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Preface; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Note on transliteration; Note on dating systems; Glossary;
1. The development of the genre;
2. The caliph al-Ma'mun;
3. The Imam 'Ali al'Rida;
4. The Hadith-scholar Ahmad Ibn Hanbal;
5. The renunciant Bishr al-Hafi; Conclusions; Appendix: the circumstances of 'Ali al-Rida's death; Bibliography; Index.
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Michael Biggers
reviewed Classical Arabic Biography: The Heirs of the Prophets in the Age of Al-Ma'mun on May 15, 2009 Classical Arabic Biography: The Heirs of the Prophets in the Age of Al-Ma'mun
Honestly, why do I keep picking up Karen Armstrong's books?
It's not that she is a bad writer, just an exceptionally boring one. When I listen to 'Islam: A Short History' I feel like I'm being hit by a verbal machine gun fire of names, dates and places. Unfortunately few of these fact 'bullets' remain in my brain.
She starts off innocently enough, giving an account Muhammad's life and then ....'BANG, BANG BANG!' she hits you with a blitzkrieg of boring, impersonal facts.
About three quarters of the way through the book Armstrong picks you up, dusts you off, and tries to console you with a bit of modern history on Islamic fundamentalism. But it's too late. I'm already suffering from academic PTSD.
Yet I sense that I'll still read her next book, 'A Short History of Myth'...
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