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Article: CLASSICAL ARABIC BIOGRAPHY THE HEIRS OF THE PROPHETS IN THE AGE OF AL MA'MUN.(Brief Article)
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- The Middle East
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- November 1, 2000
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CLASSICAL ARABIC BIOGRAPHY THE HEIRS OF THE PROPHETS IN THE AGE OF AL MA'MUN
By Michael Cooperson published by Cambridge University Press ISBN 0 521 66199 4 price 35.00 [pounds sterling] hardback
Pre-modern Arabic biography has served as a major source for study of the history of Islamic civilisation. In the first book-length study in English to explore the origins and development of classical Arabic biography, Michael Cooperson demonstrates how Muslim scholars used the notions of heirship and transmission to document the activities of political, scholarly, and religious communities. He also explains how medieval Arab writers used biography to tell the ...