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Moshe Sharon, Black Banners from the East: The Establishment of the ʿAbbāsid State—Incubation of a Revolt, Max Schloessinger Memorial Series (Jerusalem: Magnes Press/ Hebrew University, 1983). Pp. 265. - Jacob Lassner, Islamic Revolution and Historical Memory: An Inquiry into the Art of ʿAbbāsid Apologetics, American Oriental Series (New Haven: American Oriental Society, 1986). Pp. 171.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2009

Elton L. Daniel
Affiliation:
Department of History University of Hawaii

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1 It has been shown, for example, that works such as Maqdisī's Ahsan al-taqāsīm or Bal'amī's Tārīkh-nāmah exist in different recensions reflecting political biases. Lassner glosses over such problems as whether extant versions of the Prophet's biography should really be credited to Ibn Ishāq or lbn Hishām, or why there are significant discrepancies between quotations of lost sources in Tabari and other works.