Paul M Cobb

Biographic Data

ID529789
NAMEPaul M Cobb
GIVEN NAMESPaul M
FAMILY NAMECobb
SIGNATURECOBB P M
AFFILIATIONSCalifornia University of Pennsylvania
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS40
TOTAL CITATIONS6
AUTHOR COUNT40
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1995
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX2

  • The Emperor and the Elephant

    Paul M CobbARTICLESpeculum2025

  • The First Arabic Annals

    Open AccessPaul M CobbARTICLEManuscript Studies: A Journal of…2022

    Reviewed by: The First Arabic Annals: Fragments of Umayyad History by Edward Zychowicz-Coghill Paul M. Cobb Edward Zychowicz-Coghill. The First Arabic Annals: Fragments of Umayyad History. Studies in the History and Culture of the Middle East 41. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021. viii + 122 pages + index. $92.99. ISBN: 9783110712650. This svelte tome offers a highly technical study of early Arabic historiography, based on the reconstruction of an early I…

  • The Lineaments of Islam

    Paul M Cobb, Fred Mcgraw Donner et al.BOOKThe lineaments of Islam2012

  • The Great Arab Conquests

    Paul M CobbARTICLEThe English Historical Review2009

    Readers might well be wary of books that proclaim how their subjects ‘changed the world we live in’ in their very titles. These, more and more it seems, tend to be books that one finds in bookstores alongside titles that happily announce that they are intended as guides for ‘idiots’. But readers should not worry about this book. Hugh Kennedy's history of the Arab Conquests is a smart book by a skilled historian about events that really did change…

  • Empire and Elites after the Muslim Conquest

    Paul M Cobb, Chase F RobinsonARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…2003

    The study of early Islamic historical tradition has flourished with the emergence of an innovative scholarship no longer dependent on more traditional narratival approaches. Chase Robinson's book, first published in 2000, takes full account of the research available and interweaves history and historiography to interpret the political, social and economic transformations in the Mesopotamian region after the Islamic conquests. Using Arabic and Syr…

  • An Historical Atlas of Islam

    Paul M Cobb, Hugh KennedyARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…2003

    I THE EARLY MUSLIM EARTH AND SKY The World According to al-Idrisi 549/1154 The World According to al-Sharfi 986/1579 Arabic Constellations Star Names used by the Arabs in the Indian Ocean II THE EXTENSION OF THE MUSLIM WORLD Linguistic Regions of the Islamic World circa 900/1500 Environments and Mineral Resources of the Islamic World circa 390/1000 The World on the Eve of the Muslim Conquests circa 600 A.D. Early Muslim Conquests The Umayyad Cali…

  • Virtual Sacrality

    Paul M Cobb, Paul CobbARTICLEMedieval Encounters2002Cited by: 3

    This study uses the Kitāb fadā'il al-shām wa-dimashq (The Book of the Virtues of Syria and Damascus) of 'Alīibn Muhammad al-Raba'ī (d. 1052) as an archive of Muslim traditions about Syria's sacred status that were circulated throughout the early Islamic period (seventh to eleventh centuries). In order to make the claims in these traditions believable, the early Muslim scholars who circulated them invoked both explicit textual authorities and impl…

  • The Barbarian Plain

    Paul M CobbARTICLEJournal of Near Eastern Studies2002

  • The Idea of Idolatry and the Emergence of Islam

    Paul M CobbARTICLEJournal of Near Eastern Studies2002

  • Late Antiquity

    Paul M CobbARTICLEJournal of Near Eastern Studies2002

  • Classical Arabic Biography

    Paul M Cobb, Michael CoopersonARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…2002

    Pre-modern Arabic biography has served as a major source for the history of Islamic civilization. In this 2000 study exploring the origins and development of classical Arabic biography, Michael Cooperson demonstrates how Muslim scholars used the notions of heirship and transmission to document the activities of political, scholarly and religious communities. The author also explains how medieval Arab scholars used biography to tell the life-stori…

  • Reinterpreting Islamic Historiography

    Paul M Cobb, Tayeb El-HibriARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…2001

  • From Constantine to Julian, Pagan and Byzantine Views

    Paul M CobbARTICLEJournal of Near Eastern Studies2000

  • États, sociétés et cultures du monde musulman médiéval, Xe-XVe siècle, vol. 1

    Paul M Cobb, Jean-Claude Garcin et al.ARTICLEJournal of the American Research…2000

  • The Islamic Middle East

    Paul M CobbARTICLEJournal of Near Eastern Studies2000

  • Cambridge Illustrated History of the Islamic World . Francis Robinson

    Paul M CobbARTICLEJournal of Near Eastern Studies2000

  • The Making of Byzantium, 600-1025 . Mark Whittow

    Paul M CobbARTICLEJournal of Near Eastern Studies2000

  • Jihad in Classical and Modern Islam . Rudolph Peters

    Paul M CobbARTICLEJournal of Near Eastern Studies1999

  • Nomads, Farmers, and Town-Dwellers

    Paul M CobbARTICLEJournal of Near Eastern Studies1999

  • Jerusalem

    Paul M CobbARTICLEJournal of Near Eastern Studies1999

  • Al-Mutawakkil's Damascus

    Paul M CobbARTICLEJournal of Near Eastern Studies1999Cited by: 1

  • Byzantium and the Arabs in the Sixth Century. Vol. 1 . Irfan Shahîd

    Paul M CobbARTICLEJournal of Near Eastern Studies1998

  • The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East. Vol. 2. Land Use and Settlement Patterns . G. R. D. King , Averil Cameron

    Paul M CobbARTICLEJournal of Near Eastern Studies1998

  • Aristocratic Violence and Holy War

    Paul M CobbARTICLESpeculum1998

  • Protectors or Praetorians? The Last Mamlūk Sultans and Egypt's Waning as a Great Power. Carl F. Petry

    Paul M CobbARTICLESpeculum1998