'Alids
Subtitle: The First Family of Islam, 750-1200
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780748638475
Subjects: Islamic empire, history
Description: A social history of the 'Alids, in the crucial formative period from the Abbasid Revolution of 750 to the Seljuq period of 1100. It examines their rise from a religious point of view and as a social phenomenon, asking how this family attained and extended its status over the centuries.