Primary sources from Umayyad times

Upvote:3

From "The First Dynasty of Islam: The Umayyad Caliphate AD 661-750" by G. R Hawting:

It seems likely that it was not until the later part of the Umayyad period that traditions, religious or historical (and the distinction is not always clear), came to be committed to writing with any frequency. Before that time they were generally transmitted orally in short, separate reports which were self-contained and relatively easy to memorise.

However, the same book suggests interesting data could be find in contemporary poetry (e.g. Farazdaq and Jarir). A little bit more on this can be found in "The Politics and Culture of an Umayyad Tribe: Conflict and Factionalism in the Early Islamic Period" by Mohammad Rihan.

Hope that helps.

Mike 131

📝 Did people use to marry much younger during the last millennium?
📝 Why are there so many laws about eye injuries in the Code of Hammurabi?
📝 Have national symbols often acquired partisan meanings?
📝 What did the word "leisure" mean in late 18th Century usage?
📝 Was there any terrorism in the Soviet Union?
📝 Is treason ever successful?
📝 What are the hay effigies in this Japanese movie?
📝 Does the Ottoman Empire count as a colonial power?
📝 What are the effects of creating inflation to eliminate domestic debt?
📝 How efficient was the (Cold War) Red Scare?
📝 How many Samurai killed themselves?
📝 Are images of the original tablets for the Epic of Gilgamesh available online?
📝 Why aren't there major cities on the Atlantic coast of France?
📝 Are there any extant original first-century manuscripts of any of Josephus' works?
📝 What are the historical equivalents of cooperative storytelling like modern role-playing games?
📝 What were John Profumo's responsibilities as the Secretary of State for War in Macmillan's government?
📝 Under Catherine the Great were all officers appointed for five years?
📝 Are there historical instances of property rights not being respected/acknowledged between U.S. states, territories, and the federal government?
📝 What was that book that listed all the rich/influential people and defined socioeconomic status for many Americans?
📝 When was the last state militia abandoned?
📝 Book on history of international trade
📝 Where can I find a specific hieroglyphs website?
📝 How does a heraldic eagle become a nazi symbol?
📝 What was the ratio of German to Soviet losses on Eastern front during different stages of the war?
📝 Why bother attacking castles at all? Why not go around?
📝 Difference between acts of "merit" and acts of "valor" in military decorations? (e.g. V device)
📝 How unfavorable were the terms of Germany's "surrender" in WW1?
📝 How did the South USA become more overtly Christian than the North?
📝 Did Wright or Pickett set the high-water mark for the CSA Advance on Cemetery Ridge at Gettysburg?
📝 When and where was the term "nigra" used and what was its relation to "nigger"?

Source: stackoverflow.com

Travel Tips

Search Posts

📝 Primary sources from Umayyad times
📝 What primary sources are there for Charles I's seizure of gold from the Tower mint?
📝 What are the primary sources for the Mongol sack of Baghdad?
📝 A common find of metal detectorists across Britain is the silver "love token", from around 1700. Do any contemporary sources describe the custom?
📝 Are there primary sources about Jinnah's vision for Pakistan?
📝 What are the oldest primary sources of recorded history in China?
📝 Are there primary sources that record the pre-conquest decoration/mosaic of the Hagia Sophia?
📝 What are the best primary textual sources I could point to regarding the existence of Julius Caesar?
📝 Primary annalistic sources for ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt
📝 Are there any documented cases from ancient or medieval times of someone escaping captivity by cross-dressing?
📝 Are the historical sources from the ancient history trustable?
📝 Are there any images from ancient times in which Heracles is shown with a cornucopia?
📝 Where can I find reliable primary sources written by Ancient Egyptian laborers?
📝 Do any sources confirm this quote from Pope Urban II's speech at the Council of Clermont?
📝 Primary sources for ratification of Constitutional amendments
📝 Are stories passed down from generation to generation considered primary sources?
📝 Did books from classical times delay scientific progress in the middle ages?
📝 Are there any primary sources on the letter Hulagu wrote to Qutuz?
📝 Where can I find primary sources on mortars/artillery in world war one?
📝 What is the methodogy used to determine the exact genetic flow from one area to another and the times in which it flowed?
📝 How do historians and linguists know how to pronounce the names from non-phonetic scripts?
📝 Why did Native Americans die from European diseases while Europeans didn't catch serious diseases from the New World?
📝 Why was Poland spared from the Black Death?
📝 How would a 16-year-old girl from Cleopatra's era curse?
📝 How did people distinguish slaves from free people in Ancient Rome?
📝 Did Bill Gates steal the GUI concept from Steve Jobs?
📝 Is it true that "All spicy food is from Latin America"?
📝 Identify the era or any other clues from this soldier's picture?
📝 Why did Columbus cross the mid-Atlantic instead of exploring from Greenland?
📝 Did Albert Einstein really receive this rejection letter from the University of Bern?

Primary sources from Umayyad times

More post

Search Posts

Related post