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Muhammad's People: A Tale by Anthology

by Eric Schroeder

Pages: 844

Contributors: Eric Schroeder

Publisher: Bond Wheelwright

Place of Publication: Portland, ME

Publication Year: 1955

Subjects: Civilization, Islamic,Muslims--History

Table of Contents

Title Page

Contents

Introduction

Note

The Desert:: Arab Chivalry of the Ignorance Before Muhammad

The Apostle of God and the Book

The Fight for Life

The First Caliph

The Caliphate of Conquest

Misrule

Civil War

The World and the Flesh

The First Abbasid Caliphs and the Building of Baghdad

Harun Al-Rashid

The Brothers' War

Intelligence

Restlessness

Violence and Quietism

Money, Money, Money:: The Life and Death of a Vizier

A Saint and His Fate

A Government Job:: Episodes from the Life of a Provincial State Clerk

The Passing of the Age of Reason

The Last Actual Caliphs

The Sophisticated

The Sword and the Pen:: Princes and Clerks

Despair

Comedies

Tornament:: The Tongue of Abu Zayd

The Man Who Never Laughed Again

The Abyss

The Public Road

Gods Ways

The Body and the Doctor

Chief Sources

Chronology by Caliphates

Index of Principal Persons

Index of Selected Topics

Index of Poems

Index of Selected Anecdotes

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