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The Eclipse of the Abbasid Caliphate

work by Ibn Miskawayh

Also known as: “Kitāb tajarīb al-umam wa taʾaqub al-ḥimam”

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Margoliouth, The Eclipse of the Abbasid Caliphate, 1921), was noted for its use of all available sources and greatly stimulated the development of Islamic historiography.
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