Was Ibn Wāḍiḥ al-Yaʿqūbī a Shiʿite Historian? The State of the Question*
The works of the third/ninth-century historian and geographer Ibn al-Wāḍiḥ al-Yaʿqūbī have long served as an indispensable source in the modern study of Islamic historiography, but nagging questions about alYaʿqūbī’s purportedly Shiʿite identity have continued to bedevil modern attempts to interpre...
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| Language: | English |
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Columbia University Libraries
2016-11-01
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| Series: | Al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā |
| Online Access: | https://journals.library.columbia.edu/index.php/alusur/article/view/7017 |