
Religious Scholars and the Umayyads
Piety-Minded Supporters of the Marwanid Caliphate
Culture and Civilization in the Middle East
Apraksts
Religious Scholars and the Umayyads analyzes legal and theological developments during the Marwanid period (64/684--132/750), focusing on religious scholars who supported the Umayyad caliphate. It includes a prosopographical study of Umayyad-era scholars and offers a new approach to using later Arabic historical sources to study
