Bücher von Tayeb (University of Massachusetts El-Hibri

A History. History - other areas, Middle East history, History general before 1500

The author applies an alternative literary-critical reading of the early Islamic sources to demonstrate how medieval narrators devised elusive ways of shedding light on the political, social and religious debates of the 'Abbasid' period. This book represents a landmark in the field of early Islamic historiography.