360 Pages
by
Routledge
360 Pages
by
Routledge
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This volume complements the selection of Wilferd Madelung’s articles previously published by Variorum (Religious Schools and Sects in Medieval Islam), the earlier volume dealing principally with dogmatic issues, the present one concentrating on the political and social aspects. The first articles here examine the origins of the belief in the coming of the Mahdi and apocalyptic prophecies connected... Read more
Contents: ’Abd Allah b. al-Zubayr and the Mahdi; Apocalyptic prophecies in Hims in the Umayyad age; The Sufyani between tradition and history; ’Has the Hijra come to an end?’; The Hashimiyyat of al-Kumayt and Hashimi Shi’ism; New documents concerning al-Ma’mun, al-Fadl b. Sahl and ’Ali al-Rida; Abu Ishaq al-Sabi on the Alids of Tabaristan and Gilan; The assumption of the title Shahanshah by the Buyids and ’the Reign of the Daylam (Dawlat al-Daylam)’; The identity of two Yemenite historical manuscripts; Al-Hamdani’s description of Northern Yemen in the light of chronicles of the 4th/10th and 5th/11th centuries; Land ownership and land tax in Northern Yemen and Najran: 3rd-4th/9th-10th centuries; The Sirat al-Amirayn al-Ajallayn al-Sharifayn al-Fadilayn al-Qasim wa-Muhammad ibnay Ja’far ibn al-Imam al-Qasim b. ’Ali al-’Iyani as a historical source; The origins of the Yemenite Hijra; Addenda and corrigenda; Index.
Biography
Wilfred Madelung
’This volume, like its companion volume Religious Schools and Sects in Medieval Islam (Variorum 1985), bears witness to the author’s impeccable scholarship and his mastery of the sources.’ Journal of Semitic Studies ’Professor Madelung’s researches are made all the more valuable for re-appearing in this collection.’ Bulletin of the Middle East Studies Association
