The Origins of the Islamic State: Being a Translation from the Arabic Accompanied with Annotations, Geographic and Historic Notes of the Kitab Futuh (Paperback or Softback)

Al-Bal?dhur?, A?mad Ibn

ISBN 10: 1616405341 / ISBN 13: 9781616405342

Published by Cosimo Classics 3/1/2011, 2011

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The Origins of the Islamic State: Being a Translation from the Arabic Accompanied with Annotations, Geographic and Historic Notes of the Kitab Futuh 1.47.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Origins of the Islamic State: Being a Translation from the Arabic Accompanied with Annotations, Geographic and Historic Notes of the Kitab Futuh (Paperback or Softback)
• Publisher: Cosimo Classics 3/1/2011
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1616405341
• ISBN 13: 9781616405342
• Binding: Paperback or Softback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 1.47 pounds
• Book Type: Book

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Synopsis

Translated by Dr. Philip Khūri Hitti in 1916, The Origins of the Islamic State, or the Kitāb Futūḥ al-Buldān in Arabic, was an unparalleled source of Islamic history and culture in the early 20th century, and is still renowned today as one of the greatest accounts of Arabic history. This book is coveted for its historical tracing of events to the source, despite the work being incomplete as much of the original manuscripts were lost after the sixteenth century. This made the work especially difficult to translate, but even so, it remains one of the most well-documented accounts of Muslim history. The work covers the conquest of nations such as Arabia, Syria, Mesopotamia, Armenia, Africa, and Persia. The Futūḥ al-Buldān is widely-recognized as author al-Biladuri's chief surviving work, and was oft used by later historians to write their own Arabic histories. AHMAD IBN YAHA AL-BALADHURI (d. 892) was a Persian historian from the Ninth Century, considered today as a reliable source of early Arabic and Islamic history, particularly of the Muslim expansion. He lived at the court of the caliphs Al-Mutawakkil and Al-Musta'in in Baghdad, and served as tutor to al-Mutazz's son. He died in 892 from an overdose of the drug baladhur (from which Al Biladuri's name is derived).