Autor: Franz Rosenthal

The influence of classical antiquity on the religious disciplines, theology, mysticism and law of Islam cannot be overestimated. This work demonstrates the significance of the classical heritage by d …

The influence of classical antiquity on the religious disciplines, theology, mysticism and law of Islam cannot be overestimated. This work demonstrates the significance of the classical heritage by d …

The Muqaddimah, often translated as ‘Introduction’ or ‘Prolegomenon, ‘ is the most important Islamic history of the premodern world. Written by the great fourteenth-century Arab scholar Ibn Khaldûn ( …

Volume I of the thirty-eight volume translation of Ṭabarī’s great History begins with the creation of the world and ends with the time of Noah and the Flood. It not only brings a vast amount of specu …

The concluding pages of al-Ṭabarī’s History cover the caliphates of al-Muʿtaḍid and al-Muktafī and the beginning of the reign of al-Muqtadir—altogether a period of 23 turbulent years in world history …

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