Because the main source used by contemporary Orientalists is History of the Prophets and Kings, written by the Persian Al-Tabari, an imam and chronicler contemporary to these events, who portrayed it ...

Author's comments: Keep in mind, dear reader, the words of Thabit bin Qays, endorsed by Muhammad, as reported in The History of Al-Tabari, vol 9, p69 [1712], “As for one who disbelieves [a non ...

Al-Fadl ibn Qarin al-Tabari (Arabic: الفضل بن قارن الطبري) was a ninth century military commander and provincial governor for the Abbasid Caliphate. He served as the governor of Hims from 862 until he ...

Abu’l-Ṭayyib Ṭāher Bin ʿAbdallāh Bin Ṭāher al-Ṭabarī al-Āmolī al-S̲h̲āfiʿī commonly known as Abū al-Ṭayyib al-Ṭabarī was an Iranian jurisconsult, professor of legal sciences and was the chief judge in ...

Religious thinkers, political leaders, lawmakers, writers, and philosophers have shaped the 1,400-year-long development of the world's second-largest religion. But who were these people? What do we ...

This engrossing anthology gathers together a remarkable collection of writings on the use of strategy in war. Gérard Chaliand has ranged over the whole of human history in assembling this ...