Anecdotes about Conversion in Twelfth-Century Syria: Shams al-Dīn al-Dhahabī (d. 748/1348), Ibn Rajab (d. 795/1393), and D.iyāʾ al-Dīn al-Maqdisī (d. 643/1245)

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Abstract

al-Dhahabī, Siyar Aʿlām al-Nubalāʾ (The biographies of distinguished men); Ibn Rajab, Dhayl T. abaqāt al-H. anābila (An addendum to the biographical dictionary of H. anbalīs [lit. "to the generations of H. anbalīs"]); al-Maqdisī, al-H. ikāyāt al-Muqtabasa fī Karāmāt Mashāyikh al-Ard. al-Muqaddasa (The cited tales of the wondrous doings of the shaykhs of the Holy Land)
Original languageAmerican English
Title of host publicationConversion to Islam in the Premodern Age
Subtitle of host publicationA Sourcebook
EditorsNimrod Hurvitz, Christian C. Sahner, Uriel Simonsohn, Luke Yarbrough
Place of PublicationCalifornia
PublisherUniversity of California Press
Chapter34
Pages205-209
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9780520969100
ISBN (Print)9780520296725, 9780520296732
DOIs
StatePublished - 15 Dec 2020

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