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Baghdad: From its Beginnings to the 14th Century offers an
exhaustive handbook that covers all possible themes connected to
the history of this urban complex in Iraq, from its origins rooted
in late antique Mesopotamia up to the aftermath of the Mongol
invasion in 1258. Against the common perception of a city founded
762 in a vacuum, which, after experiencing a heyday in a mythical
"golden age" under the early 'Abbasids, entered since 900 a long
period of decline that ended with a complete collapse by savage
people from the East in 1258, the volume emphasizes the continuity
of Baghdad's urban life, and shows how it was marked by its destiny
as caliphal seat and cultural hub. Contributors Mehmetcan Akpinar,
Nuha Alshaar, Pavel Basharin, David Bennett, Michal Biran, Richard
W. Bulliet, Kirill Dmitriev, Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst, Hend
Gilli-Elewy, Beatrice Gruendler, Sebastian Gunther, Olof Heilo,
Damien Janos, Christopher Melchert, Michael Morony, Bernard O'Kane,
Klaus Oschema, Letizia Osti, Parvaneh Pourshariati, Vanessa van
Renterghem, Jens Scheiner, Angela Schottenhammer, Y. Zvi Stampfer,
Johannes Thomann, Isabel Toral.
This volume explores aspects of religious culture in the Eastern
Mediterranean and the Arabian Peninsula across Late Antiquity - the
period of dynamic and historically crucial developments,
culminating in the emergence of Islam. While it would be impossible
to provide an exhaustive examination of the topic in a single
volume, it is the main aim of this book to further stimulate
scholarly research on the Late Antique context of the origins of
Islam and the history of early Arab-Muslim culture.
In al-Hira. Eine arabische Kulturmetropole im spatantiken Kontext,
Isabel Toral-Niehoff draws a vivid portrait of this multicultural
Late Antique Arab city located in the frontier zone between
Byzantium and Iran and emphasizes its significance for Arab culture
and early Islam. In al-Hira. Eine arabische Kulturmetropole im
spatantiken Kontext zeichnet Isabel Toral-Niehoff ein lebendiges
Portrat dieser spatantiken multikulturellen arabischen Stadt im
Grenzraum zwischen Byzanz und Iran und unterstreicht deren
Bedeutung fur den Fruhislam und die arabische Kulturgeschichte.
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