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Majied Robinson

Marriage in the Tribe of Muhammad

Majied Robinson

Marriage in the Tribe of Muhammad

A Statistical Study of Early Arabic Genealogical Literature

ISBN 9783110624168

e-ISBN (PDF) 9783110626070

e-ISBN (EPUB) 9783110624236

Bibliographic information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek

The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available on the Internet at http://dnb.dnb.de.

2020 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston

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Contents

Preface

This book is an edited version of a PhD thesis submitted for examination in 2013. I originally had no intention of publishing this work as a book; so much of the thesis was experimental and exploratory in nature that I felt it lacked the completeness a monograph needed. Instead, I undertook to publish elements of the research in shorter pieces, hoping that eventually all the valuable material would appear in more accomplished research.

But as the years went by my research interests shifted and a lot of what I had covered during my doctoral studies looked like it would remain forever in the form of an unpublished PhD manuscript. This would have been a shame as there was a lot in this manuscript that would be useful for other scholars of early Islam embarking on similarly ambitious ventures into the worlds of statistics and prosopography. The frequent requests I got for the thesis were also testament to a need for a published version of this journey into alternative methodologies.

Thankfully, De Gruyter offered to publish the work as a monograph after it was shortlisted for the 2016 BRAIS-De Gruyter Prize in the Study of Islam and the Muslim World. Not only has De Gruyters support allowed this research to appear in a stable form but it has also enabled the addition of an index containing hundreds of Arabian men and women of the Late Antique period. Alongside this, the book also contains several tables of names extracted from the core database which will aid academics in future prosopographical research.

While the structuring and the bulk of the content remain as they were in the original publication in a couple of instances I have highlighted revisions to my previously-held views in the footnotes. I feel that this approach (as opposed to erasing all superceded argument) is more useful to younger scholars as it demonstrates how an individuals views change as their understanding of the evidence changes. Amongst these I would like to highlight the removal of some of my original remarks regarding Asad Ahmeds The Religious Elite of the Early Islamic Hijaz. Although I was in general very positive about this work, I now feel that a few of my remarks were overly negative of a ground-breaking piece of prosopographical research and a critically important resource for all scholars of early Islamic social history.

In terms of thanks, these must first and foremost go to my supervisor, Dr Andrew Marsham. It was he who suggested this avenue of enquiry with his seemingly innocuous observation that: We dont even know if the Umayyads married their cousins or not. Not only this, his support during the research process and in the years since has been both unwavering and unfailingly generous. Thanks must also go to the Leverhulme Trust who supported the post-doctoral studies that allowed me to prove (to myself as well as others) the efficacy of the unconventional methodologies developed during my PhD. And of course I must also express my utmost gratitude to my wife Kirstie who not only continues to tolerate the ups and downs of an academics career path but has had the patience to learn far more about slave women than any non-specialist could possibly wish to know.

List of Tables, Graphs and Maps

Tables

Table 1:

First-stage data extraction 26

Table 2:

Advanced data extraction 27

Table 3:

Comparison of degrees of separation 30

Table 4:

Appearances of Khalaf b. Wahbs descendants in historical literature 33

Table 5:

Where Khalaf b. Wahbs descendants appear in select historical sources 35

Table 6:

Appearances of Khalaf b. Wahbs descendants outside the Nasab Quraysh 36

Table 7:

Proportions of Khalaf b. Wahbs descendants in select works 36

Table 8:

Comparison of wives and children for an early Islamic cohort as recorded in the Nasab Quraysh and Asad Ahmeds The Religious Elite 38

Table 9:

Authors of genealogical works as recorded in the Fihrist 47

Table 10:

Number of genealogist deaths per quarter century from al-Fihrist and extant works 50

Table 11:

Number of appearances of Zubayrids as recorded in the Nasab Quraysh in outside historical works 67

Table 12:

Number of appearances of Zubayrids in outside works that do not appear in the Nasab Quraysh 67

Table 13:

Zubayrid rws in al-abars Tarkh 72

Table 14:

Maternal status of children by generation 93

Table 15:

Proportion of concubines and children of concubines by generation 95

Table 16:

Marriages of the fourth generation descendants of Quayy b. Kilb (Cohort One) 129

Table 17:

Breakdown of marriages by major groupings for pre-Islamic cohort 134

Table 18:

Marriages of Muammad and early Muslim converts (Cohort Two) 135

Table 19:

Breakdown of marriages by major groupings for early Islamic cohort 139

Table 20:

Marriages of Umayyad caliphs and their sons (Cohort Three) 141

Table 21:

Breakdown of marriages by major groupings for Umayyad caliphs and their sons 146

Table 22:

Comparison of (non-concubine) marriage patterns of the three cohorts 149

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