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" Reinterpreting Islamic historiography : "
Tayeb El-Hibri.
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1091858
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bc101204
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English
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El-Hibri, Tayeb.
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Reinterpreting Islamic historiography : : Hārūn al-Rashīd and the narrative of the ʻAbbasid caliphate /\ Tayeb El-Hibri.
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New York :: Cambridge University Press,, 1999.
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Cambridge studies in Islamic civilization
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1 online resource (ix, 236 pages) :: illustrations
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0511004311
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: 9780511004315
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: 0511036809
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: 9780511497476
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: 0511497474
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0521650232
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9780521650236
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-229) and index.
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| Contents
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Preliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and note on the dates; The line of the early 'Abbasid caliphs; CHAPTER I Historical background and introduction; CHAPTER 2 Harun al-Rashid: where it all started or ended; CHAPTER 3 Al-Amin: the challenge of regicide in Islamic memory; CHAPTER 4 Al-Ma'mun: the heretic caliph; CHAPTER 5 The structure of civil war narratives; CHAPTER 6 Al-Mutawakkil: an encore of the family tragedy; Conclusion; Select bibliography; Index
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"The history of the early 'Abbasid caliphate in the eighth and ninth centuries has long been studied as a factual or interpretive synthesis of various accounts preserved in the medieval chronicles. Tayeb El-Hibri's book breaks with the traditional approach, applying a literary-critical reading to examine the lives of the caliphs. By focusing on the reigns of Harun al-Rashid and his successors, al-Amin and al-Ma'mun, as well as on the early Samarran period, the study demonstrates how the various historical accounts were not in fact intended as faithful portraits of the past, but as allusive devices used to shed light on controversial religious, political, and social issues of the period, as well as on more abstract themes such as behavior, morality, and human destiny."--Jacket
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Hārūn al-Rashīd,approximately 763-809.
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Hārūn al-Rashīd,approximately 763-809
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Hārūn ar-Rašīd, 763-809
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Mohammed al-Amin, 787-813
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Mamun, al-786-833
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Mutawakkil ʿala ʼllāh, 822-861
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HISTORY-- World.
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Historiography.
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Geschichtsschreibung
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Islam
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Abbasiden.
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Geschiedschrijving.
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Islamic Empire, History, 750-1258, Historiography.
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Empire islamique, Histoire, 750-1258, Historiographie.
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Islamic Empire.
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Abbasidenreich
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| Dewey Classification
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909/.09767101
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DS38.6.E5 1999eb
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15.75bcl
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