Heather N. Keaney, Medieval Islamic Historiography: Remembering Rebellion (New York: Routledge, 2013). Pp. 192. $125.00 cloth. ISBN: 9780415828529.

2016 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 200-202
Author(s):  
Antoine Borrut
1993 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 434-436
Author(s):  
Muhammad Akram

The annual meeting featured panels on the Ancient Near East and ArtHistory; East Asia; Islam, South, and Southeast Asia; The Ancient NearEast; and Linguistics. In this report the sessions on Islam are covered.The first day deaJt with Islamic history. Khalid Blankinship (TempleUniversity, Philadelphia, PA) explored "The Background of Sayf ibn'Umar (d.c. 180/796) and the Nature of His Sources." Sidney H. Griffith(Catholic University of America, Washington, DC) spoke on "Muhammadand the Monk Bahira: Reflections on a Syriac Apologetical Text fromAbbasid Times." Tayeb el-Hibri (Columbia University, New York, NY)spoke on "The Regicide of the Caliph al-Amin and the Challenge of Rep­resentation in Medieval Islamic Historiography." Christopher Melchert(Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC) explicated the religious ...


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