The Origins of the Islamic State: Being a Translation from the Arabic Accompanied with Annotations Geographic and Historic Notes of the Kitab Futuh Al-Buldan of al-Imam abu-l Abbas Ahmad ibn-Jabir al-Baladhuri [Two Volumes]

  • New York: AMS Press, 1976
By Ahmad ibn-Jabir al-Baladhuri; Philip Khuri Hitti [trans.]
New York: AMS Press, 1976. Very Good +. New York: AMS Press, 1968 [but 1976]. Two octavo volumes (22.2cm); green buckram with gilt lettering; I: [xii],518pp; II: xii,299pp. Boards are sturdy and square with nudging at spine ends. Bindings sound and pages unmarked. Not ex-library.

Reprint of the 1916 Columbia University Press edition, issued as Volume LXVII, parts 163 & 163-A of their Studies in History, Economics and Public Law series. Major work of the 9th-century Muslim historian.

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The Origins of the Islamic State: Being a Translation from the Arabic Accompanied with Annotations Geographic and Historic Notes of the Kitab Futuh Al-Buldan of al-Imam abu-l Abbas Ahmad ibn-Jabir al-Baladhuri [Two Volumes]

Author

Ahmad ibn-Jabir al-Baladhuri; Philip Khuri Hitti [trans.]

Condition

Very Good

Publisher

AMS Press: New York

Date

1976


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