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The Revolution which Toppled the Umayyads: Neither Arab nor Abbasid

Book by Saleh Said Agha; Brill, 2003

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Abbasids, Islamic Empire--History--750-1258

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...peripher-ies of the first issue, the Abbasid connection, modern scholars have generally...tp<> <.r?iJh;tl quality of the Abbasid version of events. Generally speaking...rotated has chiefly been the strength of the Abbasid claim to the legacy of the Prophet in...
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Reinterpreting Islamic Historiography: Harun Al-Rashid and the Narrative of the Abbasid Caliphate

Book by Tayeb El-Hibri; Cambridge University Press, 1999

Subjects:

Harun Al-Rashid--Caliph--Ca. 763-809, Islamic Empire--History--750-1258--Historiography

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...Baghdad facilitated the early Abbasid drive toward political centralization...resources from different corners of the Abbasid empire and beyond. The patronage that...it in the digressions that the Abbasid historical narratives often make...
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Christians at the Heart of Islamic Rule: Church Life and Scholarship in Abbasid Iraq

Book by David Thomas; Brill, 2003

Subjects:

Christianity And Other Religions--Islam--Congresses, Iraq--Church History--Middle Ages, 600-1500--Congresses, Islam--Relations--Christianity--Congresses

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Mshatta, and pointed to work of the Abbasid period such as the carved woodwork...palmettes into a new arabesque, an Abbasid synthesis, which was to form the...westerly examples of the art of the `Abbasid Empire, K. A. C. Creswell, in his...
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Empire and Elites after the Muslim Conquest: The Transformation of Northern Mesopotamia

Book by Chase F. Robinson; Cambridge University Press, 2000

Subjects:

Elite (Social Sciences)--Islamic Empire, Islamic Empire--History--622-661, Islamic Empire--History--662-750, Islamic Empire--Social Conditions, Mosul (Iraq)--History

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...made Mosul part of the Abbasid empire; but no less important...grammar are unmistakably Abbasid; 2 local history writing...reflects the robustness of the Abbasid commonwealth as much as it records it. The Abbasids thus overcame Umayyad regionalism...
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Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Empire: The Functioning of a Plural Society

Book by Benjamin Braude, Bernard Lewis; Homes & Meier Publishers, 1982

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Christians--Middle East--Congresses, Christians--Turkey--Congresses, Jews--Middle East--Congresses, Jews--Turkey--Congresses, Minorities--Middle East--Congresses, Minorities--Turkey--Congresses, Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918--Congresses

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...and even in the army. But by Abbasid times a typically Islamic state...Also around the year 900 Abbasid caliphs ruled over a population...but also in its heartlands, Abbasid Islamic ideals had become somewhat...establishment of the Seljuk Empire and other TurkoIranian states...

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The Great Caliphs: The Golden Age of the Abbasid Empire

Journal article by Mahmood Ibrahim; The Historian, Vol. 73, 2011

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Books--Book reviews, The Great Caliphs: The Golden Age of the Abbasid Empire (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Caliphs: The Golden Age of the Abbasid Empire. by Mahmood Ibrahim...Caliphs: The Golden Age of the Abbasid Empire. By Amira K. Bennison...Islam until the end of the Abbasids. Although, by then the Abbasid Caliphate was a shadow of...as one in a succession of empires and civilizations which flowered...
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Messianic Beliefs and Imperial Politics in Medieval Islam: The 'Abbasid Caliphate in the Early Ninth Century

Journal article by Wilferd Madelung; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 130, 2010

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Books--Book reviews, Messianic Beliefs and Imperial Politics in Medieval Islam: The 'Abbasid Caliphate in the Early Ninth Century (Nonfiction work)--Book reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...rival Byzantine and Western empires. The introduction and first...warfare against the Byzantine empire are discussed. In the final...presentation. The so-called Abbasid revolutionary movement in...The true founder of the Abbasid caliphate was the second Abbasid caliph, al-Mansur, who...denounced in his letter to the `Abbasids of Baghdad whose authenticity...
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Religious Inquisition as Social Policy: The Persecution of the 'Zanadiqa' in the Early Abbasid Caliphate

Journal article by Mahmood Ibrahim; Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ), Vol. 16, 1994

Subjects:

Islam--History, Religion and politics--History

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...the advent of the Abbasids, more of the land...noble status. The Abbasid elite also began...of the Sasanid empire were revived within...transformation in the Abbasid ruling elite...the coming of the Abbasids, therefore, the...Caliphate, the Abbasids employed a great...during the early Abbasid period. Two types...insufficient to manage an empire, as the Abbasid...
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Arabs, Persians, and the Advent of the Abbasids Reconsidered

Journal article by Elton L. Daniel; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 117, 1997

Subjects:

Islamic literature--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Middle East--History

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Literature, Entire Library

...Persians, and the advent of the Abbasids reconsidered. by Elton L. Daniel The Abbasid revolution, as R. Stephen Humphreys...questions involved in studies of the Abbasid revolution: Who supported the revolt and why? How were the Abbasids able to organize and popularize their...the organization and ideology of the Abbasid propaganda mission, the history of...change, and the difficulties the Abbasids faced in developing a theory of legitimacy...
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Religion and Politics under the Early [subset

Journal article by Tayeb El-Hibri; Vol. 120, 2000

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Books--Reviews, Religion and Politics under the Early Abbasids: The Emergence of the Proto-Sunni Elite (Book)--Reviews

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...subsetulamacontains who held religious authority and the caliphs who merely incorporated this law in the administration of the empire. Adopting this framework, however, is no easy matter and confronts many problems that ultimately make the books argument...

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The True Caliph of the Arabian Nights: Hugh Kennedy Examines the Life of One of the Most Powerful Men in the World in the Eighth Century

Magazine article by Hugh Kennedy; History Today, Vol. 54, September 2004

Subjects:

Abbasid dynasty, 750-1258--6th-10th century AD, Abbasid dynasty, 750-1258--History, Arabian Nights (Folk tale)--History, Caliphs--6th-10th century AD, Caliphs--Behavior, Caliphs--History, Caliphs--Public opinion, Folk literature--6th-10th century AD, Folk literature--History, Folklore--6th-10th century AD, Folklore--History, Iraq--Economic aspects, Iraq--History, Iraq--Political aspects, Iraq--Social aspects, Middle East--Economic aspects, Middle East--History, Middle East--Political aspects, Middle East--Social aspects, al-Rashid, Harun--Behavior, al-Rashid, Harun--History, al-Rashid, Harun--Public opinion

Collections: History, Literature, Entire Library

...maintained their vast empires, are virtually...to this, the Abbasid caliph Harun al...domains. The vast empire the Abbasids ruled had been...boys. With the empire internally largely...his reign) the Abbasids had finally established...shown: of all the Abbasid caliphs who ruled...moment when the Abbasid Caliphate and...centre of a major empire; the Abbasids (though not native...
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The Founder of Empires

Magazine article by D. Graham Burnett; American Scholar, Vol. 73, Autumn 2004

Subjects:

Alexander the Great--Services, Alexandria, Egypt (City)--Design and construction, Monarchs--Services

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The Founder of Empires. by D. Graham Burnett Abu al Hasan Ali ibn al-Husain ibn Ali ibn Abdullah al-Masudi, the Baghdad-born chronicler of Abbasid Islam and its peripheries, composed The Meadows of Gold in the fourth...
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Revisiting the Zanj and Re-visioning Revolt: Complexities of the Zanj Conflict (868-883 AD)

Magazine article by Nigel D. Furlonge; Negro History Bulletin, Vol. 62, December 1999

Subjects:

Blacks--Iraq, Iraq--History, Slavery--Insurrections, etc.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...problems throughout the Abbasid empire. Prices rose steeply...and murder throughout Abbasid space until they either joined the Abbasid or died refusing to be anyones...Zanj revolt in 883 AD, the Abbasids had recovered from the 15...
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The Muslim World: Its Time, Continuity and Change

Magazine article by Iftikhar Ahmad; Social Studies Review, Vol. 46, Spring 2007

Subjects:

Christianity, History, Islam, Muslim Americans, Religion, Western Europe

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, History, Entire Library

...The Era of Three Empires (1400-1800 AD...strengthening a new Islamic empire. Within twenty years...AD) The rise of the Abbasids about 750 AD was the...period of Islam. The Abbasid dynasty was mostly...on the huge Islamic empire for its material supplies...After 945 AD the Abbasid Caliph in Baghdad lost...did not recognize the Abbasid rule. In Iran, which was a province in the Abbasids dynasty, the Seljuqs...
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Longman-History Today 2009 Book of the Year Award

Magazine article; History Today, Vol. 60, March 2010

Subjects:

Books--Achievements and awards

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Caliphs The Golden Age of the Abbasid Empire Amira K Bennison I B...civilisation of the Abbasid empire. Here is a new integrated...learn more about the Abbasid empire (750-1258) at a time when...urban life was to the Abbasid empire--from Iberia to India...allowed the traditions of the empires people to converge and cross...

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Desecrated, the Holiest Shrine

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), February 23, 2006

Subjects:

Islam

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...became imam at the age of six, was brought to Samarra in 848 and placed under house arrest by the Caliph of the Sunni Abbasid Empire which then controlled the entire Middle East. It is believed he was poisoned in 868 and was succeeded by al-Askari...
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Why Democracy Will Not Catch on in the Arab World; There Are Deep Historical Reasons Why Revolution in the Middle East Won't Lead to Western Styles of Government

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), February 28, 2011

Subjects:

Arab countries, Government resistance, Government, Resistance to

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Toledo to Kabul. The Abbasid caliphate was at the...impressive of all the worlds empires: the Ottoman Empire. An Anatolian dynasty...ruins of the Byzantine Empire, the Ottomans were...Constantinople in 1453. Their empire spread Islam into hitherto...all the great Oriental empires, not to mention conquering...
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The Treatment of POWs; Islam vs. the Geneva Convention

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, March 28, 2003

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...the so-called Islamic "Golden Age" of the Baghdadian-Abbasid Caliphate. They wrote the following, based on their interpretations...classical schools of Islamic jurisprudence, across the vast Muslim empire. Specifically, Ibn Abi Zayd Al_Qayrawani (d. 996...

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Abbasid

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

ABBASID ba sid, a b sid or Abbaside...the uncle of Muhammad. The Abbasids held the caliphate from 749...Under the Umayyad caliphs the Abbasids lived quietly until they became...Muslim united most of the empire in revolt against the Umayyads. The head of the Abbasid family became caliph as Abu...
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Mansur, Al- , D. 775, 2d Abbasid Caliph

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

MANSUR, AL- , d. 775, 2d Abbasid caliph al-mansoor Arab.,=the victorious, d. 775, 2d Abbasid caliph (754 75) and founder of the city...caliph, he successfully consolidated his empire even though it was threatened by internal...
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Samanid

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...819 1005) in Khorasan and Transoxiana as vassals of the Abbasids ; founded by Saman-Khuda, of old Persian aristocracy...with the oncoming encroachment of Muslim Turks into the Abbasid Empire, the Samanids were effectively defeated; in 999, Bukhara...
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Turks

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...origin. Early Migrations and Empires The name Turk was first used...who had established a large empire stretching from Mongolia to the Black Sea. This empire, which was divided into two...the 7th cent. The northern empire regained its independence...into direct contact with the Abbasid caliphate and later with the...used as mercenaries by the Abbasids, but soon the Turks became...
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Buyid

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...such cities as Isfahan, Kerman, Rayy, and Baghdad. With the capture of the Abbasid capital, Baghdad , in 945, the Buyids assumed control of the Abassid Empire. Under their dynasty the Sunni caliphs were reduced to administrative figureheads...

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