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"""The book offers both important novel research and an overview of some of the main themes of wider research into the Umayyad era."" -- Harry Munt , Early Medieval Europe"

The book offers both important novel research and an overview of some of the main themes of wider research into the Umayyad era. * Harry Munt, Early Medieval Europe *

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Edited by Alain George, University of Oxford, and Edited by Andrew Marsham, University of Cambridge Alain George is I.M. Pei Professor of Islamic Art and Architecture at the University of Oxford. He has previously taught at the University of Edinburgh. In 2010, he was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize for his research. He is the author of The Rise of Islamic Calligraphy (2010) and of numerous articles on Qur'anic manuscripts, Arabic illustrated books and the arts in early Islam. Andrew Marsham is Reader in Classical Arabic Studies at the University of Cambridge and formerly Head of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Edinburgh. He is the author of Rituals of Islamic Monarchy: Accession and Succession in the First Muslim Empire and a number of book chapters and articles on the early history and historiography of Islam and its Late Antique context.

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