Rediscovering al-Azdī and the Futūḥ al-Shām Narrative : : Manuscripts, Parallel Texts, Research History / / Jens Scheiner.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2022 Part 2
• VerfasserIn: Scheiner, Jens,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Islamic History and Thought ; 28
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (426 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; TABLE OF CONTENTS --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; INTRODUCTION --; CHAPTER 1. THE FUTŪḤ AL-SHĀM NARRATIVE IN ARABIC MANUSCRIPTS --; CHAPTER 2. THE FUTŪḤ AL-SHĀM NARRATIVE IN MUSLIM AND CHRISTIAN LITERATURE --; CHAPTER 3. A HISTORY OF AZDĪ-OLOGY --; EPILOGUE. AL-AZDĪ, THE COMPILER-AUTHOR OF THE FUTŪḤ AL-SHĀM NARRATIVE? --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781463243838; 9783110767001; 9783110993899; 9783110994810; 9783110992960; 9783110992939; 9783110767100
• DOI: 10.31826/9781463243838
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Jens Scheiner.

The Futūḥ al-Shām (The Conquests of Greater Syria), usually attributed to Abū Ismāʿīl Muḥammad b. ʿAbdallāh al-Azdī al-Baṣrī, is one of the primary sources used for historians studying the early Muslim expansion into Greater Syria. This study revaluates the Futūḥ al-Shām narrative and the question of its compiler-author, investigating the history of the narrative as text through an analysis of a new manuscript and important parallel texts, and revisiting the evidence and hypotheses previous scholars have put forward on both al-Azdī’s life and the Futūḥ al-Shām narrative’s text. It thus offers an overview of the history of Oriental and Islamic Studies on the basis of one work.