Umayyads and Abbasids by G. ZAYDAN Literature & Fiction ردمك 9783899302073

ردمك 9783899302073

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Umayyads and Abbasids by G. ZAYDAN Literature & Fiction ردمك 9783899302073Published by Darf in 1987 ISBN: 9781850771715 Format: Hardback This significant work, first published in translation in 1907, forms the fourth part of G. Zaydan's history of the Islamic Civilization. It traces the rise of the Pious Caliphs ('successors to the apostle of God'), through to the Umayyad Dynasty in the seventh and eighth centuries, and on to the end of the Abbasid Dynasty which reached its zenith in the ninth and tenth centuries. An