The Revolution Which Toppled the Umayyads: Neither Arab Nor Ἁbbāsid

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-90-04-12994-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 50, 410 Seiten, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 953 g

Reihe: Islamic History and Civilizati

This book re-examines the so-called ἉbbÄsid revolution, the ethnic character of whose effective constituency has been contested for over eight decades. It also brings to question the authenticity of the ἉbbÄsid dynastic claim. To establish its two theses (neither Arab nor ἉbbÄsid) 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Agha, Saleh Said

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Geschichte des Islam Geschichte des Islam: 7. - 14. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien

Über Autor(innen)

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).