Edward Zychowicz-Coghill, "The First Arabic Annals: Fragments of Umayyad History (Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East) "
English | ISBN: 3110712652 | 2021 | 160 pages | EPUB, PDF | 1258 KB + 679 KB
The earliest development of Arabic historical writing remains shrouded in uncertainty until the 9th century CE, when our first extant texts were composed. This book demonstrates a new method, termed riwāya-cum-matn, which allows us to identify citation-markers that securely indicate the quotation of earlier Arabic historical works, proto-books first circulated in the eighth century.