Michael Coo someone Classical Arab...

Michael Coo someone Classical Arabic Biography: The Heirs of the Prophets in the Age of al-Ma' mun Cambridge: Cambridge UP 2000 217 pp ISBN 0-521-6199-4 $5995

There is generally underway a trend of reexamination of early Islamic historical narrative (political, religious, and biographical) among medieval Islamic scholars, and this work will be remembered as a pioneering pace in that direction. The story of the Arab caliphate and outline of its religious history, prolonged thought to have been favorably synthesized by orientalists in the nineteenth and early part of the