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Ibn Askir and Early Islamic History

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Ibn Askir's massive Tarikh madinat Dimashq (TMD) is a veritable gold mine of information for our understanding of the first five and one-half centuries of Islamic history. This book offers importan...
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Ibn Asakir’s massive Tarikh madinat Dimashq (TMD) is a veritable gold mine of information for our understanding of the first five and one-half centuries of Islamic history. This book offers important insights on the mechanics of Arabic historiography, in particular on biographical sources from the Middle period. Moreover, two contributions show that Ibn Asakir pursued a political and sectarian agenda within his TMD.

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Price: £85.00
Pages: 170
Publisher: Gerlach Press
Imprint: Gerlach Press
Series: Studies in Late Antiquity and Early Islam
Publication Date: 15 January 2021
ISBN: 9783959941181
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:

HISTORY / Middle East / General, Middle Eastern history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, Islam
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1. James E. Lindsay, Ibn Asakir, His Tarikh madinat Dimashq and its Usefulness for Understanding Early Islamic History
2. Suleiman A. Mourad, Jesus According to Ibn Asakir
3. Fred M. Donner, 'Uthman and the Rashidun Caliphs in Ibn Asakir's Tarikh madinat Dimashq: a Study in Strategies of Compilation
4. Marianne Engle Cameron, Sayf at First: the Transmission of Sayf ibn 'Umar in al-Tabari and Ibn Asakir
5. Steven C. Judd, Ibn Asakir's Sources for the Late Umayyad Period
6. Paul M. Cobb, Community versus Contention: Ibn Asakir and 'Abbasid Syria

Appendices: Publication History of TMD; Studies Addressing TMD; Major Lacunae in TMD; Pre-Islamic Sacred Biographies in TMD; Muhammad, the Rashidun, and the Umayyad Caliphs in TMD.