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| Introduction |
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| Bibliography of R. Stephen Humphreys' Works |
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1 | (182) |
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David Son of Jesse and Muhammad Son of `Abd Allah: Warlords, State Builders, Paradigms of Piety |
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3 | (14) |
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`His Girdle Wrapped about His Waist/It is as though it is Made from my Heart': The Christian Exotic in Medieval Muslim Imperial Literature |
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17 | (28) |
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Personal and Political Networks and the Fatimid Crisis of the Mid-Eleventh Century |
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45 | (20) |
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Christian Anecdotes: The Reconquista in the Biographical Portraits of Muslims from Sharq al-Andalus in the al-Ihata of Ibn al-Khatib and the Takmila of Ibn al-Abbar |
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65 | (54) |
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The Forgotten Palace: Morocco's al-Badi' as a Symbol of Caliphal Splendor |
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119 | (32) |
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The Circle and the Tree: A Vision of Justice in the Middle East |
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151 | (32) |
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183 | (90) |
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Historical Memory and Imagined Communities: Modern Ibadi Writings on Kharijism |
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185 | (16) |
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From Noble City to People's Republic: Reimagining Bukhara, 1900--1924 |
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201 | (16) |
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Hagiography and History: Haider Shaikh and His Interlocutors |
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217 | (16) |
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Painting the Bible Land: An Artist Missionary's Re-creation of Palestine |
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233 | (12) |
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Taha Husayn, al-Tabari, and the Future of History in Egypt |
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245 | (12) |
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Reconstructed Sacred Histories in Modern Islamic and Christian Religio-Political Movements |
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257 | (16) |
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III. THOUGHTS IN RETROSPECT |
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273 | (6) |
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| Index |
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