The great German orientalist gathers essays on the Koran, Islam, the Abbasid caliph Mansur, a slave revolt in Iraq, Yakub the Coppersmith and his dynasty, Syrian saints, the scholar Bar Hebraeus and King Theodore of Abyssinia. An opening essay on Semitic character reflects the racial theorising of 1890.
Learned and lively studies for readers of early Islamic and Eastern Christian history. Download the free EPUB.