By Monique Bernards

ISBN-10: 0906094984

ISBN-13: 9780906094983

Soon after their winning revolution in 750 advert, the Abbāsids supplanted the Umayyad dynasty, equipped the recent urban of Baghdad, Iraq which turned the capital of the Islamic Empire. The civilization that the Abbāsids helped to create carried forth the torch of information lit via historic Greece, Rome, Byzantium, and Persia. including lots of their very own particular contributions, the Abbāsid dynasty left an indelible mark at the historical past of humankind.
This present choice of ʿAbbāsid experiences provides a colorful mosaic of latest study into classical Arabic texts that sheds gentle on major old, political, cultural and non secular elements of the ʿAbbāsid period and gives perception into how the basics of philology are formed. really good vistas of historical goals open up whereas ʿAbbāsid armies clatter and collide; photos are conjured of murderous caliphs, international taking a look littérateurs and conversing gadgets. We see a full of life self portrait of a pupil suffering from the presentation of his personal photograph and a Persian courtier on exploratory missions world wide acquiring eyewitness testimony of the wonders of the realm. We study of magic swimming pools, all-seeing mirrors, the abduction of a lute-playing shepherd; a Baghdadi party-pooper at an Isfahani occasion monopolising all members with an awesome speech till the narrator drunkenly passes out at the flooring, and masses more.
ʿAbbāsid stories IV is the newest contribution to the recent sequence of The Occasional Papers of the varsity of ʿAbbāsid reviews. The members to this booklet are David Bennett, Amikam Elad, Antonella Ghersetti, Joseph Lowry, Letizia Osti, Ignacio Sanchez, Emily Selove, John Turner, Johan Weststeijn, and Travis Zadeh.

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