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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Nancy A Khalek |
ISBN: | 9780199736515 0199736510 |
OCLC Number: | 829972011 |
Description: | viii, 204 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Chapter One: Narrative and Early Islamic History ; Chapter Two: Telling Stories: Historical Writing in Early Islamic Syria ; Chapter Three: John the Baptist and Sanctified Spaces in Islamic Syria ; Chapter Four: Iconic Texts: Damascus in the Medieval Imagination ; Afterword |
Responsibility: | Nancy Khalek. |
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This collection offers raw history, untainted and unfilteres by modern political frameworks, interpretations, or opinions, representing a refreshing new approach to the study of Iraq. ... There are very few works on the Middle East that offer the type of perspectve the author presents in this compendium of source materials. * Elfatih A. Abdel Salam, The Muslim World Book Review * An innovative and nuanced contribution to our understanding of the first century or so after the coming of Islam...Damascus after the Muslim conquest should be required reading for all students of early Islamic history. * Zayde Antrim, Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations * Read more...

