David J Wasserstein

Black Banners of ISIS

The Roots of the New Caliphate

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A medieval Islam historian's incisive portrait of ISIS, revealing the group's deep ideological and intellectual roots in the earliest days of Islam

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Yale University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 161mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 563g
• ISBN-13: 9780300228359
• ISBN-10: 030022835X
• Artikelnr.: 47737974

Autorenporträt

David J. Wasserstein is professor of history and Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt University. He has written widely on Islamic and Jewish history. His books include The Rise and Fall of the Party-Kings: Politics and Society in Islamic Spain;The Caliphate in the West; and (as co-author) The Legend of the Septuagint from Classical Antiquity to Today.