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Title Page 4 Copyright Page 5 Contents 8 Acknowledgements 9 Notes on primary source citation, translation, and transliteration 12 Illustrations 13 Figures 13 Maps 13 Introduction 16 The early Arabic historical tradition and the problematic nature of the ‘narrative sources’ 18 Ansāb al-ashrāf and Futūḥ al-buldān 21 Dating the text 24 The limitations of the Futūḥ and this research 25 Author, editor, compiler: The many professions of an early Muslim writer 27 The deliberate intention of the author: Historical analysis through textual analysis 28 Notes 31 Chapter 1: The text of Futūḥ al-buldān 38 The modern scholarly editions 38 The surviving manuscript tradition of the Futūḥ 40 Notes 48 Chapter 2: The author and the context 50 The Biography of al-Balādhurī 51 Contextualizing the Futūḥ: Military transformation and the Turkish military crisis 58 The economic crisis of the ninth/third century 61 The fracturing of central authority 65 Kharāj, Amwāl, and Hikma: Writing the books that were needed 69 Notes 70 Chapter 3: The sources of Futūḥ al-buldān 80 Introductory words and the collective Isnād 82 Al-Balādhurī’s use of Qāla as an introductory phrase in the Futūḥ 87 A most important inform

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