The volume brings together 17 articles by leading Islamicists and Arabists, on a variety of topics in Medieval and Early Modern times, including the QurâÄn, Shi'ism, á¼bbÄsid historiography, the Crusaders, and Mamluk history.
Chase F. Robinson, Ph.D. (1993), Harvard University, is University Lecturer in Islamic History at the University of Oxford. He has published Empire and Elites after the Muslim Conquest (CUP, 2000) and Islamic Historiography (CUP, 2000).
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Rüdiger Lohlker, Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, 2004.
All those interested in Arabic language and literature, Islamic thought and history, and the Crusaders.