The First Dynasty of Islam: The Umayyad Caliphate AD 661-750
, by Hawting,G. RNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780415240727 | 0415240727
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 9/19/2000
"...provides the best account now available in English." -- Journal of the American Oriental Society Gerald Hawtings book has long been acknowledged as the standard introductory survey of this complex period in Arab and Islamic history. Now it is once more made available, with the addition of a new Introduction by the author which examines recent significant contributions to scholarship in the field.