Harry Munt
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 705785 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Harry Munt |
| PRENOMES | Harry |
| SOBRENOME | Munt |
| ASSINATURA | MUNT H |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of York |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 6 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1920 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
The Kaʿba in al‐Fākihī’s (d. c.279/892–893) History of Mecca
In the late 3rd/9th century, the Meccan scholar Muḥammad b. Isḥāq al‐Fākihī (d. c.279/892–893) compiled a local history of Mecca, a large portion of which survives today. This local history offered an overview of Mecca’s history from Creation to al‐Fākihī’s own day, focusing in particular on a number of key topographical sites in the town and surrounding region. This article looks in particular at the way that the Kaʿba plays a central role in al…
Umayyad and early Abbasid inscriptions in the Prophet’s Mosque in Medina
This article offers a translation and discussion of a chapter of a relatively little known late third/ninth- or early fourth/tenth-century text that contains a transcription of the inscriptions that could be seen around the Prophet’s Mosque in Medina after the renovation work undertaken there on the orders of the third Abbasid caliph, Muḥammad al-Mahdī. This text thus adds significantly to our corpus of known inscriptions from early Abbasid imper…
Fanny Bessard, Caliphs and Merchants
Oman and late Sasanian imperialism
Arguments about the nature of late Sasanian imperial involvement in Oman have become quite polarised over the past few decades. Historians and archaeologists have used their different caches of evidence to suggest quite variant conclusions concerning the extent of the Sasanians’ imperial involvement in south‐east Arabia and the impact that this involvement may have had on the prosperity of Omani local agriculture and the economy there. This artic…
The Emergence of Islam in Late Antiquity
In spite of a considerable history of modern study and widely known and appreciated methodological problems regarding available sources, the rise of Islam in seventh-century Arabia and the political success of the early Muslim community in establishing an empire across much of the Mediterranean world, the Middle East and into Central Asia remains a popular topic for research. It is also a perhaps surprisingly dynamic field of research, with the m…
The Jalayirids
The spectacular nature of the Mongols' and Timur's conquests of vast regions of the Islamic world in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries has understandably led much modern scholarship on these
The Religious and Spiritual Life of the Jews of Medina, written by Haggai Mazuz
No two religions
Many classical Islamic sources argue that it is not permissible for non-Muslims to reside in the Ḥijāz, especially Mecca and Medina. Such arguments are usually based on a famous Prophetic saying, "Two religions should not join/remain in the peninsula/land of the Arabs", and on the reported action taken by the second caliph ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb to remove non-Muslims from settlements in western Arabia. In this article, it is argued that the contradi…
Holy City of Medina
The Prophet’s City before the Prophet
This chapter examines the imagination of pre-Islamic Medina by an early local historian. It reconstructs Ibn Zabāla's history from medieval compilations, and uses it to investigate his explanation of Medina's ninth-century topography. The presence of different groups of Jews in Medina also means that the history provides a showcase for the attitudes of ninth-century Muslims to the Jewish past in Islam and in the Hijaz.
Writing the History of an Arabian Holy City
This study is an investigation into the lost Aḫbār al-Madīna attributed to Ibn Zabāla (d. after 199/814). Ibn Zabāla was the first scholar to write a local history of Medina—he was possibly the first to write a local history for any town in the Ḥigāz—and his work is extremely important for our understanding of the development of Arabic historiography and of early ideas concerning Medina’s status as a holy place. A large number (hundreds) of citat…
The Holy City of Medina
This is the first book-length study of the emergence of Medina, in modern Saudi Arabia, as a widely venerated sacred space and holy city over the course of the first three Islamic centuries (the seventh to ninth centuries CE). This was a dynamic period that witnessed the evolution of many Islamic political, religious and legal doctrines, and the book situates Medina's emerging sanctity within the appropriate historical contexts. The book focuses …
Oman and late Sasanian imperialism
Arguments about the nature of late Sasanian imperial involvement in Oman have become quite polarised over the past few decades. Historians and archaeologists have used their different caches of evidence to suggest quite variant conclusions concerning the extent of the Sasanians’ imperial involvement in south‐east Arabia and the impact that this involvement may have had on the prosperity of Omani local agriculture and the economy there. This artic…
The Jalayirids
The spectacular nature of the Mongols' and Timur's conquests of vast regions of the Islamic world in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries has understandably led much modern scholarship on these
No two religions
Many classical Islamic sources argue that it is not permissible for non-Muslims to reside in the Ḥijāz, especially Mecca and Medina. Such arguments are usually based on a famous Prophetic saying, "Two religions should not join/remain in the peninsula/land of the Arabs", and on the reported action taken by the second caliph ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb to remove non-Muslims from settlements in western Arabia. In this article, it is argued that the contradi…
The Holy City of Medina
This is the first book-length study of the emergence of Medina, in modern Saudi Arabia, as a widely venerated sacred space and holy city over the course of the first three Islamic centuries (the seventh to ninth centuries CE). This was a dynamic period that witnessed the evolution of many Islamic political, religious and legal doctrines, and the book situates Medina's emerging sanctity within the appropriate historical contexts. The book focuses …
Writing the History of an Arabian Holy City
This study is an investigation into the lost Aḫbār al-Madīna attributed to Ibn Zabāla (d. after 199/814). Ibn Zabāla was the first scholar to write a local history of Medina—he was possibly the first to write a local history for any town in the Ḥigāz—and his work is extremely important for our understanding of the development of Arabic historiography and of early ideas concerning Medina’s status as a holy place. A large number (hundreds) of citat…
The Prophet’s City before the Prophet
This chapter examines the imagination of pre-Islamic Medina by an early local historian. It reconstructs Ibn Zabāla's history from medieval compilations, and uses it to investigate his explanation of Medina's ninth-century topography. The presence of different groups of Jews in Medina also means that the history provides a showcase for the attitudes of ninth-century Muslims to the Jewish past in Islam and in the Hijaz.
Holy City of Medina
No two religions
Many classical Islamic sources argue that it is not permissible for non-Muslims to reside in the Ḥijāz, especially Mecca and Medina. Such arguments are usually based on a famous Prophetic saying, "Two religions should not join/remain in the peninsula/land of the Arabs", and on the reported action taken by the second caliph ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb to remove non-Muslims from settlements in western Arabia. In this article, it is argued that the contradi…
The Religious and Spiritual Life of the Jews of Medina, written by Haggai Mazuz
Oman and late Sasanian imperialism
Arguments about the nature of late Sasanian imperial involvement in Oman have become quite polarised over the past few decades. Historians and archaeologists have used their different caches of evidence to suggest quite variant conclusions concerning the extent of the Sasanians’ imperial involvement in south‐east Arabia and the impact that this involvement may have had on the prosperity of Omani local agriculture and the economy there. This artic…
The Emergence of Islam in Late Antiquity
In spite of a considerable history of modern study and widely known and appreciated methodological problems regarding available sources, the rise of Islam in seventh-century Arabia and the political success of the early Muslim community in establishing an empire across much of the Mediterranean world, the Middle East and into Central Asia remains a popular topic for research. It is also a perhaps surprisingly dynamic field of research, with the m…
The Jalayirids
The spectacular nature of the Mongols' and Timur's conquests of vast regions of the Islamic world in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries has understandably led much modern scholarship on these
Fanny Bessard, Caliphs and Merchants
Umayyad and early Abbasid inscriptions in the Prophet’s Mosque in Medina
This article offers a translation and discussion of a chapter of a relatively little known late third/ninth- or early fourth/tenth-century text that contains a transcription of the inscriptions that could be seen around the Prophet’s Mosque in Medina after the renovation work undertaken there on the orders of the third Abbasid caliph, Muḥammad al-Mahdī. This text thus adds significantly to our corpus of known inscriptions from early Abbasid imper…
The Kaʿba in al‐Fākihī’s (d. c.279/892–893) History of Mecca
In the late 3rd/9th century, the Meccan scholar Muḥammad b. Isḥāq al‐Fākihī (d. c.279/892–893) compiled a local history of Mecca, a large portion of which survives today. This local history offered an overview of Mecca’s history from Creation to al‐Fākihī’s own day, focusing in particular on a number of key topographical sites in the town and surrounding region. This article looks in particular at the way that the Kaʿba plays a central role in al…
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