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Reckoning time, recording history: the formation of historical consciousness in the medieval Near East
Recovering the early Islamic past: problems and approaches to competing narratives
Dawlah: transformative politics and historical memory
Regionalism and regional identities versus the idealized Islamic community (Ummah)
The first "Islamic" cities: religion, tribal identities, and civic organization
The emergence of the imperial center in Islam: identity politics, architecture, and urban space
The road to Samarra: clients, slave regiments, and the failure of central planning
The dialectic of Jewish-Muslim relations in the medieval Near East
Ritual purity and political exile: a Jew in the lands of Islam explains the Babylonian exile
Contested narratives an sacred space: Muslims, texts, Jewish subtexts
Joseph Sambari on Muhammad and the origins of Islam: a learned Rabbi confronts Muslim apologetics and a Christian polemical tradition.
Recovering the early Islamic past: problems and approaches to competing narratives
Dawlah: transformative politics and historical memory
Regionalism and regional identities versus the idealized Islamic community (Ummah)
The first "Islamic" cities: religion, tribal identities, and civic organization
The emergence of the imperial center in Islam: identity politics, architecture, and urban space
The road to Samarra: clients, slave regiments, and the failure of central planning
The dialectic of Jewish-Muslim relations in the medieval Near East
Ritual purity and political exile: a Jew in the lands of Islam explains the Babylonian exile
Contested narratives an sacred space: Muslims, texts, Jewish subtexts
Joseph Sambari on Muhammad and the origins of Islam: a learned Rabbi confronts Muslim apologetics and a Christian polemical tradition.