Islamic lands and through the broad sweep of what is often termed the Middle Millennium (roughly 500 to 1500). Focusing on four contexts in which violence occurred across this huge area, the contributors to this volume explore the formation of centralised polities through war and conquest; institution building and ideological expression by these same polities; control of extensive trade networks; and the emergence and dominance of religious ecumenes. Attention is also given to the idea of how theories of violence are relevant to the specific historical circumstances discussed in the volume's chapters. A final section on the depiction of violence, both visual and literary, demonstrates the ubiquity of societal efforts to confront meanings of violence during this longue durée.

The birth of Islam in the 7th century and its subsequent outward expansion from the Arab world has been one of the most influential occurrences in world history. During its first few decades, the new

Gordon (history, Miami U., Ohio) considers the encounter of the Samarran Turks as rough, non-Muslim outsiders, with the sedentary, urbane world of Baghdad; their closely related encounter with the Isl

A portrait of the Samarran Turk community while in the employ of the 'Abbasid caliphate during the ninth century.

Concubines and Courtesans contains sixteen essays that consider, from a variety of viewpoints, enslaved and freed women across medieval and pre-modern Islamic social history. The essays bring together

What little is known of Ya'qubi's life suggests that he was of notable Iraqi birth and education, and spent much of his professional life in the employment of provincial governing families of the

Representing some of the earliest secular literature of Islam, al-Ya'qubi seems to have been of notable Iraqi birth and education and to have spent his professional life in the service of provincia

The Works of Ibn Wa?i? al-Ya?qubi (3 vols.) contains a translation of the writings of Abu al-`Abbas al-Ya`qubi, a Muslim polymath of the third/ninth century. The works include the History (Ta’rikh); t

The seminar that generated the 10 papers was held in Chicago in March 2010. They cover early Mesopotamia, the Islamic near east, and second and first millennium empires. The topics include slavery in