Observations of a Medieval Quantitative Historian?
A comparison of the results of the computational analysis of the Taʾrīkh al-islām, al-Dhahabī’s 50-volume biographical collection, with brief statements that describe the rise and decline of cities and provinces of the Islamic world with the al-Amṣār dhawāt al-āthār, al-Dhahabī’s 4-folio epistle, su...
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Der Islam
Year: 2017, Volume: 94, Issue: 2, Pages: 462-495 |
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