The Abbasid Revolution did not take place in an oasis with two widely divergent communities, a tiny community of powerful Arab warriors versus a vast majority of powerless Persian-speaking peasants, but of communities intermingled all over the oasis in quite equal numbers which had no choice but to cooperate during four generations before the Revolution. This feeding power is then taken into account to demonstrate that the Arab soldiers and their families settled there should have consumate between one third and two third of the food produced in the oasis. These data provide us with a rough estimate of the maximum feeding power of the oasis of Marw.
more In the long debate on the Persian or Arab nature of the Abbasid movement, new data from Chinese, Bactrian and Archaeological sources on the oasis of Marw are introduced. In the long debate on the Persian or Arab nature of the Abbasid movement, new data from Chinese.
