Chalif Und Grosskonig. Die Buyiden Im Iraq (945-1055)

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xiv, 610 pp.; German text, 6 tables of which 2 are folding, 2 folding maps, publishers’ original wrappers, biblio, index, Band 6, Ergon Verlag Wurzburg & Orient-Institut der DMG. An extensive academic study of the Buwayhid rule in Iraq which brought about the definite downfall of the political power of the Abbasids dynasty. Also discussed the cultural life during their rule, and the mixture of Syriac, Nestorian, Jewish, Jacobites and Islamic literature.