The Revolution Which Toppled the Umayyads: Neither Arab Nor Abbasid (Islamic History and Civilization)
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Book Description
This book re-examines the so-called Ἁbbâsid revolution, the ethnic character of whose effective constituency has been contested for over eight decades. It also brings to question the authenticity of the Ἁbbâsid dynastic claim. To establish its two theses (neither Arab nor Ἁbbâsid) this book employs, in its three parts, three distinct methodological approaches.
To reconstruct the secret history of the clandestine Organization, Part One elicits a narrative through a rigorous application of the historical-critical method. Part Two subjects to close textual analysis some prime-grade literary specimen. In Part Three, a purely quantitative approach is adopted to study the demographic character of the formal structures of leadership within the Organization.
History, historiography, heresiography, literature, the narrative, the textual analysis, and the quantitative approach, cannot be less inseparable.
About the Author
Saleh Said Agha, Ph.D. (1993) in MEIS, University of Toronto, is Associate Professor of Arabic at the American University of Beirut. He has published on early Arabic poetry, political history, and culture, including Dhu al-Rummah: Khulasat al-Tajribah al-Sahrawiyyah (Beirut, 1998).
The Revolution Which Toppled the Umayyads: Neither Arab Nor Abbasid (Islamic History and Civilization),Salih Said Agha,Brill Academic Publishers,9004129944,750-1258,Abbasids,History,History - General History,Interior Design - General,Islam - General,Islamic Empire,Middle East - General,Religion,World - General
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