The History of al-Ṭabarī Vol. 23

The History of al-Ṭabarī Vol. 23This volume covers the years 700 715 A. D., a period that witnessed the last five years of the caliphate of the Umayyad 'Abd al Malik ibn Marwn and the whole of the caliphate of his son al Wald. In retrospect, this period can be seen to have marked the apogee of Marwnid Umayyad power. It began with the dangerous revolt of the Iraqi tribal leader Ibn al Ash'ath, which seriously imperilled Marwnid control of Iraq and was countered with considerable

and political concerns

each with its very own requirements with respect to the raw material used

they begin staging an uprising against the women of Mars in order to demand total equality

It provides a fresh account of modernity from a transnational perspective

building family unity and spirituality

and so is the independence of the regulatory bodies governing it

he suffers under a series of constraints and grueling demands

and the book's chronological structure offers historical insight and perspective

by philosophers in this period

Michael Halberstam

decided that one day their children would be betrothed

The authors explore the ideological values explicitly encoded by the feminine in these texts