Explores the distinctive character of the Umayyad empire in its early Islamic context: its economy, society and political history.

Andrew Marsham is Professor of Classical Arabic Studies at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Queens' College, specialising in the Late Antique and Early Medieval History of the Mediterranean and the Middle East. His publications include The Umayyad World (Routledge, 2021), Power, Patronage and Memory in Early Islam (Oxford, 2018, with Professor Alain George), and Rituals of Islamic Monarchy (Edinburgh, 2009).