Munt, Harry orcid.org/0000-0002-6385-1406 (2022) The Umayyad and early Abbasid inscriptions in the Prophet’s Mosque in Medina. al-ʿUṣūr al-Wusṭā. pp. 79-147. ISSN 1068-1051
Abstract
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 offers a transcription of the inscriptions that could be seen around the Prophet’s Mosque in Medina after the renovation work undertaken there on the order of the third Abbasid caliph Muḥammad al-Mahdī. This text thus adds significantly to our corpus of known inscriptions from early Abbasid imperial monuments. The article discusses the sources of information about these inscriptions in the Prophet’s Mosque, the fate of the Umayyad-era inscriptions in the early Abbasid period, and what the new Abbasid-era inscriptions have to tell us about that family’s claims to authority in the decades immediately following their seizure power.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | (c) 2022 Harry Munt |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Arts and Humanities (York) > History (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 28 Jun 2022 09:30 |
Last Modified: | 16 Mar 2025 00:09 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.52214/uw.v30i.8598 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.52214/uw.v30i.8598 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:188515 |
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