When viewed prosopographically, the marriages of the Umayyad caliphs recorded within the Arabic genealogical literary tradition present us with a compelling insight into the evolution of the early Islamic polity. Following a brief outline of the methodology, this paper will then extract the marriages of the Umayyad caliphs and their sons and use these data to illustrate trends in marriage behaviour over the course of their dynastic reign. This will then be compared with the marriage behaviour of two other cohorts: those of Muhammad and the early Muslims, and those of the Quraysh of Muhammad's father's generation. By comparing the behaviour of these three groups we shall demonstrate the efficacy of the methodology and the accuracy of the sou...
A STUDY OF AL-GIIAZALI'S KITAB ADAB AL-NIKAH This study of Abu Hamid al-Ghazali's Kitab adab al-nik...
The rise of the Buwayhids to power during the fourth century of the Hijra is important in the histor...
ii Decline paradigms have long dominated the modern historiography of the pre-modern Middle East. In...
This study examines the marital data preserved within the Arabic genealogical works of the early nin...
This study examines the marital data preserved within the Arabic genealogical works of the early nin...
Intermarriages represent a form of social connections that occur for common reasons. However, they m...
A statistical analysis of an early Arabic text, Nasab Quraysh of al-Zubayri (d.c. 850), is used to e...
This paper is a first attempt at understanding the impact of Islam on families in eighth-century rur...
n this paper we will show how Qurashī patrilines and marriage records can be statistically analysed ...
The academic debate on the ideas and practices that organized succession to the sultanate of Mamluk ...
The Umayyads, the first dynasty of Islam, ruled over a vast empire from their central province of Sy...
Description When the Umayyads, the first Islamic dynasty, rose to power shortly after the death o...
This study explores Islamization and conversion as a process of socialisation, one best illustrated ...
With the advent of Islam in the Arabian Peninsula, its decentralized and undeveloped structure was f...
The Umayyah dynasty was a classical Islamic era government which was often seen as weak when compare...
A STUDY OF AL-GIIAZALI'S KITAB ADAB AL-NIKAH This study of Abu Hamid al-Ghazali's Kitab adab al-nik...
The rise of the Buwayhids to power during the fourth century of the Hijra is important in the histor...
ii Decline paradigms have long dominated the modern historiography of the pre-modern Middle East. In...
This study examines the marital data preserved within the Arabic genealogical works of the early nin...
This study examines the marital data preserved within the Arabic genealogical works of the early nin...
Intermarriages represent a form of social connections that occur for common reasons. However, they m...
A statistical analysis of an early Arabic text, Nasab Quraysh of al-Zubayri (d.c. 850), is used to e...
This paper is a first attempt at understanding the impact of Islam on families in eighth-century rur...
n this paper we will show how Qurashī patrilines and marriage records can be statistically analysed ...
The academic debate on the ideas and practices that organized succession to the sultanate of Mamluk ...
The Umayyads, the first dynasty of Islam, ruled over a vast empire from their central province of Sy...
Description When the Umayyads, the first Islamic dynasty, rose to power shortly after the death o...
This study explores Islamization and conversion as a process of socialisation, one best illustrated ...
With the advent of Islam in the Arabian Peninsula, its decentralized and undeveloped structure was f...
The Umayyah dynasty was a classical Islamic era government which was often seen as weak when compare...
A STUDY OF AL-GIIAZALI'S KITAB ADAB AL-NIKAH This study of Abu Hamid al-Ghazali's Kitab adab al-nik...
The rise of the Buwayhids to power during the fourth century of the Hijra is important in the histor...
ii Decline paradigms have long dominated the modern historiography of the pre-modern Middle East. In...