Table of Contents

Acknowledgments; Preface; 1. The founding of the 'Abbasid regime; 2. Towards a civil war; 3. Dissolution under a new regime; 4. The origins of the iqta; 5. Regional economic conflicts; 6. The breakdown of the central government (I); 7. The breakdown of the central government (II); 8. The Buyid confederacy; 9. The Fatimids; Index; Maps.