Rediscovering al-Azdī and the Futūḥ al-Shām narrative : manuscripts, parallel texts, research history /
"The Futuh al-Sham (The Conquests of Greater Syria), usually attributed to Abu Isma'il Muhammad b. 'Abdallah al-Azdi al-Basri, is one of the primary sources used for historians studying the early Muslim expansion into Greater Syria. This study revaluates the Futuh al-Sham narrative an...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Piscataway, NJ :
Gorgias Press LLC,
2022.
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| Series: | Islamic history and thought ;
28. |
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| Summary: | "The Futuh al-Sham (The Conquests of Greater Syria), usually attributed to Abu Isma'il Muhammad b. 'Abdallah al-Azdi al-Basri, is one of the primary sources used for historians studying the early Muslim expansion into Greater Syria. This study revaluates the Futuh al-Sham narrative and the question of its compiler-author, investigating the history of the narrative as text through an analysis of a new manuscript and important parallel texts, and revisiting the evidence and hypotheses previous scholars have put forward on both al-Azdi's life and the Futuh al-Sham narrative's text. It thus offers an overview of the history of Oriental and Islamic Studies on the basis of one work"-- |
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| Physical Description: | x, 412 pages : map ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781463243821 1463243820 |
| ISSN: | 2643-6906 ; |