The History of the Khalifas Who Took The Right...

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Author Biography

This is the follow-up volume to

The History of the Khalifahs Who Took the Right Way

and recounts the biographies of the Umayyad caliphs. This is the dynasty that rules the Muslim community from 661 until 750, directly after the four rightly guided caliphs.

Why you will want to buy this

book:

» A

short

and

fascinating

insight

into a dynasty that made a number of contributions to history.

» A

follow-up

to the first part

detailing the lives and works of the first four rightly guided caliphs.

»

Accurate

,

clear

and

readable

translation.

Category

History

Size

148 x 210mm

Weight

0.165kg

Pages

108

Year

2015

Edition

First Edition

In Stock

Yes

ISBN

978-1-84200-156-1

Jalal ad-Din as-Suyuti

Jalal ad-Din as-Suyuti (1445 – 1505) was an Egyptian polymath.

He was a leading muhaddith, mufassir, jurist, legal theorist, theologian,

grammarian, rhetorician, philologist, lexicographer and historian. He authored some 1000 books in virtually every Islamic science and is recognised

as one of the most prolific authors of all Islamic literature.

Tobias Sahl Andersson

Tobias Sahl Andersson was born

in Växjö, Sweden. He received his PhD in Islamic history at the University of

Edinburgh for research concerning early Islamic historical writing, focusing on

the

Tarikh

(‘Chronicle’) of the Basran historian and hadith

scholar Khalifa b. Khayyat (d. 240/854). Besides that, he works with various

translations of classical Arabic works into English and Swedish.