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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783473503321

Autore

Agha Saleh Said

Titolo

The Revolution which toppled the Umayyads : Neither Arab nor Ἁbbāsid / / Saleh Said Agha

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden; ; Boston : , : BRILL, , 2003

ISBN

1-280-46734-7

9786610467341

1-4237-1104-1

90-474-0208-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (447 p.)

Collana

Islamic History and Civilization ; ; 50

Disciplina

909/.09767101

Soggetti

Abbasids

Islamic Empire History 750-1258

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF FIGURES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION: ANTICIPATING THIS WORK; NOTE ON CONVENTION; PART ONE: THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE ORGANIZATION AND THE 'ABBĀSID CONNECTION; PART TWO: THE DEMOGRAPHIC BALANCE IN THE REVOLUTIONARY PROVINCE; PART THREE: A COLLECTIVE PROFILE OF THE ORGANIZATION-A QUANTITATIVE STUDY; EPILOGUE; APPENDIX ONE: PROSOPOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX; APPENDIX TWO: SPECIAL APPENDIX: INDEX OF STATISTICAL TABLES IN AGHA, "AGENTS"; GLOSSARY OF TERMS DEFINED; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

This book re-examines the so-called Ἁbbāsid revolution, the ethnic character of whose effective constituency has been contested for over eight decades. It also brings to question the authenticity of the Ἁbbāsid dynastic claim. To establish its two theses (neither Arab nor Ἁbbāsid) this book employs, in its three parts, three distinct methodological approaches. To reconstruct the secret history of the clandestine Organization, Part One elicits a narrative through a rigorous application of the historical-critical method. Part Two subjects to close textual analysis some prime-grade literary specimen. In Part Three, a purely quantitative approach is adopted to study the demographic character of



the formal structures of leadership within the Organization. History, historiography, heresiography, literature, the narrative, the textual analysis, and the quantitative approach, cannot be less inseparable.