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| Document Type: | Book |
| Title: | History and culture in the medieval Muslim world / S.M. Stern. |
| Author: | Stern, S.M. (Samuel Miklos), 1920-1969 |
| Publisher: | London : Variorum Reprints, 1984. |
| Pages: | Variant page numbers. Contains a total of 344 p. |
| Language: | English |
| ISBN: | 0860781488 (hbk.) |
| Notes: | c1984 by Variorum Reprints.Contains 13 articles by S.M. Stern, previously publ. in articles and books, each retaining p. nos. of original sourceIncludes index |
| Contents: | The constitution of the Islamic city -- Quotations from Apocryphal Gospels -- 'Abd al-Jabbar's account of how Christ's religion was falsified by the adoption of Roman Customs -- Shetar Abezarith -- Arabico-Persica -- Ya'qub the coppersmith and Persian national sentiment -- Ramisht of Siraf, a merchant millionaire of the twelfth century -- Some notworthy manuscripts of the poems of Abu'l-'Ala' al-Ma'arri -- An embassy of the Byzantine emperor to the Fatimid caliph al-Mu'izz -- The epistle of the Fatimid caliph al-Amir (al-Hidaya al-Amiriyya) - its date and purpose -- The sucession to the Fatimid Imam al-Amir, the claims of the later Fatimids to the Imamate, and the rise of Tayyibi Ismailism -- Tari -- A twelfth-century circle of Hebrew poets in Sicily. |
| Author as Subject: | Abu al-'Ala' al-Ma'arri, 973-1057 |
| Descriptors: | Civilisation, Arabic Ancient poetry |
| Series: | CS200 |
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