The Early Muslim Conquest of Syria: An English Translation of Al-Azdī's Futūḥ Al-Shām

ISBN-13: 9781032088723 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 324 str.

Hamada Hassanein

Opis

This book narrates the battles, conquests and diplomatic activities of the early Muslim fighters in Syria and Iraq vis-à-vis their Byzantine and Persian counterparts. It is the first English translation of one of the earliest Arabic sources on the early Muslim expansion entitled Futūḥ al-Shām (The Conquests of Syria).

Spis treści

Introduction; 1 Summary of al-Azdī’s Futūḥ al-Shām; 2 The compiler-author and his work; 3 Policies of translation; 4 Translation

O autorze

Hamada Hassanein is Assistant Professor at Prince Sattam bin Abdulaziz University (Saudi Arabia), on secondment from Mansoura University (Egypt). His academic interest is the application of linguistic theories to Arabic texts. His recent publications include Arabic Antonymy Translation (2017) and Discourse Functions (2018).

Jens Scheiner is Professor of Islamic Studies at the University of Göttingen (Germany). His research interests are the political and social history of the early and classical periods of Islam and HadithStudies (in particular isnad-cum-matnanalysis). He published on the early Muslim conquests, the cultural history of Baghdad and hadith.