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The author applies an alternative literary-critical reading of the early Islamic sources to demonstrate how medieval narrators devised elusive ways of shedding light on the political, social and religious debates of the 'Abbasid' period. This book represents a landmark in the field of early Islamic historiography.El-Hibri, Tayeb is the author of 'Reinterpreting Islamic Historiography Harun Al-rashid and the Narrative of the Abbasid Caliphate', published 2007 under ISBN 9780521033046 and ISBN 0521033047.
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