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‘The Book of Tribulations’: The Syrian Muslim Apocalyptic Tradition. By Nuʿaym b. Ḥammād al-Marwazī, edited and translated by David Cook. pp. 520. Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2017.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2018

Mehdy Shaddel
Mehdy Shaddel*
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Independent scholar mehdyshaddel@gmail.com
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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 28 , Issue 4 , October 2018 , pp. 758 - 760
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3 Cf. Shaddel, Mehdy, ‘ʿAbd Allāh ibn al-Zubayr and the Mahdī: Between Propaganda and Historical Memory in the Second Civil War’, BSOAS 80 (2017), pp. 1-19CrossRefGoogle Scholar, at pp. 16-19.

4 Studies in Muslim Apocalyptic, p. 344, n. 51.

5 Rubin, ‘Apocalypse and Authority in Islamic Tradition: The Emergence of the Twelve Leaders’, al-Qanṭara 18 (1997), pp. 11-42, at p. 17.

6 Madelung, ‘The Sufyānī between Tradition and History’, Studia Islamica 63 (1986), pp. 5-48, at p. 21.

7 Shaddel, Mehdy, ‘The Sufyānī in Early Islamic Kerygma: An Enquiry into His Origins and Early Development’, JRAS 27 (2017), pp. 403-34CrossRefGoogle Scholar, at pp. 418-9.

8 Rubin, ‘Apocalypse and Authority’, p. 17; Cook, Michael, ‘An Early Islamic Apocalyptic Chronicle’, JNES 52 (1993), pp. 25-29Google Scholar, at p. 26.

9 Shaddel, ‘The Sufyānī’, p. 419, n. 84.