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 ...

Gérard Chaliand has ranged over the whole of human history in assembling this collection—the result is an integration of the annals of military thought that provides a learned framework for ...

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 ...