Islamic History A Framework for Inquiry - Revised Edition

Name: Islamic History A Framework for Inquiry - Revised Edition
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ISBN: 9780691008561

ISBN-10: 0691008566

ISBN-13: 9780691008561

Edition: 1992 (Revised)

Authors: R. Stephen Humphreys

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This book will be immensely helpful to those who wish to orient themselves to what has become a very large body of literature on medieval Islamic history. Combining a bibliographic study with an inquiry into method, it opens with a survey of the principal reference tools available to historians of Islam and a systematic review of the sources they will confront. Problems of method are then examined in a series of chapters, each exploring a broad topic in the social and political history of the Middle East and North Africa between A.D. 600 and 1500. The topics selected represent a cross-section of Islamic historical studies, and range from the struggles for power within the early Islamic…

Book details

List price: $63.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 9/1/1991
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 418
Size: 6.14" wide x 8.98" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.298
Language: English

R. Stephen Humphreys is Professor of History and Islamic Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and author of Islamic History: A Framework for Inquiry (second edition, 1991) among other works.