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Language: en
Pages: 268
Pages: 268
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Language: en
Pages: 252
Pages: 252
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-11-14 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Winner of the 2021 Southeast Regional Middle East and Islamic Studies Society Book Prize Of the available sources for Islamic history between the seventh and ei
Language: en
Pages: 309
Pages: 309
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-10-01 - Publisher: BRILL
This book exposes the mimetic assumption involved in early Islamic historiography, its literary practice and whatever subverts it as reflected in Ṭabarī's Hi
Language: en
Pages: 286
Pages: 286
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-01-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press
From the first Arab-Islamic Empire of the mid-seventh century to the Ottomans, the last great Muslim empire, the story of the Middle East has been the story of
Language: en
Pages: 260
Pages: 260
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-11-25 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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