Living Islamic History

Professor Yasir Suleiman is the first holder of His Majesty Sultan Qaboos Bin Sa'id Chair of Modern Arabic Studies and a Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. His many published works include A War of Words: Language and Conflict in the Middle East (2004), The Arabic Language and National Identity: A Study in Ideology (2003), The Arabic Grammatical Tradition: A Study in Tal'liil(1999), Literature and Nation in the Middle East (edited with Ibrahim Muhawi, 2006), Language and Society in the Middle East and North Africa (editor, 1999), Arabic Grammar and Linguistics (editor, 1998), Language and Identity in the Middle East and North Africa (editor, 1996) and Arabic Sociolinguistics: Issues and Perspectives (editor, 1994).

• Professor Carole Hillenbrand: List of PublicationsList of ContributorsIntroduction, Yasir SuleimanThe Origin of Key Shiite Thought Patterns in Islamic HistoryAdel Al-Abdul Jader, Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of SciencesAdditions to The New Islamic DynastiesC. Edmund Bosworth, University of Manchester (Emeritus)Al-Tha'alibi's Adab al-muluk, A Local Mirror for PrincesJulia Bray, Université Paris 8Religious Identity, Dissimulation and Assimilation: The Ismaili ExperienceFarhad Daftary, Institute of Ismaili StudiesSaladin's Pious Foundations in Damascus: Some New HypothesesAnne-Marie Eddé, Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes, CNRSThe Coming of Islam to BukharaHugh Kennedy, School of Oriental and African StudiesA Barmecide Feast: The Downfall of the Barmakids in Popular ImaginationRemke Kruk, Universiteit LeidenThe History of the Patriarchs of the Egyptian Church as a Source for the History of the Seljuks of AnatoliaGary Leiser, Travis Air MuseumGenealogy and Exemplary Rulership in the Tarikh-i Chingiz KhanCharles Melville, University of CambridgeVikings and Rus in Arabic SourcesJames E. Montgomery, University of CambridgeQashani and Rashid al-Din on the Seljuqs of IranAlexander H. Morton, School of Oriental and African StudiesExile and Return: Diasporas of the Secular and Sacred MindIan Richard Netton, University of ExeterClerical Perceptions of Sufi Practices in Late 17th Century Persia, II: Al-Hurr al-'Amili, (d. 1693) and the Debate on the Permissibility of GhinaAndrew J. Newman, University of EdinburghOn Sunni SectarianismA. Kevin Reinhart, Dartmouth CollegeThe Violence of the Abbasid RevolutionChase F. Robinson, City University of New YorkNationalist Poetry, Conflict and Meta-linguistic DiscourseYasir Suleiman, University of CambridgeBibliographyIndex