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The Revolution which toppled the Umayyads
Neither Arab nor á¼bbÄsid
Series: - Islamic History and Civilization, Volume: 50
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This book re-examines the so-called á¼bbÄsid revolution, the ethnic character of whose effective constituency has been contested for over eight decades. It also brings to question the authenticity of the á¼bbÄsid dynastic claim. To establish its two theses (neither Arab nor á¼bbÄsid) this book employs, in its three parts, three distinct methodological approaches.
To reconstruct the secret history of the clandestine Organization, Part One elicits a narrative through a rigorous application of the historical-critical method. Part Two subjects to close textual analysis some prime-grade literary specimen. In Part Three, a purely quantitative approach is adopted to study the demographic character of the formal structures of leadership within the Organization.
History, historiography, heresiography, literature, the narrative, the textual analysis, and the quantitative approach, cannot be less inseparable.
To reconstruct the secret history of the clandestine Organization, Part One elicits a narrative through a rigorous application of the historical-critical method. Part Two subjects to close textual analysis some prime-grade literary specimen. In Part Three, a purely quantitative approach is adopted to study the demographic character of the formal structures of leadership within the Organization.
History, historiography, heresiography, literature, the narrative, the textual analysis, and the quantitative approach, cannot be less inseparable.
Saleh Said Agha, Ph.D. (1993) in MEIS, University of Toronto, is Associate Professor of Arabic at the American University of Beirut. He has published on early Arabic poetry, political history, and culture, including Dhu al-Rummah: Khulasat al-Tajribah al-Sahrawiyyah (Beirut, 1998).
All those interested in the mesh of early Islamic history, historiography and heresiography; clandestine movements, revolutions, ethnic/cultural friction/identification; quantifying historical demographic; dynastic transition from Umayyad to á¼bbÄsid.