[PDF.30fd] White Banners: Contention in 'Abbasid Syria, 750-880 (Suny Series, Medieval Middle East History)

White Banners: Contention in 'Abbasid Syria, 750-880 (Suny Series, Medieval Middle East History)

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||2 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Raise Your Banners High!|By Kevin Killian|What a lovely book! I didn't know much about ancient (more properly speaking, medieval) Syria before picking up this attractive volume, but it was from a press with an impressive track record of assisting American readers who seek to understand present day conflicts in the Middle East, so I decided to give it a shot. Am I ever glad I| |Cobb does an excellent job of situating a series of sophisticated case studies, as well as providing his analysis of the politics of contention within the larger context of the historiography (Syrian and Iraqi; medieval and modern) on late Umayyad and early Ab

Using Arabic, non-Arabic and newly available local Syrian sources, this richly detailed study examines the central events of medieval Islamic history: the fall of the Syrian Umayyad caliphate and the rise of the 'Abbasid state. As the 'Abbasids forged their new state from Iraq, Syrians raised their white banners of opposition and violently contested the changes that occurred under the 'Abbasid rule. As a result, the Syrian population quickly gained a reputation as unique...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.White Banners: Contention in 'Abbasid Syria, 750-880 (Suny Series, Medieval Middle East History)   |  Professor of Islamic History Paul M Cobb. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!

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