The 'Alids

The first social history of the descendants of the Prophet Muhammad in early Islam GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748638475','ISBN:9780748638482','ISBN:9780748682959']); This first in-depth study of the 'Alids focuses on the crucial formative period from the Abbasid Revolution of 750 to the Saljuq period of 1100. Exploring their rise from both a religious point of view and as a social phenomenon, Bernheimer investigates how they attained and extended the family’s status over the centuri