TY - JOUR
AU - AvcioĞlu, Nebahat
AB - REVIEWS treated the social bonds holding together Buwayhid society in an original and stimulating way. What new, then, does the present book offer? The source material, mostly in Arabic, has not expanded over the thirty-five years since Busse wrote his magisterial Chalif und Grosskönig, die Buyiden im Iraq. The course of events is well-established. Busse’s scope was somewhat wider than is Donohue’s, with detail e.g. on the non- Muslim communities under Buwayhid rule (Christians, Jews and Zoroastrians) and a brief glance at cultural life (this last now well covered for the Buwayhids as a whole in Joel L. Kramer’s Humanism and the Renaissance of Islam). What Donohue provides is a survey for the non-Germanophone reader of the political and military history of successive Amirs from Mu{izz al-Dawla to Baha’ al-Dawla which covers the same ground as Busse but in rather greater detail and with somewhat more at- tention to such topics as the relations of {A∂ud al-Dawla, the greatest ruler of the line, with outside powers like the Byzantines and Fatimids, and to such trends of the age as the Bedouinisation of Iraq and the role there of Arab and Kurdish tribes. In the forefront of Donohue’s writing is 
TI - Review: Saracens, Demons and Jews: making Monsters in Medieval Art
JF - Journal of Semitic Studies
DO - 10.1093/jss/fgi029
DA - 2005-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/review-saracens-demons-and-jews-making-monsters-in-medieval-art-S7RFJZxBwG
SP - 236
EP - 238
VL - 50
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -