Format:
1 online resource (viii, 189 pages)
ISBN:
9781315585147
,
9781317126898
,
9781317126904
Content:
1. From one universal historiography to the other : the reorientation of ancient historiography in byzantium and its reception in Arabic, the Islamic organization of written memory / Johannes Niehoff-Panagiotidis -- 2. Aspects of craft in the Arabic book revolution / Beatrice Gruendler -- 3. Contexts and content of Thabit ibn Qurra's (died 288/901) construction of knowledge on the balance / Sonja Brentjes and Jurgen Renn -- 4. Monarchs and minorities : "infidel" soldiers in Mediterranean courts / Hussein Fancy -- 5. The synonyma literature in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries / Charles Burnett -- 6. The cultural transfer of Zaydi and non-Zaydi religious literature from Northern Iran to Yemen (sixth/twelfth century through eighth/fourteenth century) / Hassan Ansari and Sabine Schmidtke -- 7. Iskandar the prophet : religious themes in Islamic versions of the Alexander legend / Anna A. Akasoy.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781472456564
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781472456564
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9781315585147
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