Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations and note on the dates
- Genealogical table: the line of the early ʿAbbāsid caliphs
- Chapter 1 Historical background and introduction
- Chapter 2 Hārūn al-Rashīd: where it all started or ended
- Chapter 3 Al-Amīn: the challenge of regicide in Islamic memory
- Chapter 4 Al-Maʾmūn: the heretic Caliph
- Chapter 5 The structure of civil war narratives
- Chapter 6 Al-Mutawakkil: an encore of the family tragedy
- Conclusion
- Select bibliography
- Index
Select bibliography
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 June 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations and note on the dates
- Genealogical table: the line of the early ʿAbbāsid caliphs
- Chapter 1 Historical background and introduction
- Chapter 2 Hārūn al-Rashīd: where it all started or ended
- Chapter 3 Al-Amīn: the challenge of regicide in Islamic memory
- Chapter 4 Al-Maʾmūn: the heretic Caliph
- Chapter 5 The structure of civil war narratives
- Chapter 6 Al-Mutawakkil: an encore of the family tragedy
- Conclusion
- Select bibliography
- Index
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- Reinterpreting Islamic HistoriographyHarun al-Rashid and the Narrative of the Abbasid Caliphate, pp. 221 - 229Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1999