Parable and Politics in Early Islamic History: The Rashidun Caliphs - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231150835ISBN-10:231150830UPC:9780231150835Book Category:Religion, History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Islam, Europe, Islamic StudiesBook Topic:History, MedievalSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.4506Product ID:SCQK2D5ZKA
Parable and Politics in Early Islamic History: The Rashidun Caliphs
The story of the succession to the Prophet Muhammad and the rise of the Rashidun Caliphate (632-661) is familiar to historians from the political histories of medieval Islam, which treat it as a factual account. The story also informs the competing perspectives of Sunni and Shi'i Islam, which read into it the legitimacy of their claims. Yet while descriptive and varied, these approaches have long...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Columbia University PressISBN-13:9780231150835ISBN-10:231150830UPC:9780231150835Book Category:Religion, History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Islam, Europe, Islamic StudiesBook Topic:History, MedievalSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.4506Product ID:SCQK2D5ZKA
Tayeb El-Hibri is professor of Near Eastern studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and author of Reinterpreting Islamic Historiography: Harun al-Rashid and the Narrative of the ʿAbbasid Caliphate (1999).
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