The story of Aishah, the Prophet Mohammed's favourite wife. The text tells of how she lived several decades after Mohammed's death and was deeply involved in the political conflict and civil war that shaped the early Muslim state.
An examination of the life of Aisha, the favorite wife of the prophet Mohammed. Aisha, who outlived Mohammed by several decades, took part in the tumultuous politics of her day, in defiance of the Islamic tenet that women should play no role in public life.
This volume recounts the lives of the mother and wife of Harun al-Rashid, contemporary of Charlemagne and hero of many a tale from the "Arabian Nights". Khaizuran and Zubaidah, the "two queens", flouted the taboos of Muslim society and left their imprint on a key period of Islamic history.
The present volume concludes the series of studies in Arabic literary papyri as envisaged in the Preface to Volume I. The studies reveal a steadily accelerating literary activity in both the religious and secular fields throughout the Umayyad period. Poets and scholars in the various fields used concurrent oral and written transmission for the ...
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