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The Khalifa ibn Khayyat's History on the Umayyad Dynasty (660-750)
Carl Wurtzel (Translator) Robert G. Hoyland (Editor)
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Khalifa ibn Khayyat was born in the southern Iraqi city of Basra in the 770s AD and in his lifetime Iraq grew into a thriving centre of culture and trade and one of the most populous and prosperous regions of the world. He was one of a generation of scholars who gave concrete form to Islamic religion and culture and bequeathed to us the first books that can be said to be distinctively Islamic. Khalifa’s History is the earliest extant work of Muslim historiography and this alone makes it deserving of greater recognition. It carefully records the key events ... Read more
Khalifa ibn Khayyat was born in the southern Iraqi city of Basra in the 770s AD and in his lifetime Iraq grew into a thriving centre of culture and trade and one of the most populous and prosperous regions of the world. He was one of a generation of scholars who gave concrete form to Islamic religion and culture and bequeathed to us the first books that can be said to be distinctively Islamic. Khalifa’s History is the earliest extant work of Muslim historiography and this alone makes it deserving of greater recognition. It carefully records the key events ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781381748
SKU
V9781781381748
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About Carl Wurtzel (Translator) Robert G. Hoyland (Editor)
Dr Carl Wurtzel is a professional translator; certified by the American Translators Association as a translator from Arabic to English. Carl is also an instructor in the New York University (NYU) School of Continuing and Professional Studies translation program. Robert G. Hoyland is Professor of Late Antique and Early Islamic Middle East History at the Institute for Study of the ... Read more
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