ʻAlī and Muʻāwiya in early Arabic tradition: studies on the genesis and growth of Islamic historical writing until the end of the ninth century 8k71nh19d

Ali and Mu'awiya in Early Arabic Tradition: Studies on the Genesis and Growth of Islamic Historical Writing until the End of the Ninth Century (Acls History E-book Project Reprint Series) 1597404713, 9781597404716

"The first civil war 656-61 and the party antagonisms emerging from it have proved to be of crucial importance to t

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Arabic Christianity in the Monasteries of Ninth-Century Palestine

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The Kharijites in Early Islamic Historical Tradition: Heroes and Villains 9781474450911

Analyses the narrative function of Khārijism in 9th- and 10th-century Islamic historiography The first book-length liter

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The Kharijites in Early Islamic Historical Tradition: Heroes and Villains (Edinburgh Studies in Classical Islamic History and Culture) [1 ed.] 9781474450881, 9781474450911, 9781474450904, 1474450881

Why are stories told about the Khārijites? The Islamic tradition portrays Khārijism as a heretical movement of militantl

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The Arabic Script in Africa: Studies in the Use of a Writing System 9004256792, 9789004256798

The Arabic script in Africa contains sixteen papers on the past and present use of Arabic script to write African langua

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The Syriac-Arabic Glosses of Isho bar Ali 9781463223748

These two volumes constitute the second part (nun-taw) of the Syriac-Arabic dictionary of the 10th cent. physician Isho

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Literary Criticism in Medieval Arabic Islamic Culture: The Making of a Tradition 9781474471497

For the first time this book provides an examination of the impulses that went into the making of literary criticism in

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Art and Architecture in the Islamic Tradition: Aesthetics, Politics and Desire in Early Islam 9780755694471, 9781780765617

What is 'art' in the sense of the Islamic tradition? Mohammed Hamdouni Alami argues that Islamic art has histo

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The early Arabic historical tradition : a source-critical study [2 ed.]

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The Syriac-Arabic Glosses of Isho bar Ali 9781463223755

These two volumes constitute the second part (nun-taw) of the Syriac-Arabic dictionary of the 10th cent. physician Isho

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