Ibn �Asakir and early Islamic history edited by James E. Lindsay.
Material type: TextSeries: Studies in late antiquity and early Islam ; 20Publication details: Princeton, N.J. : Darwin Press, 2001.Description: xii, 157 p. ; 25 cmISBN:- 0878501207
- DS 99 .D3 I26 2001
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Based on papers presented at a panel entitled Ibn �Asakir and early Islamic history held at the Middle East Studies Association meeting in Providence, Rhode Island, November 1996. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: 1. Ibn `Asakir, his Ta'rikh madinat Dimashq and its usefulness for understanding early Islamic history / James E. Lindsay -- 2. Jesus according to Ibn `Asakir / Suleiman A. Mourad -- 3. `Uthman and the Rashidun caliphs in Ibn `Asakir's Ta'rikh madinat Dimashq : a study in strategies of compilation / Fred M. Donner -- 4. Sayf at first : the transmission of Sayf ibn `Umar in al-Tabari and Ibn `Asakir / Marianne Engle Cameron -- 5. Ibn `Asakir's sources for the late Umayyad period / Steven C. Judd -- 6. Community versus contention : Ibn `Asakir and `Abbasid Syria / Paul M. Cobb -- Appendix A. Publication history of TMD / Suleiman A. Mourad -- Appendix B. Studies addressing TMD -- Appendix C. Major lacunae in TMD -- Appendix D. Pre-Islamic sacred biographies in TMD -- Appendix E. Muhammad, the Rashidun, and the Umayyad caliphs in TMD.
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