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Classical Arabic Biography: The Heirs of the Prophets in the Age of Al-Ma'mun

Classical Arabic Biography: The Heirs of the Prophets in the Age of Al-Ma'mun

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Series: Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryGeneral Middle Eastern HistoryGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0521088542
ISBN13: 9780521088541
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Oct 30 2008
Pages: 244
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Premodern Arabic biography has served as a major source for the history of Islamic civilization. In the first book-length study to explore the origins and development of classical Arabic biography, Michael Cooperson demonstrates how Muslim scholars used the notions of heirship and transmission to document the activities of political, scholarly and religious communities. The author also explains how medieval Arab scholars used biography to reconstruct the life stories of important historical figures. He then examines the careers of four of these figures, analyzing their relationships and their place in later biography.

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