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"In the past four decades since the field of late antique studies began to gather real momentum, scholars have debated the place of early Islam within the late antique world, particularly in relation to the issue of where and when 'Late Antiquity' ends. Although the Sasanian emp…
"In the past four decades since the field of late antique studies began to gather real momentum, scholars have debated the place of early Islam within the late antique world, particularly in relation to the issue of where and when 'Late Antiquity' ends. Although the Sasanian emp…
"In the past four decades since the field of late antique studies began to gather real momentum, scholars have debated the place of early Islam within the late antique world, particularly in relation to the issue of where and when 'Late Antiquity' ends. Although the Sasanian emp…
Abū l-Ḥasan ʿAlī l-Hādī b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī b. Mūsā al-ʿAskarī (d. 254/868) was the tenth Imām of the Imāmī Shīʿīs. Known also as al-Naqī (the pure one) or Abū l-Ḥasan al-Thālith (the third), he was born in Ṣurayyā, a village three miles from Medina founded by his great-grandfat…
Al-ʿAbbās b. Muḥammad b. ʿAlī (b. ʿAbdallāh b. al-ʿAbbās; d. 186/802) was the younger brother of the first two ʿAbbāsid caliphs, al-Saffāḥ (r. 132–6/749–54) and al-Manṣūr (r. 136–58/754–75). Al-ʿAbbās was a prominent figure in the early ʿAbbāsid period and played an important ro…