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PAUL M. COBB, White Banners: Contention in עAbbasid Syria, 750–880 (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001). Pp. 248. $59.50 cloth, $19.92 paper.JACOB LASSNER, The Middle East Remembered: Forged Identities, Competing Narratives, Contested Spaces (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000). Pp. 445. $65.00 cloth.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 February 2003

Extract

A significant overlap of subject matter explains the decision to review these two books together. Paul Cobb's study concerns itself with the political history of Syria in the late Umayyad and early Abbasid periods. Jacob Lassner's book is more far-reaching, but nearly all of the eleven essays in his book deal with the history and historiography of the early Islamic period. The longest chapter considers the ninth Abbasid caliphate during the Samarran interlude, and in this case he and Cobb are on shared ground.

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2003 Cambridge University Press

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