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Rediscovering al-Azdī and the Futūḥ al-Shām Narrative : Manuscripts, Parallel Texts, Research History / Jens Scheiner.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Islamic History and Thought ; 28Publisher: Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: 1 online resource (426 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781463243838
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 956.91/02 23//eng/20220328eng
LOC classification:
  • DS97.2.A93 S34 2022
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1. THE FUTŪḤ AL-SHĀM NARRATIVE IN ARABIC MANUSCRIPTS -- CHAPTER 2. THE FUTŪḤ AL-SHĀM NARRATIVE IN MUSLIM AND CHRISTIAN LITERATURE -- CHAPTER 3. A HISTORY OF AZDĪ-OLOGY -- EPILOGUE. AL-AZDĪ, THE COMPILER-AUTHOR OF THE FUTŪḤ AL-SHĀM NARRATIVE? -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
Summary: The Futūḥ al-Shām (The Conquests of Greater Syria), usually attributed to Abū Ismāʿīl Muḥammad b. ʿAbdallāh al-Azdī al-Baṣrī, is one of the primary sources used for historians studying the early Muslim expansion into Greater Syria. This study revaluates the Futūḥ al-Shām narrative and the question of its compiler-author, investigating the history of the narrative as text through an analysis of a new manuscript and important parallel texts, and revisiting the evidence and hypotheses previous scholars have put forward on both al-Azdī’s life and the Futūḥ al-Shām narrative’s text. It thus offers an overview of the history of Oriental and Islamic Studies on the basis of one work.

Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1. THE FUTŪḤ AL-SHĀM NARRATIVE IN ARABIC MANUSCRIPTS -- CHAPTER 2. THE FUTŪḤ AL-SHĀM NARRATIVE IN MUSLIM AND CHRISTIAN LITERATURE -- CHAPTER 3. A HISTORY OF AZDĪ-OLOGY -- EPILOGUE. AL-AZDĪ, THE COMPILER-AUTHOR OF THE FUTŪḤ AL-SHĀM NARRATIVE? -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

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The Futūḥ al-Shām (The Conquests of Greater Syria), usually attributed to Abū Ismāʿīl Muḥammad b. ʿAbdallāh al-Azdī al-Baṣrī, is one of the primary sources used for historians studying the early Muslim expansion into Greater Syria. This study revaluates the Futūḥ al-Shām narrative and the question of its compiler-author, investigating the history of the narrative as text through an analysis of a new manuscript and important parallel texts, and revisiting the evidence and hypotheses previous scholars have put forward on both al-Azdī’s life and the Futūḥ al-Shām narrative’s text. It thus offers an overview of the history of Oriental and Islamic Studies on the basis of one work.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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