Sign up to our emails and be the first to know about new releases, special offers and more.
Become a Readings Member to make your shopping experience even easier. Sign in or sign up for free!
Hello Readings Member! Go to the member centre to view your orders, change your details, or view your lists, or sign out.
Australian Book Retailer of the Year 2021
This volume deals with the last two and a half years of the Prophet’s life. In addition to the three major expeditions to Hunanyn, Ta'if, and Tabuk, it describes in…
Available to order, ships in 7-14 daysAvailable to order
The years 738-745/121-127, which this volume covers, saw the outbreak in Syria of savage internecine struggles between prominent members of the Umayyad family, which had ruled the Islamic world since…
Before the caliphate of the ‘Uthman b. 'Affan, the Muslim community had grown from strength to strength in spite of a series of major crises–the Hirah, the death of the…
This volume 16 of Tabari’s great 40-volume history of the Arabs treats the Caliphate of ‘Ali I, 656-651
This volume presents for the first time in English Tabari’s complete account of the twenty-year long reign of the fifth caliph, Mu'awiyah (661-680). The importance of this account lies partly…
Available to order, ships in approx 4 weeksAvailable to order
In this volume, which covers the caliphates of Sulayman, ‘Umar II, and Yazid II, al-Tabari provides vivid and detailed accounts of the events spanning the period from 97-105/715-724. We listen…
This volume of Tabari’s annals deals almost exclusively with the final stages of the Zanj revolt, the most serious external challenge faced by the central authorities in the last half…
This volume 17 of al-Tabari’s great 40-volume history of the Arabs treats the first Civil War, 656-661.
This volume covers the vital early years of the second Muslim civil war, when the Umayyad caliphate seemed on the point of extinction. That it survived had much to do…
This volume deals with the aftermath of the decisive battle at al-Qadisiyyah described in the previous volume. First, the conquest of southern Iraq is consolidated; in rapid succession there follow…
Otabarai
Slight revision of the editor’s thesis (doctoral)–Ruprecht-Karls-Universiteat zu Heidelberg, 1987.