Empire and Elites after the Muslim Conquest
Subtitle: The Transformation of Northern Mesopotamia (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 22, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9780521781152
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history; c 500 CE to c 1000 CE; Middle East - General; History: World; History - General History; Middle East; Mosul (Iraq); Elite (Social sciences)--Islamic Empire; History / Middle East; Medieval; Elite (Social sciences); History; Islamic Empire; Social conditions
First sentence: The literary material upon which one must base a seventh- and eight-century history of the Jazira and Mosul generally dates from the ninth and tenth; with the exception of al-Azdi's history, it was also written by non-Jazirans and non Mosulis.