Muhammad's People
by Schroeder, Eric frey50
Published by : The Bond Wheelwright Company Publishers (Portland) , 1955 Physical details: 838 p.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 800 - 899 | 892 Sch (Browse shelf) | Available | 26149 |
Includes index
The desert: Arab chivalry of the ignorance before Muhammad -- The apostle and the book -- The fight for life -- The first caliph -- The caliphate of conquest -- Misrule -- Civil war -- The world and the flesh -- The first Abbasid caliphs and the building of Baghdad -- Harun al-Rashid -- The brothers' war -- Intelligence -- Restlessness -- Violence and quietism -- Money, money, money: the life and death of a vizier -- A saint and his fate -- A government job: episodes from the life of a provincial state clerk -- The passing of the age of reason -- The last actual caliphs -- The sophisticated -- The sword and the pen: princes and clerks -- Despair -- Comedies -- Ornament: the tongue of Abu Zayd -- The man who never laughed again -- The mystic path: a dervish autobiography -- The abyss -- The public road -- Appendix: Muslim science: the body and the doctor -- Chronology of caliphates.