Reinterpreting Islamic Historiography
Subtitle: Harun al-Rashid and the Narrative of the Abbasid Caliphate (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: February 12, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780521033046
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: c 500 to c 1500; History; Religion - World Religions; History: World; ASIA; Islamic countries; Historiography; Islam - General; Medieval; History / Middle East; History-Historiography; History-Medieval; Islamic Empire--History--750-1258--Historiogr; Islamic Empire--History--750-1258--Historiography; Religion / Islam
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.