How did Muslims of the classical Islamic period understand their past? What value did they attach to history? How did they write history? How did historiography

This book exposes the mimetic assumption involved in early Islamic historiography, its literary practice and whatever subverts it as reflected in Ṭabarī's Hi

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This monograph offers a new approach in the study of identity among the Muslims of Russia, examining the role of oral and written historiography in the formatio

The importance of Muslim historical writing in the medieval period and the fact that few detailed studies exist, make Professor Khalidi's book of special import