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Intro -- Title Page -- About the Author -- Other titles of interest -- Contents -- Preface -- Conventions, abbreviations & -- equivocations -- Introduction -- Part 1: Islam & -- Empire 600-850 -- 1. Muhammad, the Prophet (632) -- 2. 'Ali, cousin, caliph and forefather of Shi'ism (661) -- 3. 'A'isha, wife of the Prophet (678) -- 4. 'Abd al-Malik, engineer of the caliphate (705) -- 5. Ibn al-Muqaffa', translator and essayist (759) -- 6. Rabi'a al-'Adawiyya, renunciant and saint (801) -- 7. al-Ma'mun, caliph-patron (833) -- Part 2: The Islamic Commonwealth 850-1050 -- 8. 'Arib, courtesan of caliphs (890) -- 9. al-Hallaj, 'the Truth' (922) -- 10. al-Tabari, traditionalist rationalist (923) -- 11. Abu Bakr al-Razi, free-thinking physician (925 or 935) -- 12. Ibn Fadlan, intrepid envoy (fl. tenth century) -- 13. Ibn Muqla, vizier, scribe, calligrapher? (940) -- 14. Mahmud of Ghazna, conqueror and patron (1030) -- 15. al-Biruni, cataloguer of nature and culture (c. 1050) -- Part 3: A Provisional Synthesis 1050-1250 -- 16. Ibn Hazm, polemicist, polymath (1064) -- 17. Karima al-Marwaziyya, hadith scholar (1070) -- 18. al-Ghazali, 'Renewer' of Islam (1111) -- 19. Abu al-Qasim Ramisht, merchant millionaire (c. 1150) -- 20. al-Idrisi, cosmopolitan cartographer (1165) -- 21. Saladin, anti-Crusader hero (1193) -- 22. Ibn Rushd (Averroes), Aristotelian monotheist (1198) -- Part 4: Disruption & -- Integration 1250-1525 -- 23. Rumi, Sufi 'poet' (1273) -- 24. Rashid al-Din, physician, courtier and global historian (1318) -- 25. al-Hilli, paragon of Shi'ism ascendant (1325) -- 26. Ibn Taymiyya, stubborn reactionary (1328) -- 27. Timur, sheep-rustler, world-conqueror (1405) -- 28. Ibn Khaldun, social theorist and historian (1406) -- 29. Mehmed II, conqueror and renaissance man (1481) -- 30. Shah Isma'il, esoteric charismatic (1524) -- Glossary.

The religious thinkers, political leaders, law-makers, writers and philosophers of the early Muslim world helped to shape the 1,400-year-long development of today's second-largest world religion. But who were these people? What do we know of their lives, and the ways in which they influenced their societies? Chase F. Robinson draws on the long tradition in Muslim scholarship of commemorating in writing the biographies of notable figures, but weaves these ambitious lives together to create a rich narrative of early Islamic civilisation, from the Prophet Muhammad to fearsome Tamerlane

Abu ʿUbayda (d. 825) was amawlā(client) of Jewish descent who wrote prolifically about history, religion, and culture. As such, he exemplifies the well-known feature of early Islamic learning that is the Abbasid-eramawlāscholar. His grandfather was a freeborn convert, rather than the more common manumitted slave, and it happens that the grandfather's patron—his sponsor, as it were, for admission into Islamic society—was a slave trader named ʿUbayd Allah b. Maʿmar (d. ca. 665). And ʿUbayd Allah b. Maʿmar, on a conservative estimate, had purchased hundreds of slaves from ʿUmar b. al-Khattab, the caliph who, before his assassination by a slave, had presided over the explosive early phases of the Islamic conquests.

This works contains a fully annotated translation of the extant writings of AbU al-'Abbas al-Ya'qUbi, a Muslim imperial official and polymath of the third/ninth century, along with an introduction to these works and a biographical sketch of their author. The most important of the works are the History (Ta?rikh) and his Geography (Kitab al-buldan). The works also contains a new translation of al-Ya'qubi?s political essay (Mushakalat al-nas) and a set of fragmentary texts drawn from other Arabic medieval works. Al-Ya'qUbi?s writings are among the earliest surviving Arabic-language works of the Islamic period, and thus offer an invaluable body of evidence on patterns of early Islamic history, social and economic organization, and cultural production

This works contains a fully annotated translation of the extant writings of AbU al-'Abbas al-Ya'qUbi, a Muslim imperial official and polymath of the third/ninth century, along with an introduction to these works and a biographical sketch of their author. The most important of the works are the History (Ta?rikh) and his Geography (Kitab al-buldan). The works also contains a new translation of al-Ya'qubi?s political essay (Mushakalat al-nas) and a set of fragmentary texts drawn from other Arabic medieval works. Al-Ya'qUbi?s writings are among the earliest surviving Arabic-language works of the Islamic period, and thus offer an invaluable body of evidence on patterns of early Islamic history, social and economic organization, and cultural production