Topic
Early Islamic Statecraft
Early Islamic statecraft refers to the practical political arrangements of the Medinan community under Muhammad's leadership and the subsequent Rashidun and Umayyad administrations. Historians approach this subject primarily through documentary fragments, later chronicles, and comparative study of surrounding Byzantine and Sasanian administrative practice.
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The Constitution of Medina: A Primary Source Overview
A short guide to the document known as the 'Constitution of Medina': what it says, where it comes from, and why historians treat it as unusually old despite surviving only in a much later text.
- Evidence Library
The Constitution of Medina
A set of clauses, preserved in Ibn Ishaq's biography of Muhammad, establishing relations between the Emigrants, the Medinan Muslims, and Medina's Jewish tribes shortly after the hijra.