The events described in this volume took place during al-Tabari's own time. Al-Tabari was thus writing "contemporary history," and his narrative, often based on first-hand reports, is drawn in vivid and arresting detail. The volume portrays the summit of "the Samarra period," following al-Mu'tasim's transfer of the 'Abbasid capital upstream from Baghdad to Samarra.

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The History of Al-Tabari /Volume 34

Joel Kraemer was a Renaissance man. "The ideal type of the Jewish intellectual in the Andalusian milieu was someone possessing adab (Arabic, 'cultural refinement'; cf. Greek paideia)." He was at home in Greek and Latin no less than in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Arabic, as well modern languages such as French and German. His research demonstrated his uncompromising intellectual integrity, grasp of major trends in thought and historical processes, comprehensive purview, critical analysis and philological precision in reading texts. He was a perceptive auditor and skilled participant in the majlis of savants who discussed philosophy and theology and an astute observer in the Geniza market place.

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