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245-0$a History and culture in the medieval Muslim world / $c S.M. Stern.
100 1-$a Stern, S.M. (Samuel Miklos), $d 1920-1969
260 $a London : $b Variorum Reprints, $c 1984.
300 $a Variant page numbers. Contains a total of 344 p.
041$a English
020$a 0860781488 (hbk.)
500$a c1984 by Variorum Reprints.$a Contains 13 articles by S.M. Stern, previously publ. in articles and books, each retaining p. nos. of original source$a Includes index
505$a 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.
600 $a Abu al-'Ala' al-Ma'arri, $d 973-1057
650 $a Civilisation, Arabic $a Ancient poetry
440 $v CS200
 

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