The revolution which toppled the Umayyads : : neither Arab nor Abbasid / / by Saleh Said Agha.

• Superior document: Islamic history and civilization. Studies and texts ; v. 50
• Author: Agha, Salih Said.
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Islamic history and civilization ; v. 50.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (447 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This book re-examines the so-called Ἁbbāsid revolution, the ethnic character of whose effective constituency has been contested for over eight decades. It also brings to question the authenticity of the Ἁbbāsid dynastic claim. To establish its two theses (neither Arab nor Ἁbbāsid) this book employs, in its three parts, three distinct methodological approaches. To reconstruct the secret history of the clandestine Organization, Part One elicits a narrative through a rigorous application of the historical-critical method. Part Two subjects to close textual analysis some prime-grade literary specimen. In Part Three, a purely quantitative approach is adopted to study the demographic character of the formal structures of leadership within the Organization. History, historiography, heresiography, literature, the narrative, the textual analysis, and the quantitative approach, cannot be less inseparable.

Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS; LIST OF FIGURES; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION: ANTICIPATING THIS WORK; NOTE ON CONVENTION; PART ONE: THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE ORGANIZATION AND THE 'ABBĀSID CONNECTION; PART TWO: THE DEMOGRAPHIC BALANCE IN THE REVOLUTIONARY PROVINCE; PART THREE: A COLLECTIVE PROFILE OF THE ORGANIZATION-A QUANTITATIVE STUDY; EPILOGUE; APPENDIX ONE: PROSOPOGRAPHICAL APPENDIX; APPENDIX TWO: SPECIAL APPENDIX: INDEX OF STATISTICAL TABLES IN AGHA, "AGENTS"; GLOSSARY OF TERMS DEFINED; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX