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Time in early modern Islam : calendar, ceremony, and chronology in the Safavid, Mughal, and Ottoman empires / by Stephen P. Blake

"The prophet Muhammad and the early Islamic community radically redefined the concept of time that they had inherited from earlier religions' beliefs and practices. This new temporal system, based on ...
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The Opponents of the Writing of Tradition in Early Islam

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information Arabica includes studies, documents and notes on the language, literature, history and civilization of the Arab world, with ...
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Neck-Sealing in Early Islam

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Arabic and Syriac sources for early Islam, especially for seventh- and eighth-century Syria and Iraq, describe the use of neck sealings in the ...
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Discovery Of Early Islamic Mosaic Tesserae Sheds Light On Art And Earthquakes

In the year 749 CE, a devastating earthquake hit the Levant, crippling the early Islamic city of Jerash. While the earthquake may have caused widespread destruction to buildings in the Northwest ...