Empire and Elites after the Muslim Conquest
Subtitle: The Transformation of Northern Mesopotamia (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 2, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9780521028738
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: c 500 to c 1500; c 500 CE to c 1000 CE; Middle East - General; History; History - General History; History: World; Middle East; Elite (Social sciences)--Islamic Empire; History / Middle East; Islamic Studies
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.