Nisbas of the North: Muslims from Armenia, Caucasian Albania, and Azerbaijan in Arabic Biographical Dictionaries (4th-7th centuries AH)

Recognizing that we know little about Arab settlement and Muslim populations in Armenia and Caucasian Albania during the Abbasid period, this article considers the data available in specific biographical compendia in Arabic: the works of al-Samʿānī, Ibn al-Aṯīr, Yāqūt, al-Ṣafadī, and Ibn Ḫallikān. I...

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Main Author: Vacca, Alison (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2015
In: Arabica
Year: 2015, Volume: 62, Issue: 4, Pages: 521-550
Further subjects:B Armenia Caucasian Albania Azerbaijan Eastern Anatolia South Caucasus nisba biographies diversity Sufi ǧihād frontier
B Arménie Albanie caucasienne Azerbaïdjan Anatolie orientale Sud du Caucase nisba biographies diversité soufisme ǧihād frontière
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