Reinterpreting Islamic Historiography
Subtitle: Harun al-Rashid and the Narrative of the Abbasid Caliphate (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: December 28, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780521650236
Subjects: Historiography; Islam; Islamic studies; Literary studies: general; World history: c 500 to C 1500; Medieval; History: World; Islamic History; ca. 763-809; Religion - World Religions; Islamic Empire; HÃ¥arÃ¥un al-RashÃ¥id,; Islam - General; History / Middle East; Islamic Empire--History--750-1258--Historiography; Ethnic Studies - General; 750-1258; Caliph,; Harun al-Rashid,; History; Håaråun al-Rashåid,
First sentence: At its height in the ninth century AD, the 'Abbasid caliphate covered an extensive realm that stretched across the African and Asian continents, from the western reaches of Carthage on the Mediterranean to the Indus River Valley in the east, spanning prime regions over which the Greeks, Romans, Persians, and Turks had gone to war during the previous thousand years.