The Description for this book, The Shaping of 'Abbasid Rule, will be forthcoming.

In order to understand the transition between the revolutionary movement that propelled the Abbasids to power and the imperial government that later took root,

A study of the religious policies of the early Abb sids. It describes the caliphs' patronage of the nascent Sunni religious elite and offers a new interpretatio

Examines the socio-cultural history of the regions where Islam took hold between the 7th and 16th century. This two-volume work contains 700 alphabetically arra